I also find that using long tail keywords has helped me with driving niche traffic to my site. Mostly to my Clothing and Equipment site.

For number 2, do you mean add them to the Meta URL Title?

Meta tags are important for Search Engines results. Especially Google. You have to make sure that the keywords also appear in your article for optimial results.

The more backlinks you have, the better chance your PR will increase. My Muay Thai site got PR 1 with about 100 Google tracked links. When I got to about 230, it went up to PR 2.

I have found...

I just checked it now and there are no pending links. I think they update it 2 or 3 times a week.

I replied with a quote to Wikipedia, which is a valid information source, which provides evidence to what I was saying.

If someone could prove that the moon was made of cheese, I would believe...

Thanks for the tip man. I didn't realize that Google only showed sites PR4 and over. That's good to know.

Also, do you mean to find directories with the DO FOLLOW tag?

Someone else agrees with me. Site age and content plays a factor.

Thanks for all the answers guys. The level 2 thing makes sense now, because I am only level 1 right now.

I agree. Those numbers are not consistantly the same obviously, but it's a good braod idea.

I ended up creating a niche based affiliate site, and used many of those keywords from the google...

I posted in both places and the links are not showing... hhhhmmmmmm

This is either really good for me, or really bad for me. Yahoo finds and recognizes a lot of my backlinks, but MSN doesn't recognize any. hmmmmm.....

I have been reading a lot lately that people say this is an excellent way to get back links, although I just answered a couple questions and placed my URL in the resource box, and it did not appear...

once again, not entirely. Google has methods for discounting invalid or paid links, so it's quality links, and not quanity links.

Also, the PR of the incoming links play a factor. Simply saying...

Yes, but not only longtail phrases. For example, a longtail phrase for me that i use is "muay thai camp reviews in thailand" That gets targeted traffic. A general keyword is "muay thai" while a...

ok, maybe im wrong (but i'm not). Until you can prove me wrong, I'll believe what I have written and experienced.

When someone can set up a site with 6 or less months of life and lets say 10,000...

You are incorrect, these do play a factor.

What's the number 1 thing that you need in order to be indexed by Google, CONTENT. If you have a site that has 100,000 backlinks but has no quality...

My links got approved in 24 hours. I think the PR is 0 now, but obviously that's because it is new. If you check link popularity, it already has several hundred link backs, so I am sure the PR will...

Since you aplogized I'll give you a tip. Add your website link to your signature. You will already have 7 more backlinks now (that's the amount of posts you made)

Dan

It also depends on the life age of your website and the relavance of your content.

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The way it works is they will let you submit 1 site for free with no reciprocial link.

If you want to submit multiple links, you can submit as many as you like as...

Man, I hate posts like this. I read the title and clicked in because I thought you were going to tell us how to get some quick backlinks, but instead you are asking us.

Just read like every other...

In relation to keywords, I like to use the popular ones but also use the ones that don't result in many global searches each month, so I will rank higher in the SERP.

That's a really good point. Do you remember back in the late 90s though when Yahoo put a lot of money into marketing and that had those commercials that were like "Yahoooooooooooooooooooooooo!"
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I disagree. I have experiemented with some pages by not having any keywords while keyword stuffing on the other, and the one with multiple keywords gets more traffice.

Also, Google Adwords has a...

One of the most helpful and easiest is to ask similar sites for a link exchange.

is PR Article.com a paying site? I tried a couple free Press Release sites, but my release got rejected because I didn't want to pay. :(

Thanks for the videos. I'll check them out and maybe subscribe to that one.

I have found that the do comment blogs help tremendously.

I believe Facebook has this feature as well. You just have to make sure the blog is set up to ping out.

How is that possible?

yeah, flash is a PITA in my opinion, and also not good for SEO.

This is opinion. I still get traffic and good qualityck links from article sties, so if it is something that you are already doing, I say keep doing it.

I find that I get good traffic from Reddit and Mixx as well. I only started doing SB, so before that a lot of my traffic was via search engine and forum posts in content related forums.

Also,...

keywordsmiths.... lol. i like that. nice.

But they are still great for PR, and occasoinally you can gain some niche based traffic that will revist and convert.

Recently I did a lot of social bookmarking, and have registered with various forums and provided a link in my sig.

Also, I have been submitting a lot of articles to article directories. I also...

Well, I don't expect to jump from PR 1 to PR 9 overnight. Setting small achievable goals is a good way to stay on track and remain productive.

yeah, you have to try to strategically insert the keyword in the content of the article in a way that blends into the article and doesn't sacrifice the quality of the article.

oh cool, you created this search engine? I didn't realize that.