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As a PRO MyBlogGuest user, you already have access to the link tracker (that's the update you are getting if any of your guest posts get removed or any of your links gets deleted), so since you are using MBG, MBG tracker would be extra We are working on the quality issue and haven't noticed that many poor-quality articles. I personally track ALL rejections (I get an email each time the publisher rejects the article) and I don't recall seeing that many rejections either... Could you please report any time you receive a poor article? About the blog quality, we have had lots of discussions in Private area about that and haven't still come to any good solution. Making another level of membership where only high-quality articles can go and only high-quality blogs can enter sounds like no problem to me. But I've heard some serious concerns about that being a closed network Google might once consider as breaking the rules. Right now our doors are open to everyone, and yes, it is much more natural this way

I agree with Mike Davis. I ranted on about the need to hire professional writers in a post earlier this week.. Many of my clients are themselves subject matter experts and professional writers. I just point them in the right direction and do some editing as we come up with an editorial calendar. It's not unlike what I did as a magazine editor. And, yes, it's important to be accurate. That shouldn't have to be said -- but it does. You'll never know how much business you lost because a prospect concluded you don't know what you're talking about. Getting people to commit to producing content? I agree it's very difficult. Here's a radical suggestion on how to succeed: pay them. I know, I know -- this is deeply shocking....especially if we are talking about non-writers already on staff at a company. Of course, you need high level support to make this happen. But a $1,000 or $2,000 one-time writing bonus can work really well.

Truth be told, I'm not sure. Google says they reserve the right to not follow a rel=canonical, but that being said, I don't know why they wouldn't in this case. I think the attribution is probably much less important just because it could come in so many different forms (link at the top of the post, link at the bottom, worded one way or another, etc), which becomes different to track and account for on the search engine side.

No worries, once you have decided which one you are after, follow one of these guides: http://www.stateofsearch.com/rel-publisher-explaine-marketers/ http://www.vervesearch.com/blog/seo/how-to-implement-the-relauthor-tag-a-step-by-step-guide/ Best, Stuart

I agree with EGOL, unless you are trying to dominate the first page with search results for the same keyword phrase. Then in that case they need to be completely separated, no interlinking and no shared content.

If you've been affected by Panda then it won't help at all to ask Google to reconsider your site.  You need to make all of the changes and then wait for a Panda refresh.  They seem to happen about once a month. If you've made siginifcant changes on a page then you can do as MartinEvolveRetail suggested and go into webmaster tools and fetch an URL and then submit it to the index.  It's a good idea to do that for each page that you have changed just in case Google doesn't recrawl the page before the next Panda update comes out.  However, you are limited to 50 submissions per week. Similarly, if you have pages on your site that you have noindexed or 404'd in order to help with Panda, you'll want to use the Google URL removal tool so that they get removed from the index before Panda refreshes again.

_Yes it creates internal duplicate content because the same content/article is accessible via different paths and therefore, search engine might find it confusing to determine which page deserves to get visibility in the SERP. So, you need to add noindex, follow Meta tag in the category and tag pages so that these internal duplicate pages do not get indexed by search engines. _

_If I were you, I would not concern about the PR. I would concern about the quality of the website. I would like to check the quality of the articles getting published there, number of social shares they are getting, number of comments per posts and other things. If the blog looks like a part of a blog network and is heavily dependent on guest bloggers, I will think twice before accepting the offer of guest blogging.  _ Otherwise it is perfectly Okay.

Hi, I think that you're missunderstanding things, but, anyway, a RSS source is good if you promote it, then it'll atract to your blog more readers > more traffic and then you've got more PR. It depends on the use and the effort, if you only put it on your web... pointless, if you promote it good. Hope it helps

Great reply! Thank you for your feedback I must do some further research on how to implement this feature and recieve quality overall... First and foremost - to find an author on my newsite that is active on Google+, has some 'community' impressions and is willing to test this cheers

Thanks, that's helpful. Typepad.com, however, will not let you 301 redirect, which is why I was kind of thinking I should just kill the original blog. But I will look into the Google Webmaster Tools solution. I was not aware of that.

Thanks, I will check it out

Hi Cesar, Try Textbroker - we've picked up some really good writers on there. I recommending starting with some small projects, hire a few writers and see who is the best. Then you can assign the best ones larger projects and continue with those. Thanks

Hi Lauren, You could try contentproz.net for the ebooks. You could also get good ebook writers on elance and vworker. All the best.

Honestly, then you aren't really giving yourself any options - or the portals you use/systems, etc. aren't. Since you can't caonical or do 301s or any of the other indicators Google looks for to figure out duplicate content, you can't really tell Google you are the originator. Even if you can't do a regular hyperlink, can you do a non-hyperlink/URL in the posting?

Fairytale of New York - The Pogues for me - though Mariah Carey - All I want for Christmas is You! has a certain charm about it haha

Hey OT, the canonical notice will show up as soon as you have a canonical on the page. SEO Tools cannot analyze if the canonicals are set up correctly or not, they can just warn you if a canonical is there or not. The example link you provided is ok. Gr., Istvan