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Hi SeoMoz community!

I have a software product, which our clients implement onto their websites. It is like a pop up box. I know that backlinks are very important for SEO ranking, and I really want to give our clients 2 options of product:

1. you can get the free/cheaper option if you use the code which has a keyworded backlink to our site on it

2. you can pay small fee if you don't want to use the version with a link to our site on it

Now, the problem is that the product is written entirely in Javascript, and I don't think that Google crawls this, do they? Is there a way around this?

Thanks for your help!

Thanks Marcus - really great advice!

We checked out SupportPress on WooThemes and really liked it! Plus you are right as to how we can run it on our own domain.

What we might do is pick 5 keywords we want to rank for, and move all our sites under one domain - this should help spread the link juice through to the less performing sites, as our main site gets a lot more press and links.

Hopefully this is a good strategy!

Thanks for the help.

Hi Marcus,

Thanks for that! We use WordPress as the CMS for our site. With something like TenderApp - we want to use it for Q&A but mainly, to have a very large and solid FAQ and Glossary on there (generated by us - and using keywords we want to rank for). I really like the SEO Moz one but I believe it's built in PHP? We don't have the resources or time at the minute to build our own service so we would like to use a plugin, but one that is hosted on our domain. Does something like this exist?

Also, I have another problem. Our website has another subdomain - our main site sells certain paid-for products, but we also offer a self-service solution that is free that is branded differently (though we do associate it with our brand name). Currently, this self-service solution is hosted on a subdomain to our main site - but is not doing very well in ranking for our keywords. What would you recommend we do? Our keywords are not in the domain name unfortunately.

Thanks for your help!

Hi SEO Moz,

We want to use a knowledge base plugin (cheaper & faster than building it ourselves) where we can have Q&As for our website. We want this to help with our SEO by adding in our keyterms that we want to rank for.

We've looked into TenderApp & Get Satisfaction which look like good solutions - however, as they're both on a sub-domain do we get any seo benefit from this? When people link to our knowledge base, will this help our website at all - or is the benefit going to go to TenderApp/Get Satisfaction?

For instance -

Our website URL is http://widget.products.com

The KB URL is http://widgetsupport.products.com

If the above plugin is not a good solution, is there anything else that is better?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks.