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thanks for the answer...

i take it that means backlinking to specific pages ie. domain.com/widget is better than getting links to the main domain?

hey

i've been told that page auth is more important than domain authrity on open site..

why is that?

pretty competitive - the likes of

corporate video

video production

web video

and variations of the above

it seems to be the same pages (my home page in the main - most of my link building has been to my home page)

appreciate the feedback Doug

it's a weekly rather than a daily ritual at the moment - but i get your point..

i noticed on another post on here for today that the UK might have had a Panda update over the weekend (that would help explain the dip i've seen this morning)

i'm starting to regard the fluctuations like the rising and falling tides - that what it feels like!

cheers

hello again

thanks v much for your answers last night - very enlightening!

this morning i've taken to my ritual of manually searching my keyword progress thru google - i know you can do it thru seomoz pro tools - but the rankings don't ever seem to be the right number (a good estimate tho)

my question - after a nice period of progress - i've lost some ground on keywords - can i track the loss in ground against my SEO endevours? ie - last week i didnt do as much social stuff as previous weeks - does google's algorithm work that quickly?

ie- daily/weekly etc?

cheers

that's a cracking article - many thanks

i totally agree...

and we do a reasonable (not enough) of stuff for our site.. of course need to do more..

it's a bit of trade off - im happy to invest time and money on making cool viral stuff for our site - but i'm nervous about marketing it coz spending 5k and the video only getting 300 hits and not going viral would suck!

I'm a DIY seo with a video production company - our website has been given some solid foundations by an SEO friend and we are climbing nicely up the rankings..

Everyone and their dog constantly warns of not straying into black hat - and I totally understand and appreciate the reasonings.. my issue is - pretty much ALL of the competitors use what I would perceive to be pretty shady web directories.

These directories seem to account for 80% of each of my competitors inbound links (according to open site explorer)

If all the front page of google for "corporate video" are submitting to all these directories - should I?

Cheers

AC