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I am working on site salttradeindia.com and wanted to know how to improve traffic on site. please review my site and give suggestion............!

I have the following doubts: 1. Whether any Blog Commenting (even related blogs) is taken as spam or not. I read Google Webmaster Central Blog, which says Blog Commenting is taken as spam. Even I have informed in this forum that blog commenting is spam. But my earlier blog comments …

Hi what are the factors i need to take into account if i am to create a successful email marketing newsletter?

what is better: PPC or SEO? What do you think?

many hosts place restrictions on the number of emails that can be sent per minute/hour/day/month. with email marketing still having a place in the overall mix, these restrictions can severely hobble attempts to use subscriber lists etc. Other than using a vps, what other alternatives are there?

We have an affiliate program but now how can we get the affiliate marketers for it as we are already providing 50% commission per sale...any help would be really appreciated....

In case you didn't know - and I'm betting you did - some activists from Iran apparently hacked Twitter during last week so instead of seeing Twitter's home page people saw a poem in Persian (people under 44 might not be aware that Persia was the old name for Iran …

Our website is not getting updated for top searches (when checking from Google Webmasters) though others such as Links to our websites and Crawl Errors are updated on a daily basis. Top Search Queries are getting updated once every 10 days only. I don't know the exact reason why it …

Hey all, i was wondering how sites such as ebay, amazon and hotscripts allow users to add downloadable products to their site and if there are any shopping carts out there that have this functionability. I have my own site and databases, i dont want to host anything on an …

Some or all of the following techniques may be employed to promote your Blog. Blogs need exposure and readers, and having a good readership and good search engine rankings can monetize your web presence. If your Blog rockets in success, you could make your living as a career Blogger. Following …

Believe it or not, many visitors to YouTube or Myspace are actually tapping those sites to listen music. Yup, rather than going to Pandora or buying the song on iTunes, visitors are using YouTube as a music radio stop. I know I sometimes do it while I know some co-workers …

Influence Marketing. I just read on this post - [url]http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/157376[/url] that said that Social Media Marketing is not really capturing the true meaning and power of user generated content. So what do you think?

Just yesterday, Google announced that they will display [URL="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/personalized-search-for-everyone.html"]personalized search results[/URL] based on usage - regardless if you are signed in or not. So this means that they now track the search activity of All 'enabled' (by default) users and display customized search results. They are tracking 'signed-out' users via …

Sometimes, I search some business to business site,then register for my website.But the number isn't very large,my website is about toy,furry toy,plush toy.I wish get many valuable information from everybody.

Okay so I am trying a stradegy someone posted on here about starting a site and then adding 100 or so pages at the rate of 1 per day. It is been 5 days and 5 pages later and googlebot has not looked at my site. The old site is …

How important are keywords/description meta tags today (as opposed to in previous years)? I understand that Google doesn't utilize them anymore. Do other search engines?

[B]Is rss feed very important in SEO? Is this applicable for blog only or website also? How can add into website?[/B]

[B]Link Popularity[/B] [B]Intro[/B] Guide to link popularity and how it affects your search engine rankings. Link popularity refers to the number of links pointing to and from related sites and is an extremely important method of improving your site's relevancy in search engines. Use this free link popularity checker <http://www.link-popularity-checker.com> …

I just read an article about blogging and SEO efforts and the main thrust of the article was that businesses that encourage their employees to blog would be well-served if they encouraged the use of important keywords throughout the blog entries. So a keyword-rich blog entry will help the organic …

All seo's have their secrets on how they optimized and get rank their keywords. Here's some of my tips: Most of the time internal linking creates a big problem, If you have too many links for your site, the spider will quit indexing your site before actually it is finished. …

If I were to set up a signature in a forum completely unrelated to my website will it actually benefit me? I have an odds comparison website and am struggling to find suitable forums to get appropriate backlinks from.

I am trying to maximize the SEO benefits to my clients corporate site that come from being linked to the blogs they have set up and I was wondering if there is anything I can do to squeeze some SEO benefits from the RSS feeds on the blogs? Is this …

Back even a few years ago, people sent christmas cards. Now, including me, I have sent an e-card, happy text, or left a holiday greeting on social media communities. So what do you think? Are you a modern day happy holiday wisher or a traditionalist? Do you think that modern …

A Filipino SEO Community invited all the SEO experts anywhere in the world to join in a SEO Contest in the Philippines..The language is Filipino but you can use google translate to translate it... visit and ask on the forum for more info. www palarongseo com

Hey guys I am very much confused with one site. It is of 12000 Page website similar to B2B portal. I want to know how to optimize such website and how to build links to get higher rank??

If you only had time to do one which one do you think would be the most productive? We ar eabout to hit our bust season for sales to may need to priorotise here, and any tips on how to rank in the top three for googlebase would be most …

hi, i am working in a SEO project . and monitor my competitor website backlinks every day. i am using linkdomain:sitedomain -site:sitedomain in Yahoo! to find backlink count. i was about 9,000 link yesterday but today is 22,700 . (all are for my competitor) i am really shocked with this …

As I am trying to determine what is the best percentage to spend time and funding, I would like to know from your experiences, how do your appropriate effort and resources to SEO and SEM. Which one do you consider more important?

how worthy are shortened links from a SEO point of view? Should I avoid shortening links whenever possible?

With Targ8.com you can now customize your search engine. You can select google, bing, yahoo, ask etc for your web search, but also have a different favourite for your images, video, audio, maps site. Its like a search engine mash-up to your own needs or like creating your own search …

I came across an [URL="http://dailyme.com/story/2009121300001020/technology-narrowing-broadening-experiences.html"]interesting post[/URL] today by the Kansas City Star's Eric Adler suggesting that technology is robbing us of serendipity, those playful moments of spontaneous discovery. For example, he wonders when the last time a young person went into a library or book store and just found a …

I mainly write original articles to boost my site's SEO ranking. What's your single most used SEO technique?

I have still this question? Can anyone tell for sure that submission to many directory have increased web SERP ??? or web Rank?? or both??? In few words... the directory market is real ? Any example to quote?

Almost every business I know either wants to create a Facebook Fan Page or has one. So I read on Social Media Today the following stats: # 95% of pages have more than 10 fans # 65% of pages have more than 100 fans # 23% of pages have more …

Does anyone have any experience/insights into the Linkedin DirectAds program? I have a client who thinks they might want to try it as an alternative to adwords in google. Any help would be appreciated.

What is link bait and how to do it?

For those who advertise on Facebook, has it worked for your business or has it helped bring higher sales/conversion?

Hi, This is my first post here. I have an ecommerce site that's actually on a Wordpress platform. It's my first foray into ecommerce so I'm starting small. I'd like to try PPC for it but my history with PPC is spotty. I've done a few campaigns but feel like …

I just read on a blog about Web 3. 0 - collective intelligence and how twitter helped expedite this. But dont you consider Twitter to be part of Web 2.0. Then what would you consider Web 3.0 then? I remember reading on wiki that web 3.0 was semantic driven. Then …

Submit comments on blog is good for SEO I heard many webmasters saying that submitting comments on blogs is good for SEO. They said because each blog will give us one unique link back (of course if our comments get approved). They also said that instead of putting our names …

what does unique external link in this paragraph mean? and how is it obtained? from linkdomain:sitedomain -site:sitedomain in Yahoo!? please pay attension on UNIQUE word,i know meaning of external link but this unique ??!!! i mean if i have 4 external links from daniweb.com to my site,these 4 ones calculate …

Chances are that newly built website never recieve search traffic. This is because Google & other search engine normally index new website as from 6 months upwards. But, there is an alternative way to make google index your site within 2 weeks instead of 6 months so that you start …

Hi can anyone recommend a good email newsletter service I was thinking of using Constant Contact or Mail Chimp. Can anyone suggest a good service and the factors i should consider when making a selection. I look forward to hearing from you Regards Pete

Hello, We've recently developed a PHP library for access to AdWords API. It's a middle-tier tool that helps developers code quickly and interact easily with the AdWords API. It may be very useful in programmers work, but hardly understood by others. We're closely watching the online market to find a …

Hi There, Can you tell me how to check the updated algorithm of Google. How to update our site according to Google algorithm. Thank you

As social media gains more popularity and frequent use, many news outbreaks have started on twitter or other forms of social media just to be validated by established more expensive media. So with this issue becoming more commonplace, do you think that one day, there will be no more established …

Hundreds of backlinks in yahoo/bing....... 3/4 link in google...... just crazy... Here is not matter of policy or privacy or secrets.... links are there... therefore must be shown. Not only ... for some keywords and search my website is number 3 or 4 in yahoo/bing ......... then for the same …

Hi all, newbie question here... Is there a simple solution to rewrite my urls with capital letters to all lowercase? i.e. [url]www.url.com/Test.html[/url] to [url]www.url.com/test.html[/url] I'm building a directory and the url's are rewritten but keep the uppercase letters right now. I would like to change that to all lowercase. can …

I am in the process of creating one Hub Page (with plans to create more no. of hub pages). Whether the content in the hub pages and the articles be the same topic and contents. Moreover, whether I can create the same squidoo lens as that of hub pages. If …

Hello all, I am planning to launch a local news website which will be updated atleast 5 times a day. I am not sure @ estimating revenue at the end of one year. Is it possible to tell how the Google Adsense revenue is related to no. of visits like …