Comments on: Offpage search engine optimization, a practical example http://www.akamarketing.com/blog/28-offpage-search-engine-optimization-a-practical-example.html Blogged thoughts, not just any other wordpress blog! Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:50:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: SEO Tyler Dewitt http://www.akamarketing.com/blog/28-offpage-search-engine-optimization-a-practical-example.html#comment-1030 SEO Tyler Dewitt Sun, 24 Dec 2006 09:32:28 +0000 http://www.akamarketing.com/blog/28-offpage-search-engine-optimization-a-practical-example.html#comment-1030 Nice article, very impressed. I will have to re-write this, and blog it on my site, or better yet dig it :). Nice article, very impressed. I will have to re-write this, and blog it on my site, or better yet dig it :).

]]> By: Joe http://www.akamarketing.com/blog/28-offpage-search-engine-optimization-a-practical-example.html#comment-113 Joe Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:03:37 +0000 http://www.akamarketing.com/blog/28-offpage-search-engine-optimization-a-practical-example.html#comment-113 I show you are at a 9th place MSN ranking for "SEO tools" (searching from Tampa, Florida, USA). I show you are at a 9th place MSN ranking for “SEO tools” (searching from Tampa, Florida, USA).

]]> By: David Callan http://www.akamarketing.com/blog/28-offpage-search-engine-optimization-a-practical-example.html#comment-112 David Callan Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:11:34 +0000 http://www.akamarketing.com/blog/28-offpage-search-engine-optimization-a-practical-example.html#comment-112 Joe this is truely an excellent question and one which I was going to mention in the post itself but decided not to in the end as it could be discussed as a separate blog post altogether. My views on it are that the original piece of work on your own site can never be "devalued" as such as a content rich page is a content rich page. I do however believe that the links from resources boxes of your article on external sites MAY be devalued a small bit as Google spots the same article on many, many different pages and sites. I often defract this possible loss by simply submitting my article to more places than I otherwise would have done if I knew for sure that there was definitely no duplicate content penalty in place. Another approach is to say create 3 slightly different versions of the same article, a paragraph cut & pasted here and there and a different resource box might do the trick of 'fooling' Google, to be honest though I have not used this different version technique recently, but I have talked to one Internet marketing professional who swears by the technique. Can someone check my MSN ranking for 'SEO tools', I seem to be 9th but this could be Irish biased/ie.msn.com cookied and not genuine .com result. Here's an interesting URL :: <a title="Matt Cutts on duplicate content" href="http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/33336.htm" target="_blank">http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/33336.htm</a> But in answer to your question yes I would recommend submitting your article to multiple directories. OK you MIGHT not get the full benefit of all the backlinks in your resource boxes in Google, but you certainly will be better of than before and besides MSN and Yahoo can still send some pretty neat traffic and if someone can confirm my 9th place ranking for 'SEO tools' well then the technique works for sure on MSN anyhow (I'd give Google and Yahoo another 4 or 5 months so the links can 'age' at bit) Joe this is truely an excellent question and one which I was going to mention in the post itself but decided not to in the end as it could be discussed as a separate blog post altogether.

My views on it are that the original piece of work on your own site can never be “devalued” as such as a content rich page is a content rich page. I do however believe that the links from resources boxes of your article on external sites MAY be devalued a small bit as Google spots the same article on many, many different pages and sites. I often defract this possible loss by simply submitting my article to more places than I otherwise would have done if I knew for sure that there was definitely no duplicate content penalty in place. Another approach is to say create 3 slightly different versions of the same article, a paragraph cut & pasted here and there and a different resource box might do the trick of ‘fooling’ Google, to be honest though I have not used this different version technique recently, but I have talked to one Internet marketing professional who swears by the technique.

Can someone check my MSN ranking for ‘SEO tools’, I seem to be 9th but this could be Irish biased/ie.msn.com cookied and not genuine .com result.

Here’s an interesting URL :: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/33336.htm

But in answer to your question yes I would recommend submitting your article to multiple directories. OK you MIGHT not get the full benefit of all the backlinks in your resource boxes in Google, but you certainly will be better of than before and besides MSN and Yahoo can still send some pretty neat traffic and if someone can confirm my 9th place ranking for ‘SEO tools’ well then the technique works for sure on MSN anyhow (I’d give Google and Yahoo another 4 or 5 months so the links can ‘age’ at bit)

]]> By: Joe http://www.akamarketing.com/blog/28-offpage-search-engine-optimization-a-practical-example.html#comment-111 Joe Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:17:02 +0000 http://www.akamarketing.com/blog/28-offpage-search-engine-optimization-a-practical-example.html#comment-111 Would you recommend submitting articles that you have written for your website to multiple article directories as well? Meaning, do you think that you run a risk of being assessed a duplicate content penalty by throwing your articles out there for other sites to pick up and then your original piece of work (on your website) is "devalued" in a sense because it is a duplicate article (even though it's the original and you are the creator) of every made for adsense site in your niche that grabs articles from directories? Or is it safe to say that as long as you get your original article spidered on your website first that then it is ok to launch it out to all of the article directories? Would you recommend submitting articles that you have written for your website to multiple article directories as well? Meaning, do you think that you run a risk of being assessed a duplicate content penalty by throwing your articles out there for other sites to pick up and then your original piece of work (on your website) is “devalued” in a sense because it is a duplicate article (even though it’s the original and you are the creator) of every made for adsense site in your niche that grabs articles from directories? Or is it safe to say that as long as you get your original article spidered on your website first that then it is ok to launch it out to all of the article directories?

]]> By: David Callan http://www.akamarketing.com/blog/28-offpage-search-engine-optimization-a-practical-example.html#comment-104 David Callan Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:41:30 +0000 http://www.akamarketing.com/blog/28-offpage-search-engine-optimization-a-practical-example.html#comment-104 Hi Mary, hope you found the blog post interesting. Yes I find this too but not with my own name, generally with keywords from my article titles. Basically sites which published my articles (with my permission of course) would appear higher than the actual original article on my site. The trick is to not allow other webmasters use your content until it's been published on your site for about 3 or so months, this way Google knows where the original article is a should/might filter the copies of your articles on other sites. Hi Mary, hope you found the blog post interesting. Yes I find this too but not with my own name, generally with keywords from my article titles. Basically sites which published my articles (with my permission of course) would appear higher than the actual original article on my site. The trick is to not allow other webmasters use your content until it’s been published on your site for about 3 or so months, this way Google knows where the original article is a should/might filter the copies of your articles on other sites.

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