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Hi Oliver,

No Follow links do not leak link juice but there is a new concept in SEO called co-citation. Basically Google and other search engines are using mentions (semantics) http://moz.com/blog/prediction-anchor-text-is-dying-and-will-be-replaced-by-cocitation-whiteboard-friday to determine how to rank your website. I suspect this is Google's effort to try and reduce spam and the linkbuilding business. The more mentions you get the better your website will rank and especially if the website has authority

Thanks

Carla

Hi Jon and James,

Just a thought but if you have over-optimized a specific anchor text instead of disavowing the links you may want to add more links but with different anchor text so that the anchor text looks more diverse. I'll give you an example.

Over-optimizaed anchor text = "abc"

Hypothetical Current situation

• Amount of "abc" links = 25
• Name brand links = 100

Hypothetical Solution

• Amount of "abc" links = 25
• Name brand links = 100
• New links with "def" anchor text = 10
• New links with "ghi" anchor text = 10

Good luck!

Hi John,

Moz is a great place to find agencies in my opinion. When choosing and agency, here are some tips

1. Ask to see their portfolio and success cases
2. Choose a White Hat company. There is such a thing as black hat SEO and you don't want to go down this road.
3. Ask to their latest work and how they go the site ranked.
4. Call their clients to see if their clients are happy
5. Don't choose the cheapest agency. Choose the most responsible one.

Good Luck

Carla

Hi,

I ran into a similar issue while we were redesigning our site. This is what we did. We unblocked our site (we also had a user and password to avoid Google indexing it). We added the link to a Moz campaign. We were very careful not to share the URL (developing site) or put it anywhere where Google might find it quickly. Remember Google finds links from following other links. We did not submit the developing site to Google webmaster tools or Google analytics. We watched and waited for the Moz report to come in. When it did, we blocked the site again.

Hope this helps

Carla

Hi Bob,

We do content marketing ourselves and here is something we have learned. If your PR is high enough and your article is niche enough, you will rank without any incoming links. See attachment.

I recommend you contact people that are interested in the topic and see if they have an article similar to yours but not quite as indepth. Chances are they will want to link to your niche article from theirs.

It worked for us. Thanks Carla

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Hi,

We had something similar happen to us. I will tell you the story because I really do think it will help.

One of our clients liked our originally website so much that he wanted to copy it. We gave him the ok but asked him to modify the content 100% so that Google would not penalize us. He gave us access to his Google Analytics. Our client did not modify the content for about 6 months. Google recognized this as a duplicated site and our clients website received absolutely no traffic at all for keywords. The only way to get to his website was by searching his brand name. This was a great relief to us. Google penalized him not us. After about 6 months, the client finally got around to changing his content and when he did, he started ranking for keywords words.

In your case, I would disavow the chinese website and notify the Google Spam team.

Good luck.

Carla

Hi Paul,
First of all congrats on the great new technique. I recently wrote an article about SEO Parallax Scrolling and Responsive websites. There is a website using the hashtag method that is semi SEO friendly here http://flowerbeauty.com/.

However that being said

To answer your concer "but my current concern is that because each subpage is really a part of the primary page, will all those URL's be seen as duplicate content". I believe Google will see this as a multiple page site as long as you have different content on different URL's. Why don't you try adding parallax scrolling to each SEO url and have the scroll function take you to each URL like www.flowerbeauty.com did. Make sure to optimize your URL's as well.

For example

www.example.com/About

as you scroll it would take you too

www.example.com/About/optimized-URL.

I would get rid of the hashtags.

Here are some other SEO friendly parallax scrolling websites. http://www.pinterest.com/ecumbre/seo-and-parallax-scrolling/

Let me know if that helps.

Thanks Carla

Ok I think I just answered my own question. This is the article I was looking for and it was written by Mark Traphagen not Rand.

http://www.stonetemple.com/googles-matt-cutts-understanding-social-identity-on-the-web-is-hard/

I agree with Alice I would not block them. If the content is unique, they can't hurt you. Category sections show up an SERP's all the time and will increase your CTR (click thru rate)

Hi Circa,

More information will be needed to be able to give you a completely correct answer. Here are some tips

Onsite SEO  - 30%

Offsite SEO - 70%

From what I can see based on the images you attached, your competitor has many more links than you (or your client) and the c-block variation is big. C-blocks are really important.

I would go for dofollow links with the right anchor text. Becareful not to over optimize your keyword . It is really easy to do. 

Their social media is way ahead of yours as well. I would start with getting more white hat keyword links.

Good luck

I am also getting misleading titles occasionally. OSE sometimes picks up the title as the anchor text.

It is a little bit different than your error

Does anyone have an example of a web page that is ranking soley through social media popularity and does not have any inbound (website to website) links? I am creating a presentation on SEO and Social Media and it would be great to have an example.

Thanks

Carla

Hi Wesley,

I find Magento to be awesome from an SEO point of view. You have two options Magento Community and the paid version. Magento community is very complete.

Hi Pedro,

If you redirect the purchased domain to your permanent domain all the incoming links to the purchased domain will be pointing at your domain. Therefore if they have spammy links your website could go down.

I do not know how long the purchased domain would appear in the SERPs but I wouldn't worry about it too much if you redirect all the Urls to your new domain. For example

www.purchaseddomain.com redirects to www.pedrosdomain.com

www.purchaseddomain.com/seoservices redirects to www.pedrosdomain.com/seo-services-portugal

www.purchaseddomain.com/seoservices may appear in the Serps but when a user clicks on it they will get redirected to your website.

I did not use any specialized platform to buy the domain. Just trust and a little luck

I hope my answers helped!

Thanks Carla

Hi Erwin,

I have been wondering about this myself. I am a believer that no-follows contribute but as co-citation, however I have no proof. Testing this theory would be fun.

Hi Takeshi,

Thanks so much for getting back to me on this one. I am aware of Bing's experiments with Klout and just signed up for it today to test it out. I will be your response to my client. I can see this is a very aggressive move on Google's behalf. I wonder if eventually they will get dinged as Microsoft did on monopolistic behaviors. hehe...time will tell.

Tks for your time! Have a good weekend

Carla

Hi,

I suggest the following for Local SEO

1. Add address in footer with local schemas
2. NAP - Get your site with its address if possible in local directories or magazines or blog
3. Add Site to Google's Map Maker

Good luck

Carla

I agree with Streamline. We used Sucuri.net to clean up malware. Worpress sites are great but very buggy. They always get viruses. You have to buy extra protection. Sitelock is another good choice.

Hi Paul,

We recently optimized a store with 1000 products. Here are some tricks

1. Use Product Schemas http://schema.org/Product
2. Use concatenation formulas to add more descriptive words to each product. For example =concatenate(cell with generic concept ketword, " ", Product name)

Your site looks very optimized and nice. I noticed you added images for the tables instead of creating them with HTML so that the content can be picked up by Google. THis may be something to improve. Also instead of having a long page you might want to throw your information on tabs. Google reads them as lists and it makes the page look prettier. Here is an example

Hi Paul,

I think before you design your website, you might try creating a campaign for flowerbeauty.com to see if Moz says there are any onsite errors. If it passes Moz's scrutiny, then there is a good chance Google will see it the same way. I have a slot for a new campaign in case you don't have one. I would really like to get to the bottom of this as you can see.

Let me know if you want me run it through Moz to see if it passes onsite optimization. I forgot to mention that my site did pass Moz's onsite analysis. I never tried running the other 2 SEO Parallax Scrolling websites through Moz's software.

Hi Ash,

I have been able to accomplish this with several websites. Basically if you go for the plural version you will also improve the rankings for the singular version. Here is an example.

We wanted to rank a clients website under "Barrios Privados" and "Barrio Privado". You will likely rank first for the plural version and then for the singular version.

Good luck.

Carla

Kiran,

I suggest you use the disavow tool wisely. Matt Cutts did a video recently on how to use the disavow tool. Here are two videos that will help

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=393nmCYFRtA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX5K741AlWg

Hi Everyone,

Does anyone have a "Semantics Communication Plan? I am giving a conference next month and I was planning on introducing the concept of a "semantic​ communications plan". I manage lots of digital marketing campaigns and I notice that a communication plan is created but not the sematics related to the content that will be produced. And even worse, the semantics used in different areas such as SEO (content marketing), Adwords, Social Media is arbitrary based on the person caring out the task. Consistent semantics in digital campaigns seems like it would benefit SEO if it is based on demand (google's using those keywords)...what are your thoughts on this?

Thanks

Carla

Hi Erin,

I have a keyword company name and domain name

Here are the pro's based on my experience

• I sign lots of websites in the footer with my company name with anchor text. Keyword link juice
• Many sites give the link in the company name. If you have a keyword in your company name you get the link juice

Con's

• If links go away in the future and co-citation gets big, generic name companies have an uphill battle

Hi Jesse and Tuzzell,

We have several competitors that use constant black hat techniques. They have been doing this for over 2 years and for some reason the Google Algorithm updates are not taking effect. We have stuck to white hat techniques but are getting a bit impatient. For over 2 years our black hat competitors continue to outrank us. We waited 2 years before submitting them to Google Spam and the only reason we did it was because they have not stopped using black hat techniques. It's a bit frustrating. We are not going on a spam crusade...its more like helping Google do their job and testing the Argentina Google Spam team and learning more about SEO. BTW, we also submitted ourselves to the Google Spam Team about 2 years back to see if our links were in line with Google's policies.

Hope it makes sense...

Carla

Hi Egol,

Thank you so much for taking the time to write such a clear and informative answer. This is exactly what I was looking for. The company that made me the offer is not big and your comments regarding "who is paying me" are important. The ranges you posted are extremely helpful

Thanks

Carla

Hi Nathan,

I asked the same question awhile back and this is the answer I got. http://moz.com/community/q/does-anyone-know-why-moz-com-appears-to-have-a-pr-of-2-now

www.seomoz.com used to have a PR of 6. I suspect it still does even though the tools say PR2 because I noticed it still ranks for the same way for a lot of the keywords.

Carla

Hi James,

I did encounter something similar. You have probably overoptimized a specific keyword. If all your incoming links have the same anchor text and it is not your brand name then Google is punishing you for non-natural link building. Are you ranking for other keywords?. You might have been sandboxed and not know it. What is the domain name?

Thanks

Carla

Hi John,

Does the report say who created the content first. I had a very interesting experience with copied content. You can ready about it here. http://moz.com/community/q/copied-content-copied-website

The post is useful

Thanks

Carla

I want to buy a domain that has clean backlinks and then redirect it to my new domain to bump up my PR. Is this considered a black hat technique?

Thanks

Carla

Hi Moz,

I know you guys changed your interface awhile back but I have a question about the new reports. On the old interface, I used to use a report that would automatically run when I created a new account letting me know where the dup titles and meta descriptions were on an entire site. Where can I find this report on the new interface?

Thanks

Carla

Excellent point and something I have not considered.

Thanks Jon

Hi James,

I just answered your PM. thanks

Carla

Hi Martin,

Great question. I run into this situation all the time just like trying to tell a potential customer that their Flash website has to be redone.

I usually call them and try to educate them on what Google is now requiring. That poor link building practices work in the past but not today and that their a in danger of getting dinged by the Google Spam team. I also try and fine one good article that explains all this from a very reliable source so that they don't think you are making it up.

Education is the only way. I find educating my clients the best way to sell white hat linkbuilding services. Yes it is time consuming but effective and it builds trust.

I would not bash the other SEO company. I would just explain that Google has improved their algorithm and that these techniques are considered black hat or poor link building techniques and that they should correct them or else....

Hope that answers your question. The same issue pops up with websites that have poor web architectures. When you suggest to the client, that they need to modify their website, they freak out.

Good luck and I hope this answers your question

Carla

Hi Steve,

Egol is completely right. This approach is very expensive to maintain and Google frowns upon duplicate content.

This approach is very passe