Google’s at it again, with their recent update. Now, more than ever before social media can help you drive traffic and improve your search engine rankings.

Facebook is set to IPO this week to an estimated $100 BILLION dollars. So, if you’re not convinced that social media plays a role in your online marketing mix, then you’re just plain silly.

And, Google is listening to “social signals”. It has been for a long time.

Now, we can see the importance of it, with their recent update.

Think it takes a ton of work to get social media links for your SEO? Think again.

Sure, high quality always takes time. But, take a look at the 3 videos below to help you get social media links for SEO.

And, once you get this process down, you can easily outsource the work at a low cost.

Thanks to Tony, once again, over at KISS IM for providing these videos.

Introduction

Automate 100′s Of Social Media Backlinks Every Time You Make A Blog Post

Jump Start Your Social Proof

Here is a list of tools used in the videos.

Fanpage Engine

†Jaaxy Keyword Tool

You can get a free trial with Jaaxy if you use facebook when registering.

Google Keyword Tool

Google Insights

Yahoo Clues

To learn more about Tony Hayes you can visit http://www.kissim.org for more free internet marketing videos and courses.

Adding Aged Domains To Your Portfolio – An Advanced SEO Strategy

This post and video tutorial comes from Tony, over at Simple Internet Marketing From The Trenches.

The power of “aged domains” is that they can help speed up and boost your rankings of new or existing websites.

The reason is that these domains have been around for a while and Google trusts the domain name more than a newly registered one. They may also have more value if they have some existing page rank and some backlinks.

Ideally when looking for an aged domain you should be looking for something around 3 years old, but typically I advise looking for 5 years minimum initially and you may be surprised with what you find.

That doesn’t mean that you cant or should not use new domain names. You can still use new domains that are more appropriate to the site you are building, perhaps you want to brand a site or you want to buy a domain which has exact match keywords in the name itself.

The way we do this, and this is also how aged domains can boost your existing sites too, is to do a 301 redirect from the aged domains to the new or existing domain names. Using a 301 redirect does work, I do this often and I can tell you from results that I have seen that the power from the old domain transfers over to the other. Some people say it may only be 85% to 90% but that can be pretty useful and very powerful at times.

The next obvious thing that people start to do once they see how well redirects work is to redirect multiple aged domains and so the question in most peoples minds here is: “How many can they get away with redirecting?”

This isn’t something I have a definite answer for but I have done up to 3 redirects to any one site, and I wouldn’t want or advise to do more than that.

So by now you’re probably wondering how to find aged domains, right?

Well, I have done a video below for you to see over my shoulders as I show you step by step how to do this very easily.

In this video, you will see me find a 5 year old PR 3 domain in less than 20 minutes.

Also, in this video, I found a 6 year old PR2 Domain and a 6 year old domain with 4,500 backlinks.

The best part?  The price.

All 3 domains were purchased for a total of $64.00 which includes the first years registration of each.

How To Find Low Cost Aged Domains With Page Rank

Here Is a Brief Summary Of How To Buy Aged Domains With Page Rank

Godaddy Auctions

1. Browse inventory….these are expired domains
2. Put in keyword in right hand sidebar where it says keyword includes
3. Use buy it now option for speed
4. Set To Display 500 on page
5. Choose domain extensions…(.com)
6. Choose minimum 3 or 5 years old domains
7. They do account changes which takes one week to clear,†because its an account change the age of the domain remains
8. Do some checking on www.ahrefs.com and www.domaintools.com to check PR, backlinks, Verify the age of the domain etc.

I used 3 Chrome extension tools in the video, these were SEO For Chrome, SEO Lite and SEO Quake.

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Do you find yourself checking where your website ranks with google everyday?

Stop beating yourself up over where you rank for the terms you want to rank for.

Really. Stop.

When you check google for your preferred keywords, and see where you rank — you may be getting fooled by the results you see.

Why?

Because google is delivering search results that YOU want to see, based on what you’ve clicked on before. So, you may see that you’re ranked well, but others won’t see the same results.

You need accurate results. You need a tool to help track where you rank, and report to you what the REAL results are.

So, not only will you run into inaccurate results — you are spending time tracking where your website ranks on the search engines, instead of working on optimizing your site, building quality content, and ultimately building your business.

I suggest you try Raven Tools to track where your website ranks.

Not only do you get a report of the search terms you THINK you’re ranking for, Raven Tools also tells you what search terms you ARE ranking well for.

Further, it will help you track where your competitors rank, and so much more.

So, try Raven Tools for FREE, for 30 days.

If you want other tools for tracking your website’s rankings, check out Search Engine Optimization Software — rank tracking.

“What’s the deal with building backlinks?” — said in my best Jerry Seinfeld voice.

Here’s the short answer on why building backlinks makes google love you:

When other sites link to you, it tells google that “The site I’m linking to, is a good site. I trust it. Consider my link to this site a vote for this site.”

It’s like a popularity contest.

The more links to your site, the more popular google thinks your site is.

That’s the short answer.

There are longer answers, and I’ll write more soon.

However, if you want to get started building backlinks for your site, then use a proper tool to help you manage the process.

There are a few backlink building tools over at Search Engine Optimization Software.

However, if you want the best back-link building software, then simply get Raven Tools. They offer a 30 day free trial. Try Raven Tools now!

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Have you ever felt that it’s too complicated to do proper keyword research to improve your search engine rankings?

There are so many different resources, tips, tricks, strategies, and tactics for keyword research that it may feel overwhelming.

Don’t let keyword research be so hard!

So – How do you do keyword research?

Well, remember the basics:
1) Start with what you know.
Don’t underestimate that knowledge that you already have.
If you’ve been in an industry or business for a while, then you inherently know what people search for in order to find businesses, or websites like yours.
So, start there.
Build your site based on what you know.

2) Build out keyword lists based on research.
Remember how we said in step 1 to not underestimate what you know know? Well, don’t OVER estimate what you know either.
You may be so immersed in a business or industry, that you become blind for keywords that people are REALLY looking for.
So, use keyword research to round out your keyword strategy.

3) Use free tools.
You don’t have to pay for keyword research tools. Try the google keyword research tool for free.

4) Spend a little money on at least one great keyword research tool.
Sure, you can use free tools. But, if you want an easier, more efficient, more effective way of finding keywords, creating a keyword strategy, and implementing that strategy — then you should spend a little money on at least one of the great search engine optimization software tools available.

We suggest Raven Tools. It simply rocks.