My recent experiences have revealed that the majority of directories are now worthless (in terms of SEO. Examine pages nested deeply in directories and most of them you will now find that the PR is...

Well, if it makes you feel any better, Camber Garage Doors has only been running for less than 2 years ;)

Yeah, I reckon your analysis is quite correct. Interestingly, I found this domain in an article (http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2005/06/the_worlds_longest_domain_name.html):
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Search for the term "Camber Garage Doors" in google and it will print out site links...at least it does for me. I have made a screenshot available...

An example is provided in the first site located in the top of my signature.

We try market for the terms "automatic garage doors" and "garage doors". In the case of both of those terms, you will...

That is incorrect, it does not need to be number one.

A site I run is not by any means number one, and it displays sitelinks.

To be even considered, your site's pages should have sensible titles specified in the title tag of the html - at least in my experience. This means NO keyword stuffing!

As has been suggested,...

It's difficult to provide even a ball park figure of an exact number.

An "acceptable" daily average would depend on a number of points but would not be limited to:

1. The number of...

Well, a site that I look after has always ranked EXTREMELY well for the keywords that I target, but as of the past few days it seems that the page's search ranking has taken a severe hit - something...

Well, it's likely going to depend on the value of the individual page. You'll often find that a forum's dynamic pages have low 'value'. There are many reasons for this; however, this does not mean...

I concur that the claims are bogus.

Like stymiee stated, PR is pointless - the PR data is old and is not indicative of a site's traffic or a site's search engine placement.

Unless you're doing something you shouldn't be, it's more or less out of your control.

The same thing happens to me quite frequently, actually. It first started happening to me in January,...

I get this as well (if it's the same IP). A couple of months ago, I performed a reverse dns-lookup and tracked it down to AOL (or some other large corporation) - I can't remember the exact details. ...

Once again, thanks for all your advice.

Just an update - my site appeared again in the index after about four (4) days. Additionally, my PR was updated from a value of zero (0) to two (2) out of...

Hi,

I actually just found a really neat little tool that shows different pageranks among multiple google webservers.

http://livepr.raketforskning.com/

Kind Regards,

GCS584

Actually, I am signed up with Google Webmaster and have just checked it. Something strange is going on - it has asked me to verify my site regardless of the fact that I have been registered with the...

Thanks for your prompt response.

As per your remarks, should I then be concerned as to why my main page no longer appears in the index?

Kind Regards,

GCS584

Hi All,

Well, the company's site I develop for relies heavily on business through the internet.

As of yesterday, it appears that the main (index) page has just disappeared. Anybody else...

Hi Matty,

You do indeed face big hurdles in relation to utilizing flash. I don't know what type of site you're running or the audience it is catered too, but there are a couple of things you need...

Hi Brandon,

Thanks for your response. Sorry for my late response, I have been under the weather.

My site has been doing quite well in Live considering it's such a new site. Right now, I'm...

Hi All,

I'm new to these forums. I had come across the site while surfing the web. It just so happened that I like what I saw. I figured I would give it a try.

Well, I've been developing a...