Google's link: - they only show a small sample of known linkage data...it has always been that way with google.

as far as contain the term it just finds pages with that text. some will be links...

many directories that "only trade links" also sell them to some people or are owned by people involved in SEO who list their clients sites.

>Any ideas?

mod rewrites? threads about them?

when you're chatting around the water cooler and someone mentions any of that intentionally deceptive pablum to you as a reason why Google is such a great company, why don't you also tell them that...

it saves negligable time and spies on you. no reason to use it IMHO

>robots.txt

its a text file that sits in the root of your site and tells robots not to index certain parts of your site. this would disallow cgi bin tmp and private

User-agent: *
Disallow:...

just listing in directories and putting your site in your sig files and stuff like that may help you rank well for your company name. of course as you build brand and value that marketplace gets much...

backlink = link to your site.

seotie.com also tracks your submissions.

I am a big fan of smaller SEOs too.

PageRank has nothing to do with page copy.

a proven track record is not even necissarily a legitimate gauge of knowledge since

-many people are only successful due to heavy brand building from a time when the algorithms were not as...

it certainly is more than just what competitors are doing. think google started doing some latent semantic indexing.

lots of sites just disappeared with the last update. best not to make drastic changes but to continue building links.

some people think Google is using latent semantic indexing on inbound anchor...

the current algorithm often has many sites not ranking for their own names. if that is intentional then Google is being a wee bit hypocritical on the make useful content for the users front.

many times the changes in search results and rankings have more to do with algorithm tweaks than they have to do with what we do to our sites.

>If you have a business site, is there an acceptable way to implement link swaps? e.g. it would look a bit odd to dump stray links to a directory or other site on there, and a links page would also...

odds are your base authority level may not be that high if you only have links from a few sites. perhaps building more linkage data from a wide variety of sites will help improve your rankings

>1) Never pay more than $6,000 for optimization of 20 keywords for 12 months.
That's total cost. If you come to a total higher than that when you add in
"maintenence fees" or any other such silly...

the sig link does not appear until you make ten posts.

the meta keywords tag is best used for alternate versions not in the copy or common misspellings. many SEOs no longer use them.

PageRank is logarithmic and displayed on a rather course linear scale. large changes can occur without the display changing much.

it says this article does not exist.

and before hiring any seo to work on your site dirt cheap you should read this ;)
http://www.search-marketing.info/newsletter/articles/shitty-seo.htm

lots of sites are blacklisted all the time. common ones

linking out to shady sites
302 redirect errors
people redirecting their penalty at your site
buying too many highly visible off topic...

>Given what I have read about how google figures rankings, how do these sites do so well?

powerful links pointing at the root of their site maybe?

>server/ip

search engine can check and...

some of the regional search index will give a boost to sites which
- are hosted in the same geographic region -or-
- have the local extension -or-
- have lots of links into or out of their site to...

many times people think seo is all they need, but it helps to also work hard to establish brand.

seo services do not work well for every business model but they work well for most if you find the...

this cross compares overture and word tracker
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/

and google search suggest uses search volume to help organize results...

to me the goal of content for most sites is to hopefully inspire linkage.

keyword rich only matters if you dont have something that would naturally want to spread. once you have a well marketed...

Overture has a good network size, but your techi theme and audience is more likely to search on google than some of the other search sites...its the same reason why I sell a ton more of my ebooks...

if you need simplicity and are primarily doing ppc I am told www.conversionruler.com is decent.

some other popular web based ones
keywordmax
clicktracks (also has a log file analyzer program if...

in 2003 they updated it only a couple times. for a long part of 2004 they updated it like about once a month.

I think I got 1-5 and a 7, but I dont much track it... would like to get an 8 just because thats hard... but it may be nearly impossible with my current site format

very few SEO techniques are unethical... the ethics tag is marketing speak for the search engines.

search engine manager: "crap that stuf undermines our algorithm and make our ad business looked...

linking off to resource sites can improve your hub score, but a large part of the algorithm is anchor text.

related sites also pass greater credit due to algorithms like hilltop.

good for finding various versions of words for ppc ads and the like. the results also take search volume in as an input.

I have talked to muliple forum owners who told me they launched using adwords and adsense. you have to spend a bit off the start usually to make it back later.

another option is to ask a few...

msn and yahoo are actually far easier to do seo for than google is.

msn is like candy from a baby right now. bulk low quality links from a wide variety of sites using mixed keyword rich anchor...

I think it does sometimes but not always... like when John Scott moved his forums to a new domain they took a bit of a hit. also 301 redirects surely will get abused a bunch more going forward. I...