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Thank you for your input. Some of these are nofollow, those I guess if we are going to disavow them, there is no point?

I was going to disavow some of the links but Google repeatedly gave a warning that you shouldn't do it unless you think it's a "considerable amount" or you're sure you're being penalized. Does anyone have thoughts on that?

Hi,

I recently download the inbound links report for my client to look for some opportunities. When they switched to our platform a couple years ago, the format of some of their webpages change, so a number of these inbound links are going to an error page and should be redirected.

However, some of these are spammy. In that case, someone recommended to me to disavow them but still redirect anyway.

In other cases, some were "last seen" a year or two ago, so when I try to go to the URL the link is coming from, I also get an error page.

Should I bother to redirect in these cases? Should I disavow in both cases? Or leave them alone? Thanks for any input!

Hi Mazen,

Thank you so much for your reply.

Here's an example of a domain with a 43% spam score: 123coolpictures.com. The DA is 26 though. Still seems like a spammy site?

Hi,

I recently downloaded a spreadsheet of inbound links to my client sites and am trying to 301 redirect the ones that are formatted incorrectly or just bad links in general (they all link to the site domain, but they used to have differently formatted urls on their old site, or the link URL in general has strange stuff on it).

My question is, should I even bother redirecting these links if their spam score is a little high (i.e. 20-40%)? it already links to the existing domain, just with a differently formatted URL. I just want to make sure it goes to a valid URL on the site, but I don't want to redirect to a valid URL if it's going to harm the client's SEO. Also not sure what to do about the links with the --% spam score.

I really appreciate any input as I don't have a lot of experience with how to deal with spammy links.

Hello,

We have received permission from a consultant we partner with to publish one of his articles on our site (listing him as the author, of course). However, he currently has the article published on his site, so if I put it on my site will I get penalized for stealing content? Is there some sort of tagging that will provide him/his site credit? Maybe a canonical tag?

Hi Donald,

Thanks for your reply. So if we linked ourselves from the client footer contact us page (the link would go to a content page about us with links to our site), that would likely also be considered spam as well?

Hi,

On our client sites we have a link in the footer that says the site is maintained and developed by my company. That link takes you to a page that has outbound links to our site. Should these links be nofollow, since in a way they are almost like sponsored links? I feel like I read that somewhere but I can't remember where.

Any advice is appreciated!

Thanks!

Hi,

For one of our ecommerce clients, we have brand banners on each brand page that links to their most popular product lines. Some of the banners just have a column of links, and some are paragraphs with copy and anchor text.

Example below:

Brand Line 1

Brand Line 2

Example 2:

For the utmost in quality, performance and comfort, purchase Brand Line 1 . Brand Line 2 offers the perfect ease of use for beginners while not compromising on quality.

Obviously these are just examples, and there are several links (more than 2) per brand, but I was wondering if this harms SEO in any way because of keyword stuffing? It makes sense to have the brand name in the link, otherwise the name of the lines might not make much sense (an example of this is one of the lines is called 849.. so without the brand name that doesn't mean much and looks weird)

Do you think it would be better to have the links in just columns in the first example, or in paragraph format?

Thanks for the input! We actually reached out to google and they admitted it's a bug on their end.

Hi,

My client has PDFs of their catalog on the site which google is indexing. However, it seems that google is taking an image from the catalog and then showing it upside in the index for images/search results. The images are not upside down on the site. Has anyone heard of this happening before or does anyone know a way to fix it?

Thanks

If your title tag is over 55 characters, is it generally OK or good practice to abbreviate your brand name (at the end of the title tag) for the sake of the other keywords in the tag?

Hi,

We're having an issue with a client not wanting the H1 tag to display on their site and using an image of their logo instead. We made the H1 tag white (did not deliberately hide with CSS) and i just read an article where this is considered black hat SEO.

https://www.websitemagazine.com/blog/16-faqs-of-seo

The only reason we want to hide it is because it looks redundant appearing there along with the brand name logo. Does anyone have any suggestions? Would putting the brand logo image inside of an H1 tag be ok?

Thanks for the help

Hi Donald,

Thanks for your reply. So if we linked ourselves from the client footer contact us page (the link would go to a content page about us with links to our site), that would likely also be considered spam as well?

Hi Paul,

Thank you so much for replying. I don't think they're as concerned about ranking for the recipes as they were about doing something that would be harmful to SEO (as far as adding so many extra pages/URLs to the site). It's a hunting gear website so the chances of ranking for recipes are probably extremely low I totally agree with you that from a social sharing standpoint it is necessary.

Thank you so much for the taxonomy/search tip also. That's a great idea!

We have full navigational breadcrumbs on our site for the menu and the brand menu.

i.e. Home > Clothing > Jackets

Brand > Brand Name > Brand Jackets

There's been talk of removing this and having it like Chico's does, where on item pages they just have a link at the top to previous category (i.e. you're on a shirt product page and at the top it says "Back to Tops" instead of listing Home > Clothing > Tops)

Is doing something like this detrimental to SEO? From what I've read Breadcrumbs are for user experience but I just want to be sure.

Hi,

I recently download the inbound links report for my client to look for some opportunities. When they switched to our platform a couple years ago, the format of some of their webpages change, so a number of these inbound links are going to an error page and should be redirected.

However, some of these are spammy. In that case, someone recommended to me to disavow them but still redirect anyway.

In other cases, some were "last seen" a year or two ago, so when I try to go to the URL the link is coming from, I also get an error page.

Should I bother to redirect in these cases? Should I disavow in both cases? Or leave them alone? Thanks for any input!