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I've tried so much garbage like that.  It may work for a couple of months, but they are not effective for long.  Especially with the path that Google is taking towards these tactics, I wouldn't bother.

Don't waste your time!

Jared

Hey everybody,

Thought I would poll my fellow Wordpress users about their favorite social plugins.

Mine are WP Socializer for customizable buttons, Facebook Like Box for my Facebook pages, and SEO Facebook Comments for crawlable Facebook comments.

Happy Holidays,

Jared

I love Thesis and it's all I use.

If it's good enough for Matt Cutts and Search Engine Land, it's good enough for me!

Hey everybody,

I thought I would get your opinions on the sites where you like to mine keyword phrases.

Before determining competition, I like to get ideas from the Adwords Tool, Keyword Optimizer Pro (a Google suggest scraper), Insights, Trends, and by looking at the phrases competitors are optimized for.

How about you guys?

Jared

I have always read that (-) is the best practice for URLs for telling search engines the separation of keyword phrases.  I think about it terms of my computer's hard drive to keep it simple.

The (/) separates files (blog directories), and the (-) is what I use on my files (web pages).

Just my way of rationalizing it to myself!

Have a good one,

Jared

That's my opinion, too, Sebastian.

There is a pretty cool site called Inline SEO that has a do follow comment-finding-tool-thingy.  You can Google it.  It is a pretty useful tool!

Happy Holidays,

Jared

Hey Petr,

1. The links from a site on the same server won't do much for you.

2. If you want to get a back link from another site, it would be better to write something original for them and do this for many related sites.

The last two practices don't really work any more.

You should try to combine social with video and embedding.  Get social buttons on your site.  Make a Facebook page, slowly share your pages on digg, delicious, twitter, reddit, and StumbleUpon.

Shoot some quick videos using screen capture (CamStudio is free) and OpenOffice presentations.  I can't read your language, but it looks like mortgages?  Quick 1 minute videos about tips and basics is always very easy and effective.

Embed those vids in a relevant post.

You really need to be stand out from your competitors and search is losing its market share.  Target the traffic across multiple types of media and social sites and expand your horizons!

SEO is an ongoing, constant process that you need to constantly work at.  You'll get there.

Best of luck!

Jared

As long as your comments don't show up anywhere else on your site, there shouldn't be any duplicate content problems.

The next time that page is crawled, the comment just appears below the content.

Jared

I couldn't agree more, Steve.

I tried about 4 different of these networks and the success was only temporary.  It would be absurd to think that Google doesn't have a full time employee whose only job is to discover those networks!

I don't even touch spinning any more.  It continuously becomes less effective.  Instead of dealing with those tactics, I would rather spend my time making a quick video and posting it to a couple of video sites, then embedding it on a new post.

I'm keeping my money out of those networks.

Since it goes to your page, you could edit it, then underneath the profile image it should say, edit thumbnail.

You could put your website along the bottom of the profile pic, then the share button would have your url.

You can also make your site's name clickable under your About Section in Facebook.  Those are for the visitors that enter through Facebook.

I see you're into video, too.  There is a cool optimization channel called VidiSEO you may want to check out if you get a chance.

Great site!

Jared

Hey Alexander,

Your first two URLs are more relevant for those keywords in their meta description and title tags from the page source.

You could try to position the exact phrase "Georgia Mortgage Lender Bond" into the title tag and meta description of the URLs which need a boost.  Another thing to try would be to expand on your unique content a little bit for each URL by writing a bit more.

Jared