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I disagree with a lot of the premise of this article. I think it depends on the market we are talking about. In five years, people will still be using Google to find a doctor, dentist, accountant,...

That is not really true. With a few exceptions like Amazon and Wikipedia, most authoritative websites have a lot of links, if not a majority of links, pointing to their home pages.

If you setup a...

Depends on the type of backlinks. If you paid someone to create crappy forum signature or forum profile links, it is just a matter of logging in to each forum and deleting them.

If they are...

Most people recommend BaseCamp. It's not free, but people seem to glow about it.

Are you doing anything to track your rankings in Google? If not, it is really hard to say where you are losing traffic from. I would go through your analytics and see what keywords were bringing...

I had two clients get hit by it because of activity they had done before working with me. One used a very shoddy, but popular, backlinker on Warrior Forum. The other used a bunch of spammy fiverr...

I would get SEO Spyglass. One of the single best tools available for anyone doing any kind of SEO.

The Better Business Bureau in itself is a scam, but thanks for the heads up.

From an SEO point of view the problem with starting on the .com and moving to the .org is that the search engines will not say, "Oh, ok. This is the same site just a new TLD. Well lets pass on on...

For what it's worth, many, many telemarketing companies use Planatronics.

I think that is a pretty good indication of their quality.

Planatronics makes wired headsets too. It is not all...

Submitting to "high PR directories" is virtually useless.

Here's why. It doesn't matter what the PR of the domain is. Your listing is going to show up on a PR n/a or PR 0 page.

Now if it is a...

I would bet they are using software, not that it makes a difference. Honestly, whether it is done manually or by sofware, you are still getting the same result. It doesn't make a difference.

I...

For checking your rankings, the best two desktop applications are SEO PowerSuite Rank Tracker or Advanced Web Ranking.

I use these two options for all of my SEO clients.

At this point, if Market Samurai was a free tool, I would ask for a refund.

Complete piece of junk.

You are far better off using the Google Keyword Tool and something like SEO SPyGlass to...

MS has gotten a lot better. You'll still have some failures, but not as many as it used to have a year ago. It now has sockets incorporated which is a huge improvement.

Just a couple of things...

The belief that .edu or .gov backlinks carry some extra magical ranking power is a complete myth. They are no better than any other backlink.

Automated software can...

There are a couple of ways.

I do a lot of searching and emailing of webmasters. It is kind of time consuming and tedious. A tool like Link Assistant can make it easier. There isn't a whole lot...

Charlotte,

A link exchange is a complete waste of time if you are doing a "you link to my site, I'll link to your site" kind of thing. The links cancel eachother out, doing neither of you any...

Actually, you have it backwards. Without any links, all the on-page optimization in the world won't mean a thing unless it is a keyword practically nobody searches for.

Mine was out before the 3D stuff. Not sure I would have got the 3D phone anyhow.

Like Karon said, there is no specific number of links you have to get. The most links does not always win. Even targeting high PR links, they are not always the same. A backlink from a page with a...

Actually, those packets have been around for a long time, but they are awful. It is just a bunch of links on PR 0 and PR n/a pages that will probably never get indexed. The value of profile links...

I have the HTC Evo. It is freaking amazing. At first, I didn't think I would like the large screen of the Evo. Now I cannot imagine ever having a smaller phone. I have an iPod Touch too, which is...

You shouldn't lose your page rank. Page rank is based on the quality of incoming backlinks, not the content of the page. As long as you do not lose your backlinks, you should retain your PR. Now,...

The SEO value of submitting your site to hundreds or even thousands of directories is almost zero. It doesn't hurt your site at all, so if you find a piece of software that automates the whole thing...