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Hi Antony,
Saw that you had
<meta name="<a class="attribute-value">robots</a>" content="<a class="attribute-value">none</a>" />
on your website, and as it's said here http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.fr/2007/03/using-robots-meta-tag.html, that means NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW 
So just erase those lines and you should be good !
Hi Stacey,
Last update to that list was in October 2012, since then some of those sites closed and some may have been hit with a penalty, so check carefully if the site is well indexed in Google before using them.
I think the last option will be the best if you're planning to rank on keywords other than your brand.
Also, I don't think you'll see many .es domains in the english and german results, at least that's the case in french
Hi Hassan,
Maybe it's related to the .MD extension. Did you see other websites well ranked in Google with this extension (not necessarily in your field of activity) ?
Hi there,
Are we talking about the website in your profile (tripsetc) ? Or is it another one ?
It's not everyday that I see request for french stuff here, so I'm glad that I could help a fellow Mozzer
You can find the list cleaned up a bit here.
Some were dead so the list is a bit thinner, I ranked them by Domain Authority.
I checked if they were well indexed in Google, a dozen were only showing the main page but the content was flagged as duplicate.
Hope that can help you all
Hi Seoway,
Here's an article from last year with a nice selection of French PR websites ranked by PR : http://blog.athomefrance.com/classement-pr-60-site-communique-presse-gratuit/
You should check if any of them has been penalized or banned, like in this SEOmoz article, since the last update is from August 2011.
Good luck !
Hi Maurizio,
You attached the same picture four times so I don't know if we are supposed to see something else !
I think you have to wait for the SEOmoz bot (the infamous Roger) to crawl your website again to see the change of the page card, maybe someone else will confirm this ^^
Hi there,
You can check this http://www.seomoz.org/directories to begin with,
Like you said, it's quite easy to submit a website to directories, and I quote the SEOmoz Beguinner's Guide :
"Be careful: links that are easy to get often carry risks when pursued aggressively and in volume.A diverse, well rounded link profile is always best."
Hello Aditya !
You can try a mix of Google Trends, Bing Ads Intelligence & Wordtracker.
You can also check the "Keyword Research" category of the SEOmoz Blog, it has a lot of ressources
Hi Blake,
You can see in this whiteboard friday "Youtube Ranking Factors" that the transcription is a ranking factor
The segment of the video in question :
The fourth YouTube ranking factor on the content side is transcription. This is something that most people don't know about. I'm going to tell you about it today. That is that YouTube has a feature where it's going to try to transcribe your video for you, and it is horrible at transcribing your video. If you've ever tried to read the transcription that it does by machine, it is awful. However, something else that they don't tell you is that they use those transcriptions to rank your video for keywords.
So, if you were to slip something, and there's actually been some tests done on this, where someone transcribes a video and throws in a word that isn't mentioned anywhere in the description, anywhere in the title, and then you type that in a search in YouTube and up comes that video. They are indexing the transcriptions. So take the time to go ahead and transcribe your video word for word. Upload the text file. It will match up the words. It will then make your video closed caption, which will increase your click through rate, and it will also allow you to rank better for that video. Just a quick tip on that. Definitely worth doing. If you're going to take all the time to make the video, take a few extra minutes and transcribe it and make it happen.
Hope it can help !
It only shows the first html characters, if you look to the right, it's the total number of html characters on your page.
You can also search for your website on Google and check the cached version, and click on "Text-only version", you'll see that Google read your HTML just fine
I noticed something, when I went to do the search "Sony Xperia P 91mobiles" Google suggested "sony xperia p gsmarena".
Since Rand did a test to prove that it was possible to influence those suggestions ( http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-googles-search-suggest-instant-works-whiteboard-friday ) , maybe they tried that to steal a part of your trafic ?
Hi Harry,
Takeshi did a great piece on this subject 2 months ago : How to use Memes to Build easy Backlinks & Traffic.
This one works fine, thanks !
Hi Steve,
Nope, I didn't know them !
I tried to check their website but it was unavailable, I got the email from google's cache, I'll contact them today, thanks for the info.
Hi Steven,
Glad you could work it out
As long as all the informations are there, I don't think the order matters.
Same thing for a link, you can have
And put the target or the title before the href, the link would still work fine.
Hi Boodreaux,
It could be a duplicate content problem, when I searched for your text on Google, another website came first in the result and it has all the text from your front page.
I checked the url you gave as example, several ot those spammy backlinks were nofollowed, but not all of them...
So there's definitely a choice by tumblr to follow the link or not,
Hi Steven,
The [Visit camp26.biz] is coming from the alternative text on the scroller images.
You must have the option to put the alternative text of your choice in the Joomla admin.
Try using a clean Joomla template, by using "free" templates like this one you are at risk of malicious code hidden in the template.
Here even if it's not a real link but just a text mention of a website, it's not something you should be finding on every link of the site, a mention in the footer or in the credits section is enough in most case.
Make sure you download the template from a safe website (the autor website or a well known templates website).
Hi Rasmus,
There is a mod for SMF (Simple Machine Forum) that allow you to tag a topic, then use those tags to produce the related posts (http://mods.simplemachines.org/index.php?mod=579 ), maybe you can work it out in your forum.
I think subfolders accompanied with geotargeting in GWT would work nicely in your case. (canadapost.ca/en/ and canadapost.ca/fr/) but it demands some preparations (301 redirect for example) and it will not be easy technically to change that in your website.
I use Medusa to do it, it's really easy to use : load the video in the software, select the time frame, add subtitles, go to the next time frame, rince & repeat.
If you want to add directly the subtitles in the video, you'll have to encode it, for that I used VirtualDubMod, with the Plugin Subtitler.
Hi,
Rand did an article about those websites last month : Testing the Accuracy of Visitor Data from Alexa, Compete, Google Trends, Doubleclick & Quantcast
I found the SeoTools for Excel very useful, maybe you'll find ideas for your app in it
Hey Vaz,
I didn't see any news about a big update of the Google algorithm recently. The reconsideration request take some time to process, if the hidden links were the cause of your lost rankings, it should come back soon now that you fixed the problem.
Check your (old & new) competitors backlinks via Open Site Explorer or Majestic SEO to see what they did to be ahead of you in the rankings.
If some of your competitors lost rankings too, maybe they were hit with the same problem as you (malicious code/hidden spammy links).
In any case good luck with your website !
You have to verify that you're the owner through webmaster tools (if that's not done yet ^^), and then you can follow the link here : http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35843
Just explain that your website has been hacked, but be sure that the problem is fixed before asking them to reconsiderate.
You can find many articles on how to secure more your wordpress (for example http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/11-quick-tips-securing-your-wordpress-site/ ).
It could come from the code of your theme, if you download it on a shady wp theme website, it comes with a malicious code in your footer (base64 encode so it doesn't look suspicious).
And as your SEO in general, try to use the H1 on your homepage for SEO and not only for the visual style 
I watched your code, maybe you're victim of a hack because there are several spammy links hidden in your page.
Check your wordpress plugins, watch on your ftp in your includes if one has been modified recently, and when it's corrected ask for a reconsideration in Google webmaster Tools so Google can watch if the problem is gone and re-rank your website.
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No problem, good luck with your website
Do you need to rank on every fabric name for your product ? If not, you could just put one product page and have the fabric choice in a dropdown menu.
And for the meta description, allow me to quote SEOmoz Beginners guide to SEO : "Note that the meta description tag does NOT get used by the engines for rankings, but rather helps to attract clicks by searchers from the results page (as it is the "snippet" of text used by the search engines)".
If you use only one item in many variations (and want to keep your website that way), you must find ways to make each page as unique as possible.
You should look at :
And try to customize them to make each product page unique.
Also check if a page is reachable with differents urls, if your product is reachable by its rewritten and non rewritten url, that could cause the duplicated pages problem on your website.
(For example, www.yourwebsite.com/product.php?id=02 and www.yourwebsite.com/shiny-rewritten-product-url)
If that's the case, use rel=canonical or 301 redirect to your rewritten URLs, make a sitemap with the latest ones and your duplicate pages number should go down.
I see that you are already on Ekomi, you should ask them, they offer a Google Shopping additional feature.
We have the same problem 
Several reports made the 24th August are still "Finalizing**"**, but one made the 26th is complete and we could download it.
I was looking through our links since the last OSE update and was surprised to found several links which I have no idead how they got there.
What made me suspicious is that the anchor text is relevant, but when i'm checking the page I don't see the link anymore (or can't access it, like in the first example).
Some of those links :
http://www.nyse.com/sspexternal/widget/nyse_dna.gg?location1=1&id=31866&sl2=1?id=28523&ncid=12930
http://www.aarp.org/espanol/estados/texas.html/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=23
http://www.census.gov/procur/www/2010dris/web-briefing/cust-satisfaction-internal-dmd.wpd?p=9836
http://my.so-net.net.tw/hvgo2000/web/images/03?faq&page=4392
http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/l/a/index.html?replyto=104201
I don't even know if those links are real since I can't access many of those pages...
At the end of the article :
Video transcription by SpeechPad.com
Google only shows a small part of the backlinks with the "link:" command, you have to use Webmaster Tools to obtain a more genuiine backlinks landscape. This is weird that you have no data from Yahoo...
Did you try Open Site Explorer to get more informations from this website ?