I'd have to agree, I haven't seen a whole lot of activity coming from blog directories. However I have done some backlink work on different related sites that involve topics I may discuss. I've also...

I would give the first option a try. It seems like you know your stuff with that and would have the experience you'd need. Good luck!

I've used quantcast before as well, but I didn't really care too much for it. I like analytics, but I really like webclicktracker.com, it gives you tons of information you can use for sales leads and...

From a personal perspective, I see page rank coming from your actual rank in Google. Such as if you google your keywords, how do you come up?

This adds up to lots of content, keyword saturation,...

Addition to #2, When you add keywords into your URL address, it's better SEO if you use dashes in between words, as in "waterjet-cutting-minnesota" instead of waterjetcuttingminnesota, or...

I've found that keywords into your tweets helps significantly in people finding you. Usually if I dropped a note about doing 'waterjet cutting in minnesota', I would sometimes find followers from...

I totally agree with the posts above. Backlinks, article posts, and especially press releases. You need to saturate any relative site you can with your website. It also wouldn't hurt to add some...

Basically google is your best friend, if you google your industry and add directory on the end, its your best bet. You will get some leads as to places where you can add your site. These will be...

Personally I use google analytics along with webclicktracker, semrush.com, seochat.com, sitepronews.com, digitalpoint.com, premierdirectory.org... Those have worked very well for me. I'm curious to...

Naturally. Plus i've always been taught that the white words on a white background (invisible text) is more unethical than illicit. I just think a good discussion topic would be to ask ourselves to...

What are some of the gray areas? I'm just curious.

We use another software as well but ten times is a lot of difference to show in the two. Do you have two GA codes on your site? Sometimes that can throw off data. Otherwise it depends on whatever...

Alexa is a difficult engine to go through because it's primarily based out of dmoz.org which is also incredibly hard to get through, mostly because it's all human-based and it takes up to 3 months...

That is a great point, if you make them interesting enough to watch I suppose.

It can help if you add tags/keywords to it when you first upload it, and also if you write a blurb or short description when you embed it onto your site, that will also increase saturation and...

Search engines do that quarterly it seems, they clean out old links and cache. It likely just happened due to the changing year and everything re-updated again. I'd suggest updating your pages and...

I've never used it, nor have i seen anyone use it. Most of the time i just copy and paste, i haven't seen too much usage of the trackback yet. Maybe it'll be the next craze...

The link being a picture link, do you mean that it's linking to a photo or that you click the photo and it's linked up to another page? If the photo is incredibly large or high-resolution, it will...

I don't think a google toolbar would slow down your connection that much, since it's not really doing too much. It sounds more like general connection issues, are you using wireless? I'm not a whiz...