No matter what your level of expertise is with SEO, you’re always somewhat limited by the tools you use.

Thankfully, there are a number of excellent tools available online, many at no cost. These tools are particularly useful if you’re just starting out in SEO like me.

Today I will take a look at the Top 10 free SEO tools for beginners.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics (@googleanalytics) is an SEO’s bread and butter. I’m currently working my way through their awesome qualification program.

Aimed toward marketers, Google Analytics provides detailed statistics about a website’s traffic and traffic sources. In the Dashboard, you can view these statistics for any period of time of your choosing.

The menu on the left gives you access to even more detailed reports about your audience, traffic sources, content, and conversions.

The Audience report provides demographic information about your audience, including which country they visited from and which language they speak. It also reveals what platform and/or browser they used to access your site, and their behaviour on your website (how long they stayed for on average, how many pages they visited on average, etc.).

The Traffic Sources overview will tell you how many visitors to your website came from search engines, direct visits, social networks, or referring sites. Using this information, you can determine where you need to focus your efforts (e.g. if most of your visits are coming from social networks but very few are coming from search engines, that means your social media strategy is good but your SEO could use work).

The Content report shows you which pages of your website are attracting the most traffic; you can see metrics such as the number of visits, average visit duration, bounce rate, and % new visits for each and every page on your website.

The Conversions report shows you how many of your goals (e.g. form submission, sales) have been completed and the conversion rate for each one. This is particularly useful if you’re running an e-commerce site.

All this information is very helpful for planning and tracking your Web marketing strategy.

Google Webmaster Tools

Google Webmaster Tools (@googlewmc) is a free service for webmasters that allows you to check and monitor the indexing status of your website. The many tools it offers allow you to:

• Submit and check a sitemap
• Check the crawl rate of your site
• Get a list of internal, external, and broken links to your site
• See what keywords people are using to find your site, and their click-through rates.

Perhaps the most useful of these tools for SEO purposes is the keywords tool. Whereas Google Analytics shows you total traffic to your website from search engines, Google Webmasters Tool shows clicks and impressions for each keyword separately. With this information, you can determine what keywords you want to target in your SEO or SEM campaigns.

For troubleshooting, Google Webmaster Tools provides a list of crawl errors and even allows you to Fetch as Google to see a page as Google sees it. This can be invaluable for figuring out why a page is performing poorly in search results.

Bing Webmaster Tools

Bing Webmaster Tools (@duaneforrester) is essentially the same as Google Webmaster Tools, but for Bing. Recent reports show that although Google is the most used search engine with 67% market share, Bing is still a force to be reckoned with slightly more than 16%. In short, if you want your website to attract more people, you need to make sure it’s ranking with Bing too.

Bing Webmaster Tools helps you to do just that. Just as in Google Webmaster Tools you can see data about your keywords, traffic sources, backlinks, and crawl errors. The Fetch as Bingbot tool works the same way as the Fetch as Google tool, allowing you to see a page the way Bing sees it for troubleshooting purposes.

A great feature for SEO purposes is the SEO Analyzer, which can be found under Diagnostics & Tools in the navigation menu. The SEO Analyzer will download and analyze your webpage and provide a list of errors organized by priority. In this example, there are multiple H1 tags in the source code, which isn’t good.

The Analyzed pane shows a view of your webpage with each of the troubleshooting items noted where they reside on the page, giving you an easy way to identify and quickly fix errors that might be affecting your ranking.

Google Trends

Google Trends (@GSearchTrends) is a great tool for performing keyword research. Let’s say you own a website that sells custom bracelets. Naturally, you want your website to rank near the top of Google’s results page for keywords related to this term. If you go to Google Trends and type in custom bracelets, you’ll see this:

The map tells you where most of the searches for this term are coming from (in this case, almost entirely the U.S. and Canada). More interesting is the Related terms section, which suggests related keywords for you based on popularity. Now you have an idea of other keywords you might want to work into your SEO campaign.

Google Trends is a great place to start when developing content for SEO purposes. You can look at this information as a list of topics you could potentially write a blog post about for your website (“Everything You Need to Know about Rubber Bracelets,” “Why Silicone Bracelets are Hot,” etc.).

Basing your content around what people are searching for is a sure way to boost your rankings.

Google AdWords Keywords Tool

Google Adwords (@adwords) is primarily used for creating paid search advertising campaigns, but its Keywords Tool has great applications for SEO. Similar to Google Trends, you can punch in a keyword and the tool will provide you with a list of 100 related terms. You can even filter your results by category, country, language, and devices.

These are the keyword results for the term climbing gear. For SEO, we’re not as interested in the CPC rates, but the global and monthly search numbers tell us a lot about what terms people are searching for.

If you ran a website that sold different kinds of climbing gear, you would want to make sure to target these high-volume keywords in your content. You could use this information to create separate, keyword-rich webpages focused on each kind of climbing gear (rock climbing gear, tree climbing gear, ice climbing gear, etc.). This would increase the chances of your website being found by users searching for each of these terms.

SEOQuake

SEOQuake (@SEOQuake) is an SEO plug-in extension that is available for Google Chrome and Firefox. It  displays a ton of different SEO parameters for any webpage, including Google PageRank, Google Index, Bing index, Alexa Rank, and a whole bunch more. The parameters can also be made visible on search engine results pages or SERPs.

Here we see SEO parameters displayed for the Apple iPad webpage. This information could be very useful when trying to determine the authority of a webpage for link-building purposes.

Under the SEOQuake preferences, you can determine which parameters you want to display and even specify a list of domain names for which the toolbar will be turned off.

Warning: Using a large amount of parameters very frequently may lead to a ban from search engines. If that happens, you will need to delete your cookies and change your proxy server.

MozBar

The SEOMoz mozBar (@SEOmoz) is another plug-in extension available for Chrome and Firefox, with some more advanced features. A paid version is available that gives you access to additional metrics (such as the number of linking root domains) and links to SEOMoz’s suite of tools. However, the free version is still quite valuable for SEO purposes.

The mozBar provides all the standard metrics such as PageRank and Domain Authority, and like SEOQuake, it can be accessed as either a toolbar or as an overlay in SERPs.

Here we can see the part of the page analysis for our homepage, broken into three sections: page elements, page attributes, and link data.

Another useful feature is the Highlight Links tool. This is particularly useful for distinguishing “dofollow” links (highlighted in green) from “nofollow” links (highlighted in pink). Since only dofollow links pass authority to the destination page, this is a crucial distinction for SEO.

For a complete overview of this tool, check out my colleague Michael Smith’s ultimate guide to the MozBar SEO extension.

Open Site Explorer

There are a number of free online tools that allow you to check a website’s backlinks, but I like SEOMoz’s Open Site Explorer (@SiteExplorer) because it has a nice, clean appearance and there are no annoying pop-ups. Simply enter in a URL and the tool will provide you with a list of webpages linking to your domain. You can filter the information by Top Pages, Linking Domains, and Anchor Text.

Another great feature of Open Site Explorer is that it allows you to compare the backlinks and link metrics for up to 5 websites. This can be very useful for determining the quality of your client’s website against some of its competitors.

It’s worth pointing out that unless you sign up for a paid SEOMoz PRO membership, you will be limited in the amount of information you can view. As a guest user, you will only be able to see full information (including Link Anchor Text, Page Authority, and Domain Authority) for 5 of your backlinks. You will also be limited to running 3 reports a day.

We asked SEOMoz founder Rand Fishkin to tell us about Open Site Explorer and here’s what he had to say:

“OSE was built to make exploring the web’s link graph useful, usable, and enjoyable. We do a ton of behind-the-scenes work to make the application fast, including sorting and filtering on metrics we know marketers need. There’s CSV export so you can play around even more in Excel, but we wanted to create an experience that would let anyone, even those who aren’t Excel jockies, get the data they need, fast.

If you haven’t checked out OpenSiteExplorer in a while, you should! There’s a new tab called “just discovered” that shows links we’ve found extremely recently – as fast as 4 minutes old. We heard from users that speed of discovery was a big need, and put together this feature in just a few months.”

Hubspot Marketing Grader

Hubspot’s Marketing Grader (@Hubspot) is a great tool that provides a free analysis of your website’s marketing effectiveness. You simply need to enter your website’s URL, and in a matter of seconds the Grader will provide you with an overall marketing score on a 1-100 scale, based on over 30 different factors.

I ran a report for my own personal website, which I recently set up. Clearly, it still needs a lot of work. A great thing about the Marketing Grader is that it provides you withactionable suggestions and links to resources that can help you improve in areas where you are lacking. These suggestions are broken down to help out with the top of the funnel, the middle of the funnel, and your analytics.

In my case, to help me generate more traffic at the top of my funnel, it suggested I increase my blogging frequency and get more inbound links to my website. It then directed me to one of Hubspot’s free ebooks on business blogging.

The report includes a section on SEO, including how many of your webpages are indexed by search engines, your mozRank, and how many other pages are linking to you. If your website is linked with your social media profiles, it will also let you know how effective your social media strategy is, based on things like the frequency of your tweets and how many times you’ve been mentioned on Facebook.

All this information is essential for determining areas of improvement for a website, which will help to boost both conversions and search engine rankings.

Check My Links / LinkChecker

Check My Links by developer Paul Livingstone (@ocodia) and LinkChecker by Kevin Freitas (@fraydmedia) are two great extensions for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, respectively. They’re fairly simple in terms of functionality, but they’re also very useful.

Both extensions automatically examine the links on a webpage and display which ones are working (in green) and which ones are broken (in red).

Not only is this good for identifying problems with your own webpage or a client’s webpage, it also opens up possibilities for link building. Most webmasters would appreciate you reaching out to them and pointing out a broken link. You could even suggest replacing that broken link with a link to your client’s website.

Check My Links is one of the most popular SEO extensions for Chrome, with 25,000 installs and counting. In Paul’s own words:

“I work in a web team for a public sector organisation, and our content editors wanted a way to quickly validate links on pages before pushing them live. I also wanted to understand Chrome extensions a bit more, so this ticked both boxes. It’s definitely not the tool you should be using if you want to do site-wide link validation, but for quick page-specific checks, it’s really handy (and fast). The extension is also pretty easy to understand, thanks to it’s ability to highlight broken links on the page.”

If you love this tool and want to donate to it’s upkeep, there are Paypal and Flattr links on the “Options” page of the extension. The source code for the extension is published under the MIT License and is available on Github.

I’m a Chrome user myself so Check My Links is the extension I’m familiar with, but if you use Firefox, LinkChecker is equally good. In Kevin’s words:

“LinkChecker came from a personal need to easily troubleshoot whether links on a webpage were good or not. I wanted a simple visual tool rather than spider apps that return a huge, mess list of URLs.”

As we learned when we polled SEO experts about their top 3 SEO tools, sometimes the simplest tools are the best. LinkChecker and Check My Links are two great examples of this.

There you have it: the top 10 free tools I have found most useful in my own introduction to SEO. It’s not an exhaustive list by any means, but it’s a good place to start.

Now it’s your turn. Are there any other great free SEO tools out there that I missed? Let me know in the comments!

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How’d you like to see my secret stash of untapped authority backlinks that I personally use to rank for competitive keywords?

Well consider yourself very lucky…

…because today I’m going to pull back the curtain and share some of my absolute BEST sources with you.

Warning: you are NOT going to find anything about article directories (blah) or blog comments (yawn) here.

I’m bringing the noise.

Bonus: Download a free checklist that will show you how to quickly leverage these strategies. Includes 2 bonus strategies not found in this post.

1. Submit to Audio Sharing Sites

SEOs never use audio sharing sites…which is CRAZY because they’re ridiculously easy to get backlinks from.

And make no mistake: these audio sharing sites authoritative sites that can make a serious dent.

All you need to do is create a piece of audio (preferably music) and upload it to an authoritative audio sharing site.

Here’s an example (live dofollow link):

Even if you have as much music talent as MC Hammer you can still take advantage of this technique.

Just hit ‘record’ on your laptop mic and beat-box like you do in your car. These files aren’t usually screened by people so you don’t have to worry about winning a Grammy.

Just record something, upload it, and grab your authority links.

Needless to say, you don’t want to spam these sites. Create a legit non-spammy profile or else it will get deleted pretty quickly.

2. Find Golden Link Opportunities From “Best Of” Blog Posts

You probably already know that the days of spammy link building are long gone.

And to succeed with SEO today, you need use mail outreach to build quality backlinks.

Question is:

HOW?

Well step #1 is to find people to reach out to.

And the best way to do that?

“Best of” blog posts.

Best of blog posts are simply lists of the best blogs in a given niche. Here’s an example:

See how huge this is?

Someone is handing you a list of quality blogs on a silver platter…

…blogs you can potentially get links from.

Here’s the exact step-by-step process to follow:

1. Use these search strings to find “best of” blog posts in your niche:

“best TOPIC blogs 2015″

“my favorite TOPIC blogs”

“TOPIC blogs to read”

“My favorite TOPIC blogs”

2. Next, add any quality blogs on the list to a Google Doc.

3. Finally, reach out and get your links.

How do you get links from the people you just found?

• Blogger reviews (#3 on this list)
• The Moving Man Method (#10 from this list)
• Infographics (#15 from this list)
• Broken link building (#14 from this list)

3. Blogger Reviews

If you have a a software product, information product, consulting service or ANYTHING of value that you sell, you can easily turn that into handfuls of high-quality backlinks.

How?

By offering it to bloggers for free.

Here’s how:

1. Find bloggers in your niche that might be interested in what you have to offer. If you sell an information product that teaches people how to make their own soaps, you’d Google things like “soap making”, “make soap at home” etc.

2. Your results will be a mixed bag of mommy bloggers, hippie bloggers, and sites like ehow.

Filter out any major authority sites or news sites. You’ll be left with a solid list bloggers that might be interested in your offer, like this one:

3. Reach out to them with this email script:

Hey (site owner name),

I was searching for some homepage soap recipes today when I came across (site name).

Awesome stuff!

Actually, I just launched a guide that teaches people how to make luxury soaps at home. I usually charge $X, but I’d be more than happy to send it over to you on the house. All I’d ask is that you’d consider mentioning it on your blog or writing a review.

Let me know how that sounds.

Cheers,

Your name

You want to be VERY careful about the language you use for this strategy.

Note how I don’t ask for a link or review…which would violate Google’s Webmaster Guidelines.

I just send them the product and let them decide if it’s worth a mention on their blog.

4. Give Testimonials

Companies big and small LOVE to show off their customer testimonials. If you’re using a product or service that you love (or at least like), consider sending them a testimonial.

When you do, make sure to tell them that they can put

it on their homepage or a testimonial page. To show that you’re a real person they’ll often put a link to your site for you…without you even having to ask.

Make no mistake, you can get some baller backlinks from testimonials (here’s one on a PR6 page):

When I see an authority site with testimonial links I sometimes buy their productjust to give a testimonial and get a link.

5. Link Reclamation

Link reclamation is simple:

First, you find mentions of your company and products that don’t link back to you.

Here’s an example:

Then you email the person with a friendly reminder to add your link.

Very simple…but very, very powerful.

See how the author of that article mentioned backlinko.com….but didn’t link to it?

That’s where link reclamation comes into play.

Instead of saying “oh shucks, I wish they linked to me”, you proactively reach out and ask them to link.

You see, when people mention you in an article, they (usually) like you.

(That’s true even if they didn’t add a backlink to your site)

A simple friendly reminder email is usually enough for them to log into WordPress and add your link.

Here’s the step-by-step process:

1. Find Unlinked Mentions

Use a tool like BuzzSumo and Mention.net to find mentions of your brand.

When you do, you’ll get a heads up whenever someone writes about you online:2. See whether or not the person that mentioned you linked back to your site.

If they linked to your site, you’re set.

If not, move onto step #3…

3. Reach out and get your link

Finally, send them this script:

Hey NAME,

I just wanted to reach out and say “thanks” for mentioning YOUR BRAND in your excellent article yesterday.

We really, really appreciate it.

I’m reaching out today to ask if you could add a link back to our site. That way, people can easily find us while reading your article.

Either way, thanks for the shout out and keep up the great work!

Thanks,

YOUR NAME

I can tell you from experience that these are some of the easiest — and most powerful — links you’ll ever get.

6. Directory Domination

I chuckle every time people claim that directories are dead.

In May 2012 Google deindexed a few hundred free directories. If directory links didn’t work then why would they deindex them?

Hint: they wouldn’t.

This matches my personal experience: links from the right directories can still do wonders for your site.

And because web directories are seen as “old-fashioned” in the SEO world, you can usually get from aged domains for next to nothing.

Here are some directories to consider submitting to:

Free:

R-TT Directory

So Much

Directory World

All The Websites

Paid:

Family Friendly Sites

Business.com Directory

7. HARO

HARO (short for Help a Reporter Out) is one of best ways to get killer backlinks from authority news sites.

Here’s how HARO works:

1. Sign Up To HARO as a source here.

2. You’ll get three emails per day from reporters looking for sources, like this one:

3. Respond with your credentials and some helpful tips.

Easy right? You give a reporter a tailored response and they’ll hook you up with a link.

Don’t sleep on HARO.

Backlinko reader Sameep Shah got a link to his web design business from Inc.com (DA92) using HARO:

8. .Edu Resource Backlinks

Everyone knows that .edu links are the bomb.

But aren’t legit .edu links impossible for Average Joe SEO?

Fortunately not.

If you have an awesome piece of content on your site, you can usually get a 1-2 .edu links just by asking around.

Here’s how…

Most universities have resource pages where they link to websites that are helpful to students and faculty. Here’s an example:

Let’s say you had a website web design. You could get a link from the example above by emailing them and showing them your helpful nutrition-related resource.

Use these search strings to find them:

site:.edu “your keyword”

site:.edu “your keyword” + “resources”

site:.edu: “your keyword” + inurl:links

site:.edu: “your keyword” + “other sites”

Only 5-10% of them will actually post your link. But keep in mind that a handful of these links can make a HUGE difference in the SERPs.

9. Submit Your Site to Website Feedback Sites

There are a TON of sites that are designed to help you get feedback on your site’s layout or conversion potential.

And almost all of them allow a dofollow link back to your site.

Here’s an example from a site called ConceptFeedback.com:

As you can see, there’s a nice dofollow link on the page.

All you need to do is submit your site with a little description of how you want to improve it.

Here are some Website Feedback Sites that you can use:

ConceptFeedback.com

SuggestionBox.com

Criticue.com

10. The Moving Man Method

Here’s a strategy that’s absolutely perfect for ecommerce sites (but it also works well for blogs).

In fact, I used the Moving Man Method to score Grade-A contextual links from a handful of authoritative domains (including DA87 .edu site):

Pretty sweet, right?

Here’s the step-by-step process.

1. First, find sites that have moved or gone out of business.

The easiest way to do this is to keep your ear to the ground. When you hear that a company has gone under, it’s time to swoop in.

For example, in my case, I read that an SEO agency called BlueGlass suddenly went out of business. That’s when I realized that there were probably hundreds of sites linking to a site that no longer existed.

If you want to be more proactive, you can use search strings like:

“keyword” + “out of business”

“keyword” + rebrand”

“keyword” + “has moved”

2. Next, find the sites and pages linking to the old business or site.

This is super-simple if you use a program like Ahrefs, Open Site Explorer or Majestic SEO.

Just take the URL of the old site and pop it into your tool of choice:

And — bingo! — you’ll have a list of pages linking to a site that moved or isn’t there anymore.

3. Finally, reach out and let the site owners know about their outdated link…

…and pitch a link to your site as a replacement.

Here’s a script that works well for me:

Hey NAME,

I was looking for information on TOPIC today when I stumbled onto your site.

I couldn’t help but notice that you were linking to OLD SITE. As you may have heard, they went out of business a few months back.

Actually, I have a guide on my site that’s really similar: URL.

Might make a nice replacement for the OLD SITE link.

Thanks,

YOUR NAME

11. Submit Your Site to Blog Aggregators

Blog aggregators are sites that list quality blogs in different industries. Here’s an example:

You can get a dofollow link on most blog aggregators for free in three easy steps:

• Submit your site
• Add a special HTML code to your site to confirm that you’re the owner
• Wait for someone from the aggregator to stop by and take a look at your site

When they approve it you’ll have your own page on the aggregator with a dofollow link to your site. Easy peasy.

In addition to Technorati (a must) here are some other blog aggregators to submit to:

Alltop.com (PR7)

Blogarama.com (PR2)

12. Find Guest Posting Gigs on Twitter

If there really is a hell, I’m convinced that Satan makes tortured souls guest post for all of eternity.

It can take hours just to find a handful of sites that don’t have a strict laundry list of guest blogger guidelines.

But there’s an easier way. You can tap into the underutilized power of Twitter search to find sites that are posting guest posts on the reg.

Here’s an example:

You KNOW that the sites that have tweeted their guest posts in the last week must be posting on a regular basis (no annoying dead ends!).

Here are some search strings to use in Twitter search:

“your niche” + guest post

“your niche” + guest author

“your niche” + write for us

“your niche” + guest article

13. Scoop It

Scoop It is one of my absolute favorite places to build buzz and (nofollow) backlinks with a few minutes of work.

Scoop It is a site where people aggregate their favorite content around the web into a magazine format.

Here’s an example of a Scoop it page:

Lots of people’s personal Scoop It pages have hundreds of followers. Which means that your content will get in front of hundreds of people. More eyeballs=more links.

To get people to post your stuff all you need to do is use Scoop It’s built in suggestion feature.

Just search for a high PR Scoop It page and hit “suggest”. You’ll see something like this:

Just send the person a quick message and let them know about your content.

In my experience about 50% accept within a day –meaning dozens of authority backlinks in about 15 minutes of “work”.

14. Broken Link Building

This strategy is similar to the Moving Man Method I outlined above.

The difference is that with broken link building, you’re only looking for pages that are 404ing.

Moved businesses and companies that changed names won’t show up with this approach.

That being said, it’s definitely worth the time and effort because of the killer inbound links you can get from this strategy.

What we’re doing is finding resource pages in our niche. So if we were in the fitness niche you’d search in Google using these search strings:

“fitness”  + “resource page”

“fitness” + “resources”

“fitness” + “recommended sites”

“fitness” + “links”

And find pages like this:

Now you COULD email them and just ask for a link. But I’ve found that the begging approach doesn’t work very well.

Instead, give the site owner a hand by letting him know about any broken links that you happen to find.

You can easily find the broken links on any page. Just use the nifty Chrome Extension Check My Links.

This program quickly finds any broken links the page happens to have. It also highlights them in red to make them easy to find:

Hi (site owner name),

I was just browsing around your resources page today, and among the lists of great resources, were some broken links.

Here’s a few of them:

URL1

URL2

URL3

Oh, and I have a website, mysite.com, that also regularly posts quality content related to whatever. If you think so too, feel free to post a link to it on your resources page.

Either way I hope this helps and keep up the good work!

Thanks,

(Your Name)

15. Infographics

Almost everyone in SEO knows about infographics, but I’m absolutelyflabbergasted at how few take advantage of this incredibly easy link building strategy.

That’s because many people assume that infographics are expensive and hard to make.

And they assume the infographic has to go viral for this technique to work.

Fortunately for us, both of these assumptions are DEAD WRONG.

Heck, you can get a halfway decent infographic made from someone on Odesk or Elance for less than $250. In my experience, the IDEA is 10x more important than the design itself.

Be creative, make something unique, and then hire a cheap designer to make it for you (you can also do it yourself using tools like Piktochart).

Once you have it ready, it’s time to get the word out.

1. Your first step is to submit it to infographic sharing sites, like these:

Visual.ly (PR7)

DailyInfoGraphic.com (PR5)

AmazingInfoGraphics.com (PR4)

OmgInfoGraphics.com (PR3)

2. Then reach out to bloggers in your niche and offer them the infographic as a guest post. To sweeten the deal, tell them that you’ll write a unique description for their site.

I’ve literally gotten 100+ high PR backlinks from related sites from a single quality infographic and this 1-2 punch.

16. The Skyscraper Technique

It’s no secret that amazing content makes link building 10x easier.

Unfortunately, it’s hard to know what TYPES of great content actually get results.

Enter: The Skyscraper Technique.

It’s a strategy I’ve used to literally double my search engine traffic in 2-weeks:

Here’s how it works:

1. Identify content in your industry that’s performed well in terms of generating backlinks, social shares and blog comments.

2. Make something that blows the piece of content you found out of the water.

3. Reach out to the people that linked to the now-inferior piece of content.

You can read a step-by-step case study of the process in action here:http://backlinko.com/white-hat-seo

17. Google+ Profile

Did you know that your Google+ profile allows contextual, dofollow links?

(Note, you have to be signed out of Google+ to see the link as dofollow. Weird but true).

Here’s an example:

With enough interaction within Google+ and direct linking to your profile, you can make that a pretty powerful link.

For example, Mark Cuban’s Google Plus Profile page is PR4!

Now It’s Your Turn

Now it’s time to actually put these powerful strategies into practice.

To make the process easy for you, I made a checklist that outlines the EXACT steps you need to take for each technique in this post.