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Increasing the number of quality backlinks to your website can be one of the most impactful and difficult tasks of a sound SEO strategy.

What's a Backlink?

A backlink is traditionally defined as another website that links to your own. At their most basic level, a quality backlink acts as a vote of confidence for your website. The more votes you have, the better you rank!

1. Meta page title

Arguably one of the most important factors of your on-page SEO, the meta page title is one of the first signals that search engines look at when they try to rank your page.

A good meta page title should be kept to 70-75 characters long, and should include 2-3 keyword phrases (a good keyword phrase is generally 3-4 words long), with little to no keyword repetition.

Beginning Monday, July 19th, and continuing through Tuesday July 20th, & Wednesday July 21st, LevelTen Interactive will be providing Drupal training courses. These courses, which use materials from Acquia, will get you
up-to-speed on current best practices in the Drupal world.

Reserve your seat today!

Drupal in a Day
July 19, 2010

Ever wonder how some companies are able to pump out blog post after blog post, seemingly without breaking a sweat?

For some, it's a natural talent. Creating high quality digital content isn't a chore - it's an activity that brings great satisfaction.

For others, it's a necessary evil - done to appease the wants and desires of the search engines and the social web.

As Ning announced their decision to begin charging for use of their robust network building platform, a thought struck me - is this the beginning of the end for the Freemium model? I first learned of the Freemium concept in relation to sites like Last.FM and Flickr when I read Chris Anderson's 2008 article in Wired, Free

Check out this new Facebook promotion from the masters of Human anatomy, Domino's.

How do you say... graphic design fail?

1. Social is here to stay

If there was one consistent theme at SXSW, it was this - social is here to stay. Social media can no longer be viewed as a fad to be ignored. Too many smart companies are achieving success within the social space. If your company isn't at least exploring how social could help, you need to start.

2. Mobile on the horizon

Recapping February's top blog posts:

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• 25 Google Chrome Extensions for the Internet Marketing Professional
• Warning: Six Ways to Spot an Internet Marketing Charlatan

In many Internet marketing projects, a common goal can be to reach out to digital influencers in the client's target industry. Reaching out to influencers can provide many benefits like backlinks, positive PR, word-of-mouth, and product sales.