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When using the canonical ensure you use the full URL. There are multiple protocols that can be addressed at a domain, for example, ftp, so including the http:// would be best practise. A side note about canonicals, if in the future you are planning on moving to https then ensure you update your canonicals. Depending on how you currently deploy your website; WordPress etc, you could use a simple php script to store a variable of protocol which will change globally if the file is updated.

Thank you very much. And what do you think about the other questions?

You could do a lot worse than having a look here Michael: https://moz.com/blog/using-modern-seo-to-build-brand-authority But, I have also found Quora to be pretty good, and is more reputable than some. -Andy

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Thanks everybody. Great help!!! I have a web site with jokes I like to promote and I guess I will just start with the opensiteexporer. I will go easy on links and focus more on the qualtity and quantity of content. I guess I will build like 2-3 new links a month.

Marty Weintraub from Aimclear has a YouTube SEO Cheat Sheet from his Pubcon presentation in 2010 to share at http://www.aimclearblog.com/2010/11/09/youtube-seo-cheat-sheet-for-pubcon/.

Google maay be able to work out what version you want to go with, but is it the same one that bing and other SE's will go with, and then you have the problem with www and non www links, one will be redirect to the other somehow and will leak a bit of link juice. its better that when some one copies your url its always the same. I prefer the non www. because www is unessasry, i believe its an old unix thing, not needed today. If you have a long domain name www makes it just that much more confusing

Yeah, only ever used ping-o-matic as well but I don't think Google will get annoyed using multiple ones. That said there doesn't really seem a need to use so many

I don't think they need to circulate their content anymore as it's highly distributed already. I'm also not completely sure about this, but I think google ignores the pound # tag. As it's so commonly used as an anchor and for ajax/javascript. Try searching # in google