Alexa Web Search - Top 500

A list of refers to the most popular sites among users in the country.
These are not sites hosted in the country.

Whats the world searching for

Tools

Google: http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?sa=X

Yahoo:http://buzzlog.buzz.yahoo.com/overall/

Marketing ideas

- Directory submission
- Writing articles and posting them to article directories
- Commenting on dofollow blogs. If you can write well then does not matter if its no-follow.
- Posting on forums. Get signature links
- Squidoo Lens Creation: Article writing with targeted keywords
- Yahoo answers: Answering questions regularly. If you site offers solution then link to the relevant page
- Social bookmarkings
- Writting a Press release and submitting to various Press release sites
- Hosting videos of your services on youtube etc with probably a link being displayed
- Wirteup for Google Knol
- Hubpages creation. You can link back to your site if its relevant
- Daily Myspace Bulletins to my friends
- CraigsList.com postings

Scanning for HTML injection vulnerabilities

Is your website vulnerable to HTML injection. This typically happens through your online forms. The vulnerability occurs when user inputs into the form are not filtered by your backend application for special characters used by the Internet browser.

Here is a tool which can assist you with this check.
HTML injection scanner

SEO Link building by submitting to Directories

Linking from a well established site is a popular way for website owners to get traffic to their website as well as improve their sites ranking in the eyes of search engines like Google.com. How does one get these links to point to your site? There are few ways to do this, some of which I know are as follows.

- Link exchange with sites of a similar nature.
- Getting one-way link backs by paying for them.
- Submissions to directories
- Writing articles related to your business, embedding links in them and then submitting the articles to Article directories where they are sources by numerous sites
- Submitting your press release to various PR sites which again are sourced by many sites.
- Promoting your website on Social networking sites.


In this post let me talk about the advantages of promoting on Directories.

There are all kinds of directories. Some offer paid listings, some reciprocal listing and the others free.
Many of them combine the above to offer placements based on the above choices. However there is a huge list of directories that offer submissions for FREE. And I find this the most convenient way of gain link backs to your website.....and all for free.

I am sure one day; Google.com will stop considering link backs from these sites as any value. Well till then we could always use this method of SEO.

Google Suggest

As you type into the search box, Google Suggest guesses what you're typing and offers suggestions in real time. You can choose one by scrolling up or down the list with the arrow keys or mouse. Google outputs a wide range of information to predict the queries users are most likely to want to see. For example, Google Suggest uses data about the overall popularity of various searches to help rank the refinements it offers.

This is a greate resource for an SEO.

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