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@vtialscom and @Barry Smith,

Thanks for your input. I agree with you both. Your resources are spot on Barry.

Cheers

Meaning heading tags (H1, H2, H3, etc) are a critical part of good on-page optimisation. Fair enough. It helps humans and bots make sense of a page's content.

3 questions regarding implementation of heading tags:

1. Should heading tags appear in sequence in the HTML code. I.e. H1 first, then H2 lower down, etc.?

2. Can the page contain more than one H1 tag?

3. Can the page contain multiple H2, H3, H4 tags?

Followed links : Google finds the link and passes on a "vote" to the website linked to.

No-Followed links: Google finds the link but does NOT pass on a "vote" to the website linked to.

Internal Links: Links pointing to pages within your website

External Links: Links pointing to other websites from within your website.

I would advise you spend some time going through the beginners guide on SEOMOZ!

GREG

As long as YOU know that you don't promote your site via porn/gambling sites then who cares? Explain to them your sites history and then they wont jump to conclusions when they see your link profile.

Its impossible to remove that link anyway, unless you contact the web-master.

GREG

I wouldnt worry about links comming in. Aslong as you arnt linking out to these dogy sites your all good.

Think about it, if i wanted to penalize my competitor, i would purchase a whole bunch of porn links directing them to my competition and intern they get penalized. This doesn't happen, so you have nothing to worry about.

GREG

Being verry simplistic. You need a page dedicated to that keyword. Page title, Meta description, title tags, h1 tags and themed content.

Once your on page is set up, start building links using that anchor text. If this is a long term goa for you, stay away from Senuke. You will just be spamming the internet with low value content and the links you get back will be just that, low value.

I would say, create some articles and submit to Article directories (low value but best "built" link)  A better idea would be to find your competitors, (any site apearing on the top 20) contact them, and offer them something of value. If you get a link from a competitor/related website it will be much more powerfull than a random article link.

You may think Senuke is a great press and go tool, but after using it for 6 months, it was all a big waste of time and energy.

GREG

Just tell them you will find out were they came from using Google analytic's. You don't need to ask them at all.

GREG

If you are hoping to pass on link juice to the listed properties, you have a problem. If you are not listing them for SEO benefits then don't worry about it. Google will crawl the first 100 or so links, and stop. This is not detrimental to your site, you just arnt passing on any link juice.

GREG

As long as Google can index the content, i don't see how or why it could be a problem. If the spiders can access the content and you don't make life hard for them you should be good.

GREG

If i understand your question, you are wondering how to edit the info appearing on the serps?

This would be your Meta Description. Every page has one, and its usually a snippet of the page unless you edit it yourself.

Your meta description is extreamly important for click through's, what you have at the moment is NOT attractive or enticing. Look up how to edit your meta description and make it interesting

GREG

Simple. Site A links to Site B

http://www.mysite.com/downloadable-media.pdf

The above is a URL on another website, so in essence, it is no different to a "normal" backlink. except that you download something, and don't view the page.

We have just launched a new Travel website aswell. (4 months in the making)

Each page has its own targeted keywords so Meta Descriptions and Title tags for your destination pages are important!!

We found a plugin that allows us to change the "template" for the destination pages.

Tell those guys who built your site that not being able to edit dynamic pages is NOT cool and they need to make a plan!

If you dont put them in, google may decide to rank your home page for keywords instead of the correct tour/product page.

GREG

First thing that comes to mind is a link to a pdf or downloadable media. When you analyze the backlink, instead of viewing the page, you are downloading a document linked to.

I have come across this before, so no, not bad practice, the link is just something you download instead of view

GREG

"what is the best way to go about gaining rankings and traffic from search"

I think it can all be summed up in 2 words.

Outreach and Hussle. Stop thinking about how to "build" links (low value) Rather spend your time and energy "earning" your links.

Create a awesome blog post about your niche, find a competitor or a relevent website and give them the article in return for a link. They get awesome content, and you get a awesome and powerful link!

The more quality links you get, the higher up in the serps you go. Its that simple. (or not)

I would advise you watch more whiteboard Fridays!

GREG

I have never heard of Dynamic SEO. Perhaps its a company?

If your looking for a learning resource, you are at the right place. SEOMOZ is all you need

GREG

1.) The only ones at risk are your affiliates. The content was indexed on your site first, If someone has the same content without linking back, they get the dupe content flag.

2.) There are many factors on what a "good" link is. In your case i wouldn't worry about the dupe content. They great thing with your business model is the amount of linking route domains and C class IP's which makes up for the low value link.

3.) This is NA, as long as you make sure these pages link back to you (original source), your partner sites will be fine. If not, they will get a knock and not you.

GREG

Im guessing when Google sees a link to a domain, the link juice gets passed. When it sees another link to the same domain (from the same page) i have always understood that it ignores the second link and doesn't pass any additional juice. If you get another link on a different page, you get juice again, but Domain diversity is were I would concentrate my efforts.

Be sure to click on "view full report" and you get even more factors to compare with.

I would recommend the articles be on your own website FIRST. you can then syndicate your article on your external blog, just be sure to let google index your site first.

Your keywords stand a better chance of ranking on your own website rather than a blog on blogspot.com (not always true but most of the time this is the case)

Thanks, that makes sense YouON. I could create interesting/funny/entertaining videos on YouTube for brand awareness, and more product/tour orientated videos on my site for  pre-selling and SEO

Thanks for the advice everyone

Greg

This isn't really a question per say, but more of a request for advise.

We are in the process of creating videos for our travel website. They are more informational and do not promote any products as such.

I am aware of the options, and I am leaning towards creating a pro account with Vimeo so that the videos are available only on our website. The reason for this is so that we can at least get credit for our work, as when they are on you tube, anybody can syndicate the video without linking to our website.

I am also aware that there are allot of searches happening on YouTube, and it may be worse if we choose not to upload our videos there as we would loose out on a big audience.

it would be GREAT if we had the best of both options. And i had an idea i want to get your opinions on.

Create the video and upload onto our website with "lower competitive" title / meta / body.

Submit the video on YouTube with a "Higher competitive" keyword / title /meta and description.

When someone finds our video, they might search YouTube to avoid linking back and wont find it, (although it is there getting traffic from a similar keyword)

Branding is the number 1 objective for these videos, so you tube + many other video sites would be the way to go. However, i would also like our own "private" video blog on our site so that if web masters like the video, we can give them the option of embedding it on there site (like SEOMOZ do it on there whiteboard Fridays)

Your comments and suggestions will be muchly appreciated.

Greg

@OZ The links are embedded all over the Newsletter. Those links are short URL's redirecting to our site (for tracking purposes)

The question was weather the pop up box that appears when clicking the link passes on link value to our site. Alan's response made perfect sense and i was thinking on the same lines, i just never had the experience to back it up.

Thanks allot for your help either way Regards Greg  

Thanks for the reply Oznappies.

www.bestholidaynews.com is not my website.

The article "overlanding africa" belongs to me and was syndicated by this website.

There are URL shortend links within the article pointing back to my site (overlandingafrica.com) They open up in a Java pop up, and from there you click through to my site.

Is Overlandingafrica.com getting link juice via these links?

I'm sorry if i misunderstood, but it looks like you think bestholidaynews.com belongs to me as you sugessted i have it tested for performance.

Greg

Hi all

I am a bit unsure of something and would appreciate it if someone could clarify

(without the sad trombone hinting that my question is stupid like the last time i asked a question)

Our Newsletter was recently posted on a website and i am not sure if the link pointing back is actually passing link juice.

When clicking the link, a Java pop up box appears saying "click here to go to authors site"

I am wondering if this was implemented to avoid google passing its juice? Or if google can index the pop up and give us credit for the link?

Please have a look at the article, and let me know what you guys think?

http://www.bestholidaynews.com/adventure-and-activities/africa/our-top-3-overlanding-egypt-trips-2.html

Thanks in advance

Regards

Greg

Thanks Ryan.

I am submitting a teaser of the article to Social sites like Facebook and Linkedin etc with a URL to "read more" (same as with bookmarks)

With a word-press blog however, i would NOT think its ideal to write a short 150 word description linking to the full article. It is a blogging platform for readable articles and is not catered for short teasers or "updates".

Duplicate content penalties shouldn't be a problem as we have inserted the rel-colonical tag in the original post aswell as linking back to the original article in each syndication so Google knows who the original author is.

I guess as long as you have a rel canonical tag in the original, the rest will not get the SE rankings, but will still pass on the juice. (perhaps original articles will give more juice, so we will mix between original and syndicated)

Any other suggestions/comments would be appreciated 

Greg

Hey all, The idea is that whenever i post a new article on my blog on my "money site" would it be OK to syndicate the same article to all of my other blogs like wordpress, tumblr etc? So for example the exact same content that is on my website will be on myblog.wordpress.com and myblog.tumblr.com but with a URL at the bottom pointing to the original source. (the money site article URL) Are there any foreseeable problems with this? The objective being having the content distributed across the web as much as possible I apologise if this has been asked before, i could not find the answer. Regards Greg