Top tips for choosing a domain

The InternetChoosing the domain for your website or blog can be a hard choice, especially with more and more domains being registered daily. A site’s domain can make the website much more brandable and so easier to promote and gain traffic. However if you make the wrong choice it can also make the site a laughing stock – such the infamous Penisland.net. In this article we will share some top tips when choosing a domain for your website.

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5 free and simple ways to build links

5 ways to improve SEO and traffic with linksOne of the biggest parts of SEO is building links to your website which will help search engines determine what content is on your website. Furthermore the more links that exist to your website the more traffic – in theory – you should get. Building link back can take time and money but in this blog post we’ll explore 5 free and simple ways to build links to your website for both SEO and traffic.

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15+ Dofollow social networking websites

15+ Dofollow social bookmarking sitesSocial bookmarking sites can help you increase both traffic to your site and your “SEO score” in lots of search engines by gaining lots of backlinks. In this post we’ll highlight a number of dofollow social networking sites that you can easily and quickly submit your links.

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Using holidays to increase traffic

Holidays aren’t just a time to celebrate and swap gifts – it’s the perfect time to go get some extra traffic to your website or forum by creating content geared for the holiday season. Be it Christmas, new year or Easter – in the lead up to each of the holidays search volumes for related phrases and keywords go through the roof. This presents a great opportunity for webmasters, bloggers and forum admins to create on-topic content that will hopefully rank highly in the high-volume holiday searches.

Google trends provides a great way for you to see how volumes for search terms change over time and allow you to plan in advance for certain periods of the year. Below is a graph from Google trends for the search terms Christmas, new year and Easter, the search volumes of which all peak at their respective times of the year.

Search trends of holidays over time

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