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PR depends upon the quality and relevancy of the backlinks. So try to create more backlinks over the time.

Well said! But these are not only the 4 but couple of more are there that should also be avoided, like cloaking etc.

I already check this from another forum. Great list. Also here your can check the 3000+ list of forums including free, paid and language specific.

One of the many reasons or the low volume for search engine traffic may be due to as generally people use 'safe' filter while searching.

You should have mix of these links i.e. both from pr5 and pr1 in your example case. This will look like a more natural way of link building.

Alexa can be more important as it is directly related to the traffic to a website. Also what to do with the high PR if there will be just little traffic.

A great list though but after checking some random links, some of them seems not existing anymore.

The PR of this link is 7 but is fake. You can verify it using this Fake PR Checker tool.

Here you can also find some 16,000+ list of web directories sorted by PR, Alexa, Niche, Language and Price.

The points are old but now there many many more factors to that should be avoided while doing SEO. On SEOMoz they have mentioned nearly about 17 factors that should be avoided ( both for on page & off page seo).

For internet speed test you can also try bandwidthplace.com or speedtest.net, Well the later is quite good with more accurate results.

Looks interesting. Will give it a try soon. Is there any limit on using this?

The link is not working but the message "nothing found" appears on that page. Just another keyword suggestion tool worth checking. http://www.webtoolhub.com/tn561412-keyword-suggestion.aspx

Either override the default logo image with your new log or change the path of the logo image to your new image form the admin control panel.

Great post. You have referenced the sensitive and most important parts of SEO.

In most of the cases the referral traffic always remains as a fraction of the total traffic, so nothing to worry about it. This may be due to lowering the importance (or obsoleting) of most of the directories or blogs from where you get the traffic.

A good read! Just as a controversy, this has covered almost everything that should be avoided and nothing left for doing. Actually there should be post about steps to follow while doing SEO or building backlinks.

You can try using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on to check if this will help in your case.

You cannot report any third party site that you are not owing (i.e. verified in webmasters account). Generally it may take couple of months before disappearing from search results and also if it will remain in the same stage (i.e. 404) for that period.