There has been increased speculation regarding the value of attaining quality .edu or .gov links. Many SEO's and webmasters, largely swayed by the dreaded 'visible PR monster', swear that acquiring one way links from domains with .edu or .gov will provide greater PR and eventually higher SERPS than a .com web site. Is it true? [...]

Someone asked the following question regarding the value of press releases: I am looking for some dofollow press release services that are: a) reasonably priced b) allow links in text c) feature in google news (but not be all and end all) The Value of Press Releases to SEO Yet again the wrong question was asked. Immediately the question was 'I [...]

The age old questions, to reciprocal link or not to reciprocal link. Here is a brief outline of what reciprocal linking is if you're unfamiliar. Nowadays people are asking a different question: Can I Safely Reciprocal Link? The answer is obvious, of course you can. Google and Yahoo! link to each other at SOME point. Reciprocal linking isn't [...]

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Another edition of Rapid Fire: where we answer some regularly asked SEO questions in quick succession :). Many users are wondering (and as with many SEO questions there are multiple answers) what to do about internal links. The reason for the confusion is because of the nature of SEO--the industry is in continual change. If you [...]

The second installment to our 'rapid fire seo' questions where we'll be answering questions in rapid succession. (Also means a bit less detail than normal.) Q: What ezines (article submission web sites) should I use? This question assumes something that's incorrect: that ezines are worthwhile ways to get links. Quick verdict? Spend your time doing something [...]

I've been posting a bit more lately on a few SEO forums and figured, "why don't I post some of my own content on my own web site". Baring I don't mean copy and paste, but I was answering some pretty basic but repetitive questions so I figured I'd post responses with a bit more [...]

We've posted some articles on long-tail and on the commercial tool used to measure the long tail. As I've said before the Hit Tail program (script) merely measures the existing traffic that is coming to your site, it's not the holy grail of keywords, but it is a useful tool that SEOs should include in [...]