Links are still very important to increasing your search engine traffic yet many webmasters are ineffective with their link building. Here are three common link building mistakes as well as ways to avoid them.

Transparency, translucency, opacity: we have designs that are peeking through this week on Friday Focus.

I was recently asked to review a new text link marketplace, called TNX (“Thanks”). They use a point system to allow advertisers to buy link space on sites. Take a look and see what I thought during my quick run through.

Styleboost, the lovely quality link provider since 2001, has traded in its dark black look for a combination of greys and blues, for an updated “web 2.0″ look, and some great some great new additions. While Johan has been teasing us with screenshots on his flickr account, the new version, dubbed Reboost, is finally out [...]

Text linking does not have to be boring. In this article, I describe how to create a nice button using no images that will link to your feeds.

So, only a few hours into 9Rules Round 4 of submissions, and it appears the staff are going to have their hands full for a while. So, what does this mean? It means 9Rules is getting a hefty amount of links, and what better way then to allow you to showcase your own sites here. [...]