How to Ask for Links

Link Building has become an essential part of search engine marketing. The basic idea is, the more links that exist on other websites that point to your site, the more important your site looks to search engines, which will make it rank higher.

But what's the best way to get other sites to add your link? A great article by Jennifer Laycock explains it well: http://www.searchengineguide.com/jennifer-laycock/link-building-i.php

How To Create a Favicon

Y'know those little icons that appear in your browser next to a url when visiting a website, and the ones you see next to the site name when you bookmark a page? Well, if you want to create one for your site, it's pretty easy. All you need is the graphic you'd like to use as the icon, best in .jpg format. (It's best to make it a simple and small icon, since it's so small when it appears on your site's url.)


Then, go to this site: http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/ to convert the .jpg file to a .fav file, and then upload it via ftp to your site's root directory, and your done. In some cases your favicon may take a few days to show up, and please note that certain older versions of Internet Explorer may not show them for some strange reason.