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Wordpress question here. Can anyone tell me if there is an SEO advantage to creating a page filtered to show results from an individual category as opposed to simply linking to the category archive? The content is identical in both cases.

I'm using Wordpress categories to add products. Normally I normally noindex category archives to prevent duplicate content issues, with the blog page serving as the index, but I don't have one with this site http://66.147.244.50/~proflowc/

Should I index the category archives to ensure that products are indexed, or will Google see them anyway?

Has anyone developed any useful techniques for using the category selector in the GKT? Perhaps in conjunction with a site URL.

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Interesting. I was under the impression that a "like" now counted for at least some of the value of a link. Not true?

I see major companies now conducting TV advertising advising viewers they will donate money to worthy causes every time they are "liked" on Facebook.

If Facebook likes carry  some or all the weight of a link, doesn't this amount to buying links, and how will search engines deal with this?

If you use the Google keyword tool while logged in to your Google profile, will the keyword tool attempt to show you regional or local suggestions?

I like your suggestion about creating the content and normally I would have no problem writing it. The barrier for me in this case, is that it very technical, filled with lots of specs,  and I don't understand it enough to create accurate content.

Yes, you're right. I didn't mean Akismet specifically. I think my comment was more generally aimed at treading the line between wanting to encourage participation and making it so tough that people won't.

I have to promote a manufacturer's rep site. They deal in process control instruments,and they don't have much original content. Creating it is hard for me due to the technical nature of the business.

If any Mozzers have an idea I'd love to hear it.

Using Akismet myself. I'm just reluctant to use make it so hard to participate that people won't bother, if you know what I mean.

I thought about it but can't do it since I hate captchas myself

I notice that I'm getting a lot of spammy blog comments on a personal interest site. Why would someone go to all that trouble to get a nofollow link that will most likely not be approved?

In a blog, post info is date and author name. It also includes the rel="author" tag which correctly attributes this content to the user.

Thanks.

Actually, manipulating search results never occurred to me, and there is a logical reason to do this: these are products entered as blog posts. I want them to appear more like product pages than blog posts, so I don't want the post info (date and author name) to appear to the user.

But I do want search engines to see it so this content can be correctly attributed via rel="author". That is the only intent here.

There are no keywords involved in the post info and I really don't see how this could be considered spamming.

For the same keyword phrase,the Google Adwords Keyword Tool complete list of keyword ideas does not contain all the keyword phrases that appear in "searches related to..." at the bottom of the page when you plug the same keyword phrase into Google.

Can anyone tell me why not?

I want to enter some products as blog posts. I don't want users to see the post info, but do want SE's to see rel="author".

I can do this by setting display to "none" in a CSS style. The post info does not appear in the browser but is still in the page source.

Will search engines be able to see the post info?

Product descriptions have been produced by knowledgeable people at the company. My job is to present them and attract attention. They don't want me to use a real person as a personna, thus the question.

thanks, but I'm not sure this helps. Content is product descriptions of machine parts. The company does not want me to use one of their real names, for fear of what I might do with it, so do I invent a company employee and go with that or the company name as my personna?