Too many people focus on PageRank - what you should really be focusing on is sales and conversions.

I've seen for myself traffic go down when PR went up, and traffic go up when PR went down.
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Long time no see, too. :)

And I figured that's what you were getting at - SEO for SEO's sake - but I have to admit that not only are the search engines getting better at access meaning in a page...

Have to disagree with you there, sorry. :)

SEO was born from accessibility issues precisely because search engines did not reward websites for being good to users - they rewarded sites for being...

There was actually another backlink update a few days ago, but the general report is that the backlinks are all screwy. Personally I'm not bothered - I'm personally about to uninstall the Google...

Google toolbar has a "block/allow popups" feature. So you can toggle between them as required, or whatever as whenever. :)

Heh, PR is not so big an issue as visitor numbers and adsense clickthrus. :)

Anyway, as a thanks for setting up the mod_rewrite tutorial for vB3 I'll send some links your way. Anchot-text rich...

www.wordtracker.com will give results for certain search engines. However, the figures you end up with are to be taken acording to their relative, rather than absolute values.

Meaning that if...

Sounds great - give me a heads up when you put it online, and then tell me what your preferred keywords are and I'll add daniweb to my list for link-building. :)

I'll also see about writing up a...

I don't believe I've ever seen the weighting of links publicly tested on this - but I've always taken it as given that if you have 10 links on Page A, and 5 links are to Page B, then PAge B would...

LOL! My bad, yes - it's Standford that own the PageRank alog, and Google lease the rights to use it from them. Standsted, of course, is an airport here in England. :)

I thought something didn't...

Nice to be here. :)

I don't think that Google ever really comprehended how to deal with it's success - but I suspect that downplaying PR in the rankings isn't just a way to negate Standford...

Google position on selling PR is pretty remarkable - considering that Google have effectively told the webmastering world that their websites have been assigned an arbitrary and very public value -...

PR has certainly been a marketing score for Google, but as mentioned after the Florida update, Google may well be tryig to wean themselves off it for ranking purposes - Stansted Uni actually holds...

In short, if you are using different anchor text in the link, then it is actually a good idea, if you are targeting that anchor text as part of your keywords.

PR itself - wet raspberry to that....

The problem is that you are playing Russian Roulette with the duplicate content filters - best to use a 301 redirect on 2 of the domain names, or simply park them on the other domain.

Use of keyworded titles is definitely a good idea - but be very careful not to contrive the titles too much, as you need the human users to be able to navigate fine.

Ultimately, a lot of traffic...

PR is interesting, but I wouldn't at all give it the repsect it used to have. I just lost PR 6 to 5 on a couple of my big sites - yet their rankings for primary keywords is up and so is traffic by...

Meta-tags are not of great concern nowadays for SEO purposes. HOWEVER, on saying that, there is still some real value to their use for Inktomi-based systems, such as MSN and Yahoo.

If you want to...

vBulletin3 is exceptionally good for SEO purposes. Good choice, cscgal. :)

Google doesn't give meta-tags any weight in themselves. Proof:

http://www.seo-lab.com/seo-lab-tests/meta-tags/

HOWEVER, that doesn't mean to say that Google doesn't reference meta-tags for...