Suggestions on how to hire help with my SEO?

[Force7]

Hi,

I just signed up with SEOMOZ and found some major duplicate content issues with Wordpress. I have installed Yoast SEO plug in but honestly am a little lost on how Wordpress handles it all and need guidance.

I would love to hire someone to do some desktop share / Skype sessions to teach me the proper way to set this up but did not see if there was any place on SEOMOZ where employers and providers can connect.

I am interested in more than just this one issue, looking for a freelancer ongoing to work on our site for SEO.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

Force7

[SanketPatel]

Can you please share landing page URL on which you are getting duplicate content error ? Do you have idea about canonical tag ?

[brandonjschwartz]

Force7,

You may be able to get free help from folks in the Q&A section. The community is awesome like that.

If you find that you need something a little more detailed, you might try the SEOmoz group on LinkedIn. SEOmoz used to run a marketplace where contracts were posted, but they migrated that aspect over to LinkedIn. Great benefit for someone like you is that you can view profiles of people who are offering their help. Knowledge is power, and LinkedIn will help make sure you find someone who will be of real benefit.

[Sean_Dawes]

Also make sure to take a look at the beginners guide here http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo as it is a good start if you are new to seo

[Force7]

The post is at

http://www.translationsoftware4u.com/blog/tag/brand-monitoring/

I semi understand the canonical, I am guessing that you create a post then specify the Url of the main post. I was not sure technically what it does to the other links/posts like the one above.

I only have 7 posts so far but came up with about 180 duplicate pages. When I first added to tags to the posts I was thinking the more the better. Obviously that was wrong. So now I am going back and really just wiping out the tags. I am not even sure tags are that helpful other than categorizing the content and maybe I should rely on categories themselves to do that. Open to suggestions on proper tagging.

THanks,

Force7

[jeffreytrull1]

In terms of the Yoast SEO plugin, it's really not that complicated no matter what you're level.

There's a brief description of how to use it here: http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/

This post is very handy, too: http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-install-and-setup-wordpress-seo-plugin-by-yoast/

[Force7]

Thanks, I will check out Linkedin.