You won't see the links for months, if ever, because Google rarely updates its link count and even then doesn't even display all of them.

As far as getting indexed by Google, have you submitted...

Do a search for free directories. There are thousands of them.

The file extension is irrelevant for SEO. .html does not rank any better then .php.

If it is on your own site you should understand the structure well enough to be able to figure it out. If it is on another site a tool like copyscape can help you find them.

Actually there is no benefit to having a .html extension and query strings (a.k.a. ? in your URL) is just fine and causes no problems.

Google will serve the page they consider to be either the original source or the more important page (most likely determined by PR). Otherwise all other duplicate content , on the original website or...

Why do you say that when Google clearly is filtering out duplicate content and continuing to improve their ability to do so?

Reciprocal links aren't a good strategy regardless of how "natural" you try to make them look. The concept looks the same to a bot and will be disregarded by Google no matter how "natural" they look....

Some categories don't have editors. Others don't have active editors. Some have corrupt editors who keep competitors out by rejecting or ignoring their sites. Basically it is a crap shoot. Just...

It's something that author made up.

It's because public PR updates only every three month or so. You'll have to wait at least three months before you see a PR score in your toolbar.

And link to websites does not get you PR. Links...

Unfortunately you are more creative then most other webmasters. Most sites just use the data for cloning Dmoz. No matter how you look at it, though, being in Dmoz is definitely a positive. (Good luck...

That used to be helpful until Google implemented their duplicate content filters. Overnight those DMOZ clones became worthless. :( Heck, even Google removed the directory from their home page. But...

Assuming you actually get listed in DMOZ, and that is a big if, you may see an improvement in rankings but most likely not. Although a link from DMOZ is more valuable then a link from a regular...

Because newer sites tend to be crawled less frequently then older established sites. If your site is crawled while it is under construction that will be the content they use to rank your pages and...

There really isn't. Although some ad agencies think the information is useful. Hopefully that will change and then everybody can stop caring about it.

The number you see in the toolbar is useless to Google. That isn't the information they use because it isn't current information. It's just for show and nothing else.

The information you see in the toolbar is months old. It does not reflect the current PR of the page and is useless. Google does use PR to rank websites but the data they have it much fresher and ore...

The toolbar PR has been unreliable for years. It's stale data that we get only every three months or longer. It's virtually useless information.

Just install the toolbar and visit your site every day. It takes weeks to see a difference and months to see how high you really can go.

Actually, that's the only way.

Backlinks are part of SEO.

It doesn't affect your rankings at all. The only time anyone uses Alexa is some advertising companies look at Alexa rank when deciding whether to accept an account or not.

That's incorrect. Alexa determines its rank by using the data returned by its spyware. To improve your alexa ranking simply install their toolbar and visit your site everyday. Want it to go higher?...

That's a competitive phrase. You're going to have to work hard to rank number one for that and even then, if you are lucky enough for that to happen, it will takes years of constant work to achieve...

I like how you have tried to turn this conversation into me vs you and yet you never were able to even defend your one point where I pointed out that you encouraged unethical methods when setting up...

How do I know? Have you validated any pages that rank well in Google? Do you know how few pages actually validate correctly? Valid HTML does not indicate meaning of content or quality of content....

I love when people don't listen to the engineers at Google when they tell you something is fact. That worse then believing myths.

That is a horrible reason for believing this. That's like saying...

Actually being on the same IP address doesn't matter. It only comes into play when an unnatural linking scheme comes into play. Even then, cross-linking sites on the same IP is acceptable and does...

1) There is no meta title tag and if you see one it is useless

2) To change the <title> tag on each page just edit the code. If you are using a CMS that doesn't let you change the titles then you...

You also seem to need to learn about PR. PR is not done by website. It is done by web PAGE. So separating the two for pagerank purposes is silly. Actually, the same applies to rankings. Search...

Dude, I quoted your text previously where you flat out claim to block the links so they have no SEO value. Until you can show that it isn't what you are doing how can anyone believe you are honest in...

A niche directory is only about one topic like cars or books will only accept sites with content of that nature. A general directory will accept websites with any kind of content.

By blocking that page in the go folder you essentially block any pages that use that folder to be found by humans and search engines. You're trying to make it look innocent but it isn't. You're...

You obviously need to have your memory refreshed. Here is where you said it:


Try to argue your way out of that now.

Content because without quality content you can't get quality links.

You completely miss the point. You're misleading other webmaster into thinking they are getting a link that has SEO value. By blocking it from the search engines it has none.

Sorry but that won't work. Almost every blog uses nofollow on their comment links so those links have absolutely no SEO value whatsoever. Also, most blog pages have little no no PR and so many links...

It's fraud to the sites you link to. Not the search engines. You are deceiving people into thinking they are getting a link with SEO value when in fact it has none. That is unethical.

Get it?

Building backlinks is a slow process. At first you start with low quality links because that is all you can readily get and they are better then what you have (which is nothing). Those links give you...