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Technically attribution (CC BY) requires the url to be linked, though I've seen it argued it just needs to be displayed.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

http://creativecommons.org/choose/

Does it matter?

If you're ranking better and getting better traffic then why worry about your PR?

Unless you're selling links, in which case you've maybe found your problem.

TBPR is not important on its own for ranking. Don't worry about it and focus on getting more traffic instead.

It's not a protected forum, anybody can sign up for a SEOmoz account and PM members.

However, there have been lots and lots of these.

Been a while since I signed up, maybe the account confirmation procedures could be tightened up and the PM box be given a 'report spam' function?

Well, it has been claimed that the spam team has been asleep at the wheel a little bit recently (but then again I hear SEO is dead these days as well) but I'm sure I saw something where Matt Cutts said they're going to be putting more man hours back into fighting spam and if they should have learned anything then I would guess part of their time should be looking for new ways their SERPS are being abused.

Yup, in theory.

I mean that's how it's supposed to be used, so if it was set up correctly that should be right

You can also tell Google to ignore parameters in Webmaster Tools under Site Configuration > Settings > Parameter Handling but only do this if you're confident it won't mess anything up. Canonical should be fine.

Yup Well, kind of.

There's a couple of things I do with content that I want to share this way

a) Make sure there are links back to my site and
b) Slightly reword it

I'm not talking about spinning the article into 100 different versions, one for each site I'm putting it on (though if you want some names to help you do that... :D), but I try and give the reader a reason to come through to the site proper.

So some sites I post an edited version, some sites I do an editorialised version ie I blog about my blog (yo dawg, I herd you like blogs).

For most value out of them, it's (reasonably) important to actually build the profile of the blog your publishing it on within the community as well, so follow other fishing blogs on each, repost on your tumbler, fill in a full profile, etc

Remember even if some of the places your posting links are nofollowed, having a good social profile is an indicator that you have a legit site (for the time being), so there is value beyond the direct links as well.

However, I wouldn't rely purely on these kind of links to get me ranking.

Old as the hills (well, couple of years old).

I used it to promote a site's first birthday celebrations on Twitter and Facebook. Got a decent take up on Twitter and a few on Facebook, but I don't see a lot of people using it these days.

Yup.

And in case you have any questions about what that does for your SEO - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u55Rn1mYgO8

"Whoa, dude, you just blew my mind!"

• Matt Cutts

If you put a base64 obfuscated link in the footer of your WordPress then I'll hunt you down and gut you like a fish ಠ_ಠ

The problem with those footer links is that they look spammy to both users and to search engines. Your theme could end up on all manner of sites with links to things they're irrelevant too, even if you try and skin the theme to be relevant.

Ultimately it's no longer a good way of building links, not least of all because people have such a huge choice of themes now even exceptional ones don't find many homes. Plus, even if you make a condition of using the theme, a lot of people are going to remove them.

As Riggz said it would only really not look bad if you were a design company, but it's been abused so much in the past I would think that they're almost entirely discounted by search engines.

Do all the pages need to be https or just some of them? I'm not a huge fan of working with all https sites, but appreciate sometimes it's necessary.

Some things you may want to look at - http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/solving-duplicate-content-issues-with-http-and-https

As with any redirect you're losing some juice, but if it needs to be done it should just be the same as a normal redirect. This should be safe:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

I never see many top sites using https exclusively, even paypal has it's http version in the SERPs (though redirects you to the https immediately) because nobody links to the https version. Well, not nobody, but you get what I mean, nobody immediately thinks to put that 's' in there so there's lots of links to the http version.

Both are fine to use though.

Well, no more so than normal links, but certainly no less assuming that the search engines don't detect that they're paid for.

So if the link would be useful without being paid for then it'll be useful even if you have to pay for it, only difference is that paying for links is against the guidelines and getting caught would get you in trouble

But isn't any good for getting the other items indexed properly, no?

With Google traffic estimator / keyword Tool you get the data from the SE itself.

Which is all the more reason not to trust it!

if you don't have data for long tail keywords that is probably because the search for those terms is very low as far as volume.

Because Google only now reports on keywords that make them money

There can't / won't be another better source for this kind of data.

Your own analytics are the only thing that will give you a truly accurate data set, however I appreciate that it's not predictive for the most part For future reference as well, once you have top rankings for something always compare it against what you thought you would get and judge for yourself how accurate the tool is.

Anyway, yes, use the tool it's still one of the best resources you have access to.

You almost certainly want to define it one way or the other at some point.

Yes, you'll lose a little bit of power through the redirects once you've done them, but at least afterwards you can be sure all the links are going to point to the right place.

Are you better having 90+% to one or 50% to each is the question

Can you tell when the pages you got links on were last cached?

You can do this manually by searching for the url and clicking the 'cached' link beside the URL.

If they've not been cached then they're unlikely to show up at all in any of those tools (and after a couple of months it would be a pretty poor page if it hadn't been).

If it has been cached then it's a bit up in the air as to when it'll show up in WMT (or the other checkers) and even then if it's passing it's full value straight away.

If it's not cached then I would point a link at it from somewhere (not necessarily your site) just to send the spiders along to it and get it counted again.

I don't think there is an ideal solution to pagination problems, but here's a few things to get you started.

Your exact question - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-deal-with-pagination-duplicate-content-issues

A farewell to pagination - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-a-farewell-to-pagination

Best practises - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/pagination-best-practices-for-seo-user-experience

And then you might want to start thinking more about the tech behind it and what your users can handle. Infinite scrolling, tabbed products, things I'm too lazy to think of

This has always been the case to a degree.

If you put the tilde in before a keyword Google will show you other words it thinks mean the same thing by highlighting them in the SERPs.

For example, searching for '~poker' also highlights "POKE", "card games" and "hold 'em" as synonyms on the first page.

You can use Google Sets - http://labs.google.com/sets - to also find related keywords that you are targeting.

Again for example, putting in poker, casino, gambling and horse racing also gives: bingo, blackjack, roulette, bet, football, craps, baccarat, keno, video poker and more!

Finally searching for a keyword and scrolling to the bottom of the SERPs gives you a "Searches related to KEYWORD" section, which you can also use to see what you may rank for.

As for how to use this info, well...

Firstly you can start by adding a few of the related keywords into your copy (I like to do this at the start of writing copy, but no reason you can't edit it later). You don't want to get rid of all instances of your primary keyword, but once it's on the page 3 or 4 times already there's no harm in substituting synonyms where appropriate.

Secondly you can use these related keywords to build new content. This has advantages of allowing potentially a second listing, a higher listing for the synonym and by interlinking the pages improving your main keyword's importance with onpage SEO.

I'll have a think if there's anything else that could be significantly improved by having this info, but it should be enough to get you going

All things being equal it would make no difference to ranking, even dot infos should have the same chance.

In reality though a number of factors could have a knock on effect, people automatically type dot com (or hit ctrl+enter like me), people looking for local results may trust a ccTLD more, dot infos are cheap and riddled with more spam sites than other TLDs, so on and so forth.

So, were it in a bubble, no; but there are secondary marketing factors to consider.

Not black hat, but on the other hand, perhaps not worth it - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-the-microsite-mistake

But if you go for it, then eyepaq has a lot of good advice.

I'm not sure where this overlay originally came from, but - http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/tcbrowsersize.png - shows user browser sizes.

However your best bet is to investigate responsive websites.

Perhaps try reading - http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/01/12/guidelines-for-responsive-web-design/ - http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/ - and maybe - http://thatcoolguy.github.com/gridless-boilerplate/