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I have heard multiple reports recently of spammy backlinks hurting a site. Seems Google is more willing to penalize a site for bad linking practices.

That's strange, but I'm not sure it's cloaking. Looks like they are using Javascript to display the product as part of a larger display. If JavaScript is disabled, the product just shows without the larger display of other products around it.

Thank you David, You are right, i should probably use both.

Thanks Daniel! The reason I was asking is if we use keywords w/o trademark symbols we may run into legal issues hence we were thinking of optimizing the page for keyword with symbol in it.

Using the keyword 4 times instead of 2 in your body content will probably do nothing. If you simply add to your existing content and include the keyword 2 times in the new content you are adding, then yes, you could get some benefit there. But if all you do with your existing content is swap phrases, you won't change much with Google. They already know what your page is about. So the only way you could help would be to add more targeted, keyword rich content to what is already there.

Oh I see. Well I wouldn't worry about it. Google rarely treats reciprocal links badly, so I highly doubt they would hurt you for linking to a page that only mentions you without a link.

I have been able to get a couple domains ranked for the same (low to moderate competition) keyword before. They had same whois and server.

I would consider either to be fine.

I'm not sure if this meets your needs, but it is something to look at if you haven't seen it already. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/xml-sitemaps-for-videos/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flv-embed/

Monica, Thanks so much for your help. I was having trouble finding any further information through my own research, maybe I can get some clues from Google News. I will also be experimenting and maybe can share my findings. I appreciate it -Joe

Use http://www.opensiteexplorer.org Type in both urls and you'll see which one has more links to it.

I'm following up on older, unanswered questions in Q&A. Can you tell us whatever happened in your situation, so anybody else that's in a similar situation might get some advice? Did you recover, or is this still an issue?

When you have visitor submitted pages, you don't control the amount of content. I'm just trying to assess how much I need to add to those pages to make them unique pages/better quality. Thank you for your response.