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Umm, probably i didnt noticed that because in Brazil isn´t a really common thing to see, yet.
If you search for any product you hardly find any blog or a page about the product, you just get direct links to big e-commerce sites product pages wich in some cases barely have any SEO at all.
That is indeed mind blowing.
If we think about that for a sec, with the current algo and the exact domain match power, would be a great strategy for, lets say, an e-commerce to boost their most lucrative/hard to rank products.
Buy a domain that have that product exactly keyword match and create a hotsites, not just a gateway to redirect to the e-commerce, but a real hotsite with 2 or 3 pages with good content and info about the product and then a a option to "Buy it Now" that would point straigh to the product on the e-commerce.
A few backlinks and you would be ranking in the top for that product, just like the example you used. Some backlinks and that page could be ranking higher than the Manufacturer site.
Well, lately all competitor sites that i have been looking seems to get the majority of their links from mainly two sources: Directories and Blog Comments.
They rank well (position 1 to 5) for medium (sometimes high) competitive keywords, so I would say that this works and is something easy to execute. However, this is not probably the best way to achieve an high authority for your site.
I kinda had the same question. So i decided to just get rid of the Short Description part from my Prestashop Template, maybe that would be a good solution for you too?
Thats a very interesting point. A combination of exact domain/keyword + title keyword + severall inbound anchor text with keyword would make a really tough domain to beat on SERPs
I would like to recommend Prestashop. Its very stable, faster and really mature CMS for e-commerce created by French developers.
The downside is that the modules are normally really expensive (the cheaper will cost around € 30) and are generic**,** but you can easily hire freelancers to do that part of the job for you, i just didnt because im aprogrammer and was able to build my own modules.
Some points that I really like about Prestashop is: SEO Optmized, have a great cache (making pages loading speeds really fast) and is deeply integrated with ajax, making it really user friendly.
Currently im finishing a site that uses Prestashop, if you want to take a look its at http://www.ilet.com.br , not finished yet but can give you an Idea of how the CMS works.
And I wouldnt recommend Wordpress, yes, it is a great CMS and with the right plugins or templates you can have a fully operational e-commerce, however, it is not robust like Magento or Prestashop for e-commerce.
We have to keep in mind that Wordpress were built as a blog system, while others CMS like the two above were Build thinking about e-commerce. You will have much better resources (community, developers, cms) on the long run using a solution that is designed for what you want to do than trying to adapt something.
Also I read somewhere here in the forum that a www.mysite.com/keyword/ would be better than a www.mysite.com/keyword.html because it have less word, so, each one carry more value.
Lately I saw severall sites ranked 1st with half of the links of the 2nd site even in competitive keywords.
As an example , the keyword "jogos" ( games in portuguese) is one of the most searched in Brazil. The 2nd in the rank is www.jogos.com and the 3rd is www.ojogos.com.br. The later have a lot more links and authority but still, no domain match, no better spot on the rank.
PS.: The first on the rank is a subdomain from a huge and old brand in Brazil (www.uol.com.br) so it almost impossible to outrank the first.
But what if the SEO is just a side effect of the link? Lets say, creating a plugin that let the user optinally shows or not a link to the site creator of the plugin, so now you have one less possibly bad thing to worry, after all users show the link only if they want to.
That link could also be seen as a way of the creator of the plugin promoting himself, someone could visit that site, see the plugin, like it and end up on the creators site to download a copy for him.
So today I was taking a look at http://www.seomoz.org/top500 page and saw that the AddThis page is currently at the position 19.
I think the main reason for that is because their plugin create, through javascript, linkbacks to their page where their share buttons reside. So any page with AddThis installed would easily have 4/5 linbacks to their site, creating that huge amount of linkbacks they have.
Ok, that pretty much shows that Google doesn´t care if the link is created in the HTML (on the backend) or through Javascript (frontend). But heres the catch.
If someones create a free plugin for wordpress/drupal or any other huge cms platform out there with a feature that linkbacks to the page of the creator of the plugin (thats pretty common, I know) but instead of inserting the link in the plugin source code they put it somewhere else, wich then is loaded with a javascript code (exactly how AddThis works).
This would allow the owner of the plugin to change the link showed at anytime he wants. The main reason for that would be, dont know, an URL address update for his blog or businness or something.
However that could easily be used to link to whatever tha hell the owner of the plugin wants to.
What your thoughts about this, I think this could be easily classified as White or Black hat depending on what the owners do. However, would google think the same way about it?
I think when you trust all your private data and preferences to a company that, like any other company, wants to make the most profit from it is reasanobly to have some fear.
But the thing is, you always have to see if the benefits is worth the risk. For me, using google products (docs, gmail, search, adwords, adsense, etc) so far have done more good than evil to me, so, I will sticky to it for now and hoping that one day it don't comes back and bites me.
And like EGOL just said.. google probably already knows everything they can about you so far.
Maybe the right question would be if we should put so much power in just one companys hand in first place..
Sometimes i simply cant find a post I had previously commentend on when it leaves the front page. I think a filter to show you the comments you had answered would be a great addition too.
Lets say, some sites that are normally ranked high on Google could be displayed completly wrong on iPad or iPhone devices, so this different results based on wich platform the user is using would make a perfect sense.
Anyway would like to read more on the subject if anyone have any info about it.
From my experience twitter has proven to be a great tool to index new pages really fast on google, but never used it for backlinks. I think, maybe if you do get your backlink indexed the value of it would be close to none (even the profile link).
I notice that the higher the Page Rank of the page you posted the link the faster it is saw by the Search Engines. Don't know if that its true, its just my guess.
Also I recommend you to use the Yahoo Site Explorer, its the fasted tool in the web to show you the indexed links. There are several backlinks that I saw showing there in less then 24 hours after it were created but Google Webmaster Tools and the Tools here in SEOmoz normally takes longer, the Google Webmaster Tools for instance I think its pretty random to show the new links.
One reason i can think of is that what he sayed didn't make sense, after all, mentioning someone on twitter don't affect anyones SEO.
This or he knows something about Google Algo and don't want to share it with us and is now hiding that precious info 
Thanks a lot by those recommendations.
I would give you some if I had found any on this range , currently the only one i knew was the JoeAnt one
The only meta that I really care about is the Description. The others i let wordpress auto manage but im thinking in getting it out (the meta keyword) since it would be a hint to my competitors on wich keywords i have been optmizing for.
Lately Ashton have been even investing in some startups so i wouldnt be surprised at all about his knowledge in SEO.
So, by that you mean that the Moz Rank would be the most aproximate measure of the real PR google have about an site?
Google algo detects when you got a sudden urge of links to your site and it raises the "SPAM" flag, normally , like in your case, the algo sent the site to the SandBox.
Whats weird when this happens is that sometimes you drop for a few days than suddenly your site is back to the top and ranking higher than before.
Other times you just sit there in sandbox forever.
So I think you did the right move, the problem is that it can take quite sometime now to get your site back to where it was before.
Just as a side note, some people argue that if you keep building the links at the same rate for sometime you can come out of the sandbox with all the links, maybe this pattern makes the algo think that your site got viral or something (wich happens quite often I imagine) but to be honest i think its more a shot in the dark.
I think maybe they do spot but its not in their best interest to just release it to the world for free
Maybe they changed their metrics? Every site im checking o google trends is showing a huge decline in the number of visitors.
For instance I tryed
Yahoo (not as big as the others but stil...)
They all have a similar graphic as the ones mentioned on this post, so if the visitors are leaving from everywhere , where are they going? To splogs? hehe
I think it depends, those do-follow comments really give a initial boost to your sites but the vast majority of those sites the comment section is not Auto Approve and the guy who is selling you this service for sure is not going to comment on all the sites, he will use some program.
Based on that maybe you would have a much better result doing it by yourself, really comment on the blog posts, adding value to the owner of the blog and, by consequence, getting a high approval rate of your comments/links.
Never had used before their toolbar but its just great, i was using the SEO Site Tools but just turned that off now 
I think what you did is the right thing to do already.
As far as I know the way to negative search terms for Google Adwords wold be the - sign followed by the keyword.
But if what you want to know is a way to negative a search by inputing a "black listed" keyword I dont know, lets say, people searching for driving lessos and input the "40" keyword, that search get imediatly black listed no matter the term he was searching for.
Would be a good feature to have 
If you were in the sandbox you would have no doubt about it, hehe
The truth is, when you get sandboxed you can expect a drop around 90% (if not 100%) of your visits from organic Google, thats the stat you look to check if it has happened or not 
I think that what wordpress have to offers best is how quick your content get indexed with it. Correctly using the ping system it has built in I normally got any page I published indexed on Google before 24 hours after the publishing for new sites, and almost instantly with old sites, anyway, its nothing that you could get done by yourself but with considerable more work.
So basically i think it just automate some hard work process leaving you to do what really matters for SEO.
Thanks for the site, I also have a site that went online this year and was curious to know wich page rank I will probly have after the update
Im currently working on two sites. One in a very low competitive keyword and other in a mid competitive keyword.
Whats hapenning is, in the mid competitive keyword site, everything SEO related that I do end up taking effect really quick, the longer I have to wait to see new links showing up or see my changes taking effect is 24 hours.
However in the low competitive keyword site the opposite seems to happen. I change things, create links, but those changes seem to not take any effect.
Maybe those slow motion SEO would be related to the keyword in question, at least, If i were google I would focus my computacional power on the more searched keywords since this is what will reach the biggest ammount of users and so, what will make Google be seen as a good or bad search engine, also would let the keywords with few searchs have their rank updated once a month (or more).
Actually I really liked the "content registry" idea.
An library of content where you could register what you have created and, optional, a link to where you want to be considered the main source.
At least it would be 10x more usefull than the google knol idea..
Heres the custom structure that I choosed to use for wordpress
/%postname%.html
So , in your example my page would become
mashtranslation.com/french-translation-services.html
I also have the .html on PAGES plugin installed, that allows this type of permalink structure to also work on the pages created on the cms, and not only on the posts.
So far, I had very good results with this type of permalink.
Semantically the and markups are more meaningfull than the and tags, thats the reason for their adoption (its a convention by the W3C)
__If you have access to the .css file of your site you can try adding those two following rules:
em{font-style:italic}
strong{font-weight:bold}
Let me know if that worked out
PS.: If you dont have access to the css files through FTP you can do it by going on Wordpress Admin > Appearence > Editor, On the files on the right look for the Stylesheet (style.css), there you can edit it.****
I would say that this type of link building is more like a gray hat area. For me, everything that wasnt created naturally by some user and is abused, even in a low level, enters that area. Ex. Lots of blog commenting, fórum profile linkback, lots of directory submit, lots of bookmark, etc And, to be black hat i would say all the above but with automated programs + lots of proxys to massem all, creating a really big distortion from reality. (and, of course, some other methods)
I used the SeoMoz tool On Page Keyword Optimization, one of the adivces the tool gave me is that I should put the keyword as the first word of my page title, since Google give's a lot more value to the keyword if it appears in the first place of the title tag.
So, based on that yesterday I made a slighty modification on the <title>in one of my sites.</p> <p>Changed from " Company Name - Keyword " to just "Keyword"</p> <p>Today I checked 2 keywords that im optmizing this site for, in one of then my site jumped 23 positions, in the other, around 30 positions up.</p> <p>Kinda astonishin I would say, anyway, in the case you exemplified, wouldnt be better to put Domain.com after the keywords ?</p></title>
This site is just amazing. Its really helpfull for me since I have very few places to look for info about browser usage in my country.
Thumbs up for the recommendation
I think the Parasite Hosting is when you put some content on a domain that have great page rank, in this case creating a page on squidoo (wich have PR 7) with some keyword that he wants to rank and then put a link in this page to any website he wants to.
Im kinda curious about if this is still working, those sites were not penalized with the panda update aswell? If not, it would work but I can say that this is something that would be in the blackhat or, at best, grayhat area.
Most of my sites uses Wordpress, what I did to never have any duplicate content is the following:
First, I have the following plugins installed
Then, added the following text to the robots.txt
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-adminDisallow: /wp-includes
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins
Disallow: /wp-content/cache
Disallow: /wp-content/themes
Disallow: /trackbackDisallow: /comment
Disallow: /categoria//
Disallow: */trackback
Disallow: */comments
Disallow: /sem-categoria
Disallow: /pollsarchive
Disallow: /category
Disallow: /?
Disallow: /*?
Disallow: /*.php$
Disallow: /*.js$
Disallow: /*.inc$
Disallow: /*.css$
Disallow: /*.gz$
Disallow: /*.wmv$
Disallow: /*.cgi$
Disallow: /*.xhtml$
Allow: /wp-content/uploads
Google ImageUser-agent: Googlebot-ImageDisallow:Allow: /* # Google AdSenseUser-agent: Mediapartners-GoogleDisallow:Allow: / # digg mirrorUser-agent: duggmirrorDisallow: / Sitemap: http://www.YOURSITE.com.br/sitemap.xml
On the admin in the PERMALINK config tab, in the COMMON SETTINGS i choose
In SETTINGS > cbnet Ping Optimizer I inserted
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.reader.livedoor.com/ping
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://audiorpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
I use this plugin to make sure that wordpress will not ping those services everytime I change or update something on the page,actually I seted the plugin to ping only after 30 min after the last ping.
So If you just posted something on Wordpress it will ping all those services for a fast index, however, if for some reason you have to edit the post when you save this plugin will make sure the services will not get pingged again in such a short space of time.
In the All in One Seo config I have the following config
UNCHECKED
I also set Exlcude Pages, Additional Post Headers, Additional Page Headers and Additional Home Headers all blank
With all this configuration if someone access any post of my blogs they get a page with http://domain/post permalink structure, doesnt matter if the access came from a TAG, Categorie or normal Search.
Aditionally the main Tag page and Categorie page are indexed, so i ended up using my tags for some sort of relevance to the posts that belongs to that Tag. In google search the same post could appear by many related TAGs filter but the content of the post appears in an unique page.
Hope that helps
PS.: Suggestions to improve this config are welcome
Agreed, that post was really usefull. And in this niche i dont think will be hard to reach the 2nd place in the ranks
The brindes keyword have a lot of possible combinations and people tend to use those combinations (like the one you just used, "brindes promocionais").
Since the brinde keywords tend to be always used i had put my efforts on it alone, the best part is that its already started showing results for those broad matchs (but for brindes, so far, nothing )
Very interesting idea.
I also would add some numbers, they attract a lot of attention also. In the atlantis example
<title>Atlantis: 10 Evidences of its Existence!</p> <p>Some sites rely a lot on this technique, for the instance, cracked.com comes to my mind, and as a bonus I think that this type of title also atract more attention when it comes to social sharing</p></title>
Actually the same thing hapenned to me a while ago. Once i found all the extensions i need it in chrome completly stoped using Firefox 
Just checked the domain age of both links
The 1st in the rank was registered in 2000, the 2nd in 2007
It kinda looks like the exactly same situation didnt it?
About the traffic metric.. i think that would be kinda easy to manipulate isnt it?
Anyway, google probly would scalate to measure the user experience of the site. Otherwise no new site with 100 visitors would stand a change against some competitor with 10 thousand visitors.
Thanks, didnt know about this addon, im currently downloading the version for google chrome
Well if you want to take a look the keyword im focusing is "brindes" and the two domains are http:///www.brindes.com and http://www.brindesgrafica.com.br (the brindesgrafica.com.br is, at least, the domain that showed the most times as 2nd in rank)
Anyway, the term has many daily searchs so even the 1st spot being hard to achive is already worth to be on top 10 only, and, like I said, isn't really competitive keyword (36%).
PS.: Its megaman with a blond beard in your profile pic? ˆˆ
That would be the case like the sex.com page?
The keyword is indeed kinda common here, but people in Brazil commonly type more the .com.br than the .com address.. so it kinda makes me think that would be the case if the page were www.KEYWORD.com.br
Anyway i gave a try trying google.com or google.com.br the results were exactly the same, also change the location of the search to the entiry country. Exactly same results
An even broader search with the Anonymous navigation on chrome (wich dont register ur preferences nor country) ended up bring me results from Portugal, so it wasnt really helpfull, hehe
But theres only two things that comes to my mind that I had not covered, the keyword matched domain and domain age.
For a second i tought that would be some linkback from a high valuable site but the biggest page authority linking back to the first page is a page authority of 36 from a domain authority of 49
The 2nd in the rank the highest dofollow linkback have a page authority of 40 and domain of 85
I just signed a pro account in SEO Moz, but for this first week ive been activily using the Tools of SEO Moz and visisiting the Forum. The funny part is that i never tought the most helpfull part of being pro would be the Fórum.
Like someone said before, the barrier entry is, indeed, a great way to keep only good quality posts here. Compared to other fórums I used to read (and almost never wanted to comment on) this one is heaven.
Im currently doing a research for a low-medium competitive keyword (SEO Moz Keyword difficult Tool it showed 36% competition, its a one word keyword) in my country. That keyword had a Google AdWords Broad Match of 368.000 searchs and a Google AdWords Exact Match of 33.100 searchs in April.
The currently number one site for that keyword have an exactly match for that keyword, www.KEYWORD.com and nothing else.
Then I ran and advanced report to that keyword and heres the initial result:
This number one site has a domain authority of only 11 and a page authority of 25.
The second site have the following domain name -> www.companynameKEYWORD.com.br (its in Brasil, so theorically and .br should worth more than a .com domain right?)
Anyway the second site have a domain authority of 37 and a page rank authority of 45.
So after this link all the others are like that, www.companynameKEYWORD.com and the domain and page authority is according to how it suposed to be (higher domain and page are ranked better).
The exactly same thing happen when I search for a more long tail of this keyword (wich are 2 words) happen. The exactly match are ranked 1st with a very low page and domian authority while the others come first.
Some more info about that number 1 ranked site-
Now follows the data from Linkscape data between the 1st and 2nd ranked pages
So, looks like that only two things should be 90% of the focus from a SEO perspective. Have an old exactly keyword match domain and youre good to go
Edited 1:
About the linkbacks to each page
The 1st page in rank biggest page authority linking back (dofollow) have an authority of 36 from a domain authority of 49
The 2nd in the rank the highest dofollow linkback have a page authority of 40 and domain of 85
Edit 2:
1st in rank were created in 2000
2nd in rank were created in 2007
Actually, this makes a lot of sense. Probly there are many spammers doing this already?
Just for curiosity. The new links are showing on google webmaster tools?