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How many times Google crawls a website varies a lot; if your producing a lot of content then it can be daily. If you’re producing very little content it might be monthly.

I've found that my content gets crawled once i share it on Twitter, Google+ and Facebook.

Firstly what website are you talking about? is it http://www.bronxpad.com/ (on your profile) if you you don't appear to have any links?

What keywords are you trying to rank for?

It really depends on what your objectives are? If your objectives are to increased traffic then adding content to your blog is a far better option.

**Benefits of adding content to your website **

• Long tail keywords = lots of traffic

• Possibility of links (if you provide great content, it could get links. Don't expect to get lots easily though, check out this question I asked about blog posts and links acquisition ratio's)

• Permanent asset for traffic and links.

Benefits of Guest Blogging

• One guaranteed link

• Networking with other bloggers

-Bring some traffic from other sites that might have lots of traffic.

If you’re going to guest blog ensure to choose a website that has a massive user base of traffic. That wouldn't be achievable if you added it to your blog.

Well I'm really sick of reading people questions saying "help my sites been affected by penguin"

So I thought I would ask something about blogging, where is the best place to find and buy pictures for blog posts?

I already use Wikimedia commons. But I'm interested websites that have a bigger range that aren't too pricey.

What do you recommend?

Hi Pete,

Firstly I wouldn't remove any of your links, it looks like your links have been devalued.

This basiclly means that Google isn't counting many of your links. Most likely Website footers, blog comments and forums have all been devalued.

Watch this video by Rand for more info http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-on-googles-penguin-update

If you want to regain your ranking I would conentrate on content creation for your blog and guest blogging. It looks like you haven't added anything for awhile. Try posting each week. Also add some photos to each of your blog posts.

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If you have an ABN you can get even cheap pricing with them.

Hi Kosta,

Sadly the only way I know is to contact each website that looks spammy and ask for them to remove the link.  Sometimes getting removal isn't possible.

If it's a blog network, find out who owns the blog network and ask them to remove all the links.  It looks like they have used an SEO firm to get these back links? Often blackhat SEO firms have their own blog networks, so you could get them to remove all of them, if your lucky.

The other option is to just start building quality links, and just wait out the penalty. If you get enough quality links Google will see the website is trust worthy and ignore the spam.

The hard part is getting quality links. Start with high quality directories, and then looks at the business supplier to see if you can get quality links from suppliers in exchange for a testimonies.

Then I would move on to guessed blogging on relevant topics.  Cars should be an easy topic to find plenty of quality blogs. Contact them with a great article or idea, in exchange for a link.

Open Site explorer only get's updated every month or so, although it doesn't  crawl the entire internet so it could take up to 1-3 months for you to see what your competitors backlinks are.  They do have backlinks.

In terms of your website, it looks like you have received a Google Penalty, as I've searched your actual name: "sportsautogroup" and you don't even show up.

You need to remove the spammy blog links and other fake links. Such as this one... this clearly a spammy blog network link - http://www.christmastreemountain.com/

Then submit for reconsideration - I could contact an SEO professional before doing this. There is plenty of great people on SEOmoz forum that can help.

Thanks Kieron, This definitely helps! It looks like guest blogging in terms of link building is significantly more effective.  Still it would be great if someone had figures on traffic/links ratio... as I’m guessing this would be more accurate than amount of articles to link ratio.

Hi,

Was wondering if people could please tell me some estimates of how much traffic is likely to gain links to a blog post?

For example 1,000 hits = 1 link, Hence 10,000 hits = 10 links to a blog post?

I understand there is no magic ratio I just want to know what people have achieved. I’m after averages not just a one off really successful blog post too.

Please specify the topic you achieve this in e.g. SEO, photography, business, heath... etc.

They updated Linkscape every month, https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule

You can added it to your calendar https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule

You should worry more about your SERP.  If you are improving your results then your doing the right thing.

Firstly read the http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo.

Step 1- Change your Title Tag: e.g Sknlisting | StKitts Real Estate.... Your current one is to long:

St Kitts and Nevis Real Estate Listings | Find st kitts and nevis real estate, houses for sale, houses for rent, apartments for rent in st kitts and nevis,

Step 2- Submit to quality business / Link Directories. e.g. DMOZ, Yahoo, BOTW http://www.seomoz.org/directories

Step 3- Keyword competitor link research - Use http://www.opensiteexplorer.org

Research your competitors links, then create an excel spread sheet and attempted to get their best links

Step 4 - Press Release - Press Release to relevant Newspapers, Magazines & PR web (or similar)

**Step 5 - Start a blog and create useful content **

Step 6 - Use Social Media to promote your blog and website.

Open Site explorer only get's updated every month or so, although it doesn't  crawl the entire internet so it could take up to 1-3 months for you to see what your competitors backlinks are.  They do have backlinks.

In terms of your website, it looks like you have received a Google Penalty, as I've searched your actual name: "sportsautogroup" and you don't even show up.

You need to remove the spammy blog links and other fake links. Such as this one... this clearly a spammy blog network link - http://www.christmastreemountain.com/

Then submit for reconsideration - I could contact an SEO professional before doing this. There is plenty of great people on SEOmoz forum that can help.

Hi Pete,

Firstly I wouldn't remove any of your links, it looks like your links have been devalued.

This basiclly means that Google isn't counting many of your links. Most likely Website footers, blog comments and forums have all been devalued.

Watch this video by Rand for more info http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-on-googles-penguin-update

If you want to regain your ranking I would conentrate on content creation for your blog and guest blogging. It looks like you haven't added anything for awhile. Try posting each week. Also add some photos to each of your blog posts.

Can someone please provide some details about  key ranking factors for Google Places? Such as Keywords, reviews, pictures, location?

I've tried getting reviews, adding lots of details, + Pictures etc..

Firstly how long have you been waiting? You can expect waiting times of up to 6 months or more.

Secondly it’s possible a competitor is the editor for that directory but pretty unlikely, it more likely they have a big back log. Or they don't have an editor / active one for that section.  You can always try and apply for the editor position yourself (although I've had no luck with this).

DMOZ can be a really powerful link, but it really depends on the section you are trying to get, and how many other listings are already there.

I would submit once and then forget about it and focus on content creation and other areas. Add yourself to BOTW and dir.yahoo.com.

Never hear of these “Submission services” but they sound like waste of money and time.

I highly recommend: http://www.ventraipeconomy.com.au/ They have great pricing for both domain registration and hosting.

If you have an ABN you can get even cheap pricing with them.

It really depends on what your objectives are? If your objectives are to increased traffic then adding content to your blog is a far better option.

**Benefits of adding content to your website **

• Long tail keywords = lots of traffic

• Possibility of links (if you provide great content, it could get links. Don't expect to get lots easily though, check out this question I asked about blog posts and links acquisition ratio's)

• Permanent asset for traffic and links.

Benefits of Guest Blogging

• One guaranteed link

• Networking with other bloggers

-Bring some traffic from other sites that might have lots of traffic.

If you’re going to guest blog ensure to choose a website that has a massive user base of traffic. That wouldn't be achievable if you added it to your blog.

Alittle of topic but FYI, It's free atm to add your blog to botw Blogs http://blogs.botw.org/

So if you have a blog, add it. I added mine and get listed within a few months.

They also have strict submission criteria which means they are still a quality directory.

I've seen changes within the last  6 months to websites PR so I believe it's not dead. It gets updated randomly Google doesn't update it publicly very often because they don't want SEO people to focus on this number.

If you want more info on PR what this video...http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-is-googles-pagerank-good-for-whiteboard-friday

Here's a quote from the Video explaining PR:

"PageRank is useful as a raw indication of link popularity. Meaning that, PageRank doesn't take into account anchor text. It doesn't take into account whether the sites are related to each other. It doesn't take into account whether some of the sites maybe have been flagged for spam. It doesn't take into account whether the page is relevant to the actual search query"