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Tired of wasting time digging for relavant directories and submitting forms?

I will submit your site on a regular basis for a low monthly fee.
I will provide a monthly report of link submission results for an ongoing rate of $100/month.

The number varies. I go through a large list - around 800 to 1000 to start (depending on the category) and weed out the ones that do not accept free links. Of course if you’re willing to front a budget I can include various pay sites as well.

Once the initial submitting is done, I continuously watch for new sites.

The main advantages are that I do it manually (by hand - me personally), I make sure it is submitted to the proper category - which is benefit over automated software, and I keep a record and status of whether it’s been approved, pending or rejected, so as not to duplicate submissions.

Like I said, this deal is meant for people who have better things to do with their time, as I’ve developed a rather quick way to gather the data I need and submit in a timely fashion - while still retaining the human element.

As for the number of links ongoing, it depends on how many new directories get discovered and passed on down the chain to me. My best guess is approximately 100 per week.

If $50 at sitepoint still sounds like a better deal you, then go for it. I’m looking for people who want personal attention and possibly develop an ongoing relationship, seo consulting, and web development expertise for their site. I would be discussing techniques, new strategies, etc. over the phone on a weekly basis.

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You can reach Anthony Ettinger by email: anthony@chovy.com or phone: +1-408-656-2473 (9am-6pm PST).

Google’s Pagerank has once again danced.

I’ve noticed my work-in-progress web development consulting site went from a 0 to a pagerank 1 or 2, depending on which data center servers you ask. This is a bit of a suprise to me, seeing as how I only have 2 maybe 3 links on the internet linking back to it.

Utuxia Consulting has been live for about 3 months now with any real content, although the domain was purchased about a year ago.

My latest online venture has been the gardening tips blog and forum although I’ve been aggressively submitting to link directories, it has yet to show any pagerank.

There’s been some talk lately about Google’s newly released Adwords playground for testing your adwords campaigns without racking up charges for yourself.

Try searching for your targeted adword campaigns in the search with the “adtest=on” parameter in the url. It’s a handy way to see where and when your ads will show up and how often.

At first look, this sounded like a no-brainer. “Well of course, why not?” you say.

I didn’t think it would be an issue, obviously financial sites I access are password protected. However, I did incidently make the mistake of visiting an admin url that was not password protected during an install for an application on one of my forums.

I didn’t discover it for quite awhile, until I did an “inurl:” search on my domain name, and saw the php error that was triggered as a result. This can be potentially dangerous, as error messages can be revealing to unwanted hackers.

When you do a web-based install that isn’t password protected, it’s a very good idea to make sure you delete whatever you don’t need, or at least password protect them with an htaccess file.

You can also disable the toolbar temporarily.

There appears to be a Google PageRank update going on at the moment. This blog went from a PR2 to a PR4 - a pretty good jump for one update. Some of my other domains have remained constant, with no pagerank change.

Recently, I added Google Sitemaps to my web developer blog. There’s a nice plugin for Wordpress that will automate the sitemap creation for you. Then all you have to do is register your domain with your Google Sitemaps account, and create a file that validates you own the domain on your server - ie: google_0234080jljsdf.html, and their bot will visit it immediately.

Once nice thing is that you can instantly get indexed, control how often your pages are updated, and you also get some nice statistics about phrases used to search for your site. Saves having to dig through your access.log looking for Google referals.

There’s a new microformats cheat sheet on the loose…

For those new to microformats, take a look at microformats.org, as it explains how you can tag and label things you link to using the “rel” attribute, among others. Some examples include XFN, and hResume, along with hCard - a business card for the web.

I join the newly released Google Checkout payments processing, as a competitor to PayPal. My first impressions were mixed.

The ease of opening account was not too difficult, although it did require some very personal information upfront, which I was hesitant to provide until I learned the system. I was unclear if my address was going to be displayed to customers, the signup form says it is, although I find this pretty disturbing if that’s the case. PayPal prides itself on keeping your personal information private.

The buy now button was pretty standard for Google Checkout, although I was disappointed that I wasn’t able to find an out-of-the-box subscription or recurring payment button.

At this point, I have no reason for a single payment button, but will happily welcome a cut-n-paste subscription management interface to Google Checkout.

Everyone knows (or at least should be aware) that a good seo strategy starts with an accessible web site.

Testing accessibility can be done with Linux and the Gnome desktop. I’m in the process of installing Gnome Accessibility Toolkit at home to see if I can get the audio version of a web page.

Last night I spent an hour or two with a super simple css-based layout at http://www.seobuzz.com

I also added the mailing list, so if you want to subscribe, simply send an email with “subscribe” in the subject line to: web-discuss-request@lists.seobuzz.com