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I can't give you an absolute technical answer to this, but generally speaking, Google will credit you for what would be seen (or not seen) by someone actually visiting the page.  So, Google looks at how the information is presented, which would be after the styling is applied.  I would suggest using a combination of Webmaster Tools -> Diagnostics -> Fetch as Googlebot and a text browser like Lynx to see how Google is potentially viewing your page.

Hope that helps!

"May the 4th be with you!"

I just want to back up Mark Ginsberg's suggestion to you.  I currently manage several WP sites and I would not do without Yoast on any of the.  Not saying there is not other good SEO plugins available, but Yoast is straight forward, yet powerful.  WP without an SEO plugin can be a mess, and limiting what is allowed to index will certainly help you by leaps and bounds.

Good morning David,

Up front, I'm probably not qualified to give you a best answer, but I can tell you my experience with this topic.

I've used a combination of PRWeb and a couple of free press release submission sites in the past.  What I found with PRWeb is that, quite honestly, my content wasn't really newsworthy.  I knew this going into it.  I'm promoting a brand/product, and really, few true news outlets are going to pick the majority of my releases up.

I did have one good experience with this article (http://www.prweb.com/releases/log_homes/log_cabins/prweb4428874.htm).  My company partnered with a band to do some cross-promotion.  The band is fairly well known in their niche genre, and suddenly this article was linked to and copied by a number of blogs, and news outlets that covered the pairing.  At the time, I knew even less about SEO than I do know, so I didn't really do any hard analysis.  Looking back with the knowledge I've gained here, I know that particular article gave our SEO a good boost, but I can't quantify it.

In the end, I couldn't justify the ROI.  This one article was my success, but the others I believe I could have used in other publishing methods (blogs, white hat article submissions, free press release sites, etc) and received similar results.

However, if you are creating articles that are truly newsworthy, I think it's a great service.  I was really pleased with PRWeb overall, I just wasn't publishing the quality level of content to make best use of SEO and see a good return on my investment.

I had a blog associated with my site, then I had to merge two Google accounts and to make a long story short, my old Blogger page won't transfer to the new account.  So, I'm starting fresh.

My Question: Would I benefit most from an on-site subdomain blog, adding content to my site on a weekly/monthly basis, or an off-site blog such as Blogger, linking back to pages and resources on my site?

Then, any other juicy tips would be great.  Honestly, I won't expect a large subscription base.  There will be a natural draw for some trade associates, and I'll be linking and promoting them as well.

Thanks for any input.  I'm new to the community, and SEO, but really impressed with this community.

Thank you for taking the time to write this up Blenny.  I think this will also help with my duplicate page content issue.  Most appreciated sir.

Great feedback.  Thank you Gianluca!

Thanks for the quick reply Alan.  The redirect to the root is what would work best in my situation, but I was concerned that I would loose the influence of inbound links to the www being redirected.  I'm hoping this shouldn't be a concern?

I just discovered that our site is registered with the major search engines without the "www" sub domain.  Both domains resolve directly to our site, which I need to get corrected.  I had planned to have the root (honestabe.com) forwarded to the sub (www.honestabe.com).  However, I then found that the sub-domain is not listed with the search engines.

Of course, naturally almost all of our inbound links include www.  Does Google differentiate between links with and without the sub-domain? In other words, if I forward the www address to the root, will I still get the SEO benefit of those inbound links using www?

I'm trying to figure out how to approach this.  I'm hoping someone is going to make me feel really stupid for asking this and say it's no big deal.  However, I have a feeling this could be a mess.