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I am planning on setting up a blog in the next couple months.  We would like to have 10 different categories that professionals can write about and submit articles.  Any suggestions on which blogging software to put on the site.  So far I have heard of WordPress and Joomla. (Not sure which is the best version)  We want it to maybe have the bloggers logo or pictures, date, etc. None of us have had any experience with this so we needed some input.

I have been reading everywhere that blogging is huge for SEO and so I just wanted to improve ours plus maybe drive more traffic with a high level blog for professionals. Any ideas or even books that I should go purchase to study up.  When we do this it would be great to get it set up properly from the get go.

Boo

We will see...I just got BOTW and Business.com a couple weeks ago...looking forward to the April 27th crawl for updated rankings.

Eating popcorn in anticipation with this one.

Good to know... I was getting carpel tunnel checking 5 times a day over the past 4 weeks.

lol....no it was not intentional....:)

without.....but when you click on them both are listed with the #!.

Yesterday for some reason my twitter account rankings went through the roof and I am ranked for many keywords for my twitter account now.  I am not sure what happened but am very happy about it.

both of mine are listed on twitter.  for example. @ horsebuggy shows up as

1. Horse Buggy

   <cite>twitter.com/horsebuggy</cite>Sign up for Twitter to follow Horse Buggy (@_HorseBuggy_). Horse Buggy is the Leading provider of**...**

2. <cite>https://twitter.com/#!/HorseBuggy</cite>Sign up for Twitter to followk HorseBuggy.net (@_HorseBuggy_). Leading provider of Horse Buggies.....

If my site was mistaken for a parked domain.....then I have a lot of work to do.  lol

We disappeared for about 16 hours yesterday completely from the SERPS then last night it popped back up and we were ranked higher for all our keywords.  I deleted one duplicate page on a directory but I am not sure what transpired to cause the events. Hopefully someone else will have some input and let me know if this is a common occurrence.

EGOL........Good stuff! Thanks! Interesting perspective on both the little things that lead to conversion and on conversion itself. So easy to put cart before the horse in this industry for us neophytes.

Aeronet...I am not sure if that fixed the problem but now we are ranking higher than ever.  Thanks for your input!!! I was scared.  

Not sure what happened but tonight all our rankings are now back...and we are ranked higher than ever.  We also now rank the highest we ever have for our main keyword as we have climbed to #3.  We also have NEW terms we are now ranking for on the first page.  This has been a very strange day.

They said they didn't put me on any networks.

Overnight we dropped completely off the rankings.  I have no idea what happened.  I was excited we were doing so well the past 60 days and ranked for many keywords and long tails.   This morning we disappeared from 100% of the rankings.

Thanks for the heads up....They just removed all the duplicate content.  I hope that fixes the problem but for one page of duplicate content it seems a little severe.  That is an industry specific directory that was free.

As far as I can see my website has been removed from all the terms I was ranking for over the past 60 days.  Poof.

I hired a link building company and they were working on getting one term ranked.  I hired them for 5 weeks and canceled with them because I wanted to be careful.  Only person I have ever hired to do anything.  They said they submitted me to several directories because I was new and it would be good to get started.  NO NETWORKS as far as I know.

Was ranking on first page for over 80 terms  with over 25 in the top 3 and my main keyword was ranked #4...now my twitter account has replaced my website for #4 in the rankings for the main keyword.  I now  have ZERO Rankings for all keywords for my website.  I have no idea what happened. **  Is there anyway for me to check with Google to see why I have been wiped off the map in the search rankings? **

Boo

I think it is worth it.  I have to be a part of this cutting edge community because of all the changes we are doing to our website. I don't want to have to go back and change lots of stuff later on.    It has been great and I bug the heck out of all these professionals on here.  I like associating with all these smart folks.  Plus it is kinda fun to learn a whole new world of information. Hoping that some of there smarts rubs off on me somehow.

Not sure...but I plan on renaming pages too.  I have heard on this forum that if there are no external links to the pages then I should just leave up the old "site map" for a while along with the new one and then after they are indexed take down the old site map.  If you have links then a redirect is necessary and you do lose some link juice.

I am interested in hearing from others too in regards to a more direct answer to your response.