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The easiest thing to do is to check the site out.

How have other people commented? Do they use keywords as their name? Some sites specifically state they do not allow keyword signatures and...

Two very important comments were just made.

Lynn said she starts with LOW VOLUME search keywords with targeted content and lets it grow from there. Why? Because she can get to the front of...

Dr Mani

I am glad I could provide two reasons you hadn't thought of :) The first one I read about (don't remember where). An author was doing a seminar about the Lord of the Rings movies. He...

Google recognizes reciprocal links for what they are. I doubt you get penalized for them but they don't bring as much value as they used too.

You left out a very important step. Keyword research. The key is finding long tail keywords that have a decent amount of traffic and relatively weak competition.

Traffic is step one. Finding a...

Lady T

Create a new user in the wordpress admin part of your blog. Make it an admin level. Once you have proven it works, go in and delete the admin account. You now log into your blog using...

I believe it was originally created to combat spam comments on blogs. It gave the webmasters the ability to show that comments were not authorized by the owner of the site.

As with everything, it...

I will take a shot at it.

To understand Follow/NoFollow you need to understand Pagerank (PR). Page rank was a device that Google created to allow them to measure a sites authority on the...

Some blogs allow using keywords in the blog posts. Some will ban you for doing it. Take a few minutes and read their rules. See what other people are doing. If it is a blog you are going to on a...

MaxBlogPress was the one I was thinking of. I use it on mine but was heading out the door so didn't have a chance to look it up.

Any of them that controls when your blog pings would work fine.
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But if they found your site on Google's first page using the keyword they want to test, then it is optimized :) At least for the moment. If it is a new blog post the freshness of it could help it...

Leave comments at both nofollow and follow sites. Google is the only search engine that uses the nofollow tag. They still follow the link but don't use it for PR calculations. Having only Follow...

You want to make sure you have something like PingMaximizer installed as a plug in. (not sure if that's the official name for it). It controls your blog from pinging everytime you update a post. ...

They can also be testing an adwords campaign. To get an initial high quality score you select a site that is already optimzied toward the keywords you are setting up a campaign for.

You get a high...

There is a reason you want to do this too.

Domain at one company, hosting at another.

If you ever get your hosting shut down for any reason, you can be back up and running quickly by simply...

You have to realize all the analytics packages have their limitations. They operate differently and thus you get different numbers. I use statcounter (free version), Google analytics (free) and...

Ahh outbound links are different since you don't have access to put the analytics code on the page they will land on. Google gives directions on how to do it here
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The goals function in Analytics lets you specify an URL that you want people to go to. The goal is the page you want them to land on. It won't actually record the buy button being clicked but...