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Entrecard has finally come out with a toolbar to help with your daily dropping. The long awaited EntreBar is now available for download and is completely free. There is only one stipulation: It requires you to be running FireFox 3.

The new EntreBar includes features such as Quick Account Switching, Your Entrecard Menu, Who to Browse, How to Browse, Jump Buttons, One Touch Favorites, One Click Advertising and the Entrecard Site Menu. You can learn all of the details of the new EntreBar on the Entrecard Blog or download it now from the EntreBar Download Page.

Search Engine Optimization plays a major role in getting your website indexed. Search engines have ‘bots’ that crawl your web pages and if you have implemented SEO techniques then you have a better chance of getting indexed quickly.

After viewing your website, the search engine direcory keeps a cached copy of your web pages in their index. That means that they make a reference copy of every page and keep that in their records. When a user starts searching with a particular keyword, it is capable of displaying a list of relevant web pages. The higher your search engine indexing level the easier it is for potential visitors to find you.

First your website should have quality content and good navigation along with regular maintenance. All links should work properly. Use solid keywords in your title and post to help gain more SEO traction. Updating your content regularly is a must, especially if you are a blogger.

You can also submit a sitemap to Google’s Webmaster Tools and Google will give you some insight. Once your site is verified with Google Webmaster Tools, this will help you get indexed more quickly as well. If it is a new site, then you can get your site on the map a little quicker with this tool.

As I have mentioned in previous posts … after that, it’s all about the back links (see previous post). The more quality links and back links you have, the higher the page rank that will be offered by the search engine.

Another method is posting in forums and commenting. They are both easy ways to gain backlinks. Join a forum that is related to your website and post content with your name and link to your site. Search engines access all well known forums on a regular basis, so they will pick up your back links quickly.

One more process to help SEO is blogging as most of us are aware. Since search engines thrive on new content, these type of sites are indexed very quickly. There are many places you can create a free blog such as WordPress and Blogger.

I want to say thank you to all of my entrecard droppers. Here are the top 10 entrecard droppers for January 2010. I apologize for not posting one last month, but I will be keeping up with future months.

Many people who own a site are trying to build a large number of daily visitors.  For this you need to get a higher search engine placement.  Most people search for a website related to their keywords and they will click on a link if it appears on top or near the top of the search results.  The next question is how to get your site on the search engine top list?  You can play with your content, keywords, and back links.  Create high quality content for your site and a solid SEO campaign using good keywords for your niche.  After that it is all about backlinks.

Backlinks are links which are created on other websites to direct visitors back to your site.  Backlinks are also referred to as incoming links, inbound links, in links, and inward links.  Search engines use the number and quality of backlinks to your site as one of the most important factors in determining your sites page rank.  Beside that, high quality back links can also measure the importance and popularity of your site.  Backlinks are the purest form of gold in the online world … it can complete your SEO campaign.  You can check your page rank at PRChecker.info for free.  You can also check out how many backlinks your site has by using one of the many free backlink checkers.

You should definitely recognize backlinks as a part your SEO campaign.  Just include the backlinks and what words you use to anchor those links. An anchor link is the clickable portion of the words, you would use the href tag to anchor or hyper link your keywords. When your anchor links, your back link using the keywords on your website, it will give an extra boost in your site’s page rank.  Another method that will generate natural search engine traffic is social bookmarking.

Millions of people consider social bookmarking sites as a practical source of information, so when other sites bookmark your site you will be indexed by search engines instantly. Search engines can monitor the significance of your site based on its social network exposure and perception. When you have already signed up with the top social bookmarking sites, use your site URL, a description of your content and also proper tags to get good traction from that. Google treats the links from these popular sites with more weight, which helps your page rank in the search engine listing.

You can also try a Link Building program to do it for yo.  Other ways to manage your backlinks is to join the article directories, comment on other site or blogs, participating in forums, publish press releases, and manage all of them. Remember this: Too much of it can hurt your site, but too little can mean a traffic-less site.