Does anyone know… how to start a search engine optimization firm?
- Tai N. M / Guwahati, India

Pretty broad question. I’d say that you’d be following whatever local registration process applies to any other service oriented company.

Once you are properly registered, you’ll need customers, I recommend developing relationships with web developers and trying to capture their customers’ SEO requests, even if you have to pay the company a fee for the referrals that become your customers.

Once you have success for your SEO customers, advertise it, let people know what you did and encourage them to contact you so you can do the same for them.

Hope this basic outline helps!

-Ryan
3PRIME

How can I promote paid android application for free. Can you please write me forums, websites where can I publish review my android app, or video. Or maybe you have another advices how to promote it.

- Богдан К. 21 / M / Aachen, Germany

I’d recommend you find websites and blogs that are used by people in your audience and participate in them. As you become a recognized member of the community, your application will spark interest and give you the opportunity to promote it to “warm” contacts.

Thanks!
- Богдан К. 21 / M / Aachen, Germany

In the words of John Hodgman, You’re Welcome!

Is getsatisfaction.com good for SEO? Versus hosting something like WP-answers.com yourself on your own domain? My strategy for SEO is q&a content and I want to maximize the effectiveness of the content. Thanks!
- James M. 23 / M / Columbus, OH

I don’t know much about their program, but I’d say that if you want to be able to optimize your Q&A content, non of those programs are going to provide a really good way to do it

Instead, participate with these platforms and cherry-pick the pieces that best represent your answers and implement them as content.

What exactly are backlinks and how can I create them on my own for my website?
- Joel G. 21 / M / Smyrna, GA

A backlink, or link back, or inbound link is just a link to your website.

Since these links are, by definition, from other websites, you have to create relationships with other domains, other websites, to build your inbound links.

There are a variety of ways to do this, all of which have a cost in either money or time. For a link building package suited to your needs, please contact us. We’d be glad to help!

What part of the visits of a media website come from search engines?
- Dfg D. 29 / M / Paris, France

Do you have an analytics or website visitor statistics program or report that you can view?

If you were using Google analytics, you’d examine the “Traffic Sources” and you’d be able to identify how many visitors came from search engines. They even provide a nifty bar graph that consolidates into categories.

If you need your website updated get in touch, we’d be glad to help!

What is the best free online resource about SEO that you know?
– Mehdi S. M / Queens, NY

Google!!!!

Just Kidding. I wouldn’t rely on any one source, and no matter what you read, only your own experience, founded on exactly what you’ve done for a given website, serves you in making great choices for SEO activities.

Is there any online tool to get website seo preliminary report?
– Hareesh M. M / Kerala, India

I suggest www.WebsiteGrader.com.

This will give you a quick overview of the vital statistics for a given website.

Does anyone know a good and reasonable priced Link Building company? (SEO)

- Roy P. 27 / M / Tel Aviv, Israel

Hi Roy,

I’d introduce myself and my company for this service. We can do large packages or small groups, reciprocal links only. We also hire out one-way linking from other firms, but reciprocal linking we do in house because of the relationship development with new link partners.

Depending on your goals and assets (domain, ranking) I can provide you with a recommendation.

We are at www.3-PRIME.com, with link building info here.

For purposes of SEO, should the title tag of my blog post be the same as the post headline?

- Patrick H. 35 / M / Stow, MA

Not necessarily, unless you want to rank for the exact phrases you use as your headlines.

I’d recommend to use the title tag do target 1-2 keyphrases containing in your headline, and use your headline to employ those keyphrases in a useful sentence, providing semantic usage of both the keyphrase and context for its usage.

Thanks Ryan. Would their be any harm in using the same?

No, my recommendation is just a better practice, not a necessity. For the sake of simplicity, you can definitely use the same info for both places with no harmful outcome.

where and how should I add meta tags in my html code to improve my SEO?
- Matias P. M / Montreal, Canada

Meta tags belong between the <head> tags near the top of your HTML code.

The tags you definitely want to have are:

Title tag – Not technically a meta tag but definitely to be included, Most important tag for SEO and deifnitely includes your primary keywords for the page.
<title></title>

Description Tag – Second most important tag, use sentences, make a pitch if you can, but definitely include your keywords here.
<meta name="description" content="" />

Keywords Tag – Separate your keywords with commas, or group into phrases, lot of flexibility here and a lot of conflicting advice exists.
<meta name="keywords" content="" />

Robot Meta Tags
Primary Robots Tag – Instructs robots, or search engine software, to include your content in their search index and follow the links on this page to others in your website
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />

Slurp No Yahoo Directory description tag – Tells Yahoo search engine to use your meta description instead of a description they find in the yahoo directory.
<meta name="slurp" content="noydir" />

Google bot tag – Similar to robots tag, provides directions to Googlebot. It is not necessary but can’t hurt.
<meta name="Googlebot" content="index,follow" />

Note, the examples above use the XML-style closing tag. Leave out the trailing / if your page is not xhtml.