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....

Here's my opinion - make of it whatever you want:

I can understand setting up google adsense so that you can earn revenues, but putting it on the homepage front and center, and putting the google...

I like it. Looks like a standard forum set up, and seems easy to understand and has a nice feel to it in my humble opinion.

My personal feedback here: When I went to the site, it wasn't immediately clear to me what your business does. There is no 'welcome mat' at the top of the homepage. I scrolled down and saw the big...

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. ...

Thanks for the input everyone! I think I'm going to stick with the blue for now, but will try red next week, and then back again, because the answer will be in the performance. I'll just test it...

I like that iwebtool.com link. It processes my requests so quickly. I keep struggling to find one that fast like that, thanks for the post!

I went to socengine.com, and fyi it is not accepting new registrations anymore. Missed my chance on that one.

Go to this page for instructions: http://base.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=58083&hl=en

Do you already have a file with your raw product data? If so, it's just a matter of manipulating...

$3? Dang, wouldn't even cover my sourdough jack from jack-in-the-box. Let's get serious here...

I don't know of any free softwares for it, but the instructions are available from both, so it shouldn't cost you anything to format your data the way they specify and just upload it. Are you having...

I run an ecommerce website that sells auto parts. I'd like to know if anyone has any strong feelings about which color schemes are good to use. I've heard that sometimes if a website has certain...

Unfortunately I'm more marketing and SEO as opposed to techie. I wouldn't call it a mess at all, just something that you might consider to improve the site.

I like the concept of your site, where a business can use it as a listing in a directory and then use that as their own business webpage. I think the name of your site lends itself to that concept...

I like the look of it. It may be to your advantage to have a homepage that is not the actual main forum index. That way you can have a clear explanation of what the purpose of the website is, and...

I just tried to check it out, and the website was down fyi.

I have to agree: the look doesn't hit me quite right. The main category buttons at the top stand out, which is great, but the look of them is not clean. When I look at the site, I don't envision...

I think the layout is clean and it's easy to use. There are not many products though. It may be to your advantage not only in terms of customer retention but in terms of SEO to sell more products...

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...

cscgal - that's interesting, because this website ha a phenomenal page rank. I assumed you went out and "gained" incoming links in social networking sites like Facebook. What have been the main...

Wow, that is helpful. I didn't know the directly link was possible. Thanks for the insight!

I have the same feeling as the others here: 1 month is nothing. It takes time, and constant link-building to grow traffic. You don't just flip a switch and overnight you are balling out of...

Basically the way that search engines will know you exist is if there are links to your website. So make there are links to your website, and then your site will be indexed in search engines. For...

I am starting a new forum, and am using vBulletin software. In the automotive community at least, it is probably the most widely-used forum software. You can get more information from their...

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...

Obviously the world is changing every day, and programmers of course affect that. Can a programmer end the world I Robot style? I don't think so partner.

Swenson's based out of san francisco. Lemon Custard ice cream baby!

Yeah I'm in San Francisco bay area of California, and house in a nice neighborhood is $850,000-950,000, house in 'bad' neighborhood is $549,000. Hey you know the reason you should move to the US: ...

I finally arrived. Looking forward to getting to know you all.