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I have a large site that sells various products, I have been on a kick creating new content relating to the many aspects of upkeep with these products after purchase, I wanted to create a blog post combining all the info for the group of products, but will be reusing some of the FAQs and even tips, since I'm more or less relocating the info. Since this blog post is using many different sources on our site, using a rel=canonical isn't possible.

Is there anything I should watch out for,

Will rewording / phrasing here and there be enough or should I steer clear of this as a whole?

I have a few competitors who do this as well, and then some who break their products into groups and create sites based off the groups linking all together. IMO this should be bad for ranking but is just transferring link juice around. Just seems like a bad practice, since it's not really helping users, it's trying to get multiple pieces of cake for one person using many plates.

I envision a day when these competitors suffer a 200% rank decrease and they stub their toe that the morning.

Thanks for responding, I know that it's a bit of wishful thinking on the part of a time frame things will take place. It's just such a blackeye to see these linkfarms helping competitors rank when they aren't being relevant or useful.

As well seeing places like BBB do some follow backlinking while telling new customers they're " phasing " it out, while keeping the follow links where they are for who knows how long is very frustrating, specially since competitors are sucking that precious link life blood.

In niche markets, backlinks are more valuable than gold.

Certainly and thanks for responding.

1st off, yes, these were found checking OSE for competitors.

For one example goto - http://clanofthecats.com/comic/filler-7/comment-page-1/ and search the page for " bathroom stalls " then inspect that element you'll see it says " nofollow " however, this url was only found by me doing a competitor search and searching " link equity " " external " .

Was wondering if this was just a case of them using the follow linking at one point and then the webmaster of that site changed them to nofollow and this is just an artifact.

I'd clean up any errors that google webmaster tools says you have,

Fix all 404 and other pages

Check on keyword usage through out your site, make sure you link to others a few times on each page but only sites you trust that are relevant to your site.

Write helpful content about your site's subject matter that will help users so they trust you further to use your service after they see the help works.

Monitor your traffic and see where users are clicking once they hit your site, and adjust the user experience based on that info and bounce rates.

See what your competitors are ranking and for what keywords, see about finding other keywords they may have missed, or just check to see how you could better use them on your own site.

It's no longer about being better and having more links from others. It's about how legit your information and content is to what your overall site is selling. If you have a carpet cleaning site but you give reviews and info about nothing once so ever, you haven't introduced anything to the SERPs and therefor will be left behind.

Content is key but helping your fellow users is the overall goal.

I'm sure others will mention the many things I failed to think of at this very moment to assist you

I actually just talked with BBB.org ( Greater Baltimore Area ) about this backlink issues, since we found a few competitors who had " FOLLOW " backlinks while we did not, all this while we paid their yearly subscription. After asking why this was, the BBB.org ( Greater Baltimore Area ) Informed us that this practice of follow links for backlinks was going bye bye.

**They told us that all follow backlinks will be changed to NOFOLLOW links shortly.  **

As for the when the listings would be changed, that was answered " Whenever the webadmins of that area get to it ". So seems they were giving one group of customers one treatment while giving another the run around.

I don't think BBB.org will be around much longer after this major tidbit is implemented, since the overall site doesn't do much more than act as a verified source and google and plenty of others do this for free.

Spend your money on something with a better ROI, in my opinion.

After doing some backlink searching on competitors, I see a great deal of competitor's backlinks are obvious linkfarms and just completely unrelated to their field. Also I see a lot of forum comments using links are showing as backlinks, upon inspecting the html element I see they're " no follow " links. Why are they showing up as backlinks with link equity then?

After inquiring to Moz.org about this, they suggested this might be due to a new feature that was rolled out, however, this 2 year old backlink still hasn't shown up and I'm a little concerned. Has anyone else experienced this?

What could you do if the Duplicate description was the actual wording " Product Description " ? Using BigCommerce they have it set up this way and It's rather baffling it is so.

So we aren't interested in paying a thousand dollars a month just to have https when we feel it's the only selling point of that package, so we have https for our store and the rest of the site blogs and all are http. I'm wondering if this would count as duplicate content or give us some other unforeseen penalty due to the half way approach of https being implemented.

If this is hurting us, what would you recommend as a solution?

While analyzing competition, I frequently see backlinks being the biggest factor at deciding rank for keywords, while content and keyword page grading can say great things, it always comes down to backlinks it seems. Even our DA is better or equal, Why would this be?

I've actually experienced greater views / interaction, based on the sole premise you send more content / are more active via scheduling than you ever can be manually. It's just not practical anymore to post manually throughout the day unless it's spur of the moment type things, there is normally a thousand and one other things requiring that focus / attention your posting would normally take up.

I have wondered if maybe it's more about timing and frequency than anything else. Posting outside your timezone for other timezones peak interaction times is crucial as well I believe.