Recent content by Sharon Martin

I have tried a few SEO tools like Market Samurai, SEOMOZ and Keyword Country etc... Out of the three Keyword Country is best for me by now. It has many valuable tools that justify its cost.

Create RSS feeds for your website and submit these feeds to Google news. You may refer this Google's help post regarding feed submission. http://support.google.com/news/publisher/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1407682 Hope that helps!

Yes, it could be a problem in SEO... Search engines do have a problem in crawling rich media files like flash, AJAX etc. So, if possible avoid Ajax or do not add any important files in Ajax which you want to get crawled by search engines.

Google prefers to display listing in the top which are cited by other websites... You may submit your business listing to other website to assure Google that you are not a fake business listing. teniegenie has provided a good list of citation websites.

What your website is about? If I were you, I would offer some bonus points that enables the user to access some third party application.

So you have a page with unwanted URL, its very simple to redirect the page to some other URL using 301 redirect. That won't harm your inner page in any way. I believe, you don't need a canonical tag here... Because, ultimately, its about the user... A user should find this inner page easily.

This is the new google place layout... And, its been here since months (I guess you have noticed it now) Business owner has nothing to do with this, this update is done by Google.

Micro niche sites are thin sites which are developed specifically for advertising program or for boosting up ranking of other big site. Webmasters create a big site which acts as main site for the business... followed by creation of thin sites which will get linked to main site so that they...

I don't think placement of hyperlink matters... But if you are placing anchor text, their placement is crucial. They must be palced wherever user get induced to click them. SEO wise placement does not matter.

Every time you update the website, ping the search engines. Or your can install plugin which automatically pings your website. Ping-o-matic pings your website once everyday and every time you update your content.

Your option sounds good but your domain name would become very generic and there are huge chances of getting unwanted traffic. This will lead to an increase in bounce rate, if your website is talking about basketball alone.

Hyphen is a keyword separator... It does not hamper your ranking, instead gives you benefit (your domain may get ranked for all the keywords separated by hyphens)

Indeed, EMD domains may get you good rankings... But, so many things depend on competitiveness of the niche. Its easy to rank high with an EMD with a less competitive niche. Purpose of website matters a lot. If you are a service provider or product website, getting an EMD is not my idea.

There is no harm in getting your sites registered under one account. I have been doing this for years and we are good.

The whole concept of link wheeling was to get the flow of link juice towards the main website by linking article together. If you are not linking them together and putting backlinks in the article instead, that would give you equal benefit.