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! Sat, 17 May 2008 15:37:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: SEO Tyler Dewitt http://www.akamarketing.com/blog/28-offpage-search-engine-optimization-a-practical-example.html#comment-1030 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 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 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)

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