Anyone Interested in SEO? or Internet marketing?

Hi,

I have a big interest in marketing, and I suppose that ties in with Internet Marketing. I have a small list of contacts for both offline and online marketing that I hope to tap into one day to get my product/services out there.

How are you involved with SEO and Internet Marketing? Many years of experience? I am quite young and so I just have motivation and curiosity to fuel me :]

I am involved in SEO as that is how I earn my living. I work with other people, have my own sites, and own portions of other peoples businesses as part of profit share deals set up.

I have been an online marketer since about 5 years before Google existed, set up my first websites in 1995, got them to number 1 on Altavista, lycos, hotbot, alltheweb etc, and then set about working out why they had got there, and in the cases of why they weren't there, why OTHER sites were there.  There were no forums back then, we all just got on with things ourselves, and eventually bumped into each other on message boards, and then we started sharing information.

It was too soon for the Uk so most of my contact was in the US, where I was a founder member of some of the biggest web marketing sites on the internet, like digital point, and highrankings, search enginewatch, webmasterworld etc.

I guess I was/am driven to learn, I HAVE to know why something happens, and I get to make half decent money out of it as well

Hi Old Welsh Guy

I'm very much interested in SEO.  I run a website so it is in my interest to learn about it!

So many people, particularly small business owners, fail to recognise the importants of a good Google ranking in terms of genterating trust and most importantly... sales!

Any good advice you can give regarding SEO would be very much appreciated.


Liam

Ok, if you had to give someone 5 top tips for generating good quality inbound links what would you recommend?!  Only 5... and make 'em good 

Thanks Old Welsh Guy, you're very good...  I love that top 5 list and will be cracking on with it asap!  I'm trying to build up the content of my website and some of it has been bookmarked.  As for the viral thing I'm going to have to have a good think about that one, the same goes for the competition.

With regard to point 4, would that not leak a fair bit of page juice though?


Liam

I need to ask that is it possible that google give a domain PR of 2 and domain uploaded only an image. How is it possible?

Can i have an example? How can you get PR to a page that doesn't exist!

So how can you write this:
"The content of a page has no bearing on the PR a page gets. You can get PR to a page that doesn't exist!"

Hi 'Old Welsh Guy'

Marketing is a life-long obsession for me, so I tend to regard SEO as a necessary evil

If you're interested in discussions of a technical nature, I'm up for that. And if you're happy to wander into other areas of online marketing, I'm keen for that too. Anything from a debate on where the primary keyword ought to go in the title tag, though to whether or not CAPTCHA's elimination of spam is worth the hit in response.

It's all good as far I'm concerned.

Regards
Wayne

I like your site rizz, a bit late for me to get married though

Thanks for your information. I like do SEO, but know little about it. I only know the best way to update the website ranking in google is to update the content of the website.

Hi Old Welsh Guy. I have a question for you. What do you think if more valuable these days, social bookmarking back-links or article directory backlinks? I'm thinking of both direct SEO and to drive relevant traffic.

good, I'm finding the value of article writing getting less and less.

Articles are great, as long as they are done properly and post submission is also done properly.

As spock says, it isn't black and white here.