A wide range of traffic increases

or in other words... how to..

[youfoundjake]

I have 3 questions, 2 are traffic related, the other is content related, but they all tie together.

1. Article submissions.
If I post 1 article on 10 article sites, and that article is original content relating to my site, with a link back to my site, is it safe to assume that I have 10 inbound links that link to mine?
Now if I post a second article on each of those article sites, do I now have 20 inbound links, or will the 3 major engines only count it as 1 inbound link from each domain?

2. Blog posting
How much weight does a posting to someone's blog have as an inbound link? Does the pagerank of the blog make a diffence when its just a simple link?

3. Duplicate content.
Lets say that I have a site on Nursery Rythyms, (I don't) but just for the sake of arguement. There are lots of sites out there, some claiming to have the proper wording or spelling of the limmericks. At what point is my site considered duplicate content? If I change the order in which they are displayed on the page, could that bypass it? As Socrates once said, "There is nothing new under the sun" So how does one get around duplicate content penalities on a Infrastructurer that spans billions of pages? There is going to be overlap somewhhere. would this come back to the number of inbound links which would determine the authority of the data?

The reason I bring this up is that my main keyword, when I do a site:www.example.com, Google shows 2500 links to my main competitor, Yahoo shows 56,000 links. I know Google won't show all of them, and even discount some that Yahoo may count, but in order for me to appear in the top 10 and get traffic means that I would have to get 20,000 inbound links on a niche that is already being discussed across 4 major sites. Everyone else is little fish in the pond. I'm feeling like my actions are a little futile at this point, ya catch my drift?
So If I'm going to spend time building content, submitting to article sites, newsletters, blogs, rss feeds and so on, I hope to at least have some comfort that my efforts won't go to waste.
A side note, my site has been active since the end of January, about 175 pages of content, all written by me. Was a PR5, now a PR2 since wikipedia took my link off since they considered it spam... ehhh.
Anyone have any answers to the questions?
Thanks in advance.

[youfoundjake]

Question 4.

Internal linking...
Do I want all the internal pages to link to each other using the FQDN or just link using the page name? i.e.
contactus.htm or http:www.example.com/contactus.htm
Thank you.

[youfoundjake]

Ok, so I've done a little research and this is what I have discovered

I google my main keyword and it returns 72 million results

I take the top result which is www.example1.com
and i do a

link:www.example1.com

That search returns 2000 results for sites linking to www.example1.com
The top site listed as linking to www.example1.com is called www.example2.com
Then I again search using

www.example1.com site:www.example2.com

to see how many pages in the first listed link site actually contain the main keyword resulsts site.
I see 2 pages
So it looks like google counts at least 2 results from one domain, so this may help address Question #1
k thanks

[whoisgregg]

No matter what, there is zero value in using Google's link: search. What it returns is just a random sample of backlinks. It will show backlinks that aren't affecting the ranking and won't show backlinks that are affecting the ranking.

Stick with Yahoo's Site Explorer Tool and occasionally use MSN's backlink search for the weird ones.

Was a PR5, now a PR2

Toolbar pagerank (TBPR) is also mostly useless. A page with TBPR of 2 can outrank a page with TBPR of 5 for some keywords. It only has superficial value in measuring raw link quantity.