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[QUOTE]What SEO Clients want?[/QUOTE] Easy answer: More business from their web site.

[QUOTE]I want Email IDs Collection to promote my website[/QUOTE] Mass mailing to email recipients that have no knowledge of you and aren't expecting your email is called SPAM.

I try for 10 a day and I feel that I'm still way under the radar. [QUOTE]your links will only have impact and therefore PR if the links have relevancy. [/QUOTE] Mr. Backup can you define what you mean by "relevancy" there? [QUOTE]Also many directories are PR 0 - so …

You can trade links, you can get non-reciprocal links and you can buy links. The first two don't cost you anything but your time. The quick and easy way is to buy them. This is generally done on a monthly basis, although apparently there are some operations that will sell …

It depends on what you want to accomplish. If it's general directories you want to have submitted to there are a few good trustworthy companies with good lists. For niche directories I would rather find and submit them myself.

rufryder, It seems that you have a PR2 as of the last update with 16 IBLs showing in Google. [QUOTE]Using metatags as suggested by amd_sucks have not worked since the 90's.[/QUOTE] Although the major search engines don't give much, if any, creedence to the keyword metatag, the description metatag does …

[QUOTE]It does not show the backlinks below PR4. [/QUOTE] Funny thing is I can check backlinks in GWT for any amount of the sites I work with and find all kinds of backlinks below PR4. I've seen that statement before and it's no more true now than it ever was. …

Just another copy and paste post first seen over a year ago on the web. I guess the word "plagiarism" doesn't register with some people.

[QUOTE]I have a website that is only very small ( 4 pages ) and there isn't that much text on each page so I suppose SEO wouldn't be very effective with this website.[/QUOTE] Not true. An adequate number of targeted text links from other domains will allow you to gain …

The simple answer is: PR is calculated on a page by page basis dependent only on the cumulative effect of the total amount of PR passed to that page by the links pointing to it. The PR shown by the tool bar (fool bar) is only an estimation and not …

[QUOTE]why on earth would you make a list of your high value keywords public[/QUOTE] It doesn't take an intelligence level much above idiot to determine what the major keywords are just by viewing any site. There are search engines that still utilize the keywords meta tag to help them discern …

[QUOTE]Your own links are more powerful, predictable and credible than ones deriving from external sources.[/QUOTE] I'm afraid that I'll have to disagree with this one. Links from other domains are like a "vote" of confidence for your site. If you're trying to rank for very competitive terms you will likely …

I for one applaud the new deal. I also see it as a good move for both Yahoo and MSN. Over the last few weeks Bing has been providing lots more traffic than Yahoo for all the sites I monitor. It's a great search engine. It will level the playing …

It would be helpful to a certain extent to have your major keyword phrase be in the domain name. That falls under my motto "every possible advantage".

Sooner or later Google will figure out that you have duplicate sites and make an arbitrary decision on which one to allow. To keep control of the situation just 301 the old domain to the new one and you should retain the value of the links pointing to the old …

I believe WP templates come now with "no-follow" as default. Just make sure you disable the no-follow setting so you get some credit from the links.

Good find DansMuayThaiMMA. [QUOTE]But it has a PR , i checked it right now.[/QUOTE] Worry less about PR and make sure you use targeted link text. As DansMuayThaiMMA has stated, it has it's own backlinks so it will be spidered often, which means that your link will be found sooner.

[QUOTE]What is your article about?[/QUOTE] After checking copyscape I see its about copy and paste.

If you're going to re-launch the brand you should really have a website to back it up. That way you can optimize for the terms that people will remember and relate to. Social networking media can provide tons of traffic but it is true that it skews younger.

[QUOTE]The older the domain name is, the more favorable a website tends to rank with search engines[/QUOTE] Total hogwash. Domain age has nothing to do with how well you rank. The reason that older domains rank higher for certain keyword phrases is that they have had more time to accumulate …

I look at buying text links this way. If your site is a PR5 and you want it to be a PR6, you'll need a very impressive bunch of PR4 and PR5 links to get there. You might, however, be able to do it by adding a PR7. PR6s and …

I don't know a heck of a lot about PHP, but enough to get by usually. This one has me stumped. [url]http://www.signwire.com/dimensional-letters/metal/signage.php[/url] is showing up as a live page on five unrelated computers. The problem is that the page does not exist on the server, at least not in the …

I only use the target="blank" when I am linking to another site. That way the prospect doesn't leave your site. I hate it when I'm on a site and every page opens to a new browser. By the time I'm done I have tons of browsers open.

Actually 20 links in 3 to 6 months is flying WAY under the radar. At that rate it would take you 250 years to get to 10,000, and in todays arena that's really still not very many. I guarantee my clients that I will get them a minimum of 50 …

I agree with Stymiee. This sort of thing happens occasionally. One of my client's sites has done this twice in the last few months. The listings were all back again in a few days. If it lasts longer than a week you might have reason for concern.

It's true that Google's guidlines refer to this, however I'm not too sure that this is the case here. Have your rankings been gone for more than a week? It might be just one of the usual glitches. If it was a sure thing to get your rankings devastated by …

I might add that if the site has already been up for a while, and you change it over to something that the spiders can get into, you might very well end up in the so called "sandbox" for up to a year, which will severly restrict the rankings of …

I agree completely that you should build your site for people first. The trick is to work within that framework and still get the SEO job done. In this case I would suggest that because most searchers aren't going to travel a great distance to get their dog trained, that …

I would suggest that you take a look at: [url]http://info.vilesilencer.com/main.php?rock=seo-friendly-list.php[/url] IMO this is a quality list of non-reciprocal directories which is updated regularly.

Spiders follow links. As long as there is a crawled link to you page, be it internal if you've already been spidered, or external, the spider will get there. Now there's nothing wrong with getting an external link to a specific page either. That might get your page crawled quicker …

There's quite a debate about this currently going on. I'm aware of one SEO forum that did it and they quickly lost most of their heavy hitters. I don't think they left because they didn't want to lose the links. I think it was more that they didn't agree with …

I have heard that it's somewhere around 100 but I won't chisel that in stone. In terms of link exchanges I will only put 25 to 30 on a page. And I won't trade with a site that uses more. The PR that passes will be pretty diluted at more …

First you should realize (if you don't already) the it's each page that is ranked, not the whole site. One of the risks that you run in making tons of pages attempt to rank for the same keywords is a duplicate page penalty. Also you should consider that in addition …

You also have to remember that the PR of the page that is linking to you is divided by the total amount of links on that page. So it's possible to get more PR value from a page with a lower PR and fewer links than from a page with …

Ummmm... I don't want to get into the whole post, but there's a BIG diference between link farms and quality link exchanges. For now let's just say "link farms" are bad. Quality, relevant link exchanges are good. Cloaking can be successful but if you're caught your site will usually be …

Hi all. I am a webmaster and avid golfer. I live in Cincinnati, Ohio. This looks like a pleasant forum. Knowledge is to be, among other things, both aquired and shared. Perhaps I can do a little of both. :)

Avalon, Without knowing the URLs of your sites and the keyword phrases you are going for it's hard to see what your situation is. PM me with the URLs and I'll take a look. As far as placing articles on other pages, there should be no problem with that at …

Hmmmmm.. yes. Semantics. Scientific American says: [I]By augmenting Web pages with data targeted at computers and by adding documents solely for computers, we will transform the Web into the Semantic Web[/I]. The situation here is such that you're not optimizing your pages for computers. You're making web pages for people. …

I haven't heard of them. Is the $49 a one time fee or a monthly fee? Are the sites you will be listed on crawled by the major search engines? Are they crawlable at all? Is the the PR of the pages you would be on decent? Can you vary …

Hi cscgal. I use marketleap.com. It's quick and easy and you can check up to five sites at a time and it returns results for all the major search engines. It will also give you the page saturation for your sites for all the major engines.

Actually, according to Matt Cutts blog, this update "Jagger", will be done in three steps over the next couple weeks. I wouldn't worry too much about fluctuations till things settle down.