{"id":275,"date":"2006-09-18T12:49:57","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T19:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/archives\/275"},"modified":"2014-12-04T13:45:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:45:54","slug":"add-content-build-links-generate-trafficyou-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/seo\/add-content-build-links-generate-trafficyou-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Add Content, Build Links &#038; Generate Traffic&#8230;You Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I took my first <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myaffiliateprogram.com\/u\/workshop\/b.asp?id=2019\">Search Engine Workshop<\/a> class with John Alexander and Robin Nobles, Ginette Degner taught a session of the class. 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Write and post usefull articles and information on your own website that is so good, that people will link to you because they want to.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no substitute for great content, because once you have it, links will come and so will ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Once all is said and done, and the site is structurally sound, it&#8217;s being spidered regularly, it has decent analytics, visitor statistics etc. then it&#8217;s all about one thing&#8230; \u00a0Making it the single best resource on the planet for your chosen search phrase.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it, there&#8217;s not much left to say!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I took my first Search Engine Workshop class with John Alexander and Robin Nobles, Ginette Degner taught a session of the class. Since then, each time I&#8217;ve returned to SEW, I learned something insightful from her. 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