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1. Create an article. 2. Rewrite it manually 2-3 times. 3. Spin it manually, so you would have 9 versions of the same article. 4. Put the original article on your website. 5. Manually submit the other 8 copies to different sites with links back to your website.

I'd suggest Google searches using your keywords plus words like forum or online community. Here's a small business finance forum at http://www.smallbusinessbrief.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=37 where you can see what kinds of questions people are asking. You can go in and provide some advice in answers, or even use the questions as ideas for your own blog post. A note of caution is that the owner of that forum is a known and respected SEO and will easily see through any attempts at blatant link drops; it's not one to try to spam.

Hi Timothy, What you're looking at is the Toolbar Page Rank for an individual URL on your site. That's a number that's updated 2-4 times a year, and is only a semi-accurate representation of the internal ranking that Google keeps. Like Steve says, you want to focus on if your traffic, rankings, conversions, etc. have changed.

I can assure you that it really does matter. I am currently working on bringing down the number of links on our page, since we have a (too) extensive menu at the top of the page. It has almost 100 links alone. And as far as I can see our index pages and pages in general do not accumulate as much pagerank as one should think. When the SEO gurus say a maximum of 100 links on a page, they mean it. And it matters Another thread on the matter: http://www.seomoz.org/q/will-a-mega-menu-on-all-pages-dilute-the-link-juice Best regards, Rasmus

thank you Ryan

Hi! This is probably best asked in its own thread, where a few more people will see it. Thanks!

It's still worth submitting a site to DMOZ. It's a trustworthy site. If you're really concerned about getting trustworthy links but don't have much budget then consider whether you want to edit the subcategory you wish your link to appear in.

Took us about 2 weeks I think - perhaps post something in the Google Webmaster forums? Andy

You are probably looking for a 'speech to text' solution. This has evolved into three ways on the internet: 1. Buy a software that does it for you (e.g. Dragon Nuance) 2. Use the OS's built in recognition features (haven't had a lot of luck with this) 3. Go with an el-cheapo on line transcription service. Dragon Naturally Speaking starts around $200 I think for the office version, but you can usually find deals on Amazon for $40-50 for the home versions. Windows Vista and upward have text recognition, but apparently it's a pain in the butt to get them to work with an audio file (I've read about people setting up their microphone next to their speakers for example). Never done it. Lastly, there are tonnes of online transcription services out there. Not going to suggest any single one because I've never used any, but they're around. Some fierce SEO going on there too actually, I noticed lots of forum spam and other black hat styled tactics.

SEOcertification.org certification is pretty much meaningless. I wouldn't trust it, and I don't know anyone else who would. First, ask yourself if this certification provider is even up to snuff in their SEO skills. This particular site is not. Kris cracked me up on his post about seocertification.org : "Before I’m even 10 seconds into the site I note that they didn’t even apply one of the most basic SEO fundamentals: Canonicalization Observe: http://seocertification.org http://www.seocertification.org http://www.seocertification.org/index.php http://seocertification.org/index.php" The lack of fundamental canonicalization on their site is just one of many telltale signs of weak SEO-fu. It's 3/13/2013 now, at almost 3:13p.m. and their site looks dated circa 2006. Goodness, they even have text written on to images..! And what's more, their images lack keyword-rich filenames and have no alt tags at all! images/featuredImage.jpg" alt="" /> just ain't good SEO. I wouldn't trust them to teach me. If they are true masters, such as, perhaps Yoast or SEOmoz, they'd practice what they preach. A better way to learn and master SEO is to learn by doing. Build your own site, and then optimize it for people and search engines. Follow the checklists and tremendous detail here at SEOmoz, and participate in the forums here if you can't find an answer for your question first by searching the SEOmoz blogs. If you want to learn SEO but don't want to develop your own site, you can always help build links to my site about rap similes and metaphors, Glennraps.com. Perhaps test your skills by trying to improve the ranking of the glennraps search result for https://www.google.com/search?q=haters+in+las+vegas&pws=0  Good luck and godspeed!

Thank you for your comments Robert!

We are an asset based lender that broker a lot of our deals and having a good white paper and bring more attention to us. We plan to release it over the news wire as a press release for links and distribute the articles over the web. Thank you for your response.

This was their answer. Hello There! Thanks for writing in and sorry you're getting this problem. Unfortunately, this might all be due to the fact that your campaign is based on the subdomain http://www.example.com versus the root domain http://example.com. Since the root domain is what is ranking in the engines and is where all of the pages are hosted, including your blog, you're not getting results on those pages or rankings. Instead, you're getting information based on only the pages and rankings that are connected to http://www.example.com. Unfortunately, the only way to solve this is to start up a new campaign based on the root domain http://example.com. After you set everything up in that campaign, you should begin to get crawl data within three to seven days, and everything should be peachy-keen! You'll have a plethora of juicy data that you weren't getting before on the http://www.example.com subdomain. I hope that helps!

How can you be creative? Where do you go to try to find good links worth $300 worth. Any suggestions?

Wow! For all its worth, I strongly suggest that you use some external js scripts. Your site took 535.15 seconds to load on my high speed connection. Therefore since yahoo is more along the meta side of SEO thing and since your site continues to load forever, well... i dunno if they will ever list your site. I don't know how old your site is, however since Google has indeed indexed it, usually Yahoo follows suit. But for the love of the Internet i would certainly work on removing some links and silo your content. You can easily download a FireFox addon called Web Developer which will help you determine a better site structure. i hope this helps