Reciprocal Linking is Bad for Your Business Website Health

February 6th, 2010

As small business owners, we need to find traffic for our websites from wherever we can get it — assuming, of course, that the source is relevant traffic. Irrelevant traffic actually HURTS your website rank in the search engines so we don’t want that. For that reason, we are not fans of reciprocal linking schemes, link farms, etc.

Case in point. I recently met with a new client in Los Angeles who needed to market their small business website. They had previously enjoyed a Page Rank of 5 for their website. Over the past two years, it has dropped to a Page Rank of 3. This was due to a number of factors, but chief among those was the fact that they had been forced into a reciprocal linking arrangement with an unscrupulous vendor. It benefited the vendor tremendously, as they were able to show the search engines that their site was being ranked to from a PR5 website; it made the vendor’s site more “buoyant” (it made it rank higher) in the search engines. The moral of the story is, be very careful if someone offers to do you the “favor” of creating a link to your site, in exchange to linking from yours. It could be detrimental to your website’s Search Engine health.

Nevertheless, you should look for opportunities to receive links from relevant websites whenever possible. It might not seem fair to “take” a link without giving one back, but there are other ways you can help the linking website. If they have a satellite website, you could consider linking to that in the body of one of your posts — relevant topic / contextual link / deep link to the satellite site. Just be careful that the link partner understands that directly linking from the satellite site to their main site will not be nearly as good as if they link in a broad circle of 10 sites before returning to the main site. This is somewhat sophisticated SEO / linking strategy that we’re sharing, so it’s not for everyone to implement on their own. It also implies that you have up to 10 web properties that are all somewhat related that can be daisy chained together… Again, not for everyone. But definitely for businesses that want to insure being on Page 1 on Google. ;)

It requires a lot of time, attention and planning to implement a 10-site daisy chain strategy, and we encourage you to go into that with plenty of forethought. Take the time to not only analyze and eliminate any chance of reciprocal linking or neighbor linking possibilities in the chain, and also insure that whomever in your organization will be managing your website network understands this strategy. A small business SEO Policy is a very smart investment in resources. It takes relatively little time for a website to fall in page rank, and a significantly greater amount of time to gain rank — especially after it is lost.

The underlying issue of Page Rank has been said to be overrated, and it’s largely a symbol of the site’s overall bouyancy in the search engines… it’s not necessarily a goal for a web owner to achieve a particular page rank; it’s more of a barometer or guideline than a definitive benchmark or landing point. The website owner with a page rank of 0 would certainly agree that a page rank of 5 would represent that his/her traffic has achieved more traffic (visitors), more conversions and more leads & sales. That’s really the benchmark we’re aiming for.

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Beats By Dre Headphones

January 31st, 2010

The Monster Beats By Dre Headphones are manufactured by the Monster Cable company, so the name is reliable. The headphones have a noise cancelling feature that many people are giving excellent reviews about on websites such as Amazon.

The Dr. Dre headphones have a deep enveloping low end bass and solid mid and high range sound quality as well. Many people remark about the fact that these headphones can be cranked up to real high volume and still pump out crisp sound.

Another feature of the Beats by Dre headphones is the right earphone can be tapped on the exterior and it mutes the sound. There’s no digging in your pocket to press mute or pause, just a quick tap.

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Motives Cosmetics should be a Name Brand

January 31st, 2010

Howdy, This is Justyna, and have more makeup than I know what to do with, but I have been pretty effing lazy recently when it comes to mix and matching colors. On a regular basis, probabilities are I awakened late and do not have much time to put more than minimal effort into making my face, so I slap on an eyeshadow, occasionally eyeliner, mascara, and run out the door. Sadly it wasn’t until I received some Motives makeup to try that I realized how severely i have been neglecting one of my only real passions : playing in cosmetics.

Motives Cosmetics by Loren Ridinger is a moderately new line that isn’t enormous, but definitely should be. It isn’t super expensive, and many cosmetics firms do not get that quality doesn’t need to be at once related with cost. This is not one of those companies. The Pressed Eye Shade ( $12 ) feels literally like velvet.

It picks up on a brush pretty simply, but I just wish to use my pinky finger to mix the colours. I tried on some different shades over the course of a week to get an experience of all of the colors. They don’t seem to be super-heavy, so it’s presumably not best as a stage makeup brand, but it works rather well for wearing to parties and so on . You may also mix the colors with a little water to get a heavier look. The Kohl Eyeliner ( $14 ) goes on smoothly and also makes a solid base for a liquid liner, if you intend to be out for hours at a time and do not need motives makeup wearing out before you do.

I am typically not avid on powder foundation at ALL ( it makes my face look dry and gross ), but the Liquid Powder Foundation with SPF fifteen ( $24.95 ) went on smoothly and did not have a cakey finish. While I won’t wear it every day, it’s got great coverage for Sat. Nights and times I am on camera ( hi-def is a bitch )

Last saturday I was headed to a party, so I believed it’d be lovable to layer their new gloss ( coming shortly on the site over the rich Color Lipstick in Venetian Red ( $14 ). I got a large quantity of compliments, and the partner liked it, so when I awakened the next day still a touch lagered and ready to wear a fun outfit for Sun. Funday ( read : tasty breakfast and unlimited mimosas, amen ), I was wearing it again for more oomph.

Ultimately, i have been wearing the Pressed Blush in Runway ( $13.50 ) for the past few days rather than my common cheek stain. It has not made a giant difference, but that is sort of the point, right? I was wearing it to a latest office party, got a large amount of compliments, I like Motives Cosmetics !
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