Just year ago I used to wake up and check performances of my websites, sometimes it was an hour long process to check trackbacks, buzz on Technorati, RSS submissions, Google Analytics, and website backend for comments, submissions, and recent activity. Now it just… who Tweeted me?  

 It is sad but people don’t link your site from their blogs, websites, and social profiles. Almost entire web community moved to Twitter and people prefer to Tweet favorite links, good articles, viral stuff etc. Amount of incoming links dropped dramatically especially in blogoshphere, Darren Rowse mentioned that amount of inbound links dropped dramatically. Even annoying individuals who used to comment and link everyone to make friends moved to Twitter and now they Tweet every website and user they can find.
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 Every experienced search engine optimization expert will tell you that the best link is one-way link from related websites. For new site it is hard to receive good backlinks and regular submissions in free directories or link exchanges doesn’t work as it used to. Sometimes webmasters needs to go on other websites and ask for a links.

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 In most cases email which ask to give backlink look spammy and most webmasters delete it and even report it as spam. Let’s look what Google recommends on webmaster guidance page: “Make sure all the sites that should know about your pages are aware your site is online”. Yes, Google suggest to go and tell other webmasters that your site online… hm, but how to do it in legal way without spamming?
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