Ask your SEO related Questions
As a weekend special, I am taking SEO related questions from the readers of this blog so shoot your questions related to SEO as well as various webmaster related stuff. I think I can take around a dozen questions this time. Post your questions in comment box and I will answer them in coming post (I will make it as soon as I get 10-12 questions in this post).
Audio Interview with Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz
Its a 2 month old audio interview of Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz taken by mindvalleylabs but I think people who are new to SEO should hear this as it will help them giving some insight into SEO and link building and what should be your overall approach.
Get Backlinks from Donation and Charity sites
SEO and Google Search Wiki Review
Getting into Yahoo Directory don’t help in getting more Traffic
Yahoo directory from which it formally started is unfortunately now in sad state of affair, Not only that that $300 annual review fees is very high, its been often reported that getting listed in yahoo directory don’t help at all in rankings.
You may like to check this thread at webmasterworld to know what others feel about current status of yahoo directory.
Google Ads in Youtube Videos
So now that Google has officially put Google ads in Youtube videos, my worst fear has come true. The testing was going for sometime now but I only saw it couple of days back and it looks really bad. Here is one sample ad in case you haven’t seen any so far -
DigitalPoint DDoS attack - Site down and Up again
Digitalpoint forums was down most of time for the last 24 hours due to DDos attack and may due to server hacking! The Introduction section of DP is full of hundreds of spam threads which still haven’t been removed giving suggestions that the database has got corrupted.
Write for Humans keeping Search engines in Mind
Here is the Secret of doing well online and getting tons of traffic (I am writing this from the learning of my failures of 2+ years), Write for Humans keeping Search Engines in Mind.
What does this means ? - It means that make sure what you are writing and the way you are writing should help the reader. Anything which is not helpful to user, don’t write. Now once you get convinced that the content is indeed useful for reader, then think about search engines, give your blog/article post perfect title, do these things and avoid doing these things. so in the end, you will be getting solid content which will be ranking in search engine and helping users coming from search engines, which will eventually get you more links as well as brand.
Why Blogs Rank well in search engine as compared to Static websites
I am continuously noticing that blogs are ranking way better then static websites in search engines (the reasons are below). Ideally I am 3 years late in writing this post 
but still its better to be late then never. If you still have not decided yet,then you may like to go with a blog rather then with static sites.
SEO for Multilingual websites
A huge part of the web is still in non English languages like French, Spanish, German, Chinese and Japanese and though lot of documentation has been written on how to do SEO for English websites, I have came across very little SEO related information and articles for multilingual websites, so I felt to write a SEO document myself to help people optimizing their non English websites for search engines.