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SEOs lust for traffic. Many of them would sell their own mother to get a link from a high traffic site. The problem is that such deals are rarely offered, so there is a need for different link building techniques.

A Google search for link building tips yields more than 29.000 results. More than enough to spent months reading articles on how to become a successful Web publisher.

More and more blogs, link directories, and other types websites tend to add the rel="nofollow" attribute to external links to tell search engines not to follow them, meaning that the Google PageRank is not inherited by the externally linked pages.

Clearly this is bad from an SEO perspective for the external pages but may have a positive effect for the internal website links, because they receive more value. This seems somewhat egoistic but hey we all know that money makes the world go round and website owners will argue that they only do it for spam prevention.

When you are starting a new website or want to optimize your existing sites for search engines, it is a good idea to take a look at your competitors. This article on SEOmoz.org gives examples of web searches that help you finding them as well as sites where you can leave comments and directories to submit your site.