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I do believe it will affect SEO. However, if the new links contain relevant words to the content of your page, it may actually strengthen PageRank.

I think you can if you set it up on Google Analytics to track particular goals and one goal is that visitors visit the pay with the paypal or that they leave the page.

It all depends on many factors. First: the frequency of the crawlers. Second: how often you add content to your site. I strongly recommend you to insert new content in the next few days. Third, your site is new so Google does penalize new sites by not showing it up …

If its a new site, it will take your site a few months or weeks for the site to be crawled but dont worry - the more content you have and the more you follow SEO white hat tips, the more likely your site will appear. [url]http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35291[/url]

Page Rank is important but it is not the only relevant factor affecting SERP on Google. Check this one out - [url]http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35291[/url]

[QUOTE=jay 11;1248410]Again, the amount of traffic you get from Social networks depends mostly on the quality of content. It has very little to do with frequency. If you are submitting crappy articles or information, you can expect a crappy response.[/QUOTE] Very true. Remember that one of the factors behind social …

Very important - the inbound links must be related to the context/content of the particular page without your site so it can carry more SEO juice.

In order to target niche groups, I recommend you to conduct a keyword analysis research to predict the keywords your target audience would use to look up information that pertains to your site. This way, your site can feature relevant content using these keywords and such page will appear on …

Some forums do not allow for signatures - and you jeopardize your membership if you get caught, even once, with a spammy signature. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. Do keep that in mind.

Hi Im a little confused. So you want to create an account to have PPC ads on your site or do you want to have a PPC campaign?

Good question - I strongly advise you to get just 3/4 books - 1. Web Analytics - Jim Sterne 2. KPIs and any other book by Eric Peterson 3. Web Analytics one hour a day by Avinash Also go to blogs like webmetricsguru.com and if you are in NYC, join …

You have to start thinking of constantly re-optimizing your site's SEO in a consistent manner so the new content on your site is reflected on your site's SEO.

It depends on what is the purpose of the PPC campaign - is it to increase awareness or increase sales? Therefore this goal will influence the type of words/copy you will see with the PPC display ad.

If you want to use Adsense, I recommend you to use WordPress instead. I have had blogs on both sites and I found it easier on WP. Also you can customize it more on WP.

Those sites must be targeting a niche market because I never heard of them. But dont disregard these sites as it provides an opportunity to network and increase awareness of your product/site.

Did you search on mashable.com? There are great resources there.

I personally dont even check my Buzz. I dont have time. Thank goodness buzz alerts dont come into your mobile.

This shows that emails are and will be used as legal evidence if it is deemed threatening in one way or another. Yes, there is freedom of speech but in this age where the US has a CIO and all of our data is recorded, we got to think twice …

To be honest, when I see a such pixels, I think it looks really cool but I personally wont click to it. I do wonder what is the click through rate. It must be lower than average PPC on Google Adsense, especially if its from a non-popular site.

I also recommend attending social media/internet marketing events and talking to SEO professionals there and get a feel if this is the right expert for you. You also need to work with someone you can work along with and mostly understands your site's and business needs. Remember SEO is an …

Good question. I think it started coded by hand when it was first created. Dont know now.

I personally have not used Autoresponders because you have to make sure it does not come from an ISP that is blacklisted.

I never even used Bebo. AOL was at its heights years ago and now they are trimming staff, acquisitions, and I hope it is not a sign that they will be trimming its services. I still use AOL at times. AOL was good in bringing people together.

I totally agree with Jay. I also would like to add you should consider optimizing the site at least every 6 weeks to 3 months if you dont see the results you want to. You need to optimize content on your site to reflect the keywords your visitor will use …

This is my advice: 1. Follow Google's Best Practice for SEO 2. Tag all the pictures on your site so it can be searchable 3. Make sure none of your content is copied from any other websites 4. Dont practice any Gray or Black Hat SEO tactics. 5. If its …

I still think that no follow are valuable - read this: [url]http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/050118-204728[/url]

Wordpress has lots of great plugins that will optimize the blog experience.

From a usability aspect, pick the one that you have some flexibility to redirect visitors to a page you can convert them.

The site did promise traffic - but the type of traffic is another question. Another important question to potential vendors is: "Does it help drive targeted traffic to the site?"

From my understanding, a blog roll is composed with the original post and any comments/threads after that post.

Robots and spiders visit your site if they pick up new content. So start writing more on your blog and optimize on keywords that you think are related to the theme of your blog and that you think will convert visitors to: 1. spend time on your blog 2. convert …

As Im preparing my business plan, I notice that there is a section for market research. Thus, if you are testing a new online business - how do you obtain consumer insights? How do you recruit them? Please advise.

Unfortunately, the spammers know that some people will click. Even with a CTR of 3% which is industry norm for links in emails, it is still about 1500. This is significant.

Another reason can be if your site uses any Black Hat SEO. You have to make sure your site does not use any which affects why Google is not indexing your pages.

Make sure that the subscribe box is prominently advertised on your site. I could not find it. Also, add some other subscription options. I hope this helps.

This is really good. I have personally researched into survey monkey and recruiting survey takers via craiglist. If the site you mention is true, then it is worth it.

From my understanding and please correct me if Im wrong, but the Google Sandbox is also for sites that have done Black hat SEO and are penalized so these sites dont appear on SERPS.

No. Impressions does not mean click on the advertisement. There are three terms you should know for PPC. 1. Impressions - the number of times your term/ad was served/visible to the audience. That is it. Popular terms will have a higher visibility than others. 2. Clicks - when a viewer …

It all depends on your site's goal and the campaign goal. I personally vote for PPC since it may be cheaper than pay per view. Also, will your ad be text or video related since video model is usually pay per view like VideoEgg.

Well my dear, thanks for the free advertising but I wonder what is the CTR rate? Conversion is what matters.

Remember if you are outsourcing the code, it is good to have a code auditor to ensure that the codes are working. The worst scenario is to have a site where visitors come and they are turned off by them unable to load properly.

I remember last year this time, businesses were clamoring over Twitter. I dont hear that much hype about Twitter nor do I see the twitter name on ads. So do you think newcomers influenced the success of Twitter?

Thank you for sharing your post - very insightful. The saying "Bigger and Better" seems to suit well for social media.

I have used reciprocal links in the past and I have not seen much lift in traffic. You have to think why do you want to use this approach.

PPC campaigns require constant optimization to ensure you dont run out of campaign money with little results. :-(

BP is just trying to save face and most important, retain the value of its company in this dire situation. It has been over a month and improvements have not been evident. The worst is that the environment of not-so near states have not been affected. BP is leveraging any …

Thanks for sharing this. It does have very obvious conversion methods - kudos for that.

This is a great post because it touches on certain issues that are over looked in today's "Let's push the Numbers" mode. First, the data is only relevant for the represented sample. This reminds me the days when clinical trial results were advertised on commercials denoting safety and efficacy, mind …

Yes and your type of site needs: 1. Constant buzz 2. Needs to create some value that readers feel compelled to come back and convert 3. You need to link up with other local/community groups and promote your site - both offline and online

You need to: 1. Create more content on your site 2. Update your meta tags and description to reflect the content on your site 3. Do more external and internal links. Let us know how these changes helped!