Well, well… its 2009 already and almost half a year has passed us by since I last wrote anything in this blog. That one was called “Google Hits Where it Hurts” and it reflected on the many changes Google has been making on its algorithm and how it affects website owners of all flavours.

So it’s probably a natural progression to come back here several months on and look at what has been happening as well as take these changes and make something positive out of them.

One reason for this post is as a way of providing some of my other sites with a little added exposure as they all need it and this is the perfect vehicle for doing that. You see a major part of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is getting links to your site. But not just any old links, you need strong link juice that only keyword anchored, one way back links can give your site. When they come from an authority site that occupies the same niche as yours, then it adds to the strength of the juice given in the link. And when that link comes from within a relevant post, you are receiving about the best you can get.

Figuring in the SERPs is all about the amount of authority that Google gives to your site. It gives most authority to sites that are totally relevant to their keywords and that have the most quality back links from other authority sites in the same niche. After all, this is a good indicator for Google that the links are genuine and that the owner of the site giving them is impressed enough by the site they are linking to to give them a keyword text anchor in that link which is relevant to the page, or article or post that it links to.

A great site linking strategy post can be found over at my sister site at thehonestway.com/blog which explains how you can create some authority for yourself using one link building strategy that works quite well for improving a site’s authority.

A really great article about using SEO to improve your edge in the SERPs can be found at another well informed site at How to Make Money Online with SEO. Here it takes a slightly different tack, but the basic recipe for success using search engine optimization techniques is the same.

This was not meant as a particularly long post, because I don’t want to be spending too much time working in the MMO niche as it is downright too damn difficult to rank well enough in to make money online from. Much better to be putting my time and efforts into my several niche sites which are benefiting greatly from the SEO techniques that I use and have explained in the aforementioned articles.

So as we’re now into 2009 already, may I wish you all a happy and prosperous year ahead!

Terry Didcott
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