I am not sure why this has happened, I have seen some posts on other forums where new pages went from "0 to 3+" with little effort on the July 13 PR update. I have also seen posts where some web...

I agree 100%. I didn't mean to imply that you should just post any old thing. These articles should be good quality articles.

In regards to why do it, it really depends on each individual site....

Once again, I agree with Canadafred :cheesy:

Ok, fair is fair. :p I thought it was implied (by the usage of the words "I think" and "My 2 cents" that my statements were opinion). Since empircal evidence for SEO algorithims is difficult to...

We may have to agree to disagree on this one. :)

I agree with Canada Fred, I think they are exceptions and will not stand the test of time. Especially after the BigDaddy update on Google. Many...

I had a hard enough time answering all the 20 million questions they asked when you signed up. IMHO some of those questions are none of their business (company online sales, etc).

Glad to hear...

Don't forget, a lot of the larger search engines also use the meta tags to help determine duplicate content within your site. If you use the same ones across a couple of pages, then those pages will...

I dont't want to sound like a smarty pants, but this will only happen if you include the articles that you are submitting on your web site. Creating different articles for article submission, and...

Personally, I wouldn't do it. PR aside, if you know the site is not going to send you relevant traffic then it would not be the best use of money. Could you take the $3800 and divide it among some...

I think what ncaditya was referring to was the fact that when on gmail, the toolbar shows a page rank. Mine says it is about a 2.

However looking at the source code of the page, the email is all...

I have been keeping my eye on this as well, and I am very excited about it. I have talked with several clients are already interested in it and I will be performing some ad testing, etc as soon as it...

Some quick thoughts.

Forget banners, in general they don't work. They only really help for brand awareness, and from what it sounds like, you don't have the budget for a brand awareness campaign....

Yes, it is generally thought that anything higher than 10% is too much, and may be a flag for spamming to the search engines.

General rules are to use the keyword in the:
Title
Meta Tags
H1...

Great suggestion!

There are so many Internet marketing techniques to learn about. I would suggest identifying one technique (for example search engine marketing) and focus on learning everything...