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I also recommend to post comments on blogs that your targeted visitors would also be interested. Otherwise, the blog owner may suspect the comments not be genuine and not approve them.

It all depends on the type of audience you are trying to target. With some o fhte wbesites I manage their analytics, I was surprise to see that aolsearch.com was the second top referrer.

It depends if you want free or paid tools. Also, it depends what you are tracking - website traffic or blog visitor flow.
In regards to free - there is AWstats, Clicky, Yahoo Analytics (I think limited to e-commerce accounts), snoop, and crazyegg.
Some of these links also have paid version.
In regards to paid - Omniture, Webtrends, Coremetrics.

I agree that creating right keywords to drive targeted traffic to the site is very important in bringing targeted traffic. I do believe that you need to cater content with the intention of the search's needs and expectation.

I have analyzed performance of many sites and I have not noticed any significant effects in typesetting/format.

It supposed to.
Something similar happened with one of my campaigns I was monitoring and that is when you may consider temporarily pausing the low performing group on low peak days (day swhich dont have much CTR) and test it this way and see if it impacted the overall performance.

In order to increase targeted traffic to your site, I recommend you to:
ORGANIC
1. Become familiar with Google.com SEO info - http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35291
2. Re-optimize keywords and topics that your targeted audience will use
3. Conduct a competitor intelligence and your competitors sites and determine which keywords are traffic traffic to those sites
PAID
1. Google Adwords
2. Facebook Ads

I also recommend you to read a few ecommerce threads and see which is the popular theme among these threads.

webmetricsguru.com is one that is good for SEO, social media, and analytics.

Also, if you will be doing behavioral targeting, you may look into email solutions that provide that.

I personally recommend you to view the threads that have many responses and these can be topics you can explore since these are threads that many members felt need to share and comment.

So I wonder if all the porns site need to do a redirect to .xxx sites? Also, if non-porn sites will somehow redirect visitors to xxx and do a switch aroo? I personally would not want a .xxx domain to be seen on my web history. hehe

Make sure your site is not practicing any Black Hat SEO. Second, also make sure you have content rather than a set of links.

First of all, SEO takes time and it requires constant monitoring and tweaking so your content reflects the search behavior and expectation of your expected visitors. Second, you have to make sure site does not violate any White Hat SEO tips. Third, you need to keep the content fresh and relevant.

Language only affects if you are seeking traffic from other countries that many not understand the content on your site. Otherwise, if I am an American searching for content and Google tells me its from a romanian site and it appears on the SERPs, I would use translate. So in a way, in today's world, language is not a barrier to consuming content.

I vote for relevancy. Why? Well relevancy is ranked higher and given more preferences than random links by Google spiders.

I do believe it will affect SEO. However, if the new links contain relevant words to the content of your page, it may actually strengthen PageRank.

Remember that creating backlinks is not an overnight process. It takes time. Thus, I do recommend reading this article as a starting point - http://www.squidoo.com/tocreatebacklinkstogetqualifiedtraffic

You need to establish backlinks on sites with higher PR than yours.

I hope this helps.

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I personally never had such a file and I have not seen an impact on my site. Have others?

For real? I did not know this - I did not find this information on the site. Can you include a link for reference?

Page Rank is important but it is not the only relevant factor affecting SERP on Google. Check this one out - http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35291

If its a new site, it will take your site a few months or weeks for the site to be crawled but dont worry - the more content you have and the more you follow SEO white hat tips, the more likely your site will appear. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35291

Very important - the inbound links must be related to the context/content of the particular page without your site so it can carry more SEO juice.

In order to target niche groups, I recommend you to conduct a keyword analysis research to predict the keywords your target audience would use to look up information that pertains to your site. This way, your site can feature relevant content using these keywords and such page will appear on SERPs.

I think you can if you set it up on Google Analytics to track particular goals and one goal is that visitors visit the pay with the paypal or that they leave the page.

It depends on what is the purpose of the PPC campaign - is it to increase awareness or increase sales? Therefore this goal will influence the type of words/copy you will see with the PPC display ad.

To be honest, when I see a such pixels, I think it looks really cool but I personally wont click to it. I do wonder what is the click through rate. It must be lower than average PPC on Google Adsense, especially if its from a non-popular site.

This shows that emails are and will be used as legal evidence if it is deemed threatening in one way or another. Yes, there is freedom of speech but in this age where the US has a CIO and all of our data is recorded, we got to think twice or three times.

I also recommend attending social media/internet marketing events and talking to SEO professionals there and get a feel if this is the right expert for you. You also need to work with someone you can work along with and mostly understands your site's and business needs. Remember SEO is an ongoing process.

I never even used Bebo. AOL was at its heights years ago and now they are trimming staff, acquisitions, and I hope it is not a sign that they will be trimming its services. I still use AOL at times. AOL was good in bringing people together.

To be honest, I have used it last year for a few items and I did not get any good leads and the leads I received, it was the same exact message from various users so it made me suspicious. Thus, I went back to Craigslist. Maybe FB Marketplace works for others, but it sure did not work for me.

Again, the amount of traffic you get from Social networks depends mostly on the quality of content. It has very little to do with frequency. If you are submitting crappy articles or information, you can expect a crappy response.

Very true. Remember that one of the factors behind social book marking sites is linking to sites that are worth reading and spending time at. Thus, if your content does not meet this criteria, then you should re-optimize content submission.

Those sites must be targeting a niche market because I never heard of them. But dont disregard these sites as it provides an opportunity to network and increase awareness of your product/site.

No follow links are not worthless. Why? Because these links still bring traffic to your site and this traffic may link or recommend your site to a friend or to a social bookmarking site. The effect is exponential!

Wordpress has lots of great plugins that will optimize the blog experience.

With Avinash, alot of his content for the book is also on his blog so that is why its important to follow his blog because lots of other practitioners provide valuable comments and insights.

This is my advice:
1. Follow Google's Best Practice for SEO
2. Tag all the pictures on your site so it can be searchable
3. Make sure none of your content is copied from any other websites
4. Dont practice any Gray or Black Hat SEO tactics.
5. If its a new site, remember it may take some time, but follow the above, and you be fine.

I totally agree with Jay. I also would like to add you should consider optimizing the site at least every 6 weeks to 3 months if you dont see the results you want to. You need to optimize content on your site to reflect the keywords your visitor will use to visit your site.

From my understanding, a blog roll is composed with the original post and any comments/threads after that post.

Robots and spiders visit your site if they pick up new content. So start writing more on your blog and optimize on keywords that you think are related to the theme of your blog and that you think will convert visitors to:
1. spend time on your blog
2. convert to come back
3. convert what ever other goal you have on your site

Yes, there are other PPC companies but do remember that Google Adsense has the biggest reach of audience and thus, the more eyeballs, the higher chances people will click to the links.

Thanks for bringing this up. Its sad but true that the whole intention of businesses to join Facebook is to grow - either with the intention of the user or not - their business. This is another example why Facebook may shun additional users.

I actually saw a nifty promotion where someone just stood in the street and gave out cards with snapshot of the youtube shows. People took them.

Good question - I strongly advise you to get just 3/4 books -
1. Web Analytics - Jim Sterne
2. KPIs and any other book by Eric Peterson
3. Web Analytics one hour a day by Avinash

Also go to blogs like webmetricsguru.com and if you are in NYC, join groups like NY Data Stories meetup.

From a usability aspect, pick the one that you have some flexibility to redirect visitors to a page you can convert them.

I personally have downloaded a few white papers and I think it helps educate the potential buyer and builds brand awareness

It all depends on what is your email marketing goals. Do you just want to send emails or do you want to conduct more advanced behavioral targeting emails? For simple emails, check out: Constant Contact, Survey Monkey (yes they do emails), Emma
For advanced: Bronto, Gold Lasso

Google PPC is as effective as long as you understand and optimize your:
1. keywords and how these relate to your landing page
2. display words
3. landing page

Good question. I think it started coded by hand when it was first created. Dont know now.

Im asking it now because in today's age, the popularity of usage with social media sites shifts and change trends.