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If your site received a Penguin penalty, then you will need to review the quality of your backlinks and then if ever you found some bad links, you then use the Google Disavow Link Tool to inform Google about these bad links.

The Alexa Rank is a good gauge of website traffic. You can check the ARs of the top sites to confirm this. They say that when you add an Alexa widget to your website, the AlexaRank will improve. Has anyone confirmed this?

The "Pigeon" name was coined by the folks at Search Engine Land and it is not an official name from Google.

Be sure to use Google Trends with the Adwords Keyword Planner Tool. The keywords from Google Trends are more location specific and you might miss out on some keywords if you use the Keyword Planner Tool only. For more keyword suggestions there are other tools like: Keywordtool.io Ubersuggest

PageRank also scores the website's authority and trustworthiness. The higher the PageRank, the more the site is viewed as an authority in its target niche.

Google+ and Facebook are the bread and butter for social media marketing.

We can't do anything about this. Google is in control. Google corners 70% of the search volume. I'd rather add more quality content to my websites than contest this with Google.

Here are some of my SEO tips: 1. A domain name with the target keywords help in ranking quickly. 2. Use a Facebook Page to increase web visitors and improve your Alexa rankings. 3. Add outbound links that point to top high PR sites on your home page.

SEO brings sales and conversions. If you want to be on top and beat your competitors online, you'll need SEO.

I always aim for five forum posts per day.. and these are informative posts and not the "thank you" kind of crap.

You should use an SEO tool instead. Such as: submitexpress.com/analyzer

PageRank or PR is the ranking algorithm by Google. There is a Wikipedia article that explains this in detail. PR is computed on the link structure of a website. Computation is based on the number of inbound and outbound links and the quality and relevancy of these links.

Buying links is never good. Google check the quality of your links. If it finds sub-par links from link farms and penalized sites, then it will affect your website too. Always build links manually and make the link growth "natural". Not a link blast of 1000 links in one day.

WIkipedia is a high PR authority site with lots of quality content. All content and links are reviewed by moderators.

Social Media sites are what brings traffic to your websites but to bring targeted traffic depends on the keywords your optimized your websites for. If you selected the right keywords, then you'll have quality visitors.

A link anchor text is the text / title used for a hyperlink to a website. The link anchor text is where the target keywords are used in order to improve SEO.

Daily forum posting and blog commenting are what I usually do.

Reading isn't enough. You need to have a test website wherein you can perform optimization based on what you have learned. SEO specialization takes time. You have to understand how search engines work thru hands on experimentation and analysis of results.

Sometimes webmaster stuff their keywords inside Meta Keyword tags. This doesn't work anymore and has long been disregarded by the major search engines. Body content is sometime used for keyword stuffing. Keyword are repeated several times w/o making any sense at all. This is flag for Google and might be …

You only need to install the Google Toolbar for Firefox. Sadly, the support for Google Toolbar for Firefox will stop. All further development has been stopped by Google.

I usually use a 3-4% keyword density. The important thing to take note is to avoid excessive repetition of keywords. Write for human readers and not for bots.

Where are you from? I never encountered being banned on Digg. Check their TOS and look for something that you might have caused your being banned... or maybe you're promoting ADULT sites.. jeje just kidding.

it's the google plus update... they have already activated it...

one week of link building is not a good metric for checking improvement of rankings. you need to perform link building for a month to measure improvements on your keyword rankings. Some search engines have slow crawling rate. For Google, you need a week or more to see some improvement. …

Here are the tools I use for search engines: Google - Google Webmaster Yahoo! - Yahoo! Site Explorer Bing - Bing Webmaster

SEO helps you gain more traffic and makes you visible to users of search engines. Aiming for the right keyword(s) is important. SEO requires patience and consistency.

Use both. Long tail keywords have a targeted market while short tail ones are more general and takes some time to achieve top page rankings. Start with long tail keywords first so that top page rankings can be achieved in three months or less. After that, aim for the short …

How about Mike's Marketing SE Ranking Tool? It's online and free and you have major search engines to choose from when getting results.

Don't forget to include Google Webmaster to check the keywords that you are ranked for. Webmaster is a great tool to analyze your site's keyword optimization and links that point to your site(s).

8 to 10 keywords would be ok.. use these tags because your competitors use them and Google changes its algo often. Better have them on your site pages than giving your competitors an edge against your site(s).

Right, I agree. Your forum signature will have no effect if your posts have no value or is just one of the many "thank you for the info blah blah" posts. Adding value to a thread is more important than just being an nonsense poster.

what about keywords in comments? does this method work?

Profile pages from high PR authority sites also bring back links to your site.

Its SEO effect will be minimal. Use Google Instant to your advantage.. since you have the Google Instant suggestions then you know what priority keywords to optimize for...

IBP is a good SEO tool... I used it for top ten rankings in Google.

SEO Specialists / SEO Experts shorten the time need to place on the top SE results pages of Google, Yahoo!, and Bing. These guys spend most of the time studying and experimenting on the major search machines. Take the guesswork out of your SEO requirements by hiring an SEO Specialist.

Make your articles informative and give interest to visitors. Your content should be of quality and not just a keyword-stuffed web content.

You can bring traffic and back links to your site by creating your own Facebook Page and suggesting it to other FB members.