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I wouldnt recommend Guest Blog It to anyone personally.

My articles are often stolen and the links removed. Upon contacting admin ive received no response. I even trolled their fb page hoping to get an answer, but so far.....zip.

There are some great resources here:

http://bloggerspassion.com/list-of-100-plus-blogs-that-allows-guest-blogging/

You can also try searching:

• “add guest post”
• “become a contributor”
• “become a guest blogger”
• “become a guest writer”
• “become an author”
• “bloggers wanted”
• “blogs accepting guest posts”
• “blogs that accept guest bloggers”
• “blogs that accept guest posts”
• “contribute to our site”
• “contribute”
• “group writing project”
• “guest bloggers wanted”
• “guest blogging spot”
• “guest contributor”
• “guest post by”
• “guest post guidelines”
• “guest post”
• “guest posts roundup”
• “my guest posts”
• “now accepting guest posts”
• “places i guest posted”
• “submission guidelines”
• “submit a guest article”
• “submit a guest post”
• “submit guest post”
• “suggest a guest post”
• “the following guest post”
• “this guest post is from”
• “this guest post was written”
• “this is a guest article”
• “this is a guest post by”
• “want to write for”
• “write for us”
• inurl:guest-post-guidelines
• inurl:guest-posts
• inurl:write-for-us
• keyword “accepting guest posts”
• keyword “guest blogging”
• keyword “guest post by”
• keyword “guest post guidelines”
• keyword “guest post”
• keyword “guest posting”
• keyword “submit a guest post”
• keyword “submit an article”
• keyword “submit post”
• keyword “write for us”
• keyword + contribute
• keyword + guest blogging
• keyword + submit an article
• keyword + submit guest post
• keyword + submit post
• keyword + submit your post
• keyword + write for us

The above suggestions taken from this post:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-advanced-guest-blogging

Good luck.

If a business directory is using the rel=canonical tag on the first page of results for each section, is there any value from having a link on page 2 or 3 of these sections?

Fantastic. Thank you very much. Interestingly this website is hosted on a different platform to our others, so I wonder whether this has something to do with the config. We'll set up 301s for w. and ww. as a short term fix and look at the config going forward.

Many thanks again.

First of all, thanks very much for taking the time to have a look for us and offer your opinions Marcus, much appreciated.

We are certainly going to be experimenting with the canonical tag in this way moving forward. We've never experienced problems with user interaction within the site since Google decided to start ranking the "show all" version of the pages instead so we've never really worried too much about it until now.

The worst hit was another non-competitive term "clic clac sofa bed" - we grew it steadily from 10th position back in feb and  this was 3rd last week (!) and is no longer ranking at all! The page that was ranking is: http://www.franceshunt.co.uk/live/sofa-beds/

When this campaign began back in the old days of yore we were still using free directorys for optimisation of deep pages. Ive read alot about these being slowly de-indexed by Google so was wondering if this was having an adverse impact on some of the "weaker" pages. As you can see though there has been no off-site optmisation towards this page its a pretty new term (only added to campaign in feb) so im discounting that theory - for now!

Thanks Marcus!

Our site is http://www.franceshunt.co.uk/

We have asked a couple of questions before on Moz as to how best to solve the pagination issues within our site.

Google seems to prefer to rank the "show all" version of the targeted landing pages.

So whilst we are optimising http://www.franceshunt.co.uk/dine/extending-dining-tables/

Google prefers to rank http://www.franceshunt.co.uk/dine/extending-dining-tables/?p=all

Which hasn't caused us any problems before, yet now im wondering if this could be part of the issue too. Please let us know what you think!

We were ranking third before the update for this term.

Surely brand exposure and social signals are related to their number one positioning, but whats with the second result?

This is the same landing page yet through a different navigational path. This is what im questioning here?

Within the last week we have had a handful of our rankings drop dramatically down the SERPS. About 15% but this an estimate and has not been fully investigated yet.

Whilst looking into possible scenarios that could be causing this i wanted to check what the SERPS looked like for the terms that we are still holding position on.

Typing "extending dining tables" into Google UK today i was amazed at what i found...

Ranking in position 1 and 2 is a massive UK furniture store.
But isnt that the same landing page being returned for both positions??

It appears to be a navigation problem within the site category tags causing duplicate content. However they have been rewarded with the top two positons subsequently pushing our website onto page two.

I find it so frustrating that we listen to Googles best practices when it comes to pagination issues yet this is how our hard work is rewarded!

Anyone else have any thoughts about this?

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