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There's never any love for Quebec and the horrible french we speak! However, I obviously still need to rank in French SERPs. Anyone know of any good directories or possible backlinks for are Quebec/Montreal/French/Canadian ish?

Thanks folks!

I understand that a person can place a Google author tag on the website, and a reciprocal link under the "Contributor To" section of the person's Google+ profile page.

What about Google+ pages? Can a business (or Google+ page) be an author? The "Contributor To" section doesn't seem to be present for my Google+ Page....

What about the publisher tag? Can you have both an author and a publisher tag?

My end goal is to have our company name and avatar to appear as an author in SERPs. Which tag is going to help me achieve this?

Yeah, I want to see where I stand vs my competitors.

Thanks for the quick answer.

I've recently obtained some great backlinks from popular news sites but OSE hasn't picked up on them yet. Is there a way to "show" OSE what's happened, or do I just have to wait?

Actually I requested an invite to a tribe that I wanted to join. They invited me in!

It's all about what you can offer them it seems.

Thanks for the help though guys, you rock!

Hey all,

I've recently learned about Tribber (http://triberr.com/) as a way to network your blog and increase followers.

Does anybody have any experience with it? And how can I get invited in order to give it a shot?

Yes - we are aware of our duplicate content problem.

To establish our brand, we have applied the same template throughout our network. However, except for some minor things like titles, many of these pages contain the same content. It's something we know we have to change.

Is it a good idea to use the same template in all of these sites, if they all had different content? We want them to link back to our main site - but from an SEO perspective should they all appear to be distinct? Remember we want to establish our brand, we want Google to recognize our brand.

That's very interesting.

However, we don't engage in any black-hat SEO - so no random directories, no paid links, nothing like that.

I want to point out 2 things:

1. I just changed the navigation system on my website. Originally the main menu displayed something like 60-70 internal links (through sub-menus etc). What I did to change this is categorize all of my pages, and then show different submenus for different categories. I understand this is a good move because it reduces the # of on page links (of course I 301 redirected all of the old URLs), correct?

2. We have a network for related websites (province/city specific) which contain a link back to our main site. These sites currently contain duplicate content (they were acquired this way). We will be changing this in the future. Also they are hosted on the same server. Nevertheless, they are different (though very related) to our main site. My question is, could having my entire network with its current (duplicate) content point back to our main site have a negative effect on my PR? Or would it have the opposite effect?

My PageRank has been penalized by Google - dropping from PR3 to PR2.

I've done some research online and I see that the PR changed on June 27.

How can I find out if my site is being penalized - and what can I do about it?

I am improving my site internally as much as I can - will these factors help improve my PR directly, or is this a metric solely dependent on inbound links?

Thanks Dan,

My main concern is moving some of the links on the top menu of my website elsewhere and reducing the number of on-page links.

My goal is basically to increase the link juice given to my more important pages, and have my other, less important pages, accessible from a deeper level within my website.

I think this methodology follows the best practices - but, again, I am worried about any potential negative effects that can occur with the changes I want to implement.