Search engines may still use it for discovery. Meaning simply answering the question: what should the page potentially rank for?

best, G

I usually say that if Google does it the others are doing it as well.

So:

The meta keywords tag is not in use for SEO with regard to Google and Yahoo.

I'm pretty sure Bing doesn't either.

Best, G

Here's Googles post about it:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html

Hope this was what you were looking for.

Best, G

A 301 should work fine.

You should in theory gain some linkjuice and rankings from the domain.

However the effects wont be as good as regular do follow links to your site.

But as Marcin says it's still an efficient way...

The same H1 rule goes for all other headers.

Headers are headers, mixing them in with the text content isn't very helpful in a user perspective.

A quick tip is to try to add questions to the h2 to keep the text SEO and user friendly.

So let's rephrase this into a h2 question:

Interested in commercial landscaping design?

We're the ones to call!

Call us at 1-866-236-7263 or contact us by email.

Hope I could help

Best,

Gustav

Ok, now I understand what you meant

I agreee, In my opinion that's not a good way to use an H1 tag.

It would still work for rankings but I would also consider it as trying to cheat google.

It's always better to look at the sentence and restructure it and make it more of a selling copy text, for example:

The largest SEO community!

SEOmoz Pro combines campaign-based monitoring, actionable recommendations, and premium access to the web's largest seo community <a href="">- try it free for 30 days!</a>.

/ Gustav

Hi! to specify: Yes, the words in the H1 tag matters

Hi!

The H1 is always important, I've tried several test with the h1 and title tag to see if the correlation still works and improve rankings. In my experience it does.

As long as you don't use css to modify the h1 so that another element of the text below is actually bigger or resemble an h1 it should be fine. Don't try to fool Google by changing the appeareance of the h1 to much(use common sense), remember you can always use an H2 tag below if it makes the content better.

Remember the H1 should always be unique for the page and should not be the same on several pages.

If I understand the question correctly you would like your content to be spread to other sites through rss feeds and then be indexed there with a backlink to your site?

Number 1: there must be a reason for the other site to index and create a backlink to your site.

Number 2: these links are almost always "no follow" and therefore need to reach a very high amount of links to be of any real use for you if you want to affect the serp.

eg: You submit your site to several "ping" sites of your choosing that index certain content and then when you publish a new story these sites get pinged from your cms and a nofollow backlink is created for you on that site,

Just make certain that these sites that you ping actually has good content and have fills a puropose for the visitors.

A better way though to keep control over the material is to create an own site running wordpress where you write about your site as a blog. Just put a news section in a sidebar and put your RSS feed in there. wordpress sites are indexed extremly fast and when you own the site you can choose to use follow links in the section on the blog site.

This should lead to a faster indexing and you create backlinks that have a function and furthermore you own the site linking to you primary site.

A short summary:

RSS feeds are good to spread content and attract visitors. They're not a quick way to get backlinks.