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Hi,

One of the keywords i am optimizing for seems to be penalized. We are selling childrens clothes and we have 1 folder/url for each producer/designer.

Main page is strong compared to competitors and we are ranging 1st for 2 most important keywords. Most of our other producer pages are ranking 2nd-4th.

I took some time to rank and I had a some catalogues(hotvsnot, addsitelink, webzdirectory, 3 blogs) link into this specific folder some 3 months ago. It didnt seem to rise in ranks staying in range 12th-23rd spot. Which seemed sort of weird to me. 2 Days ago it dropped to around 120th spot. No other pages on site dropped. Looking at it now I do see that its almost 100% 'producername' in anchor text which i guess is the reason for the ranking problem and maybe the drop in rankings a couple of days ago.

Blog links are completly natural, catalogues are not i guess. The total sum of links doesnt seem natural because the anchor text is same on all. Still its not that unnatural if you sell nike shoes to have a catalogue called nike and the anchor text to be pointing to it to be nike, but still.

So my question is:  do i try to change anchor text in catalogues or have them completely removed ? Do i get blogs etc to link to my site using an other word than the producer name that might seem less natural ??

Thanks for your help.

Hi,

Thanks a lot that must be it

Dan

Hi,

Just noticed what to me and our ecomm site seemed like an extremely useful way of advertizing on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/?sk=lf#!/lindexnorge . At the time of writing its the 2nd one on this facebook site.

This which I assume is an app gives in this case 30% off on dress of your own choosing. Clicking the box sends you an email from facebook with info. It specifies in pop up after clicking that  your mail adress has not been shared with the ecom site. There is also a smaller line on bottom were default is to share this with your friends on facebook. You have to change this in order not to.

Within 24 hours this one is up to 20k uses and that is quite a lot in a small country like norway.

Anyone understand which app this is or how it can be done ?

Dan Lærum

So i create a new URL and give it to whom ever is having the banner ad for me and i becomes trackable in analytics?

Hi

We have a top banner ad on an external renown site only to attrack traffic. It does show up in google analytics, but i have seen some increase in  (direct) / (none) traffic. Is there anyway i can track it when banner is showed from 2 separate URLs

http://www.tv2torget.no/bedrift/netthandel/ and http://www.tv2torget.no/bedrift/netthandel/barneklaer/

Thanks

Dan Lærum

Hi

We have an ecom site selling childrens clothing. We startet up with a blogspot blog due to the lack of that option from our provider. I have a few links in to the blogspot blog and realized today that the PA is 39 - the PA of homepage of ecom site is 40.

Ive lately been using the ..../blog on my ecom site. The functionality so far of it is so bad that i am considering using the blogspot blog again.

How can i best utilize the strength of our blog at blogspot. Just keep posting w anchor text to relevant pages our main site? Is redirecting a possibility at all ?

Dan Lærum

I want to improve my rank on .com because i think i think searches there are just as relevant. The only people that search for barneklær are norwegian speaking weather it is on .no or .com. Will it help med to get more links from .no website ?

Hi

I am ranking 1st for my main keyword (barneklær-childrens clothing) on google.no. I got  a bit surprised to see we are close to bottom of page 2 for same keyword on google.com. This keyword is as you probably understandreally country specific because the norwegian letter -æ . So if I take a look at the list at google.com its really the same sites I am outranking on .no.

For this keyword local stats pr month is 22k and global is 29k (from google adwords). Even though our site is norwegian only - all of the global traffic is relevant due to the fact that this is a norwegian only word.

Main reason we are ranking first on google.no i think is that we ve had articles on the strongest and most relevant blogs in Norway. I am guessing we somehow need to improve our international linking profile - right ?

Do i then need US sites ? Is it enough with sites outside Norway? Any suggestions, its not easy to get international links to a norwegian site only dealing with childrens clothing.

Thanks in advance...

Dan Lærum

Yes i ve taken a look at that but i am not sure what to read out of the numbers Global for my keyword (barneklær)  is 27k and local is 22k . Does that mean that there are more searches on .com then on .no ?

Anyone know if there is a way to find out search volume for a keyword on google.com vd for instance in our case google.no ?

The reason i am asking is that i am ranking 17 on google.com vs 1 on google.no . how do i go about to increase .com ranking ?

Hi

I have some links from blogs to our ecom website. My question is if anyone knows what happens if you have several different blogs on  .blogspot linking in to you. Does that make them loose value because they are on the same domain? I can probably quite easily have 5-10 blogs on blogspot all with PA of 35-40 link in to us. Is it worth striving for or should i strive to get blogs that have their own domain to link into us instead ? Or equally important ?

Dan Lærum