Hi Guys, I have sent out the questions below to a number of online marketing companies and 'wellknown' marketing gurus and thought i'd throw it open to DP members ... So if you have 5 minutes to spare ... let me know what you think about the questions below ? how would you answer them. The questionnaire results are being used in a marketing study by a UK student studying maketing (online/offline) I said i would help him and try and get some people to take part. Thanks. 1) What is the best and most important search engine with regards to seo and FREE traffic and why? MSN - better quality of traffic.? 2) Best search engine for paid traffic? ppc etc ... Yahoo - very good ppc engine with good quality leads from click throughs ... more conversions then google and msn? 3) Top 5 most important seo factors for a web site? 1 being the highest ... 1. link building 2. w3c approved code 3. press releases 4. title tag 5. image alt tags 4) Top 5 most important DO NOTS for seo on a web site? 1. link farms 2. hidden text 3. duplicate content 4. key word stuffing 5. duplicate sites on different domains 5) Google page rank? live by it or ignore it? does it have any effect? 6) Top 5 ways to market your web site online? free or paid. 7) Top 5 ways to market your web site offline? free or paid. 8) First steps in planning a web site? what should you do ... 8) Best way to decide your keywords/phrases? tools to use? 9) Checking your inbound links? how? tools? 10) seo software? should you use automated software for seo reasons? 11) The future of seo? whats going to count in 2007/08? 12) Favorite success story online? ebay? google? friendsreunited.co.uk? YOUTUBE? 13) Finally ... have your say about online marketing/seo ? anything you want to add.