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will do thanks!

appreciate the response dvtruong - I worked with Angie for many years, back when I was the news director at Fox Sports Northwest - great lady. Anyway back to SEO - we've started getting more links for cnn.com, a bunch of edu's and some other big sports sites - so I hope to see our overall numbers increase. Quality content is our main priority so glad to see we are on the right track, we only lauched in NOvember last year so I know its a slow ramp..

thanks again for the insight.

Brian

p.s. we're in seattle too.

interesting ryan thanks - I actually was referring to the ranking from my SEOMOZ crawl this past week... so no operator error. According to my ranking report I dropped from 5 to 46 last week and then from 46 to 48 this week.

guess its an seomoz reporting issue if you still see it ranked 5th.

I was ranked #5 for the keyword "Become a Sportscaster" - had been in the top 10 for months, then all of a sudden dropped to #46. I haven't touched this page in a few months, so I don't think I messed anything up.

Any thoughts on why such a dramatic drop would happen?

Brian Clapp

Founder, SportsTVJobs.com

Thanks for the insight, I appreciate the well-thought response.

Hi,

Does anyone have data to show that a subfolder is better than a subdomain for a blog? From what I've read, it sounds like both are a viable option but you choose subdomain if you want to build your blog as a distinct entity. Do you get ranked more quickly with a subfolder? Do you see X% more lift? Has anyone tested or seen tests around this subject?

Any input is appreciated! Thanks in advance.

Can you have ANY duplicate content on a page or will the page get penalized by Google?

For example if you used a paragraph of Wikipedia content for a definition/description of a medical term, but wrapped it in unique content is that OK or will that land you in the Google / Panda doghouse?

If some level of duplicate content is allowable, is there a general rule of thumb ratio unique-to-duplicate content?

thanks!

Thanks!! I'll check out that pagerank prediction site Guillaume

I launched my site back in November and in the last 6 months have been pretty stoked about some of the links we've received from some .edu 's and some other big sites.... but I still don't register any PageRank.

Is this normal or have I made some fatal flaw that is killing me in the eyes of google?

Thanks

Brian Clapp

Founder, SportsTVJobs.com

less than 24 hours into my seomoz pro membership and I'm already blown away - thanks for all of your assistance. Christine it appears I don't have a .htaccess file so I will follow what you wrote and create a new blank file with just that code in it...

you guys rock. I've got lots more learning to do....

Brian

Ryan thanks for your great advice. I'm the site founder but by no means a tech expert... I'm more the content guy, but I'm learning. I

understand what you have written...all except the part of where I put that code. Where do I find my .htaccess file?

Thank you for your great response Dave! I'm the founder of the site, but my background is more in content and I'm learning the SEO as I go, so forgive me if this is a silly follow up.

In reference to response #4 - my original designer said canonical was only on the home page, but your response sounds like it should be on every page? If so do I put the whole url for that page, or just the root? Again not an expert here so all this advice really helps me learn.

Thanks

Brian

Just signed up for pro and did my first diagnostic check - I came back with something like 300 duplicate content errors which suprised me because every page is unique.

Turns out my pages are listed as www.sportstvjobs.com and just sportstvjobs.com does  that really count as duplicate? and if so does anyone know what I should be doing differently?

I thought it was just a canonical issue, but best I can tell I have the canonical in there but this still came up as a duplicate error....maybe I did canonical wrong, or its some other issue?

Thanks

Brian Clapp