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Ideas are cheap. It's the realization of them that makes difference.

Books are good for obtaining background knowledge on the subject. But you will have to take a pencil and a paper and write down answers to the following questions: "What value will my application bring to people? How will they benefit from it? How will it save their time, make their life easier in some way or another?"

The answers will guide the further research. If your application isn't going to satisfy a need, it's unlikely that people will pay for it. And you need to 'go to the fields' and ask people if they will like your application and be ready to pay for it. Their answers will give you a lot of new ideas.

In other words, stop thinking fancy marketing terms like 'target audience', 'segmentation' and suchlike. Think simple - 'Will people need my application?', 'Why would they pay for it that price?'.

There's a looong way from having an idea and making that idea commercially viable. You can end up selling something entirely different from what you envisioned at the start.

Since I've become a Pro member of SEOMoz and started using the SeoMoz toolbar and rank parameters I've become obsessed with MozRank, MozTrust and Domain Authority much more than with PageRank.

Moreover, when estimating a site as a potential link source I always look at it's domain authority first, even if the individual linking page has low PA. I may be mistaken, but my strategy is to build good overall authority for my domain, getting links from other sites with good DA.

I doubt you will ever find any decent resource in English about doing SEO in Russia. At least I've never seen one. Normally, a big part of the content on such a resource is user-contributed (like here on SEOMoz), and there's no reason for Russian users and seo-marketers to use English when they can write in their native language.

Paid links are very popular in Russia. Buying and selling goes through www.sape.ru. This is a link exchange which is far more superior than its analogues in the English-speaking world.

I've never done SEO in Russia (being a native Russian) but I know for sure that without paid links you will hardly get into the top-10 in Yandex. Especially if you sell on a competitive market.

Disclaimer: I'm not a big fan of paid linking. Just reporting the things how they are in Russia. There are fiercely competitive markets, such as travelling, where you can consider yourself lucky if your travel agency gets into the third page of SERP even if you buy links on SAPE

The SEOMoz toolbar is displayed very differently in Chrome as compared with Firefox. It 'overlaps' the page, showing on top of the content instead of offsetting the page/window.

In other words, the footer or the header of the page (depending on what toolbar location is chosen in the Settings) is eclipsed by the Toolbar. This was not an issue in Firefox.

Has anyone experienced the same problem with the toolbar? How can I make the toolbar integrate into the browser window itself rather that popping up on top of the rendered webpage?

Thanks.

Ryan, I completely agree. A list, whatever it may be, is of little value, unless you can tick/check items on that list as completed.

However, overall the Crawl Diagnostics tool is very helpful.

Hello everyone,

Is there a way to dismiss some errors in the Crawl Diagnostics tool so they don't appear again? It happens so that some of the errors are never going to be fixed because of their nature. For example, 'Title too long' errors that point to some of the threads on my forum - it doesn't make sense to change the title of a thread posted by user just for the sake of the error disappearing from the 'Crawl Diagnostics' tool.

Otherwise the CD interface gets a little bit cluttered with errors which I will never fix anyway.

I wonder how others deal with this problem.

Thanks.

Since I've become a Pro member of SEOMoz and started using the SeoMoz toolbar and rank parameters I've become obsessed with MozRank, MozTrust and Domain Authority much more than with PageRank.

Moreover, when estimating a site as a potential link source I always look at it's domain authority first, even if the individual linking page has low PA. I may be mistaken, but my strategy is to build good overall authority for my domain, getting links from other sites with good DA.

I doubt you will ever find any decent resource in English about doing SEO in Russia. At least I've never seen one. Normally, a big part of the content on such a resource is user-contributed (like here on SEOMoz), and there's no reason for Russian users and seo-marketers to use English when they can write in their native language.

Paid links are very popular in Russia. Buying and selling goes through www.sape.ru. This is a link exchange which is far more superior than its analogues in the English-speaking world.

I've never done SEO in Russia (being a native Russian) but I know for sure that without paid links you will hardly get into the top-10 in Yandex. Especially if you sell on a competitive market.

Disclaimer: I'm not a big fan of paid linking. Just reporting the things how they are in Russia. There are fiercely competitive markets, such as travelling, where you can consider yourself lucky if your travel agency gets into the third page of SERP even if you buy links on SAPE

Ideas are cheap. It's the realization of them that makes difference.

Books are good for obtaining background knowledge on the subject. But you will have to take a pencil and a paper and write down answers to the following questions: "What value will my application bring to people? How will they benefit from it? How will it save their time, make their life easier in some way or another?"

The answers will guide the further research. If your application isn't going to satisfy a need, it's unlikely that people will pay for it. And you need to 'go to the fields' and ask people if they will like your application and be ready to pay for it. Their answers will give you a lot of new ideas.

In other words, stop thinking fancy marketing terms like 'target audience', 'segmentation' and suchlike. Think simple - 'Will people need my application?', 'Why would they pay for it that price?'.

There's a looong way from having an idea and making that idea commercially viable. You can end up selling something entirely different from what you envisioned at the start.