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You've found the blog of Jere Matlock, a web designer and writer. This journal is mostly about writing, web design and getting sites to the top of the search engines (SEO is my business). It is also full of opinions and observations about pretty much everything. If these things are not of interest to you, feel free to go now. Go on, shoo!

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"If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing."

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JMBlog Archive for December, 2009

How to Get Links To Your Site

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

I routinely check all the outbound links from my site using a program from www.xpelo.com to look for sites I link to that Google has banned, and using www.linktiger.com to find any broken links. If your site has a ton of broken outbound links, or if you link to a website Google has banned, you can bet that Google will penalize your site.

I found one such banned link today on my site, on a page I hadn’t updated in a a while; I updated it with all the info I have on how to effectively get links to your …

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