Yes, with that many links I think that is the best thing to do. Peter
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RE: Partner Site In Bound Links
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RE: Partner Site In Bound Links
Hi, it is just one site then I don't think it is going to have an impact on your site, especially with the links being in the footer, unless you are talking about lots of them.
If you did want to do anything then yes, just add a nofollow to the footer link. If the footer link is contained in a common block of code that is included on all the site's pages then it's a simple change to do. But there is no need to do a disavow.
I hope that helps,
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RE: Appropriate way to do the "Link to us" stuff.
Hi, I would say firstly that it depends on who your app is for and as such who may want to link to your site.
Is it an app that businesses will use or for Joe Public, i.e. consumers? If the latter then it's likely that many of them won't have sites to link to yours anyway. If the app is for businesses, then you may get some traction for sites willing to link, but unless these are sites that have relevance to your app site, then they could just be seen as spammy links, especially with the same anchor text repeated.
In my opinion, if you are already having some success with social likes and shares, then you are better to work on growing that, thereby increasing visitors and raising the currency of your site that way.
I hope that helps,
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RE: Partial EMD
Hi Muhammad,
An exact match or partial match domain can help yes, but it is not such an effective strategy as it once was because Google has tweaked its algorithm against it a little, plus people tend to be a little bit suspicious of those type of domains these days.
If you have an older domain for your business then you are better off using and optimising a site with that which can include using search engine friendly URLs which can be just as effective and of course can be different.
I hope that helps,
Peter
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RE: Can i pause a a subscription?
Hi Csaba
No you cannot pause your account but you can cancel and restart. In that case Moz archives your data and brings out of cold storage so to speak when you resubscribe.
You can see someone asked the same question a little while back: http://moz.com/community/q/can-i-pause-my-monthly-subscription
Peter
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RE: Good alternative to guest blogging
Hi Aaron
If the website is new I would still encourage you to build a blog of articles on the site showing your expertise for the products the site is selling. Also share the articles in social media channels including Google+ by publishing snippets of each one (i.e. headline + intro) with a link through to read the full article on the website.
Peter
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RE: Good alternative to guest blogging
Hi Aaron
With the way search has been changing it's difficult to say 'this' is comparable to 'that'.
I assume you are already blogging on the eCommerce site and creating good quality content there? If not, then I would recommend starting with that and I certainly wouldn't recommend paying to guest blog. In fact it raises the question how can a guest blog be a "guest blog" if you pay for the privilege. Sounds more like a paid link which I wouldn't recommend.
If you have expertise in an area to share and blogs in your space value that expertise then they will offer you the opportunity.
Peter
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RE: Local SEO: 1 Location Covering Multiple Surrounding Cities
Hi, I think without a dealer in San Francisco with a physical address then you need to optimise the page on your site for the dealer you have in Santa Rosa complete with citations for their location (Name, Address, Phone number).
The success of the Santa Rosa dealer's page for searches for San Francisco will largely depend on the competitiveness of other dealers listed on the Internet that are selling the same products with local citations closer to San Francisco. If there are limited dealers to be found for San Francisco then Google will spread it's net wider to find other relevant results. That said, your Google+ Local listing showing coverage should help your site page.
I hope that helps,
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RE: What Link building Strategies should adopt after hummingbird update?
Hi Muhammad
Your link building and SEO strategies to a large extent should be no different than before Hummingbird. To qualify that I would say that is true if before Hummingbird you were already creating content that focussed on answering the needs of people for questions they were asking and information they were looking for.
I would recommend you read a recent blog post on Moz by Gianluca Fiorelli about Hummingbird entitled "Hummingbird Unleashed" in which Gianluca very much explains what has changed and what those concerned with marketing online should be doing about it. For me the quote I found to be very helpful was "We should stop focusing only on keyword optimization and start thinking about topical optimization" and that I think at the heart of the Hummingbird update.
With regard to link building, your strategy (which hopefully it was before) should be to make sure that links are built from other sites and pages that are relevant to the topic of your site and pages. Gone are the days when any backlink was good and the more inbound links you could build the better. A lot of site's ranked well using that strategy, but one by one those sites are falling by the wayside.
So set a foundation to build topical content that people want to read and share and you will be heading in the right direction.
I hope that helps,
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RE: Does Twitter give better SEO than Facebook?
Hi Mark
I agree with both Chris & Ratan. Based on Rand's recent Whiteboard Friday there is also a case of saying Google+ is best for SEO - some interesting thoughts on there so worth watching.
Peter
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RE: Google+ vanity URL not accepted within the community profile?!
Hi, it should work but maybe you are not adding it correctly? You just need to put in your new Google+ name with a plus sign before it, e.g. +PeterLunn without any other parts of the URL.
I hope that helps,
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RE: 01 November 2013 - A possible Google's update??
Mozcast also record a spike in the Google weather between 1st and 3rd November, but there were bigger rises between 23rd and 28th October showing more changes went on during that period.
Peter
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RE: URL advice
Hi,
If I am really honest I wouldn't vote for any of them, mainly because I think there's too many words and they all feel pretty complicated.
Maybe I don't understand your market (which is very possible!) but does anyone search for "authentic designer vintage bags"? However, I can understand someone searching possibly for "vintage designer bags".
I think for your URLs to be useful for search engines and humans alike, then simpler is better. So, I would suggest something like "/designer-bags/vintage-clutch".
A thought regarding the surplus "product-category" part of the URL you should be able to rewrite that out with a line of code in your site's .htaccess file - if you have the option to modify it.
I hope that helps,
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RE: Type of sitemap
Hi Auke
Yes, I use the XML format for creating sitemaps all the time. I don't use any other format for sitemap submission.
With your client is the sitemap they have up to date? Either way it would better to create a latest version in XML format. Maybe try this one:
http://www.web-site-map.com/google-sitemap.php
Peter
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RE: Type of sitemap
Hi Auke
Yes there is. Search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo follow the protocol specified by sitemaps.org which is XML. It's not that a sitemap in a different format won't work but you are best sticking with the convention that they agree on.
More info is here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183668?hl=en
I hope that helps,
Peter
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RE: Competitor owns two domains which are essentially duplicates. Is this allowed?
I agree with you Sorina. As I said, what Bryan is reporting is not really an issue of web spam, but using the Google web spam report might bring the two sites to Google's attention to at least look at the issue.
Without being able to see able to see the two sites and compare them to see if the content on both of them is substantially the same as Bryan has suggested this is a bit of a head scratcher. We can only speculate about, but I guess Bryan may not be too keen on a public forum to post the URLs.
Peter
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RE: Moz recommends submitting to directories?
Hi,
Directories of themselves are not bad.
I would say that provided the directory shows a clear track record for your industry and is not just lots of pages of links with no supporting content, then that still holds good.
I hope that helps,
Peter
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RE: Competitor owns two domains which are essentially duplicates. Is this allowed?
Hi Bryan
Have you tried reporting through Google's web spam report?
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport
It's not quite the issue you have but it may at least bring the issue to Google's attention.
Peter
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RE: Is there such thing as Youtube reverse engineering?
Hi Vlad
You could search for use of the link, e.g. https://www.google.co.uk/#q=http%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FFu-z_yFmgLE which will produce results, but in terms of embedded use I am not sure.
Peter
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RE: Keyword tool suggestions??
Hi
As an interesting free tool have a look at Ubersuggest which pulls keyword searches from Google Suggest.
KeywordEye seems to be talked about a fair bit in my circles recently, but I haven't used it before. It's a subscription tool.
Market Samurai is a download and install, pay once tool that's been popular but I don't hear it talked about so much these days.
I'm sure others will suggest some worth looking at.
Peter
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RE: Google’s Hummingbird and Keyword Cannibalization
Yes I agree. By all means have something on the general site pages that the company supply "oak furniture", but on the products pages themselves it will be enough to have something like oak sideboard, oak cabinet, oak table etc as appropriate.
Peter
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RE: Facebook Likes, Google +1s tactic - is this a good idea
Hi Bob
People will +1 because they think that something is remarkable, by that I mean that it is something that they want to tell others (i.e remark) about. Google themselves talk about the +1 button being for "w_hen you read a post that makes you want to cheer, +1 is your applause; when you watch a video that has you in stitches, +1 is your laughter; when you see a photo that perfectly captures that special moment, +1 is your 5-star review"._
In terms of how you can encourage people to +1, I think you need to think about where you place +1 buttons. If people read or see something that gets their attention enough to tell others and there is a +1 button adjacent, then they are more likely to click it.
With an ecommerce site it depends on what products you are selling in terms of determining what is "remarkable", but it could be alongside a snippet of positive media reviews, in response to a celebrity's endorsement, an engaging product video, or you could just display something like "if you love this product and think others should too, then +1 it!".
You could also create some very good value time-limited offers around a couple of sought after products which act as loss leaders. You don't necessarily have to make a loss on them, just a very small margin. The important thing is that they are seen as very good value by the consumer compared to where else the product can be bought. People like to tell others that they bought a bargain, so a +1 button alongside a very special offer could work very well.
Peter
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RE: Facebook Likes, Google +1s tactic - is this a good idea
Hi Bob
I'm not sure any tactic as far as the search engines are concerned can be considered to be 100% safe forever. Looking at how the tactics around SEO have had to change over the last 15 years or so leads me to think that anything that could be perceived as even slightly "off-white" could be under threat. I would say this tactic falls into off-white group.
Google outlaw that type of thing with their Google Adwords program for advertisers with their policy on "Social interaction incentives" saying that an advert that encourages someone to click a +1 "isn't allowed because it offers incentives in return for clicking on the business' +1 button" - see: https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/1187836.
Whilst I would say I think there is no doubt your proposed incentive is a whiter shade of grey than that (because you are bearing the cost of the +1, Like etc not a third-party), it still has that element of doubt for me.
I hope that helps,
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RE: Should I remove spaces from my brand name?
Hi Kade
I think it depends on the two words really. There was an example the other day of a company called ConvertMedia that didn't rank in the search results for Convert Media for the reason that the intent of a search like that is to find answers to how to convert media. So in that case the one word brand name worked against them, but the very fact of having a one word name identified them as that brand.
The brand name of my business however is two words: Cracking Media. If however you search for CrackingMedia we still turn up top in the search results, but it does ask do you mean "Cracking Media".
In terms of what your SEO friend has said I am not sure that gives you a conclusion, but I hope the thoughts above may help.
Peter
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RE: How to you get a company details to appear on the right side of google searches? For example is you type dr martens in google , the search page shows links and then a snippet of the company on the right. Thank you.
Hi Vjay,
There's a bit more info here too from an earlier question on this back in June:
Peter
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RE: On the Keyword Difficulty tool what do the green boxes and ticks mean?
Hi Matthew
The darker the green the higher the value of that metric. Lighter green are mid-range, white are low-range.
The ticked metrics show you the top-rated metric for the column.
A screenshot is attached as an example.
I hope that helps,
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RE: Repetitive Speaker and Keyword Stuffing Penalty
I love your whimsical answer Dana
Peter
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RE: Repetitive Speaker and Keyword Stuffing Penalty
Hi Oren
Yes, it is a little bit whimsical!
Unless the speaker shouldn't really be speaking because he says the word super excessively I don't believe you would have an issue. Google states the following regarding keyword stuffing:
"Keyword stuffing" refers to the practice of loading a webpage with keywords or numbers in an attempt to manipulate a site's ranking in Google search results. Often these keywords appear in a list or group, or out of context (not as natural prose)
Repeating the same words or phrases so often that it sounds unnatural, for example:
We sell custom cigar humidors. Our custom cigar humidors are handmade. If you’re thinking of buying a custom cigar humidor, please contact our custom cigar humidor specialists at custom.cigar.humidors@example.com.
Source: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66358?hl=en
Does your speaker speak as unnaturally as that? It would be very odd if they did.
I think it will be OK.
Peter
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RE: I want to improve our client's website structure, so he gets more traffic locally. What advice do you have ?
Hi Ben
Without seeing your client's current site it is difficult to say how it could be improved in look. Would you be able to post a link?
In general terms, I would suggest looking at what other sites for similar businesses are like both local to them and nationally. Pay particular attention to the top ranking sites for search phrases that would apply to your client's business. What is good about the sites? Could you do something similar for or even better? What do these sites lack - is there something missing which you could do.
Successful sites get to where they are for a number of reasons, but was a usability perspective, content will answer the questions visitors customers are asking in clear language. Bigger images are more in vogue today so use strong visuals. In terms of structure make sure navigation is clear and the design is clean and engaging.
I hope that helps,
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RE: Google’s Hummingbird and Keyword Cannibalization
Hi Adnan
To answer you firstly on Hummingbird and SEO Guru's opinion, yes, it's correct in part, but your client should not get caught up with idea that responding to Hummingbird requires a new SEO magic trick. Hummingbird is the evolution of what Google has been doing for quite a while meaning that today SEO is not so much about saying how do I target this or that keyword, but rather how you answer the questions your target customers are asking.
So whilst including keywords or phrases into a page Title tag is still relevant, it's not about top loading pages, but making sure the whole page is targeted which actually could mean, in terms of that page's content, that you are targeting multiple key phrases.
You are right in saying you shouldn't just be repeating one key phrase such as "oak furniture" across all pages. A Title tag is like the title of a page in a book. It tells the visitor and the search engine what that page is about which then of course needs to be backed up by the content on that page. So all pages on a site cannot be just about "oak furniture".
Having said that, it may be that your client's site could do with an SEO makeover and as such that may mean updating some page Titles and consequently the page URLs. If that happens, you will need to use 301 redirects to make sure old page URLs are redirected to the new page URLs.
I hope the above helps,
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RE: GWT Images Indexing
If the path to the images has not changed in your code and the robots.txt file has not changed either then I don't have an explanation.
Is it possible that you have changed the way the search engine friendly URLs are created and therefore that has changed the query path to the images?
Ultimately though, if there is no reason to have that disallow in your robots.txt then I would remove it and re-submit a sitemap.
Peter
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RE: GWT Images Indexing
Hi
Just checking your robots.txt file you have this line:
Disallow: /ProductImage.aspx
As your images are served from a query running from: http://www.repsole.com/ProductImage.aspx, e.g. http://www.repsole.com/ProductImage.aspx?File=pi-server-cabinet-42u-mesh-door-cab42810-svr.jpg&Size=200 then I think that is the source of your problem.
Peter
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RE: Show or hide content in responsive design
Hi, it will be interesting to hear other feedback on this also, but in my view just spend time building the responsive site and making it work well for various sizes and don't spend time on the specifically mobile site.
This blog post at Distilled may help too: http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/responsive-web-design-distilledlive/
Peter
PS. Following on from my reply on this earlier, it may be helpful to you to see the video that Google's Matt Cutts published about Responsive vs Mobile sites for SEO on this today. Click the link below.
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RE: Keyword in Domain Name
Hi Cindy
If your current site at enchantingquotes.com is ranking well for your the main keyword for your business then I would not change anything.
IMHO_, m_oving everything over and then setting up redirects is not going to be worth it for the time it will take to do it and the result could be a possible negative impact. By the fact that you are ranking currently means your current site is trusted for the search phrase. Moving everything could undo that trust.
For your other domain enchantingwallquotes.com rather than just redirecting it you may be better using that as as a blog site or something like that has useful content on your target market and which then links to your current site.
I hope that helps<
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RE: GWT Images Indexing
Hi, it can take Google extra time to index images, but I would also suggest you check the following:
- That you haven't got a line in your robots.txt file that is disallowing indexing of your images folder. I have seen that happen before.
- That your images are well named, i.e. not just something like "img_1234.jpg".
- That your images have alt text linked with them on the pages they are used on.
I hope that helps,
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RE: Blog home page and SEO
Hi Bob
I am not sure I understand the question you are asking. Please can you give some more information and perhaps an example.
Peter
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RE: What Are The Hazards to Changing Over to Responsive Web Design?
Hi Gina
I agree with Jeff's comments. If it's a good design and works well then both your current and future customers will all benefit.
Peter
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RE: How would you increase rankings if you were in charge of the SEO for this site
Hi Bob
If they're opposed to link building then they are going to have to work hard at creating as you say "stellar targeted authoritative content" and then make sure they engage on social media to sharing their content that will hopefully encourage others to create links for them.
Looking at the make up of the current top 10 for those search phrases there is a lot of hard work ahead to compete and be number 2.
A couple of brief things about their site currently and in particular their articles.
I would recommend finding a consistent way of creating their page URLs. Some are hyphenated but many are not (e.g. http://www.nlpca.com/DCweb/dcwebdynamicspinreleasearticlehtml.html) and as such they are not clear to read as humans even if a search engine can probably makes sense of them. Some are to PDFs and some are to external websites, but you don't know what you are going to get when you click the link. The articles need to be better organised.
Also, scanning their articles those I looked at seemed to contain no links, i.e. referencing other articles on the site or even citing external experts.
I hope that helps,
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RE: Are these Bad Internal Links/Anchor Text?
Hi Ash
The value of anchor text for internal links doesn't change as far as I know dependent on where they are used. It's more a case of making sure you use anchor text appropriately.
By that I mean particularly on pages where you have article body text. It's good to have links in your body text, but not too much. Only link text which will help the visitor navigate to where they want to go, not for the benefit of search engines to spider your website. Too many links just disturbs the reader and diverts them from linking through to stuff that's important. It also looks spammy to search engines.
Peter
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RE: Track social shares of my webpage
Hi, depending on which CMS you are using there may be a plugin you can use to add the Google Analytics tracking code to your website.
Which CMS do you have?
With regard to the tracking code, if you haven't done so already you will need to create a Google Analytics account for your website domain. In the process you will be given a portion of code to include in your web pages. However, if you can use a plugin with your CMS all you need to get is the unique tracking ID for your website from your Google Analytics account. This will come in the format:
UA-xxxxxx-xx
where the Xs will be numbers.
I hope that helps,
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RE: Getting Redirect Loops in MOZ using Chrome
Hi Miriam
Yes, it does seem to be cookie related, but if you put moz.com/logout into your address bar and hit enter that seems to clear the session cookie that is causing the issue.
It may be quicker to do that and less destructive to other cookies you have active which you may not want to be cleared.
Peter
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RE: Are these Bad Internal Links/Anchor Text?
Hi Ash
Firstly let me say that I think your site looks good.
On the Quicklinks section, I don't think that is an issue. The number of internal links you have and your use of anchor text is not excessive at all.
This video by Google's Matt Cutts recorded earlier this year may help you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ybpXU0ckKQ
The only thing I would be a little careful of is the balance of the visual blocks (which do contain some text) to the main text area of the page. There is more info here: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/page-layout-algorithm-improvement.html but having said that the impact of that is only really on the entry pages to your site. Once you get to the pages you are linking to with the "read more" lnks then the balance is fine.
The only thing you may want to give attention to from an SEO perspective is the keywords used in your pages is whether or not you reference the fact that your pages are for "over 50s" enough. I couldn't see much reference to that. Whilst your site is called Over50choices suggesting the content is for over 50s, you need to be able to back that up with content that specifically talks about the "...over 50s..." or "...over fifties...", not in an excessive spammy way - as you need to write for your site visitors not humans - but enough to bring those words into the context of the pages.
I hope that helps,
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RE: Increase in Not Found Errors
Hi Amanda
You could just change your single pattern matched 301 to point all links to your old site to the home page of the new site. That way at least someone who clicks on a link to your old site will find the new site. Also without a 301 for all the links on your old site those old URLs are going to sit around in the indexes of search engines for a long time.
Peter
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RE: Why Did Our Site Disappear for 6 Months?
Hi David
First step would be to remove the link herself from those sites if she could get access. If that didn't work then at least try to contact the sites and ask them to remove the links
But if she is unsuccessful with those routes she would be to go through Google Webmaster Tools and start a process of disavowing those links one by one. This video by Google's Matt Cutts may help explain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=393nmCYFRtA
Peter