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Hi Andrew.

I just posted two new questions titled "What after I place a blog comment" and "Traditional link requests still the right way?".

Please reply when you have time.

Thanks,

KS__

Is the traditional way of link building wherein we send requests for two way or three way links still important? I feel posting articles, blog commenting, blog posting, forum commenting etc are better means to build links... but since I am still new to this industry I may be wrong. Please suggest.

I have started commenting on high PR DoFollow blogs more strongly off late. I don't do it just for the heck of it. I comment on relevant posts, go through them nicely and make sensible comments. This way I make sure my comments are not removed by the admin,

What I want to know is... What after I make the comment and put my website's URL there? Does that mean I have got a backlink already? Or do I need to do something else too to make sure Google recognizes that as a backlink?

I have the same question regarding forum postings too.

Thanks Andrew.

I will do as suggested and get back to you if I need further help.

Thanks for help.

The reason why I asked is that Google Adwords is behaving very awkwardly. A 'hight' competition  keywords with a figure of 0.85 appears to be 'Medium' 0.26 when exported to CSV. I don't know which one to trust. I am not sure why the figure changes when exported to CSV. Quite strange.

Have you experienced anything like that? Can you offer a solution to that?

Also, you have already answered my  next question. Why doing searches I should enable 'Exact match' and 'phrase match'. Yeah?

Hi Andrew.

I have another question for you. Please offer help:

I have been using Google Adwords tool for keyword research until today when I signed up for 7 day trial of Wordtracker. To my astonishment the results were different with a huge margin for most of my keywords.

Which of these should I trust more?

Do you suggest any other tool which is better than these both and is free or affordable?

I have been using Google Adwords tool for keyword research until today when I signed up for 7 day trial of Wordtracker. To my astonishment the results were different with a huge margin for most of my keywords.

Which of these should I trust more?

Do you suggest any other tool which is better than these both and is free or affordable?

Thanks for the awesome response Andrew. I love your replies!

Somebody suggested me to ping my website's backlinks using services like www.Pingler.com.

Firstly, I don't know what 'pinging' is and why is it important.

Secondly, Should I go for it?

Lastly, what kind of links should I ping regularly? I researched on google and got a feeling that only blogs should be pinged because they are updated regularly. Is that so?

Perfect! thanks so much!

I got to know that I can access google USA by going to www.google.com/ncr.

Is there a similar way to access Google.com.au too from India?

Thanks for the awesome suggestions Andrew.

The reason why I am asking is that my subscription with them ends on 10th. So either I spend a couple of hundred dollars to extend that subscription for another month (which I don't want to do) or I post my 3 PRs in the next two days to finish my quota for this month.

Now that you tell me its safe, I'll go ahead and post them. All these three are written by myself, are fresh, genuine and meaningful. So, backed by your suggestion and experience, I shouldn't worry at all and shoot them tomorrow/day after.

thanks so much,

KS__

Is it a safe bet to publish 3 PAID press releases (on PRleap.com) on the same website on the same day, each having about 10 links to different pages of the same website?

I mean... will search engines spot something fishy is going out there?

Doug Roberts: Thanks for the help. I will definitely try and explore how the search results appear in search engines. I think optimizing the description further may help. Having a look at other results will help too I am sure.

Alan Mosley: Thanks for your comments.   I cannot share the URL of the website as my client may not like it, but I will definitely absorb your comments and work on them.

Doug Roberts: Thanks for the help. I will definitely try and explore how the search results appear in search engines. I think optimizing the description further may help. Having a look at other results will help too I am sure.

Alan Mosey: Thanks for your comments.   I cannot share the URL of the website as my client may not like it, but I will definitely absorb your comments and work on them.

I am working on a couple of SEO projects and have noticed over the past couple of months that the keywords rankings have improved immensely with most of them amongst top 10 on google, but still the traffic on the website doesn't improve much.

Can somebody explain me the possible reasons behind this, and what can I do to attract more traffic?

Thanks.

Can you enlist some good free/paid.com.au PR submission websites, and also some great .com.au blogs where I can submit some good articles/blogs?

Rick,

hats off to what you are doing! I can understand you closely due to two reasons: My wife had a mis-carriage (we have a 17 month healthy baby now), so I can feel ya. Secondly, I am a victim of a problem too (which I would not like to mention/discuss here. after all its an SEO forum :)) ), and I myself go about helping other people come out of it whenever I get a chance. Adding a blog for the same is an idea I just conceptualized. Thanks to you.

Back to SEO, if your ultimate aim is not to earn money out of your blog, then I suggest continue to do what you are doing... i.e.. right from your heart. Small changes in the technique will help you boost traffic, which seems to be your ultimate goal... i.e helping out more and more people.

• Use google adwords tool and find similar keywords that people are searching for this syndrome. Deliberately try to use them in your posts/articles as much as you can without losing the originality and 'feel' of the article.

- Categorizing your posts and videos is not a bad option. It will be better if the category names are some of the keywords that you have searched for above using the google tool.

• Give relevant description for each video, possibly using the keywords you are targeting.

• Don't market keywords with wrong spellings. That will not do good, especially since search engines correct spellings these days.

• Add a forum to the site. let people join in and jump into discussions.  This will result in more traffic, and auto generation of content. Most of the times this content will be keyword rich.

• A suggestion from design point of view (I am a designer myself) : Black is hard. Make the website more whiter, more neater with loads of breathing space. People will love reading it all the more.

Hope it helps.

Thanks,

KS__

Please let me know about Directory submissions too. Should we target Australian directory sites for submissions.

Note: using .co.uk sites for .com.au sites was never the idea. I just want to know if I should focus on .com.au sites for blogs/PRs/Directory submissions or .com blogs/PR sites/Directories are just fine.

Thanks James.

Can you enlist some good free/paid.com.au PR submission websites, and also some great .com.au blogs where I can submit some good articles/blogs?