Here’s a great link to an article on google ranking factors and ways to avoid bad rankings.
Great places to generate SEO backlinks
Backlinking is at the heart of search engine optimization. Search engines essentially interpret each link back your website as a “vote” for your site with respect to importance on the world-wide web. “Votes” from websites that are seen as more important are more valuable than websites that are less important.
So I found a list of websites that will allow you to create backlinks.
Below is a list of sites to which you can submit articles that contain backlinks to your websites.
These lists are provided by on Mr. SEO – a website with GREEAAT SEO resources.
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