There's plenty of room within a profile to write about the stuff you want to write about without having to feel like you're pigeonholed. I don't think G+ profiles should be looked at as restrictive. Rather, just like in the real world, you are as authoritative on a subject as you are able to devote time to it. By splitting your time between two or three or four or ten subjects, leaves you less time to be an authority on any one in particular. But that's a choice we all make everyday. I don't think you are going to dilute any relevance by doing so.
Posts made by Chris.Menke
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RE: Two websites in different niches. Should I create separate G+ authorship profiles?
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RE: Local SEO: Links with the citations so should I slow down?
My take on citations for local search is that they're dealt with by an algorithm other than the organic algorithm, one which looks to verify the correctness of the NAP and qualify the sites upon which the citations are found and that the sites where the citations are found are disregarded by the organic algorithm. So, if citations occur on a bunch of local database sites, like yp.com, for example, and they also come with links, the fact that it's a site dealt with by the Local algorithm means that velocity of links add isn't an issue.
I could be wrong though. I've been wrong before. : (
How many citations are you adding in what period of time?
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RE: Google Places Creation
I know things are changing as G+ Business pages roll out but the functionality you ask about has always been possible.The google places for business dashboard lets you add and verify all of your clients local profiles (but your authority to make changes to them has to be verified via phone call or post card verification to each client's business phone number or physical address).
At such a time that someone else would need to manage a client's places profile, the other party would simply add that client to their dashboard and verify they have authority to make changes by submitting for phone or postcard verification, receiving the pin that would provided in such verification communication, and inserting pin into their dashboard for that client.
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RE: Duplicate content
Sylvana, you won't have any problems with that.
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RE: Do I have panda issues?
It sounds very likely that you just got caught up in penguin links thing and someone upstream got hammered, as well as you, and that left you with less authority than you had before.
If the penalty has been removed, it means that you've done what was required to fall back within googles webmaster guidelines and if you're still not ranking, then it's time to get back to work networking, creating content that engages customers, networking and creating content that engages customer, and over and over. I mean, if your current content isn't doing it for you you need to strategize on new content that's going to map to your business goals and engage your prospective customers.
You might look at it as starting again from square one and be thankful you're not in the same situation as many others who haven't yet been able to escape the penalty.
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RE: Google Authorship Problems
Philip, you can test out you code with google's structed data testing tool.
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RE: Do I have panda issues?
It would be nice to have you explain why you think you're having panda issues. What's changed in you stats that makes you believe that?
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RE: Is this keyword stuffing?
So what if it is. So what if it's not. The question is: What are you doing to produce content that increases engagement with your brand? In cases like this, what your competitor is doing is inconsequential.
Understand that content mapped to your business goals is the whole deal and if you're not ranking at the top of search results, then someone is doing what needs to be don better than you are. If that's the case, you need to figure out how to be better--not how to dis them.
Don't dilly dally over what the competitor is doing--create an editorial calendar that blows them away and stick to it. Dig deep into the needs of your customers and produce content that will satisfy them. Think engagement. Think G+. Think social networking. Think about what your prospective customers need as they set out looking for a new car and write about that. Think like a publisher. Be creative.
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RE: Adding content into an iframe
If they're going to link to a URL on your domain because of the content in the iframe, why not go for it.
Are they really going to link to you though, is the question. As far as getting people to link to you, there's not that much difference between what you're describing and inserting a feed on your page. Technically, of course there's a big difference, but as a means of getting links, you still have to do the outreach, the curation, the unique-ifying (if it's content that's been taken from somewhere else on the web), the audience building, etc. . It will always be a struggle for you--and what happens when the license on the app runs out or the sites with the pages serving the iframe go out of business?
Because it's not a long term solution, we call stuff like that black hat. If you don't have a high tolerance for risk and you're not looking long-term, no biggie, go for it. If you're going to get easy back links from respectable sites from it, go for it. If you think it might be a tactic that your peers may not respect you for, you might think otherwise.
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RE: Preparing for Penguin: Delete or Change to Branding 25 small blogs, anchor text
If those blogs don't have back link profiles with good, diverse back links. I'd recommend to ditch them all. Site X already a profile of a bunch of similar blogs with private registration and if they all have similar back link profiles, the dots are going to be connected-if they haven't been already. If the back link profiles and brand citations of Site X are inconsequential, it's likely those 25 tiny blogs are not doing Site X any good at the moment anyway.
The site owner may have had good intentions back in the day but it's time to convince him/her that that train has passed and it's time to cut the losses.
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RE: Subdomains, duplicate content and microsites
Matt,
The duplication of template won't hurt you at all. It would be worthwhile to vary the images, though.
As for the linking between subdomains , If the content is good and unique on both sites, link between them in a manner that is appropriate for the user and the subject matter. I wouldn't link between directories from the footer if you already have navigation that has links to those directories.
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RE: What if an old site goes into PENDINGDELETE status
Those are all good questions and I'm hoping we get some good answers. In the meantime, I believe you can still renew your domain if it is pending delete. Have you tried renewing it at this point so that you can maintain the redirects?
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RE: Local SEO: Can you add citations too fast?
Hey Bob,
It's not something you hear much about and certainly not something I've considered in doing work for many local clients, but I think I hear what you're saying. Typically, I'd go to UBL.org, choose a package for the client, let the citations start flying, and be glad that it getting done as quickly as possible-- without even thinking about velocity.
I went over to David Mihm's 2012 local search ranking factors, and looked specifically for info on that and interestingly, that's not mentioned as a factor (which might be why I'd never given it a thought.)
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RE: Market Samurai
Most every keyword research tool uses proprietary metrics so comparing one to another is tough. Rather, get used to using one tool and use their metrics to compare keywords from within their own tool. You can look for terms from other tools and then plug them into your primary tool to ascertain metrics.
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RE: Local SEO: Google Places and Google+
The main thing is that the address you use is post office-correct and that you use the exact same one for all name address phone number entries on every local listing database like YP , Yelp, yellowpages.com and everywhere on the web.
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RE: Local SEO: Google Places and Google+
I wouldn't change St. to Street.
If google sent you a verification postcard to an incorrect address and you are able to receive that post card, and then subsequently input the pin number it contained into your dashboard to verify, you would be verifying the wrong address. You have to make sure the address is exactly as you want it to be before you submit for verification.
You could revise your address again and request a new post card but, like I said above, if it's just to change St. to Street, I'd stick with what you've got and not verify the changes when you get the post card.
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RE: Getting citations from different cities for a travelling band
In your case, I'd avoid anything that might look inappropriate--no additional accounts, no trying to rank in local in other cities--nothing. As a business model, you fall outside of what's normal and you don't want to trip any flags. Period.
You need to trade on your brand. What is your brand? What kind of music is your brand? What kind of people listen you your brand's music and what do they do during the day and after your shows? What other brands does your audience relate to? What brand of instruments do you play? Where do you hang out after a show at your venues? Who are your groupies and who are they connected to in the cities where you play? These are all things you can create content about.
Interviews. Do video, written, audio interviews with every personality in every city you play in. Seek out those people who will interview you there and get them done.
Press releases. Use a PR company to do press releases to announce your next/future venues and tie your acts to the venues, not the addresses of hired performers in those cities. Use G+ to build your brand and release video of your performances that tie back to your G+ account.
Don't think about how to game the system, you don't need to do that. Learn how the system works and maximize the features available to you in the system and you'll do OK.
Are you getting the point? Local is about who and what you're connected to in a city or town, and how you tie that in to your domain and your social profiles.
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RE: Local SEO NAP issue
You really should include the Room H in the address 2 field and commit to revising all your NAP in all addresses. As you might already know, you can automate that change in real time for a good number of databases using Yext or you can use UBL.org to take care of it over a longer period of time, or you can do do it yourself with the help of SEOmoz's getlisted.org
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RE: My Link Building Strategy Good or Bad?
Yes, you're right, there are very few legitimate opportunities to get a link back to your site from within the body a guest blog post. However, if a resource existed on the author's site that supported the blog post and there were no other appropriate resources, would that be a case where such a link would be acceptable?
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RE: Will this Blog Tool hurt our SEO
Andrew,
No it's not going to hurt your site. It's not likely that it will help you in search results, either, regardless of what their sales pitch is.
The thing about curation that's worth a danm (i.e., so targeted to your audience and so relevant to your product and so informative and so worth people's while as to get them to return to your site regularly for it because they can't get such an informative, satisfying mix of content elsewhere) is that it's hard work, too.
To make it anything close to worthwhile, you'll need to detail (at least a paragraph) your own take on each of the articles or snippets that bring to your site so that visitors understand why it's so important to you that you have it there. At some point down the road, you or your visitors are just going to see a bunch of semi-related articles that don't add much, if anything, to their experience at your site, and the question will be asked, "Why is this being done?".
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RE: My Link Building Strategy Good or Bad?
Jeepster, these days, forget the back link and go for the authorship markup from your bio or author page to your G+ account--especially if it's not a high quality blog your guest post is on, 'cause they're going to get dinged eventually and those back links will be worthless. If they don't do authorship, you may think about getting the post published elsewhere. If they're a quality blog (all posts are on-topic and they've got an active readership) it could go either way as to which is better--authorship or back link.
If you have to go with the link, go with a branded term from your bio.
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RE: My Link Building Strategy Good or Bad?
Getting there. Stay away from directories where others are using targeted anchor text.
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RE: Do the SEOmoz Campaign Reports follow Robots.txt?
Hi,
Rogerbot does adhere to your robots.txt file as mentioned here under the section heading How come rogerbot isn’t crawling all of my pages?
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RE: Two keywords in one page
Juan Miguel,
If your competition for a pair of similar keyword is low enough or your content is strong enough, you can optimize a single page for both keywords. If the terms are not similar, or there is substantial competition for either or both terms, it may be difficult or impossible to get both to rank.
Often, it's best to focus the content of each page on a single concept that is highly relevant to the keyword you are trying to optimize for.
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RE: My Link Building Strategy Good or Bad?
Arash,
Go to this really cool site that organizes every Matt Cutts video according the questions they answer it's called The Short Cutts, and match your 10 points above against the video topics in the link building catergory. Then watch this video, and then read through these posts. Then you'll want to work on revisions to your list. It's hard work but you can do it.
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RE: Cluster of outbound links on blog
If there is no reason for google to think they're paid links I wouldn't worry about it. If they're to sites that show a pattern of back links that look somehow suspicious, (do the links show on numerous sites that are not relevant to the site being linked to or multiples of those links show up together on numerous sites) then I'd say to watch out.
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RE: Do "search keywords" matter?
Let them take a back burner. You may never need to get around to them but most platforms provide a field for them because a lot of people still believe they're an important part of SEO.
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RE: Any Other PAID Keyword Difficulty Tool?
What do you feel the tool should do that it's not doing for you?
One of the hardest things about keyword research is building a comfort level with the tools at your disposal. Since none of them measure things in the same way, comfort tends to come from experience with them over time and even then, there can be more than a little grey area when it comes to choosing one term over another.
I can tell you that if you're here for the keyword difficulty tool only, you may not be getting your money's worth out of your subscription. It is a tool that you want to use in combination with other tools--many of which are also available here.
Relax, take a look around, try some stuff out, do some searches in the Q&A and round out your knowledge a little. You might find those things will help you just as much with your keyword research as the tool will.
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RE: Anchor text analysis
Something that does stand out in that list is the relatively small amount of brand terms. One would think that a site like this would more links to the home page with branded terms than it looks like you've got. In that respect, I might say your links don't look as natural as they should.
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RE: Multiple Sites Vs. Single Site
Lawrence, it won't be harder to show you're an expert with a single domain vs. two domains. Remember, it's not to Google that you have to show your expertise, it's to your audience. Google recognizes that your audience sees you as an expert when they share, comment and link to your content. Now, wrangle all them lawyers up and keep 'em all on one domain--and tell them to invest in good writers, it'll be worth it.
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RE: Philosophy & Deep Thoughts On Tag/Category URLs
Well..., since you opened the Philosophy & Deep Thoughts topic, think of it like this: the answer to your question lies in the engagement strategy you develop for those pages. There is no rule here. How can you formulate those pages to effectively entice likes, shares, retweets, comments, +1's?--that's the question.
For the category pages, formulate and execute a strategy that will leverage the philosophy of your product mix/editorial calendar (the two should mesh). (You have formulated those two things based on business objectives and target audience, right?) There is a reason you sell the specific products that you sell, right?---make that a fundamentally obvious part of your category page content and provide an rss feed specific to the audience of that philosophy--even if it's a small target audience. Produce content for that feed on a regular basis.
If you structure the content of your category pages around a curation philosophy there will be a fundamental difference between those pages and the content on your product pages. At that point, your duplicate content will disappear.
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Authorship/publisher markup - Author photo vs. company logo
I'm trying to get a company logo to show up next to the search results for a search on [company name] AND a separate author photo to show next to the About page of the author of the same site for a search on [author name]
There is author markup on the company's "About" page and Google's structured data testing tool shows that that page is correctly configured to show the author pic.
There is publisher markup on the home page and the tool shows that the page is correctly configured to show the company logo.
However, no company logo shows up in the search results for the [company name] search--just an author pic next to the "about" page for the [author name] search.
if I add author markup to the homepage in addition to the publisher markup, I get the author pic showing up for both [author name] and [company name] searches.
How is anyone making this work? Thanks.
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RE: Spamming and Wordpress
Most usually, your rankings will come back once you clean your site up. I'd recommend letting go of thoughts regarding penalties to site in question. There's really nothing that the ordinary mortal can do that will make that happen and if there was something that could be done, they'd be up and running the next hour with another site (which probably already is up and running.)
The big take away is: keep your wordpress up to date, delete your admin account, and set up an account with another username with a strong password.
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RE: Blogging on Drupal Blogs. White Hat or ?
You're asking if, independent of content, can the a CMS, such as Drupal ( or Joomla or Wordpress, etc) help your rankings, is that right?
The answer to that would be no. A CMS can hurt your SEO and it can make SEO easier or more difficult but which CMS is used is not a search engine ranking factor.
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RE: Blogging on Drupal Blogs. White Hat or ?
Potter,
There' nothing inherently wrong with that and ypically, you wouldn't consider the site's platform to play a part in a site's ranking ability.
Writing good quality articles and getting them posted individually on other blogs is not considered black hat. Done correctly, this is high-quality marketing effort that can build brand recognition and promote social sharing.
The other side of the coin would be writing low-quality articles and posting them to article marketing sites in the hopes that they'll be distributed to hundreds of other sites. Whether that this tactic is black hat or not may be open to interpretation, but as an effective SEO strategy, it's not something you want to bank on and it could leave you open to a google penalty in the future.
The third side of the coin would be creating empty profiles on forum-type sites just to get a link from the profile to your site. This can often be done on a large scale by low-end link builders, there aren't usually articles involved, and the links back to the site usually have very targeted anchor text. This would be considered a black hat effort and they stand a chance of getting knocked out of the search results for it, at some point in the future.
There may be other things that are helping that site rank better than yours other than what you mentioned. Just as likely, there are things that you should be doing to help yourself that you're not doing. If the other guy is just doing the second and/or third things mentioned above and their site is out performing yours, then you need to get to work doing some real marketing and yours will easily reclaim its position.
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RE: WWW and Without WWW Backlinks
Hi Chandu,
Here's everything you ever wanted to know about canonicalization:
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RE: Does the page title keyword count in anchor text when link is web address?
You always gotta pay attention to posts like that. Personally, if an SEO-related post isn't dated, I don't pay attention to it. In the case of this undated post on seochat, you can see that it's referencing Rand's post of 2011 which put's it way, way out of date, or at least, it's referencing very old material. However, if you look at the big graphic on the referenced Rand Fishkin post of 2011, it is making a prediction of the future of search and in it, you'll see that, he was predicting that as a ranking factor, the value of kewords in the URL would drop significantly.
I think most SEO's who are up to date with their info would agree that the value anchor text in links like you describe is diminishing in value and looking into the future, you're better of not making widespread use of it.
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RE: Massive Nonsensical 301 on Large ecommerce Site
With that many pages, they might not all be indexed anyway. If they weren't "important" enough to get traffic to the old site, there's probably no real strength in them that needs to be 301'd to the new site.
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RE: Does the page title keyword count in anchor text when link is web address?
Those words in the URL can add some relevance to the link but I suspect it's not much. You're not likely to get a whole lot of links like that, though.
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RE: Two "Twin" Domains Responding to Web Requests
They're the same site but not the same url. Notice one of those URLs begins with www and the other does not. It's just a weird thing about the way internet servers are set up and having problems with which one of them should be the one you use is called a canonicalization issue.
Most webmasters chose to use the www version and redirect the non-www version to it via settings on the web host. Here's some more reading on canonicalization.
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RE: My blog homepage deindexed, other pages indexing, still traffic not changed.
I suspect the JS is preventing all crawlers from viewing your content. It's likely Google has only indexed your homepage since you installed that plugin and that's why it's not visible in there results. if you left the plugin installed, all of your pages would probably loose visibility, as it seems has already happened with Bing.
Leave your plugin uninstalled for a few weeks and see if the pages don't start showing again in the search results.
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RE: How to fight against a site always "re-write" your content?
Try disallowing the user agent in your robots.txt file and pinning down the IP address of the scraper so you can deny it in your .htaccess file
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RE: My blog homepage deindexed, other pages indexing, still traffic not changed.
It seems you need to have your JS turned on in order to view the site. I don't think that's a very good idea. Is this a new "feature" on your site?
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RE: Are sliding text SEO friendly?
OK--that's an accordion. You're good.
So long as you can see the text in the source code, you're usually in good shape.
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RE: Please Review and Advice!
Tahrim,
I don't think it's a mater of on-page SEO. It looks like your site is still only a few months old and you're going to have to build up some more content in order to get the kind of traffic you're probably hoping for. Your content looks good but you're just going to need to keep at it. Over the next year +, you'll see your traffic increasing.
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RE: Why my site is not indexing in google
Rajesh,
It's not the size of your sitemap because Maximum number of URL on a sitemap is 50,000. Keep in mind, however, that your sitemap is really just a suggestion tool. Just because your sitemap contains a URL, doesn't mean Google will crawl it. The site's architecture and its back links have impact its crawl priority.
Read through these posts for more info:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/testing-how-crawl-priority-works
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/diagrams-for-solving-crawl-priority-indexation-issues
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RE: Our "home page" is behind a member wall, options?
Please clarify what url you're talking about when you say "landing page" and what url you're talking about when you say "portal"? Also, I think your question would be easier to understand if you used "home page" to mean the index page--but I'm not sure that's what you're doing.
Also, your redirect from the index page to the unrecognized page is a 303, not a 301.