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I do a ton of guest blogging. Most of my experiences with it is positive. I is a slow process to write unique content and to find a high quality site to post it on but the links are great and help a lot.

Some negatives - some blog owners will be extremely picky and send back for tons of revisions, but that does not happen often. Also have some sites that shut down after you write for them.

I normally have 1 or 2 links per article. Maybe one in context (if applicable) and one in a bio line. I will generally do 2 links if I can get it to work for 2 different sites of a similar niche.

I do not check PR but I do check domain authority and backlinks to make sure its a high quality site.

Don't think you were hit by panda. That is more so for scraping and content issues. Are you doing any of that? And keyword placement in titles will not have a big impact like that on its own.

Your main page title tag has 4 keywords in there which could be causing some confusion on what the page is about. Try to target only 1 or 2 per page and target other words on other pages. On just a quick look your site does not really seem well optimized with on page factors.

Try using the seomoz on page grader tool to increase your page relevancy.

I would add some content to these pages to help differentiate. None of them are text heavy so it may be hard for spiders to see a difference. Add a summary, maybe a text translation of what is in the vids, etc

I think this will remove

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

use it naturally. i just write and dont go out of my way to stuff the keyword into the content in an unnatural way. however on a long page i would say no more than 10 times. and i mean a long page not just a couple paragraphs.

and stop words seem to depend on the context. some keywords naturally include stop words while others just have it in there depending on how a user types.

search engines will ignore to a degree

One of my businesses is B2B and I have found that engaging people on LinkedIN is a good way to get people back to my FB page.

I join in a variety of groups on there and just talk to anybody in my market

There are no tools you NEED where you have to go out and buy stuff but of course it can make your life easier.

I will give you a basic process to go from.

1. Analyze your company - what kind of people you want to bring to your site.

2. Use the Google adwords keyword tool to do research on relevant keywords. I use the exact match setting. Look for keywords that get a decent amount of traffic, not a huge amount of competition, and would be a good keyword to bring in sales/visits.

Word of thumb is that broad keywords will bring in more traffic but less conversions where longtail less but more conversions.

To look at competition quality you should do an open site explorer run for the top 5 or so results for the keyword you think you would like to target. Check out their links, anchor text, linking domains, PA, DA, etc. See if you think you could match it or do better.

3. After you have selected a keyword (I usually say no more than 1 or 2 a page) begin to implement that keyword on your site's respective page. Write QUALITY content that is NATURAL. Do not keyword stuff. Do not use meta keyword tags. Put keyword in titles, headers, alts maybe a bold or italic, in url if possible...basically all your on page stuff. I love the seomoz on page term grader. Check that tool out and aim for an A.

4. After your page is properly optimized you should begin doing link building. Never buy links, do minimal link exchanges, do not spam forums or comments, or any spam. The best way to get links is to write tons of content to get published on sites that allow guest blogging. Those are great one way links. Just making quality content in general will get you links as people find it and post on their site to share.

This is just a basic process and there is of course a lot to it but this should give you a decent framework to go by.

Feel free to PM me at anytime with questions.

As somebody who knows a bit about seo when I see a site ranking with a multi keyword hyphen domain I normally click the next result. Exact match hypen domains are usually made  by people who are trying to out rank their competitors and know that Google gives some weight for keywords in the domain.

There is buzz going around that less emphasis is going to be placed on domains like this in the future but who knows how long. Either way, in my opinion it looks spammy and unprofessional however you will probably have no problem ranking it

Can you provide a link to one of these contest? I am curious to see what exactly you mean. There are some legitimate contests that can build links and others that are probably gray or black hat.

Well, some niches just aren't meant for social activity.

However, you can still succeed with the right content. What exactly are you posting to your page? Try going with some creative content ideas or throwing some contests. If your business is a local company, partner up with some local businesses to  give away gift cards and other prizes in exchange for likes. And then promote that contest through each site.

Try running community events and just stuff that will get people engaged. I know one company that runs a FB fantasy football league.

I looked at the directory maybe a month ago and a lot of the links were not working or were very expensive which may be why there was so many thumb downs. A cost column would be helpful

Your best bet is to do a 301 redirect on it.

I would look at OSE to see which one has a higher PA and more links and redirect the other to it.

Also redirect the www or the non www to a single destination.

I reported one company who made  hundreds of physical listings for having store locations when it was just an internet site with no store. Took a while but about 2 months after I reported them I got an email from Google saying they had looked into the report and thanking me.

By the way, I wanted to share this link with you.

I get a lot of my blog contacts from this site

http://myblogguest.com

Correct me if I am wrong here

But this should be done according to how the client wants - with all lowercase. As that is how they are branding themselves and will be on all official documents, press releases, basically anything.

I heard that google places and other similar services will pick up citations and for citations to best impact things they need to be consistent all across the board. I worked for check n go at one point and t hey had a problem where it was coming in as Check in Go, Check n Go, Check 'n Go, etc etc and it was impacting them in ways.

So I would just do which ever way the client wants and keep it consistent.

I just read several more articles on that site. Overall junk. I would find a new blog to  get your info from.

Is this still a good way of getting backlinks? I do not plan on making it my only method. Most of my backlinking is done through content creation, press releases, and guest blogging.

But looking for some variety in there that can be done quicker.

Is it even worth the time or are the links too spammy now?

If I did I would actually hand build the links and comment to the article.

About 4 times should be fine. Try not to focus on stuffing the keyword or inserting it in unnatural ways. Just write the content naturally and it should work the keywords in.

Just write relevant information that is tailored towards the user.

You should not use the same keyword in all title tags. So this would be the wrong way to do things

Springfield IN Dentist | Springfield Dental Care Experts - Dental Surgery

Springfield IN Dentist | Springfield Dental Care Experts - Dental Fillings

For city specific keywords first make sure they get traffic by doing some research. If they do then you can target those kinds of phrases within the site.

If not I would target generic phrases such as "dental surgery" and have locations pages set up to assist with your geo targeting.

http://www.getedubacklink.com/

I found this site and was curious if anybody knew if they were legit or quality links in any way.

My site has thousands of legit backlinks (none paid or even built through a service) so I was interested in building a greater diversity from domain extensions and thought edu links would be good. However most edu pages I find that allow any links are SPAMMED hard and not worth my time.

Thoughts

Depends on the kinds of errors being generated. I use wordpress and it does not generate errors like that for me. It may be the theme you are using.

Anyways, invalid markup plays a very minimal role in seo. The primary way it effects things is with site speed. If there are errors that may impact your site's load time then yes it can penalize you a little. But not enough where you will really see that negativity. If the rest of your site is properly optimized you would be fine. It is minor problems that compound and add up which will create a headache for you.

I called them and got taken care of. Thanks for the info

For something a long those lines Google mixes in shopping results to try and bring the best results. But for a hotel kind of search I would much rather get the hotel itself.