I have been using Keyword Country for the last week to find niches for new sites. I guess there is an evolution in every SEO’s life where eventually they have to go after the creme of the crop keywords and test their skills. The reason I like Keyword Country is because I can find how much the average click in a particular niche is going to be as an adsense publisher. Most similar tools only show the advertiser CPC, which is often...

With the new “Submit and Blog it” feature on Digg, we can hit two birds with one stone. Lately I have been thinking about what makes a story viral, particularly on Digg or Netscape. I have been studying a lot of the top users on these sites and I notice one of two common things. The first is a lost cause because it has to do with the age of the user’s account, some of the top users on Digg have been there since near the...

And they will always matter. You see, for every person that says tool bar pagerank or alexa ranking doesn’t matter, there is somebody who says it does. And those people tell other people it matters and there are always new breeds of people coming in obsessed with pagerank or alexa. Many of us agree that it in fact pagerank and alexa doesn’t matter when trying to rank our websites. Much more important is the perceived authority...

Here are the top 40 high-traffic Social Networking sites according to alexa.com .You should be looking at a lot of these for launching viral campaigns or new websites. 4. Youtube.com 6. Myspace.com 8. Orkut.com 11. Hi5.com 12. Facebook.com 15. Blogger.com 18. Friendster.com 20. Fotolog.com 21. Ebay.com 22. Sohu.com (Chinese) 35. Flickr.com 36. Photobucket.com 37. Tom.com (Chinese) 41. Imageshack.us 42. Wretch.cc (chinese) 46....

About 3 months back, Myspace.com started to put their own version of link condoms on all external links using a redirect method. All links left in a comment would go through msplinks.com before hitting the destination site. A month ago, all profiles on Myspace.com were also converted to using the redirect method. Shortly after, bulletins were included too. This meant that not only was most of the SEO value gone from any Myspace link but...