JonathanD - to be clear, the signature links are nofollows, but the general profile website link is one that is able to be seen by search engines, right?

Oh duh....

From my experience, it is normally not very effective to have a lot of different keywords for any one webpage. Each webpage should have a single theme in order for it to get love from search...

Jaime I noticed that you don't take advantage of your signature area for your posts here (where you could have a link to your blog), and that you don't even link to your blog in your profile page. ...

I disagree about the advertising comment if you mean paid advertising like Adwords or banner ads. This does not always impact page rank, although it might bring you traffic.

If darsh999 means...

Are you saying that google.fr for example filters out .nl extensions, etc, from its results, so that only .fr results show up?

Yeah good point, just curious if the extra juice effect was possible or not. I've seen a couple pages do it, trying to find out if anyone here knows about it.

I just checked on google for an updated link:domainname count, and mine changed. I checked some competitors, whose counts have also changed. Not sure if they're about to do any meaningful updates,...

Yeah I actually like to look at my Yahoo backlinks count to see a more accurate count of all my backlinks. Google either doesn't show all of them thru their basic link: function, or they are very...

Pagerank is simply a measure of the quantity of backlinks going to your webpage, with each link weighted according to its own pagerank. Your website pagerank matters because it is a factor, along...

I was about to embark upon a major myspace effort recently. The goal, of course: create a myspace page representing my business, then going out and networking in the community (getting friends...

I am in the same boat, although not as extreme. For me, I simply can't seem to rank well in Yahoo, so that explains it for me. Do you come up with the same organic rankings for your main keyword...

I think the extension matters little if at all. I've experimented over the past 7 years with using domain names ending in .com, .biz, .net, and .org, and certainly my experience is that there is no...