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i am trying to figure out what would be good keywords to optimize for an orthodontist.

i looked up the keywords "his city + orthodontist" or " his city + braces" and the google adword tool tells me there are no monthly searches for those terms.

i am not sure what i can optimize for if no one is searching for the most obvious keywords.

so i was doing some competitor research for the following domain and seomoz seems to be telling me that this domain has over a thousand links but that only 2 are external.

from surfing the site it seems that most of those links come from several years of weekly blogs.

will this domain be easy to overtake by setting up a good number of external links? what kind of number would i be looking at?

<cite>www.diehlorthodontics.com/</cite>

several people have suggested that i try guest blogging as a way to improve my site's position

but i am wondering how do i go about finding the right blogs to contribute to? for example, my clients are usually dentists. how do i know what would be a good blog to write to for that industry?

also, how do i link back to the site, in the content or the signature?

thanks for pointing that out

great info.thank you

thanks for the info.

thanks. great article.

Makes a lot of sense. Thank you.

Mersi Cornel,

Very good suggestions. Will definitely give it a try.

so i created this simple site to test seomoz with:

http://permissionmarketingdentistry.com/

it is a one-page wordpress site. i want to rank it for "permission marketing dentistry"

so now that i have it set up with seomoz what exactly should i do next? is there a procedure i need to follow? i am already working on fixing the errors.

so i have a web design firm and, when i decided i need to offer seo services i originally went with an seo reseller company.

i decided to try them out on myself so i gave them 4 keywords to rank for and tried them for about 6 months.

when they started, our website was in google oblivion for those 4 keywords. after 6 months some keywords are on page 1 and some at the top of page 2. the ones on page 1 are the ones i also optimized for by putting the keyword in a footer link in all my clients' sites.

when i look over what they did they either wrote cheesy articles that link back to me and posted them in random places or they commented on people's blogs linking back to me. but it seemed to work. at least to get me from oblivion to page 2.

now it seems to me these methods are discouraged here but they seem to do at least some good. any thoughts or comments on this?

why is wordpress creating redirects from trackbacks and what can i do about it?

according to seomoz i have several of these kinds of temporary redirects:

http://redlandsorthodontics.com/about-us-2/meet-the-staff/redlands-orthodontics/trackback/

redirects to

http://redlandsorthodontics.com/about-us-2

what are trackbacks anyway since i didn't purposely create them?

The site is build in wordpress and only has 1 post and no other pages. nonetheless seomoz tells me i have several duplicate pages. how do i fix this in wordpress.

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To clarify, can I write 4-5 articles and post them in hundreds of places each with a link back or is the duplicate content going to cancel out any benefit?

Should each article only be posted once or is there a sweet number of postings that are acceptable like 5-6?

If I write an article that contains a link back to my site, should I post in only one place or can I post it several times?