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I’m sure there are probably a hundred blog posts about the new Google SEO Starter Guide but I thought I’d throw my hat in the ring also. Yes, this guide is for beginners and it’s targeted specifically at getting Google juice, and there are a lot of other things you should be doing because, in spite of all the Google hoopla, it’s not all about Google.

But there is some very good and solid advice in here and it’s a great starting point for new webmasters or website owners looking for pointers from the guys who own about 80% of the search market.

There are many strategies to get links to your blog or to get people to comment on your blog. one of the best is to comment on other blogs related to your subject.

I believe I’ve mentioned that your comments must contribute to the discussion and give some kind of valuable insight or the blogger will probably remove your post as a waste of time.

However, there’s one other thing you must watch for. Wordpress and Blogger have an automatic system that adds a “no follow” tag to comments people make on these blogs.

When was the last time you had your web site checked for broken links? I know I can sound like a broken record sometimes but the search engines really don’t like badly maintained web sites.

Regular maintenance of your web site is an important part of search engine optimization and keeping your web site rising in the search engine rankings. It’s also good for business.

How many times have you gone to a web site and clicked on a link only to get an error message? How do you react? what do you think when a site seems to have problems or isn’t well maintained?

Boy, there is just no limit to how important anchor links and anchor tags are. I could write an entire article on the importance of anchor tags but for now, let’s just go over some of the essentials so you begin using them

I’ll bet your first question is, “What the heck is an anchor tag?” And your second question is, “what’s so damned important about anchor tags?” I’ll tell you right now. Anchor tags can be used for several things:

I found a couple of helpful blog entries to help you make your blog more successful. Both of them were written by well known bloggers and have some excellent suggestions. Especially if you are a blogging newbie, follow their ideas to real blogging success!

http://www.elance.com/p/tips-for-wordpress-blogs

http://www.elance.com/p/node/2298?rid=1A8K6

If you’re a business owner, I bet you hear it all the time. “You need a blog…” “you gotta start a blog…” “blogs are the hottest thing going for businesses…”

And then you ask yourself, “why the hell do I need a blog?” And then you say, “I don’t have time to write a blog.” And then you go on about running your business and completely forget about the idea until the next time someone says, ”you gotta blog…”