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Thank you very much Rand, watching those now.

Honestly - we just want to sell our product, I don't understand why we have to generate content solely for the purpose of SEO, our customers do not care about our content.

Yea I've been trying to get my sales guy to post in more than just one forum.

None of our competitors are in directories. In fact - one of our direct competitors that is on the front page for the key terms we want to be - has created a bunch of blogs and linked to their page with the desired anchor text.

• Setting canonical tag, you should be already doing this rather it's a problem here or not as outlined in seomoz tools you may be missing out on link juice.

I agree with this guy, but I would like to add, why do you want google to crawl your searchable index? Aren't all of your recipes found on your site already by picking categories from a menu?

Well the DA is low  because we are participating in relevant forums - and a few related blogs.

Should we be putting our sites in directories since penquin is out?

I like the submission idea for articles - find places that are popular that will post your articles basically....

BUT - what can we do to get up in the serps for some medium competition keywords in the meantime?

Why would anyone want to link to us being the underdog? We have already written several articles with no links back, no presence in google for much of anything - so how would anyone find us unless they were a customer, and once again - they wouldn't link back to us being a customer unless it was a review that they would post on the forum we get business from.

As a web hosting provider how would you get links other than people writing reviews about you? How would I find people with actual websites/blogs to ask to write reviews about us? Current customers will usually write reviews on webhostingtalk.com a popular forum for web hosting. We already have plenty of links from forums in the industry. Giving out prizes will only result in more links from webhostingtalk.com presumably, what do you think?

• Setting canonical tag, you should be already doing this rather it's a problem here or not as outlined in seomoz tools you may be missing out on link juice.

I agree with this guy, but I would like to add, why do you want google to crawl your searchable index? Aren't all of your recipes found on your site already by picking categories from a menu?

Thank you very much Rand, watching those now.