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==Content is Still King - step by step instructions on how to create it ==
There is a maxim that experts in gaining internet traffic and high search engine rankings use and the maxim is: "Content is king". The maxim is very valid because it is usually very hard to get inbound links from other websites for a webpage if the content is mediocre (it is especially hard to get quality/authority links and these are very important links to get). Too many people try hard to get inbound links from other websites without first creating excellent content. This is a poor long term strategy plus it only increases the amount of total effort to have a high traffic creating article. It is much easier to do the front end work of creating a quality article rather than hope doing a lot of subsequent promotional and inbound link building work (asking other websites to link to your article) will make up for a webpages quality deficiency.
The first rule of having quality content is "know thy stuff". Accordingly, I am going to give you some tips on how to do effective research for your webpages and do it very efficiently.
I realize that "knowing thy stuff" might sound like too much work for some people and therefore not worth doing well. In other words, when it comes to "knowing thy stuff" the enemy of excellent website might be merely good website. However, it has been my experience that creating excellent material in terms of accuracy is worth the trouble as often times people quickly dismiss material that contains some errant material. In other words, your website's reputation can sometimes be only as strong as its weakest link. Wise King Solomon said, "Dead flies make a perfumer's oil stink, so a little foolishness is weightier than wisdom and honor." - Ecclesiastes 10:1 (NASB version). Although I am not a big fan of Ann Landers, I do think she made an important point that can be applied to creating excellent and accurate information on a website: "Opportunities are usually
disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."
===Know thy stuff===
*[http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/vl/google/googlcont.htm Internet Research Using Google Advanced Search]
==Using Yahoo and other Search Engines to Find Good but Less Popular Internet Material==
Although I find the Google search engine to be a helpful took, using the Yahoo search engine can help you quickly find good material which is less popular on the internet and thus has less inbound links (Google uses inbound links as a criteria for ranking high more prominently than many search engines). In addition, you can support your favorite non-profit organizations using the [http://www.goodsearch.com/ Goodsearch service]. Please be aware that when you use Goodsearch, the search results are generally more skewed to websites which have a more politically conservative nature (at least that is what I have found in my limited experience using the Goodsearch option).
