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Thank for always helping me Nakul cheers....in b/w am also planning to do sponsoring on other blogs in India but I dont know how many sponsoring (specific number) I can do in one month...

If you have a website on designs is it worth getting a link from an .edu site

Thanks @Egol and @Claudio for your help

I have site wide 25 categories on my blog but I dont know whether I should keep few categories only like 6-8 or having 25 categories is ok? Plz help

Thanks @Nakul @justin Igor your advices were useful...

I have a blog on interior decoration and I have made a Wordpress Plugin which is not at all related to the niche of my blog...I have created this plugin in the hope that I might get backlinks due to this...but am not sure whether I should keep the plugin documentation page on some page of the blog itself like www.example.com/blog/plugin-page/ or on some subdomain like plugin-page.example.com

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Am Planning to pay 300$ to http://blogs.botw.org/ a seomoz recommended directory to get my website listed there plz suggest if this is a wise decision from SEO perspective or not thanks in advance

Thanks Igor I like your honesty...and thanks for taking time to do the research for me...I respect you.. and I will look more into the website in majestic SEO....I dont know why they were asking 1000$ to give us a backlink...duh!! cheers man u rock

should we get backlink from penguin hit website ?

Thanks @Marie for informing me about this I will be cautious about this..Am also thinking of having some other brand name for my business which doesn't have keyword in it is that ok? My business is in its starting phase so I can change my brand name

If you have half of the keyword you are targeting in ur brand name itself can we still use our brand name as anchor text in all inbound links

Thanks Rebekah I think u r right I will do that sponsoring but gradually...n yes I will ask my content writers to do guest posting also....

Am planning to sponsor events on all the top blogs in my niche...so I can easily earn back link with carefully placed anchor text (I know about penguin update)...and therefore rank for keywords I want to rank for as I have almost NIL competition for those keywords in my country

Is it ok to get 300 quality backlinks ... from different authoritative domains in one month...I think google might find it strange and I might get penalized...

Thanks John for your answer I understand what you are saying but I dont't understand one thing that Aaron Wall of Seo Book.com has more than 300 back links with anchor text Free SEO Tools to tools.seobook.com but still he is not sued after post penguin update...so I concluded that might be google is linent in your use of anchor text if you have both the keyword in ur domain in this case "tools" + "seo"

Thanks @Igor I will check it right now..thanks once again for helping me

You are absolutely right @Darek I think exact keyword matched domain can be risky in near future but I guess not if you have only half of the two words keyword in your root domain. Also I think those domains like medicalbillingsoftware.xxx might be in trouble in future... but you cant say anything...

A majority of your anchor text should be branded.

What if you have half of the keyword in your brand name itself

Thanks @CMC for replying so fast.... can you please elaborate a little on "you need to keep KW anchor text below 50%".... 50% of wat?

Thanks in adv

if you have lets say tools.examplexxxx.com in which "tools" + "example" makes a good keyword together i.e [example tools] (a good key word). Is it wise to put 300 quality backlinks with exact matched anchor text containing keyword**[example tools]**  from niche related domains and not worrying getting hit by penguin.

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and one more thing @peter do you think that having  an active Q and A forum like this one on ur site helps in SEO

@peter yeah I have all reasons to believe ur point...because this is what is happening for me also... agree...thanks for replying

No offense but I dont think that having a country level domain will help me...more than that if the website is hosted in the same country and am getting more traffic from my own country I think I might get benefitted....neways... wat do you think?

I know it that other website is not from India by seeing their contact details

you dint get my point

Thanks @Moosa for replying. I will explain you...

If I have a website hosted in India and me and my target audience is also from India.  I think I will be ranking better  for a particular keyword than other websites for the same keyword which are having high PA/DA but not from India.

So things become very easy for me to rank #1 for some keyword when there is no website/competition from India.

I just wanted to confirm this thing here.

What do you think?

Hahah True Mat I also think the same...cheers

Do you think that if your website is from your home country. You will rank better for some keyword even when you dont have much page authority when compared to other websites having much higher page authorities from other countries.

Hello guyz do you think that , **or **tags still help you in ranking better for some keyword or this method has become obsolete?****

Thanks  @Hannah @Moosa @Mark @Martijn @Deb for replying. I think that it is just a hint for google but it doesn't mean that it is going to block you from other countries. More than just a selection in the web master tool I think google will directly analyze your website and decide for which country your website is more "relevant" and of more "value to visitors".

Also answer this please

I have geo targeted my domain for my country. Does it mean that I have blocked visitors from other countries.

I have geo targeted my domain for my country in Google's Webmaster Tool. Does it mean that I have blocked visitors from other countries.

Thanks @Mark. Now I know that it is actually averaged value for the last 12 months. Thanks once again

No. of searches for some query in Google Keyword Tool for a specific country shows data for last 12 months or for last 1 month? Please reply.

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