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Hi All,

I've encountered a site that has PR3 on most important pages (and less on others but no more on any)  and DA according to MOZ in the low 40's however it is first on everything on his niche (many keywords).

How is it possible?

Since it is possible, what is the importance of these metrics anyhow?

Thanks

Hi All,

There are many situations where I encounter the need (or the wish) to update existing content.

Here are few reasons:

1. Some update turned up on the subject that does not justify a new posy / article but rather just adding two lines.
2. The article was simply poorly written yet the page has PR as it is a good subject and is online for quite some time (alternatively I can create a new and improved article and 301 the old one to the new).
3. Improving titles and sub titles of old existing articles.

I would love to hear your thoughts on each of the reasons...

Thanks

Thanks!

I'm guessing it will remain a no for me since it is third party scripts - a black box for that matter.

What do you think about Facebook comments then?
Not readable as well?

Thank you all.

Here is an example from survey monkey:

There many other tools that look quite the same.

The content it loads is not visible in the view source.

Is embedded content "really" on my page?

There are many addons nowadays that are used by embedded code and they bring the texts after the page is loaded.

For example - embedded surveys.

Are these read by the Google bot or do they in fact act like iframes and are not physically on my page?

Thanks

Thanks Marie,

Question - 
Going through my link profile I have encountered dozens of links from different SEO sites that analyzed my domain - whether on its own or showing it as a competitor to another site on the same niche.

Weirdly, these are dofollow links (dozens!).

Should I disavow them?

Obviously these are not requested links of any kind. These sites are kind of aggregation sites that show practically any site worth mentioning.

Thanks Ben. This is the article I remember seeing.

Thanks Marie and Tom,

Marie, this is what I meant. Now that people are disavowing more and more domains and links, the OSE picture is plain wrong (unfortunately I disavowed a lot).

I will work with the excel for now.

Thank you both

Thank you Irving and Matt,

The previous companies were removed but their names and emails still exist in the history (they were given an Owner authority).

Is there a way to remove them from there?
Also, what authority should a company be given?

Thanks

Hi,

Is there a way to add to the OSE a list of disavowed domains?

Also, how often is it refreshed?
I know that the GWMT shows us links on sites that are down for months now.

Thanks

Hello,

As a site owner, I've worked with several SEO firms in the past.

Even though a long time has passed, they still appear in the GWMT list of admins (though inactive).

I wouldn't like other companies and consultants see that in the future.

Is there a way to remove them?

Thanks

Hi,

When working on unnatural links penalty, is removing and disavowing links shown on the GWMT enough or should the list be broaden to include OSE and Majestic etc.?

Thanks

Thanks. Its a great idea - I will try it.

However,  I am looking for a company which specializes in content creation. Someone I won't even have to tell them what to write about and that I can have fluent work done - I'm not sure this can be expected from bloggers.

Thanks EGOL,

This is why I was looking for a company assuming they have several writers in various areas of expertise.

I updated the main question adding more details.

Hi,

I am looking for a recommended company which specializes in content creation to fluently create posts for our blog.

This content needs to be of the highest quality.

Areas of expertise - luxury goods, diamonds, diamond jewelry, fashion

Any recommendations?

Hi,

For the example I will use a computers e-commerce store...

I'm working on creating guides for the store - 
How to choose a laptop
How to choose a desktop

I believe that each guide will be great on its own and that it answers a specific question (meaning that someone looking for a laptop will search specifically laptop info and the same goes for desktop). This is why I didn't creating a "How to choose a computer" guide.

I also want each guide to have all information and not to start sending the user to secondary pages in order to fill in missing info.

However, even though there are several details that are different between the laptops and desktops, like importance of weight, screen size etc., a lot of things the checklist (like deciding on how much memory is needed, graphic card, core etc.) are the same.

Please advise on how to pursue it.

Should I just write two guides and make sure that the same duplicated content ideas are simply written in a different way?

Hi All,

Lately its been discussed a lot about the various penalties and the one that is least clear to me is over optimization.

I'm currently dealing with my site's sub-folders naming.

My site sells computers yet the domain name has nothing to do with computers.

The question is should I put computers in every folder name?

Examples:

domain.com/surveys/xxx    VS     domain.com/computer-surveys/xxx

domain.com/Questions/xxx    VS      domain.com/Computers-Questions/xxx

and

domain.com/Education/xxx     VS    domain.com/computers-education/xxx

Where is the limit?

Just saw on another post that they are having problems. Will wait another day or two...

Hi

Last night some of my good links suddenly stopped from being display displayed at the WMT list of links

Any thoghts?

Thanks

I actually agree with what Mark Ginsberg said that it might be an SEO firm we hired way in the past (we don't have anyone for over 6 months) and might have pipe lined articles on our behalf.

But yes, main keywords to the exact landing pages

Thanks, what you are saying makes sense.
(even though we haven't been using any SEO firm for many months now).

Yes these links are the only ones. It is really strange...

Hello,

I do not believe so much in spammy links attacks and I definitely do not believe my site is worth attacking.

However, I'm seeing new links pointing to my site that I have no idea where they come from.

I just spotted three articles on a poor crappy article site with exact match keywords point to me. The articles are completely unique (copyscaped them) and they were posted according to the site time stamp during Oct and Nov 2012. (And they Appear in the WMT recently discovered links from more or less the same time).

What to do (besides for disavowing this domain)?

Thanks

Hi,

I am disavowing some links.

Does anyone know if Google removes them from the WMT?
This is interesting for followup purposes.

Thanks

Hi,

I have few articles on my site that are quite good both SEO wise (getting organic search traffic) and as a reading material.

They get lots of traffic and people are staying and reading them (2-4 minutes on page).

The problem with these articles is that people are reading them and then leave. These are landing pages for certain queries so I assume that the readers are getting what they wanted but when they finish they exit.

The bounce rate is 70%-85%.

Are these type of pages good or bad for my site?

Last note, my site is an e-commerce store. I do try to "motivate" more people to navigate to other pages but the majority do and will probably leave (because they were looking for answers and not products).

Needless to say that the articles are related to my site's subjects and products.

Thanks.

Question though, I'm not using canonical, only next and prev.
I don't think canonical should be placed since it is not the same content (different products).

Any thoughts?

Hi,

In our e-commerce site on category pages we have pagination (i.e toshiba laptops page 1, page 2 etc.).

We implement it with rel='next' and 'prev' etc.

On the first page of each category we display a header with lots of text information. This header is removed on the following pages using display='none'.

I wondered if since it is only a css display game google might still read it and consider duplicated content.

Thanks

Hi All,

To clarify my question I will give an example.

Let's assume that I have a laptop e-commerce site and that one of my main categories is Samsung Laptops. The category page shows lots of laptops and a small section of text.

On the other hand, in my article section I have a HUGE article about Samsung Laptops.

If we consider the two word phrases each page is targeting then the answer is the same - Samsung Laptops.

On the article i point to the category page using anchor such as "buy samsung laptops" or "samsung laptops" and on the category page (my wishful landing page) I point to the article with "learn about samsung laptops" or "samsung laptops pros and cons".

Thanks

Just wondering,

Are the backlinks for "yellow diamonds" or you didn't go so deep?

Thanks but I'm not even talking about anchors and/or links from other places.

I'm talking about plain on-page texts.

The page does no have the phrase "yellow diamonds" written even once.

It's amazing

Hi,

While looking to buy a Christmas gift to my wife I was searching for yellow diamonds.

Being a bit familiar with SEO I gotta understand how the following page was ranked 4th for "yellow diamonds":

http://www.bluenile.com/diamonds/fancy-color-diamonds

The phrase yellow diamonds is not mentioned even once!

Thanks

EGOL thanks for the answer, please see my response in Dorothea's thread.
I think that my question wasn't clear enough.

Looking forward to your response, Thanks

Thanks Dorothea and EGOL,

This is for both of you...

Maybe I wasn't clear - my client will do anything that I will request.

He is unwilling to play with the material written in the product page because these are medically written guidelines and information.

Any minor change and he might be liable for lawsuits.

The question is how do I make his product pages better?

Each product page will hopefully be the landing page for people looking for the specific medicine.

What type of materials and texts can I put there if I am unable to write my own texts (at least in the info section).

Also, should I put all the guidelines in blockquote (it is a major part of the page).

Imagine that the product is Aspirin...

Thanks

Hi

I'm trying to promote an ecommerce site that sells vitamins and health goods.

The site owner doesn't want to add texts in the product pages because it is medical material.

therefore he Currently has non unique (duplicated) content in each product page'

It is the same exact content all others have (taken From the manufacturer)'

Any ideas?

Thanks

Hi,

While searching for co-operations and guest blogging opportunities I found several sites that look legit and that lost all SE traffic (according to various tools such as SEMRush).

By legit I mean sites that have PR3 and up. Have many solid looking articles and that the articles are on the site's subject and that the articles do not necessarily point to other sites with exact match anchors.

Should I post in these sites or are they probably penalized and therefore being there put me at risk?

Thanks

Not necessarily, one for example is an aggregation site that brings articles (or headers) from other sites and it shows as if he has 2000 links pointing to me. Some are directories (not that good ones) that also show 100-200 links pointing to me.

These  are not links that I mind removing... but I wondered if they currently do extra damage showing that many links. Does google think these are types of site wide links?

Thanks but you miss understood me.

The link is good and valid.
However, WMT shows as if it has 2000 links to my site and not only 1.
I assume that the site that links to me is poorly built and has no canonical tags etc.

It also happens when the site that links to me has the link in a certain page and the page number keeps changing then google shows the their url with parameters such as p=23 and also p=24...

Should I disavow that domain?

Hi,

Looking at Google's WMT "links to your site" it shows few sites that have thousands of links pointing to mine.

There are actually only 1-2 links pointing to me from a site that Google shows 2000.
I assume that it is simply because they don't have canonical tags.

Should I ask for the 2 links to be removed?

Thanks

Yes they are:

www.domain.com
www.domain.com/blog

However, it was just an example.
Also, in my main category page when people go to the category wiki (info page) I open a new tab in order not to completely take them out of the buying page.

Thanks

Thanks for the answer.

But do you mean to point people from the adwords to my G+ account or as usual to my landing pages?

Hi,

When I open an internal page with target=_blank (for example taking people from our store to our blog) it may cause a session timeout on the store page (assuming they stay on the blog and don't come back).

Does that cause a bounce? Does that mean that the store's page just became the  "Exit" page?

Thanks

Hi All,

My question doesn't actually refer to the fluent work of maintaining a page but rather to the basics.

In our Facebook page we simply "bought" ads leading to our page and got the followers over time.

I don't see an equivalent option in G+. Do I need to use  regular adwords and point people to the G+ page or is there a place I can place ads inside G+?

Thanks

I believe that social signals are important however I doubt if Google has a way of knowing how many "likes" you got (Bing may know due to their somewhat partnership).

What I do believe is that Google does recognize people coming from social media like FB and gives you credit for it (as a site that has social appearance)and that it does recognize other types of shares such as twitter, tumblr, stumblupon and obviously Google +.

There was an article here at MOZ once and they tried to analyze social signals. I thinkk that the result was that there is a correlation but not necessarily causation.

Good luck

Thanks for the fast reply.

My fear is that Smith Computers will not get an audience from within Google +
and that the audience from within will look for plain computers and not what we do (and unfortunately we cannot change our brand now ).

I think agree with you and will go with 3 or 4.

Hi

Let's assume that our company's name is "Smith Computers" and we specialize in Ultrabooks (for those who don't know - super light and slim computers - a niche within computers for the matter).

Under which name would you open the Plus account -

1. Smith Computers
2. Ultrabooks
3. Smith Ultrabooks
4. Smith Ultrabooks Computers

The example is not 100% but the question remains -

1. No one knows Smith Computers and even if we turn up in search results for computers, the customers are not looking for our type products.
   However, it is our brand name!
2. Ultrabooks - I assume it will help us gain followers faster but will be hard to brand. The followers will be people who like the product and not the company but might be good people to sell to in the future.
3. I'd say that option 3 is half branding and option 4 is 75% branding
   Both will also have good chances to pop up in search results.

The company at hand is a family owned business. We do not plan to rule the industry but rather taking it to the next level. We do not count on having thousands of people searching Google for "Smith Computers" like Best Buy etc.

Please consider that at the end we want to use it both for promoting our brand (slowly) but also (and maybe mainly) SEO (by getting more people that click +1 onsite).

We currently have lots of Facebook followers but naturally they only Like and not +1

Please help...

Thanks for the fast reply.

I agree with you that in some cases where you buy a service from a person and not a company (i.e dentist, lawyer, CPA etc.) it makes lots of sense and will probably help CTR.

However, if I can't use a logo, then it is just for the articles and not for the categories (even though there are informational texts there).

Thanks

Hi,

As far as I know, in the past Italic was used to emphasize (similar use to Bold).

Now I've seen people use Italic for quotations. Is that the correct thing to do for an entire paragraph or is it a problem for Google wise?

Thanks

Hi,

What I meant is should I use the above mentioned account as rel=author for category pages etc?

It seems to me improper to use my account (with my picture) in a category page and to show my face in the SERPS for searches like "Toshiba Laptops".

On the other hand, if in the SERPS it will show our Logo it might increase CTR...

Any thoughts?

Thanks

Hi,

I know that once there were discussions about "navigating" all links top wise to the main pages - for example to category pages in e-commerce sites.

What is the proper methodology today?

One example:

Should I link out from a category main page which shows my products (a serious landing page)  to a page that explains about the product?

It makes sense but I don't want my about page to become the more important page (even though it does link back to the products category page).

Thanks

Hi,

As stated in the title, I am wondering if I should NOINDEX NOFOLLOW my shopping cart page - it is actually a buy now page that receives in the URL the Item ID - only one item per purchase.

I received duplication errors so now I added canonical and I wonder if I should simply remove it altogether.

Thanks