Step 2 - Now find relevant or related content that is similar to the content that you are going to remove. This way, your users would still be able to find subject related content. Make sure you do a URL mapping of all the new landing pages, as you would be needing them for the redirects later.

Step 3 - Once you have manage to map out all the related pages, you can now set the type of HTTP header each page should have. For those with related content, put the 301 HTTP code and for those without, place 404 HTTP code. This would allow the search engines to know which pages have been permanently moved and which have been deleted and would be removed from the search engine index.

NOte - It is best to conduct a 301 redirect for pages that have been uploaded for sometime, as your pages might have good quality inbound links which you wouldnt want to waste.

Also when you conduct a 301 redirect, you might experience a drop in traffic and rankings as the search engines need time to update their algorithms.

1. Ask and you shall receive

When it comes to link building, I am very pro about this option for there’s always no harm in asking. You never know what might happened, with a simple email request.

But it might not be the most effective or efficient method.

A sample guideline that I use for my link building:

- Introduce yourself, place your name in the email
- What do you do, short statement would be great (think towards a catch phase)
- Why do you think they should link to your website
- Call to action, a link or codes for them to cut and paste onto their website.
2. Thou shall build make new friends online

Relationships in life is very important, even in the digital world having a big network of friends helps increase your chances of getting new inbound links. This shouldn’t be the recipocal type of link strategy, let it work like a refer a friend model.

You can start by going to social networking sites like friendster.com, AdGabber.com, to name a few.

3. Take the first step list topic related websites on your blogroll

By making the first move and adding related websites on your blogroll, it helps increase the chance for these websites to link back to you or at least you can approach them easier when you are trying to be friends.

Why not start now by adding my website on your blogroll, I would add you if your website is search related

4. Talk to your vendors

If you are an in-house SEO paying alot for some of your vendor services, just go ahead ask your vendors for a link. If they say no, you can try to entice them by saying you can use us as a case study for your future clients on their website.

5. Compile a list of freebies

Everyone loves FREE stuff, you can either create some white papers, templates or tools for all to use. People will link to you, but wait to make things easier, you can compile your list of freebies on the internet and offer them on your website (of course keep the acknowledgement). People will still link to you if your resource is good stuff.

6. Help others while helping yourself - donate, sponsor or contribute to a good cause

Money doesnt need to change hands here, depending on your business. If you are running a SEO consultancy firm, you could help them optimize their websites for greater exposure, or if you are a lawyer you can provide free advice or if you want you can volunteer to help out at their location in exchange for that link. Sound like pretty hard work, but at least you are doing some good in the process of gaining that link right.

7. Know thy enemy’s strength, Investigate your competition

I know it’s commonly said the enemy of your enemy(competition) is your friend. But in the link building world, the friend of your enemy is also your friend. Why, because by doing a link:www.domain.com on your enemy the search engines would return a set of links that are already linking to your competitor. So being good link builders, you would definately go to these websites and ask for a link right, after all they are already listing your competitors.

Note: Google returns a sample number of backlinks and for Yahoo you got to use siteexplorer.yahoo.com.

8. Share your knowledge, answer questions on Yahoo Answers

Go to answers.yahoo.com and see what are the questions being asked that you have answers too. Answer them and place a link as your sign off or within the answer (if it makes sense). Its a way to get traffic and some link love, give it a try.

PS: if this is helpful to you why not drop me a comment.

An example would be if you enter computers in Google (http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&q=computers&btnG=Search) you will see that Apple and Dell turns up within the top 3 positions. There isn’t a computer keyword but the content and associations given to the websites helped determined the rankings.

For instance, run a Google search on the keyword “bath accessories.” Next, open the http://www.bizrate.com/bathaccessories/ website, which is at the top of the Google search results. Now, in your Internet Explorer, select View > Source. In the notepad file that opens, check the keywords and phrases listed with . The site is optimized for these keywords and phrases.

For example, you may choose to launch a website to promote a new baby product. To ensure that you get genuine visitors to your website, you will need to perform research on the keywords for which to optimize your website. You may also choose to sign up a few affiliates and look at the benefits of PPC advertising. All these activities that you will perform are the part of SEM.

The problems with sub domains, would be the search engines look at them as different websites. This makes your websites’ content rather separated then consolidated. Also it seems that the SERP for these sub-domains don’t turn up too well on most search terms.

Many have wondered what type of tools they would need to find out how their website is ranking on the search engines. Here is a list of tools that would be useful for you to check your rankings, backlinks and keyword density. These tools would help a web master, internet marketer conduct the necessary analysis tools needed in conducting search marketing.

Take a look at the list -

Full-Page Pagerank Tool
Enter a website address and this usefull tool shows Google Page Rank of all links on a page.Backlinks Analyzer tool
Want to have a list of all of the websites that link to a particular website? This extremly handy tool does just that. It also gives links to other interesting information about each site on the list and allows you to export the data in spreadsheet (CSV) format.

Indexed Pages Tools
Enter a website address and find out how many pages are indexed in Google, MSN Search, Yahoo!, AlltheWeb and AltaVista.

By SEOLogs.com

Keyword Density Checker
Keyword Density is the percentage of occurrence of your keywords to the text in the rest of your webpage. This tool will crawl the specified URL, extract text as a search engine would, remove common stop words and Analyze the density of the keywords.

Domain Age Tool
This tools displays the approximate age of a website on the Internet and allows you to view how the website looked when it first started. It also helps you find out the age of your competitor’s domains, older domains may get a slight edge in Search Engine Rankings.

Keyword-Rich Domain Suggestion Tool Having a KEYWORD-RICH domain name is an important factor of Search Engine Optimization. This tools will suggest keyword rich domain names.

By www.webconfs.com

Keyword Crawler Checker
This tool allows the user to check what are the latest pages Google has indexed relating to certain keyword(s). (119 keyword(s) checked.).

Coming to think about the knowledge we are "allowed" to acquire in our early formative years, it has been so narrow don’t you think. You have been taught what is right and with knowledge that is so "Local". Different perspectives to the same problem are what has created this great species that is ruling this earth and in some time soon the universe. The internet is the place to go to understand and know about the different perspectives and learn a lot more that is "Global" for "Free". Internet is the best medium for free speech and nothing comes close to it. With freedom comes responsibility and with freedom comes the power of choice. It is said with experience that when toddlers are told not to grab a light bulb, they never listen. When the hold it once and feel the misery of the heat they never again reach for them again. Some of these kids may go ahead and create light bulbs that are cold for touch but does the same functionality in the future. Man is a kid at various stages of life on various aspects of life and knowledge domains. Internet provides a means to acquire knowledge freely and based on bad choices they may get burnt but they may find a good alternative or something more useful to our human race.

The topic title and the content till now seem to be a mismatch and I see you smile at reading this line. Let me do the correlation real quick to get you back on the topic. Search engines are the masters of the Internet world. When someone wants to acquire information on a topic the search results is what defines what the person gets to learn. This is similar to the localization concept I mentioned earlier. What is troubling me is the popularity of a few search engines, I equate them to the perspectives that we are boxed into. Your knowledge expansion really depends on what is available as the top 20 results in the search engines. Getting to learn the same perspective as anybody else doesn’t gain you much in the long term. There is reason behind each person’s existence ? to make a positive difference. Unless you are exposed to the multiple perspectives and vast knowledge out there that needs your help to make things a little better there remains a task undone. We will see a little bit more about what concepts have taken the job of rescue mission from a boxed in Internet world in the next part. Meanwhile you can search using the search engine in the resource box to get a different set of results for a different perspective.

Author suggests a dosage of atleast two searches before sleep each day for the following search engines: TEOMA.com and this Search Engine Listing Website. If you forgot to take the directed dosage you have the liberty to take twice the number of dosage when you get to remember the same.
Author is a freelance writer for the webs many great websites and can be contacted at indyan at gmail dot com. Permission is granted to reprint the article with all portions of this article intact including this resource box in its entire form.

If the answer is yes, you can try Linkhounds backlink harvester, the script uses the Yahoo search API to generate results that shows you . This script allows you to set the number of links you would like to analyze from 250 to 2000 links. It not only shows you sites linking to you but their network class c address that they are hosted on. They even split the results into .edu domains, .com domains and .org domains (Although I only saw .com and .edu)

Best of all the script is provided FREE for use. Not bad eh a great tool for checking backlinks

Here’s are 2 tools for you.

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