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As many of you have surely heard Google has made the declaration that they are changing the way they will report search traffic to website owners.

The bottom line is that if someone is signed into their Google account and then does a google search and ends up at your website, their search query will not show up in your analytics.

So what does this mean for internet marketing?
I personally have always held the belief that it is more important to be proactive than reactive. I don’t necessarily base my internet marketing decisions based on what has already happened, but rather what I want to have happen.

I admit that not knowing how much traffic a certain key phrase is actually bringing will make it harder to determine which phrases to target more aggressively, but the fact that google is doing this plays right into my theory of going after long tail key phrases when I do SEO.

If you put all of your eggs in one key phrase basket then this change might effect you more that it would me. What ultimately matters to me is that I get traffic that converts into sales. In the end I don’t care if they searched donkey socks or internet marketing, as long as they buy my product.

So what should you do?
Do exactly what you have been doing. Create good content, build quality links and test your landing pages to increase conversions. I guess not much has changed has it.

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With one membership you can build links to up to 5 websites. You tell them the phrases to build links for and they will go out and get you 200 links per website every month. You give them the categories to get links in so they are very relevant links.

Now lots of link building companies can get you links, but not all links are created equal. What I love about these guys is they show you your rankings when you start with them and then show you your progress as they build links for you.

They know their links work so they aren’t afraid of complete transparency. You literally can just login and watch your rankings move up in Google. It really is that easy.

After 1 month of using this link building service my rankings had jumped to page 1 on Google for terms I had been targeting for years. No lie.

So what’s the catch?

Well, something this awesome is not going to be free. Monthly membership for their site is $147. That’s 1000 links each month for only $147. The other link building tasks I have you do give you much less.

Link building is the most important part of SEO. These guys do it right. Believe me when I tell you I have used many many link building services and these guys have gotten me the best results. For me results are all that matter.

In fact, you could do no other link building and you would be successful. If you had to choose only one service you could pay for for SEO I would recommend this one it is that powerful.

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Well, I have good news to report. I just sold a website that I bought last year. The website was in a very very competitive yet lucrative industry and based on the success I have had in other industries I decided to try my hand in this one.

I bought the website (I paid 5 figures for it which is the first time I have ever gone that high for a site) and started optimizing it. Really all I did was build links for the site since it was ranking on Google pretty well but just needed a little boost to start doing really well.

Well I got wrapped up working on other websites and never got around to changing anything on the website. The SEO on the site was not bad but conversions could have used some help. So for almost a year all that was happening on the site was link building. Now if you have ever read Prosperly before you know my take on SEO and link building.

The rankings did slowly improve (and I mean slowly) but I was patient. Well apparently that was enough to get someone interested in buying the site because in December I received an email offering to buy the site for more than I paid for it without knowing anything else about it. I countered with a much higher price and eventually we settled on a price that was more than double what I paid for it.

Not bad for a years worth of link building and nothing else. Let this be a witness to you that SEO is the key to building websites people want to buy and that there is money to be made in 2011.

The never ending debate of which is more important, good content, or high quality links when you are trying to improve your search engine rankings may never come to an agreeable conclusion.

My personal belief is that high quality relevant links will always beat out good content and that has been my experience in optimizing hundreds of websites over the years.

The good news is we don’t have to choose one or the other. Instead lets get really good links, and write awesome content for our websites and dominate the search engines.

I want to talk a little about writing good content. There are a few things you need to keep in mind when adding content to your site.

Create SEO Focused Content
Writing content for the sake of writing content can be an incredible waste of time. When you are trying to increase your websites rankings, you should be targeting your key phrases in the content you add to your website.

Look for good long tail key phrases that you are not already ranking for. A whole page of content focused around one long tail key phrase can go a long way with the search engines.

For example, let’s say my website is in the internet marketing industry and I am targeting big key phrases like “internet marketing” and “internet business”. A long tail key phrase I could write about would be “internet marketing for lawyers”.

That would be the title of my page and then I would include that entire phrase in the content of the site a couple of times. I would then get 1-3 links for the phrase and sit back and watch as the rankings move up.

From an SEO standpoint this is a much better strategy than just rambling on for 500 words about nothing in particular.

Use Proper Grammar and Spelling
It is true that most people skim, they don’t read. Although I seem to have attracted a lot of readers. Keep your content free of punctuation and spelling errors. Those kinds of mistakes stand out like a soor thum.

Try not to use slang in your content unless it fits in with the style and feel of the website.

If you create good quality content that is focused on key phrases you want to rank for, you will find that your efforts will yield much better results.

A new trend in link building is to use social media to help you build link popularity to your website. As link building continues to be the hardest part of SEO people will always be looking for new ways to generate more links.

One of the new strategies is something that has been name SEO link wheels.

A link wheel works like this:

You write 10 articles all related to the keyword you are targeting in your link building.

You submit those 10 articles to 10 different article directories (ie ezinearticles.com, isnare.com etc).

In each article you place two links; One link to your site using your keyword, and the other link would link to one of the other 9 articles you have submitted to the other article directories.

Thus each article is connected to your site and to the other articles written that also link to your site and that is why they call it a wheel as you can clearly see from my awesome graphic below: :-)

Instead of just submitting to article directories you can also mix things up by doing some blog posts with the links embedded as well as a couple of youtube videos that also link to your site and to another one of the articles or blog posts.

SEO link wheel companies swear by this approach. I tested this method out on a small scale and had a little success with it. If it is something you feel like you want to try I would recommend that you only target one keyword and choose a keyword you have not been able to rank for. That way you can see whether or not the thing is working or not.