Did you know Google highly values Contextual Links? For those of you who don’t know Google loves links within content of articles and blog posts etc. I am not talking about author links or links in sidebars, I am talking a backlink from within the actual content.

If you are building niche sites and want to bring in traffic through to your HOME PAGE and to your affiliate offers to gain commissions on products or want to rank quickly for a keyword of your choice for a service you or your company offers then finding profitable keyword match domain names is very important.

If you have heard before that building niche sites that generate a passive income is the way to make money online, don’t believe the hype that this is the most practical approach, particularly if you are looking at this on a long term business scale, although it sounds great in theory, there is definitely plenty of down sides and you should not be surprised if all your hard work hasn’t gone to plan.

Late February, Google launched a substantial algorithm change (known as “Farmer” or "Panda") aimed at identifying low-quality pages and sites. These are pages (often seen on so-called “content farms”) with text that is relevant for a query, but may not provide the best user experience.

My friend Craig had taken the time to cover where I had left off on a post I wrote earlier, worth a read!

Being sandboxed is an internet marketers worst nightmare. I am not perfect and I will be the first to admit it, everyone goes through ups and downs and one major flaw was that I recently got sandboxed on one of my sites. Now for those who are not familiar with what sandboxed is, in short it is an algorithm Search Engines use and particularly Google does very well on and picks up any unnatural signs of building links too quickly.

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When you have a blog, it is one thing to post whatever is on your mind and then it is another to spend a little time to research your headlines so that they not only grab the attention of your readers but they also get the search engine traffic you need as a result of choosing the right keywords.

Researching keywords is the most overlooked task for SEO and yet it is the most important. To not only get good rankings in the search engines particularly Google it is not only time consuming but also extremely costly. So with this in mind it is very important to get the right keywords so that you can make money and also be free to concentrate on other areas of marketing.

Thomas from StandOutBlogger recently gave a very good example on how to set target specific keywords and build review pages so that you can get them to the first page of Google and make money.