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Just to clarify, if I'm trying to optimize a page for people interested in learning more about how vitamins impact on exercise; then would I be correct to use the "and" (as in "exercise and vitamins")?

Great explanation.  Thank you!

A colleague of mine was saying that he has been able to get top ranking for a high traffic term by using variations of that head term on multiple pages that are associated with the main page.

For example,he would optimize a landing page for the high traffic word "Construction." He would then build pages under this landing page that are optimized for variations of this word: "Construction facts," "Industrial Construction Companies," "Construction Resource Allocator" etc. His theory is that the subpages add credibility with spiders that the root page is the best for that root page.

This doesn't seem like it would work, but I'm curious as to what other people think.

I'm doing keyword research and one of the terms I have found that work for my website are "exercise and vitamins".  One of my colleagues told me that Google views searches that contain the word "and" as an "or" statement (i.e., the searcher is looking for either "excercise" or "vitamins").  My understanding of the word "and" is that it is a stop word, which is ignored by Google.

Which is correct?

What are the benefits of optimizing a page for one keyword phrase versus a group of similar keywords, like this one that Rand posted on another blog entry http://bit.ly/7LzTxY:

• Ted Baker
• Ted Baker London
• Ted Baker Clothing
• Ted Baker Mens
• Ted Baker Mens Clothing
• Ted Baker Mens Collection

Thanks, Richard!

What about a blog that a PR agency creates.  They have a physical address.  Is it OK to create one for their blog?

I'm working with a client that has an ecommerce site. He has e physical addresses where they work, however, neither would want customers to go to their office.  Is it inappropriate to create a Google Places listing in this situation?

I'm working with another client who runs a blog for his PR agency.  Is it OK to create a Google Places listing for a blog? He would welcome people to visit his agency.

That helps.  thanks.

Hi Roger,

What is a citation?  What constitutes a strong or a weak constitute citation?

Great info!  Thanks.

Hi Pashmina,

For the total results, do you put each term into Google individually to find this result, or is there a tool where you can run multiple keywords at a time?

Eric

I'm working with a client who has a website, but doesn't really have a clearly defined idea of who their key audience is nor do they know what keyword phrases they would like to rank for. I know that I can generate a starting list by reviewing their site, but I want to set some parameters on it so I can provide an accurate estimate.

I'm looking for suggestions on how to do this.

I'm curious about how others evaluate the competition of keywords when putting together an SEO program:

• Do you place any faith in the competition listing in the Google Keyword Tool?

• Do you find value in SEOmoz's Keyword Difficulty tool?

• What other tactics or processes do you perform?

I'm doing keyword research in the Google Keyword Tool and was looking and spending a lot of time looking at keyword competition and local searches. I'm trying to determine what is a good rule of thumb for what level of competition and local searches people have used when selecting the keywords they will optimize for.  I've currently been trying to find ones that have less than 50% (moderate) competition and less than 1,000 monthly searches.

Also, which do you put more weight on the competition or the number of searches.

I've been doing some research on SEOmoz and have seen some posts relating to invisible long tail keywords.  I have a couple of questions relating to this:

• Am I correct to understand that an invisible long tail keyword won't show any search in a tool like the Google Keyword Tool?  If not, how do you define it?

• If an invisible long tail keyword has almost no search (or search that can be proven by an SEO researcher), how can you be confident that it will produce results?

I'm just starting to learn about cblock root domains and linking.  I'm wondering about the following:

• Are there articles or websites to learn about dos and don'ts about getting a large number of links from one cblock?

• How do I know when a site has too many links versus the number of unique cblocks?

• I've been using Link Harvester on SEO Book and it seems like not many sites have more than 170 unique cblocks.  Is this the total number of unique cblocks on the web or am I using the tool wrong?

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your quick response.  Couple of follow up questions.

• Is there a tool similar to Open Site Explorer to identify C-block root domains?
• Will I get penalized if my site has 500 total links, which are broken down as follows:
• 400 links from one set of C-block root domain
• 100 links from 25 different C-block root domains?

Does Google (or other search engines) penalize websites if they have a too many inbound links from a single domain? (Say for instance, I have 500 inbound links, and 400 of them are from one root domain.)

Thanks for your reply, Steve.  I'd be interested in hearing from others to see if they have similar thoughts.