John LA

Doing things other that web design can only consume a little of your time if you want quick money. There are lots of sites that offers jobs to new providers. You can have your first income in no time.

Researching keywords related to their site can give them enough traffic. Don't focus on the main keywords or the business name itself. Give emphasis to the (as been said) long tail keywords. This can be done by finding keywords that are have 3 or more words like "effective dog training techniques" which possibly have only hundreds of competitions rather than "dog training" which probably would yield millions of competing sites.

PR doesn't have great impact on your rankings. What's important is the traffic that come to your site that can potentially give you earnings. When will Google update?? everyday.

Nofollow links pointing to the cart's site can't give negative effect to SEO. This is essentially a part of your site. You can always add backlinks to your site to give more traffic and customers. Don't worry about PR, what's important is the amount of traffic your site receives.

Interlinking you internal pages like in wordpress blogs. You should have meta descriptions and keywords. You should have your keywords in the url of your pages.

For me, building one way links your way is still the best. You can always get backlinks by blog commenting and social bookmarking on your own. Also, article submission is also a great traffic generator as well as backlinks.

I think copywriting. haha. Anyway, the right articles that are uniquely written are what search engines are looking for for your site to rank well. Not Copyrightying,

You can always hire freelancers from freelancing sites if you wish for good rankings and not dealing with fraud. You are just literally burning you money if you do so.

Rankings are dynamic. The main reason maybe that the competing sites are ranking well now that your site is set aside and overtaken. You should not worry about that particular keyword not ranking well. You can stil rank for other keywords related to your site. Start with keyword research and you can find lots of keywords (many searches - low competition) that you can rank well which will give you traffic and profit.

Submitting article to article directories cannot only give you backlinks but also traffic from the readers themselves. These articles will also have a PR on their own as readers come everyday thus giving you long term traffic.