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That would be just one thing that I would look at. There are a number of other considerations I would have first though. 1. The phrase "Web Design" has got to be one of the most competitive searches out there (guessing). So that is a biggy. 2. If you are gonna take on trying to rank for it, do you optimize for it on your site. Does it appear verbatim in your header in the first position, throughout your site, etc. You can run the on-site tool to see if you are optimized correctly. 3. What is the Anchor Text in the footer links say? Is it your company name or is it specifically "Web Design by..." 4.cBlocks will be a factor, but what are the others? If you run the Keyword Difficulty tool and look at the top 10 results what kind of link metrics are showing up? How does your MozTrust compare to theirs? If you have 55,000 links, do they have 10x that? Look at where you're deficient. It's good that you're looking at things like cblock (especially when you end up with clients on your server, it's to be expected). But what are the other factors you are missing? You can easily look at the top 300 results of each metric and see where you are with each one, and make a game plan based off of where you are weak. Hope that helps.

I completely wholeheartedly agree with EGOL.

It will also depend on the end use. I like to coach my photographer clients to use unique Titles and unique Post Headings for one reason only: Clients.
My photographers will post the photos in their blog to show off for their clients and other photographers (and generating traffic).

I like to use the Title Tags for keywords (maybe it was a wedding shot at a certain wedding venue location that can be used for Chunky Middle searches.
In that case it might look like:
Hotel Del Coronado Wedding Photography | John Doe Wedding Photographers

But for the client who won't necessarily be looking in the Title Tag, and the Post Header is more visible, you can do something like this:
John & Jane's Wedding | Hotel Del Coronado

Both have keywords in them, but one is more user friendly and appealing than the other.

But feel free to make them the same or get creative with them.

Sure thing brother!

Hi Ryan,

Yes, I just did a search for the text I found in the Lightbox description for the Coco & Max logo. Right there. I've attached a couple images to show what I found.

Is this underneath a Javascript?  I'd be interested to learn about the differences between different scripts as I see myself building sites that I would like to use the most SEO beneficial one.

coco-max-lightbox.png coco-max-html.png

Hey Ryan,

The Original Poster is actually talking about the text descriptions of each logo that is listed.

The easy way to figure this out is to look in the HTML. If it's real text, then Google can crawl it. In your case it is. 
So the content you have will be indexed.

And you can do as Ryan suggested and add Alt Attribute to each image. It will help as well.

Hi Mike,

I see. So theoretically speaking someone creates 10 different Tumbler accounts. Each with a unique domain (using the Tumbler unique domain method).

Yes, each one will be a completely different domain, but, also, they will more than likely be of the same 1 C-Block or maybe even the same 1 IP (not sure how Tumbler handles their subdomain IP structure). Since they are all hosted through Tumbler on their servers.

It's not the end of the world, but it's also not the link diversity that you thought you might get. Many people have Tumbler accounts and I don't think Google will treat each one as if it was owned by the same person.
That being said, if each of your Tumbler accounts use the same Anchor Text, or share similarities in other aspects (linking to other similar sites, being mostly linky over providing quality content, similar usernames, etc.) Google will more than likely be able to sniff that out and not see those as valuable links.

From a link building perspective it seems that there are better methods. In this hypothetical case, you'll have to remember that there are now 10 micro-sites that you have to generate some value to by building links to and content on for there to even be a little bit of juice to pass along to the site you really want to rank...
Quite a lot of hustle for a little bit of payoff.

Well Open Site Explorer and the Toolbar try to predict what Google will see your site as. Domain Authority and Page Authority are values that the SEOMOZ engineers attempt to mimic the unknown Google algorithms, based on correlative data that they collect with Linkscape.

But yes, Google has algorithms that are based on trust and how well a site ranks, and how many links it has and what kind of sites they come from. They're obviously their own, and rather private.

Hi Mike,

I know you asked this a few weeks ago, and you may have already found your answer.

But to answer this, no. Tumbler essentially is just redirecting your A-Record domain to a sub-domain and giving it a nice url.

So what happens is the url website2.com (from your example above) is staring from zero. It also means that if you develop some quality trust and authority on that particular domain, you won't be able to take it with you if you want to use that domain for a site.

The url is essentially invisible, so whatever links you're sending isn't really to  website2.com, but to tumbler.website2.com.

Unless Tumbler offers a 301 redirect option when you want your domain back, the domain website2.com will have no value to it.

I hope that answers your question.

Thanks Ryan,

Just for clarity, the topic was brought up by you. "By keeping tweets as their own posts, I can update them real-time and easily remove spam."

And for some further clarity, this idea of archiving would only be to archive tweets that I have produced, not tweets by anyone else.

I still think I'm a little unclear where the spam will be an issue. On your website? On Twitter?

How does the spam you're talking about show up?

Thanks!

Thanks for the response Ryan.

What spam would you be dealing with if they were just an unordered list?

I'm planning to create a Tweet Archive on my WordPress install.

Ideally each tweet would be a separate entry in the database. That would mean that each one could essentially have it's own page.

I think that if each had it's own page though, it would just create a very deep site with super shallow almost non-existant content.

I am pretty sure I know the answer to this, I'm just looking for some substantiation...

Should I just keep it as a list and not have each tweet exist as a separate page?

I posted this article I wrote the other day for someone asking a similar question.

http://www.themoderntog.com/how-to-configure-wordpress-seo-plugin-by-yoast-for-maximum-online-exposure

With the Yoast SEO Plugin I no-index everything except Categories. You can see how I set mine up under section 3. Indexation.

Here is the original question that Sha submitted:
http://www.seomoz.org/q/what-is-with-wordpress-dupe-issues

Are you using Feedburner? Has the feed publishing service gotten out of sync? You can re-sync it under the Troubleshootize section.

Thank you Daniel. I know it's been awhile, but now just getting back to this.

You pretty much substantiated what I thought to be true for the first part.

I have heard of some workaround 301s when going from something like Blogger to a self hosted version. And I do believe that WordPress.com has a paid option to redirect all traffic if you go to a self-hosted blog.

Thanks again!

Thanks for that EGOL. That does make sense.

Something I've never been a fan of is having a blog as the home page of a site. I've always thought that it's a bit like walking into someone's house through the kitchen out back.
If it's a vistors first time, it can be a little disconcerting or ackward even if they are not familiar with the writers style.

But something just dawned on me, and I'd love a second opinion on this.

For websites that focus on multiple keywords (in my most of my client's case it's usually a mix of Wedding Photography, Engagement Photography, Portrait Photography, Family Photography, etc).

A lot of these clients will include the photos in a blog post along with a snippet of text that may talk about the people they're photographing and maybe a bit about where they photographed. But they're usually optimizing for the overarching keyword (Wedding... Portrait..., etc as per above).

Now I'm wondering if having three or 5 posts on the home page, where most of them are focusing on a specific keyword like New York Wedding Photographer, is actually diluting the keyword they are trying to rank for.

My theory is that if I have them move their blog to a domain.com/blog, and solely focus on the desired keyword on the home page, that they would do substantially better in the SERPs.

Can anyone subtantiate this?

Thanks!

Sorry Marcus, We must have been typing at the same time.

Hi Sophy, It's actually in line with what Marcus was saying. Your two pages are competing with each other. If you look at the Title Tag for the home page, there is nothing that says "eco products." But if you look at your category page, you'll see not only does the Title Tag say "Eco Products," but it's also in the URL. So you'll have to make a decision as to whether or not you'll want Eco Products to have it's own page or to have it show up on the home page. If you want it to show on the home page, you'll want that in the Title Tag, and you will need to rename that category page as well as renaming the Title Tag.

Thank you Marcus! And I just saw your tweet. That's super awesome of you.

I'll let the owner of the site know.