Recent content by martin ewing

Also submission of site to good high PR directories helps in boosting site's PR too.

I think if your desired name is available with .com, theres no need to look elsewhere. Unless your site is an information site, go for .com.

Most of them are .com and .net

The age of a domain name is one of the many factors in Google's search engine algorithm. In a small way, the age of a domain gives the appearance of longevity and therefore may give the site a higher relevancy score in Google.

CSS may hurt SEO if you use it for "black hat" tricks, On the other hand if you use CSS to make a nice and clean layout and to keep text together it won't harm your site

We do use Skype as a method of communication alongwith others like instant messengers, live chat, forums, email/helpdesk, phone, although it is not used as much as other methods.

I agree with what has been mentioned above. It's not the no. of members that matters, its the no. of active members that matters who can get the conversations going and make the place look busy. It's the activity on forums that entices the visitors to join and post. Nobody will be willing to...

To promote a forum only paid advertising won't be sufficient. You need a substantial no. of active members to make the forums look active. Once you have a good no. of active members who visit and post regularly then you can advertise through which you will get traffic and eventually new members...

A domain name transfer to Registerfly requires a minimum of 1 business day.

You can also install the Google Toolbar on your browser which will display the PR of every site you visit. PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. The higher the PageRank the better it is.

If you are talking about submitting your url to search engines, then don't bother, just concentrate on getting links to your site from sites already indexed by those search engines.

Inexpensive ways to get traffic to your site, make quality posts in forums with link to your site in the forum sig, exchange links with relevant high PR sites and update your site's content regularly.

I agree, your best chance to get the domain would be to contact the owner and make an offer. If the registration expires and you are the only who has backordered that domain only then you get the domain, if there are others who have backordered the same domain it will go into an auction and the...

I think their worth is not much more than the reg fee, .biz tld for celebrity domains doesn't make any sense imo.

.name tld is good for personal websites and personal blogs. For other sites or for reselling purpose it not worth much.