Recent content by CDJohnston

How risky is this? Is this completely white hat?

Hey everyone, Right now my site is sitting at 1.5/10 on TrustRank. How can I go about increasing that? Does it really matter? Do I need to do things like make sure we are trusted we McAfee, TrustDirectory (TDP), etc? What's the best first step? Thanks in advance!

They are not no-follow. I should get rid of them then?

Hey guys, In an effort to promote our company we are considering adding our site links to our signature on various related niche forums that we post on..Rather tan just posting our link as advertisement on the forums. How does Google view this? Will it hurt? Will it help? Thanks in advance!

Thank you good sirs, That clears things up. :) Cheers!

Interest. I'm guessing number of searches/popularity of a term. I doubt anyone knows the exact metric but I could be wrong.

Ah, see I cannot afford to lose this domain and it is tied to our business. :)

Hey guys, Right now my PA/DA is 31/20 - how bad is that? Don't go easy on me! ;) Is this just an overall ranking against other sites for the page and for the domain? I read that 40-55 and 40-50 would be average. Am I really that far below right now?

I should clarify, I'm talking about duplicate content from our own site. Is that bad?

Hey guys, Right now my website is a PR2 and we have only really been on the web for about 7-8 months. What is RealPageRank? I used SEOMastering website recommended on here by some users and I found that our site had PR2 and real PR of just over 4. Does that mean that I could potentially be...

Okay I have to admit I'm a little confused on the different opinions from everyone. Is it bad between sites like Etsy and other Etsy-like sites? Will it hurt the ranking of my main site, or just the ones with duplicate? Or will it just not help? What will I be hurting?

Gotcha, thanks for that. How much better off would I be with shared proxies vs. public proxies?

We will be doing manual commenting (like I said, WhiteHat uses). How much generally should we budget for proxies for scraping? Thanks.

Okay, so basically then I won't get punished for it, but it would be advisable to change them if I wanted to rank from the other sites?

Hey guys, I am planning on using Scrapebox for WhiteHat SEO purposes.. will it be likely that I will still need proxies? Or will I not be going through enough BW to require them? Thanks in advance, Carl