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Whether or not you get penalised or banned from social bookmarking sites will depend on how you use the automated software.  Many social bookmarking sites state in their terms and conditions that you're not allowed to automate the submission of links.  Others don't state that, but still reserve the right to ban accounts they feel are a misuse of their service. In terms of whether search engines will penaise your sites - I think it depends on how many other valuable incoming links you already have.  If all your links come from social bookmarking sites you're not likely to see much of a boost to SERP rankings.

Thanks for responding Jason (your pic looks like it was taken in a rain forest). As to traffic in Spanish for our clients product/service there is enough to put up Spanish language. As I said in reply to Ryan, I am going to have one site for the main with both English and Spanish. I would ask this: you said if considerable Spanish searches you would do one English and one Spanish, why? (Just interested in the reasoning on any SEO) Frankly, I think you could be right as much as I think doing one with both languages could be right.

Each website page should ideally be optimized for one keyword or phrase. You can add additional phrases, but each additional dilutes your efforts. If you have a page which has a clear focus (i.e. "diabetes") then the page's URL, title, header should all include that term. When that term is used elsewhere on your site, it is perfectly acceptable and preferable imo to use anchor text linking to the main page which discusses this topic. You asked about studies and I don't have one, but I do have an example: wikipedia. Most every SEO and website owner looks to wikipedia with envy as they are the #7 ranked site in terms of traffic, and overall the highest ranked site for any random topic. They use a consistent text match for internal links. The wiki site does have a diabetes page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes_mellitus Notice any and every time the term "diabetes melitus" is used throughout the wiki site, the exact same phrase match is used. Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin

Hi Regal..thanks and agreed...I am getting good signals from sharing and likes..so am winning there...I think I am just going to quit with the comments and focus on that on the facebook page...as that is really where the bulk is  happening....I appreciate the input..thank you cheers

Search engines handle underscores in different ways, so it's best to make them uniform and use hyphens, all being equal - This appears to be best practice in Google's eyes. I wouldn't worry about it too much thought and I would take vitalscom's advice if you were thinking about moving them over.

I've used the review markup quite a bit, and Google Places has added a link to the reviews on one of my client's Reviews page. I know Google Places also factors some (who knows how they choose?) of the reviews into their local algo. I also use some geo tagging and author type markups (see the main and contact page of my site). It works, and it will only get better Hope that helps Andy

Also.. If each of your pages is receiving a fair amount of traffic through organic search, then again it's less of a problem. If people are clicking through to your site and landing on those pages (without an excessively high bounce rate) then this should signal to google that those pages are proving relevant to your visitors.

I'm curious about this as well. My site which is just a blog currently has a warning of 200 or more links. Since it's a blog is this ok? On average, I have about 5 - 6 links per post. I think SEOMOZ crawler is counting everything as one page which is where it's pulling it's 200+ from.

No, varied anchor texts are the way to go, just make sure you have "used tires" in that order. "used tires" "keyword used tires" "used tires keyword" "keyword used tires keyword" Also internal linking on your site should have proper anchor texts as well. I would concentrate on that first, and stay away from paid linking.

I am sure you can find the expressing via a Google search, but even easier you can ask your host to do it for you. Most small sites use managed hosting, and most hosts are willing to help. Give them a call or open a help ticket and ask.

Totally agree with Ryan Kent. You should write a paragraph of content that is unique to the company featured. The chart is not unique enough and you will get flagged as having a high ratio of duplicate content. You should also look at all the other SEO elements on this page, understand what keyphrases you are targeting and modify the title, meta and H1 tags.

You might not get a boost in rankings but if it is a popular article that leads to a steady stream of free referral traffic, that can be almost as sweet.

Ricky, the .net site appears to be penalized, go to google and type in akinsseptic.net - results show for the .com site.  Also, if you simply type in akinsseptic in google you get neither site. This is an indication of trademark suppression AKA Google penalty. Your first step would be to unwind the penalty, until the sites are cleaned up you won't get rankings unfortunately. I definitely believe that domain name age plays a large part in rankings out of the gate.  I have heard that it is better to let Google find your site on it's own (from following links on the web) rather then submitting your URL to Google, because if you submit it Google they start the clock from when you submitted it. I have not tested this but since it's possible I never submit new sites to Google URL submit tool.

thank you Shelly - I appreciate it.

It must have been a glitch in Google. They processed our sitemap again last night and there aren't any error messages now.

Sounds like a great opportunity! You might also try the SEOMoz free jobs marketplace if you haven't already www.SEOMoz.org/marketplace.