One the most important and often overlooked ingredients in creating a successful website is link building; that is getting other websites to link back to yours. Conventional link building techniques have focused on asking for links, trading links and purchasing links off other websites.

But let’s look at some quick ways you can get links back to your website for free without too much trouble and without begging.

1. Aboutus/Wikipedia – If the site hasn’t already been included in AboutUs, just add you site information and you are set. Wikipedia gets a bit more trickier. See if you can …

So what’s this thing called a Google Sitemap? Simple, it’s a map of all the pages on a website, by URL. Almost like a street map only in that a sitemap is an XML file containing the layout of your website, with links and all. The intention is to provide search engine spiders like Google and Yahoo an easy roadmap of your website by giving “directions” on where to crawl and index.

Creating a sitemap is pretty simple. If you have a small website – under 500 pages – visit http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ for free …

If you are like me and you own a fair amount of internet domains names, then you are probably aware of Namecheap, which offers discount domain name registration. And you are probably also aware of Godaddy, the market leader in the field.

Godaddy certainly has the name recognition, the hot models in their commercials and even Danica Patrick, and price-wise the two are about the same (around $10 for a new domain), but for efficiency and support, Namecheap.com is my choice for registering and renewing domains.

Godaddy does give you a lot of options; so many if fact that it …

Recently, Amazon announced the release of it’s electronic book reader, the Kindle, to mixed reviews.  Here’s what I think about it.

Reading books in electronic format is nothing new.  eBooks have been around for several years now, as have dedicated electronic readers.  Sony, within the past year or so, released their latest eReader, and has very recently updated it.  The only thing new here is the use of eInk, which takes no power to display, so the battery last a very long time (thousands of page turns).

Amazon’s kindle is very similar, but with some notable differences.  Most notable, in my opinion, …