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Hi Anchorwave, You can check out a post published earlier this year by SEER Interactive.  It's my favorite article of all time in helping me determine whether a link is quality or not.  Feel free to check out the 25 ways to qualify a link. Cheers!

Banner ads will only help if they direct link to your site. Usually banner links add all CID tracking codes and drive through re directs so it will not usually help SEO. You can look at other things like contacting these sites and asking if you can do "guest posting" of content for free on their site to build links?

I use You Tube and Vimeo Plus. And also Amazon S3 with EasyVideoPlayer.

Check out the free Xenu Link Sleuth and this post: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/xenu-link-sleuth-more-than-just-a-broken-links-finder I haven't used it myself (yet), but Screaming Frog could help as an alternative, though the full version is paid. This post compares the two: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/crawler-faceoff-xenu-vs-screaming-frog

Do you have root access to the server? If you do then a rewrite map is a lot faster then a bunch of rewrite rules & conditions. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritemap You can always just add comments with the hash tag: # what each thing does and group them. That would be cleaner.

Hey Mike, When Google re-crawls your site they will update their understanding of your redirects. Right now since you have multiple redirects you are losing a portion of link equity with each subsequent hop. Therefore if you update your redirects from A -> C rather than A -> B -> C you will pass more link equity than you are currently. -Mike

I have never worked for Google or any other search engine so I want to make it clear the below is my best understanding of how the process works, and I use it to base my actions upon. I feel my understanding is valid but the examples could probably use a bit of work. I am always willing to entertain other ideas. Crawlers find and explore links. They capture data and record it in a database. That data is then processed by the search engine. If Page is A indexed, the URL will show in SERPs as Page A. If later you 301 redirect Page A to Page B, when the crawler discovers the 301 redirect the search engine will update the URL in SERPS to Page B. With me so far? Later you decide to 301 redirect Page B to Page C. When the search engine recognizes the redirect (i.e. the crawler discovers it) the URL will once again be updated in SERPs to Site C. Any instances of the Page A or Page B URLs in the search engines database would be displayed as Page C in SERPs. Despite the search engine's database having the correct URL to display in SERPs, crawlers are not provided this information. As long as link exists and a crawler can find it, the crawler will attempt to follow it, subject to normal factors such as nofollow, crawl budget, etc. If you modify the initial redirect from Page A to Page C, the crawler will detect the new header change and the search engine will update their records accordingly. The above information was shared with respect to the appearance of the URL in SERPs, but it should be identical for the backlinks as well. Rather then forwarding the backlinks from Page A to Page B, those links would be directly forwarded to Page C. So instead of it re-directing  from A to B then C, we write a new redirect for A to C. Is this better? if so why? If you modify the existing redirect to go from Page A to Page C, it is better because it is a single redirect. It is better for your servers (less redirects to process), better for users (quicker page loads), better for you (less redirects to manage and less opportunities for something to go wrong) and therefore better for search engines. You are rewarded for this improvement with your link juice flow being stronger.

Hi Mike, The only way to limit the content included in a campaign is to choose "subdomain" when you set up the campaign. So, the only way to limit the campaign to just one page, would be to create a separate subdomain with just that one page in it, but I am curious as to why you would want to do this anyway. The errors highlighted by crawl diagnostics are largely easy to identify (or irrelevant) in a single page. If the page you have been working on is live, then you can check it using the On-page Report Card for the specific page. To do this: Once inside your Campaign, choose On-page and then the blue Report Card link at the top of the page. Select the primary keyword from your list (any loaded in your campaign) and type in the URL of the page, then generate your report. While the Report Card is primarily about optimization for the chosen keyword, it will also highlight things like URL & Title length, number of internal and external links, meta description etc Hope that helps, Sha

Here's probably the best information you're going to find on this: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-places-seo-lessons-learned-from-rank-correlation-data Was this article helpful?

He should write the article on Monday and then post a tweet and link on Facebook on Friday. If his blog posts are permitted into Google News, he may want to wait until Friday, since freshness matters most in Google News. In any event, the client's content and link building efforts are the tools to get good rankings and it doesn't really matter what day the articles are posted.