Links page - Having a quality reciprocal links page can benefit your site in several ways. First of all, it gets your site listed in more places on net which can bring you more traffic. More and more major search engines will rank your pages higher when there are more links to your site. Also, quality links can help spiders find you more easily each week, therefore keeping you indexed longer and dropped less frequently. Take a look here for an example of a link exchange page. http://www.seymourproducts.com/exchange/index.shtml

Articles - Not only do you want to post relevant articles on your site, but writing and submitting them to other sites will help you as well. Posting new articles on your site will keep your content fresh and new so spiders like your site. It will also keep your visitors coming back for more.

Writing and submitting articles can increase your link popularity and bring you more traffic as well as helping your search engine ranking. A few places to submit your articles is listed below:

http://webmarketingspecialists.com/articlesubmit.html http://wahmteam.com/submissionform.shtml http://www.home-business-tips-newsletter.com/articles/submit.html http://www.webpronews.com/submit.html http://www.creativehomemaking.com/submit_article.shtml

Using these techniques and others will greatly improve your rankings in search engines and bring you more targeted traffic which in turn can increase your sales substantially! For more info on search engine tactics, visit http://www.searchengines.com/

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I even get to choose to boost rankings for popular sites or, if I'm feeling like a rebel, for less popular sites. Yes, you have even appealed to my deepest psychological mood swings. This is really cool.

But what really counts is this: I control MSN!

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I turbo charged popularity lever to 100%. Whoa. Dotcom-Monitor lost a spot. What does that mean? Somebody who does not rank as highly as my client got a boost by weighing link popularity higher (and, by extension, on-page content lower).

This tells me that my client's on-page content is in good shape. It also tells me which competitor has best backlinks to check out.

PageRank was an effective gimmick for wrapping webmasters and SEO consultants around Google's fingers. But this results ranking thingy could wrap both public and webmasters around MSN's fingers.

Just one word of advice, Bill. Results Ranking? Is that catchiest moniker you could give it?

Bill, you are to be congratulated for devising such a clever marketing tool, and for purposefully leaving it right out in open like a live grenade without even a hint that it is there. That is what you did, isn't it? You did do it on purpose, didn't you?

If not, please let me know, so I can send you my invoice for your next great marketing idea.