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You should check the website in ALL browsers because what works on one may not work on the others. I use Safari on the Mac but also check my work in Firefox on the Mac and PC and Firefox and IE 8 on Windows machines. Once Chrome gets a wider …

Write an article and post it on your website. Then post a link in your blog which briefly covers the same topic which links to your website article then post a message in Facebook and Twitter, etc., which refer to that article and also link to it. Some of those …

I would say the first thing you should do is either learn how to spell and use grammar correctly or use a spell checker everywhere you post messages as well as within in the code of the page.

Forums are not the best way to "build quality backlinks" because Google considers anything you do yourself, to promote your site as low quality and if you hire someone to do it for you it will be even less quality - even spammy. The best quality links come from other …

The hyphen is considered a space by Google and the underscore is a underscore, i.e., the hyphen separates two words and the underscore connects them. The later could affect ranking. However if you change your file names then you also need to set up a rewrite in htaccess. For more …

Most "free" hosts usually have some catch that can cripple your ranking. #1 thing to check is to make sure they put your domain in your name and not theirs.

If you're talking about the home page having PR 0, check the site command in Google to see if their pages are indexed (site:domain.com). Look for spammy ads above the content, and look to see if they are linking to bad neighborhoods. Also check the whois of the site to …

My site was hit by Panda last July and has been going down farther with every Panda update (traffic down to about 20% of what it used to be). I was too busy working on other sites for several months to try and figure out what was wrong but I …

No matter how well SEO'd your website is, you still need to gather quality links from relevant sites, if that wasn't part of the SEO package. I checked your backlinks and I see a multitude of links from the same site (although the links no longer work and might have …

I wouldn't hire anyone who promises to get your site on first page of google, because they don't control Google, and google is making so many changes lately it's getting hard to know what is accepted and what isn't - even some of Google's own old webmaster guidelines can now …

Most hosts refuse to help with htaccess. You will probably need to hire someone proficient in htaccess. Are you aware that you will have to start all over with links if you switch from an old domain to a new one. The age benefit and the benefit from keywords in …

I wouldn't recommend hiring someone to submit to directories on your behalf because it's likely that no-body but yourself will have your goals in mind, but their pocketbook instead. Most directory submission services own multiple directories with software set up so they can input your data and submit to multiple …

[QUOTE=cfowler1;1774114]Hey what's up guys I am trying to get my site to rank the first site is ranking in yahoo and was at one time first in google but now nothing the other site I have sent over 1,500 bls to it and have good on page seo but its …

Also look for public domain images. There are plenty of sites that offer them for free. However even those may require a fee when being compiled into a CD.

Every page you add to your site means you have another page/link pointing at your homw page so keep adding more content to your site. Provide info that will help others and others will do the linking for you.

I would say the best CMS is whichever one has the least code bloat due to download time being a new ranking factor in Google. Anyone know which one qualifies?

Alexa is not a good indication of quality because it can be easily manipulated and is only affected by those who have the Alexa toolbar. Re gaining PR on your pages, besides gaining quality links, you can also keep adding more pages to your website. Every page you add counts …

You didn't say how you have it set up currently but if you put the banner in one div and the menu in another div then one should line up below the other. If you set up a class for each in CSS then you and further fine tune the …

You can center a web page by applying "margin:auto 0 auto 0;" to the main page div, and then float other content within it. If you have two or more boxes across the page float each one to the left and apply left or right margins to each to position …

First off -- the items on your server should be in the same folders as the items on your computer. Usually the index file goes in the root (this may be an html folder on some hosts) and all other pages, images, js, etc., in the same place unless they …

It also helps if you use your main keywords in as many titles as appropriate, i.e., if you're selling blue widgets then the majority of your pages should not be focused on green widgets.

A more apt questions is - does Google, et al, give credit for more than one link per site?

No matter how good your content is, when your website is new, you still need to generate some traffic yourself, via backlinks or other advertising. You also need content that people will want to link to themselves (information that your visitors are looking for) so your link profile doesn't look …

Don't pay for link submission packages because anything outside of a normal link growth can cause your site to be filtered out of results for manipulating search engines.

Resizing an image with CSS does not reduce the size of the image when loaded on the page - only the viewable display of the image. So you don't want to do that with very many images or it can increase download time - a new ranking factor.

The code bloat in site builder programs is enormous due to a computer trying to understand what the human brain is thinking, and it also often lacks the ability to use unique titles and descriptions (the default for file names are often numbers). It also doesn't utilize CSS efficiently, uses …

I checked your site and after a quick scan I'm at a loss to tell what your site is about other than you offer some kind of service, i.e., you're not utilizing enough keywords - none in fact. I also see the following: * including index.html in any links to …

Link building takes a long time and links have to age also. It used to take a few weeks to notice a change from link gathering, now it's much longer -- even a year.

I know how to emboss images in Photoshop but I can't get it to work on Fireworks 8 on the Mac, even though there are instructions in the help menu (I have fireworks 8 installed on my Mac Mini and also iBook G4 laptop and it doesn't work on either …