You can read what I think he’ll do at SEO Link Baiting – Give Stuff Away.

2) I am not convinced that working to conform to all the details of “good” SEO (which changes all the time) will pay. In other words, as a hobbiest, I think that if I spend time conforming to all the details of SEO, I will end up working for pennies per hour. I hear of bloggers making $12,000 per month, but how much time in total have they spent working for that money (from the very beginnings of web-site development and onwards), and how much of their income is derived from the “benevolent” clicks of friends and fellow salesmen? In fact, how many of these top bloggers are actually salesmen who have already spent years (thousands of hours) developing their network of contacts and “friends”?

Having a sales network of contacts and friends who reciprocate by advertising your web site and visiting your web site, may be far more important than SEO (and all that hype).

I tend to stay away from the repurposed country level codes (like .pro) for fear of building a business on something that is going to get repurposed again in a different way. Who wants to invest in something that might fail and/or get taken away even if you do a great job of marketing?

If I served a local market, I would gladly buy the real local domain (.ca, .de, .co.uk, etc).

Domains have 3 big effects on SEO

credibility – it is easier to trust a report about the credit card industry from credit cards.com than say from applyonlinefreecreditnow.info

keywords in anchor text – if your name contains your keywords then some people will link to your site with keywords in the anchor text

exact match of keywords – if you are creditcards.com then it may be fairly easy for you to rank for credit cards in Google (at least relative to not having a matching name). this bonus does not exist for credit-cards.com

>Some SEO Guru’s whatever are trying to say that his book is misleading some SEOs ‘coz it is full of misinformation…

Seo is a field full of misinformation. You can’t be as luck and successful as I have been without someone less successful trying to beat you down for it.

Great book nonetheless! (some of the tools actually did help me to find local sites I needed)

Blogging is such a powerful form of social media and a great tool for businesses. I am from VA and we recently saw what an impact bloggers can have. Our VA legislators slipped in a bill that normally would have been slid under the rug but with the power of blogs and viral marketing many legislators wished they had voted against it!

Thanks again and I look forward to your helpful content!

Some SEO Guru’s whatever are trying to say that his book is misleading some SEOs ‘coz it is full of misinformation… My point is how come this SEO guru is telling that kind of comments… It is posted in some forums…

But I still say that Aaron Wall’s books really a great help for SEO Specialist out there…

With most generic domain names already taken in the readily recognized .com, .net., .info, etc. realm, what importance do you place on the domain name in SEO?

For example, there are the .pro, .md and lots of other country-based and other more obscure extensions — that, while they are more expensive and require some hurtles to overcome to acquire, they appear to offer access to generic word domain names that have been long-since taken for .com. Would it be better–in terms of SEO–to have a generic word domain name like loans.pro or influenza.md, or not worry about the domain name not being available in .com or .net and relying upon SEO in the content?

It is inaccurate for new pages but tends to be more accurate for older pages. I think you can tell how important a page is based on a variety of factors outside of PageRank
- how well integrated a page is into a site
- how often you see it referenced elsewhere
- how important and unique a page feels
- do link research using Yahoo! or MSN tools (note that MSN tools are currently not working, but they are private beta testing some sweet tools at the moment)

I wouldn’t trust Alexa stats that much because there is too much of a bias toward webmaster related sites. If you do look at stats like Alexa try to triangulate them against Compete.com stats and Quantcast stats to confirm the data.

okay, so what you wish to convey is that the google’s pagerank is a bit stale. Okay, that point is taken. Normally when I try to analyze the importance of my webpage on the net, I mostly rely on the pagerank, my readers’ count and technorati authority score. Although I’ve heard a lot about alexa, I ain’t sure how good it is. What’s your opinion, may I ask?