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Let's say the guest blog on a blog unrelated to you is linking to your site A. I would not recommend linking to Site A in anyway, that would technically mean reciprocal links.

However, if you have another guest post on Site B, that "may" very selectively link to your blog post on Site A. It does help strengthen link at times.

I would recommend trying to get citations and / or links from all kinds of local directories based on your niche. For local rankings, citations are pretty useful as well. It really depends what your niche is to think of other ideas, but local business, schools, libraries etc are all good opportunities worth pursuing depending what kind of business we are talking about.

Also think about local events, sponsorships and donations possibly. I would also recommend the following articles:

http://searchengineland.com/10-unorthodox-ideas-for-local-citations-links-77468

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-places-citations-5-tactics-to-earn-links-for-your-local-business

I second that. You need to look into optimizing your website. In most cases it's not a server/hosting company issue. Check their main website or other sites on the same server / IP and see if they have the same issue as yours. But to directly answer your question, no it would not impact as long as the country of the hosting company stays the same. I hope that helps.

Any kinds of bulk links...I would suggest to stay away from unless you are trying this for a throwaway site if it gets penalized. If you are planning long term, invest in content and more "real" link building which is a lot of hard work.

Also read this question here.

If they have good content, unique and not spammy looking content, I will take the link. I would also look at the kind of sites they are linking to and as long as it's all good, closely related and there's no junk in there, it's a good link in my eyes.

I would also make sure that majority of my links are not coming from guest blog posts, that's what I would worry about more. Just making sure the link profile is as natural as possible. And don't always do anchor text links only.

I hope that helps.

All the 3 options are okay. You have to keep in mind, that with the nature of the Internet, you are not really going to be able to control which one of the 3 technique people/other website owners you, so essentially you can't know what people decide to do.

Another oppurtunity would be to implement something like www.repost.us (I saw that discussed here a couple days ago) and when I took a look at it, it looked interesting. Check it out.

I hope that helps. And yes, the most important aspect would be to make sure the content you are adding should be seen by Google on your website/blog 1st. If you are using WordPress or something like that, I would suggest using a plugin to publish and ping to Google an updated XML sitemap as soon as a new article is added. That should so it for you.

Yes, you could do multiple XML Sitemaps and then do a sitemap-index.xml referring to each of the individual sitemaps. I would also then add the URL to the XML Sitemap Index file in the robots.txt Something like: Sitemap: http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap-index.xml

I would work with your developer/coder/cms/IT guys to make your homepage the real-homepage URL. That refresh is definitely not helping you.

I implemented the canonical tag last year in a similar situation and yes, it's on the original page as well. No issues. Look at eBay.com, they also have canonical tags on all pages including the original page.

I have not seen/encountered any issues. Now when I go check the cache for http://www.example.com/duplicate-url-3.html which has a canonical tag referring to the original-url, Google shows me the canonical URL. The duplicate pages literally disappear from the SERPS, because essentially its like a 301 redirect.

What's the best way to track 1000 keywords for a website along with monitoring how the competition ranks for the same set of keywords. We love the SEOMoz Tools but would love to see what else is out there using which I can pull weekly reports maybe of our rankings along with those of the competition.

Well, it really depends if you have any indexing issues. There's no downside in submitting one, so if it's not too much of an effort, it might be well worth it to submit one. Other issues I would suggest you look at: 1. Duplicate content issues between your main website and your mobile website 2. Are both m.yoursite.com and yoursite.com indexed in Google.com ? 3. I would recommend to disallow Googlebot-Mobile from crawling your mainwebsite and allowing only the Googlebot-Mobile on the Mobile site. I hope that helps.

I just had a link at one of their embed codes. Except a 300 characters snippet/excerpt, everything else is being served via a javascript. Links are shortened using their own URL shortening service and the images also look like hosted by their API.

I don't see any duplicate content issues.

From an advertiser/content provider perspective: Big brands have a decent possibly of getting brand exposure for their content without worrying too much about duplicate content issues.

From a publisher perspective, if you have the audience for a specific kind of content, you sure can pull some content, but it would neither hurt nor help you towards your SEO/content.

Keri, the images you uploaded are not showing up right. Can you please check. I am kinda curious to look

You can use a text editor like Notepad++ for it.

Download the website and do a search and replace for nameofdirectory to new****nameofdirectory. That should take care of it. Along with that put a 301 in place for any external links going to nameofdirectory. You should be good.

You might want to think about it a a little bit  more and see how it all fits in your marketing strategy. The recommendation is definitely to just link to the articles. The question is, where to link it from ?

Also, the question is whether you would want to pass link juice from your website to those pages?

As far as reproducing the content, that's definitely a no-no in my opinion, since you are then signing up to duplicate content issues.

What I mean to say is that within a few days after the 301 is set, Google will either update the URL or if they find a better page that should be the site-link instead of the new 301'd URL, it will update. It's just sort of seemless. Did that a couple months ago and worked like a charm.

Depending upon your link profile and how you currently rank in the SERPS, your best best is to do both. YOu are right thinking about it...both internal links as well as external links are important and some strong guest posts from niche blogs would certainly help. I would also not overdo just the guest posts kinds of links. Do other kinds of link building as well. For example, provide a link to this article code on your blog, which might invoke readers and other webmasters possibly linking to you from their blogs or discussing your article on a niche forum.

I hope that helps.

Is your website static or uses some sort of a CMS ? It might be possible to do a search and replace for nameofdirectory or newnameofdirectory and that should work. I would also recommend doing a directory level 301 redirect via .htaccess that will redirect  http://www.website.com/**nameofdirectory**/* to http://www.website.com/**new****nameofdirectory**/*

//301 Redirect Entire Directory RedirectMatch 301 /nameofdirectory(.*) /newnameofdirectory/$1

The best best in my opinion would be to do a 301 redirect for the 404 URL to the correct/updated page if you have one.