Google Sandbox is also a myth, google just doesnt encourage new sites so as your domain ages up you will automatically start to do well on google.

It takes around 6 months to about an year and a half for you to start doing well on good key words, just keep doing what you are doing and place empahsis on anchor text for back links, before you...

In my opinion SEs dont even give much weight to links inside posts/signatures any more let alone ban a website because of them.

There is a PR update expected at the end of this month though.

Thats true and besides google and other major search engines no longer give any importance to meta tags its the on page keywords that count the most.

It is the PR of your own page that matters, PR is channeled through links to your site. PR of the backlink is important in the sense that it effects the PR of your page, higher the PR of pages which...

You will not loose any PR from a link as a graphic as I said its still a link and PR will be channelled through it, the only difference is that the advantage of anchor text you get will be gone and...

Ok I researched a little and I was wrong about alt attribute, Graphic links do pass on PR like any other link but unfortunately you do not get the benefits of the anchor text which basically is the...

Doesnt the "alt" attribute compensate for the fact that anchor text is missing I could be wrong though. Another thing graphic links usually bring in more actual visitors as compared to text ones. In...

I read somewhere that Search engines penalise you for doorway pages as what alot of webmasters do is create a doorway page with alot of keywords they wish to target its one of the underhand tactics...

You can be on page one with a low PR rank but it would more often then not mean that the keyword is not searched alot.

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There you go :) enjoy

I also have 2050 mbs in my gmail inbox now :D

The minute I saw that bar chart on gmail login page I knew this was an April fools joke, they played one last year so I am not surprised to see one here.

I hope its done soon, I have carried out an extensive PR campaign and hopefully it will give me some results now. Lets just wait and see.

I am optimizing my site for 3 keywords right now, one is almost complete will start on the other 2 today. I prefer to do it one at a time so just waiting for next backlink update from google to wait...

MSN announed during an annual gathering of its most important advertisers that it will enter the paid search arena with a full-blown self-service paid listing program similar to those run by Yahoo...

It is safer to spread out the hosting amongst several reputable hosting companies on different IP address's. This will reduce the possibility of your sites getting either banned or...

Apparently the backlinks listed on google have updated. Still less useful than yahoo's, but you may get a hint from the number of backlinks reported still. I had a fairly huge jume around x2 :)

Yahoo can bring in alot of quality targetted traffic but sadly with 300 dollars your listing is not guaranteed, so if you do have extra dough lying around you can spend them but remember one thing...

Well other sites linking back to your sites is back links in very simple terms, seo book and avi explained it very well. The aim is to have back links from sites with high page rank and sites which...

Well alot of sites have JS menues, but what alot of them do is have text links at the bottom of the page on the footer which serve the purpose of having text links. Well there are two ways really you...

Getting listed into dmoz is not as easy as it is to enter Google or Yahoo's indexes. For those you basically just need a link from an already indexed site, but since the open directory is manually...

Getting back in once you have been penalised by a search engine is very tough but not impossible. Alot of sites got banned by search engines late last year because of wrong redirects.

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The tutorial is all about getting your site listed on top in Search Engines i.e Search Engine Optimization. First thing you need to do is find the keywords you want to optimize for.

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So what is your Page rank both of main pages and internal pages? All my internal pages have a PR of 2 and the main index has a PR of 4 not bad for a site which is only 5 months old.

Well msn is still in beta stages so you can only hope that by the time final comes out they will have a better ranking algorithm but from the look of things google sieems to be the best bet. Yahoo...

Yeah it does that is why it is recomended that you put a 301 redirect at http://daniweb.com to http://www.daniweb.com
Why? You combine your page rank from two sites (daniweb.com and...

Besides yahoo is reluctant to add sites which do not pay them to be placed. Moost of the sites on yahoo are the ones which were added quite a while back.

Well my PR went up to 6 from 4 after this update for one site and for the other it went up to 3 from 0 :)

You cannot use underscore (_) in domains where as a hyphen (-) is allowed but I would not recomend that either as it should be something which members can easily remember. As far as length is...

301 non www traffic to the www side of things, better SEO longterm.
Why? You combine your page rank from two sites (domain.com and www.domain.com (http://www.domain.com/)) into one, ultimatly...

It takes alot of time to get listed on dmoz so that is not really a reliable option and as far as yahoo is concerned its more of money making/ripping machine, they wont list you for free and I have...

PR is not really a true indicator of how popular your site is, I have seen a PR 6 site which has not been updated in over 6 months. When advertising space a more true indicator is the page views,...