Hmmm.....Yes ideally high PR yes, but if you can't then keep ticking over with the PR 2's and 3's - one must remember that a good site who's a PR2 or 3 will one day be a PR 5 or 6

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Apologies - typo!

The best way to get the sites to pick up your site is to make sure that the code is clean and w3c compliant. Yes employ the nofollow where duplicate content exists on tyour site such as any printer...

SDK will help, but what it does is export the contents of the swf file into html which the engines then read. Now the point is that how much content are you going to have in an swf? You might as well...

Good info there....as well as knowing who is actually making a number of searches for a particular keyword, you should reference that against competing pages for that keyword. This way you can try to...

fromthe5 is right - you need to shoot for a lot more than that. The main thing you wanna watch is not linking to any bad neigbourhoods. Think about it, myspace must have had loads of links incoming,...

If I was you I would delete the links folder this company used on your server and start all over again

yes thanks. I am not buying links though. i am going out to offer reciprocals and also writing a lot of articles with those anchors in the resource box

Scenario,

You want to opitmise a site for 10 keywords say.

You choose 2/3 keywords per page and optimise accordingly and therefore have your 'on-page- factors covered.

When addressing the...

Do you mean variations of the keywords in the anchor text for links and articles?

Hi guys

Are there any pulgins available to make the ZEN Cart URLS SEO friendly?

Many thanks

cscgal is right, Google will find your site if it's crawlable, so make sure the html is clean for a start and even a link in your signature in this forum will allow google to initally 'find' you....

Weirrrd! ha ha ha

If you want to do things quickly then you gotta buy or convince a relevant site to give you a one way link cos too many recips aint hot right now...

good luck with the...

Probably the most effective way of getting links is to write articles with a resource box at the end in which you'll include your keywords/name/links/anchor text etc. Submit these articles to...

Very good point, which is why many SEO cats advise that you keep your anchor text varied. For example if you're targeting the keyword 'computer help' and use that as your anchor text in link...

Excellent list! Keep up the good work

Step by step SEO white hat procedures can also be found here (http://www.davidel.com/seo/SEO_MadeEasy_b.pdf).

Keep SEO Alive! :mrgreen:

Webtrends and ClickTracks seem to offer really good software but it costs...

There are some good analytics advice in the seobook attached to my sig...

The SE's have advanced enough not to be fooled by tricks like this nowadays. The goal of the SE's to provide relevant results and have engineered their algorithms thus. So focus on building good...

If you download Good Keywords

http://www.goodkeywords.com/

Then it has a section that gives you a list of misspellings for your chosen keywords - job done!

Yes this is true which is why they say some SEO practices will only work on specific SE's. A take the view that building a quality site with good content, and relevant links will serve you better in...

As it stands for now, Google generates a hell of a lot more traffic than MSN for example so PR is important in that respect at least. Also when exchanging links many people will check the PR of your...

Anchor text on your page canot be abused or it will trigger the spam filters on the SE's. Your keywords can be highlighted to the SE's by bolding them and italisizing them also. MSN seems to lean...

I agree with the article, but to help in choosing a good internet / seo company it helps if you understand the workings of SEO / terminology / practices etc. In this way you dont get a load of hyped...

Not too sure about that:

Read http://www.elixirsystems.com/seo_tips/avoiding-duplicate-content-penalty.php

and...

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=2576

Many people believe...

I would like to add to the previous comments that people are now becoming more and more put off by sites which are not customer focussed but SE focussed. There is an art to getting a good balance and...

Google suggests to webmasters not use more than 100 links per page. Ok, cool, we dont always listen to Google though...However, if you want to exchange links then you'll find most people who are...

The search engines algorithms change periodically, but generally speaking they do differ in the keyword densities they gauge to trigger off thier spam filters. Most people say to stay within about...

Hi there,

You need to be very careful when talking about link farms and cloaking pages as these are now considered black hat SEO - which sounds cool, but isn't a good thing.

Check out the...