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Thanks!

One question I do have - do you typically recommend setting image dimensions/ratios in the code, or no? We have faced an issue in the past with this where if are image or logo is not the correct size (ex: a rectangular logo trying to fit in a square box) everything gets distorted. I am just curious if this is a best practice, or you typically recommend just uploading images at a particular size each time.

We recently relaunched our website and after running multiple page speed tests (GT Metrix, Google, etc.) our results aren't great.

We would love any suggestions on how to improve our site as we are not experts in what exactly these results mean - https://gtmetrix.com/reports/loyalty360.org/DKRN0hKg.

Thanks!

I don't think so...We had owned the domains for several years and the bad links have just come up in webmaster tools recently.

Thanks! No we haven't hired anyone to do any backlink building for us in the past which is why were really curious to know how one of our domains got hacked (loyaltyexpo-europe.com) which isn't even active and had made thousands and thousands of backlinks to our main site loyalty360.org.

I was looking in GWT yesterday and found we have several thousand "spam" backlinks...I am curious why this happens and how this happens?

There are some links from websites/domains that are not mine that appear to be spam. However, we own a large group of domains and have noticed some of the links are coming from 2 of those sites/domains we own to my main site. The sites/domains are not active, we just own them. I am wondering how someone could access these domains that are not active and create spammy backlinks to my main website? (They created about 20,000 links).

Thanks.

Hi George,

I am having a similar issue with my site, and was looking for a quick clarification.

We have several "member" pages that have been created as a part of registration (thousands) and they are appearing as duplicate content. When you say add noindex and and a canonical, is this something that needs to be done to every individual page or is there something that can be done that would apply to the thousands of pages at once?

Here are a couple of examples of what the pages look like:

http://loyalty360.org/me/members/8003

http://loyalty360.org/me/members/4641

Thank you!

Wow, this is great, thank you! Do you have any advice for those looking to create or determine a "hub" page?

We recently found a handful of keywords we would like our homepage to rank for (for example - customer experience). On our homepage we have articles (4-5 posted daily) that feature the keywords we are targeting (one being customer experience). How do the keywords we are using in our daily articles that are posted to the homepage affect the overall keyword ranking for the homepage?

In other words do the keywords used in the articles (title, first 2-3 paragraphs, meta description, etc.) all roll up/build up to the homepage's keywords or how does that work?

Got it - I guess we will just have to keep an eye out. Thank you!

Thanks! Once you upload the file, how long does it usually take to make sure the links were removed?

Got it - I guess we will just have to keep an eye out. Thank you!

Hi - I was looking in my Google webmaster tools because we saw a huge jump in backlinks last week. We found this one article with 84,475 total links, which obviously stands out as spam. All the links are from 1 page and 1 domain (financeai.com).

This is the article on our website - http://loyalty360.org/resources/article/engaging-customer-atmosphere-at-pizza-patron and webmaster tools says all the links back to it come from this page http://financeai.com/forex/mxn/pkr/q/39665

My question is - should we/what can we do to clean this up? How does this impact our search ranking?

We have had some issues with our website getting extremely slow overnight, and we believe the site scraping is really slowing down the site at points.

Thanks.