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Since your 301 redirect are years apart it shouldn't cause that much of a problem. I wouldn't make a habit out of it though!

If you have the resources, ideally you want to be running them as independent microsites that eventually redirect through to your main site (ie when the user decides he wants to buy whatever your selling)

Just got my seomoz rank tracker stats through - So obviously I'm doing something right, maybe I should just give it another few weeks and see if it picks up again?

Last Week’s Ranking Changes

| | 5 Improved |   |
| | 0 Dropped |   |
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12 Unchanged

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I have a PR 4/5 (it varies) blog with around 20-25k uniques a month. I'm wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a half-decent place to hire blog writers?

Basically I would want someone to crawl disability news (I can provide tons of it, it autoposts to my 'Drafts' section on wordpress right now.). So basically would just need someone to re-write it.

I also see lots of places pay you to write reviews of their products on your blog. Is there any service which effectively take control of content on your blog? They can post whatever they want (as long as it's not spammy and it's relevant to my niche) sell those reviews, and in exchange rewrite disability news articles for me?

Thanks

Nothing major in Analytics. If anything my hits from the UK have dropped dropped and international hits have risen.

My impressions on google webmaster tools have dropped 21% (700,000 -> 550,000)

Sorry forgot to mention my site:

ablemagazine.co.uk

Hi, since posting a few threads here and following instructions (post more unique content, link building etc) my website traffic has dropped by around 25%

My SERPS rremain pretty much unchanged. I'm posting tons more unique content. Am I just being penalised slightly because I've made drastic changes to my site (301 .com -> .co.uk) etc or am I doing something wrong?

Is anyone aware of a website that has a PHP Spinner with a built in thesaurus? I've looked all over the web. Would be handy to be able to drop snippets of articles in there, have it spun - then I can just fix the broken english and post it.

Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately I already compress all my images with photoshop so the savings with smush.it are usually less than 500Bytes. I suppose it all helps!

According to google

'On average, pages in your site take 4.6 seconds to load (updated on Apr 3, 2011). This is slower than 71% of sites. These estimates are of low accuracy (fewer than 100 data points). The chart below shows how your site's average page load time has changed over the last few months. For your reference, it also shows the 20th percentile value across all sites, separating slow and fast load times.'

My website: http://ablemagazine.co.uk

I've installed Cache plugins, Minify plugins, reduce the amount of posts on my main page. But my website is still taking too long to load and I'm afraid I'm being penalised for it.

Any tips?

Just checked with the Rank Tracker and the .com domains don't appear to be ranking for any of my keywords (including domain name). Will I notice a bump in SERPs/traffic once I 301 the domain .com -> .co.uk or has google already figured that out behind the scenes?

If I do this, will that negatively affect my SERPs (temporarily)

How long before all the page authority is passed on if I do this (roughly)

Thanks

Could you provide an example URL so we know what you're referring to?

Thanks

When I started SEO - I didn't really know what I was doing (still don't!) Just wondering if anyone can help me with this small problem.

I now understand that I basically have 4 URLs

www.ablemagazine.com (Page Authority: 38/100)

www.ablemagazine.co.uk (Page Authority: 47/100)

ablemagazine.com (Page Authority: 3/100)

ablemagazine.co.uk (Page Authority: 51/100)

What should be configuration be to ensure I'm not loosing masses amounts of linkjuice? At the moment I have ablemagazine.co.uk set as my default domain in webmaster tools. www.ablemagazine.com www.ablemagazine.co.uk and ablemagazine.com all 301 redirect here (I think)

Just a note; when I added the facebook plugin to my wordpress install it slowed my page load time dramatically. Make sure to check yours doesn't do the same if you decide to go the facebook route. However, I did notice a large increase in comments once I enabled the plugin. (I assume since the user didn't need to login - even though I didn't require an account to post on my blog, I figure most people are unfamiliar with the wordpress commenting system)

I used:

http://www.webpagetest.org/

Hi Stephanie,

If you do end up re-writing your URLs there is a very useful plugin here;

http://www.techzene.com/wordpress-tips/change-url-structure-wordpress/

It'll make sure your site doesn't produce thousands of 404 errors when people are finding your site via old backlinks/google

'rehashing' ? So even if I write a intro to an article and link through google will reject me?

Here is my website;

http://ablemagazine.co.uk/

Should I maybe only submit a sitemap of my Feature Stories (100% original and written by us?)

http://ablemagazine.co.uk/articles/feature-story/

There's only 16 articles in here at the moment (last issue) but we have another 17 years of issues (6 issues per year/ 10-20 articles per issue) I have access too.

Here's a quote by Tompt from one of my posts

The last thing I read about nofollows essentially said that if you nofollow a link it doesn't boost the juice going to the rest of the page, the juice is still essentially "used". Here's theSEOmoz blog post about it.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google...

It is from 2009 but one of the mozzers did link to it recenty when asked about nofollows so I would imagine it's still valid.

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Google invests millions into it's algorithm. If you're posting actual useful, relevant stuff which doesn't set off too many spam flags - It'll notice.

I'm submitting my site to Google News, have a few questions for creating my sitemap.

The majority of my articles (800) are in a category called 'Disability News' (which is one of my main keywords). Around half of these posts are we're automated RSS feed posts (first 200 words of an article directly copied with a link thru to the original).

The past few weeks I've been posting tons of unique content so I was thinking about moving all duplicate content into a category called 'Syndicated News' and excluding that from my Google News sitemap.

Is this advisable? or should I just leave it as is?

Hi,

I run http://ablemagazine.co.uk - we also put out a print magazine every 2 months (the biggest disability magazine in Britain)

This means we have loads of unique content (around 30 feature stories and 30 news stories every 2 months)

Just wondering how I can use this to my advantage? I've been social bookmarking the feature stories (reddit, etc) and a link to all my unique stuff on facebook/twitter. Just wondering if there's anything else I should be doing?

Thanks