Depends on what kind of sites are linking to those timeshare sites. Timeshare itself is not a "bad neighborhood" category.
Right, just enter the exact url, rather than the homepage.
I wouldn't worry too much. I'd be more worried about wasting my money if I didn't see my rank improve. Make sure you're actually seeing results...
Have to respectfully disagree. For SEO, at least, there is no difference.
On a really big site, they can be helpful to getting your pages indexed. On sites under about 100 pages they don't seem to make much difference.
About 6% on IE6. Which is still too many.
There's no advantage to giving your competitors access to your stats. So why do it?
You could also just do a "site:" search over your domain in each of the search engines to see how many pages you have indexed.
StatCounter is good for quick-and-dirty analysis. It's easier to use, and updates in almost real time. But the data available is nowhere near as...
The effect is pretty minimal, especially when compared to a link from a real site placed by a real person. If no human will actually link to...
contentboss has it about right:
Check the directory's homepage PR. If it's high, then even the PR 0 category page will be a decent link.
Some links are worth negative money.
Honestly, you're not going to see much impact from any of these packages. It'll be mostly low-quality blogs that Google ignores anyway.
Separate names with a comma.
