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Depends on where you publish the article as to whether or not it will be treated as quality.

Obviously links1.html?some-value is a different link than links1.html, but having the canonical will help to clear that up somewhat.  If links1.html is the main target, the link would give you more strength pointed directly at it.

I've seen a few other real estate type sites take a hit similar to what you are describing.  I attribute it to the amount of duplicate content across several real estate sites.  I'd focus on creating unique content/promotions on YOUR site aside from the listings.

Dheejar,

I just want to stress again the part where I said, "do it naturally".  For example, if you are commenting on a blog, it is probably not natural for your name that is linked to your site to be something like Skin Care Treatment.  Your name should read, Dheejar.

If you are posting a blog article and you say something like, "For more information about skin care treatment, click here", then the words "click here" should be your anchor text because that is what is natural.

Keep in mind that SEO is not a "get rich quick" game.  It takes time to build links naturally.  Sometimes it takes 2-3 months to acquire one good link.  Very rarely do you get lucky and produce content that gives you 100's of links.

You really need to focus on building content for YOUR site that others will link to because it is interesting content.  For a new site you can do the little things like submitting to dmoz and a few QUALITY directories.  Beyond that, it is about building your site so that people will want to visit it.  If you don't feel comfortable telling someone to visit a link on your site because they would think it is dumb, make a link on your site that isn't dumb.  Create some humor related to skin care treatment, tell your friends about it and links will come.

To get the most out of them SEO wise, my recommendation is to develop them in to full blown websites.  15-20 pages of unique content related to the topic.  After developing these "micro" sites, they will bring in a lot of traffic not on for the exact keyword, but long tail as well.

I know this sounds like a lot of work, especially if your main site is not very big, but this is how you're going to get "the most" out of them.

Your suggestion of 301's on the old to the new is the best if it's doable.

I see the snowguards.aspx page as position 21 still.  I haven't changed a thing on the home page for 5-6 months.

That's a really cool tool.   Thanks for showing it to me.  It doesn't appear that the site was hit with any algo update issues.

If I understand what you are asking correctly, then it is best to have only one blog.  You want it in your website and drop the blogspot version.  You only want one copy of your posts on the internet and you want them on your site giving your site more authority.

If the existing blog is really powerful and has a lot of links pointing at it, you may want to look in to 301 redirects to point the old URL's to the new blog within your site.  I'm not sure if that's possible with blogspot, but something to consider.

I just want to add a little bit to what Oleg said considering conversion-wise vs seo-wise.

One question you should ask yourself when considering what to do is, "What will help my end user decided to actual pay me for my product/service?"  In your case, if you're wanting people to actually read the testimonials, shorter, and fewer is better because when someone sees a lot of text they tend to skip over it.  This is why top 10 lists are effective as blog posts.  The old adage of "you can't judge a book by its cover" should read "you shouldn't judge a book by its cover."  I can and do judge by a cover.  Magazine publishers have known this for a long time.

The question that I feel needs to be asked here is, what will engage my readers to read the posts?  If it's all on one page, write it that way.  If breaking them in to several parts and pages is better, then by all means go that route.  Search engines don't read your articles and convert, they drive PEOPLE to your articles who in turn convert.  Worry about the people and the SEO will come.

As far as what penguin looks like: http://www.flickr.com/photos/37509645@N04/3661744750/

Personally I see a large traffic drop followed by a long, slow decrease or a large traffic drop followed by an increase in traffic.

The reason I see this is because it seems that when it comes to SEO, it's kind of like life.  You cannot site idle.  You're either moving forward or backward.  If the site owner doesn't care about the site, then the slow long drop will occur.  If they care about the site, they will do everything possible to get the site back up and ranking well.

Randy,

I'm a little confused on exactly what you are asking.  Are you asking if anyone has experienced the same situation? Are you asking what you'll gain by moving from blogspot to WP?  Are you already convinced to move and just want to know if you should make the dates match?

One of my EMD's is outranking my main site for a low competitive keyword without much of a link profile at all.  It's a very simple site only one page, but has very unique content.  It was more of a site to just play with, but for not much work it ranks first for the phrase over about 10 other sites that appear to be optimizing to the keyword.

I don't know of any case studies, but I remembered reading a couple posts about H1's a couple months back: http://www.seomoz.org/q/multiple-h1-tags-on-same-page

and another from earlier in the year: http://www.seomoz.org/q/one-h1-tag-dead-long-live-multiple-h1-tags

The best way to use anchor text is to do it naturally.  You may want to watch a white board Friday from a few weeks ago that talks about anchor text:  http://www.seomoz.org/blog/prediction-anchor-text-is-dying-and-will-be-replaced-by-cocitation-whiteboard-friday

For the past 5-6 months I have consistenly ranked at positions #14-16 for snow guards on snoshield.com.

The past 3 days I cannot find the home page anywhere in Google for that keyword.  The only thing that has really changed over the past two months is I placed 3 guest blog posts on pretty highly trusted sites that are industry related and created links to the site using suggestions from getlisted.

I've read other reports of others seeing similar things happen recently.  I don't think this is a penguin thing, because I can still find the site by searching for the company name, I just can't find it when searching the keyword.

I did notice that a different page on the site is now ranking in position #21 for this keyword, but this page is optimized for a different keyword phrase.  Is it possible that even though the sub page is optimized for a different keyword phrase, I am cannibalizing the site?

Build it so that it is easy to navigate for a human. Too many links are confusing for a human. Search engines aren't your target, humans are and if the site works for humans it most likely will be good enough for SEO purposes.

The best answer for this question in my opinion is to ask yourself, "Would I pay to be listed in this directory if search engines did not exist?"  It is not always bad to be listed in a directory if it will drive traffic.  This does not mean it will help nor hurt you in Google though either.

Yahoo, BOTW, etc are considered "white hat" paid links.

1. How many of these is "a lot"?  If it's 10 or so, I wouldn't be worried at all.
2. Does your boss pay your paycheck?  If yes, I'd do what he says if you aren't sure because it is his business, money, etc.
3. The safest way to list business partners on your site is naturally.  This means that if it makes sense to give each of them their own page, then do it.  If it means to put them all on the same page do that.
4. Don't worry about no follow links in this case, especially if you are in related industries.  Linking to sites in the same industry is a good thing.  I would go as far as to say link to more than just these companies so that it doesn't look like you only link to people who link to you if you are worried about looking like a link farm or circle.
5. On each of their pages I would make a strong effort to create unique content.  Not just copy and paste from their websites.  This way you are adding value to the web.

1.  Yes it needs to appear, but not several times.  It is best if it appears in a title tag near the top of the page

keyword

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2.  Keyword tags only tell your competitors what keywords you are targetting.  They have no weight for search engines anymore.  Title tags and description tags help with click through rate(CTR).  When a user sees a compelling title with a good description in the search results, they click.  Titles have some weight on SEO.

3.  Internal linking will help, but make sure they make sense to the user and are not just there for the search engines.  It's pointless to have a website that only makes sense to a search engine and confuses the people who find it via the search engine.