I open this thread as quick-list, please only also post quick facts/answers, not very long "hamster health theory" Let me start so ... 1. HTML/ASP/PHP , generally do not matter, you will get the same results. 2. Links from web directories do not work. Don't spend hudrents/thousans of dollars on paid web directories. 3. Links farms do not work 4. Forums signatures won't rise you in SERPs. (maybe it will help if you will get from different domains/forums, more then 40,000 signatures from the same domain) 5. You can't be a rich man with 1$,and you can't get good serps with 1 single backlink 6. Usually everything you should to do to increse your SERPs it's to get more backlinks 7. How I can get more quality backlinks? -trade services for links -link exchange (with revelant sites) -buy links -link baiting 8. PageRank it's important to SEO 9.If you have dynamic pages you should do an .htaccess rewrite . Because a) nobody want to buy links from www.site.com?page=5666 , but they would like to buy from www.site.com/page5666/ b) it will be easier for google to index them. 10.Invisible text. Very easy to detect. Well at less it’s easy to detect if you do <body bgcolor=white> and then do a <font color=white> , I think you can easy trick google by - using CSS - Use image as background. Like having <body bgcolor=black><table background=â€white.jpgâ€><font color=white> Here they are 10, now take 4 more as a bonus 11. Keyword stuffing. Blue blue blue blue dog, on the very dark blue cat, won’t get you anywere for blue word 12. Is PageRank important to SEO?! Yes it is. Actually the whole google system it’s based on your website popularity. The most popular your website is more better backlinks you will get, and this will rise your PR. 13.Does alexa rank affect my SERPs in Yahoo&Google? No, even if you will find many people saying it is … there is no proof about it 14.Can alexa rank be manipulated? Yes but not in a big way. If you install alexa toolbar you can rise your alexa a little bite, but it will be very hard to trick the system to get lower then 50,000. Green repp apreciated!
I'm sure people will pick lots of problems in this. Just yesterday people were yelling at me saying that PR and SERPs are unrelated while I think PR is a representation of backlinks meaning they are related. Alexa rank can be easily manipulated - there is such think as a page refreshes, you realize? I could automatically refresh my website 10,000 times with the toolbar to get a high rank. You can be a rich man with $0!! (You just have to have hosting and a domain) Forum signatures will at least help you to get your pages indexed which will get you SERPs. To get backlinks you could always provide quality content... Some people think directory submissions help SERPs. Your www.site.com/page5666/ should really be re-written to www.site.com/page-title/.
I wouldn't say that page rank is important to seo per say. Remember there are other search engines out there. What I would say is page rank is a good way to see how the algorithm google uses perceives the quality of your site.
That's the best quote i've heard for today - Your www.site.com/page5666/ should really be re-written to www.site.com/page-title/. , yes, if you known how to do it, then yes