Dear Ross
I wonder if you can advise on how I should set up a menu structure (template) for a new site in a way which is optimal for search engine positioning:
Question 1: Are Internal Page Titles Important?
I enjoyed your article "10 Minute Search Engine Optimization" and found it quite timely as we're about to roll out a new version of our website...and I have next to no promotion budget!
Dear Ross,
I'm still not too clear on this whole PageRank thing that Google does. From what I can gather, the incoming links have no weight in the PageRank, only links leaving my site and going to other sites (so competitors can't lower your PageRank by linking to you with low-ranked sites). So, all I have to do is find all the highly ranked pages out there, and link to them? Or do they have to be in the same general category as my site? What's to stop me from creating several sites at several different domains, each under a slightly different yet overlapping category, and linking to the top PageRanked sites (to give my sites high PageRanks), then linking each of my sites together to get even higher PageRanks?
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