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In addition to Brooks' suggestions, I recommend http://pointblankseo.com/link-building-strategies

Good luck!

Hi,

We have a competitor (with a higher DA) using some content from our product pages word for word on a few of their product pages. It's only a couple paragraphs per product page (including the main product description), not the entirety of the content on the page. It also appears they have scraped some content from another authoritative competitor (and even left their brand name mentioned on it!)

I've read mixed thoughts on whether plagiarized content will harm the original site, but am concerned since it is an authoritative site. Should I be concerned since it's only parts of our product page?

Thank you all!

Hi Samantha!

It is showing my site as being in the UK - however we are US based. Would this be an issue with the tool as well?

Thank you!

Howdy Mozzers,

We're looking to make our website ADA compliant and in doing so are switching our videos from Wistia to an ADA complaint player. Our main concern in switching video players is page load time, so the more "lightweight" the better. We're currently looking into Brightcove and JWPlayer... any others I should look into?

Any recommendations would be appreciated!

-Alex

Thanks Jared for your thoughts/insight! I was leaning toward the dedicated/unique landing page for each contest as well.

A colleague and I were having a discussion about this and wanted to get insight from the community about this. Most often we run contests on social channels, but for some we place them on our e-commerce web site - particularly those which have a universal appeal to customers since these also tend to be included in our e-mails.

So our question is with regard to any links built to those contest pages, is it better to:

1. have them point to a unique page, Example: domain.com/customer-appreciation-contest

OR

2. A reusable page/URL that can continuously be repurposed and updated for new contests. Example: domain.com/contests

We discussed pros/cons of each but am curious if anyone here has insight or source that definitively advises which method is best. Thanks in advance for your thoughts!

Great, thank you for the insight, Eric!

Curious to know if anyone has run into a similar problem -  I entered a site containing a gTLD (.dog extensions) in OSE and it gave me an error (screenshot attached). I checked another tool (ahrefs.com) and was able to extract some data. Does anyone know if these type of domains are not included in OSE and/or why there was an error? Appreciate any insight!

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I would think no-index/no-follow would make the most sense in this case.

I would say it's better to keep it. Using my own experience I have found it to be helpful from both a branding and SEO perspective in that it does show up in Google's Knowledge Graph for our brand name and has managed to drive people to our site since we have seen some sales attributed to the page's presence.

Although our brand isn't a local one (we are purely online) I would definitely take that into consideration because it can be more helpful when attracting local customers.

I would say it's better to keep it. Using my own experience I have found it to be helpful from both a branding and SEO perspective in that it does show up in Google's Knowledge Graph for our brand name and has managed to drive people to our site since we have seen some sales attributed to the page's presence.

Although our brand isn't a local one (we are purely online) I would definitely take that into consideration because it can be more helpful when attracting local customers.

We're working on a redesign and are wondering if we should condense some of the content (as recommended by an agency), and if so, how that will affect our organic efforts. Currently a few topics have individual pages for each section, such as (1) Overview (2) Symptoms and (3) Treatment. For reference, the site has a similar structure to  http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/guide/heart-disease-overview-fact.

Our agency has sent us over mock-ups which show these topics being condensed into one and using a script/AJAX to display only the content that is clicked on. Knowing this, if we were to choose this option, that would result in us having to implement redirects because only one page would exist, instead of all three.

Can anyone provide insight into whether we should keep the topic structure as is, or if we should take the agency's advice and merge all the topic content? *Note: The reason the agency is pushing for the merging option is because they say it helps with page load time.

Thank you in advance for any insight!

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I've never seen a SERP like this, has anyone else?

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A colleague and I were having a discussion about this and wanted to get insight from the community about this. Most often we run contests on social channels, but for some we place them on our e-commerce web site - particularly those which have a universal appeal to customers since these also tend to be included in our e-mails.

So our question is with regard to any links built to those contest pages, is it better to:

1. have them point to a unique page, Example: domain.com/customer-appreciation-contest

OR

2. A reusable page/URL that can continuously be repurposed and updated for new contests. Example: domain.com/contests

We discussed pros/cons of each but am curious if anyone here has insight or source that definitively advises which method is best. Thanks in advance for your thoughts!