Pamil Visions

Of course they realize it is a forum signature. It may not count as a valuable link (to give you higher PageRank in Google) but, it might bring you other benefits: targeted traffic. You shouldn't post in just any forum, but related forums. Btw: it doesn't matter how well you rank for some keywords if no one is searching for those keywords! You should really focus on what brings revenue for your website and not on SE rankings and PR. Provide quality and both SE and visitors will be satisfied.

Well, when it comes to mega pixels I never get enough. For me it's always "more, more". I guess I am an addict of image quality... I always look for "those little details".

Not bad at all, Evie. I am a great admirer of your work. Btw, I have a client that needs a company/product presentation CD (interactive). Do you do something like this? Any price quotes I could see to show to my client?

That's exactly my worry. I hope Google finds a way to idetify the website that published the content first. Imagine what could happen if a competitor will decide to copy your contents and scatter it around the Web! OMG!

Not such a good idea, Papia. There are many accessibility issues that speak against this technique. Besides, if your website is good enough, your visitors will know how to use the back button. Let them choose whether to come back or not, and don't annoy them with new windows. Or if you really believe this is a good thing, better warn your visitors that a certain link will open a new window.

LOL, Ben! That tool gives me a PR 5. That's stunning. I hope it's right. But I am not so sure. I guess it takes into consideration links that google ignore. We will see...

...a mild cigar and a glass of cognac. But my 2007 resolution says no more drinking, not even for fun (I'm trying to help someone quit drinking) so I'll just keep the cigar.

Take Eskymo's advice. It's almost the same technique I used. The only difference is that I am not a designer. I do design every now and then, for fun, and I have studied design, but I do not consider myself a designer. I am a journalist first. (now a PR consultant, but that's not so far!)

Well, it is not bad. It's pretty simple. (I love simple sites) Navigable... Quite OK for a family site. I'm waiting to see the "final" result.

Are you serious? Do you really like light text on dark background? Like white on black? On the whole page or just on menus? Dark colors are so depressing when in... large quantities!

You don't need to worry anylonger. If they have duplicate or even somehow duplicate content, Google will find a way to drop their rankings using at first LSI and later on the similarity engine. I see some new SEO tides...

This is fresh: the patent for “Methods and apparatus for estimating similarity” was granted to Google at the very beginning of the year. I though you might be interested in what this will mean (the technology is not implemented just yet, but it's just a matter of time till Google decides to do it) for many websites, especially since we were talking every now and then about content optimization and other SEO techniques. So bye-bye scrapers, welcome authors. The web is waiting.

That's cool! Don't forget to show us when you're done. Or maybe when you just need a hand.

Yes, it's a nice website. But is not really the best I have ever seen. Call it the most entertaining, interactive... but not the best.

I am not pro "static" websites and I agree you have to add content on regular basis. But there are websites and websites and for some adding content so often simply doesn't help and it's a lot of work. I have clients that cannot afford the "luxury" of adding new content. So they have special offers and they chenge these once a month. The strategy works fine for them. You should also take care when you add new content if you have a limited hosting space. 5GB sound enormous but adding content each day might eat up that limit and traffic might affect other factors and cause unexpected expenses - think bandwidth. So I stick to my point: It really depends what kind of website we are talking about.