Here is a way to test your SEO skills and also get listed if you are among the top . Go to
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/01/test-your-webmaster-know-how.html
The quiz is crated in google docs and there is 40 questions about SEO related questions . Best of luck
How to analyse your competition? Analysing your competition is the first and foremost thing in a SEO project. There are so many tools available on the Internet, which can be used to 4 analysing competition.
I’m going to introduce you to tools in this post which will help in analyzing your competition.
Number one : Google keyword suggestion tool:
This is the free and most useful tool .Google is the king of search engines. And obviously Google will get more searches per day than any other search engines on the net. You can use the keyword suggestion tool in Google advertising program. The address these http://adwords.google.com
Number two:
Word Tracker: as you may have heard were Tracker is the most popular tool for keyword suggestion. It have both free and paid versions the paid version will view more advanced features than the free version. The free version of Word Tracker has a limit of hundred words. Word Tracker uses dog pile.com and metacrawler.com to find out the amount of traffic. Together these two search engines makes around 4 million searches per day.
url is :http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/
Number three: Another very useful to for keyword search is keyword discovery (www.keyworddiscovery.com) . The main feature of this tool is that it’ll give you insight into many industry terms from are not aware of. This tool will collect data are from more than 200 search engines.
As you can see here we talked about about four famous and useful keyword suggestion and discover tools. Go through these tools, before selecting any keyword. Good luck in finding keywords. Please add your suggestions in the comments field.
how to analyse your competition. Analysing your competition is the first and foremost thing . There are so many tools available on the Internet, which can be used to 4 analysing competition.
I’m going to introduce you to tools in this post which will help in analyzing your competition.
Number one: SEO digger this tool will help you to understand how well you rang for a specific keyword versus your competition. In addition to organic ranking, this tool will help you to get important information on keyword popularity. Observing the keyword popularity of your competitor in the organic ranking is important because it can be used to to find out the amount of traffic that they are getting now.
For example if your site ranks in the seventh place and your competitor site ranks in the third-place. By analysing the traffic of your competitor in the third-place, you can assume the amount of traffic increase you will get by moving to that position that is the third position.
You can go to www.SEODIGGER.com to find out more about the tool.
Number two: Word Tracker as you may have heard were Tracker is the most popular tool for keyword suggestion. It have both free and paid versions the paid version will view more advanced features than the free version. The free version of Word Tracker has a limit of hundred words. Word Tracker uses dog pile.com and metacrawler.com to find out the amount of traffic. Together these two search engines makes around 4 million searches per day.
Number three : Google keyword suggestion tool: Google is the king of search engines. And obviously Google will get more searches per day than any other search engines on the net. You can use the keyword suggestion tool in Google advertising program. The address these adwords.Google.com.
Number four: another very useful to for keyword search is keyword discovery (www.keyworddiscovery.com) . The main feature of keyword disc of the day is that it’ll give you insight into many industry terms from are not aware of. This tool will collect that are from more than 200 search engines.
As you can see here we talked about about four famous and useful keyword suggestion and discover tools. Go through these tools, before selecting any keyword. Good luck in finding keywords. Please add your suggestions in the comments field.
Today morning ,I got my vanity facebook url as http://www.facebook.com/lijogeorge (9:30 AM)
The url can be used as
1 . http://www.facebook.com/lijogeorge
2. http://www.facebook.com/lijo.george
3. http://www.facebook.com/l.ijogeorge
4. http://www.facebook.com/li.jogeorge
..
You can add a dot wherever you want .
This post is in response to may queries regarding the listing of back links by google . Take a look
Hi everyone
I wondered if anyone could throw a bit of light on this for me?
I’ve worked hard at getting some good back links for my online shop, and guess I probably have quite a few now.
However If I look at link: (my web address) in google its showing up as no back links.
Does anyone know why this might be? Is it something to do with the company name being R xxx and my web address being www.xxxx.com
I’m totally confused.
Thanks
xxxx
I have seen many quaries in various forums where people wondering “After all the link building i had donw , why google not listing all my backlinks ?”
Lets take a look about two sites 
Just for study purpose)
Site 1 :
URI : mobile9.com It a Mobile site
Backlinks in google : 863( try link:mobile9.com search on google , 6th april 2009)
Backlinks in yahoo : 923,808
Percentage of backlinks listed by google with respect to yahoo : .92 or 1 %
Site 2 :
URI: techseol.com Home page of a SEO company
Backlinks in google : 75 (6th april 2009)
Backlinks in yahoo : 2184
Percentage of backlinks listed by google with respect to yahoo : 3.34 %
Conclutions ( Not so accurate , just based on above results)
I know a few questions arises in your mind now 
Answer : No all the links have it’s value . Noone except google can give the actual value .
Answer : Go to google webmasters tools(google.com/webmasters/tools) . Add your site there are verify . Then click on the links tab and you can see all your backlinks and the date at which that backlink was idetified by google .
Social Media :
Sites that is based on user participation and user-generated content are called social media . They include social networking sites like LinkedIn or Facebook, social bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us, social news sites like Digg or Sphinn, and so many other sites.
Social Media Optimisation(SMO) :
Social Media Optimisation is the process of generating traffic , brand and buzz by participating in various social media sites. Social media allows people with same interest and views to come together,participate and share their ideas and knowledge.
Social Media Sites :
Myspace is a Social Networking site with millions of users (around 189 Million) . Here links are re-directed , so no SEO value , but can acquire trafic.
Face Book got around 90 Million users . Face book allows HTML tags , but the pages are not indexed by search engines . So you can except traffic.
I will soon publish a full list of social media sites , so that you can download and use
Take a look at what Mattcutts has to say about Image alt tags and SEO .
I am a SEO consultant ;-) . Love SERP's :-)
