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  Duplicate internal links on page, any benefit to nofollow
  

  Link spam is naturally a hot topic amongst SEO's, particularly post Penguin. While digging around forums etc, I watched a video blog from Matt Cutts posted a while ago that suggests that Google only pays attention to the first instance of a link on the page As most websites will have multiple instances of a links (header, footer and body text), is it beneficial to nofollow the additional instances of the link? Also as the first instance of a link will in most cases be within the header nav, does that then make the content link text critical or can good on page optimisation be pulled from the title attribute? I would appreciate the experiences and thoughts Mozzers thoughts on this thanks in advance!

  Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | JustinTaylor88

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  Does show/hide element with javascript impact SEO
  

  Hi I am developing an ecommerce site and want to place text on all category and home page. The challenge is that 300 words of text for the pages does not fit into the design appropriately especially on the home page. If I were to use a show/hide element with javascript would this be seen as spam or a trick to the search engines. I do not think it is spam as it will be actual content for the site and the visitor can view it if they click on the show button. Would love to hear your thoughts?

  On-Page Optimization | | VivaArturo

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  Rel=Canonical on a page with 302 redirection existing
  

  Hi SEOMoz! Can I have the rel=canonical tag on a URL page that has a 302 redirection? Does this harm the search engine friendliness of a content page / website? Thanks! Steve

  Technical SEO | | sjcbayona-41218

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  Is it allowed to have different alt on same image on different pages?
  

  Hi, I have images that match several different keywords and I wondered if I can give them different alts based on the page that they are displayed or will Google be angry with me? Thanks

  Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | BeytzNet

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  Google Places / Map Results CTR vs Top Organic Result
  

  I have a client who is currently ranking close to the top of the Google Places results for a handful of important local keywords. They have a competitor who is pretty consistantly ranking in number #1 and #2 organic positions, above the Places results. Does anyone know the average click through rates for results similar to these? Do the #1 and #2 organic positions still outperform the lower placed Google Places (with side map) results when the search intent is very local? I just wonder if they are possibly in a better position as-is if people are more likely to use the map or places listings on the SERPs page, rather than click through to another site. Thanks 🙂

  Image & Video Optimization | | David_ODonnell

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  Link Building using Badges
  

  In light of penguin update, is link building using badges(like "I love SEOMOZ" badge) still considered a white hat tactic? I have read old posts on SEOMOZ blog about this topic and wondering if this method is still effective. Look forward to feedback from MOZers.

  White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | Amjath

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  How To Remove Unwanted Search Query from 'Related Searches'
  

  Currently, when I run a search for my company's website, one of the listings in my
  "searches related to <my search="" query="">" is:</my> <my company="">scam</my> Does anyone know how to change the queries that appear in the 'related searches' section of the search results page?

  Branding | | NiallSmith

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  Realtors SEO and Active Rain
  

  Does anyone know if active rain social network for realtors pass any link juice through the attached blogs features? They have both a free and paid service. Does anyone have any insight on this?

  Social Media | | bronxpad

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  How do i fix my duplicate title tags
  

  I joined as member to this site yesterday and have found a few isuues, long page descriptions X 7 ( all now fixed ) and 3 X duplicate title tags. The title tags duplicated are www.daygo-express.co.uk www.daygo-express.co.uk/ and www.daygo-express.co.uk/sitemap/ how do i fix these issues, i am by no means a webmaster and only use simple 1&1 package as a host. Do i need to insert robots txt?, if so can someone with knowledge writeit for me and post please. Also does the robots txt need to placed in the heder section. many thanks Dee

  Search Behavior | | daygoexpress

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  How to save links from an old website when building a new website even if the site map changes?
  

  I have a client that needs a new website with better navigation, etc. The site has been up for a number of years and has backlinks that I would like to keep when building the new site in WordPress.

  Link Building | | Doug_Hay

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  Remove links or change anchor text?
  

  I am currently in the process of cleaning up the link profile for a website that has been hit by Penguin thanks to loads of links from free directories with exact match keyword anchor texts (about 200 root domains from total of 300 root domains). I was wondering whether it's best to remove these un-natrual keyword anchor text links altogether, or change the anchor texts to brand (domain name, domainname.com, www.domainname.com, http://www.domainname.com)? I am currently trying to remove these links but was thinking it would be quicker to get to a healthier link profile (in terms of brand/commercial anchor text split) by altering the anchor texts and not removing them. Some of these directories are the worst of the worst on the other hand. Also note that I'm only really getting about a 30% response rate from the owners of these directories. Any thoughts? Many thanks in advance.

  Link Building | | ec9awp

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  Www vs non-www which is better?
  

  Is it better to have all your pages point to the www version or non www version.

  Technical SEO | | bronxpad

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  Analyzing word count on page SEO
  

  Hey guys quick question, when I am analyzing/ doing word count for a particluar key word and I want to make sure that i am no where near Keyword stuffing, does Google consider the alt and title tags keywords of images as part of the KW count when looking for on page Keyword stuffing. For example. let say I have a page that i just created with 1000 words. and Only 2 of the words are my target Keywords. Then, if i add a picture and add the keyword to both the alt and title tag and description of the image, does google now consider the "page" to have a total of 5 keywords? Also, a lot has changed recently since penguin and panda, is there a good rule of thumb for what ratio to stay under as far as keywords to text.?

  On-Page Optimization | | david305

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  Google penalty for links opening in new tab?
  

  Our web services provided suggested that Google doesn't like in-text links that open the link in a new tab. Can anyone verify this? We often link to outside credible resources for our audience, though it seems smarter to open in a new tab rather than risk that the person will not navigate back to our site after finding us. Thank you in advance!

  Web Design | | jhamlin

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