Here's a good site on it:
http://www.accuracast.com/seo-weekly/ranking-factors.php

For the majority of cases, yes. I mean, you can get lucky and have people naturally link to you via good content. But, who's that lucky and how will they even be seen so fast? So SEO is it :P.

Algorithms of the search engines constantly change. Therefore, placement may be affected. It is best to keep working on it to improve the ranking again.

Onpage has to do with internal link structure, keyword placement, keyword diversity, latent semantic indexing, etc. etc.

Inbound links trump on-site factors. Many pages are known to rank high for keywords that aren't even on their page just because of inbound links.

There is a lot to learn about SEO.
I would suggest to look around the forums in a specific area of SEO that you are inquiring.
Good luck!

Good advice on alt tags.
:)

I notice they aren't crawling as much this much. I guess like always we are forced to wait.

That is awfully hard to do.
Even Microsoft is having its troubles against Google.

Focus on content.
In the end that will win since that gains natural links.

Offpage optimization is about building links and relationships.

So far Google is the leader in the search engine market.

Build more backlinks over time.
Good luck!

Read lots of forums and articles on SEO.
Good luck!

Unless those sites are bad ones (porn, drugs, etc.), it won't be a problem.
Only thing is if you do it too much, then it might be.

Best to read as much as you can.
Forums, books, articles, and the like.

I would focus most of your links towards the page you want people to visit (i.e. homepage). Then do the rest on your inner pages, just to make it look natural.

Thanks for the detailed post.
It is probably easier to obtain quantity links as opposed to quality.
Even though the former requires a lot more work, the latter isn't exactly easy to achieve.

The search engines are very sensitive when it comes to new content. A few minor changes can change everything as far as rankings go.. which kinda sucks.

Ah I see most say it's around 2-6%.
Seems to make sense.

Be careful with article submission. I read that search engines only count the first article out of the same one you submitted. That would apply to duplicate content, if your article was the same. So,...

Oh, ok. I mean't if the site is rel=follow or rel=nofollow for search engines spidering the links. Thanks!

Hello all. I read on the web that this forum website was a follow site (towards links) back in 2004. Then I read it is nofollow in 2006. So I am confused. Which one would it be? Thanks for the input.

Focus on content and links!

Sign up for a Google account, and click under Webmaster Tools. Verify your site, and check the Overview section. Google will notify you if your site is indexed. For the other search engines, using...

Probably do a google search on that..heh.

Can't go wrong with Google!

Search engines take quite some time to index all of your pages. The biggest factor, so far according to consensus, is inbound links. This is the "recommendation" your site needs. Also, update the...

DMOZ is one of the most important directories according to what I hear.

DMOZ is of the most important for directory listings I hear.

Your page does have a ton of links. It may be wise to just have a navigation bar left, which you do and have those as sub directories. If all else fails, I'd email Google.

I wouldn't go for too many, 5-10 since you don't want to get accidentally penalized. I read Google doesn't look at meta tags but other search engines might. Everything in moderation shouldn't be of...

Since they change their algorithms constantly, sometimes links won't show or count, I assume. For instance, I read they like links from PR4 or higher. Also, if you posted on forums, blog comments,...

Those perks are usually for the big gorilla sites. I would think those sites are there for 5-10 years and have excellent rankings/PR. Won't stop us from trying too, eh ;).

The algorithms constantly change. But, what seems to always stay static for SEO is page content, links, keywords, and a search engine friendly site. Wouldn't worry too much about external factors.

Here's a good site that gives an in-depth explanation on duplicate content:

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/013057.html

What I've read, though, is just focus on inbound links, since that...

I read somewhere that a disadvantage may be to do with polysemous and matrix formulation. Otherwise, if it is the main adaption it should be more advantageous.

Aren't robot files bad for tracking purposes, like a no follow? I guess I'm new to this kind of discussion..lol.

Having a good SEO team would be nice, I'm sure there are lots out there, but why not do it yourself for free? The web has so much information on SEO. Do a lot of reading, and aggregate it. The...

Yes, waiting a few days to a week or so would be a good idea. There are websites that can check PR too.