Knowing how to use a search engine properly is one of the most important things to learn online.
Most people just search for the words they are looking for. However, search engines can do more than search results and using punctuation such as " " can more specifically target search engine results.
If you search for: online money for teens, half of the top search results will not even be exactly online money for teens. Now if you search for "online money for teens" the results that come up will contain the phrase online money for teens somewhere in the page. So if you are looking for something specific put quotation marks around the phrase you are searching for.
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Now you can also use search engines as a tool for your website. If you search for: link:http://onlinemoneyforteens.blogspot.com you will find the backlinks to this site. Searching for: site:http://onlinemoneyforteens.blogspot.com will show you how many of my pages are indexed.
The best search engine for finding backlinks is Yahoo. Search link:yoursite.com to find the backlinks to your site.
Search engines can also be used to generate backlinks and traffic. Search "your keyword" powered by wordpress "leave a comment". Replace your keyword with the keyword you want backlinks from. So if you have a make money online site you would search: "make money online" powered by Wordpress "leave a comment".
The search results will show you blogs for your keyword that let you leave a comment. Thus getting a backlink. Now another important tool is seoquake.com. They have an add-on for firefox and IE that shows you the page rank of the sites the show up in your search engine results.
After installing this tool you can search and find high PR blogs that you can leave a comment on.
You can also find forums on which to post.
Search for one of these:
viewtopic (this will pick up forum posts from phpBB)
showthread (this will pick up forum posts from vBulletin)
index.php showtopic ipb (this will pick up IPB forum posts)
index.php topic smf (this will pick up SMF forum posts)
This will show you forums that you can post on. Then you can put a link to your blog or website on this forum and get more free backlinks.