Understanding How Links Work

At the SEO workshop at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service, there were quite a few questions about how links work and how to get other sites to place the code to link to your site.
Here’s a great article that explains how the html link code works.
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Driving Volunteers to Your Website Workshop

It’s exciting to take the concepts of Search Engine Optimization and Marketing for volunteer recruitment to a larger audience at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. The presentation for the Driving Volunteers to your Website workshop can be found here.
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Great Example of Link Request Email

I was reading an article in SEO Chat, and I came across a well written link request/building email that I wanted to share. Here it is modified for those who want to recruit folks looking for volunteer opportunities online:
“I have created a web site for our Volunteer Center called www.volunteercenter.org, which could be very valuable [...]

Cleaning Up your Volunteer Email List

We all hate to do it, but it has to be done – updating and cleaning up your volunteer email list. If you’re using a provider like Constant Contact, hopefully folks have been opting themselves out of your emails if they aren’t interested. If you’re mass emailing folks in some other fashion, you’ll have to [...]