I would only shoot for a link or a guest blog post if you think the site is relevant. If you think that the website is a good one, and you can find a way to spin your guest blog post to make it relevant for that site and also tie in your link, go for it.
Posts made by anthonydnelson
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RE: What do you think of these mozbar stats?
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RE: How do websites display product attributes listed with their meta descriptions in Google SEPRs?
I have seen this happen on e-commerce sites that don't have meta descriptions on the category pages. Often "Products 1-25" is the first text on the page and google will pull that as part of the meta description.
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RE: Possibly a dumb question - 301 from a banned domain to new domain with NEW content
I'm under the impression that if you 301 the links from a banned site to a new site, it could harm your new sites ability to rank. I can't seem to find a link at the moment to verify that, but believe I read something recently.
I agree with EGOL. Create a new site with great content. Consider fixing your old, banned site in the background. File a reconsideration request. After it is back in Google's good graces, 301 pages to the new site with similar content.
*edited a typo
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RE: Free website templates without spam
The use of the template by other bloggers will not affect either of those things.
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RE: Free website templates without spam
Smashing Magazine often posts about free WordPress themes.
It's tough to find a theme that is well designed, free, decently optimized out of the box, and not being used by 500 other bloggers. Good luck.
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RE: Linking building tips please guys..
There are all sorts of directories, followed comments, etc where you can nab links quickly. It's debatable if they will provide any benefit for you.
Instead, spend some time creating a relationship with an influential site in your niche. Getting one good link from them is going to be more valuable than all the quick links you're going to get.
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RE: How can i increase my website traffic
First step: Create some really awesome content. Something that helps people understand your industry better.
Good content is naturally much easier to promote and will grow on its own in addition to your marketing efforts.
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RE: Reverse Proxys - Lost On It's Purpose To Help Seo
A reverse proxy can be an alternative for sites that are unable to put their blog in a subfolder. If you currently have a blog in a subdomain, you can use a reverse proxy to essentially put it in a subfolder. From my understanding, using a reverse proxy can have some drawbacks though, such as performance/speed issues.
Subdomain vs Subfolder
Subfolder is the preferred method for sites that don't already have a ton of authority. All links pointing at the blog will strengthen the entire domain.
Subdomain can be a useful technique for strong sites that can support essentially starting a new site. This can allow you to grab additional spots in the SERPs.
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RE: Hub technique
Hi Alex,
Either option has a fine chance of ranking well.
It's going to depend on what type of keyword you are targeting. If I'm searching for something broad and informational, a category page seems like a nice spot to land. If I'm searching for something more specific, I want to land on the page with the actual information I'm looking for, not on a page of results.
You should decide what will work best for your site. Do you plan on writing a lot of content regularly? If so, you might want to use the category method. If not, perhaps you should just make one page, as rich and useful as possible and try to get that one to rank.
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RE: Rel Canonical - Wordpress
A Swanson customer! Pleased to meet you, even if you are 'the masked man' for now. Again, I can't recommend that Yoast SEO plug-in linked above enough. It outlines all of the options above and all you need to do to block indexing is check a simple box.
Take a look at the Wordpress SEO guide, specifically at the section I just linked to.
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RE: What changes have you made to see highest results?
Assuming your site doesn't have architecture or indexation problems, doing some amazing keyword research and updating the title tag. You have to find the perfect mix of a keyword that:
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Has search volume
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Your domain can compete for
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Will convert
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RE: Rel Canonical - Wordpress
It sounds like you might need to use the noindex, follow tag for some sections of your website. Consider blocking the search engines from ranking sections such as author posts, tags, date and date archives.
Proceed with caution when doing this. You don't want to restrict all indexation of your site. Without knowing more details of what is actually happening, this is the best information I can give you.
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RE: How to handle "2" homepages?
I would 301 the /home.html version to site.com. This will consolidate all of the link juice and create one stronger page. Figure out what terms the /home.html page is ranking for, and consider adding some keywords and content to your site.com homepage if they are still relevant and useful to your current site.
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RE: Rel Canonical - Wordpress
More details would be very appreciated, but like Paul said, most likely it's an issue that can be easily fixed by installing Yoast's Wordpress SEO plugin.
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RE: Bounce Rate
There is some great info about this on this link: https://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Analytics/thread?tid=7f1a0537ed9f8fe8&hl=en
Rather than me paraphrasing and messing it up or copying/plagiarizing their answer, I'll just point you in the right direction.
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RE: Are you sure moving a wordpress blog to a main website is a good idea?
I would definitely create a new blog at gardenbeet.com/blog. This will drive traffic and links to your main site, which appears to be your ultimate goal.
Do not worry about linking out. If the link goes to a relevant site, linking out can actually be a good sign of credibility for you. Not to mention link karma.
What you do with the old blog is up to you. I would recommend moving the content and 301ing the URLs to the new domain. Here is a link to help you out. http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/ This would result in the current links pointing at the blog to pass juice to your main site.
Simply put, optimizing one site (gardenbeet.com) is easier than optimizing two (gardenbeet.com and your wordpress blog).
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RE: Should press releases be posted on my site before released to wire?
Agreed.
We might not have been too much help for Brad, but we might have convinced him that he shouldn't be overly concerned with his final choice.
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RE: Permanent URLs for Twitter?
Great piece of advice on looking into building your own URL shortener. Not only can you guarantee it will be around, but you can potentially put some branding in there and stand out amongst the ow.ly, bit.ly, and t.co links.
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RE: Permanent URLs for Twitter?
I would not be worried about the different URLs. Almost all url shorteners 301 to the destination URL and pass link juice. Even though the shortened URLs are different, they would all be passing the juice to the same spot.
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RE: Should press releases be posted on my site before released to wire?
Hi Brad,
I'd actually take the opposite position of Alan. I would distribute the press release first and then post it to your site a bit later. I see press releases ability to build external links as one of their biggest values. If there is a concern for duplication, I'd rather have the external postings of the release 'count' in the eyes of google as opposed to the internal.
I wouldn't worry too much about it either way though. Press releases are posted and reposted all over the web, and that's just the way it goes.
Your press release should be linking to important content on your site. It's unlikely that the brief content on the PR would be a significant source of organic traffic for your own site, opposed to the content the release is actually writing about and linking to.
The only time I would do it the other way around, would be if I was creating a PR for a company that is popular and newsworthy no matter what. If SEOmoz had a press release, it would make sense to post it on their own site first because people within the industry are going to find it and link to it, therefore creating many more external links to their actual domain.
Long story short, in my opinion, new/small website should submit first. Big/popular website should post on their own site first.
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RE: Does Frequency of content updates affect likelyhood outbound links will be indexed?
I think you are getting at the concept of continually updating the content on a few pages of your site to make sure they are indexed by google. If the page is not indexed already, that means it likely isn't being crawled by google at all so changing the content on the page won't make much of a difference.
Instead, make sure the page you want indexed is easily found within the website's internal linking structure, preferably only a handful of clicks away from the homepage. An even better way to make sure the page is indexed is to get a few external links pointed at it. If you are simply trying to achieve indexation and not expecting the page to rank high in the SERPs, something as easy as bookmarking the site to a few websites and tweeting it once or twice will probably get the job done.
As for your comment on whether or not google will consider your page 'important' enough to be indexed, I don't think you will have a problem with that as long as you are writing unique content.