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Hi Megan,

Dr. Pete has an interesting post on this link. Be sure to read the comments as well.

Hi Cesar,

You can try sites like vworker.com and elance to find good writers. I suggest reviewing their writing samples in detail to get an idea of their writing quality and style. You can also try posting ads on craigslist under the "writing/editing" section.

Hi Sebastian,

How old is your site? Try a combination of social bookmarking your site/posts, using social media (facebook, twitter, google+) to push your content and pinging your site . All these efforts should help your posts get indexed faster.

Hi Joe,

Welcome to the community.

In my opinion, be very careful of using this plugin especially with Google going aggressive with their over optimization penalty. It does not look very aesthetically appealing to have visitors looking at a bunch of search terms at the end of your blog posts.

You might find this post from Scott Mclay posted today quite helpful on this link.

The most often used techniques by us include:

• Open site explorer: studying the link profiles of our competitors
• Advanced Search Operators as mentioned by Scott and referenced in this link 
• Researching blogging opportunities with related industry sites.Quite often we have seen that a lot of chamber of commerce sites are very open to having members contribute content for their site and they dont mind if you add a link to your site in your author bio or the post.
• Top 10 list related to the client's vertical.These kinds of posts are always interesting and fun to read and attract lots of sites wanting to share it with their visitors

stand corrected, what i meant was to set the preferred domain on GWT and do the 301 via the servers. Thanks for pointing that out Keri.

Since you already have one link from them, i would not bother getting the 2nd link.

This earlier post might also be helpful for you.

Rais, SeoMoz has some good info on the links below that can assist you in developing an advanced on site and off site optimization strategy.

Noob Guide to Link Building

Advanced on page SEO

If you do a 301 redirect from one URL to the other using Google Webmaster Tools, you should be ok. Try to do the 301 to specific pages that relate to the content on the main site.  You may see a dip in traffic however over time that should recover.

Hi Keri,

That's exactly what i meant:) .

Cheers,

Vineesh..

You're most welcome. all the best  

the title of the page is ok to include as it does benefit the visitor when they are looking through the search results in Google. However you can shorten it. (Contact, instead of Contact Us, About Instead of About Us)

Hi Steven,

Welcome to this community. The ideal response to your question would be to take the content that the client is providing and come up with unique content based on that material. So essentially rewriting those content pieces and giving your own flavor to them. Now , of course, due to various reasons that might not be possible (time, budget, resources). In that case it's best to give credit to the original source where you got the content from, when you add it to the site. More info in the links below:

Duplicate Content

Hubspot Post on content

Hi Tyler,

My thoughts would be to go with the keyword+location. Also the keyword or location should not be mentioned more than 2 times in the title tag.

Some other links below addressing the same topic:

Local SEO

Best Practices

Hi Jorge,

Option 1 would be good if you have a lot of sub pages that can be classified under the "utilities" section. This would also help the search engines to index and classify your site pages better also benefitting you on the SEO side

Option 2 would be recommended if you don't have a lot of content that can be classified under "utilities"

Think about the user first and what would be benefit them. To directly answer your question, in my opinion , the closer the link to the home page the better it would be from an SEO perspective.

yep, here is a reference source for the change of address.

These links below should give you a good idea on the steps needed for optimizing your site.

Perfecting on page optimization for SEO sites

Ecommerce SEO 

SEO for ecommerce

Ecommerce SEO Guide 

Advanced Ecomm SEO techniques

Hi Alex, i would suggest you to consider the following:

• Relevancy of the links as opposed to their page rank related to your subject matter
• The # of outbound links on the page where you are getting these links from. The lesser the # of outbound links on that page , the better that link is
• Competition for the keywords. What is the link profile for the sites that are ranking high for the keyword you are trying to optimize your site for
• Google has reduced the frequency of updating the true page rank of sites so using that as a factor to choose your backlinks would not be a good idea.