It's probably unanimous within the SEO community that a link command on Google is broken. We find that Yahoo reports "better" accuracy with regards to backlink count.

Regarding your question of...

trying to get back into the forums after a long long hiatus...

How to get links you ask? Daniweb member Aaron Wall has a killer guide on his site titled: 101 Link Building Tips (http://www.seobook.com/archives/001792.shtml)

Ah, this is always a hot topic at the conferences.

Think of subdomains as a way to organize your site's structure, rather than as a means to to rank better. Great examples of sites that properly...

This is how I do it. And I rank # 1 on MSN for some of the most lucrative keywords, including "NYC Real Estate".

The trick is to find a high PR site that got busted by Google for selling text...

Daniweb's own famed member Aaron Wall, AKA SEOBook has an AWESOME keyword suggestion tool. It uses overture, google, wordtracker, and other data sources. Since URL dropping is not allowed, I'll let...

There is no set time period / intervals for updates on all three. Generally, every 90 days for TBPR and backlinks. Why would anyone care about about what Google reports on backlinks anyway? Google's...

The world's top SE Consultant, Danny Sullivan of SEW charges $500 / hr. That's the max your should pay. Otherwise, your question is a very tricky one to answer.

Want a first page spot on google? Buy an ad! - D.S.

There is too much focus in the SEO community on the PageRank meter. This entry attempts to clarify some myths and misconceptions regarding the Google Tool Bar PageRank meter.

We know PageRank is...

Manually submitting = old school seo.

I agree with my canadian friend fred.

if you want to cloak some sites that you intend on crashing and burning, give it a try for fun. if you want to cloak your family's business website, you are...

Hard to diagnose without seeing the site. It's odd that Google is not indexing textual content. What about other engines? Is the page/site WC3 compliant?

Laundry lists of keywords are not good page titles.

A good page title should entice users to click on your page when it appears on the SERPs (search engine result pages).

Look at some top...

Our own Daniweb member SEOBook has a highly acclaimed best selling e-book. A very good place to start learning about the subject.

A backlink analyzer using Google would be completely useless imho, for a few main reasons:
1. goog only shows links pointing to a single page, not an entire site
2. goog only updates the links...

aaron wall, member SEOBook has a kick ass collection of free SEO tools
on his website.

Hi Jay,

Welcome to Daniweb. Great post!

What you need to do is build links. Googebot (and the others) finds your site by crawling new links. There are many quality resources for link building...

Dear Newbie,

Ignore the green bar on your google tool bar (which doesn't mean jack sh*t to many experience SEO's) and focus on building the highest quality , most authoritative Vietnam travel site...

I think most people would agree with you. The golden rule: People buy your products or services, and click on your ads - not search engines! In addition to search engines detecting keyword...

Option #1 with sitemap would be best. Although I can't see any potential problems with option #2.

Some of Aaron Wall's Strategies (user SEO Book):1. Think of some software or tool that might be useful to your audience.2. Hire a programmer (off-shore, if cash is tight) to develop it.3. Give it...

You are most likely using outdated techniques for SEO. That was how one would rank on a search engine five years ago! You need to find some updated material and resources. It can be very competitive...

I've seen some interesting results with hyphenated domain names on Google. Not sure how MSN / Yahoo or Ask handles this.

Domain name WidgetA-WidgetB.com has the tendancy to rank better for the...

This is a topic of controvery.

Broad directories are slowly becoming obsolete. Why? Because search is the way most of us find information of the web. The web grows too fast for humans to hand...

Hello,

I feel your frustration. Here are a few suggestions I would try.

1. Use Google Sitemaps, to help Gbot find and index your pages.
2. Create fresh new links. Typically, a drop in page...

Do we really know for certain if the green bar on the toolbar correlates with anything NOWADAYS, even how deep Gbot will spider?

My thoughts on Pagerank as of SES-NYC 2006.
1. the general public does not know the current pagerank formula.
2. the general public does not know if pagerank is still used - many SEO experts say...

What is your link building strategy?

Oh boy. Not this subject again!

The best place to "buy" text links are from relevant sites that are virgin - meaning they don't sell text links are not on the radars of the engines. In other...

This is not really a trick but rather a well known spammy strategy that most likely is a waste of time.

To stray off topic a bit,

Does modifying an H1 tag from its original native form using...

I don't think there is a definitive answer, but 100 is the industry standard. But then again, look at Craigslist, and Wikipedia. Is there anything but links on these sites?

I am reasonably confident that a link from eBay will not give you any PR or anchor text benefit on the major engines.

1. Pick high volume keywords
2. Buy text links. MSN likes sitewides, IMO.
3. Ask your friend avi, since he has many super competitive keywords sitting on top of MSN organic SERPS.

A Google rep advised me the other day at SES-Chicago, that Analytics should resume signups around or after new years. Can't beat the price. Those with privacy concerns - beware.....

That's correct. A link from a page indexed by Google (or any SE) "should" automatically index your site.

You may want to check to see if your domain is "clean". Over and over again I hear at...

an H1 tag modified via CSS should be slighly larger or bolder than less important text in order to get SEO benefit - IMHO

I'm often asked this question. SE expert Danny Sullivan's opinion is consitent with the opinions here - it won't help much, if at all.

this is where the field of SEO copywriting comes to play. My favorite!

should this field exist in the first place? some say no. you write for humans, not for search engines. you'll notice that...

My opinion is no. Crap links should be weeded out by human editors / moderators.