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  • I believe Land Rover had an excellent guide campaign up until in their recently purchased company in India. I like their ads when they were owned by victors the most. It's never over in a rover no hill to steep No ditched to deep the best 4 x 4 by (X) far BMW and Mercedes-Benz have done son truly outstanding jobs what's the ultimate driving machine? you know the answer Porsche has done some excellent offbeat ads. A picture of a 911 Turbo driving down the road a caption reading "kills bugs fast" bringing back Mercedes-Benz the Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz Janis Joplin song was to the baby boomers something amazing has Mercedes had never stood for anything like that during the 60s. automobile advertising some of the best in the world.  Mercedes has very good Christmas campaigns as well. cars are clearly used in movies all-time new can tell when a car company has anted up the funds to have someone drive their car. Note the Volkswagen Audi group has always had a feud with Mercedes-Benz back when they both raised each other in silver as to not have to have the weight of the paint hold them back. If you've seen the movie unknown with Liam Neeson in Berlin you'll note the good guys are always driving a white Mercedes-Benz that if it gets in an accident carefully shows their bags going off and people unhurt. The bag guys drove Volkswagens intentionally made to look worse than normal of course there were black. And could never keep up with the white Mercedes as far as a long drawn out content marketing campaign road and track, car and driver and motor trend do that for companies like BMW Porsche Audi Mercedes any car company they like. There are books written about the Range Rover literally 500 page hardcover books.  showing how the Queen and all the royals use them in addition Rolls-Royce did an excellent job of not publishing its horsepower just stating simply "adequate" I hope to have been of some help, Thomas

    | BlueprintMarketing
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  • I add one sentence equal in every one of the 700 post (700 pages/urls). At the end of every article It's a signature in the text: "Content created by the group of portal XXX with informations of YYY." XXX = name of the site of the cliente and YYY = name of the site where the information has been used (source). In yyy will be puted a external link.

    | webg
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  • Hi Diane, I don't think that is duplicate content.  I used Wordpress before and that is the same way I used to create menus and sort articles. You simply have articles and sorted out by categories but have multiple pages or ways to access that article.  I don't believe that is duplicate content.  Duplicate content is when you have the a chunk of content within your website that is similar.  However, I don't see that on your website.  What i see is you have an article, but can be accessed via the main page and the category page.

    | TommyTan
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  • Hi Samuel, If you want your image to show up on your guest posts, you just have to add the same code you added on your site on your guest post.  Most of the time you might have to contact the webmaster or owner of the site to add it for you.  Once they added to code, you will also have to log into your Google+ account and add those website/blog to the "Contributor" section like you did for your website. Hope this answers your question.

    | TommyTan
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  • As long as the "other guy's" page gets lots of attention and drives as much or more value to your product page as your own blog could have, then nope - in my opinion it doesn't matter. The problem occurs when a not-so-authoritative blog outranks you with your own content but doesn't send ya much value. You're right to focus on the end goal which is improved rankings for the product page (and then improved conversions from those visitors!). Sounds like your site is really cookin'. Good luck! Paul <object id="plugin0" style="position: absolute; z-index: 1000;" width="0" height="0" type="application/x-dgnria"><param name="tabId" value="undefined"> <param name="counter" value="163"></object>

    | ThompsonPaul
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  • Experiment.

    | EGOL
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  • Thanks for the quick response.

    | melen
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  • Hi guys, I came across this plug-in yesterday and found it very useful for images and thought you may want to incorporate it into your site. I put into my site yesterday it allows me to add alt text, I love the that I can add the height and width as Cyrus recommended link states it really speeds up downloads Especially with a lot of images per page it can mean a significant speed difference. I use it to get credits and link's to my photographs and videos and with you having so many photos on your site I thought you may want to get credit when people copy them or link back to your website is better than simply getting credit you can do that with this plug-in. it said it's mainly designed for info graphs however can be used on all images including video and regular photographs. Here's the link http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/embed-code-generator/ here's what it does to put a photo at the bottom as well Embed Code Generator Fields Source (URL) - The full URL to the image. Link Image To - This is where the image will link to when placed on another site. Title (optional) - When populated, adds in the "title" attribute of the img tag. Alt Attribute (optional) - When populated, adds in the "alt" attribute of the img tag. Width (optional) - Designate the width of the image. Height (optional) - Designate the height of the image. Courtesy of [Your Site Name] (optional) - When populated, will display a courtesy link after the image crediting the source of the image. Courtesy of [Your Site URL] (optional) - If this and the "Courtesy of [Your Site Name]" are populated, a link will be provided to the source of the image. Here's Is the article where I found the plug-in if you care to read about it. http://authoritylabs.com/blog/infographic-marketing-101-embed-this-codes/ Sincerely, Thomas 3DWlfrP.jpg

    | BlueprintMarketing
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  • Thanks for the answer. There are a few categories in particular, which only a small percentage of my main readers like.  The ones who do, probably love the videos.  But they are hands down the least popular categories in my video section.

    | PedroAndJobu
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  • Hey, there are a bunch of ways to identify guest blog opportunities, and some sites / services etc, but I tend to think a lot of that is played out to some extent and if they are accepting content from any Tom, Dick and Harry then how much value will your post have from a pure SEO / exposure / link perspective AND for how long? I tend to think, rather than looking for Blogs that accept guest posts, look for the best Blogs in your target niche and try to spark up a relationship with the owners. Then, try to find a gap or someway you can contribute always focusing on the 'what is in it for them' angle AND be focused on doing it for the exposure you can generate. Sure, you want a link or two but make sure it is super valuable, super relevant to their core audience and then that post may pick up more links, shares etc from the current audience and subsequently, the links to your site and more importantly the exposure will have more value. Forget about volume, think about quality and focus on getting links that your competitors can't just pull up in OSE and copy. Hope that helps! Marcus

    | Marcus_Miller
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  • Hey, I used copyscape to locate all the content and have suggested copyscape sentry going forward. The problem is for this site the scale of the copying, it seems to go back several years and is pretty widespread. Cheers! Marcus

    | Marcus_Miller
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  • Hi Rob, Thanks for your reply. I did think it was odd for terms to be suggested that I was ranking so high for. I will send an email if I come across it again. Cheers!

    | Hughescov
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  • Hey Stephen, I don't really agree with you here. It's quite easy to make a calculable difference with a blog for a small business owner. Not everyone needs to be OK Cupid. Not everyone needs a following of people who read the blog daily or come back to the blog often. Some businesses, such as small (local) businesses, only need a few posts on their blog to make a difference. If there is worry about it not getting updated perhaps they can simply make more content pages on their site rather than a full-blown blog effort. Content creation doesn't always mean blog. Perhaps they can do some keyword research and look for long-tails to write blog posts about. Perhaps they could target a local keyword. These evergreen posts will continue to provide benefits for their business for years.... if the keyword research is done correctly.

    | EvolveCreative
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  • For SEO Structure: FV Simpler SEO, Yoast, or SEO Ultimate For Comments: Disqus, Facebook Comments, or CommentLuv For Social: Digg Digg, Sociable, or Get Social Misc: Google XML Sitemaps (for indexing) WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, or Quick Cache (for page speed)

    | Ryan-Bradley
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  • Hi Elaine! This is Megan from SEOmoz. To set up your campaign, you'll want to enter the URL for the section of your site that you would like to track. For example, if you selected the root domain option and entered seomoz.org, then we would track every single page on the site. However, if you just wanted to track pages for a specific subdomain, like all the pages on the www subdomain, the you would enter www.exampledomain.com. If you want to track just your blog and it's set up as a subfolder, like www.exampledomain/blog, then you would enter the path for that specific subfolder.  I know this can be very confusing, so if you want us to look at your specific URL but don't feel comfortable sharing this information over public Q&A, please send it to us via email at help@seomoz.org. We're happy to take a look at help you get everything set up correctly! Thanks!

    | MeganSingley
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  • I agree with Tom that you should be fine as your competitors will be in a similar situation as the test is required by law. If you are still concerned a couple of ways around it could be to have the legal info as an I-frame so it is not seen by Google as part of the page (but they may consider it a work around spam and in the future it may be something they target (Just trying to be whiter than white hat)) The other way around it that I do not see as being an issue in the future is to have the legal text as an image, so your visitors can read it but it is labeled as legal information to the search engines. I hope this helps Sean

    | ske11
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  • I wouldn't worry about 2 H1 tags if that's how the page works naturally. It's more important to structure your headers in the correct order, so don't have a H2 before you've had a H1, for example. See Google's Matt Cutts on the issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIn5qJKU8VM HTML5 might be changing things as there are more tags to specify page sections. You probably don't have to worry about that yet though.

    | Alex-Harford
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