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I created a PDF - will it pass PageRank?

No, no, no, nothing like that haha I could get more points without the effort!

I just noticed that a ton of people had great answers, but no one was giving them points!

OH! Sorry, I misunderstood.  Solid way of doing this.

What happens is both end up blocked?

Sure thing!

The post can be found here:

http://tampaseo.com/2011/03/joomla-seo-tips/

Great reply, Daniel. Thumbs up.

Yeah, I absolutely agree with Josh.  Thumbs up, Josh!

Not a problem!  If you come across any other problems, let me know, I'd love to help!

I always agree with domains with keywords in them for sure.

Are you split testing with Google Website Optimizer or another tool?

Makes sense!

Let's chat offline. Could you email me at alhallinan@gmail.com?

Steve,

What do you mean, "Good luck" with the SEO package from PRWeb?

Thanks,

-Andy

I'd say that I'd have to disagree with, "No point registering keyword rich domain unless it's a short lived affair."

Why is that?  I completely disagree.  Most of my successful websites all are based around keywords, and I've had them for years...

Simply put, it's a tag that solves a problem.

Problem: Dynamic web pages get into trouble with duplicate content - Google will see a completely different page if the URL is changed in any way.

For instance, Google sees these as two different sites:

www.site.com 
www.site.com/

Just the trailing / will make Google index the page twice - which required much more resources to index all of that duplicate content.

So, the rel="canonical" tag exists to tell Google which version of the content to index - thus enabling less duplicate content.

All you need to do is add the rel="canonical" tag before the tag of your website, and you're good to go!

Does this help explain it?

No, I could be wrong, but I don't think that's not how rel="canonical" works.

Rel="canonical" just needs to be at the top of your web page, before the section of the website - you don't actually add it to a link.  It tells Google that if it sees your content elsewhere on your website somehow, to index that copy only.

With that said, social media is a tough place to start.  To be honest, I usually start my social media campaigns with my email marketing list - do you currently have a decent sized marketing list or customer base?

From there, sending out RELEVANT information to your social media platform should be the highest priority.  I started an entire website to talk about how social media marketers and SEO marketers are silly and spam their lists - which ultimately makes social media marketing an up hill battle.  AdFailBlog.org

What you should really do is focus on interaction and relationship building - build a community of people who know, love, and respect your company and your brand.  You can do this by participating actively, not spamming, and by providing super high quality content that they'll love.

I hope this helps!

I always have used www.LiquidWeb.com as my hosting company - their customer support just rocks!

They don't do designing, however.

Can you give us some more information on what you're looking to do?

Hi, Ray,

Typically, directories don't often sort by alphabetical order; they allow the user to choose how they view the results, or, they sort by showing the paid listings first.

With that said, here's what I usually look like when starting a new project & choosing a domain:

• Is the domain name brand-able?
• Can I have keywords in the domain?
• Do I have the option of buying a domain with a high Page Rank?

Right now, having keywords in your domain is a pretty significant factor, but there have been rumors of Google changing it's algorithm to put less weight on the keywords in domain.

If I was in your shoes, I think I'd go with "AUCheapFlights.com" just because it's brand-able & it has keywords.

I hope this helped!

Haha there ya go, Steve!

I just don't understand.  If a question or an answer is decent, I give people a thumbs up.  I don't think I've really seen anyone else give a thumbs up.  Why not?

Maybe good keywords... maybe good traffic... but duplicate content won't get you a ton of great content