Forget the pretty little overrated page rank bar. It's only use is for bragging and selling text links, which now get you penalized anyway.

Think Link Popularity! If your playing Google it's a must to get any kind of traffic from this engine. Trading links dates back fro the beginning of the web and still hold true as the most important "free" way to gain ground in search results.

The next or as important is content!
If you have the most informative...

DragonKing

One of the things you have to consider when you start working in this business is what you choose to tell your family.

I think this is a harder choice for women as there is a very negative stigma that is attached regardless if you work behind or in front of the camera.

My parents are pretty progressive thinking for a Southern family with roots in the bible belt and a Southern Baptist upbringing.

So there never was a choice for me even as a hobbist when I...

gonzo