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A Complete Guide to add Meta Tags to Each Blogger Post

Do you really getting enough organic search traffic results from search engines like Google, Bing or Yahoo, even though you have great unique quality content on your blog? Most of the people says "No" because there is something missing in your blog post i.e. Meta tags.

Meta tags are snippets of text that describe a page's content and don't appear on the page itself. The search engine crawlers find out the exact information of a webpage with the help of Meta tags.

How to check Meta Title, Keywords and Description on blogger post

You can find out whether a given blogger post is using Meta tags or not by right click anywhere on the blog post and tap on "View Page Source". A pop up window will appear in Firefox (new tab will open in Chrome), now try to find meta tags at the top or head of the page.

The meta tags will look something like this

Also See : How to use Alt tags in Blogger Images

You can also use this website to check Meta tags on blogger post

How to check Meta Title, Keywords and Description on blogger post

How to add Meta Titles, Keywords and Description to each Blogger Post

Go to your blogger Dashboard and click on Template. We recommend you to Backup Your Template before making any changes to your blogger Template. Click on Edit HTML > Proceed > Expand Widget Templates

Also See : How to Prevent Copying Your Blog Content

Now search for <title> tag and add the following code like shown in image.

<b:if cond='data:blog.metaDescription != ""'>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.metaDescription' name='description'/>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.metaDescription' name='keywords'/>
</b:if>
<meta content='FOLLOW,INDEX' name='robots'/>

Note : You can also add this code just above </head> tag.

How to enable Search Description in Blogger

To enable search description, click on Setting Tab and tap on Search Preferences. Now enable search description, and enter the suitable keywords that describe your blog.

Also See : How to Create High Quality Backlinks

When you publish new blog post, enter proper keywords in search description area that matches your blogger post content.

If you have any question about Meta tags, sound off at the comments section below.

How to Prevent Blogger from redirecting to Country Specific Domains

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Google redirects their Blogger blogs to country specific domain extension since 2012. For Example open socialmedialoud.blogspot.com in your web browser, you will be redirected to socialmedialoud.blogspot.in if you are located in India or socialmedialoud.blogspot.fr if you are accessing the blog from France. Blog redirection only occurs if you are on a blogspot domain and country specific redirection not apply to custom domains.
From my blog traffic log, it is sure that country specific redirection in Blogger is live in at least 15 countries. They are Argentina (blogspot.com.ar), Australia (blogspot.com.au), Brazil (blogspot.br), Canada (blogspot.ca), Germany (blogspot.de), India (blogspot.in), Italy (blogspot.it), France (blogspot.fr), Japan (blogspot.jp), Mexico (blogspot.mx), Portugal (blogspot.pt), Spanish (blogspot.cl), Sweden (blogspot.se)

To avoid country specific redirection in your Blogger blog, follow these simple steps given below.

Login to Blogger account. Click on Template > Edit HTML > Press Ctrl + F to find <head> and press enter. Now copy one script from given below and paste it after the <head> and click on "save template". Now your Blogger Blog will always serve with the blogspot.com URL.
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<script type="text/javascript">

/* Get the full URL of the current blogger page */
var blog = document.location.href.toLowerCase();

/* Do not redirect if the domain is .com already */
if (!blog.match(/\.blogspot\.com/)) {

    /* Replace the country TLD with .com and ncr switch */
    blog = blog.replace(/\.blogspot\..*?\//, ".blogspot.com/ncr/");

    /* Redirect to the new .com URL in the current tab */
    window.location.replace(blog);
}
</script>

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Also See : How to Get Google Adsense Approved Account
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<script type="text/javascript">
      var blog = document.location.hostname.split(".");
      if (blog[blog.length - 1] != "com") {
      var ncr = "http://" + blog[0] + ".blogspot.com/ncr";
      window.location.replace(ncr + document.location.pathname);
      }
    </script>

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Also See : How to Use Alt tags in Blogger Images
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<script type="text/javascript">
var blog = document.location.hostname;
var slug = document.location.pathname;
var ctld = blog.substr(blog.lastIndexOf("."));
if (ctld != ".com") {
var ncr = "http://" + blog.substr(0, blog.indexOf("."));
ncr += ".blogspot.com/ncr" + slug;
window.location.replace(ncr);
}
</script>
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How to Add a Contact Form in Blogger Blog

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Most of the blog don't have a contact form which is highly important for website or blog. Adding a contact form to Blogger can be done with a few coding tweaks. You can see contact form offered by Blogger in add a Gadget popup but unfortunately they've made it as a Gadget and placed it on the Layout page so that it is added to your sidebar.

How to Add a Contact Form in Blogger Blog

To add contact form in your blog follow the procedure. Login to your Blogger account and click on Pages > Blank Page. Create a new page in your blog with page title "Contact Us".

You have to switch to the HTML mode and paste the following code and replace blogger ID (like 6655176397219971080) . You can find your blogger ID on the URL bar of your browser when you are on any page of blog's dashboard. Now click on Options and disable Readers comments by tick on "Don't allow, Hide Existing" .

Once the page is published, go to this new page fill out the contact form, click on the send button and verify that it sends out the email to all the Blog admins.

How to Use Alt tags in Blogger images

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Most common mistake done by many blogger is that they forget to put alt tag in images due to which loss of organic traffic. Do you know alt tag is very important in Google Blogger to increase blog ranking and organic traffic. You don't have any plugin in blogger like WordPress plugin in order to get alt tag in images.

Alt tag is a part of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Google image search tool is most popular service to find images, graphics and icons from all around the Web. In order to get more organic traffic from Google search engine always use atleast one image in your blog post with proper alt tag.

How to Use Alt tag in Blogger

Login to your blogger account and click on post. You can either upload a fresh image for New post or use existing image in the Published post. Click on image > Properties. It will open a pop up with image properties like Title text and Alt text.

Add the Title text and Alt text related to your Post, for example if you writing a Post about How to download torrent directly, Just use Download torrent directly in Title text and How to download torrent directly in Alt text.

Note : Don't use special characters like @, $, %, &, *, ^, ! and more than 15 words in Alt text and Title text.

There is another method to add Alt text in blogger. To do so, click on post > html view > Press Ctrl + F. Now find img and add alt="image keyword" after it. Replace image keyword with alt text . To add Title text, find title and replace image title with Title text something like this.

Also See : Best Methods to Remove Powered by Blogger

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeHv2G16DQbmxXLSysff5VRLcxNBgKB157d43RjzzDBv49FgHjj8cx4Gxpph1otlny3ovMYJolk9O3ycjetBAo25Griz-uB6HLAVapfma-4rbzzYQrQwB_aWDp90_uXJZCc2a-jDJ5v2i9/s1600/How+to+Stop+Videos+Playing+Automatically+on+Facebook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image keyword" border="0" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeHv2G16DQbmxXLSysff5VRLcxNBgKB157d43RjzzDBv49FgHjj8cx4Gxpph1otlny3ovMYJolk9O3ycjetBAo25Griz-uB6HLAVapfma-4rbzzYQrQwB_aWDp90_uXJZCc2a-jDJ5v2i9/s640/How+to+Stop+Videos+Playing+Automatically+on+Facebook.jpg" title="image title" width="640" /></a>

If you have any other methods to use Alt text in blogger, lets us know by commenting below.

How to Choose Great Domain Name for Your Business

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When you start a website, blog or business online, first thing you consider to start is choosing best domain name. Your domain name is your identity on the web. When you are choosing a domain name is similar to choosing a company name, it require a lot of thought and consideration. There are some thumb rule to decide a domain name which matches your business perfectly.

There are three most commonly used domain extension i.e. .com, .net and .org and try to get .com as your first choice. Choose the domain name which match with your brand or company name. If your company name is something like Soylaer Ltd, You can opt for Soylaer.com or Soylaerinfo.com (subject to availability).

1. Easy to Type : Choose a domain name that's easy to type and avoid use of slang (u instead of You) or words with multiple spellings i.e. express vs xpress.

2. Short Length : short and simple domain name is smart choice but if your domain name is long and complex, you risk visitors mistyping or misspelling it.

3. Keywords : You can choose random keywords that describe your business and the service you offer. Select atleast 10 keywords that are related to your business or niche and 5 random popular words. You can use bustaname online service to find domain names by entering keywords. It will give you a list of all the available domain names.

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4. Avoid Numbers and Hyphens : You should avoid use of numbers and hyphens in domain name as they misunderstand people who hear your domain name. sometime people suggest that you should choose a domain name according to your blog's niche but it is not great advice for bloggers who are looking for domain name with words like blog, tech and tips in them. There are thousands of blogs and websites already on the internet using similar names like techtip, techblog, bloggertips and so on.

5. Domain Name Extension : All the domain name extension have specific uses, so make sure to choose one that works for your business. For business .COM extension is most popular and here are list of some other top extensions.

.co : an abbreviation for company, commerce, and community
.info : informational sites
.net : technical, Internet infrastructure sites
.org : non-commercial organizations and non-profits
.biz : business or commercial use, like eCommerce sites
.me : blogs, resumes or personal sites

6. Easy to Remember : Can you remember domain name like this thoosaattz.com and how to spell it. I suggest to choose a domain name which is easy to remember and type.

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Buy Domain Name : You can buy domain name from any of these domain registrars.

BigRock : $9.82 (Use coupon "baatkar.com" to get 25% discount).

NameCheap : $10.69

Feel free to leave a comment below.

How to Backup Your Blogger Blog and Template

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one of the best free blogging platform is Google Blogger and it comes with many limitations. One of the biggest limitation is, Google own the control of your blog. If your blog violate any policy of BlogSpot TOS, Google have right to delete your blog at any point of time.

So follow Google BlogSpot guidelines and take a periodic backup of your BlogSpot blog. This will ensure that if something goes wrong with your blog in the future, you can restore your data and posts.

With "Export Blog" you can easily create a complete backup of your Blogger blog on the Hard drive, Google Drive, Dropbox or any other Cloud service.

How to Backup your Blogger Blog

Login to your blogger dashboard and choose settings > Other. Here you'll see an option that says "Export Blog" > click the link and it will download a copy of your blog post and comment to the hard drive in Atom (XML) format.

How to Backup your Blog Template

If you would like to save a copy of your Blogger template or Theme, Log In to your Blogger dashboard > choose template and click the Backup button in the top right corner. This will download the full template in the XML format and you can restore blogger template if something going wrong while playing with template code or you made some blunder.

Do let me know what methods you are using to take backup of your blogger blog and template ?.

Best Tools For Taking Screenshots For Bloggers

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Taking screenshots of websites is probably one of the most commonly tasks done on the internet by bloggers. When we use a screenshot to explain a article, we're putting the picture superiority effect into the practice because people remember images better than words. There are hundreds of tools available to take screenshots and we have to choose between them on the basis of features like free or paid.

Best Tools For Taking Screenshots For Bloggers

Other features include save images in multiple formats, take screenshots of specific resolution, Annotations (Text, Tags, Highlight, Arrows), easy share to Cloud services, fast loading and lightweight, Full Screen Capture, support for shortcut key and basic Image editing like cropping, rotating etc.

1. Nimbus Screenshot : A chrome and Firefox Plugin to take screenshots. once installed it will appear in the extension area of your browser.

The features of Nimbus Screenshot are as follows:

Start with a Blank Image

Capture Part of a screen

Capture Scrolling Area

Keyboard Shortcuts

Screen Recording

One key feature of Nimbus Screenshot is that it can take scrolling screenshot of only a part of the screen.

Nimbus Screenshot Tutorial

2. FastStone Capture : FastStone Capture is one of the most versatile and feature-rich screenshot taking tool.

Its most important features are:

Global Hotkeys (Capture with keyboard shortcuts)

Capture full window, scrolling window, menus, specific region, free hand region

Screen Recording Support

Multi Output Support (Save image, print image, export image, etc.)

Annotation Support

Basic Image Editing Support

Multiple Tab Support

Save your file in multiple formats

Join Side by Side Images

Multi-Monitor Support

Touch Screen Support

Crosshair, Magnifier, Color Picker

FastStone Capture Tutorial

3. Skitch : Skitch is made by Evernote Corporation, the company behind the popular note-taking app Evernote.

Skitch is another fundamental screenshot taking software. Its feature list includes

Capturing rectangular area on the screen

Basic annotation features

Mobile App is also available (Android/iOS)

Skitch Tutorial

Some other Tools to Capture screenshots:

TinyTake

Greenshot

LightShot

7capture

SnapCrab

Snagit

Which tool do you use for your posts? Let me know in the comments.

How to Get Google Adsense Approved Account

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Google Adsense program is one of the best resource for earning a huge amount of money from your blogs, Websites, You Tube videos and many more. Google Adsense is trusted by many Advertisers and Publishers from the past few years and usually they never accept anyone randomly who is trying to apply for an account. You need to show them the most professional approach of getting your account accepted, else Google will simply through your application aside.

Did you know, it was June 18, 2003 when Google launched advertising monetization program named Google Adsense which has now grown to include over 2.5 million publisher. Statistics say that Google Adsense accepts only 3 accounts of every 1000 application they received each day. Now come to the point that How to get Google Adsense Approval for your Blog or Website. Follow these simple guidelines to get your own Google Adsense Account.

How to Participate in Google Adsense Program

There are some basic requirement for eligibility to participate in Google Adsense online program which has been briefly discussed here

1. Google Gmail Account : Create a Gmail account needed to sign in to Adsense. You should always be careful while providing your personal details like Full Name, Age and address etc. because if you provide wrong information, Your application for Adsense might be rejected by Google Adsense team.

2. Age Requirement : In accordance with the AdSense Terms and Conditions, applicants must be at least 18 years of age.

3. Blog or Website : It is compulsory to have your own site or blog so that you can access the HTML source code to place the AdSense Ad Units code which displays Ads on your site.

4. Website/Blog Age : Google AdSense has specified that the Indian and Chinese AdSense Publishers required to have owned their sites for at least 6 months. Accordingly, except India and China, there is no any minimum age obligation for either blogger blog or website to participate in Google AdSense Program.

5. Language : AdSense Program is not available for all languages including HINDI (supports w.e.f. Dec 2014), Bengali, Gujarati, Panjabi, Telugu, Afrikaans, Irish, Latin etc. and therefore the primary language of your site must be in the AdSense supported languages.

6. Traffic Sources : Your blog/site traffics must come from the genuine sources. In other words, if you got the visitors through Search Engines, Social media and feed subscribers then it is good for the AdSense approval. Further, if your blog is not receiving at least 50+ unique visitors per day then please wait for some time to get more traffics on your site and then apply.

How to Get Google Adsense Approved Account

So before getting started, make sure you achieve basic requirement for eligibility for participate in Google Adsense Program. Remember that everything which i mentioned below counts. Don't compromise on number of posts, own domain, good design and other metrics, else the chance of rejection is higher at your end.

So here are most important guidelines to follow before applying to Google Adsense.

1. Minimum Posts/Articles/Pages : Make sure that your website or blog has atleast 40 Quality articles with minimum 800 words on each article which are not copied from anywhere else. Your content on the articles should be extremely rich and make sure you use relevant images where ever required.

2. Prohibited Website Niches : Google will take your application as a serious offense if your website contain any of the prohibited content mentioned in Google Adsense Policy. Make sure your blog don't based on the prohibited content. Your account will go through a faster approval process if you have more quality articles on Health, Internet Marketing, Business, Law, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Travel, Lifestyle and Social Media.

3. No Third Party Ads or Program : Before applying to AdSense, make sure you don’t allow or place any other third party banner ad code on your website. Google (employees) will strictly look into your website manually and they hate seeing some third party ads installed in your website. Stay away from any Third party ads like Infolinks, Chitika etc and Affiliated link such as Hosting Program, Amazon affiliates until your account is approved.

4. Website Design and User Experience : Google always want their users to get the best experience while browsing through any website they refer. Maintaining a clean design with good navigation and user experience will boost your chances of getting AdSense approved in the first attempt itself.

5. Google Analytics Code : Adding Analytics onto your website show that you are actively tracking your visitors and is much serious about the statistics of your users who visit your website. If you haven’t created one, Sign Up for Google Analytics. Once registered, get your tracking code by creating new account under the accounts tab and enter your website name, URL and other required details. Place the code on each page of your website to track the data instantly.

6. Google Webmaster Verification Page : With Google Webmaster Tools, you can track your website critical errors and fix them on a daily basis. Click here to register and click on “Add a Site” to enter your website URL. Verify your website ownership through any of the recommended method and complete the process to keep your account functioning actively.

7. XML Sitemap Page : Creating a sitemap doesn’t take too much of your time. If you are using WordPress, I recommend Google XML Sitemaps By Arne Brachhold. And if you are using any other platform, I recommend you to checkout XML-Sitemaps website for more info. Installing a sitemap on your website can help search engine bots to index your website faster, which is again a trust factor to bots about the website trustworthiness.

8. Robots.txt : Creating Robots.txt file on your website will get rid of indexing unwanted junk onto Google. It restricted all the unwanted data indexation to search engines, which adds a lot of value to your Search Engine Optimization efforts of ranking the pages higher on Google.

9. Alexa Rank : Before applying to AdSense, make sure your website global Alexa ranking is less than 400K for faster approval process. Usually the website above this rank is considered to be new and underestimated that no much data is seen on them.

10. Important Pages : Google wants to know your identity before you sign up to their Adsense Program. So make sure you create the following pages on your websites as soon as possible like Privacy Policy, Disclaimer Policy, Terms of Usage, Contact Us and About Us.

11. Custom Domain and Email ID : Google Adsense team take a custom domain more seriously rather than the free domain name create through blogspot and free wordpress platforms.

12. Decent Traffic : Let your blog age a few weeks (Atleast 2 months) before you rush to apply the AdSense program. I would always recommend you to stay until your website get a minimum of 50+ visitors per day. If your website is not getting enough traffic, the chances of rejection is much higher when compared to other guidelines.

Once your website is ready with all these above guidelines, click here to apply to adsense, and make sure you have gone through the Google AdSense TOC for more information on the program.

How to Prevent Copying your Blog Content

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Every Blogger want it to prevent users or other bloggers from copying their content. Its Frustrating when people copy your blog post or image and pass it off as their own. They don't give credit, no backlink. Worse condition is still when the stolen content ranks higher than original content in search result. Few bloggers do lots of efforts by researching and writing great article for their blog. All the hard work go to drain when someone stolen your blog content.

By the following ways people adopt to copy any blog content. Some of the techniques are copy-past, drag-drop, copy from RSS feed and source code.

How to Prevent Copying your Blog Content

1. Disable text selection : This method works fine to prevent text selection on blog page. Anyone who visit your blog unable to select any text and fails to copy it. This can be implemented using only CSS, by applying the following CSS definitions to the element that you want text selection disabled.

To disable text selection in blog, follow these steps

(a). Login to Blogger Account.

(b). Go to Template > Customise > Advanced > Add CSS

(c). Copy and paste this code

.post {-webkit-user-select: none; -khtml-user-select: none; -moz-user-select: -moz-none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;}

(d). Click on Apply to blog. Its done...

Note : If you want to allow copying some parts of your post. Fortunately you can restore text selection, by applying the same CSS definition to the element and replacing the value "none" with text. Let's say i want to put a line to being copy by users like "babsite is useful", i can use CSS definition like this.

.post babsite is useful {-webkit-user-select: text; -khtml-user-select: text; -moz-user-select: text; -ms-user-select: text; user-select: text;}

2. Disable drag and drop : You can disable drag and drop for both text as well as images.

To disable drag and drop inside blogger posts, follow these steps :

(a). Log in to Blogger account.

(b). Go to template > Edit HTML and click anywhere inside the editor.

(C). Press Ctrl + F to find and a search box should appear on the upper right corner of the editor.

(d). Now search for this code <b:includable id='post' var='post'> and expand it by click on arrow tip on the left of that line.

(e). On expanding, the second line should look something like this.

<div class='post hentry' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'>

(f). Replace the above code with the code given below

<div class='post hentry' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting' ondragstart='return false' onselectstart='return false'>

(g). Now click on save.

3. Disable right click : Disabling right click or context menu is one of the most popular way to prevent images from being stolen from a blog.

(a) Disable right click on all images: Go to template > Edit HTML and paste the following script right after the </head> tag.

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
    function nocontext(e) {
        var clickedTag = (e==null) ? event.srcElement.tagName : e.target.tagName;
        if (clickedTag == "IMG") {
            alert(alertMsg);
            return false;
        }
    }
    var alertMsg = "Image context menu is disabled";
    document.oncontextmenu = nocontext;
//]]>
</script>

Note : You can replace the message whatever you like. just replace this line Image context menu is disabled.
If you dont prefer to show the alert box just add // ahead like this //var alertMsg = "Image context menu is disabled";

(b) Disable right click on a single image : To disable context menu on a single image you need to add this piece of code. Log in blogger account and click on posts. Open any post and click on HTML, locate the img tag of the image you want to disable right click. Insert the code inside the tag like this.

<img oncontextmenu='alert("Image context menu is disabled");return false;' border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHYlZbLVZ8i-FXRsqjWO7E4M9zCMKIXhfrFiLCHKEnaDqRl4VQePzoivwqupokmLHeUjgrICdc8YoYB5h2gAwZguHA6dYhQ_P29sUc1w210wglxKluhngvk_0RSWffuG6uckZVsrVjeg_v/s1600/2008_10260151.JPG" />

Download this code

(c) Disable right click on all pages : This code prevent users from being click right on your blog Posts. Follow these steps to disable right click on all pages.

Go to Dashboard > Layout > Add Gadget > HTML/JavaScript. Now copy the code given below and paste it. Finally click on save the html/javascript and view your blog.

<script language=JavaScript>

</script>

4. Shorten RSS feeds: To prevent feed from being copied in full, offer only partial or short feed instead of full feed.

To shorten your blog feed, go to Dashboard > Settings > other > site feed > Allow Blog feed and select short or until jump.

How to Create High Quality Backlinks

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Link building is the process of getting links to your website. Writing quality content is not enough to get higher rank in search engine, in fact you have to approach towards generating links to your site. Link building is an important part of SEO and the popularity of a website or blog is sometime determined by number of inbound links.

The back link from inferior website may decrease rank in search engine so focus on quality websites on your niche.

Some benefits of link building

Higher rank in search engine result

Helps you to get traffic from other websites

High quality incoming link means your site will be admired as a valuable resource.

Note : You should ignore these methods of link building like Avoid site wide link from footer, buying exact anchor text link, buying bulk link from sites, blogroll links, article directory links are not that effective anymore and link network.

How to Create Quality Back links

Watch video for more information