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When using blog software -- I suggest Wordpress.org's -- it is common to find a post appearing within a few days, and on occasion, you may see a post show up on a hot topic in a few hours. Two hours...

Yes. Very good and in my experience looking at millions of web uniques over years, it would be VERY good indeed.

This figure would be based on many variables. The fundamental factor is how much...

Give me your 3 main keyword phrases, exactly.

Then, give me your web-site URL. I'll take a look and see if I think I can improve your search result positioning and traffic, and if so, I'll make...

You know, I have been thinking about your client. I've learned that most people who have built successful businesses are pretty sharp. In fact, they are darned sharp!

Except for those folks who...

Clients can be self destructive: "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." -- Famous farming wisdom

Sometimes you just need to find another horse.

Another famous bit of...

Your site is not doing too badly in Google or on the 'net overall.

If you don't already have it, go to Aaron Wall's site Learn. Rank. Dominate. : SEO Book.com and download the SEO for Firefox...

I have seen the same thing for a long time now. I'll explore it and post what I find out.

This site's submit form produces a fatal error...

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CrankyDave is right. Taking bad advice from a client -- especially advice that violates the Google Terms of Service or similar rules of conduct for webmasters -- can get both of you banned. At best,...

Ron Angel, if you want to be an employee, all that stuff about doing what your "boss" says is fine. The world needs lots of good employees.

However, when the "boss" him or herself needs advice to...

Peter, I think that actually, the best philosophy is somewhere between Webnauts and my advice about "firing the client".

Every young consultant has to learn how to deal with problematic clients....

I think all the point-by-point analysis of the idiocy behind investing time in the creation of duplicated sites may be wasted on anyone who refuses to see the point.

We cannot fill the Internet...

I would look for a 'switch' or tab to press in your page editing display to change from "Visual" to "HTML" or "Code" -- something like that anyway.

You can usually press that to see the actual...

Interesting discussion, but there are simply too many variables to determine the precise effect of your linking question.

Everyday I see links from sites with MUCH LOWER "pagerank" getting listed...

Okie-dokey then, IncredibleHelp. I'll take your word for it and assume that it might be okay to not nofollow sites that we think we can trust. I note that even Matt Cutts Himself only nofollows his...

About the "nofollow" tags.

Better be safe than sorry seems to me. If this practice wasn't so important, one might wonder why successful and authoritative sites around the world are now using it....

Hi Tombstone,

Google often gives a new site a "first look rating" that's pretty high... sometimes a PR-4 or 5, which seems outstanding. This is based on a couple things...

1) what the site's...

Life is like baseball. Let me explain...

When you knock-in a run with a pop-up fly, everyone cheers. You're the hero of the ... hour? No. The minute.

Until the next time someone else knocks-in...

You need both, plus some other kinds of back-links, too.

Write some very well written articles, and place them on highly ranged press release sites, ezine or emag sites. Be sure they are on-topic...

KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid). Hey, I'm only quoting, no invective intended.

But, we should all remind ourselves that we are less bright, when we complexify what would otherwise be simple.
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People in the SEO business who act like this are merely carnival workers, hawking their booths to the midway. Unfortunately, the web is still a place where these folks can run around from town to...

This a question that is truly impossible to answer, since the Google algorithm seems to be constantly in flux.

However, I'll venture a guess, based on 10+ years of dealing with these issues (so...

Size matters. Google is huge. Take a look at your spider/bot logs. Google hammers away at your server, while Yahoo merely pecks at it. Google's content is bigger, their ability to deliver top...

i've used several techniques. Some work on wordpress sites, some work only on PHP/HTML sites. The javascript version allows you to display a normal looking email address in the footer or where ever...

I've been using the latest Akismet with another plug-in called Spam Karma. Latest version is 2.x something. Very nice. It places an uuuuuuggly dark grey bar across the bottom of your site showing how...