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The independent agency used a second site to build its rank - it was just a website with a bunch of big picture links to their website and a ton of textual links below.

The website since then has been redeveloped and we implemented all of the 301 redirects, etc. to ensure no page rank would be lost, so there isn't any bad links from their website. The links in OpenSiteExplorer also seem to be legit.

Still haven't figured out why they are ranking so poorly tho, it was put aside for now. All of the help has been greatly appreciated.

I do know they were getting SEO through a company a long time ago that was using Black-Hat Tactics to gain them rank - but I haven't seen the black-hat website in a long time and don't even know if it exists. The text on the home page did drive them up significantly, but not to where I'd expect. I can definitely make the text darker and more readable.

Thanks!!!

Thanks for your help! I made that change as well - We'll see if any of these fix the issues!

Thanks for your reply - We're actually working on a small redesign of the homepage as well, I will try to incorporate the text higher up to see if it helps at all!

Good Catch! - I completely missed this since Wordpress is suppose to do this itself, but there was an error in the .htaccess which prevented it!

Thanks for the heads up! Had to check it on a different browser to see it!

Really? I don't see it! What page & What is the error?

Awesome, makes way more sense now - Thanks a ton for all your help!!!

The excerpt makes sense - should excerpts have authorship assigned to it?

We have a few informational blog posts that are valuable to some readers. We have posted them in our blog but were contemplating posting them on 3rd party blogging websites such as Blogger, Squidoo, etc.. Ideally we would continue to maintain these accounts with multiple blog posts, but would all be reposts of the original blog.

These are not half english blog posts just hoping to gain a better Google rank. They will provide value to the readers who might not be finding their way to our website directly.

Is posting these blog posts on the 3rd party websites, linking back to the original article and maybe some products that are related to the specific document going to negatively affect our rankings due to the duplication of the content?