According to a post in Digitalpoint forum, don’t waste your time on search engine submissions if your website is new. It becomes obsolete and ineffective strategy as time pass by. What he would suggest is submission to social bookmarking sites.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1478687

Social media marketing strategies are so much more than acquiring traffic and links from “socialized” content that appear on blogs, or videos that appear on YouTube and are promoting on sites like Digg, Mixx, or Reddit. These are merely tactics. If you don’t have a strategy that includes goals and measurement about these implemented tactics, then it’s as if you’re doing nothing.
http://searchenginewatch.com/3634843

Microsoft’s ad blitz for Bing is still going strong, and it’s starting to hone in on a new target: your wallet. Bing’s latest TV ad, which aired for the first time last night, is focused on Bing Cashback, the program that allows users to save money when they purchase items found using Bing search.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/28/microsoft-introduces-bing-cashback-to-the-masses-with-its-first-tv-ad/

Doubleclick is a prime example of a third-party ad system. Most third-party ad-tracking systems redirect your ad to their server and then to your landing page. This can cause issues with tracking URLs because sometimes a second “?” is added into your URL. The core of this issue is that you are not allowed to have more than one “?” within a URL.
http://www.searchmarketingstandard.com/analyze-this-lesson-three-ppc-analytics-data

As Google has grappled with newspapers firing rip-off accusations at them, one of the key responses has been from Google’s Marissa Mayer. A move to “living URLs” would drive them more traffic, she’s said, talking about it twice this past month. But such a system won’t work unless Google News fundamentally changes how it handles news content. Overall, the “living URL” idea sounds compelling at first glance. But for newspapers to give up individual articles in favor of one “master” piece per topic that’s constantly updated, Google would first have to make some fundamental changes.
http://searchengineland.com/of-living-urls-newspaper-rankings-california-fires-24908

The purpose of ALT text is to describe the image for the benefit of those who surf the Web with images turned off and for those who have the contents of Web pages read out loud to them. The WC3 highly recommends that Web site owners use ALT text to describe images. ALT text was just one piece of 100 different factors to determine ranking.
http://forums.seochat.com/google-optimization-7/images-and-seo-268888.html

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1477721

Multiple metric optimization refers to the class of methods that seek to maximize a marketing goal (for example, ROI/Revenue) using more than one event in the click path. Examples of these metrics are clicks, leads, revenue, purchase, visit time, times of day etc. It is important to note the word “optimization” in the context of bid management necessitates the need for statistical algorithms.
http://searchengineland.com/the-what-whys-hows-of-multiple-metric-optimization-24151

Google is pleased to announce that AdWords API v2009, which was released to a limited whitelist in June, is now available to all API users. Compared to previous versions of the AdWords API, v2009 offers new features and greater speed at a lower cost. Over the next couple of months, according to Google they will be releasing more functionality like asynchronous calls, partial failure acceptance, keyword optimization tools, and reporting.
http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com/2009/08/adwords-api-v2009-beta-now-available-to.html

More small businesses are using paid search, so competition for keywords has grown massively. This increased competition has generally resulted in higher CPCs for many keywords, so the quality of paid search management required to stand out from the competition and achieve profitable results has risen, that’s according to a comment in Search Engine Land.
http://searchengineland.com/9-problems-with-paid-search-9-real-tactics-to-solve-them-24672

Google will expand the current “developer preview” of Google Wave to roughly 100,000 consumer users. According to Google, “included in this group of early testers will be some of the businesses using Google Apps.
http://searchengineland.com/google-expanding-access-to-wave-soon-first-hands-on-impressions-24735

Branded sites have the search engine ranking advantage of a keyword-relevant domain name, but often rank lower than retail partners when attention isn’t paid to title tags, keyword-rich product descriptions, SEO friendly customer review content or worse, the site is built in full Flash without SEO.
http://www.getelastic.com/manufacturer-advantages-in-direct-to-consumer-selling/

Google is constantly experimenting with new features, tools and visual representations to improve the user experience and usefulness of ads. As part of that effort, they’re currently running a test in which images of specific products offered by an advertiser may appear within some text ads on Google search results pages. This experiment helps users quickly find the products they’re looking for, and offers advertisers a new way to engage potential customers. This feature is currently in a limited beta and only visible to a small number of users on shopping-related queries.
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020661.html

A post in a forum says that the size of a homepage doesn’t matter in SEO but it will matter to users when they open the site it will take lots of time and that won’t do any good – that could be irritating at times. And also having too many links on home and as many as 1000 is really not good in an SEO point of view as you are transferring all your link juice to other sites and pages.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1474229

According to SEO Expert on Digitalpoint, WordPress development has added a new feature (Reply to individual comments) which can result in 100+ nofollow links on a heavily commented page. Because nofollow now kills PR this can pretty much destroy the link benefit flowing through a site.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1465343

The Google Mobile blog announced that Arabic and Hebrew mobile searchers are now able to see universal results directly on their mobile devices. Although not related, this comes soon after Google Translated recently added 9 new languages.
http://searchengineland.com/google-mobile-search-adds-universal-flavor-to-arabic-hebrew-searchers-24668

Many newspapers acknowledge that they get lots of traffic from Google News but still somehow think Google owes them money on top of the visitors they get for free. Ironically, that doesn’t seem the case with the Italian papers. They’re complaining (at least according to the New York Times summary) that without Google’s secret sauce to determine news rankings, they can’t get even more than they already receive.
http://searchengineland.com/deunking-the-italian-newspapers-antitrust-allegations-against-google-24698

Your most common file extensions will probably be .html, .php, or .asp – Google’s Matt Cutts has gone on record as saying the search engine is happy to crawl any of those pages and it doesn’t really matter which extension you choose of the three. However, he does warn against using extensions such as .exe, .dll, and .bin. These extensions signify mostly binary data, so are largely ignored by the search engine crawlers.
http://www.searchmarketingstandard.com/url-structure-seo

Today, URLs have little or no impact on search engine rankings; however, URL optimization is still crucial for several reasons. Optimized PHP URLs prevent duplicate content and help search engine spiders crawl better.
http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Search-Engine-Optimization-Help/Creating-Search-Engine-Friendly-URLs-with-PHP/

Domain name keywords really do help, although it does not mean everything of course. As a general rule of thumb, it would be best to keep some of target keywords in the domain name. Using shared domains or subdomains can really hurt SERPS.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1472747

Allen Hill says in Digitalpoint, if other websites are hosted on different IPs, you will definitely get good benefit for the main website in terms of search engine rankings and PR. However, content on each website which are pointed towards the main website also make a huge difference and hence the content should also be given some importance.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1469486

Collecta, the real-time search engine that launched in June, has announced a set of upgrades to its site today. The most noteworthy is the addition of a social sharing/bookmarking tool that lets users share or save a Collecta search on any of six social media sites, including Twitter, Facebook, and StumbleUpon. Collecta has also modified its search results display so that the user avatar or web site logo appears next to the search result.
http://searchengineland.com/collecta-adds-social-sharing-other-features-24582

According to Search Engine Land, Microsoft’s crawler isn’t like a normal browser. Crawlers don’t normally report referrer data. MSNbot isn’t doing searches on its own Bing search engine, then following listings to visit new pages. But despite this, it’s acting as if it does.
http://searchengineland.com/bing-continues-with-fake-referrers-what-part-of-stop-dont-they-understand-24589

Duplicate title tags can lead to “keyword cannibalization” where more than one page on your site compete for ranking on the same search term. This is closely related to the problem of duplicate content.
http://searchenginewatch.com/3634671

Google started to show some special sitelinks for Wikipedia articles. As you probably know, sitelinks are links to popular sections of a site that help you navigate directly from Google’s search results pages. The sitelinks for Wikipedia results are special because Google doesn’t send you to a different page, but to a section of the article. This is especially useful for long articles that include a lot of information.
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/08/google-sitelinks-for-wikipedia.html

Meta tags don’t really affect page rank anymore. They used to be a huge thing, but people decided to overuse it and now it’s the backlinks that are the most important to websites.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1471761

According to Cyberblogteam in Digitalpoint, their blog has been ranking well on the SERPs even when it didn’t have a tag cloud, but they had a boost in rankings, and eventually traffic, by the time they included one. Moreover, it will be easier for visitors to see what an entire blog is all about by simply having a glimpse of that tag cloud.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1471094

SEO, without proper architecture is really nothing more than a stop-gap measure. This is a common frustration for both SEO and site owner alike. The site owner spends thousands of dollars on a new design and then the SEO can’t do anything with it.
http://www.searchengineguide.com/stoney-degeyter/putting-seo-frosting-on-a-website-dung-p.php

A comment in a blog says that RSS feed has been a great help for him these past few days. According to him, it lessened his time searching for a blog with new contents to read. It presents convenience for readers and traffic for blog owners.

http://www.searchengineguide.com/stoney-degeyter/dont-let-your-new-go-to-waste-rss-it.php

Reasons for ranking changes can be boiled down to three basic events: 1) Your site changes, 2) a competitor’s site change, or 3) the search engine algorithm changes. Or it could be any combination of the three.
http://www.searchengineguide.com/stoney-degeyter/rankings-change-heres-how-to-deal-with-i.php

A comment in a blog post says that it is important to have a defensible marketing strategy. The only pitfall of relying on Google is if you fall foul of their T&C’s and they shut you down. Unfortunately, Bing and Yahoo are providing too low revenue stream for most business to spend time with, even if the ROI is good.
http://searchenginewatch.com/3634758

Fast delivery is the key to success. Website speed optimization (load time) can help you increase conversion rates, win more customers and improve their satisfaction. Think of Google’s approach to search and the milliseconds it takes to display results; it was one of many reasons people loved it when it first came out, though this speed is taken for granted today.
http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Search-Engine-Optimization-Help/Optimizing-Your-Web-Page-Speed/

Someone says in Digitalpoint that it is better to add content and build links at the same time, because it gives the impression to Google that your website is growing naturally (getting links and fresh content continuously). Most of the time regularly updated websites get better rankings than static websites.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1467239

According to a forum, changing the <meta name=”description”> element is NOT going to affect your ranking at Google. They ignore both <meta name=”description”> and <meta name=”keywords”> when ranking URLs for a particular keyword phrase. However, the <meta name=”description”> is important not for ranking but instead for click-thru-rates.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1470541

Someone asked about how Microsoft’s deal impacts the search side of Yahoo. Yahoo answered that they will innovate on the front end, not on the backend gathering of web pages, but on how the information is displayed to users and personalized based on the data Yahoo has.
http://searchengineland.com/live-blogging-yahoos-product-call-24367

With video search, meta-tag content actually affects rankings in the video search engines. Ideally, use important keywords in the video title, meta-tags (keywords and description), and on the page where the video appears, whenever possible.
http://searchengineland.com/optimizing-for-re-finding-search-behavior-23025

Searching for the synonyms of any keyword is an essential part of the keyword research process. Synonyms make your copy look richer and more natural. What’s also important is that they account for most unexpected (“natural”) long tail search referrals.
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/keyword-research-synonyms/12540/

Official Google Mobile Blog announced that the mobile phone optimized Image Search Results is now available for most phones other than the iPhone and Android-powered phones. In addition, this new Image Search results will also be available in 38 languages.
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/web-optimized-google-image-search-results-now-supports-other-phones/12645/

According to Matt, location-specific SERPS are not yet really implemented across Google networks. For as long as those sites with .com TLDs are relevant to the search term, Google will continue to rank them higher than sites that end with .co.uk.  provided those sites are relevant search results.
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/why-there-are-more-generic-com-tld-results-in-uk-serps/12652/

A post in a forum says that it’s important to not focus too much on optimizing for Search Engines and Spiders. Instead, by optimizing right for actual Human Visitors you will in turn be optimizing for the Spiders. The most important thing to have is unique content that visitors actually want to read. If they like it they are more apt to provide a link to your site or that individual content, in turn those links show the Search Engines that your Site is valued.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1450672

Peter Lee in Digitalforum says that there is a free service he used to get plenty of one-way links. It’s called Free Traffic System. According to other people who also used it, says it didn’t only helped them get massive amount of one-way links, it also helped their keywords to get to the first page of Google.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1420518

Yahoo shows the result that are very close based on the text being shown on the website compared to Google. They show most related not just the text but the whole site’s services or purpose.
http://www.submitexpress.com/bbs/about19189.html

Jokarl says in SE Roundtable that Bing is actually pretty good and he started to get more and more traffic from Bing. Meaning that more and more people use it to search online and another alternative to Google.
http://forums.seroundtable.com/showthread.php?t=4509

Search engines are incorporating another factor into their ranking algorithm – user behavior data. Search giants (Google in particular) have collected, and continue to collect, enough data to start using it as a ranking factor.
http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Search-Engine-Optimization-Help/The-Emerging-Importance-of-Behavioral-Data-in-Rankings/

The Privacy Policy in the footer of your site is not SEO but it is just for Google Adsense purpose, according to a post in Digitalpoint. If you have Privacy Policy in your adsense blog or website, you can have a better adsense value for you ads and most advertisers will trust to advertise on your site or blog.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1462341

A forum poster says that the best way to attract new traffic and visitors are blogging and microblogging. There are also more strategies which allows you to publish great unique content easily just like WordPress.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1453528

According to Bertrand-Grospellier in a forum, he doesn’t use automatic submission because although you have saved some of your time, the results would not be as satisfying as manual submission. Some would not even be submitted when you do automatic submission while some would be considered a spam.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1446137

Semantically structuring your mark up helps search engines understand the content of your webpage which is of course a good thing. Making proper use of heading elements is essential because search engines give more weight to the content within the heading elements.
http://www.submitexpress.com/bbs/about19706.html&sid=a0f2698bd61888e3e1d68c0c38f3788d

The concept behind Social Media Optimization is simple: implement changes to optimize a site so that it is more easily linked to, more highly visible in social media searches on custom search engines (such as Technorati), and more frequently included in relevant posts on blogs, podcasts and vlogs.
http://www.submitexpress.com/bbs/about19728.html&sid=a0f2698bd61888e3e1d68c0c38f3788d

In a forum post, Bhawana says that the first way and easiest way in getting site indexed very quickly is to create a JumpTag for your site. Just create an account at Jumptags.com and create a bookmark. The reason this works so well is because Jumptags will put all new bookmarks on the very front page, which means that your link will also be on the front page, and Google will spider it.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1464955