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I am doing a variety of SEO link building techniques. I am doing:

• guest blog posts

• article submissions

• directories

• bookmarks

• web2.0 properties

• link acquisition

I don't expect much from the article submissions, web 2.0, and directories, so I am using these methods for the long tail and less competitive keywords. Is this a good idea?

When we talk about a link profile, is it per page or for the whole site? Does it matter if you have a more diverse link profile for a single page or does it have to be diverse for the whole site?

Appreciate any informed comments!

I tried job boards for other jobs (other than writing) an didn't have much luck. I should try again!

Thanks for the advice.

Thanks for the response. I am going for around 150 words per description.

The content writers are checking the submitted text against copyscape. That should be enough to confirm uniqueness, right?

I would love to have longer better written copy, but with thousands of products, I just can't afford that.

I have an ecommerce site with thousands of product pages. I am using the product details provided by the manufacturer (as with most other sites selling the same products).

I have 3 questions:

1. If I want to set my pages apart with product descriptions, what it s the minimum amount of text I can add to make them unique?

2. The content will be from an offshore company, so it will likely not be of the best quality. Can Google determine the quality of text and evaluate it differently?

3. I have also added product reviews to the site. Are there any other methods to make the product pages more unique or SEO friendly?

Any SEO recommendations for link building?

We have good content, but we don't have the resources as some of our larger competitors. Also, I have looked at some of the top ranking sites for some of the keywords we are targeting. I see sites that do well with the articles/bookmarks/directories etc. They seem like really crappy links, but they seem to work.

Either that or there is something else I am not seeing.

I have been looking at different seo companies for link building. I found a ranked list on Topseos.com. Many of them offer the same services as offshore SEOs, namely:

• Article marketing

• blog comments

• forum comments/profiles

• bookmarking

• PR

• directories

• Link acquisition by contacting relevants sites and negotiating a fee for a link

I know that custom link acquisition is the most effective, but it gets very expensive. And, you don't know what each link is going to cost you.

Here are my questions:

1. Of the other methods (other thank custom link acquisition), how would you rank their effectiveness?

2. The other methods seem kinda gimmicky, is it worth the time/money?

3. Have you seen sites rank well for competitve keywords using articles/bookmarking/blog comments/directories etc?

4. How do you know i a company is going to them manually as they claim? as opposed to using some automated software.

Thanks

Right now we are only getting traffic via organic seo. We have not really used other means of acquiring customers. I am trying to guestimate the increase in sales if we divert some resources to ppc. So I want to know what percent of revenue is generated via marketing (vs. optimizing) for the average retailer.

If the average retailer is getting 40-50% of their revenue from PPC, then that is something we will spend a lot more time/money on.

What portion of online sales are generated via organic results as opposed to other means?

I am wondering if there are any stats as far as what portion of sales we should be looking to get from ppc, affiliates, email marketing etc.

Thanks

Actually, that was going to be my next question. So lets say I sell shoes:

Main site is- shoes.com

niche site 1- basketballshoes.com

niche site 2- tennisshoes.com

If I shut down the niche sites, it would be best to 301 them to shoes.com/basketballshoes.html and shoes.com/tennisshoes.html repectively, correct?

Thanks

I have two niche e-commerce sites. One is a PR3 with 3K pages indexed, the other is PR0 with 5K pages indexed. Each site has a blog that has been updated regularly. They both rank well for some fairly competitive keywords and some good links pointing to them.

I also have a main site that is PR3.

I am thinking of closing down the sites because they are not generating enough revenue, here are my questions:

1. What is the best way to get the most SEO value from these sites? Do I just do a redirect to the main site? Should I keep the sites and use canonical URLs to the main site? Should I keep the domain as a wordpress blog and point links to the main site?

2. What should I do with the blogs? They are on sub-domains, neither has pagerank.

Thanks