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Have you think about develope any simple joomla's module/plugin? A link to your website from JED will be so relevant... Infographics are a very good natural way to do link building, because a lot of sites are going to link to you in a natural way. Share a good theme in VERY RELEVANT sites is a good option too... A lot of sites downloading yout theme is an important factor that Google loves. If anyone is downloading your files is becauser your files are interesting, and Google wants people finds RELEVANT INFORMATION. I hope it can help you

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Hey Rob! Thanks for writing in! I would recommend you spend that money on lights. If you want to light a WB you will need something with a soft box on it. We use four lights to light our presentations. Two on the sides and two in front of the presenter. As far as a camera goes any HD point and shoot would be fine. I usually stick with Panasonic and Lumix lenses. When you are looking at mics, just look for a cheap audio technica with a mini plug in (most cameras you will be looking at won't have XLR). Again I would focus on lighting. Hope this helps a little!

This is good also but I was looking for a specfic post about the Whiteboard presentation which covered lighting, set up, etc.

I remember that post by Rand too, and using hashtags certainly didn't hurt us. In the post-penguin era though, I might be a little cautious about those affiliate links because if your program is of any size, you are likely to fairly quickly create an unnatural linking profile with them. Despite (or because of) our hundreds of thousands of affiliate links, we are making them all nofollow now.

Hi Charles, No problem at all - really pleased it helped! I will drop you an email tomorrow and see how we can help out with things (it's nearly midnight here in the UK!), hopefully we'll be able to help you put a strong strategy in place to deal with this and get things back on track for you. Thanks Charles

I've employed a similar strategy for a client who has several lead generation websites. The have the ability to sell their "service" in many cities. I created several hundred landing pages specific to each city, I.E.- "credit counselor in san antonio texas". Believe it or not it worked very well. The nice thing about this strategy is that you don't have to do any heavy link building because in reality how many people are optimizing/creating content for these terms. This is the very definition of long-tail. Although the search volume is much lower the conversion rates are through the roof. Some things that I believed helped us: Hand written, 100% unique articles. Low-mid level keyword saturation. (7 instances per 500 words) Avoiding keyword stuffing in titles. Including a unique image with keyword in alt tag. Including rich media (videos tagged as taking place within the geographic location) Rolling out 2-3 pages per day. I wouldn't pay much attention to the on-page stuff anymore. I built these pages last summer and perhaps focused too much on keyword usage. If you provide links to relevant external websites tag them with the "nofollow" attribute. They'll still be recognized as being relevant and you aren't spreading your link juice everywhere.

1. no thats fine, i believe from memory he was talking about excessive footer links. 2. not so much wrong, but proably a waste of time, PR% means little, as it does not mean the page you get your link on is PR5 and if the link is easy to get and serves little purpose other then giving links, then google is probably discounted the site and there fore will not pass anything. 3.you have to make that judgment yourself, but if anyone can get a link, there are no hurdles to pass, then its proabaly no good. 4. article sites are not worth anything, Matt Cutts has said as much, better of putting the articles on your own site and hope somthing links to them, Article sites are designed to get a link, Google knows that. 5. It has been that way for a while. Matt Cutts has said that some Directories still hold value, look for relevancy, a auto directory would be good for a auto site, a local directory is also good for  local site, but the best links are earnt thougth good content that people want to link to. Asking people to link to you is a good way, but must be dome with style, just saying can i have a link is going to get you know where. do not buy links at all. Depending on the product you can look for bloggers or sites on your subject and say, we can send you a few packs of our product if you are interested in doing a peice on us. If they are interested say and oh can you link to us using this link text, thanks. There are many people that blog for nothing or are searching for their next idea, so they think why not. Sorry no easy answers. But hope it helps

Thanks Anthony - that's very helpful feedback - I'll have a go with those formats and see how it goes. I have quite a few pages to play with so I'm gonna test, test, and test again...

If you do not want Google Maps you could use Bing or OpenStreetMap. But when it comes to links; I have recently used Zeemaps because it allows me to put markers with text, images and links that go directly to the same website. Even if it goes out first. So I have a Zeemap on mydomain.com/map   with markers that have links pointing to mydomain.com/post-1 and mydomain.com/post-2 etc. You can remove advertisement on maps for $24 a year. I havent found a cheaper or better alternative.

Phil from Distilled just weighed in on how to choose a platform for hosting video, and when you'd want YouTube versus some other options in the thread at www.seomoz.org/q/best-way-to-host-video.

David, Not sure what types of businesses they are, but there is a work around. We see this a lot with professional practices where they have a physicians office and spa or physical therapy, etc. So, you need to be able to have separate suite numbers. If you own the building it does not present a problem; if you don't you need to clear it with your landlord. You can even have ste. 101-A if need be (101 and 101-A, but I like using similar: 101 and 103). Also, you need a different phone number for each business. Sometimes, entrepreneurs have multiple businesses answered at the same number and this will not work. If you set it up with separate suite number at same physical address and a different phone number you should be fine. If the businesses are very similar, I would suggest going all out on showing the dissimilarities when you fill out your Places info.

From a ranking perspective, it makes no difference whether your site is a .com, .info, etc. The problem with having a non-.com site is there will definitely be times when users try to access your site by visiting the .com version. If your URL is elitehomes.info sometimes people will visit the elitehomes.com site by mistake. It could cost you a client. The same idea holds for a hyphenated website. elite-realty.com will lose some visits due to users going to eliterealty.com. Additionally, users are most comfortable clicking through to a .com site, where other domains could experience lower acceptance. Regarding the error cleanup, if the errors are from your crawl report, then they exist on your site. Check the "referrer" field to find the page which contains the error. If it is a different report, try to locate the source or share some additional information about the tool you are using.

In my opinion, duplicate content is one of those things people get unnecessarily hung up about. I think it is about control. Duplication means loss of control - Google will choose which version to display in the results. For video, keep the full or extended versions on your domain. Syndicate the teasers or ads everywhere. That way you keep control and meet the aim of driving traffic to your site

There are not any easy fixes which can replace what a live person can do. Become an active participant in the wedding planning community, or hire an interested college student to do it for you. Every bridal forum, blog, magazine, etc. which accepts user generated content should be read. When appropriate leave comments. Do not try to offer a link to your content with every reply. You will be seen as a spammer and blocked. Be sincerely helpful, offer tips and occasionally link back to helpful articles on your site. This is a highly effective means of link building if you indeed have great content and industry knowledge. You will become known as an expert and a helpful person. You will also stay well-informed of the latest trends and ideas.