How is your website’s backlink profile looking these days? Are you steadily garnering new links from a multitude of high-quality websites?

If you can’t answer those questions honestly, or you answered honestly with only a handful links not worth writing home about, then today’s post is strictly for you.

And don’t worry, I’ll go light on you although I probably shouldn’t.

Nevertheless, I’m providing you with the link building strategy round up that will do the following:

1. Inspire those of you that are not currently link building to get started if you have not a clue where to begin sound and search-safe link building
2. Give those of you a good swift kick in the pants if you’ve approach or manage ongoing link building in a lazy manner
3. Correct those of you who have gone towards the dark and wayward path of eating at the “all-you-can-link-buy” buffet

I encourage you to read, study, and re-read each link building post in this round up series.

If you have questions, then please don’t hesitate one bit to drop a comment at the end of this post.

It’ll be my pleasure to help answer any questions or concerns you may have as it pertains to sound and search-safe link building.

As you know or may not know, Kickstart Commerce offers affordable domain leasing for our growing portfolio of domain names.

Typically, when I receive inquiries about some of my most popular domain names and met with stick shock from uneducated domain buyers, I always offer a payment plan to buy the domain, or a leasing payment to use the domain for a set period of time should I not want to sell.

I’m not always successful with the latter option as most domain buyers who are not able to afford my portfolio of premium .com domains tend to move and settle for a lesser priced domain.

But much like physical real estate, I’ll continue to hold my oceanfront property for the right buyer to come along and see the value in paying my asking price.

Nevertheless, today’s post will help those of you looking to purchase by way of leasing that one game-changing domain name that will morph your business into an online powerhouse brand.

As quiet as it is kept, I’ve released yet another eBook designed to help small business owners grow their local business.

But Shh…, don’t tell your competitors before you had a chance to read, plan and execute Local Domain SEO strategies.

What is Local Domain SEO, and how will it help my small business?

In comparison to 84-page A Practical Guide to Effective SEO read, the latest release of Local Domain SEO is a quick and short 26-page read comprised of the following:

Today is one of those days that I feel like sharing a round-up post with you.

It’s been a while since I’ve last highlighted any of my pay-per-click advertising adventures, so I thought I would take a moment to round up and share with you some of my best PPC content for small businesses.

Coined “PPC advertising toolbox for small business”, I’ve chosen to cover this common search marketing service used by many small business owners as a consistent and primary means to earning more customers and driving more business.

As you read throughout this PPC round-up, one thing to keep in mind about search marketing is that you’re going to spend either time or money in hopes of capturing targeted or qualified leads.

And with most of us running amazingly short on time, this leaves us with no other choice than to pony up the cash in hopes of turning the pay-per-click advertising faucet in our favor.

I invite you to read and share each PPC post within this round-up with your professional and social networks.

All in all, this PPC round-up is sure to help you avoid common PPC pitfalls as well as shed light on techniques and tactics that you may not have ever thought about or been exposed to.

• Pros and Cons of Pay-Per-Click Advertising.
• Pros and Cons of Pay-per-click (PPC) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
• The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Pay-Per-Click Advertising.
• PPC Advertising Networks: Pros and Cons of Facebook and Google.
• 8 PPC Campaign Tips For Profitable Results.
• PPC Series: PPC campaigns and commonly made mistakes.

Please do compare and contrast this content collection with how your business has previously executed, is executing or plans to execute PPC to increase traffic and overall sales.

Enjoy this round-up, and let it lead you to consistent, profitable PPC success!

How can I increase my website’s traffic and search rankings?

This is the most common question I hear from potential and existing customers looking to gain an edge in search rankings and generate more qualified traffic.

And of course, no matter how I try, there is never enough time to sum up all of the SEO actions one can take to increase website traffic and search rankings.

For those who use WordPress, I simply recommend a few general settings changes and the installation of Yoast or All-In-One Webmaster plugins for starters.

Then there are those who have a static website I recommend content marketing via blogs and articles.

And let us not be quick to forget or diminish the value of social media networks.

Out of all the thoughts previously mentioned, we are barely scratching the surface in addressing the 200+ search ranking factors.

In addition to fielding potential and existing customer SEO questions, I’ve personally had a chance to document the process for creating, developing, and sustaining a few niche websites I’ve started in recent weeks.

I tried my very best to document the 108 actions I’ve used and followed, per my SEO guideline.

Using this exhaustive list of proven SEO actions, every small business owner (that’s you!) can execute these actions on an ongoing basis to increase website traffic and search rankings in hopes of capturing qualified customers.

So if you’re ready, let’s get started!

Search is a forever changing beast of algorithms, tips, tricks and fads all to obtain the “holy grail” page one search rankings and traffic to boost one’s business.

For local business owners, search has definitely been taking many zigs and zags with the dismissal of Google Authorship, increased focus on Mobile search, and now semantic search with Google Hummingbird.

All of the above mentioned concepts have directly and indirectly impacted the SEO efforts of local business owners.

For local business owners seeking to gain ground in local and mobile search, it’s best to ensure that your website’s design and architecture is one that is responsive, both search- and user-friendly, to the variety of devices viewing your website.

Responsive design and architecture is only a start in addition to creating a sound content marketing strategy that engages and educates your customers.

One SEO area that’s worth mentioning for local business owner’s to focus on is semantic search.

Today I received a $50 domain inquiry for a top 3 word .com.

I’ll take a few moments to share a few thoughts for domain buyers and sellers.

I’ve received a few offers on this same domain over the last year, so I knew that I was not going to rollover and blindly accept this offer without doing a little research.

Just based on the previous domain inquiries and offers, the lowest price I was willing to accept was $25K.

As I do with every domain and right from the start, I also checked to see if the other domain extensions where registered, available, or developed.

And to my surprise and advantage as a seller, all other domain extensions were registered and a few had fully developed websites belonging to thriving businesses.

So I did what anyone should do, which is performing a few business searches to be sure that those businesses were legit.