Just be careful with some of the tools that can be installed in your web browser. Some of them can send so many requests to Google (for info about the site like PR, backlinks...) that Google bans...

My personal favourite is seomoz.org (http://www.seomoz.org). They have a huge blog and offer valuable thorough resources on SEO. It's my place to be on the topic. You'll learn a lot there.

If I'm not mistaken; link: is for page level, links: is for domain level. No?

Do you also check the number of inbound links? Do you monitor the keyword ranking of the site? Your analytics are important off course, but it takes a little more time to see it change their. Monitor...

Good example, referring to the house. Will use that when explaining SEO to outsiders (which can be a challenge).

Thanks for your comments. This site was not made by me, but that other guy. Personally, I don't like the design. CodeJoust, all your remarks are very true. Now it seems that I have to explain this to...

Hi CodeJoust. Thanks for having a look. Apparently it got so bad that the site went down. It is back online now.

Google is an ever evolving mystery. So no, in my opinion Google doesn't go together with stable. Keep on building a steady number of smart links and you'll stay there. Waiting is no option.

Hi fellow designers and affiliates. I'm really struggling to make my customer understand a few basic things about web design. I'm not perfect myself but I have been doing this for quite some years....

Just try to build a user logical structure like www.example.com/category/subcategory/productpage.html.
Not only do users like it, search engines do as well.

Or you could use a free form creator like emailmeform.com (http://www.emailmeform.com). They have a pretty good free form host that lets you edit the form to your likings and secures it with a...

Thanks again. No they do notsupport .htaccess. Is a lousy host (for the advanced site edits) by the way.

Thanks for the tip, CodeJoust. But would that work 'cause the index.html file is the same as the websites hosting stays with freewebs? Only the url changes. Or could I use something like a redirect...

Hi. I'm changing a site's URL to a new domain. The site is hosted at freewebs.com which makes it impossible to create redirects (unless anybody proofs different).

What is the most efficient way...

Good informative post.

Try Web CEO. It's a payable software but the free edition does quite some tricks as well. Good luck.

Thanks bobchrist. I listed the wrong example (squidoo). You're right. Thanks for the correction.

Does anyone know some good press release submissions services, like e.g. Squidoo? Thanks.

Just for your information. I'm currently living in South Africa. Yesterday there was a article about a pigeon beating the internet in delivering a package. Over the distance of 80km's the pigeon...

Google doesn't accurately display your back links. They just don't because you might get too hung up on it.

However, you can get an detailed look on your back links in Yahoo! It's the most...

If you change your h1's a bit and change the structure of the article a little. Do you think Google will find the duplicates?

Good post and good comments people.

- A plan
- A goal
- Google Analytics account
- Google Webmaster account
- Define an industry category
- Do your KW research
- Build content before pages
- ...

Hi Janessa
Try some link building. Not too much. Max 20/day.
Google will pick you up very soon.

Btw: Have you added the site to DMOZ? You can try Bing Webmastertools. Or maybe 'suggest a site'...

Looks a lot like statcounter.com, wouldn't you say?

Check the following link (http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol6/html_no1.htm). All the best.

You can use both. You don't have to use both.
The alt is meant to be displayed when the image is missing, while the title is shown when you hover with the mouse pointer over the image. Designers...

Hi Dan

Great improvement on your website. It's a lot better and more readible. Can I make a few sugestions?

You're using a central image (clickable to see the Gallery Image). It's 281.86 KB,...

Hey Tiger 86: What's 'suckerfish'? I checked Spry items in Dreamweaver but couldn't find anything.

Plz advice.

J

Hi

Make sure you write 'rich descriptions' in your alt labels' as Google values Alt attributes in SEO (more and more).

Grtz J

David

You covered it all, no need to suggest anything I would say. Rather an article than a forum topic.

Grtz J

dbguide

ok. that's the interesting part about it. you never stop learning or exploring. Good luck.

J

Tefflox

Great demo. What software did you use to capture the demo?

Not camtasia I presume?

Thx J

Hi furiber

I don't have IE6 installed. So this will be a shot in the dark. Could be since you're using .png as background image (and IE6 doesn't know how to handle them)?
Try replacing the png by...

Hi dbguide

Pff. No easy assignment there.

I think I solved it. It had to do with the 'overflow: hidden' attribute. Delete it.

The height of your page in FF will not be ok. Fix it by setting...

Finally. I reached the mediocre level of page rank 5. The sky is the limit, right?

Jounik

I think you're right. You should avoid bad neighborhoods and useless link referring.

However, DMOZ is a good and respected neighborhood in the search engine community. It's an open...

Stats speak for itself. Not everyone has access to high-speed internet.
The world is bigger than just the US. Think outside the box.

This is what http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ had to say about my current project. Follow the link to try your website. Valuable info.

"HTML_SIZE - Congratulations, the total...

Let me put it this way:

Speed isn't everything. It's the only thing. Your site should instantly respond to a request. If you have to wait 4 seconds until something happens, you are in big trouble....