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Check List:

1. Move old content to the new domain
2. 301 as many pages to the same content on the new domain as possible
3. Submit a change of address through Google Webmaster Tools
4. Contact site owners that give you high quality incoming links, request they change the links from the old site to the new site (personal preference)
5. Keep building new high quality links to your site's content level pages.

Note:

If it's a brand new domain, Google is going to put your site through about a three month trial period before it accurately ranks you. From my understanding it's done to help prevent spam.

Hi Carrol,

I'm not seeing you screenshot can your re-upload it?

Did you depersonalize your browser?

Are you still indexed? No need to submit a reconsideration if you are.

Noindex you duplicate content.

Develop a new links to your new quality content. Guest blog, do some non-profit work in the community, ect.

If you're still indexed, you should regain some rankings quickly. However after a slap you're going to have to show Google you've changed your ways over the course of a couple of months to get back to where you were.

What CMS/language are you using?

Do some guest blogging and point links at your 301s from your guest posts. Google will see that you mean business. You'll have new links and the old pages will be deindexed quicker.

Hi Jane,

It's best practices to dedicate the direction of an article/page to one topic/keyword. However, if your site is showing multiple times in the SERPs and it's not for spammy reasons, you are effectively covering more real estate on the page thus increasing your chances of getting clicked on, revel in that

Hi,

Clarification:

Have an image next to your site's results doesn't help your rankings per-se. However it does increase your visibility in the results pages, increasing the amount of clicks/visitors your site will get.

Recommendation:

I often tell clients who have a dedicated writer on staff to have them use their personal G+ profile for the content they write. That way you are still getting visibility. If you are running your own business, you are your brand. So personally I would link my own account to what I write.

We're still waiting for Google to catch up with business pages

Regards,

Ben

That's why I used the words "usually" and "generally" lol

"painter new york" is what is referred to as a "head" phrase. That is, a phrase that has a high search volume but a high competition.

So on your home page's title; yes, I would target your head phrase. However you need to be building content in the longtail to rank well for that head phrase.

One of my favorite SEO Moz videos that talks about the longtail is back from 2009. It's dated but it's a great intro, and is still relevant for instruction purposes.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-ignore-the-tail-at-your-peril

If you really want to digg deep into SEO I reccomend watching all of SEO Moz's old videos on Vimeo and You Tube. The 5 year old ones get into a bunch of great ideas that are still useful today, but no one is talking about.

http://vimeo.com/user409469

http://www.youtube.com/user/greatsc0tt

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What's the reason for the style you are using? Are you trying to hide them for a "benefit"?

If another agent can see it, Google can see it.

Hi Sec Jobs,

"Top 20 sites" is a false dichotomy. Top 20 sites is not the "best of the best" but rather, what is best for you, in your location, in your industry.

So how would you go about link building in this way?

• Personally I would start blogging about the sate of security jobs in the UK.
• In order to obtain links, find security sites that have a blog in your industry, but who aren't direct competitors. and get to know the site's owner.
• After becoming chums, ask them if you can do a blog post on their site. In the blog post mention a couple of things visitors may want to check out on your site to help them, and link to those things.

That's pretty much it. content marketing is the thing. Add value and be an authority in your industry, so that when Google slaps down another penalty you'll be the one rising to the top, not getting penalized for "artificial" links.

Regards,

@bnspak

Network with bloggers and social media users who:

• Are computer or tech friendly/technicians
• Advertising firms that specialize in print
• Graphic Design Firms
• Office Equipment Websites/Blogs
• Business Bloggers

By network I mean

• Share tips/experience
• Share funny yet professional stories about your industry/pitfalls
• Interview people in those industries
• offer to write a guest post for their blog

Are you still indexed? No need to submit a reconsideration if you are.

Noindex you duplicate content.

Develop a new links to your new quality content. Guest blog, do some non-profit work in the community, ect.

If you're still indexed, you should regain some rankings quickly. However after a slap you're going to have to show Google you've changed your ways over the course of a couple of months to get back to where you were.

I'd go for it, but I'm a betting man from Las Vegas

Variables:

• How well established is your site?
• Is the site relevant?
• Are their inbound links from well traveled authoritative sources?
• Will their site get alot of traffic in the future?

Hi Alen,

Try not to think in terms of nofollow/follow links if it's from an authoritative source Google is going to see that. Would you turn down a nofollow link from a Wikipedia page?

Fixing Crawl Diagnostic Issues

http://www.seomoz.org/help/fixing-crawl-diagnostic-issues

Crawl Diagnostics

http://www.seomoz.org/help/crawl-diagnostics

If the keyword you want to target is already in your URL and Title it's spammy to do it if in the category as well.

domain.com/blue-shoes/blue-shoes-tampa

Flat structure such as /%postname%/ gets you indexed faster.

Never use tags - you will be creating too many link paths, and on page links, which devalues the internal links you do have, such as categories.

1. Depending on the authority of your website depends how quickly it gets indexed/ranked

For example:

• • I have seen stuff on Quora get indexed by Google in about 15 minutes
  • If you have a new site, it could take a couple of weeks

2. Personally if I'm planning on launching a new product I'd post in the info on my site a couple of weeks before it's ready to launch with a coming soon banner. This is good for two (2) resons:

1. 1. You are generating buzz
   2. You are making sure Google knows your site published the content before anyone else.

3. Is duplicate content an problem?

Yes.

If you get indexed first, is it your problem?

I'd say no

It's interlinking, it's good for SEO. Just don't do it in excess. 10 popular post links great! 100 not so much..

If at all possible use IIS URL Rewriter so that you can canonicalize your site structure.

http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite

If you have a smaller site, and it's in the early stages I'd try using other CMSs and software to see if you can find something that you like. I love Wordpress, and I use it for everything.