some(not all) of the links to the oldsite are going to subdirectories that will not exist on the new website...

I think this would not be a problem. Those deep links would all be calculated as juices for your new domain, IMO.

Have a nice day,

Hi, Michal

Nice to meet you and wish you a nice stay here. Basketball is my favorite sports.

All the best,

Link baiting is relating to building attractive contents on your site which will make people want to link to you.

Hi, Jennifer

Nice to meet you on phpbb-seo and wish I could learn SEO knowledge from you.

All the best,

Thanks for nice information.
I think all SEO jobs begin with a thorough and deep keywords research for your niches.

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PR of one of my own sites rose from 2 to 3 at the recent PR update and some inner pages did get a PR 2 or 3.
I think if you want a PR increase, you should get dofollow backlinks from higher PR sources like forums, blogs and authority sites in your niche.

robots.txt is OK for guiding search engine crawlers behaviors but I think it might be a file could be used by hackers.

SEO means optimize your sites correctly for search engines and thus your sites would receive organic traffics. It usually includes on-page SEO and off-page SEO. I would recommend you read the article 'search engine ranking factor' from seomoz.

I think site indexing might not be an issue these days. There are so many channels to help your sites getting faster indexed. In my own experiences, some backlinks from high PR (above 6) sites would make your sites indexed within 48 hours.

Right, blogging is an effective way in generating quality dofollow backlinks for your sites. Even better, it is all under your own control.

I think RSS Feed is a good way in helping promote your sites. You could use your rss feed as blog feed and thus generate deep backlinks for your sites. I use an add-on called rss feed on my zen-cart site for generating feeds for my new products and special products, upcoming products. It is really h...

I think getting faster indexed and on page 1 both need quality backlinks with skillful keywords techniques.
You might firstly want to do some researches on your niche, in your local and generate some keywords for future usage and work hard to build backlinks for your sites.

Hi, there

I would like to share a dofollow blog list with you:
www.matthewsimiana.com/dofollow-blog-list/

Wish this help,

I think social bookmarking might be the most effective way in building numbers of backlinks for your site and many of them are quality links, too.

I think SEM might mainly include PPC and SEO. As we all known, SEO needs a relative long period to be successful while SEM offers the advantage of immediacy, especially via PPC campaign.