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I am planning on starting a new blog focused on a very specific subject that is related to my current Lead Generation website.  I am doing this because I want to build rankings for this site and have it link back to my Lead Generation website to increase its rankings (this is the main purpose).  My question is do I need to host it on another server so Google will not see it as having the same IP or Subnet?  Note: I already have one blog linked to my Lead Generation website under the same domain.  This new blog would be linked to an entirely different domain.

Hello, my website is www.mybluedish.com and I am launching an SEO campaign to increase our rankings, especially for the keyword 'satellite internet'.  We used to be ranked #5 for this keyword and Google made some changes about 9 months ago that dropped us way back.  We have recovered a lot back to #18 now, but have been stuck here for a while.  I want to step up our SEO campaign and have come up with the following campaign.  Could any SEO's please tell me if you think the following is the make up of a solid SEO campaign or if it should be adjusted?  Thank you.

12 new blog articles/month

24 Articles submitted to 10 different directories each (total of 200 article directory submissions)/month

1 basic Press Release from PR.com/month

200 do follow blog comments/month

10 paid blog posts (on other people’s blogs of PR 1-5)/month

Oh ok.  Are you downloading all the links (up to 10,000 links) for your site and your three competitors, or do you just create a spreadsheet and keep up with the total number of links?

Well opensiteexplorer does not show historical data, so I have no way to see how we are doing compared to previous months to tell if we are increasing or not.  The only way I have to track our success is just by a handful of primary keywords I have entered into SEOmoz's tracking tool as well as checking those words in Google's webmaster tools.  In addition to that I can just look at Google analytics to see if our organic visits are increasing.  Do you know of a better way to track this information?

We have just started in on an SEO campaign after a year or so break from engaging in active SEO efforts.  Our rankings and organic traffic seems to be increasing but we just dropped from a PR 5 to a PR 4 after being a PR 5 for probably a couple years.  We are not doing anything black hat or sketchy and try hard to make sure all of our links are relevant and quality links.  Does anyone know why this might have happened or if it is an indication of anything?

I do write meta descriptions on all my blog posts, and I actually do use the Wordpress All in One SEO pack.  However just because you put information for the Meta Title and Meta Description for the article, does not mean it is going to show up in the blog tags or in the blog feed.  The feed and the tags consist of a combination of several different articles and are created dynamically.  However, they are not given a meta description tag.  I would like to find a way to give them a meta description tag. Any suggestions?  I'm not sure if giving tags a no index is the right thing to do or not.  I have actually had several tag url's get ranked for great long tail keywords in Google.

The SEOmoz crawl tool is giving me a lot of crawl errors because my blog feed and my blog tags do not have meta descriptions.  Can you even give this type of content meta descriptions?  If so how can you do it, as this content is created dynamically by Wordpress?

Even then though, why would you want to use a nofollow if every nofollow decreases your page rank value?  Even if you are using it in a forum context or for an ad it looks like this would still kill your Page Rank.  Would it be better to wrap the links you don't want to pass Page Rank to in an iframe or java script?

Hmm, if the Page Rank dies completely why would any one use a no follow?  It seems as if everyone would never want to use a no follow again.

Before answering this, let me explain my goals.  I know that Google made a change a couple years ago that discounts the amount of Page Rank passed to dofollow links when there is a nofollow link present on the page.

My goal is to keep the most page rank possible on my home page and pass a specified amount of Page Rank to 7 out of 10 of the pages linked to from my home page.  I realize that creating 3 of the outgoing links as no follow links is not going to increase the Page Rank being sent to the other 7 pages.

My question is will my home page be able to retain the Page Rank that would have been used by the three nofollow links or is that Page Rank value just lost when I implement a nofollow?

What page should I add the canonical tag to.  From my research a canonical tag in function operates in a similar way to the 301 redirect.  However I only have one content page even though it has two URL's.  Do I need to create literally two different versions of this content and put the canonical tag on the unwanted page?

Hmm, I don't understand this.  If a server can detect that these two URLs are the same why can't Google's billion dollar algorithm detect that these are the same?

SEOmoz's crawl tool is telling me that I have duplicate content at "www.mydomain.com/pricing" and at "www.mydomain.com/pricing.aspx".  Do you think this is just a glitch in the crawl tool (because obviously these two URL's are the same page rather than two separate ones) or do you think this is actually an error I need to worry about?  Is so, how do I fix it?

Well we have our website setup to where if you type something after mydomain.com/ that is not a valid URL it will take you to the site map.  For example if I typed in mydomain.com/ljlksdfsdfkjsdlfjsflj it would take me to the site map.  The same holds true for mydomain.com/pages/pages/pages/pages/pages/pricing.  So to answer your question, no it does not take you to the correct page, but it doesn't give you a 404 error either.  It takes you to the site map.

For some reason SEOmoz's crawl tool is returning duplicate content URL's that don't exist on my website.  It is returning pages like "mydomain.com/pages/pages/pages/pages/pages/pricing"  Nothing like that exists as a URL on my website.  Has anyone experienced something similar to this, know what's causing it, or know how I can fix it?

So would you say that this method of link building (paying per blog post or review) is a good link building strategy?

Is video marketing an effective link building strategy-has anyone had any luck with it?  By video marketing I mean using a video distribution service like TubeMogul to atuo distribute videos to many different video sites, and including a link to my website in the Video Title section.

I have come to realize that several SEO companies are basing their entire link strategy on paying bloggers to write a review about their client's website that also includes a link back to their website.  I am thinking about adding this as part of my link building campaign.  I am thinking about acquiring approximately 15 links a month from PR 2-5 blogs that pertain to my industry and target audience.  I am thinking of using the network payperpost.com to find good blogs.

First question: Does this type of link building work well?

Second question:  Is 15 links a month from PR 2-5 blogs (writing on my subject matter) enough to help out?