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In the meantime it might not be a bad idea to add a warning or just take it down.

Many of my clients release newsletters and other peices of content qualify as press releases.  I have been wondering if people find that the press release sites such as PRleap or PRweb are useful and worthwhile?  If so, which do you feel is the best?

Is there any research on this?  I am planning to record my results from these sites and perhaps make a Youmoz post in the future.

In addition to danzspas advice, Rankings can shoot up if you have a lot of social mentions.  Was there a spike in your social mentions? twitter links, facebook shares etc?  These can give huge short term boosts.

So the ratio is MozTrust to MozRank, but what is this good for?  What can I deduce from this and what can I use it for?

It depends what you are going for here.  It is typically recommended that you install the blog at mydomain.com/blog/ because it gives the link value to mydomain.com.  This is the best option if you want your main domain to rank higher and for long tail search.

If you put it at blog.mydomain.com it will count as a subdomain and the link value will be split. This option can be beneficial if your main domain already ranks where you would like it to, or will be able to without the blog.  Then you can use the blog to dominate rankings by having a first and second listing with the subdomain.

mydomainblog.com is not recommended as it is a completely separate domian and will have no synergy with your other doman.

You can always rel canonical tag your old site to pass the juice to the new one and deal with the problem of duplicate content.

Another option, you can 301 redirect all the "front end pages" and just keep your login access to your back end.

Do you have any evidence to back up this claim? Any reasoning behind assuming a 301 passes link juice, but it wont pass through any social media ranking signals?

Like Alan said, rel canonical is great if the site accept that tag.

In addition, You can set up your site to or manually ping the search engines when you release a new article so it then hopefully attributes your site as the first one to have that content.

Thanks EGOL, you are a a valuable asset to these boards.

Hey Moz,

For some reason on my father's website, michaelpadway.com,  the top 2 keywords from organic are complete urls from his site. This doesn't makeugh sense to me. Any ideas?

Well Q & A is moving up my list pretty fast, but the Pro Campaigns are pretty amazing.  The on-page optimizatoin tool, rank tracker, and open site explorer are definitely some of my favorites.

LDA and link acquisition tool are ones that I enjoy playing with as well.

My website has a main section that we call expert content and write for. We also have a community subdomain which is all user generated.

We are a pretty big brand and I am wondering should the rel publisher tag just be for the www expert content, or should we also use it on the community UGC even though we don't directly write that?

The and operator is an and operator, not an OR.  It works like you would think it would.

Straight from the mouth of Google:

"The OR operator
Google's default behavior is to consider all the words in a search. If you want to specifically allow either one of several words, you can use the OR operator (note that you have to type 'OR' in ALL CAPS). For example,

• [ San Francisco Giants 2004 OR 2005 ] will give you results about either one of these years, whereas [ San Francisco Giants 2004 2005 ] (without the OR) will show pages that include both years on the same page. The symbol | can be substituted for OR. (The AND operator, by the way, is the default, so it is not needed.)"

Link to the operator page:

http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=136861

Casey's answer pretty much nails it, here are a few specific tricks I use to make the process faster though:

Using the moztoolbar do a SERP overlay on the sites for the search term to easily get a feel for the difficulty of competition based on domainrank.

Do a whitespark report to see how many citations the other sites have compared to your site.

Do getlisted.org search on their sites/your sites to get a basic idea of how involved the other sites on the local search are.

Run on page optimization reports for the terms, local and not, to see if you can gain a relevancy advatnage.

It depends on what kind of videos they are but youtube trends a lot on views and posts your video on things that are related.  Make sure to relate them to popular topics, use correct tabs, and promote them as best you can all at once, when youtube videos are trending up the will be ranked a lot higher.