The goal is to obtain one-way links to the own website from similarly themed, and popular websites who themselves are linked to few other websites. With more than half of all web searches performed through Google, it is easy to understand the importance of ranking on Google's result pages for...
I used to think that LinkedIn requests were obnoxious. I felt like I was being roped into a social network that, unlike Friendster, has been scrubbed free of interestingness and instead has a glossy PR sheen. But as a business professional, it's become unavoidable; not having a LinkedIn profile is...