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From my understanding it's best to noindex comments on your blog. However adding the social media buttons are a signal, if people like your post and 1+ it or like it this will help you rank.

Here is the article that tells you the best way to set up wordpress but same rules apply to most sites...

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success

The days on link building are over, this means that you are better off creating something valuable for your own blog and get it shared by niche related people.

Article submission is expired, there are no shortcuts that will result in long term benefit.

If you want to win add the value to your site and get it mentioned by the right people.

Thats fine having testimonials on your site is great and I recommend it. SEOmoz has them and many other reputable sites do as well.

Not necessarily, SEOmoz has testimonial on their site by their users and many of my sites do as well. People like to see testimonials on your site, it helps build trust even if it is bogus...

My pleasure, I was extremely happy when I saw our conversion rate increase by 500% and im sure you will feel the same Glad I can help...

I believe what you are looking for is #RCS (Google + search for #RCS)

Charity events with a PR.

Interact with your community and create content that they will share.

As long as the company is doing something real and of value it will be easier to create real content that has value.

Branding is not easy on the web. If you cannot stick out or add something that no one else has, you are not adding any value.

I think testimonials are vey important for a client, especially nowadays that soo many sites have it, it might add trust to your site. People get comfortable with what they are used to seeing... Since many sites add quotes/testimonials from consumers it looks natural.

Hi Brett,

Had the same issue and then we started using A/B testing to maximize performance, we've already increased conversions by 500%..

You can use: www.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com to do A/B testing.

Hope this helps.

I would not recommend these footer links just because Google might look at it as over optimizing.

I would run an seomoz on-site report and get as high of a score as possible.

Here is a WBF on internal linking structures that should help.

Part 1

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/smarter-internal-linking-whiteboard-friday

Part 2

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/internal-linking-strategies-for-2012-and-beyond

40 to 50 means that there is moderate competition for these terms. In most cases it will take some hard work to rank for these. Not sure how much you know but there is a ton of ways to earn rankings. It all depends on the niche and your involvement. SEOmoz has tons of ways to earn links, find the one that works for you and you demographic.

IMHO It's not likely, just an algo change.

Without the web URL it will be hard for us to tell. What are the pages that are not coming up?

Yes this should help, I would focus on earning new links by creating real value to your audience/users...

What are they searching for and what is the quickest way to deliver this message. As long as you are adding value and building a clean link profile you should rank again.

First you must diagnose you anchor links. Are most of them linking in using exact keyword phrases? or are they mostly linking in with your Brand Name/URL?

A natural linking profile is 50% brand keyword phrases and your URL, 25% Diverse anchor text (ie. how to "keyword"), 25% Exact keyword.

If you linking ratio is not like this it might be the cause for your problem. To fix this you will need to contact all the sites that are linking to yoursand ask them to change the anchored link to your brand name.

Hope this helps.

There was a Penguin (http://mozcast.com/events) update on Oct 5th. THis update was targeting sites with low quality links and search engine manipulative link profiles.

It all depends on when you lost your rankings and if there were any recent changes that may have caused the drop.

Are you clearing your catch before checking you rankings? Are you logged onto your google account?

I like to check my keywords in a browser that I usually dont use, I make sure to be logged off of any Google account and I clear all my browser data. This way I allways get the accurate SERP.

If this is not the case then you are experiencing "the google dance" which is vary rare. I would guess the browser has stored data showing you personalized results.

This is good data, however we are still wondering if the "search engine" will see those pages as mentioned above as duplicates? Does the SEOmoz data reflect the search engines algo?

It's too bad GWT does not provide this data...

Hello,

I got an SEOmoz Report for one of our clients and the report is showing these pages and many more others as duplicate page content. Thing is the page content is not duplicate however there is very little data differentiating the contents. My question is does Google see the following pages contents as duplicate? because seomoz does.

http://dallastxlofts.com/blog/2012/06/using-a-loft-for-commercial-or-office-space.html/img_9632/

http://dallastxlofts.com/blog/2012/08/newly-renovated-in-victory-park.html/3-2/

http://dallastxlofts.com/blog/2012/08/pedestrian-friendly-uptown-west-village.html/attachment/18/

http://dallastxlofts.com/blog/2012/06/using-a-loft-for-commercial-or-office-space.html/img_4322/

http://dallastxlofts.com/blog/2012/08/historic-deep-ellum-lofts.html/2012-08-18-11-24-30/

http://dallastxlofts.com/blog/2012/08/pedestrian-friendly-uptown-west-village.html/attachment/13/

http://dallastxlofts.com/blog/2012/06/using-a-loft-for-commercial-or-office-space.html/842-4/

Hi Tag,

As John is suggesting, you could do a straight 301 but the problem is this will lead to an infinite loop and a page error. Your best bet is to use the technique here:http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/redirect-index-blog-root.html to avoid that. Happy hunting.

Hope this helps.