at this stage the web is a battle with yourself... you need to Just Do It and wait for the income to come to you... just don't stop moving forward and income will catch up

get a site map on Google Webmaster Central and keep adding new pages... you need to get others to see your site and link to it.... forums, blogs, article submission sites and becoming a writer for...

forget about them and just concentrate on what you are doing... solid content and good site usability will win out... build links... post on blogs and article sites to promote your brand and site......

backlinks through getting referenced in other blogs is always good... write with solid headline and good content and people will find you... or post at Digg or Sphinn and have others reference you......

also the naming convention of the categories of the threads will help... just make sure they default as the title

work the words in but repeat them throughout the article as appropriate.. also using headings with some of them in it would also be a big help

Get in bound links in various ways... write somne copy for other sites.... add a blog that gets subscribers...

there are small engines etc. that use them so the added time will pay off... just don't think it makes a huge difference... I usually just duplicate the title tag... three phrases per

It may have started out as that when Larry Page (his name not a page is referenced in PageRank) first rolled it out... but now it is next to useless and has some many filters on it that ir really...

link software is good for seeing where your competitors are getting links... so you can add the ones you do not have

Forget about PR - it is overrated... are you in the blog directories? try http://blogs.botw.org/

and do a search for more... also have you submitted to the blog aggregators like feedster etc?

Good blog posts can be submitted to digg and the other social media and get you traffic that way... as well as links etc.

eric ... agree certain spits are not advertising but links should be seen as such... since Google drops givers of PR merely because tey are sponsored links

Try looking for the forums... if your niche is not there start one

does not work on myspace but you can include your own adsense code and banner ads

http://www.google.com/webmasters/start/#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-google&utm_medium=ha&utm_term=page%20rank

is a great starting point.... get the basic on page stuff covered a read...

I had heard there was one coming in february - pr update... but only rumor at this stage but link count will impact numbers in some cases.... the geometric nature of pr makes numbers high to see...

lol..... branding is seprate from ranking.... you can always have the branded domain as a standalone or even have it redirect to the other

such a good informative poster....

that used to be the case and the branding thing is still true but look at Google search results... the domain name as a keyword gets a lot of play these days

the page names can cover a lot of that.... as well as strategic subdirectories

Google Webmaster Tools is good.... also many people in Supplemental are using the same description for every page and in many cases the same title tags.... make sure each is unique... also do not...

If you are regional make sure you add pages for the names of the towns - in the title, description and page content.