I love it when I can re-purpose a plugin designed for one thing and benefit with it in multiple ways! And as such I want to share with you a WordPress SEO plugin – SEO Smart Links and how to use it for effective affiliate marketing.

I’m a long time supporter of aLinks plugin and still include it as part of the Expert WordPress installer that you can download for free. Unfortunately owner of the plugin Sean stopped supporting it and I see a time when it will stop working due to some changed that I’m sure will be introduced sooner or later in WordPress core.

What is even more – you can’t download aLinks anymore and as such – I want to offer an alternative WordPress SEO plugin that can also be used for Affiliate Marketing!

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I was one of the few who got lucky and managed to get my DVD and magazine when Stomping The Search Engines 2 launched a few month back! I can’t praise it highly enough for the amount of educational material it provides.

Granted they had some issues with fulfillment but it appears to be all addressed now! Better yet – STSE2 went digital! Not 100% but it is a default option now and you can begin watching the entire training instantly after paying just $1!

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With so much talk about SEO and importance of optimization of your blog pages to rank well in the Search Engines I have seen one most important factor also been most overlooked – Link Exchange!

Number Of Links pointing back to your blog or site is still one of the most important factors that Google uses to determine how well it should rank your content and assign a Page Rank. Link juice passed from one blog to another through a Do Follow link means a lot in terms of getting better positions and in this post I want to invite you to use a free resource to boost a number of incoming links (backlinks) to your blog AND you get to pick WHICH!

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This guest article published by Alice Safford a freelance SEO who enjoys social media, web analytics and SEO experiments. Alice provides professional SEO services and loves to share her ideas by posting articles.

There is no secret that search engines estimate the value of your site according to its link popularity. But how to establish this link popularity? There are three steps easily implemented with the Web CEO tools.

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This guest post submitted by Mert Erkal from www.searchforblogging.com. Visit his site for even more information on blogging and SEO.

These days I have seen quite a lot of bloggers who are trying to dominate popular search phrases to pull traffic to their blogs. Frankly speaking, most bloggers will never dominate popular search phrases. Top five blogs dominated those keywords already. Thus, you should not expect your blog to rank on the first page of search engine results for those specific keywords.

Yet, the game is not over for the small and mid-sized bloggers. Thanks to a concept called the Long Tail, we can still drive good traffic from search engines without dominating the top keywords.

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Every once in a while I run into a cool tool that attracts my attention and draws me into further investigation. Quite distracting but stats and performance analysis is one of  my minus and always have been  as long as I’ve been building websites. My justification always been simple – If I know what effort contributes more to success, I can spend more time on it and disregard tasks that give me less return.

A little while ago I have posted an article “Webmaster Tools Every Blogger Need To Know About” , where I listed some of the most useful tools in my opinion to perform tracking and get general overview. We are not talking detailed analytics here but an Great Overview of results. And Website Grader is another tool that should have made the list but I simply didn’t know about it until quite recently.

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