For selling online and offline products. How to do the optimization for local business? I am looking for from scratch ideas?

Actually its a hobby of mine to design banners but I do really suck at it. Now, I have to design a banner for a friend who is not willing to invest any money on it. He just asked me to do because I know how to do banners and I am a friend so he asked for a favor. If it was about money then I would have clearly hired someone to do it for me. But now what should I do? I hope that I am correctly explaining the situation to you guys.

How is OpenSiteExplorer of Moz compared to other link analysis tools?

Is there any Legal issues in sending emails to cold list? in order to avoid spam complaint.

Hello guys, I am new to this forum.

As my headline says I am already ranking for a keyword which has about 5k monthly visitors. What should I do to get ranked even more better. I have checked the sites which are ranking above me. There content is not as good as mine. But still I am ranking below them.

How does this work?

Get this. Links from atleast 8 sites (from what I have found) to the guys main site. And all the of the content in those sites are directly or indirectly produced by him. By directly I mean, written by him and indirectly means reviews or posts that are clearly paid of by him to get published.

I have some knowledge in marketing and it varies in several fields. Selling cheap shoes to old books etc. But I can't include that in my resume right.

So, I as wondering what skills do I need before getting an entry level marketing job? Are there any special requirements that recruiters look for? Or, special skills are for high level marketing jobs?

Which are good Adsense Alternatives for publishers?

To check backlinks how many tools do you use? Paid ones are good. So, do you guys use more than one paid tools?

Are there any good plugins to speed up a wordpress site? I am not talking about cache plugin but plugins that will optimize the pagespeed. I hope that I am explaining it alright.