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What Are Social Sharing Modules/Widgets?

These are modules/widgets that let visitors share your website’s content with their friends by means of email, Twitter, Facebook, Del.icio and much more. It’s a great way of tapping into the ever growing Social Media Network.

Why Make Use of Social Sharing Modules/Widgets?

• Increase traffic: When visitors share they make that link public and this drives more traffic to your site.
• Engage your audience: Social sharing gives visitors a great way to interact with your website as well as with each other.
• Promote your website’s content: sharing extends your content’s reach and exposes your content to new audiences, visitors and possible customers.
• Create backlinks: When your content is shares a link is created back to your website from where the content was shared. This is good for SEO.
• Keep visitors on your site: These modules alow visitors to share content without ever leaving your site.

3 Examples of Social Sharing Modules/Widgets:

• Share This
• Add To Any
• Add This

Page Rank is determined by something called backlinks. Backlinks are, simply put, the number of links going back to your website from other websites on the internet. There is no doubt that this is one of the most important factors in SEO today. You need to actively pursue getting more quality backlinks if you plan to succeed with SEO. Luckily, there are hundreds of ways to get more backlinks.

However, the more important question is, how do you know how many backlinks you have? There is no way to know for sure. Some search engines might have indexed a bigger portion of the websites out there than another search engine, for example. The trick is to choose one method and then stick to that method when comparing metrics across different sites.

We recommend: Open Site Explorer

OpenSiteExplorer.org will allow you to easily enter any website adress and see exactly how many backlinks they have and where these backlinks are located. Very useful, very fast and a great way to check and compare many of your sites consistently. It's also very useful to see how many links your competitors have, and more importantly, where their links are showing up.

This is not so much a tip as it is a warning. Want to do some serious damage to the SEO of your website? Do what I did and park a domain unrelated to your niche, with decent traffic, on top of your own domain.

I recently parked "cars.com.na" on top of "namhost.com", not even thinking twice about the implications this could have. Implications:

• Massive spike in backlinks. So much so that ....
• Google made our Page Rank 0 (this ban has since been lifted)
• Loads of useless traffic to our site
• And of course.... did I mention this:

Conclusion:

Seriously think what you are doing when you park domains on top of each other.