I am a little late but thought maybe some of you might have still missed the latest scoop so here it is.  Many are obsessed with tracking their backlinks and some still haven’t gotten the idea that Google isn’t showing them everything using a Link: command.  We put together a simple link popularity tool that gives you your MSN, Yahoo and Google backlinks. It gives a more accurate number of backlinks than the site: command function yet doesn’t show you the actual links.  But now Google has added a tool to the webmaster center that allows us to track nearly all our backlinks in Google.

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If you have been around any kind of forum too logn I am sure you have heard of the famous Google bombings such as “failure” and “miserable failure”. If not I had better explain before I thruoughly confuse you. A google bombing is when a person or group of persons builds up tons of links to a selected site with a given anchor text so as to rank it for that keyword. The problem with this is the site is usually very unrelated to that term and is usually done as a prank.

To combat this Google released an Algo Update which is supposed to work on stopping Google bombing. Will this effect any normal rankings we deserve? Will Google suddenly destroy all rankings for phrases that do not appear on the page it is ranking?

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Are you one of those stingy webmasters who just won’t go out and buy a keyword research program? If so you are probably getting sick of all the limitations and loops you have to jump through for the trials of these Keyword Tools. Well we have some good news. WordTracker and KeywordDiscovery recently released two new demo tools for your use. The great thing about these two new trials is that they require absolutely no registering and logging in and give you more data.

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