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I've got a question: What do you do to preserve previous linkjuice/authority when you buy a TDNAM domain?

I don't know what anyone else is doing, but I pay a Yogi (found in the Sell, Buy & Trade section) to perform a Ritual of Fire for any dropped domains I purchase: it doesn't always work, but about 80% of the time the PR does not drop.
 


I have a question, since google values content, would it be a good idea to have 10 random article summaries appear at the bottom of each page? This way you get about 50 words per 10 summaries or 500 somewhat unique words per page?

So if a single article has 200 words and you have the 500 random words would google see this as 700 unique content? Assuming you have enough articles to make pages slightly different.
 
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designing a new home page. Thinking of adding a link to wikipedia and webmd for authority, a link to an Amazon affiliate store and links to every page on the site (112).

Are the Wikipedia and webmad obl good or bad for ranking my home page?
 
Any outbound link with do follow lowers your page authority / page rank from my understanding. Add a 'no follow' tag and don't worry about it. Just my suggestion could be wrong.
 
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designing a new home page. Thinking of adding a link to wikipedia and webmd for authority, a link to an Amazon affiliate store and links to every page on the site (112).

Are the Wikipedia and webmad obl good or bad for ranking my home page?
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designing a new home page. Thinking of adding a link to wikipedia and webmd for authority, a link to an Amazon affiliate store and links to every page on the site (112).

Are the Wikipedia and webmad obl good or bad for ranking my home page?

If it's relevant to the niche, test and see. But I would nofollow any outgoing link, personally.

Any outbound link with do follow lowers your page authority / page rank from my understanding. Add a 'no follow' tag and don't worry about it. Just my suggestion could be wrong.

Nofollow passes authority as well, just not as much for those SEs that recognize the relationship attribute.
 
This is the Blog Blueprint program I am referring to.

www[dot]seoblueprint[dot]org/blogblueprint/

If I understand the program correctly, you post spun articles and it uploads them with your anchor text and link of your choosing to PR 3/4 blogs that they own.

Can't say with authority though.
 
I have a question, since google values content, would it be a good idea to have 10 random article summaries appear at the bottom of each page? This way you get about 50 words per 10 summaries or 500 somewhat unique words per page?

So if a single article has 200 words and you have the 500 random words would google see this as 700 unique content? Assuming you have enough articles to make pages slightly different.

Google view's specific aspects of a site when it evaluates "dupe content", etc. There's a reason that news sites are fine when they post 500 words of a news story, and 150 words of their opinion of it.

Dave Harry has a good writeup about Page Segmentation that you really should read - SEO implications of Page Segmentation concepts | Search Engine Optimization | Search Engines

TL;DR -> It helps as long as they're not the same articles on every page. "Related Posts" plugin for Wordpress with a little modification for the abstract would work wonders. *hint hint*

What is google panda? I hear a lot of talk about it regarding seo

Panda was one of the first algorithms that would be like the "devaluing <X footprint> links" except for on-page.

According to wikipedia (click for shitty full writeup):


Better writeup:
Panda 2.0: Google Rolls Out Panda Update Internationally & Incorporates Searcher Blocking Data

It's basically an algorithm that evaluates the quality of a site based on on-page factors. Does the page have advertisements? How many advertisements? Above or below the fold? Does it have content? How much content? Is the content related to the topic? Is the content itself related to the keyword/keywords/topics that are determined through other factors like your h1, title, etc?

Think about how you would determine if a site is quality. Now think about what's possible to be translated into programming code. Meet in the middle, and that's what they have.

It has absolutely nothing to do with links at all (unless it's the links on your on-page).

Hope this helps.
 
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Google view's specific aspects of a site when it evaluates "dupe content", etc. There's a reason that news sites are fine when they post 500 words of a news story, and 150 words of their opinion of it.

Dave Harry has a good writeup about Page Segmentation that you really should read - SEO implications of Page Segmentation concepts | Search Engine Optimization | Search Engines

TL;DR -> It helps as long as they're not the same articles on every page. "Related Posts" plugin for Wordpress with a little modification for the abstract would work wonders. *hint hint*
Great! This helps a lot. Thank you Bofu2U. As with everything related to SEO it looks like it has been broken down to a science and although know one knows for sure how it works there is a general standard :)

Another question that I thought of about SEO is about page rank. Does anyone have an idea of how much it would cost to buy back links, social media links and posts for a new PR0 site to get to PR4? Looking for an estimate using services from the site. This would help a lot to know how effective the services on these forums are.
 
Great! This helps a lot. Thank you Bofu2U. As with everything related to SEO it looks like it has been broken down to a science and although know one knows for sure how it works there is a general standard :)

Another question that I thought of about SEO is about page rank. Does anyone have an idea of how much it would cost to buy back links, social media links and posts for a new PR0 site to get to PR4? Looking for an estimate using services from the site. This would help a lot to know how effective the services on these forums are.

I wouldn't worry so much about PageRank unless you're trying to sell links. Worry moreso about the rankings and traffic of your sites - PR is only a guide for quality once in a blue moon (like something that's been a PR4 for over 3 years of consistently adding content), etc ... (in my opinion :xmas-smiley-016:)
 
Well the reason I am interested in page rank is that for a keyword I am trying to take #1 in it is currently held by a PR3 site that may drop to PR2. My site and theirs both uses the same acronym, both sites have it on the page not in the URL. Assuming both homepages are unrelated URLs but same header one tags the higher page rank site would take this keyword? Or is it better to just buy 30k or so back links with that keyword and a few other keywords to prevent footprint.
 
Well the reason I am interested in page rank is that for a keyword I am trying to take #1 in it is currently held by a PR3 site that may drop to PR2. My site and theirs both uses the same acronym, both sites have it on the page not in the URL. Assuming both homepages are unrelated URLs but same header one tags the higher page rank site would take this keyword? Or is it better to just buy 30k or so back links with that keyword and a few other keywords to prevent footprint.

Every single situation has to be treated differently. Can't just "drop 30K" and have it magically work. Evaluate your competitor and see where they missed the void. Then match their profile with yours, and then fill that void on yours.

Always meet & exceed.

And them dropping to PR2 doesn't mean they'll drop down in the rankings. PR has nothing to do with ranking in general. Ranking has to do with ranking. :)
 
Thanks again Bofu2U. With Google nothing is simple :) Well back to writing content for me, meta tags, headers and page titles - the on page SEO which for me is so much easier.
 
I am currently building up my own network of sites to use for linking to money sites.

Assuming each site is on a newly registered domain (ie not a dropped domain) what would be

A) The most cost effective way to build decent authority for each site in the network?

and

B) The quickest way to build authority for each site in the network?
 
I am currently building up my own network of sites to use for linking to money sites.

Assuming each site is on a newly registered domain (ie not a dropped domain) what would be

A) The most cost effective way to build decent authority for each site in the network?

and

B) The quickest way to build authority for each site in the network?

To be honest it all depends on what your definition of authority is. What's your definition?