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7:52 pm
June 9, 2011
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QuoteNo. That is not keyword stuffing. It may be redundant, but it's not stuffing. I do this all the time. It improves keyword density, which some people believe is not all that important anymore. I don't think that's true, I just think other factors are more important than they used to be, but good, solid and contextual use of keywords is very important and that is a great way to do it.
Also try to get your target keywords in to headers (h1, h2, h3)
As far as a posting to another site, you could change it up to list the top 3 for that site, but then link back to your original post with a statement like "For a more comprehensive list of influential dark wave bands, click here."
-Steve
10:01 pm
June 7, 2011
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Keyword stuffing is really just when you use gratuitous amounts of keywords, or overly high percentages (over 5%).
But i wouldn't link to pages that aren't yours. You'll lose page rank when you share it to other sites. Try to keep your links down to 3 or so. Never more than 1 per 100 words.
Another thought... 1000 words is kind of a lot. There is nothing wrong with it but I think you'll find that less people make it all the way down to your call to action. I would try to keep it around 500.
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11:42 pm
June 10, 2011
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My press release isn't 1000 words, the article I'm going to link back to from the press release
and post on my own website is 1000 words. I needed to have a reason to link the keywords
targeted in my press release to my website, so I created the blog entry/article.
I try to keep my articles at < 500 words and my press release itself is about that length.
The question I was asking about linking was for the article which will appear on my site.
In the press release, I will only have about 3 links, one of which will link to this article.
But will my article suffer ranking if I link back to the actual bands I'm discussing?
I think Steve''s idea of posting the intro to it on another site and having that link back
to my original article is what I need to do for my "reposting" question.
11:58 pm
June 9, 2011
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This is tricky. If you are going for authority about darkwave bands in general, John's right... you don't want to have one article giving page rank to several different other sites.
I'm thinking the way to approach it is to initially internally link to an article on your own site about a particular band, but then maybe throw them a link from within that posts's content. But you probably do not want to have multiple links to multiple other sites from one post.
For instance you could have an article about dark wave bands, then mention the other bands from within that post, but internally link them to your own post about each band. Inside that post you might be able to lend a link to the actual band's site without doing any damage.
For good measure, you could make the link to the other band's site a no-follow, but they will not benefit from your link in any way if you do this.
4:13 pm
June 7, 2011
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Sorry, I think I'm a little confused about what you're trying to do. Linking as I see it is pretty straight forward. Create your press release and link back to your own content.
If you felt you needed to link to something in your content to provide an explanation, I would just create another quick page on your own site for that. Is that what you're saying? Better yet, I would just try to summarize within the article itself.
I would try to avoid linking to another site within content that you were hoping to convert subscribers with, not only because of the potential loss of page rank, but also because you might lose some traffic. Not to mention... no follow link or not, you will be helping that site which sounds like it's a competitor for the keyword. While page rank isn't passed through a no-follow link, most SEOs feel that Google is counting the link. I know a few guys who have run tests building nothing but no-follow links and they still saw gains in the SERPS. That's a fairly recent change but it seems to be the current collective opinion about no-follow links.
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10:03 pm
October 28, 2011
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Wow,
I just read this whole thread and you guys are speaking another language
. I didn't realize it was so "mathematical" in a way. There's a lot of valuable stuff here. Thanks for going so into it. I have a lot to learn;)
-Dana
p.s. John, is there a way for the members to send Direct Messages in here?
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10:33 pm
June 7, 2011
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Dana Carmel said:
p.s. John, is there a way for the members to send Direct Messages in here?
Yes, at the top of each post there are a set of options. One of them says "send PM". You also need to go into your profile from the "profile" tab in the top right and then go to "personal options". Then you want to tick : "Auto subscribe to topics I post in" and "Receive an Email when someone sends you a Private Message".
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12:34 am
June 10, 2011
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Ok,
Next question(s):
I feel that I am ready to submit my press release. My question is, has anyone experienced
a notable difference in traffic or response between the $22 release from onlineprmedia and
the $79 version? Or in John's case from the training module, did you notice a significant
difference between the $79 version and the "full" package?
I really want the $79 version, but I could release 3 of the next lower version for slightly less.
If there's a definite difference, I don't want to cheat myself, but if not, I don't want to overspend
either...
Also, can I post my release in here so that people can give me feedback before I take it live?
I'd rather have editorial comments and advice beforehand rather than have someone point
out what I "should have" done or how it could be improved.
Dana, don't worry. It's really not as complicated as I'm making it seem. I just ask millions of
questions beforehand because I hate making mistakes; especially ones that could have been
avoided had I asked first. 
4:59 am
June 7, 2011
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I have only used the $79/package from online PR media and the big package from PR Web. The PR Web releases have by far been the most effective, but I was also targeting things a bit different. They are also very expensive I mostly was going for backlinks with the PR media release.
I did two with onlineprmedia and 1 was a terrible flop. The other did okay. But for what it's worth, when I worte them about the flop they gave me a free credit for the next one.
One thing weird that happened on the flop was that I hired a writer from Fiverr to do it for me. He then published it to a small press release site without asking. I told him to take it down right away and he did, but I'm concerned that this caused my release to be viewed as unoriginal.
You are absolutely free to share it here, and this site is protected so it's not SUPPOSED to be crawled by Google. But still, It does make me wonder a bit if it's a good idea.
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