Is Backlinking Dead?

I believe that in the not too distant future, google will put less and less emphasis on backlinks in determining the ranking of your website, and focus almost exclusively on the quality and content of your website in determining its rankings.

Why? Because the initial purpose of ranking by backlinks was to recognise that good sites would tend to provide links to other good sites. And also that it was the best indication that google had at the time.

The backlinking method has been totally bastardised by a deluge of dodgy backlinking schemes, methods, and tactics. For the last few years, people have been rewarded for building huge networks of backlinks instead of for creating good content.

Wake up and smell the coffee guys.
Google is getting better and better at rating the quality of a site based on the content of that site. It doesn’t NEED backlinks to tell it that a site has good content any more. Just read up on Google and their use of Latent Semantic Indexing

And I think that pretty soon, the quality of your content will be the primary ranking factor. And your gabillion backlinks from all sorts of dodgy article directories and link farm sites won’t be worth much at all.

So  if you think that backlinks are all that is necessary to get good search engine results, then I wish you all the best for the future.

regards,
Eric G.

Your Online Business Guide

How Do You Make Good Decisions For Your Internet Business?

If you’re like most small business owners trying to use the internet, you’ll  have a lot of questions about all sorts of things.

And  the more you search, the more you’ll get confused because there are so many answers to what seems like the same question.

If you’re looking for someone to help you with setting up or building an online business, you’ve come to the right place.
I’ve been providing business owners with reliable services and advice for over 10 years.

I can work with you to:
- Build a new website, or repair a broken one.
- Increase your profits with online sales systems
- Improve contact with your customers
- Save money on advertising
- Get your site visible on search engines
- Help manage your online business

There’s lots of great information on this site on all these topics  in the blog posts. Just scroll down the page, or click on the menu items at the top of the page.

If you’re confused and technically terrified by all this,  take a look at the free tutorial videos in the “Website Basics” heading (below).
Also, check out my book “Starting An Internet Business”.

Or if you’re like most business owners and don’t have time to watch or read anything – then contact me.
Just tell me a bit about your situation, and how you would like me to help you.

I’m sure we can work something out.

regards,
Eric Graudins

Some Website Basics

#1: How to choose a Domain Name

#2: How To Register a Domain Name

#3: How To Connect Your domain Name to your Web Host

#4: Opening a Web Hosting Account

#5: Copying Files To your Web Host

Free Facebook Access for Telstra Mobile Users

Telstra  have recently provided free access to Facebook to all users of their mobile network.

If your mobile phone is equipped with a web browser, you can access the Facebook site from your mobile.

Get Rich Quick Schemes – Do YOU keep paying the”Stupid Tax?”

Those “get rich quick” merchants who try hard to separate you from your money have an important role.

They collect the “Stupid Tax”.

Yellow Pages Advertising – Are you Wasting Your Money?

Yellow Pages Vs. The Internet.

Your competitors could be making a killing from a tiny Yellow Pages Listing, while your hugely expensive  display advertisement becomes less and  less effective in generating  business for you.

What you are about to read will probably shock you, and then delight you as you realise that you can take advantage of something that almost none of your competitors know anything about.

Videos by the Internet Bloke

Hi,

Here are some video clips you may find useful:

Is YOUR Website Asleep On The Job?

The Internet Bloke can show you how to make changes to your website that will make you money, cut your costs, save your time, and even make your clients love you.

Being at the Top of Google means NOTHING – Unless . . .

There are thousands of sales letters, forum posts, and gushing articles written about someone achieving the miraculous feat of being listed on Google’s Number One position for some keyword phrase.

Big Deal. Getting number one position on Google is DEAD EASY.

Three Steps to Internet Marketing Success.

You’ll see hundreds of people trying to sell you their secrets to internet marketing success.

Save your money.  As far as I’m concerned, there are only 3 secrets. And you can have them for free, with my compliments

RapBank – A Fantastic NEW alternative to Clickbank and Paydotcom.

Hi,

If you’re sick of waiting possibly weeks for your Clickbank commissions then check out RapBank.

When you sell a product as an affiliate, you get instant payment via PayPal.

Why Internet Marketing is like Baking A Cake

I was thinking about the thousands of internet marketing instruction programs that are available on the internet – both free and paid.

And realised that the process of learning internet marketing is just like baking a cake.