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As I mentioned in my Inside YouMoz post, there are even some posts that I would have turned down if they didn't have links. I try to treat links as scholarly citations rather than votes. There's a post right now in the queue that I need to respond to and tell the author that they need to back up some of their statements with links to the source of what they are claiming.

thx William

Some resources mentioned below: Content Syndication 101 on Content Syndication More Strategies (i'd be careful with the article directories suggestion in this post)

I have released 10's of thousands of pages at once on many occasions on multiple sites and never had an issue. Why should there be an issue? If the content is good then Google wants it. If its poor low quality content then you are feeding Panda and it will take an overview of the total quality of the site and then slap you. So decide how useful all of that content is and why you want it all indexed. You could even deploy all the content at once and set some categories to noindex and change them bit by bit to see the effects. I think Panda runs about once a month right now so you will need to be a little patient to see overall results.

Thanks Lesley- I've managed to get the 301 done.  Now I plan to resubmit my site to the major engines.  Sadly, the state of my business now precludes me from hiring someone to do it for me.  I am going to wordpress and already have it being installed with my hosting co so I can start on it. I bought the X theme.A few months ago I could've afforded the website to be built for me, now I can't.

Hi there, To reiterate some things that have been said here: You want to remove / move away from Blogspot and Wordpress blogs that are hosted on .blogspot.com / .wordpress.com. Very few people would ever recommend using Blogspot even for a self-hosted blog - Wordpress is very much superior. Using a Blogspot domain does not give you a boost in Google's rankings, so do not worry about losing out because of that. You also want to remove the duplicate content problem - as is linked to above, Google dislikes duplicate content and will filter out one "version" of the identical content. A query like this one shows that Google has indexed the content on your blogspot blog - if you click to see additional results in that results page, you will see that the way the blogspot blog is set up is absolutely terrible when it comes to duplicate content as well. Google has found 101 versions of the same sentence. The content appears to be drawn into the URL dynamically - the actual text of the post is not visible in the source code of the page, but the entire blog appears to be readable from any blog post URL - all you have to do is scroll up and down. You really need to remove this blogspot blog and work solely on your own site, but if this blog is currently bringing you traffic, then this is going to be tough. Blogspot does not have a native method for 301 redirecting an old blog to a new location. There are a range of options for redirecting visitors at a page level, but I am relatively sure that there is no server-level redirect option yet.

Interesting that many folks still think hosting videos on YouTube help with ranking. Sure, keep your visitors on your site, but more often than not, visitors prefer to watch a larger video on YouTube. They leave your site, possibly break your analytics funnels, maybe increase bounce rate, and you even have distracting ads on the videos. I'd try something like Vzaar or host on your own server. Calculate if your bandwidth would cost anything and get all that traffic, especially if the video URL is your own domain. Add that to a video sitemap, mark it up with schema.org, and then you have something that would help you much more than pushing your video out to sites that want to earn money from people watching your branded content. But if you still wanna do that, of course all the social media sites like Google+, Facebook, etc, then there is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_hosting_services

Hi Egol, Thank you so much for taking the time to write such a clear and informative answer. This is exactly what I was looking for. The company that made me the offer is not big and your comments regarding "who is paying me" are important. The ranges you posted are extremely helpful Thanks Carla

Agree with Brad and Andy here - if you can keep this content within the same site, expanding and perhaps restructuring what you already have, that would be better. Some large corporates (think HSBC, Aviva, etc.) have a corporate site and a customer-facing site - and even then, it can get them into difficulty when the "wrong" site outranks the right one for certain content, like the brand name. In the case of big corporates, it's usually bad for business when a corporate site outranks the customer site, and this happens with annoying regularity to some of them. If it's possible to have all the content on one site, that site's home page is going to be virtually guaranteed to rank for brand terms, rather than there be a battle between a .com and a .co.uk, for example, for some queries. If your current CMS does not have the capability of building a larger site on your domain, consider investing in a new CMS as long as it makes sense to host both types of content on the one domain / site.

If it is an exact copy of your article then it is possible that it could cause a problem with Google. If you decide to contact them find out in advance if they are a real Benjamin Moore company.  If they are then your chances of success are greater, in my opinion.  If they are not I think it would be hard to get cooperation. Decide what you want to accomplish.  Do you want it removed, do you want a link, do you want an rel=canonical? I would want the rel=canonical AND have my company name listed as the author and copyright holder in the article. I would offer them a choice.... A) remove the article..... B) display it with attribution and rel=canonical (and give instructions for how that should be done) If they choose B then their web dev could get in touch if there are questions about how to do what you want.

Thank you

Use a cannonical tag. Its the best option if you want to keep both the pages or if you want to keep just one page 301 redirect the page which you don't want to keep to the page you want to keep

Hopefully the content is good enough that the initial push using this network will expose it to a larger audience and result in more shares. That's the premise behind using this tactic.

Ron, There are WordPress plugins that allow you to serve content based on geolocation. For example, the "Custom Content by Location" plugin comes to mind http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-content-by-country/ Alternatively, outside of WordPress, you can use PHP code to determine the user's location and then serve them up separate content. There's a sample of that code here: http://www.adviceinteractivegroup.com/how-to-display-unique-content-based-on-geolocation/

Thanks everyone who has contributed to answering this question of mine. Samuel, great article and something that definitely makes us think what we are doing to better improve our PR for sites. Thanks Jane for your comments and making clear the possibilities as too recommendations of routes to go down!

Hi Guys, Thanks for the great feedback

Hi I don't think the percentage has changed at all. It can vary depending on specific circumstances, but as a default this should be largely consistent. I don't have direct experience with tools to help migrate the content itself (most of my clients have developers do that). You might want to look at this: http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-move/ It depends what the existing site is built with - if it's on a current CMS I'd google "migrate from [cms name] to wordpress". Someone with good database skills could probably do it that way.

lol...   I get mad and delete them... but maybe I could get some giggles here instead.  

Thanks for the peace of mind and for a change it seems im doing something right. I suppose its ok to promote the articles on my web site through my blogger account . IE  A one line description a picture and a link to the Article.

I liked. Some of the info is a little dated, but overall it's worth the money.  You can probably find most of the stuff on the internet, but it's nice to have it all arranged in one place.  If you have already been doing SEO for a while, you will probably already know most of the info, but if you can get a couple of key points from it, then it was worth it. In a nutshell, I recommend not only buying it, but reading Neil's QuickSprout blog regularly.