Hi,

http://myblogguest.com/ is a good site for you to find blogs that are willing to accept guest blogs.  You have to sign up for an account and it is a community where people request for blogs to post on or request for posts for their blog.  It is 100% free and join the comunity to find a blog that you think fits your niche and message the blog owners to see if they want to post your article.

hope this helps!

As long as the directory is not spammy and have a decent authority, the link from it wouldn't hurt.  However, majority of the directories on the web are usually spammy; therefore, I suggest not doing it and try other backlinking strategies to earn your backlinks.

Furthermore, if you content is unique, then submitting to directories would cause duplicate content.  Overall, provide unique contents and titles if you are really planning to do directory submission.

Hi,

You should not do directory submission at all due to the low authority links it passes on.  However, if you do decide to do directory submission, I would suggest having evertyhing unique or close to unique meaning different title, different description, different content, and etc.

As long as you have a chunk of similar content, Search Engines will pick it up as duplicate content.

Hope this helps a bit.

Hi David,

Your home page might be receiving more backlinks than the keyword targeted page and Google might think that your home page is a better result to the searchers.

Another thought I have from what you described about the theme you used, the posts pops up on the home page.  So does that mean it is part of the home page and it doesn't have its own page.  If that is true, then it might also be a reason why Google is showing your home page and not your targeted page.

First hypothesis might be a better guess.

Hi Mark,

If A,C, and E's page is similar to B,D, and F's page it is still consider dupllicate content.  Based on Webmaster's definiton:

"Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match other content or are appreciably similar"

Each of your pages should be unique and different from other pages.

I suggest you to continue providing quality content and target the long tail keywords.  That alone will help you generate more traffic.  Furthermore, out ranking is not a problem.  You should focus on getting to the frist page (providing quality content with long tail or regular keywords) and when you are on the first page, try to get searchers to click on your link using Title tag and Meta descriptions.

Out ranking just means they are ranked 4th and you are ranked 5th, 6th but as long as you have a better title tag and meta description. I believe searchers will click on the more attractive results.

Hi Mark,

Creating 100,000 pages is definitely good for Search Engine because you have a lot more contents for them to crawl and have more chances your pages might show up on related keywords.  However, the problem is do you have enough unique contents you can post on all those 100,000 pages.  If you use similar content, I am afraid it will be duplicate contents.  You may think changing up the town names will be enough but it might be risky.

If you can create 100,000 unique contents, Sure go ahead.  If not, don't take the risk of duplicate contents.

HI Harvey,

Like Rafi said, I don't believe domain registrar location will affect SEO but the host location will affect SEO.  It will be best to host based on where your domain is targeting.  For example, it is recommended to host in UK if you have a .uk website.  Search Engines will see your host location is in UK and assume you are from UK.  Furthermore, the load time will also be faster if host location is the same.

Rand had an amazing Whiteboard Friday that explains where to host

international-seo-where-to-host-and-how-to-target-whiteboard-friday

Submit Sitemap to the search engines and make sure to inter-link within your website so that it will be easier for bots to crawl.