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Their seems to be changes going on in the search engines. They have put together filters to identify links that are being paid for and pervent them from passing page rank. So with this in mind what can webmaster selling links do?

So there are some simple things that you could do to lower the chances the filter would pick up the link, for example remove any ‘sponsored links' or ‘advertisements' captions that go about the links. Also placing them in blocks of text or within the navigation, at the very least don't clump them all together.

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Recently the most talked about form of internet marketing is to submit article to website design to distribute free website content. So in theory you write an article add a link to your website and then nice friendly webmasters put it on thier website for all their visitors to see. So you get the greatly sort after one way relevant links, and you also get you website plugged on another website.

Which sounds perfect what with the constant rumours about reciprocal linking being dead.

I'm am still to be convinced, this is the new holy grail of internet marketing. Internet marketing via article writing in my opinion is far from easy.
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Recently I have been involved in a thread on the webmasters talk forum wether outgoing links reduce a websites Page Rank. The discussion went on for ages continuously covering the same points a guy called chrishirst refused to admit he was wrong, must have been hard to admit your wrong to a seemingly newbi. His total belief that:

NO NO NO NO NO! The calculation is for incoming links to page A. the outgoing links on page A are not factored into the calculations so they cannot have even the slightest effect on the value.

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Today I’ve been playing with my adobe products. I uncovered this image whilst surfing the web and have been playing about using the built in filters. Soem of the stuff you can do is fantasic.



Here is a great example of how not to use the stained glass effect.

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