what direction should a noob go?

hello BHW.

i have been reading tons and tons of info from BHW and have learned lots but still feel confused. have you ever tried to find an answer to a question and when you found it, 10 more questions came from getting that answer?
thats what i feel like right now.

i would appreciate any response to the newb questions that i may have. If there is a thread that answers all this - If you could direct me to that thread, i would greatly appreciate it.

1. posting on articlesbase. 5/5 articles and i still get rejected because of advertisement and links back to my page. how do others do it?

2. what are some good article sites that a person can use to start posting useful threads?

3. how does one check how many people have clicked on his site?

4. is it normal for a person to create a site and rent a freelancer to get them backlinks? doesnt google penalize a person for acquiring a large amount of backlinks so early after a domain has been created?

5. with regards to seo and ranking well in google, i installed all in one seo pack in wordpress, submitted small articles to many sites for some backlinks, did keyword research. is there anything that i am missing that i should look into?

there are a few newbs that have discovered BHW around the same time as me so i hope by having these questions answered, you guys can help myself and other IM beginners as well.

thanks in advance
Trevor

4. Many free tools on internet to do that. I use feedjit and bravenet. Or cystats plugin if you're using wordpress.
One more, awstats is the best one

how does one check how many people have clicked on his site?

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3. Use tootls such as Google Analytics which will provide information about clicks on pages, traffic sources, keywords and much more.

with regards to seo and ranking well in google, i installed all in one seo pack in wordpress, submitted small articles to many sites for some backlinks, did keyword research. is there anything that i am missing that i should look into?

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5.Create some profile backlinks, use more than just All In One SEO.. plugings like SEO SearchTerm Taggin2 have helped many. Check the download section for ClickBump - which helps in Blog Posts / Pages to improve your SEO score. Get Google SiteMaps for Wordpres and submit this sitemap to Google Webmasters. This is just the start, but will help in the long run.

Good luck and don't give up.

3. how does one check how many people have clicked on his site?



doesnt bitly.com have hits etc counted once u shorten ur site by them, and get ur bitly short link , then u can check alsorts

you need to read more!