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So, I’ve recently stumbled across a great new way of getting inbound links which I’m ready to share. Especially given the current controversy over paid links, this method of link acquisition has the following advantages:

• It’s free, so therefore it’s in compliance with Google’s requirements
• It’s free, so therefore a PR8 link will cost just as much as a PR2 link
• You’re quite likely to get good traffic if you target the right sites
• You may even get some recognition out of it!
• Oh, and it’s free

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So, this entirely an experiment, I can’t verify how well it works, if at all. Today I read an article on Self Made Minds about getting links from authority sites. I decided I’m going to first try the CNN search link, and then spend a bit of time looking for some .edu sites that would actually link back to me.

Anyhow, this is the CNN search query that I’m interested in: http://search.cnn.com/search?query=convurgency

I’ll monitor it, see if it gets picked up by Yahoo and/or Google. This should be most interesting!

If I have any success finding a relevant .edu site, I’ll post the results.

I received an email on the weekend, with the subject “Get insane blog traffic FREE”. Of course I deleted it, it looked no different than all the other spam I receive daily. However, this morning I saw ShoeMoney’s post from yesterday regarding this new service, and decided that it’s maybe worth a look.

The service is called Blogrush, and it works on a principle called syndication credit. It’s similar to Link-Vault and the DigitalPoint Co-op ad network, but it’s based on blog posts rather than text links. I’m going to try it out and report back on the results. You can see the related posts on the right, and you can even sign up for Blogrush yourself.

Let me know what you think!

The next report under Traffic Sources is “Search Engines”. This is simply a breakdown of your search-referred traffic based on the search engine that they came from, and their respective performance. Note that this report shows you the general search engines (Google, MSN, Yahoo!), but does not drill down to regional search metrics, such as google.co.uk vs. google.com. Here is what the default report looks like:
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Just a quick note to all readers: I’m currently on a bit of a vacation, and will be back to blogging next Tuesday.

Today I had the unpleasant experience of losing a prospective SEO client. Now, I would be understanding if it were lost to another reputable SEO company, with a comparably good service, and perhaps even a similar fee structure. However, it was to a web designer who claimed that they could “get them high rankings” within a few weeks (gulp!) by adding a few keywords to the site, and it would cost less than 10% of my estimate. (more…)

The Referring Sites report is the next in the series of Traffic Sources reports. This report essentially provides details on the different domains from which visitors have followed a link to your site. This includes other websites and search engines (they are websites after all). As opposed to the “Direct Traffic” report, this one contains quite a bit of valuable data. Here’s what the basic report looks like:

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