It happens, two guys sit down and come up with an idea, things get really hyped up, Good Morning America starts having “daily” features from your site/company, and BAM! Google buys ya up.

Here’s what the YouTube founders have to say. I’m sure their laughter is caused by nothing more than pure giddiness at the humung-o check they just got, but there you have it.

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Here’s a tool that basically just tells you how many backlinks each of the major three search engines “count” for your site. Don’t worry, Google will almost always have considerably fewer than Yahoo or MSN. But it’s yet another great tool for tracking your progress while either paying for a link campaign, or running your own.

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Backlinks are a great way to see how popular your site is, who’s linking to you, and get an idea about who’s linking to your competition (so you can go after your own links from them!) and checking backlinks is something we do regularly for our clients. The idea is to get backlinks from sites that have a decent Google PageRank that are relevant to your own industry.

If you use this tool and find that there are a lot of sites linking to you that are NOT in your industry, you might want to consider politely asking them to remove the link. But be VERY careful with this! It’s not something you should do unless you really feel that the link will “hurt” your reputation either with visitors or with the search engines.

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FOR RELEASE - October 1, 2006 – HAGAMAN, N.Y. - Anubis Marketing, a Web
design, development and Internet marketing company announces their one
year anniversary… (press release)

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