You really have to be on the ball to keep up with the latest in social sites. Right now a lot of stuff is happening. I was recommended this site called Quassia and its a revenue sharing 2.0 site. I am just getting into it but it drives traffic and it is good to get in on these things early. Here is what they say about themselves:

Qassia is fantastic because you get credit for sharing your intelligence. The more credit you earn, the better your websites will rank. And you get a backlink to your website for every intel you add - only Qassia gives you unlimited quality backlinks.

Last but not least, Qassia also has the best ad revenue sharing system on the Internet, so in effect you get paid for promoting your websites. Qassia rocks!

The more people join Qassia, the more everyone will benefit, so give Qassia a spin. Signing up takes less than a minute, so you’ve got nothing to lose. See ya around!

I may post a review of Quassia in the next couple days but until then you can use my Quassia Sigup link and try it out for yourself.

SEO damage control is a big niche. I was recently talking to a client about removing horrible reviews from Google about their company. If anyone thinking about using their business looked in the search engines first they most likely would have gone somewhere else. A bad employee had given the company a bad name. Yesterday at SearchEngineLand Jeff Quip wrote a similarly themed article called 50+ Sites To Help You Bury Negative Posts and I recommend it to anyone wanting to give their public resume a little facelift.

A wide range of SEO services are offered at affordable costs by seoedge.com. It has been optimizing websites for search engine requirements for good many years. Seoedge.com takes pride in using only white hat techniques to optimize websites for search engines. It has a proven track record of making websites rank high in major search engines. Search engine optimization will increase the page rank and get high targeted traffic to the website.

Seoedge.com suggests two types of SEO packages namely the standard and the professional SEO package. The standard SEO package consists of all basic SEO services like keyword research, onpage optimization, article submission, directory submission, social network links, and blog comment links that help the website rank well in all major search engines like Google, Yahoo! and MSN.

The professional SEO package is a world class optimization service. The optimized site gets traffic not only from major search engines but also form other sources like paid blog reviews, press release submission, and paid website links. The client will be given access to the company’s “seework site” to check the progresses, updates, and reports that are posted on weekly basis.

Other valuable services offered by seoedge.com are as follows: paid link services, keyword analysis & page optimization, reciprocal & one way links campaign, usability analysis & report, PPC management services, directory submission services, article submission services.

ComScore has released their US Search Rankings for September this morning. Google.com remains the market leader, with it’s properties dominating with a 57% market share. This equates to 5.7 Billion Core Searches for the month. The 57% for Google is a half percentage point up from last month.

Yahoo! and Ask properties also saw an increase in market share, while Microsoft lost some ground. Yahoo! came in at 23.7% of total searches, Microsoft properties at 10.3%, and Ask Network at 4.7%.

Total search volume in September was roughly 9.4 Billion total searches, down from 9.8 Billion total searches in August. This can be explained by several reasons - shorter month, long weekend holiday and the return of many students/professionals on summer vacation back to a busy work schedule.

Here is the official Press Release from ComScore

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 of your website in the eyes of google, much of that resulting from the quality of authoritative links pointing to your site. There is so much more than just ranking, however, in a web entrepreneur’s life. There is of course (gasp) selling links on our high pageranked sites and high traffic alexa ranked sites, whether through private sales or text link brokers.

More importantly, many of us are in the game of buying websites or developing them from scratch, building them into revenue making websites and selling them off for a profit. In my opinion this is why pagerank and alexa ranking still matter alot to webmasters. I have sold many sites in the past. Some were high earners that I never should have let go of but did due to various circumstances, while others were sites I just didn’t have time for and leveled off to a point where if I didn’t start maintaining them, the money would start going down. I can tell you the number of times is high that I’ve had buyers shy away from a site because they were a) suspect of high alexa ranking not “matching” the analytics or b) turned off by a low pagerank.

Now I know you are thinking they just don’t know what they are talking about, but it does work both ways. I’ve also sold webmaster related sites for far more than they are worth because a couple of bidders obsessed with the pagerank and more importantly the alexa rank that the sale went through the roof. Of course we all know that webmaster related sites have inflated alexa numbers due to the high volume of alexa tool bars or accompanying firefox extensions that people have on their browsers.

The bottom line is people are still lined up, opening up their wallets for reasons based on pagerank or alexa ranking - and savvy webmasters are still cashing in off of it. As long as this cycle continues, I don’t see why sellers shouldn’t capitalize on it. The debate between whether or not alexa and pagerank matters has been going on for years and that debate isn’t going away anytime soon. So until the people who think pagerank and alexa is important run out of money, it still matters to me.

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 Myspace had the ability to shut off any one link and block it with one push of the button.

People in the Myspace community started to wonder if the Myspace direct would eventually outrank all the resources sites for main keywords, considering so many anchored text links like “Myspace Layouts” now pointing directly to Myspace.com from within all the myspace profiles. Now on msn, msplinks.com is ranking #1 for “Myspace Layouts“. Whether or not we will see a similar fate for Google is unlikely. Hopefully Google can realize that people looking for myspace layouts aren’t looking for the myspace homepage, which is where  msplinks.com redirects to.

Some people in the Myspace resource communtiy are starting to fear Myspace starting their own resource site. Some people are forgetting they already own the largest one, Photobucket.com . Essentially what Myspace has done with this msplinks.com redirect, intentionally or not, is allowed millions of users do the seo for them. It does really show the power of links from one authority site in such a great number - at least in msn.

While this does look bad for those in the myspace resource industry, at the end of the day it is Myspace’s own site and they will do with it as they please, intelligent or not. That’s why it’s best not to have all your eggs in one basket.

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MSN used to rank new pages very quickly, however, lately this is not the case. I know backlinks rule in MSN and it is filled with spam, yet one of my sites that has done 100k uniques organic visits this month from Google alone, has seen only 3 MSN hits.

I suspect there is some type of problem going on indexing new sites, or their algorithm simply does not index new sites quickly anymore, which many people have suspected for some time now.

I will keep you updated on this website situation. I should mention that old sites I have and am editing, the changes do show up in MSN serps within a couple of days. This adds to my suspicion this only affects new sites and or pages.