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Hm. I'm trying to figure out what exactly you're talking about.

If you go to this page: http://ndesign-studio.com/blog/best-wordpress-sites and do a search for "Laying horses" there is a link with that anchor text to this page: http://racingsecretsexposed.com/

There could be a lot of different things going on here... But I think it has to do with the freshness of Open Site Explorer. This webpage my have been changed since the last update to OSE.

Right now I have a website that is exclusively a blog. I want to create pages outside of the blog and move the blog to a page other than the index file

e.g.) from domain.com to domain.com/blog

I will have the blog post pages stay in the root directory. e.g.) domain.com/blog-post

Any suggestions how to properly tell SE's and other websites that the blog has moved?

Thanks for the post. Good to hear that someone else went through a similar situation!

Did you do anything about any external links that might have been pointing to some of the pages that went away? Is there anything else that you could suggest that I might have not thought of?

Thanks again,

Scott

I would use alt tags to accurately describe the image. Google should be able to tell that an image of a human brain is closely related to cognitive behavioral therapy and will help add to the content and quality of the page. It might even look spammy to have "keyword stuffed" alt tags.

I'm working on a very large (over 2500 pages), very old website (with pages created in the late 90s). The structure of the site is a mess (it still shows subtle sings of Frontpage!). We are trying to move to a more uniform, dynamic solution.

My question is: what sort of implication will there be on search rankings if we implement 301 redirects from the very old pages (that are poorly named) to new pages which follow a uniform pattern.

Some of these pages have external links pointing to them and others (most) just have internal links pointing to them which will be adjusted to the new urls.

Does the age of the page have a significant implication on rankings? Is there a better way to this than 301 redirects?

Thanks for the help

Then it has to do with a combination of the age of the page and the internal linking structure of PRweb. Prweb structures it's posts so that they belong to categories. As more press releases are posted they move farther and farther from page 1 of the category (and get less and less PR from PRweb's homepage).

I haven't looked too deeply into this theory but I think it's a logical explanation.

I really think it has to do with the age of the page and the freshness of the OSE index. Golfer's Advice was just posted yesterday (December 19, 2011) and the HP White post has been up for over a month (November 02, 2011).

One of the links to the HP White post the seems to be pushing the PA is a category link.

I'm pretty sure the Golfer's post has a category link as well but the OSE has not recrawled the category page since it added the link.

There's really no way to force people who embed your video to link to your website. The best you can do is encourage them to do so within the content of the video itself.

Maybe it would be beneficial to play around with how you present your website in your videos. Pay attention to what works and keep improving on that.

Subdomains are likely to be treated more like their own website as compared to a folder.

Ex) keyword.wordpress.com vs wordpress.com/keyword. The subdomain is likely to not be as closely related to the root domain as compared to the folder.

And don't know why a subdomain of blogspot or Wordpress ranking easier than a new domain like:keyword.wordpress.com and keyword.com

There's a lot of factors at work here. It's very difficult to tell why one would be ranking better than the other without seeing the pages. It's likely that it has nothing to do with the being a subdomain at wordpress.com. Technically they should be treated very similar.

I hope that helps,

Scott

I think the lack of domain authority has to do with the age of the press release and the OSE index. The page that has high PA was posted on November 02, 2011, the page with low PA was just posted yesterday December 19, 2011.

If you take a closer look at the November 02, 2011 post you will notice that a large majority of it's PA come's from a category link within PRweb.com (http://www.prweb.com/newsbycategory/automotive/2.htm). It is possible that the December 19 post has an equivalent category link which has yet to be indexed by the OSE.

Remember that PA and DA is determined by an algorithm and it's impossible to incorporated all of the changes on the internet in real-time. The OSE is probably not the best tool to use on extremely new pages.

Alt text is meant to be an alternative information source for those people who have chosen to disable images in their browsers and those user agents that are simply unable to “see” the images. It should describe what the image is about and get those visitors interested to see it.

Image title (and the element name speaks for itself) should provide additional information and follow the rules of the regular title: it should be relevant, short, catchy and concise (a title “offers advisory information about the element for which it is set“). In FireFox and Opera it pops up when you hover over an image.

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If you use them for what they are intended for you should see the best results.

For example (add what is in bold):

• rel="nofollow">$0.00 - $100.00

You can also delete the empty title attribute (title="") since it's pretty useless.

If you have a root keyword similar to "liposuction" then you are going to be under major major attack from doctors who are willing to invest big money for an ongoing web visibility campaign.

A few things that I forgot to mention: my client owns the industry domain name. e.g. liposuction.com. Also the website has been live and owned by the same person since 2000.

1) a sustainable plan that will create and continuously increase a  massive level of  authority for my website.....  an enormous library of best-on-the-web liposuction articles that attracts thousands of links from med schools, physicians, bloggers, government health sites, etc.... that thousands of people post to facebook and tweet about....

How would you go about this from an SEO stand point? Most of the traffic in the industry seems to be coming from local search. This strategy would appear to gain links and ultimately rankings for general search terms that are not at a local level.

What would you do with the local city pages? Would you get rid of them all together? Or would you keep them in place and ultimately have their rankings driven by the internal pagerank of the website? If you would keep them what sort of content would you have on these pages.

Thank you for your help. It's much appreciated.

The nofollow attribute was created to help discourage spam.

If people post a ton of unrelated links that provide little or no benefit to the page I would leave the nofollows there. But if the links provide value it might be a good idea to allow them to be followed.

Just remember there's a large number of spammers out there that are looking for places to post followed links. Your spam might increase dramatically overnight.

You're right, my mistake.

I'm not to sure that Schema.org has something for that type of data? Here's the full list of their supported item types: http://schema.org/docs/full.html

I'm not too sure where reference data would fit in? Maybe under Thing > Intangible

I have a client who is in the lead generation business for a specific aesthetic service. The company basically generates leads through SEO and sells them to hundreds of local businesses across the US and Canada.

There is some serious competition for the main service keyword (this is not the real keyword) e.g. “liposuction” and over the past year we have seen rankings fall significantly (from top 3 to 13-15).

But... what I have found is that most of the traffic, particularly the highly converting traffic, comes from local keyword variations e.g. “liposuction in san diego”. However, these keywords are also highly competitive because there are several local businesses in these areas.

How would you suggest creating content for these pages when they are all extremely similar and we need to target 100s of cities? For example the page “liposuction in san diego” is very similar to the page “liposuction in sacramento”, ect ect.

Thanks for the help!

I've only worked with Facebook comments and Disqus. I started with Facebook and decided to move to Disqus. This was for a few reasons:

I came to find out that many people didn't want to use their actual name (personal facebook account) to post comments. Facebook comments restricts commenting strictly to users who have Facebook accounts: users are unable to use their Twitter account or post as a guest, ect. Disqus allows users to post from several different accounts including Facebook and as a guest. I just really am a fan of the versatility that comes with Disqus.

Hope that helps,

Scott

Consider mentioning your website or a page on your website within your videos.

"Check out www.mywebsite.com/something-people-like.htm For More Awesome Content"

The idea is that if you have a page on your website that provides value to your viewers - and they know about it - they will naturally link to it when they embed your video. The trick is figuring out exactly what people will find valuable (more valuable than your YouTube Channel) and effectively communicating that to your viewers.

It might be a good idea to promote your forum within your videos. I'm sure many people have questions and it doesn't apear to be very clear where to go.

Another idea would be to promote a like to your courses within your videos.

Hope that helps,

Scott

Take a look at this tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/schema/