I was reading outbound marketing and they suggest that a good blog "does not" moderate comments. I have always taken the moderate approach, but their thought was this inhibits a conversation from taking place on the blog.

I am wondering what thoughts others may have on this and its potential positive and negative impacts, both SEO and in general.

Also I am thinking about using a Facebook plugin with my blogposts. I think this may be a good way to help get social visibility... Has anyone tried this yet?

I was using open site explorer and one of our local competitors and in the top 5 of the SERP has a link in http://directory.askbee.net/submit-site-to-directory.html

They want either a $1, $5 or a 3 way link to get your link in the directory.

Do any of these help or would this directory be a waste of time.

Thanks

I am going to leave the SERP, Yellow pages etc the actual number.

The places I am wanting to track are on our main corporate site and on the branch specific websites.

As far as PPC vs Organic etc I want to track all traffic sources. Right now I am most interested in trying to get a better web vs non-web tracking at the branch level. This will help me show how much business the web is driving vs local paper phone books, word of mouth, etc.

I am the in house SEO/Web for a multi-branch/multi-state company and I am having a hard time tracking the amount of calls that are coming off of our site to the many branches.

I am wondering if there are any tips for use call tracking numbers without negatively impacting my local SEO results?

In one of the webinars they touched on image replacement and also that it some situations it might be out to just use the tracking numbers.

Yes I am referring to the blue notices. I believe word press puts the Rel Canonical tag as the pages own URL by default.

In my crawl diagnostics it showing a Rel=Canonical error on almost every page. I'm using wordpress. Is there a default wordpress problem that would cause this?

I'm looking to install a word press caching plugin to help speed up my site.

My question is which plugin or method is best practice to insure my ranking are not hurt?

Thanks

Yes I'm using wordpress.

I have read through the many articles regarding the use of Meta Noindex, but what I haven't been able to find is a clear explanation of when, why or what to use this on.

I'm thinking that it would be appropriate to use it on:

legal pages such as privacy policy and terms of use
search results page
blog archive and category pages

Thanks for any insight of this.

Do you know if there is a way to edit them with in wordpress? I have some pages that the URLs where renamed prior to launch.

I use wordpress as CMS on a few sites and I noticed that word press automattically places 301s if I change a url etc.

I believe it does it by having the following in the .htaccess file:

BEGIN WordPress<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine OnRewriteBase /RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-fRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-dRewriteRule . /index.php [L]</ifmodule>

END WordPress

Should I use this? I feel like it limits my control over the 301s.

Yes, this is correct, the anchor text for the links question "home care blog" and "in home locator" link to my agency locator page and home care blog which are targeting those terms.

My on page report card gives me an "A" in every category but "link cannibalization".

The key word is I am targeting is "home care".

It says my links to "home care blog" and "in home care agency locator" are cannibalizing my home page. Am I indeed causing problems by using these modified versions of the keyword?

Also is it okay to have the link "home care" for the home link in the main navigation bar?

Thanks