SEOmoz's Rand Fishkin on the Right Kind of Outreach

Do you remember the community-building concept? If you're a regular Site-Reference reader, then you should. We've been drilling the point home for months now. In a nutshell: for a webmaster, SEO has become much bigger than simple linkbuilding, data analysis, and keyword hunting.

Now, it's been elevated to an art form.

You must carefully juggle a myriad of responsibilities – social media management, marketing, industry analysis, site architecture…. The list could go on for days. The most important part of a webmaster's SEO efforts, however, is outreach. This harkens back to the community-building discussion we're had so many times before.

Marketing your website today is all about creating a tightly-woven network of peers; like-minded webmasters in your niche who will cite your work often and help you build your online reputation though glowing word-of-mouth. Do enough outreach, and you'll hit the point when scoring search engine traffic begins to plummet lower and lower on your list of SEO priorities.

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There are many people out there who depend on blogs to make money. This could either be in the form of sale of goods or services in the blog, use of affiliate ad programs or even sponsorships from corporate bodies. Whatever the case, one issue that always has to be addressed when you need to use the blog for making money is quality.

When you go through most of the guides that offer information on how to increase the amount of money that you make from your blog, you will notice that most of them (especially the recent ones) heavily advocate for the use of high quality content. Though the concept of quality blog content is repeated in almost all circles that have something to do with quality blogging, there are very few that actually take the time to give you an idea of what this quality should entail. Some of the issues that affect the quality of content on your site include:

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