Part 5 – Offpage Search Engine Optimization

digg_url = 'WEBSITE_URL';digg_bgcolor = '#ff9900';digg_skin = 'compact';We’ve already optimized our blog to rank well for search results of certain keywords that we’re targetting, but here comes the sad news – it affects your ranking in only very minor ways. However, don’t skip this step as every little bit helps when you’re competing for search engine rankings!Now, we’re moving on to offpage search engine optimization. That is, factors that are not on your blog but affect your search engine rankings very greatly. There are a lot of offpage factors, but we shall study them one by one. The first and most obvious one is the number of links to your blog.As a general rule of thumb, the more links to your blog, the more the search engines think you are an authority in that particular niche and...

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