Remember when infographics were the hottest thing for snagging link bait? They’ve been succeeded by motion graphics, and if you’re not on the bandwagon yet, it’s time to hop on up there. Google+ is picking up steam and buttressing videos, which means that motion graphics as a means of building links is really about to take off. Of course, YouTube remains a big player in video with billions of users searching for things every day.

Why do you need to focus on motion graphics to bait and reel in those links? People are increasingly less text- and static-driven. They want quick entertainment that catches their eye. Only video can do this, which is why so many marketing experts rally for video email marketing in lieu of traditional text.

Why You Need Video

Let’s say you’re in charge of the SEO for a site on fire safety. An article on smoke evacuation might be full of useful tips, but many people are visual learners. If you include a video on how to evacuate safely that’s short and high-quality, you’ll likely get more people interested in watching that than reading a lengthy article about it. If people are Googling fire safety, they want answers fast, and only a video can provide that.

A video is the perfect accoutrement to a blog or succinct article, and can quickly steal the show. Make sure the information about the embedded video is SEO-friendly, which might call for some tweaks on your end. It’s easy to upload via YouTube, but you want to make sure the URL and description follows SEO best practices.

Why Not Infographics?

Infographics are still often better than dry text but are more of a segue to video. People like looking at pictures, but it doesn’t keep their attention like a video does. Infographics are great for catching the eye but can fall short when it comes to actually sharing videos and thus getting more hits and fewer bouncebacks. There’s no question why motion graphics are the natural successor to infographics.

When it comes to linkbaiting, the goal is to get as many links as possible, which is exactly what a motion graphic can do. Popularity counts in the world of SEO, and you need to give the people what they want. The focus for quite awhile has been away from content that takes effort (such as reading), and surfers want immediate gratification and to be entertained. If you include motion graphics as a lead-in, or even as a stand-alone draw, you’re appealing to browsers and working within the environment they prefer.

Making Money with Motion Graphics

If you’re in the business of blogging for money, you know how important high-quality links are and that it’s quality over quantity. You might have found an app for spinning content relatively well, but that’s not going to come anywhere near the SEO ability of a good video. Videos are much easier to link and share than coming up with all-original content, and if you’re not a writer (or don’t want to spend that kind of time), focusing on motion graphics is a great alternative. Sharing is okay, while duplicate copy isn’t, so take advantage of this loophole when it comes to optimizing your blog.

Making money from blogging is no easy feat, so you need to use the tools at your disposal. It’s much simpler, faster and more effective to provide an SEO-rich motion graphic link than to write or spin content. You’re also following the trend of images over text, which is what your readers want to see. Whether you’re a first-timer or a blog-for-pay pro, find out what motion graphics can do for your traffic and revenue.

About the Author:

Adrienne finished college recently with a degree in animation, which she still dabbles in from time to time. Now she writes freelance. You can find more of her work by following her on Twitter!

The world of internet marketing is difficult to navigate. It is a labyrinth of codes, statistics, numbers, and words that make little sense to the untrained eye. However, if you can get a handle on the fundamentals of online marketing, you can do great things for your website’s link popularity. Break into the world of search engine optimization and follow these guidelines to help your website’s popularity soar.

1. Choose the Right Domain Name

In the pursuit of higher link popularity, everything begins with a name. When you choose a domain name for your website, be sure to give it careful consideration. The right domain can save lots of time and effort in the future. Search engines use keywords in their process for ranking web pages in their results, and if you have relevant keywords in your domain name, you will automatically rank higher than many other sites. Choosing the perfect domain name is the first important step in building your website’s reputation.

One important tip here, though, is to not use exact match domain names as these have been hit hard by recent Google changes. Exact match domains are domains that contain the exact keyword phrase you’re trying to rank for.

2. Start Blogging for the Audience

Don’t make the mistake of getting too caught up in your pursuit for higher link popularity and search engine optimization on your website. Many webmasters spend so much time trying to cater to the electronic eyes of search engine robots that they forget about what is really important–the audience. Blogging is a great way to increase your site’s popularity. If you’ve been toiling away, attempting to optimize your website and falling short, get back to the basics and start writing for your audience. Your traffic is sure to go up.

3. Produce Relevant Content Consistently

Both human readers and search engine robots favor the website that consistently puts out relevant content. Search engines like Google will rank your website higher in results pages if you are showing yourself to be a reliable producer of quality content. Likewise, your audience will become a loyal following of readers and sharers when they know that they can expect regular updates from you. Make it your business to publish eye-catching content as often as you can, and be sure to stick to a schedule.

4. Register with Online Directories

The age of the Yellow Pages may be in the past, but that doesn’t mean that directories have gone the way of the dinosaurs. Business and personal directories still hold a very important place in the world, but they’ve largely migrated to the internet. Register your website with the most popular online directories to get listed with reputable networks and drive up your link popularity. This is sure to give your website the boost it needs.

5. Don’t Over-Design Your Website

While an interactive flash map may help set your website apart from the rest, it may not be helping your popularity. Flash websites look great, but they’re more difficult for search engines to read. Something about Flash coding is confusing to search engine robots, which is why over-designing can really hurt you. Sticking to simpler web design techniques will help make sure that your website is indexed with other relevant pages and increase your link popularity.

What Do You Think?

What are some additional ways that you can increase your link popularity for your website? I know there are many tactics not covered in this post, so feel free to share some of your own tips by leaving a comment below.

When you get started in the online world it can be pretty tough. You have a website you spent a few days creating and then you need to produce the magic. Adding content is easy and you’re doing it daily. You even figure out how to add some affiliate links so you get money when people buy from your site. Now you sit down and smile because you know it’s soon going to be time to pack your belongings and move into a mansion. Then nothing happens and you don’t have a clue what’s wrong. There’s nobody landing on your site so you must figure out what to do.

You stick your head back in the books. After spending the next few weeks reading everything you can about marketing you finally come to the conclusion you need to start doing search engine optimization, so you get to work and start building thousands of backlinks to your site. Without warning your site disappears from the search engines. You’ve been de-indexed and it was because you performed SEO in the wrong way. Here are some things you definitely want to avoid before it’s too late.

1. Buying Cheap Backlinks

There is a reason why huge companies don’t buy one million backlinks from places like Fiverr, and that is because they are dangerous. One morning you could wake up and find yourself de-indexed from the search engines. Most people starting an online business are doing it because they don’t have much money. Don’t let this force you to start buying spam backlinks that could kill your site. The risk doesn’t equal the reward.

If you’re looking for quality backlinks at an affordable price, I recommend checking this post out.

2. Spinning Articles

Have you ever read an article that’s been put through a spinner? They end up using software that turns one article into a thousand. They are all unique which sounds great, but when you try reading them they don’t even make sense. It might sound like a good idea getting thousands of backlinks from the articles, but no human would ever read them and you’re hurting your reputation. If you care about how your articles appear to actual human readers, then please just write individual articles that you can post in a few directories.

3. Using Link Farms

Google ended up destroying link farms and wiping businesses off the map in a previous algorithm change. Some people are still having success with private link farms, but you’ve got to ask yourself, how long will this last? If you build your entire business around it, and it comes crashing down, you will be left with nothing.

The best thing you can do is stay away from them, unless you set something up yourself that is hidden from everyone.

4. Using the Same Anchor Text

Google gets smarter every day and it knows when you start going crazy with the same anchor text, which shouldn’t even be there in the first place if we’re being entirely honest. It looks like spam, and people wouldn’t usually link to your site this way. When you start building links from now on, you can still use keywords as anchor text, but just do it to a small percentage of them. Google will eventually find you and you’ll be rewarded for your patience.

5. Crazy On-Page SEO

There is on-page SEO, and then there is going absolutely crazy. People seem to go to the extreme in the hope that Google is looking to find what you want to rank for. When you have the main keyword stuffed into the first paragraph ten times it’s not going to help you. This isn’t 1996 anymore, so it’s time to start being sensible. You can still mention the keyword in the title and somewhere in the article, but including it too much will hurt you instead of giving you results.

About the Author:

Ben is the managing director of SEO Positive Limited, an innovative search engine optimization company based in UK.

When it comes to finding success online, there are a lot of things that you can do to make sure your website is getting as much traffic as you want. Technology is moving at blinding speeds these days, and if you’re interested in keeping up with the newest developments when it comes to things like online marketing, you’ve got to make sure that you’re plugged in, and to a pretty serious degree.

For most websites, success begins with something called search engine optimization, also referred to as SEO, for short. This is the process by which certain aspects of your website are tweaked and adjusted to make sure that your site shows up in the search results when certain keywords are entered in.

The ultimate goal is to wind up presenting your site to people who might not have even known they were looking for it in the first place. Plenty of strategies can go into a great SEO campaign. If you’re looking to improve your site’s rankings on Google, here are a few things that you can do with relative ease.

1. Load It with Great Copy (…and Great Content in General)

Every website needs content. If you’ve ever heard the phrase “Content Is King,” you’ve heard the truth. Not only is content the ruler of the Internet because it’s basically the reason people actually go online (that and shopping, of course), but it’s important because it’s going to get your website noticed by the search engines in the first place.

When you’ve got a ton of great content on your website, two things happen. First, you get a lot of quality traffic, because people want to enjoy that content. This, of course, only makes Google think that you’re more important. Secondly, you get the chance to embed your website’s keywords into said copy, which further boosts your visibility when it comes to Google’s search results.

2. Optimize for Long-Tail Keywords, Too

Keyword optimization can be pretty simple, but it’s not really supposed to be. Of course, if you’ve got a sporting goods store, you’re going to try and optimize your website for a keyword like “sporting goods.” However, by also making sure that you target so-called “long tail” keywords (“used sporting goods for cheap online,” or “inexpensive baseball gloves for kids,” for example) you can make sure you’re raking in searchers that are using more specific entries.

3. Provide a Great Site Map

The Google “crawlers” are very important to you when SEO is concerned. A “crawler” is the algorithm that “crawls” the Internet and decides how high your website is going to rank. One of the things that Google’s crawlers really like is a site map: it helps them easily and quickly understand how your website is all set up. You’re going to need one of these if you want your website to do well in the Google rankings.

4. Make Sure Your Inbound Links Are of High Quality

A big part of search engine optimization is backlinking (or link building). This term refers to the process of getting other websites to post links which point back to your site (“inbound” links). In the earlier days of SEO, a company could simply post a ton of links from any random website.

These days, however, the crawlers are a lot more highly-developed, and your website can easily wind up being penalized for unnatural links. Make sure that any backlinks pointing to your site are coming from other websites that are actually relevant to what you do.

5. Expand Your Online Presence

You can give yourself some quality backlinking all on your own by simply spreading your presence online as much as you can. If you’re a locally-based business, go online and get yourself listed on as many local directories as you can. Make a page for your company on all the relevant social media channels.

Start a blog. When you’re posting content and engaging fans in multiple places on the Internet, in ways that make sure to point back to your main website all the time, you’re going to rank a lot higher in the search engine results.

Lest we forget, the internet was designed as a visual medium. Although there is certainly a lot of textual information presented via online platforms, people who want to read can pick up a book, a newspaper, or a magazine. They can use the internet, too, but if every page of your website is laden by dense bodies of text, it might not hold much visual appeal for your visitors.

In fact, it can be downright alienating, which is definitely not what you want. Even prestigious online journals, which are expected to be heavy on text, still break up the visual plane by adding white space, headers, and graphics, or by posting only a portion of an article text with a link to the full page, for example.

The point is, you no doubt want to provide your visitors with specific information, but you also want to make the layout of your pages visually appealing so that viewers aren’t put off by the sea of text. And, infographics are one good way to convey information in a visually friendly manner. But, you can also use them as part of a marketing strategy to drive traffic to your site.

Let me explain…

Infographics, in and of themselves, won’t necessarily bring traffic to your site. You can certainly use them to improve the overall look of your design, and many viewers will find them appealing (not to mention preferable to slogging through reams of text). In addition, visitors may be more likely to share, send, and re-post humorous, shocking or informational infographics than straight text, and this is where you can formulate a strategy that will make your infographic content do the heavy lifting for you.

You’ll find that it’s simple enough to add links to the embedded HTML coding that makes the framework for these graphic boxes. In this way, you can ensure that no matter where they travel on the web, anyone who clicks them will be taken directly to your website, thus increasing your traffic.

The trick is to create infographics that people want to share. Already these graphic images, complete with whatever information you’re looking to impart (generally in some kind of bullet point format), are more attractive to viewers than straight-up text.

For the most part, they offer a bite-size way to give your viewers what might otherwise be a sizeable chunk of gristle to chew. In the online arena, expediency is a valuable characteristic, so viewers are far more likely to share infographics than a full-text article. And, you can use graphics to convey all kinds of meaning that would be lost in translation without a tone to signal intent. For this reason, it’s easy to imbue your infographics with humor or shock value, both of which may help them to go viral (creating backlinks along every step of the way), or at least get shared more.

You might want to hire a professional infographic designer to help you out here, since the best overall value will come from a product that is not only informative and visually appealing, but also attractive in a way that makes viewers want to share it. Unless you have a background in layout and design or marketing (or both), it is in your best interest to let the pros do what they do best. If they’re good at their job, you’ll end up with some killer infographics, a more engaging website, and an increase in traffic that’s bound to do good things for your online business.

Still not convinced? Here’s an infographic to help explain it better:

Source: Web Marketing Group

In an attempt to discourage webmasters that violate Google’s webmaster guidelines, Google has updated its search algorithm with ‘Penguin’ in April of this year (2012). According to the statistics, this update has hit as many as 64% of websites previously ranked high with the help of unethical, black-hat search engine optimization techniques. Or those who relied heavily on exact match, anchor text links, like myself. Not black-hat at the time, but frowned upon by Google now.

This just goes to show you that techniques that used to work and was highly taught throughout the internet marketing industry, do not work anymore. We must keep up to date with new changes like this, especially when most of us rely heavily on traffic from Google.

In the post-Penguin environment, there is no room for manipulating search engine rankings through web scam tactics like keyword stuffing, duplicate content, doorway pages and the like. However, SEO is not dead yet; you can still boost your rankings with a natural, white-hat link building campaign.

Today, only high quality link building improves traffic and overall SEO and can be achieved by following a few simple steps.

Focus On Your Content, BEFORE You Focus On Links

First off, your website needs to have truly fresh, genuine, informative and premium quality content. An easy way to doing this is to ask yourself when writing content if it would engage and inspire your readers. If the answer is in the negative, it’s time to reconsider the quality of the content that you’re publishing on your site. Given that you provide quality content, other websites will link to your content, and in return, you will get links over time and reap long-term benefits.

Guest Post Regularly

Reaching out to bloggers for guest posts is probably one of the most successful link building methods at this time. It is a good source of links as there are a host of popular blogs on almost every niche. A single link from a high rank blog is better than hundreds of irrelevant links created from other sources. Another impressive advantage of this method is the referral traffic, which itself boosts up your search engine rankings. All you have to do is offer really exceptional blog posts to selected bloggers in your niche in return for anchor text links back to your own website.

Optimize Your Internal Linking

Another Penguin-proof SEO technique is sprucing up your inner page links. While beefing up your website, internal linking structure generates more traffic and higher rankings in the search engine. Link together different related pages on your website: old pages to new pages, and vice versa. In the long run, it will diffuse page ranks naturally through your website while indexing new pages quickly.

However, if you continue creating backlinks to your homepage, it will be an instant red flag to Google, and your whole site could suffer. After all, your homepage is relevant but not as much as inner pages where the real content is.

Use Social Media

Any new posts on your website should be shared on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc. After your posts are liked, shared and re-tweeted, your site will receive an extended audience. To get the most out of your efforts, try to dig out what other people in your niche actually want. You can meet their requirements with an awesome piece of content, interesting video, or an infographic.

If you use WordPress, I suggest installing the OnlyWire plugin, which will automatically post any new blog post to the social media sites that you choose in the settings panel. Doing this will automate the process and free up your time to implement other Penguin-killing strategies.

Final Thoughts

In a nutshell, Google’s Penguin update has hit many sites, but ranking your sites high is still a surmountable task. Just remember that Penguin was launched to curb web spam, particularly those sites that manipulate Google’s search results artificially while using black-hat link building techniques. However, if you succeed in providing your readers with quality content and using fair methods of link building, you can easily combat the Penguin update.

About the Author

Theresa Moyer writes for http://www.GoToGiftBaskets.com.

I’ll be honest. Most SEO products don’t work. Search engine optimization is a huge industry with hundreds of millions of dollars being made and lost every year. Unfortunately, most marketers who try to figure out what really works end up getting lost. Often times they’ll spend hundreds, even thousands of dollars only to see their rankings stay the same. Does this sound like you?

That’s a sad but true scenario for many, but it doesn’t have to be that way.

So how does Paul Johnson’s Elite SEO Backlinks fit into the picture? Can it really help you boost your rankings? Is it as powerful a tool as Paul makes it out to be?

Let’s take a look.

The Death of Outdated Information

The world of SEO is constantly changing. One day a tactic is working great, then the next day Panda, Panda 2.0, Penguin or another update rolls out, and the tactic is dead in the water. The reality is, static advice and static link building tactics are a terrible approach to SEO. Trust me, I know. Just take a look at my past and present Income Reports.

Were you struck down by the recent Google changes? What I was doing months ago was working very well. Unfortunately, I failed to follow key advice that led to this site getting hit by the Penguin update. I’m now on track to bounce back better than ever.

If you’re going to pay for an SEO product, you want it to be updated regularly. You want SEO tactics and backlink sources that work this month, not tactics that worked 6 months ago.

That’s what I love about Paul Johnson’s Elite SEO Backlinks program. Instead of giving you a static set of tactics or backlink sources, you get brand new link sources every single month.

The Importance of Pre-Filtered Link Sources

There are a lot of different factors that go into a great link source. First, you want them to be DoFollow (Some NoFollow are okay, too). Next, you want them to have a good PageRank. Of course, you want to make sure that it’s easy for you to get your links in there to help cut down the time you’re investing. If you had to find these backlink sources yourself, you’d end up spending dozens of hours a month on backlink searches. If you’ve done any sort of link research before, you’ll know how true that is.

Paul essentially does all this work for you. Even if you only value your time at $10 an hour, his backlinks package more than pays for itself. Coming in at just $27 a month, it’s hard for any other company or individual to compete with it.

You can get more than 100 pre-filtered backlinks each and every month. These links are DoFollow, they’re high authority, they’re high PageRank and they’re all backlinks that you can create yourself. You have complete and total control over the links that are created.

Can These Backlinks Build Rankings?

Naysayers can give all kinds of excuses for why these backlinks “won’t work.” But the reality is, if you look at the real results of Paul’s clients (including myself and this blog), there’s simply no argument. These backlinks work. I’m a proud user of this product and know just how effective these links can be to boost your search engine rankings.

The only caveat to Paul’s backlinks is that you have to put in the time to actually implement them. This isn’t a backlink service that does all the work for you. Instead, you simply get access to the sources of backlinks.

Getting the backlinks is as simple as signing up for the site and putting a link back to your page. That said, the most common reason people don’t see results is that they just didn’t consistently implement the backlinks.

If you do, you will see results. If you’re willing to put in the work, Paul’s Elite SEO Backlinks can absolutely make you money by driving your website up higher in the search engines.

At the beginning of every month I do a recap of last month’s blog posts. I also include a few of my favorite blog posts from other bloggers I follow. This gives you a chance to catch up on any posts you may have missed here, and you also get to check out some awesome bloggers that provide valuable content that’s worth reading.

I always recommend leaving a comment on any posts you find helpful. Comments are also great if you have a question you’d like to ask. Either way, they let the blog owner know you appreciate their time and that there are people who actually read their content.

With that said, let’s take a look at last month’s post on this blog…

September 2011 Blog Posts on ReplaceYourSalary.com

Most of these are guest posts, so be sure to show the authors some love by leaving a comment.

How to Get Health Insurance When Working From Home

4 Skills That Will Help You Land More Freelance Writing Jobs

5 Things About Working From Home I Wish I Knew When I Started

3 Things I’m Grateful for as a Blogger

Top Tips: Increasing Your Web Traffic Through Unique Online Partnerships

Is Google Counting All of Your Hard-Earned Backlinks?

Blog Posts Around the Web

Here are some blog posts I’ve found from other bloggers I follow that I hope you will find helpful. Take some time to read these as well.

TechChunks gives us 5 really good reasons to have a blog for your business. I can’t imagine running a business these days without a blog. It is an integral part of online communication that cannot be ignored.

Andrew Walsh details 3 very common Google Keyword Tool mistakes that a lot of people make. Avoiding these mistakes can be the difference between making money online and making nothing online.

If you use Google Adsense at all, you may be interested to know that comment spam can get you banned from Adsense. I didn’t know about this, so thanks to Dennis for pointing this out.

That’s all for now. This month I’ll be discussing tips for WordPress bloggers, so stay tuned for that. You’ll also get to read content from more awesome guest authors as they just keep lining up!

Imagine for a moment…

You’ve spent hours and hours, possibly even days on end building backlinks to your website. And, not just any backlinks. These backlinks are on high Page Rank and authority sites. Maybe even on blogs and forums you visit regularly.

But…

Days go by. Your website’s position in Google hasn’t increased a bit, or has gone up very little. All of that time and energy spent building those links seems worthless.

Does this sound familiar?

I, as many others, deal with this issue all the time. It’s not entirely our fault, but it’s not all Google’s fault, either.

I’ve been getting asked lately how I get Google to index my new backlinks, as well as any old links that still may not be indexed and counted. I thought it would be helpful if I wrote a detailed, step-by-step guide on exactly how I go about it.

How I Get My New (and Old) Backlinks Indexed by Google

Google is limited in the fact that it’s spider can only index links that it comes across. If your newly created link(s) isn’t on a page that is being linked to from an already indexed page, then how is Google supposed to know that your link(s) exists?

For example, if I create a brand new profile page on a forum, my profile page may be set to public, meaning anyone can view it, but right now no one is linking to it. I may have a link or two on my profile page that I want Google to find and count towards my total backlink count.

So what can we do so that Google finds those links?

Here is my personal step-by-step approach to ensure that any new link I create is found and indexed by Google.

Step 1: Create a Blogger Blog

Go to blogger.com and create a new Google account. Even if you already have one, still create a new one. Trust me on this.

Give your new blog a generic name. Don’t make it anything specific… you’re not going to be promoting your blog or trying to rank it well in search engines, so just keep it basic.

Step 2: Add Your Links to Your Blog’s Sidebar

Any backlink you have that you want to get indexed by Google should be added to the blog’s sidebar.

Blogger makes this super easy to do. Simply click the little edit icon next to the links section, and a new window will pop-up to add your links.

When adding your links, you want to include the entire URL of the link you want indexed. The Title of the link should include just the main domain of the site. DO NOT use keywords in the Title of the link. See picture below to understand what I mean…

Step 3: Get PLR Content

You’re going to want to post to your blog every day, and multiple times per day. This is more important towards the beginning since your blog is brand new.

The easiest and quickest way to do this is to get your hands on PLR content. It doesn’t matter where it comes from or what kind of quality the content is. As long as the quality is half-decent and makes sense, go with it. I would recommend doing a Google search for “PLR content,” “free PLR content” or something similar.

Start posting articles on your blog, 30 minutes apart between each post. If you can’t post that often, don’t worry about it. Just post as often as you can.

Don’t worry about re-writing the articles. It doesn’t matter if it’s duplicate content. As I said before, you shouldn’t be worried about the quality of the content. You really don’t want your blog ranking in search engines, but if it happens, let it happen naturally.

Step 4: Ping Your Blog Posts

Every time you publish a new post to your blog, you’re going to want to ping the actual post. I’m not going to go into detail about what pinging is, but basically, it lets other sites know that you added new content to your blog. Those sites then send out their own spiders to collect information about your post, including the URL.

The easiest way that I know to ping a blog post is to grab the Ping-o-matic bookmarklet and save it to your bookmarks toolbar.

Once you’ve done that, every time you publish a new article to your blog, view the new post, and click the Ping-o-matic button on your toolbar. It will instantly ping your post, which should take all but 2 seconds.

After that, just head back to your blog and wait a little bit before you publish another new article from your PLR collection.

Step 5: Confirm Google is Visiting Your Blog and Posts

By now you should have 10 – 20 links in your blog’s sidebar that you want indexed (no more than that), and you should have been posting new articles to your blog for about a week now. At this stage you’re going to want to start checking to see if Google has indexed your blog yet. At this point, only your blog needs to be indexed.

To check if Google has indexed your blog, do a Google search by entering your Blogger blog’s full URL address in the search bar, with “site:” in front of it. See example…

If your blog shows up in the results, you’re good to go. The links currently in the sidebar have most likely been visited by Google. If you want to double-check, do a search as exampled above, using that link’s URL instead.

Step 6: Rinse and Repeat

Now that Google is visiting your blog and has indexed your first set of links, it’s time to update your link list with a new set of links you want indexed. Go ahead and change out all the links, keeping sure you follow the example as outlined in Step 2.

Once your links have been updated, follow Steps 3 through 5. Keep track of the title of the article that you post as well as the date in which you posted it. For Step 5, you’re now going to check to make sure Google has indexed your latest post. This is the post that should have been published immediately after you updated your list of links.

If that post has been indexed, you’re ready to change out the links again.

Keep repeating these steps over and over again for any new links you want to get indexed. After a while, it’s not uncommon for Google to index your new posts within a matter of hours. It happens to my blog all the time.

Let’s Recap

Now that you have my step-by-step guide on getting your links indexed by Google, let’s just quickly go through the entire process again.

First, you want to start a new Blogger blog. Then, add your non-indexed links to the sidebar of your blog. Publish articles to your blog as often as possible, but at least 30 minutes apart. Ping each new post you make using the Ping-o-matic bookmarklet. Check to make sure Google is indexing your blog and posts. Once your current list of links are indexed, change your list, adding new, non-indexed links. Repeat the entire process over and over again.

It really is this simple. This doesn’t take a whole lot of time at all. It takes me less than a minute to publish a new post (just copy and paste) and ping it. Adding new links takes the most time, but usually no more than 10 minutes or so at a time.

There you have it. Everything you need to get your links indexed by Google quickly. If you have any questions, leave a comment below and I’ll be sure to get back to you.

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It seems there has been a PageRank update, courtesy of Google. I noticed the change yesterday on this blog, just as a few blogs I follow started posting about the updated ranking system.

I’m not going to get into the elaborate debate surrounding PageRank or even explain what it is. If you don’t have a clue what I’m talking about, you can always “Google” it.

Why I Care

For me, PageRank plays an importance in my overall online business. This may sound crazy to some, but regardless of what you may think, PageRank does have a role when it comes to my monthly earnings. To give you an idea why, I suggest reading this post and looking over the “High PR Backlinks” section. You may also be interested in reading this post and this post. And, you can always check out my Income Reports and see how much I make from selling advertising space on this site, which is partially made possible thanks to PageRank.

Okay, so now that we know the Google PR of our sites have been updated, I wanted to share how my sites faired in this update. I currently have three websites in my portfolio, and I’ll also include my blog on the list as well. Let’s take a look at them:

ReplaceYourSalary.com

• PR before update – 4
• PR after update – 4

Work From Home Blog

• PR before update – 4
• PR after update – 3

GetBackYourExAdvice.com

• PR before update – 0
• PR after update – 1

Micro Niche Adsense Site (Not Disclosed)

• PR before update – NA
• PR after update – 0

Overall I’m pleased with how things turned out. I’m a bit bummed the blog didn’t fair so well, but hey, nothing I can do about it except continue to post quality content and build quality links.

How Did Your Websites Do?

Did you notice a change in the Google PageRank of your website/s? Let us know by leaving a comment, and I’ll even allow you to post one of your websites so we can all take a look. Just don’t abuse the privilege, as I do moderate all comments.