Hi

That link is pointless from an 'link building' point of view, however I still go after links from places like the Sun even though I know they are behind a paywall because they drive a lot of traffic.

So if your looking at it from an old school SEO point of view - they are a waste of time, but if you are interested in traffic and sales then these links are still very important.

Thanks

Andy

if i understand the question correctly and you are changing manufacturer. You have the potential to lose traffic as your page will no longer contain the text 'old manufacture name', so therefore wont rank for it this term.

If your urls aren't changing you shouldn't lose to as much visibility as any links etc pointing here will still be valid.

The only area where you could lose visibility is in the old manufacturers name if this had more search volume that the new manufacturer.

Hi

I would say you have done it correctly, optimising the most useful pages for the best user experience.

This key phrase that you are considering putting on your home page - instead of that, why not simply spend more time building links to that page. Instead of focusing links to your home page, focus relevant links to the specific page.

Think of a customer, do they want to land on your homepage and then have to navigate to the correct page to find the information, or do they want to land on the correct page and don't need to navigate away.

There is a really good article (sorry I can't find it), but it talks about the more steps you make a customer make to find the product the less they are likely to buy - I know your not exactly selling a physical product, but you still want the person to sign up and get in contact. So the more difficult steps you make it the less chance you have.

I hope that helps.

I've never heard of this before and I have created quite a few FB pages.

I would of suggested the same thing as Monica, maybe you clicked something you wasn't meant to but as you are saying you didn't I would try contacting FB - but in my experience it takes a while for them to get back to you.

Look on there developers forum and ask the same question - you might find others who have had the similar experience and got a solution.

Hi Ryan

The 'duck' ride sounds fun, I will do some research on that later.

Thats what I was hoping for either seasonal Mozcon attendances or mozzers advice.

I just don't like turning up to places and not really exploring the good parts.

First of all, all comment sections I have ever seen on blogs are nofollow links so they are really a waste of time in terms of SEO, in terms of driving traffic they are ok.

Spend time writing quality over quantity content, but more importantly when writing it have a list of news sites / blogs / contacts in mind who you are planning on outreaching the article too.

The hardest part is the outreach, anyone can write a great article, but you need to get it picked up and distributed. In an ideal world, you would all ready have made contact with the journalists before hand and see what articles they want.

IMO journalist are very busy and if you can provide them with a great article which happens to include a link to your site, if they are rushing to hit a deadline, then you have a higher % chance of it being accepted on their site.

Social media the way to go: depends on what industry you operate in some industries this could be a complete waste of time. Especially if you are a B2B company. Plus with Facebook's latest algorithm update its actually quite hard to get a social media post in front of your audience.

Biggest tip would be, quality articles over quantity and spend as much if not more time on outreach to relevant blogs, websites to get your content picked upto and linked to.

thanks all for the suggestions, i will put a plan together for the Saturday and Sunday of things to do.

Thomas - I am arriving a few days early hence why I wanted to know things to do, I assumed during the actual conference there would be loads going on

If you watch the whiteboard Friday from last week:

http://moz.com/blog/the-rules-of-link-building-whiteboard-friday

rule number 4 is don't link to external links in the footer. Hence linking to your website is external link building - but that said sometimes it is useful to find out who built the website.

My advice would be to put the link in - but as "nofollow" link - therefore you can still hopefully generate any sales from people who liked your site build skills, but avoid getting your own site penalised in Google.

Plus if the site you designed did any bad SEO tricks and get themselves penalised you don't suffer - I guess once you have built the site you have very little control over there SEO tricks and they might go for quick win black hat SEO tricks and you wouldn't want to get down ranked for something that is out of your control - nofollow would resolve all the potential issues, but wouldn't affect sales

Hi Dan

I was about to ask the exact same question, so will keep an eye out for an answer.

I hope it is possible, but I couldn't work it out.

I guess a combination of both, I always find phone is more personal and has a better success rate, but takes a lot longer and requires more work.

I would suggest try both methods and keep trying, you will get a lot more no's then yeses, but keep going. If it was easy everyone would do it.

I don't personally do the work, I just manage a team to do the outreach, so the actual work involved I am not too knowledgeable, but from speaking with them this morning, a combination of the two and don't give up.

It does get easier - the more your known, but to get known you have to spend time contacting these websites and getting rejected.

Hi

There was a Google Update in March: http://moz.com/google-algorithm-change

Developers have a tend of not implementing GA properly and tracking things incorrectly - our developers do it all the time.

If your developers are saying its been tracking wrong, which channels have been affected, are these channels now up and Organic down since they made the changes.

If you have access to Search metrics - has your Search Visibility dropped over the same time period.

I would then do some further digging as Fabio touched on, and as well as what devices aren't performing as well, what pages aren't performing as well. What has changed on these pages.

Or is it a simple case - you have stayed pretty still and your competition has caught up to you and over took you?

Can you edit your urls to include a country part: i.e. www.palmatin.com/uk/example and www.palmatin.com/us/example or does your CMS restrict url edits

but Google actually for once give a very clear help on this topic - I would recommend reading this.http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/working-with-multi-regional-websites.html

Do you own www.palmatin.co.uk?

Oleg is correct, the crawlers have to be able to spider the page in order for them to find it.

There are a couple of ways round this but these are nasty, not fool proof and I wouldn't recommend them and as Oleg said the page probably doesn't have to much power anyway.

If your purely after this site for a link to pass juice don't waste your time, however if your after a link to generate sales, leads and revenue then still get the link.

Not all links should be about Google and ranking, obviously when link building don't break any of the SEO rules, but don't turn down the opportunity to generate sales, just because you won't get any link juice from the site doesn't make the link irrelevant.

that is great - at least you havent done any Black hat.

page 3 isn't too bad, but why do you have to wait for these people to find you. Why don't you take your content to these other blogs, new sites and show it off to them.

If it is good ( and I am assuming it is) they will naturally want to link to you, quote you in their articles.

This will then boost the articles page authority and also your domain authority meaning future posts rank higher, but even then - don't stop the out reach. Don't wait for people to find you - go out and shout about your great article.

If your waiting for people to naturally find your article and link to it, you will be waiting ages and it may never happen. The moment may have past, however go to news sites, tech blogs and share them your article and knowledge.