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This is against Facebooks T&C and I know a number of folk who had accounts closed so be careful, slow and steady, as with link building. AddSocials and YouLikeHits are others.

Just search for your domain on Google and see if it shows up. Use 'SITE:xxxxxxx.com' It is likely you have just dropped down the rankings, and you may (or may not) bounce back up. Just keep using good content and link building.

You will find that the average bounce rate, according to Google is 40%, but if your site is really niche then don't worry if it is say 60%. Just try and make sure your pages desription and title actually match what is on the page, and make sure it is not slow loading, people can't be bothered...

Make sure the landing pages contain exactly what they are looking for by the search phrase they use. Offer something free to collect email addresses, this is a MUST for all web sites, then set up an autorepsonder. I really recommended in-house software for this, no need to use online services.

In the old days it was once necessary to use BOLD and ITALIC throughout your content in order to make keyword phrases stick out. This helped the search engines discover relevancy to your website. However as with all SEO, at some level it is abused, but does it turn out to be pointless? The...

You can get a plugin for Wordpress to prevent the search engines indexing tags, archives, etc, or you can add them to your robots.txt In reality though, Google and the other search engines just ignore duplicates.

You can find many free sites on the internet for Search Engine Submission, but it it not really required these days as the spiders will find you as long as you are getting backlinks, but it is always worth the effort for a beginner to do Search Engine Submission

The Wordpress update only upgrades the core files, and you should not have edited them. Any editing you have done would probably be on a theme or plugin, and these are not included as part of a WP update so go ahead and do it. Always backup before though: Snapshot Backup is a free plugin.

I took it off all my blogs and forums as you get many false positives with it, and they cause more issues in lost members than the spam. Not that I get much spam as I use other WP plugin to combat it.

You only have to look how long Linux has been around and it still isn't popular or user friendly.

For backlinking use something like fastBlogFinder and just do 5-20 a day spread over nofollow/dofollow PR0-8. After you have been doing it a while the backlink counts certainly mounts up, and commenting should only take you 30 minutes. Plus it is just a one-off payment, whereas backlinking with...

Search the internet for an SEO Guru and you will get pages and pages of sites with folk trying to sell you something, most of it outdated and useless. So how do you know if and SEO guru is any good? If you are new to SEO then you are likely to be not so much scammed, but given information that...

For those of you in the EU who run a Wordpress blog and have not incorporated the option to make people aware of cookies on your site then you are in fact breaking the law. The UK have given a 'free year' before they take action, but this expires in May. In order to incorporate the...

Just make sure you use the keyword near the front of the first paragraph and near the end of the last one. You can bold one and italic another to make them stand out for the search engines unless you want the look to be consistent.

It depends on your PR and when Google expects to find new content on your site. One of the sites I run has a very active forum and new posts appear on Google within 20 minutes, whereas one of my blog sites it can take up to 24 hours for a new article to appear. Always post a few links from Web...

This is why you must install and run them one at a time. Physically delete them all, don't disable them, or in your plugins make a folder called OLD and move them all into that. Then put them back on one-by-one so you find out which one slows the blog down.

You can't really put a number on how many plugins you use, you install the ones you need. Some like the Google XML Sitemap one only run once a day, or per published post, depending on your setting so it really just sits in the background and does nothing. Whereas WP-Insert is working every page...

I think Microsoft should not have forced the changes so rapidly on users. I know for a fact it has effected sales with companies, for example one I know, just bought over 50 laptops for the staff. all with Windows 7 Pro on, taskbar, start menu, and others things put them off switching OS. No...

Google now flags sites with biased Dofollow links and downgrades them so you need to keep them around 50/50 these days to keep them natural looking, so hunting down dofollow sites is pretty much a waste of time these days.

The problem with Google's disavow tool is that they don't tell you which are bad links and which aren't. I run some blogs poeple can submit content on and I have lost count of the requests to have links removed, links that by removing would have a negative effect on their site!!! If you didn't...