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Duplicate content caused by having the same content on different URLs is still a big problem of Joomla. What I would recommend is to try to implement canonical tags on your site. This would allow all pages to be crawled and indexed, but the 'SEO metrics' would all be attributed to one single URL. Though that wouldn't strictly solve the duplicate content problem (which for example 301 redirects could, but I'm not sure that would apply in your situation), it would solve most of the SEO related fallout caused by all the duplicate content.

As long as you keep it natural and view it more as a source of traffic rather than SEO metrics, you should be fine posting on forums, blogs, guest posts, etc.

You can't 'quickly' raise your PA/DA in a legit and normal way.

Aside from the caps that Google is said to have on your allowed growth/time, raising these values requires high amounts of backlinks from strong domains. Focus on creating top quality content that your target audience wants to read, share and link to. A higher PA/DA will follow.

Just to be clear: there isn't going to be 'the one' solution that will boost your rankings up high with few effort any money. Getting to to the top of the SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages) will require the proverbial time, sweat, tears, sleepless nights and in most cases some money. Especially considering you have a small website, most tools will provide 'over your head' reporting.

You might want to start by setting up Google Analytics for your website (if you haven't already) and connect your website to Google Webmaster Central. This should provide you with valuable insights on how to improve your website further. Basic keyword research (what are your visitors searching for, and how is your website acting on those visitors?) and great content on what you do (case studies, testimonials, image galleries, product descriptions, etc.) might help you rise the rankings. My suggestion would be to start your focus on more long tail keywords (such as 'red nike running shoes' rather than just 'shoes') because the competition for these keywords is far lighter, and assuming you sell those specific items / services your conversion rate should be pretty nice.

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As long as you keep this interlinking between those blogs natural (and in order to benefit your visitors), you could do this, yes.

You seem to be linking in and out for the right purposes (providing additional value for your visitors), and don't plan to do it in extreme amounts. Even though all the interlinking between these sites might seem sketchy, especially considering they are from unique c-blocks I personally don't think this will get you in trouble, and might indeed get some boost in traffic and authority along the way.

Changing them will definitely still matter! Google will periodically visit your (and every other) website to see if content has changed, or new content can be found. Once you make sure the content isn't duplicate anymore, Google will discover this and might (or might not) act upon does.

I honestly don't think it really makes a difference unless your company name can be confused with for example a geographical location (which would be used first-capped in other instances than your name). I think Google is perfectly capable of finding out that this non-capped word is your company name.

However, in the interest of your visitors, and just to 'make it 110% clear to the search engines', I would nevertheless advice to use a proper first-capped company name.

Google will see the content as plain text, check for example seobrowser.com.

However, there is a chance that Google is parsing the CSS to find out that this particular content is hidden, and therefore devalues it. I don't recall ever reading about this, but it would make some sense because many visitors won't see the text.

I see your point regarding it being your article and therefore you can choose to place a link anyway. However, I'm afraid there is very little we can do here to help you get more posts approved at MyBlogGuest. Perhaps you can find a way to get in touch with one of the moderators, maybe via Twitter?

If the copy on both websites is going to be identical, then you'll have duplicate content, plain and simple. Even though I see how this would be troublesome, having unique content on both websites would be a requirement to avoid duplicate content issues.

Great article on a closely related topic at SearchEngineLand last week: http://searchengineland.com/understanding-ranking-lag-time-for-new-links-110518

Have you tried the (Google) query:

allintitle: holidays in spain

This ensure that they have the keywords in their title tag, which is a pretty strong signal that their pages will include these keywords in the content as well.

Even though I can see why search engines would find ways around have to deal with these words too much (or attach a lot of value to them) I think the list is either too large, or nonsense altogheter. Prime example would be the inclusion of the word 'plus' on the list. A query for the keywords 'google plus' returns quite different results that a query for 'google'.

You've stated that it "doesn't bring up the right results", what is wrong about these results?

Without using Google as your 'crawler' to see what pages contain what words, there's few options left other than writing your own crawler to index the web and build a tool to query your own index.That seems like a rather resource and time intensive way to solve this problem.

Have you tried the (Google) query:

allintitle: holidays in spain

Is this a public list? If so, I'd love to have a look.

I don't see why Google would ignore words in the first place, and even more so why they would ignore the word 'self'. In theory I could see why the would ignore words like 'a' or 'the', but not 'self'.What reason does the author of the list state for Google's exclusion of the keywords on it?

As a side note, it is always wise to optimize both incoming anchor text and on-page optimization for closely related variations of words (such as 'self tan' and 'tan' in your case).

Even though I've never used it myself, I've heard really good stories about Yoast SEO plugin for Wordpress (http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/) to solve problems with canonicalization. You might want to have a look at that.

The fact that OSE doesn't pick up a link doesn't necessarily mean a link isn't 'active' and giving your site value. Even though Linkscape captures a vast amount of URLs, it only crawls a portion of the web, most likely from the bigger pages down. If many of these links to your site are coming from smaller / less powerful domains, they might not (yet) have been picked up by Linkscape.

Try looking at Google Webmaster central to see if the links are included there. If Google lists them as links there, they are very likely to be counted by them as well.

I personally don't think that changing your URL as you described will result in big increases in rankings on the organic search. Especially considering the work required (and the potential loss of incoming links to URLs you forget to redirect), I wouldn't recommend the change you've described.

If however, you really want to change the URLs, this is the structure I'd advice:

www.example.org/category-name/123-product-name

This allows people to cut a piece of the URL and land of your category overview page, shows them to what category a product belongs and keeps the amount of 'sub levels' to a minimum by including the id in the second level.

The one(s) that is/are visible when you view the page without Javascript. You can use http://seobrowser.com/ to view your website like a search engine spider sees it.