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You can do this to a point. Remember Google will not give the same amount of credit for reciprocal links so in less you are somehow in business together or there is a good reason for you to be creating reciprocal links I would say to one guest post every once in a while I believe the reciprocal link factor would take down any existing credit given for a great blog post however if you're in the same industry I think that would allow you to blog on their site and they on your site.

It would just have to be on all the time.

I hope I've that of some help,

Thomas

Hi Chris,

if using WordPress http://yoast.com/wordpress-rel-author-rel-me/

if using anything else

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/06/authorship-markup-and-web-search.html

Twitter recently changed its title tag on user bio pages to include the rel=”me” attribute on links. That is pushing some people’s bios up to No. 1 on Google and has some marketers concerned. But there is a fix for that.

The rel=”me” attribute looks like this:

a href=”http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com” rel=”me”

The purpose is to identify the relationship between web properties or identities that are owned by the same individual. Many social sites and directories use the rel=”me” attribute automatically when users link from their bios on those sites to their own blogs and websites. That’s fine, but social users typically do not link back to their social bios in the same manner. But they should.

http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/relme/

I hope I have been of help to you,

Thomas

I apologize I did not have the opportunity to get back to last night.

Wordpress SEO by YOAST Is a great plug-in. With the plug-in you will not have to worry about

<code>rel="canonical"</code>

<code>The plug-in has all of the built-in so when you go to make </code>

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<code>Sincerely,</code>

 Thomas

Are you using WordPress?

you definitely do not need to make the home page have a / with the keyword it is not necessary if you optimize site correctly. However if you were to do that and you want to know what the rel=canonical is it would be

 <code>however if you can keep from having to do this for your homepage I would do a 301 redirect</code>

<code>that way your site is set the way you want to be and you have a link that is clean. Then do a</code>

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I thought I should welcome you to SEOmoz as well this is the best place on the planet to get search engine advice. Try reading over some of the information here regardless of its title is always useful to anyone.

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

Sincerely,

Thomas

if you want to rank well of course you should use  rel canonical  all tips are right here http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization

if your local business register immediately with Google places. is 90% of search engine optimization for local.

Are you talking about that exact match domain? If I were to say I don't mean his example.com and my keyword is example?

In order to blog effectively in each blog 300 words or more at least 4 times a week or 20 times a month. It also must be engaging content that keeps people coming back.

I hope it helped you,

Thomas

I have checked out your website we you may not have implemented the 301 redirect correctly. In addition you should use Google Webmaster tools along with

rel="canonical"

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-advanced-relcanonical-http-headers

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394

Add a rel="canonical" link to the  section of the non-canonical version of each HTML page.

To specify a canonical link to the page http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish, create a  element as follows:

Copy this link into the  section of all non-canonical versions of the page, such as http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish&sort=price.

If you publish content on both http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish and https://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish, you can specify the canonical version of the page. Create the element:

Add this link to the  section of https://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish.

You need to do a 301 redirect

1st off welcome to the great source of knowledge called SEOmoz & the world of SEO.

if you only write the words WordPress SEO Google will understand that WordPress uses plug-ins because of so many other people on the web talking about plug-ins and the word WordPress put the real answer to your question is no you should not leave out key words and assume that Google will go about fixing it for you.

If you want to rank for WordPress SEO plug-in you could do it by just including WordPress somewhere in your text Seo somewhere in your text and plug-in somewhere in your text separately then put them all together in a sentence that make sense and is something you would like to read yourself like "this is a fantastic new WordPress Seo plug-in that has helped me a lot."

However to not go overboard and keep using the same words I will strongly recommend you try a WordPress plug-in called scribeseo it is going to tell you when you have passed your limit of using the same keyword too many times to post it will also tell you many helpful rules to blog by simply things like remember it must be 300 words or more 20 times a month minimum. Engage people please Google plug-in give it a try I think it will be a big help the best thing you could have done by far was join this community and I hope I have been of help to you

sincerely,

Thomas von Zickell

gentleman you are both correct and I apologize for my incorrect answer. I had been under the assumption that you did understand or have something to do with this other site. My apologies for not reading thoroughly enough you made the right choice by listening to these gentlemen.

Respectfully,

Thomas Von Zickell

normally I would have said keep only one site but in understanding what you've said you need to differentiate the sites substantially not just wording. Brandon differently to be different the whole reason the customer wants them not be the same is because the audience is not the same I'm from Germany I do understand the difference between being pitch something in Germany and in the United States where I am now and I do notice my own behavior patterns to those I'm far more likely to buy something with the .de as I know which German I know there will be no issues when I'm in the United States I am far more likely to purchase something with the .com TDL as I know I will not have problems hopefully. Differentiate the sites is much as you can one of them sounds like the US site should be rewritten.

I hope I've helped you,

Thomas Von Zickell

this is what you need to do laid out right here fixes problem by the way give the thumbs-up to Casey as he did tell you what was right http://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-got-a-warning-and-now-cant-access-wordpress

it seems to me because I do a lot of Genesis/studio press WordPress work. That this gentleman tried to do a simple change that would've worked if he was using the same themes that are out there for 90% of what is offered to WordPress users. However if you are using studio press you must 1st install the Genesis framework is the framework is separate from the theme. If you are actually trying to change the name of the theme itself I don't understand why you would want to do that if you're talking about something that wouldn't be seen by anyone however if you are simply talking about naming it whatever your website is this make sense. Also one thing I strongly advised everyone is use a managed WordPress host when using WordPress you could very simply sign up for WP engine, Zippy kid, pagely or web synthesis and they would fix your problem for you. Give you a hint Zippy kid is the best value and least expensive and extremely high-quality.  If you move to any of the hosts I just named you will get these types of problems fixed for free by the host.

Sincerely,

Thomas Zickell

You are using studio press now? if so you installed did Genesis framework 1st? What are you hosting on? if you want I will come in and fixed your problem for free given it's what you say it is. You can call me at 603-978-1964 I will change this number in approximately an hour.

Sincerely,

Thomas Zickell

I would 1st off definitely tell you without a doubt the difference your ranking is because of the 73 thousand Facebook likes they have over your 300. To Google Facebook represents something that is real data that can be quantified by Real people so that is the difference. You probably were both penalized equally however they are beating you because of the social media presence.

73,000 links sounds extremely high obviously if you're willing to 404 them you should before you in the domains name and every site that you're linking to I would keep the links in place take the domain off-line just killed the DNS for short Time.

Also inside your own website look for redundant interior links I know it sounds crazy however  it affects your link flow in a amazing way.

Sincerely

Thomas

Hi Adam,

I agree with you it cannot be done then I know of (I'm sure it could with enough money and DNS tricks you could make a failover and in force at the failover but that would be bad) I was posing I don't know what he's selling however he could make a full e-commerce site based 100% on the WordPress platform have a look at all of these themes and the  they incorporate e-commerce

http://www.woothemes.com/product-category/themes/woocommerce/?prod_cat[]=1050&s=&post_type=product

hear is more e-commerce stuff from woo  the only reason I'm recommending this theme company is because they're known for making high-quality e-commerce teams however you can go and find many other theme makers or developers wil incorporate the Wu commerce suite and I have to say I was amazed with the plug-ins take a look http://www.woothemes.com/woocommerce/

I just started building the site yesterday so please forgive the really raw nature of it it's not optimized or anything and the guy who I'm doing it for keeps messing with it.  The reader http://solarwindtec.com the site there's on Zippy kid the reason I forgot above for me also mentioning them is their it the only one to give a content delivery network for free so $25 a month buys you 100,000 page views plus content delivery network everything WP engine who I love as well offers $100 you get for $24 and the speeds are comparable if you're hacked though both be fixed and you get DYN DNS + Ultradns if you go with zippy kid plus free themes and free gravity forms developer edition.

Adam you are hundred percent correct I I agree you definitely probably can't just venues to host like that however I believe that WordPress e-commerce has reached a point where it's functional safe and better than magento for some projects I believe most.

Adam I wanted to say I like to give credit where credit's due you named everything I forgot and you hit the nail on the head man so I definitely know you know yourself I agree with you 100%

sincerely,

Thomas

I want to chime in and say I highly agree with Adam if you really want blogging to be part of your website you might want to look at Woocommerce from Woothemes.com

they will allow you to build a outstanding and blogging platform and on top of that and excellent e-commerce website. Take a look at the sites on the link I gave you

WordPress should be hosted on a managed WordPress host in my opinion you have some great choices like WP engine & Page.ly that you get discounts from SEO Moz however if you are doing e-commerce I'm going to suggest one of 2 additional hosts as I love all of them and use them all if you want a private VPS and don't want to break the bank websynthesis.com is the only one out there offering a under $100 VPS however you can still get dedicated IP's and I know but for fact VeriSign will be fine with a set up run by Zippykid.com they are based on rack space and one of my particular favorites because they have top-notch support they will not charge you out of this world prices if you're going to get a lot of e-commerce traffic you need a dedicated IP Zippy kid is extremely high-quality and very inexpensive for what you get. Have a look at them all I don't mean to get off blogging tool I just want you to know e-commerce WordPress I feel is the way to go and if you can do it do it right.

I also agree with Adam again Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress. is the best plug-in for search engine optimization and word press right now in my opinion

One thing you can do I know with an e-commerce site I don't want to get off topic but if you're going use WordPress is simply use Amazons payment system that does not require you to be an Amazon member there's no chargebacks or anything like that so the merchant safe in addition you don't have to run an SSL if you do find yourself wanting to run SSL do it but only in the payment gateway.

Please let me know if I can be of help to you.

and listen to everything Adam said he definitely knows what he's talking about.

Sincerely,

Thomas

Hi Nic,

I can give you a few things that have really been of help to me 1st make sure to write the blog like this example.com/blog not blog.example.com you want all you can get out of that domain. Another thing I would do is make sure you blog at least 4 times a week or 20 times a month is this say. In order for Google to actually really like your blog it should be over 300 words every time you post. When you do attract an audience engage them to not just sit back. If you're using the magento you may want to switch to software like discuss for your blog in order to take advantage of people that can sign in using their twitter account. Last but not least make sure if you're not the one writing it that hired somebody that knows what they're doing. Writers access is a good place to look. this is a great tool if you are doing the writing http://scribecontent.com/

I hope I was of help to you.

Sincerely,

Thomas von Zickell