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Upload slideshows on Slideshare.net Google loves the domain from what I have seen, if you have a great range of links to the Slideshare content you can have them ranking for great terms. If you upload slideshow content to your own domain it may not be as effective.

I can watch soft 404 errors increase and know there will be a week to two week period with lower SERP scores. They absolutely can affect your campaign.

I search by doing this:  "your blog topic" blog

Google does limit the number of pages it crawls and indexes based on your PageRank. So if you don't have a lot of external links, then if you publish 10 articles a day they may not be crawled or indexed in a timely fashion. The higher the authority of your site, the more content Google will index, and sooner.

The scraper's canonical tag points to their own site. I just added canonical tags to our content. I hope we win out.

Orion, Moving/merging one site into another has substantial and long-lasting implications so you do not want to go into that lightly.  It's not necessarily a difficult task, but it is one that takes plenty of planning and forethought.  Most SEOs can tell you many stories of being called to the rescue after a company jumped headlong into the merging of their domains, only to find out that they lost lots of search traffic, lots of links, and/or lots of audience members.  If you don't have an strong need to move forward immediately and you don't have an expert in-house or a contractor to turn to, there's no harm in taking a month or two or three to slowly study up and become your own expert on merging domains/blogs.  You might start with these resources: Moving your site - Webmaster Tools Help Redirection - SEO Best Practices - Moz Cutts excellent video on 301 redirect limits  301 Redirect Relevance And then you might move on to wrap your arms around the information in found in searches such as: merging domains merging wordpress sites

The best test case for the value of WordPress is to switch an existing site to WP from HTML as see the results.  I have been impressed.  I only use SEO optimized theme framework like headwaythemes.com genesis or thesis. I find Yoast SEO buggy and redundant if you use a strong framework.

By the way, if your site has ANY visibility at all, you can expect an automated attack on the WP admin login maybe once an hour.  All day, every day.  So, if you leave your admin account active, and give it a password that's in the dictionary, you'll be seeing injection scripts in your home page and you'll be the proud assistant distributor of various pharma products within a month or two :-). Right now, I'm seeing so many scripted attacks from China, I blocked all China IP addresses from my travel website.  I was seeing hundreds to thousands of attempts per day before that.

Hi Gajendran, Thanks for your question. Did you see Paul's response? Please let us know, thanks! Christy

I agree with Aaron here. Both elements are important. If there were quite a few more social shares then it would be easier to ignore the lack of links. Do a test for a couple months - rather than posting weekly, post every other week and make the content more substantial - longer form text, lots of good formatting like h2/h3s, bullets, photos, etc. Target a higher value term. Also consider running a small Facebook ad ($15-25) or Twitter/LinkedIn featuring that post, and targeting it towards the exact type of demographics you want to see it. I think you'll get a lot better return from this type of approach.

Good point. Wasn't thinking about that when I wrote my answer.

Hi Yiannis Sure, my email is gary@elitegroupmarketing.co.uk Look forward to hearing form you.

Hi Andy, Can you provide a bit more information? Like Christy said, did you write meta descriptions for the other 20 blog posts?  Which CMS platform are you using? More information will help. Thank you!

Cheers David We are actually already in touch - but thank you!

I would tend to side with Oren on this one. When all of this stuff was new, an agency decided that the authorship their people built was 'rented land'. First, for shame. Second, they're missing out on what that author does later. Stripping authorship is a penny wise and pound foolish tactic.

Keri, There are some excellent profiles that can share your content, unlike other "services" that are paid to share, the people sharing the posts are actually reading and finding them interesting enough to share. Of course, there are some that click on each and every share button just to get the credits, but as viralcontentbuzz "pays" by how popular you are based on metrics (I think from Klout) those that share just for the credits can't do you no harm. I've used them for several posts and some ended up with tweets from high level profiles that got retweets, favs, etc. I am totally against their paid version as it could become a paid to share scheme, which ends up as a way of spamming the networks, but still, high end profiles won't share everything just for the points, they have a "reputation" to maintain.

There are multiple options you have and no option in my opinion is bad! Option 1: Here the idea is to research some companies, interview them and ask very specific questions about how they can help you achieve your desired goal. If anyone sounds a good fit for you, just check their testimonials and decide if you want to go for it or not! Option 2: If you want a content producer to produce content for your blog then my advice would be to search for popular bloggers within your niche. You follower wonk to see who they are and then contact them to se if they can work for you! Hope this helps!

Ill just give a practical response based from my own ecom projects Category optimisation DOES wonders for impressions and SEO. You've seen it work. In my case, increasing the content length DID help get more impressions but not conversions (directly) If it helps people to make choices for products, go for it. If you are just increasing the length just for the sake of SEO, that's where you will need to make a judgement call. Consider your traffic data and conversion funnels that you have right now and make the decision based on that. Hell, if I was asked this personally, Id just say go for it, test it and see what happens, but like Doug mentioned, it might make you lose money if you are already converting well and that's the last thing we want to happen

Thank you very much Ryan That is so..... helpful, thanks Catherine

Oh well, as you mentioned "rebrand" I guessed you were able to also merge the two, by using one site to cover all, like most manufacturers do (apple, samsung, sony, etc). Anyway, in this case, I would suggest you build different content for both sites. In the manufacturer site, you can have technical specifications, let's say it builds computers, then in the manufacturer page you list technical aspects of the chips, motherboards, manufacturing process, etc. While in the sales front you "SELL" the end product, show how it works, you can probably add videos of the product in action, etc. By following that process you will end up with "similar" pages, but sites that actually read totally different; and you won't need to nofollow or noindex anything...