Footer links, smart SEO?

A recent article at SEOmoz, http://www.seomoz.org/blog/footer-link-optimization has me thinking about footer links and their value to your site and its rankings. Most people have a footer with links in their site. Some use it to list pages that they don’t deem as important as the links at the top of their site but don’t want to just not link to them. Some people use footer links to try to manipulate…
Read more...You must track your backlinks!

Tracking your backlinks is very important. Here are a couple methods to do so. Sign up for google webmaster tools, it will show you a list of some of your backlinks. good article on finding your links from Google. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/02/discover-your-links.html You can go to www.yahoo.com and put linkdomain:yoursite.com -domain:yoursite.com into the search bar. I also recommend you sign up for Yahoo Site explorer and you can view a large portion…
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