Google is not going to index http://www.websitebuildersworld.com, because it redirects to http://www.websiteplanet.com. Google won't index a domain that redirects to another domain. It will index the domain where the content is hosted.
Posts made by AdamThompson
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RE: Noindex, Nofollow to previous domain
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RE: Yoast WP SEO Plugin: Duplicate Title / Description For Pagination
Could you share the URLs that are showing as duplicate page titles?
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RE: Learn SEOmoz API (and more)?
You will generally need programming expertise, to write a program to pull and display the data from the API.
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RE: Will Google handle "this not that" pages differently?
"You would have to do it like what you were offering was a hotel. If it's clear that it's not, google will not rank you well for "hotel"."
Sorry to be blunt, but do you have evidence to support this?
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Internal Linking - in content vs navigation menu
Would like to get some thoughts on whether navigation menus or in-content links are best for internal linking, from an SEO standpoint.
A few thoughts to get started with:
- For sites with a lot of content, you can have a navigation menu linking to your higher-level pages, then in-content links to deeper pages on your site. For smaller sites, this is not an option, as the navigation menu will probably link to all your important pages. You could add in-content links, but Google only counts the first link on the page, so the in-content links would be ignored if you'd already linked yp the page in your top nav menu.
- I can think of several possible reasons navigation menu links could be less desirable than in content links from a Google perspective. (They are sitewide boilerplate content without context.)
- If you setup your navigation structure based on what is best for the user, small sites don't have much wiggle room to optimize internal link structure, as all their money pages will be linked to from the top nav menu.
Do you think Google prefers in content links to navigation menu links?
If so, how do you get around the fact that for many sites, all their money pages are being linked to from their main navigation menu?
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Will Google handle "this not that" pages differently?
If you create pages about "try keyword1 not keyword2" will there be any barriers to getting the pages ranked for keyword2?
Example:
You have furnished rental units in a small town, and you offer nightly/weekly rentals. You want to rank for "town hotel" since you offer the same service as a hotel. Since you're not really a hotel, you create a page called "Better than a hotel: Town nightly rental units".
Anyone know if Google has an algorithm to detect this (they would have to detect the meaning of the words you were using and know that you were promoting something other than a hotel) and determine you're not really relevant to "town hotel" and not rank you well?
I think they probably do not, as I've seen things like Google Adsense Alternatives articles ranking well for the term Google Adsense, or Boycott Godaddy sites ranking well for the term godaddy. But I would like to hear any evidence or facts others know of.
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RE: Using Press Release For Promoting Linkbait?
So, you're saying press releases are a good way to reach niche bloggers, if the journalists and bigger publications pick up the press release and the bloggers see it there?
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RE: Using Press Release For Promoting Linkbait?
"I would strongly disagree with you on the idea that niche bloggers are not reading press releases that are related to their niche. They are constantly googling their niche whatever is there they will read."
In my experience, though, press releases on press release sites are not usually ranked well on Google, even on Google News. For example, I rarely see releases on PRWeb or PrNewswire ranked at the top of Google or Google News - I usually see articles from blogs, newspapers, etc. Has your experience been different?
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Using Press Release For Promoting Linkbait?
We all know that a thinly-veiled ad masquerading as a press release is not a good link building tactic. Of course, if the press release is newsworthy, then it can generate some real publicity and honest backlinks. My question is a bit more specific - are press releases an effective way to promote linkbait to niche websites/bloggers?
Has anyone had success using press releases to promote linkbait to relevant bloggers and websites in their niche?
My gut tells me that most niche bloggers are not reading press releases on a daily basis to find story ideas. I know that outlets like the Huffington Post and TechCrunch pay attention to press releases, but I'm guessing most blogs not run by professional journalists do not. Anyone know if this is a generally true assumption?
Anyone know of a way to get a better feel for the type of bloggers that are signed up to get press releases from PRNewswire or similar services? (In other words, how do you figure out if bloggers in your target groups are signed up to get press releases?)
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RE: Off page SEO
I agree. As a link building method, social bookmarking is bad. As a method to drive buzz and get exposure and links for awesome content, Reddit and similar tools can be great. Reddit, StumbleUpon, and similar tools are not really social bookmarking sites, either.
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RE: Request: Feedback on new free tool that provides social analytics for recent blog posts
Moosa, thanks so much for the feedback!
"services like sharedcount.com"
I use sharedcount.com a lot - this tool differs because you don't have to enter each blog post url manually. It's designed to give you social metrics for all recent blog posts at a glance, without copying and pasting a bunch of URLs."calculate the total social power of a blog post"
We could create a simple total of social shares, but it may be more misleading than accurate. I think to accurately calculate social power, you would need to calculate the social power of each user that shared the post. I like the idea, but am unsure whether it's practical to do that for a free, on-demand tool like this. (For example, if you examined an RSS feed that had 10 posts with an average of 500 shares each, we would have to fetch and/or calculate the power of up to 5,000 users for a single query.)"top 5 powerful keywords"
Interesting idea, thanks."data from Majestic free API"
Another interesting idea. Challenging, because in many cases the posts will only be hours or days old and Majestic and SEOmoz won't yet have crawled the pages and/or backlinks for them. But maybe could be useful. Thanks! -
RE: Off page SEO
My suggestions:
- 7 social bookmarks. Not a good way to build links.- 30 Website directory submissions. You should only submit to a few high quality relevant directories. - 4 guest blog posts. Good, if on high quality sites. - 3 press releases. Not a good way to build links, should be done to help gain press coverage. - 8 blog posts (on 2 dedicated wordpress blogs). Good, if the content is really high quality and is being shared and linked to. - 4 articles published in high ranking article directories. Not good. - 3 social profile with links/blog comments on .edu/.gov with links/classified ad links. Not good. - 1 slideshare presentation with links. Good, if it's getting shared and linked to.
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Request: Feedback on new free tool that provides social analytics for recent blog posts
We have created a tool that provides "at a glance social metrics" for the URLs listed in an RSS feed. Its intended purposes are:
- Monitor the social success of your recent blog posts
- Spy on the social success of your competitors' recent blog posts
- Quickly analyze a blog for social sharing metrics to determine whether it is a good outreach prospect or guest post opportunity
Check out the tool at http://www.rypmarketing.com/tools/rss-social-analyzer.php
I've attached a report run on the YouMoz RSS feed.
Would love to hear some feedback on the tool...
- Do you think the tool is useful? Nice, but not worthwhile?
- What could be done to improve it?
- What ways do you think it will be most useful?
Thanks!
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RE: Will Google penalize for backlinks on non-indexed pages?
The links were built by another SEO firm. I'm working on getting rid of them, was just wondering what others new about links on de-indexed sites.
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Will Google penalize for backlinks on non-indexed pages?
Have a client who has a bunch of links from spammy sites that aren't even indexed by Google. Will Google penalize (i.e. Penguin) for backlinks from spammy sites that aren't indexed?
I'm guessing "Yes, Google still crawls non-indexed sites and may penalize the sites linked to from the banned site." Anyone have any data or experience with this?
Anyone have a non-indexed or banned site? Does Google still crawl it?
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RE: Link Detox and Link Removal
Billy gave you some good advice, but I disagree with him on one point. Domain authority doesn't necessarily have anything to do with whether a link is dangerous or not. You can get a spammy link from a domain with high authority or a great link from a lower authority domain.
You want to get rid of links that Google will view as intended primarily to manipulate search rankings instead of providing value to the user.
Some factors to consider:
- Is the link from a page or site that is relevant to mine?
- Does the link make sense for / provide value to the user?
- Does the link use my target keyword(s) as anchor text? (Too many keyword anchor texts is a problem.)
- Is the link purchased?
- Is the link near or with spammy links?
- Is the link from a low quality directory, forum signature, blog comment,
- Is the link from a page of duplicate content?
Hope that helps!
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RE: Sudden drop in rank and OSE index
You may have been hit by the Oct 5 Penguin update: http://www.seomoz.org/google-algorithm-change
Is it possible that you were hit by the 9/27 exact match domain update, but didn't notice the drop until 10/7?
It is also possible that the drop in rankings was not linked to a specific Google update.
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RE: Sudden drop in rank and OSE index
Was it Oct 5 that your rankings dropped?
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RE: Directory Naming & File Organization
You should be able to do that with a single index.php file in the root folder and mod-rewrite. If you're not sure how to do that, a good developer should be able to help.
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RE: I cannot find a way to implement to the 2 Link method as shown in this post: http://searchengineland.com/the-definitive-guide-to-google-authorship-markup-123218
Can you provide the URL of the article and your Google+ profile URL so I can check it?
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RE: Organic Traffic Dropping. 404s found. Is this it?
It's certainly possible, if the 404's messed up link juice flow within your site, or caused pages to not get indexed, or something like that.
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RE: New website & the dreaded drop in rank & queries.
Could you give us your website URL?
When did you see the drop in traffic?
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RE: What value do external broken links give to a domain?
There are a couple tactics you could try:
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See if http://archive.org/web/web.php has a cache of the page.
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Use OSE, Majestic, etc to find backlinks to the page. Maybe one of the backlinks will include a description of what was on the page.
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RE: Too many links in header menu
Nofollowing some of the links would not help. Google changed the algorithm awhile back, so the PageRank allotted to nofollow links simply disappears, instead of being allocated to other links on the page.
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RE: "Noindex" the Landingpage of a Linkbait or not?
OK, so you don't want your linkbait page to displace your sales pages in the rankings.
Personally, I would just try to adjust the optimization of the linkbait page so it ranks for keywords other than my primary money keywords. But I suppose noindex,follow would work as well.
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RE: Too many links in header menu
Well, the link juice is distributed according to the number of links on the page. So if you want link juice flowing to all those pages, you're good. If some of those pages don't really need link juice, you would do better to remove the links to them (from an SEO perspective). If you remove links to some of the pages, more link juice will flow to the other pages.
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RE: Too many links in header menu
Should be fine. Google won't penalize you for going over 100 links.
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RE: "Noindex" the Landingpage of a Linkbait or not?
Why would you want to noindex your linkbait?
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RE: Best practice for removing indexed internal search pages from Google?
It sounds like the meta noindex,follow tag is what you want.
robots.txt will block googlebot from crawling your search pages, but Google can still keep the search pages in its index.
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RE: Crazy Pagerank
Majestic shows 220+ linking domains, and Majestic's index is still much smaller than Google.
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RE: Crazy Pagerank
SEOmoz only indexes a small portion of the web, so they likely have more than 9 linking sites. And yes, a PR5 link would definitely contribute to their PR4.
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RE: Crazy Pagerank
PageRank is calculated based on backlinks. The link from this PR5 page probably helps a lot: http://www.netshinehosting.com/
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RE: is pointing to the same page that it is already on, is this a problem?
It's OK for a page to specify itself as the canonical URL.
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RE: Why have I disappeared from 1st page to outside top 100 results?
Sounds like you may have been hit by the EMD update. The update didn't hurt all exact domain sites - only those that Google deemed low quality.
I looked at your backlink profile and found multiple footer links that look like they might be paid links or doorway sites. It's possible that these links played a factor in why your site's ranking was reduced.
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RE: Any SEOMoz users try HitTail?
I decided to sign up for it again. Feel free to message me in a week or two if you want to hear how it's going for me!
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RE: 2 questions about linkbuilding
"Are these types of sites bad to submit a link to? http://www.mompack.com/mom2mom/"
That looks like a catch all links directory to me. I would avoid it.
"If I submit my product for another blog to review (in turn they write a post for me with links to my website), is this GOOD?"
That's a good tactic to use, just make sure you target high quality blogs. I would let the blogger link to you however they see fit, to keep things looking natural.
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RE: Your opinions re nSphere.net and Bloomreach.com
Based on the info you've shared, I would avoid them both. Sounds like a service that is very likely to get your site penalized - if not now, in the future.
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RE: Any SEOMoz users try HitTail?
I used it years ago. I think it's effectiveness may depend on the niche you're in. I may try it again for one of my sites.
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RE: Google couldn't access your site because of a DNS error
3 weeks of downtime or DNS issues is an incredibly long time and is absolutely unacceptable for any webhost. I would say definitely move hosts. No matter what it takes, make it happen.
I would expect there will be little or no long term effect on the site's rankings, but I'm not 100% sure (I've never worked with a site that had severe uptime issues for more than a couple days).
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RE: How can I optimize the Wordpress "read more" link?
You can leave the Wordpress read more links as-is - they should be fine.
Google only counts the first link on the page to any given URL, so Google should be counting the anchor text of the first link, which is the link that uses the post title as the anchor text.
Nofollowing links will not help point more link juice to the other links.
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RE: On Page Optimization
Probably best to create a separate page for each state, with info on their service area and/or locations in that state. That's not to say you can't also optimize the homepage for keywords related to both states. For example, the homepage title could be something like "Gutter Installation - ABC Gutters, Serving Hawaii & Alaska".
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RE: What value do external broken links give to a domain?
If they haven't 301'd the link, they are missing out on the link juice.
You could always try to convince the websites to replace the broken link with a link to a similar page on your site.
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RE: Are we being Penalized? Can someone Assess Please!
It doesn't necessarily matter if the auto generated content is unique or not - Panda was intended to penalize low quality content (such as auto generated content), not just duplicate content.
Even if you were able to figure out a way to auto generate content that didn't get penalized, there's a good chance you'll get penalized in a future update.
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What are your favorite tactics for getting links to money-pages?
We've got content marketing and other great tactics for getting links to content pages, but what are your favorite tactics for getting links to your money pages (i.e. product pages, landing pages, devices pages, sales letters, etc.)
For example:
- For certain sites (especially some ecommerce sites), one can get a few backlinks by doing giveaways, contests, or events
- Some sites can give their product to bloggers to review
If you're selling an exciting product and/or a product that appeals to a passionate user base, such tactics can work great. There are some sites that such tactics won't work very well for, though. For example, if you sell a boring or highly specialized product that bloggers won't want to review or giveaway as a contest prize - such as valves used in a specific commercial application, or an expensive B2B product that you can't really giveaway. Creativity is of course important, but sometimes it can only take you so far.
What are your favorite strategies for getting quality backlinks to your "money pages" especially for sites that don't fit into the "ecommerce site selling cool stuff" category?
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RE: Are we being Penalized? Can someone Assess Please!
Hi Cyril,
I doubt that the rel=alternate tag will help. Copyscape shows that at least some of the content is duplicated across other sites, not just your two sites.
I also doubt that auto generated content will help avoid Panda. That's one of the things Panda was specifically created to penalize - auto generated content.
If you're getting unique reviews from users and/or writing editor reviews, that very well may help.
I realize that it is impractical to write content for 3 million pages, but you may find that is what you need to do. You may need to start with your top pages and work from there, and in the meantime block indexing of all pages without unique content. I would not take that step hastily, but it may be what you end up having to do.
~Adam