And, how much money would you pay for membership? As for me, i'd pay $4.00 a month maximum as it would give me access to my Facebook fan pages, lots of Facebook games and my online friends who i see only on Facebook.
Since Facebook is a publicly traded company, anything you post on your wall (publicly) can be used by others, including art work if you don't explicitly state that others are prohibited from using your photos/art. Just ...
Have you ever had a Facebook account disabled and lost access to valuable family photos? As for me, i lost access to my first Facebook account for awhile and lost access to all my online friends that i knew from another...
Was your favorite Facebook/Myspace game ever disabled and you lost top scores?
I've heard that the penalty for sites doing blackhat might not be as obvious as an automatic drop in rankings. Google is very subtle when they are deranking most sites, so as to sabatage blackhat users, so they don't r...
In the past Google used backlinks to judge a site's credibility. That kind of changed with Penguin. Now, it would be nice if there was a more accurate way for Google to judge a site's popularity than just with backlink...
Have you seen Google Schemer? Schemer is part of Google and connects with Google+ to let you see and share with your circles. This useful service lets you find interesting things to do around your hometown or where eve...
Please do a back link check and post your backlinks and then periodically come back and update to see if your backlinks have grown.
On a forum, it's fairly common to move discussions around, especially when new subforums are created. Just wondering how to prevent those pages from losing their place in search engines.
My first step is to do thorough keyword research so that i have the right words to target in my on page content (articles, menu links, alt tags, meta tags/descriptions/titles). What's your first step toward good SEO?
Paid links that pass page rank are against Google's TOS as they artificially manipulate search results. Google works hard to ensure that it fully discounts links intended to manipulate search engine results, such as ex...
Link schemes are bad for SEO. But what are they? Here's Google's answer to that question. Links intended to manipulate PageRank Links to web spammers or bad neighborhoods on the web Excessive reciprocal links or ...
Here's a fun little way to know when someone backlinks to your site. Go here: http://www.google.com/alerts/manage?hl=en Add term:link:http://www.yoursite.com
Of course, there are lots of people using Twitter successfully for blog/site promotion. That is where you post a headline and then a link. But that's just advertising. But if you think about it, the confined space i...
I first learned about SEO from a work at home mom forum. Then i started reading SEO ebooks that i found online. And, later found out about Google Webmaster Blog and Matt Cutts. So much has changed over the years. ...
I'm always seeing these free advertising/promotion sections on forums. Usually they're on webmaster/admin forums and allow the member to place a free ad. Just wondering if these are good sites to leave an ad/backlink fo...
Let's assume you want to hire someone to do SEO for your site, what would you look for or require from them? If I were hiring someone to do SEO, then I'd want to know if they were going to be using automated software a...
Google claims that it's looking out for the search engine user's best good by making all these changes to search engine algorithms. For instance, they say that Google Panda, helps eliminate the duplicate content result...
Was your site penalized by either of these Google search engine algorithm updates? And, if so, how long did it take your site to recover search engine ranking?
There are some unavoidable situations where your site/forum might be offline for awhile. For instance, if there's a dispute over your hosting, then your forum might be down for a day or more. Or, if you need to install ...
Having your authorship information displayed next to your links in Google is good because it establishes your credibility as an expert in the niche. And, it makes your links stand apart from the many others on the page. ...
Are there any special techniques you can use (that vary from what you would use for a blog) when doing SEO for a forum? One thing that i do on my own forum is to start a post that focuses on one specific keyword and ...
... then why are they constantly showing me outdated results from 2007 and before? Would seem that Google could delete older results from my search results without me having to ask. Those posts are most likely riddled...
If you've always wanted a Facebook style social network, you'll love Yuku. Each free social network you create features it's own unique subdomain name (consider grabbing popular keywords for your niche) as well as an...
Six relevant sites where you can get backlinks for your local business include: Google Local Yahoo Local Hotfrog.com Yelp.com Yellowpages.com Kudzu.com Most of these sites let you create a profile page for your local...
There are a number of ways a person can bounce from a site. Here are some examples. She closed her browser window She closed her browser tab She entered a new URL in the browser She used the browser search bar and d...
Fresh content is the key to good SEO. And, forums are updated numerous times daily, so they win out in this situation. But most blogs are updated only once daily or even sometimes less. Just wondering what the optimum pu...
My favorite SEO/webmaster blog is the one published by Google. Whenever I need new information on the latest SEO developments I go here: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/ This blog provides me with the m...
To go private and surf anonymously on Google Chrome, you'll want to click on the wrench icon in your toolbar (usually upper right hand corner of browser screen). Then select 'New Incognito Window'. You'll be presente...
Sometimes, I'm finding that it's easy to get wrapped up in trivia over Facebook; checking friends wall posts; playing casual games; looking for funny LOL pics when i should be posting to my Facebook fan page and replying...
This question is not about whether or not you'd make money selling tweets as I know many webmasters/bloggers who actually earn a decent income with paid tweet. It's more about the ethics of selling tweets. Is this the ri...
Have you ever noticed how Google copies every little trend and fad? Yahoo was the best search engine, Google over powered them. Yahoo had the best email, Google came out with Gmail. Skype had the best chat/voice syste...
Here's a really good ebook that explains many of the basics of search engine optimization. If you're new to SEO, please give it a read. Also, comment on the book. http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/...
Sometimes, I'm finding that Bing is actually producing better, more targeted search results than Google. Many times, Google pops up with all kinds of results only slightly related to what i'm searching for. Seems very ...
For awhile I was using Photobucket which lets you upload your personal photos and tag them and share with others. Now I prefer photo pin sites such as Pinterest (a social bookmarking/network) where you can pin photos fro...
Have you noticed how you can sign into Facebook and get socially relevant results in your Bing search engine results side bar? Or, at least you can find out which ones of your friends are talking about what you are looki...
For instance, let's say you have a game blog. Do you target one or two main keywords for the entire blog and then some long tail keywords for each post. Or, do you pick different keywords (within your niche) to target fo...
What's your backlinking style? Do you try to get many backlinks per day or just a few here and there? And, which style of backlinking is better for SEO?
My favorites are games like Candy Dash and Collapse Blast. Which Google + games are your favorites? https://plus.google.com/games?hl=en
I'd like to be able to quick check where a URL/Keyword exists in Google. Is there a really good free SERP checker available?
