Google Pagerank (PR) is not something you should look at when determining the value of a website. The only thing that really matters is where you rank for the good keywords. (That’s it!) I have a lot of low PR sites that outrank higher PR sites.

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A guy I read about has a site that seriously makes me question the importance of backlinks. The site is tenspaces dot com. It was a blog he started a few months ago, but did not have the time to commit to it. It ranks #1 out of 3 million pages for the term ten spaces and has no backlinks. This makes me believe that the domain name is the most important thing.

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If you are thinking about creating an automatically updating blog using WPomatic or a similar program… let me advise against it!  The allure of creating a auto-updating blog is high because 1) there is no work involved and 2) you automatically build links by getting ping backs on other blog’s comments.  Both of these things are true: you will do little work and build lots of links.  But in the end, you will get banned by Google.

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Saw a similar post on another forum, but thought some of the ideas were kind of, ah, sub-optimal. I’ve winnowed them out, taking the list from 64 tips down to the 19 I thought were best. Read the rest of this entry »

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