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Here are a couple of recent posts:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-build-and-operate-a-content-marketing-machine
http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/creating-an-editorial-calendar-for-content-marketing/
There was another really good one recently I'll try and find to share.
IMO If you want to recover from Panda, building content on crappy free-for-alls like Squidoo or Hubpages isn't the way to go.
If you're going to create some new unique content, make it awesome and post it on your own site OR create extra-awesome content and try and score a guest blog on an authority site in your niche.
So gald they are gone, it was extremely outdated and most of them were junk. People were still submitting to them due to the fact that they were on an SEOmoz list!
It may have to do with the size of the index is tool is reporting from - obviously Google has a much larger index of the web and therefor can see more links.
You could use rel="canonical" back to the original post on the recruitment company site's job listing. And/Or a link back to the recruitment company site listing, 'this ad was originally posted on x recruitment site' - if they are using RSS feeds to distribute the job ads there are Wordpress plugins that can add this automatically, such as Yoast's SEO plugin.
Yes, that content is probably plastered over hundreds of crappy sites.
Step one would be to re-write the content on your site.
However, you'll still have the problem of having all those low quality UAW links.
I'd recommend the Adwords learning center if you feel confident enough after studying you can even take the Adwords exam(s) and get certified.
410 will kill the link equity. In cases similar to yours, I have implemented a 301 to the category page of the product removed. This gives users products similar to the one they were looking for, and retains link equity.
You will be paying them to identify issues you could do yourself, assuming you had the time and ability. If you don't then you might need to pay someone to do that for you. But you should get a couple of quotes and get feedback on any company / service you consider.
Keep in mind they are not offering to do any of the leg work of getting low quality links removed, which is tough. You'll either need to learn how to do the outreach to get links removed, document it all, and file a reconsideration request or get someone to do those tasks as well.
If you do have the time, you should have a look through some recent SEOmoz panda/penguin guide posts and do it yourself. You'll learn a lot!
Good luck.
The duplicate content issue you can easily solve by installing an SEO plugin, such as Yoast's and noindexing the tag pages (you can also noindex categories, archives etc if you need).
I wouldn't have thought 6 excerpts would flag a too many links error, but if you're confident there aren't too many links, just ignore it.
In Open Site Explorer, filter the results by choosing **Show 'Only Nofollowed' **
It'll likely be/get flagged as a link network, it's not a good SEO practice.
You'll be better off spending the time writing awesome content for your core site and looking into guest posting opportunities.
Good luck.
If you're using tags internally to help organise content, you could just stop them from appearing on the front end of the site.
The alternative is to keep them on the front end, but to no-index the tag pages.
My initial thought was along the same lines, the legit way: Adwords, Bing Ads, Facebook etc, all of which have geographic targeting options.
You might look into getting your content published on a higher quality and higher trafficked site than most of those found on MBG. Find the authority blogs in the niche and try some manual outreach.
I vote for adding it to your existing site. This way you are continually adding new, quality content to your site and hopefully earning links in the process!
If you have it external to your existing domain, you are effectively splitting your domain authority and doubling your work in promoting two sites.
1. Can googlebot see the text?
Login in to Google Webmaster Tools, go to Health > Fetch as Google This will show you exactly what they can see.
2. Could you be penalised for it?
If it's just keyword spam, yes. Make sure the content isn't there just for bots, but is useful for visitors and you should be fine,
My advice would be not to do it. It's a very outdated tactic that will likely have zero impact, or perhaps even harm your site.
Instead you might want to look into content marketing, blogger outreach etc
Have a read of these:
http://blog.kissmetrics.com/guide-to-guest-blogging/
http://www.copypress.com/blog/outreach-specialists-bible/
Good luck.
Doesn't matter, as long as it's a legit email address, so the client and click on the verification email.
I wouldn't be overly paranoid about Google knowing you own more than one property in the same vertical. You said the audiences are different, as long as the sites are unique (product descriptions are a big one) then you shouldn't have any issues.
Re shopping cart - I'm not familiar with asp.net sites so I can't help you there, sorry.
You might try re-submitting your sitemap and the fetch as Google / submit to index tools via Google Webmaster Tools to try to speed it up a notch.
The only 'magic' you'll see from automated link building software is the vanishing act of your site from Google's index 
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Just how different are the numbers? There are a number of possible reasons, including:
Google Analytics requires JavaScript, cookies and images to be enabled in the visitors browser in order to record visitor activity. It should be noted that there is an opt out plug-in for Google Analytics that will exclude visitors with the plugin installed from reporting their activity on your website.
Also, Google Analytics does not have a noscript section, so Google Analytics cannot track conversions for visitors with JavaScript disabled.
See also: http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1009616
Might seem obvious but I've seen pages being robots noindexed via meta tag at the page level, checked for that:?
Have you tried the Fetch as Goole tool in Google Webmaster tools?
Checked for crawl errors in GWT?
Submitted an XML sitemap to Webmaster Tools?
Is Bing indexing it?
Let us know how you go!
One of the most obvious ways is to compare organic search traffic to the dates new algorithms go live. Checkout the Google Algorithm Change History page. There is even a chrome plugin called Chartelligence that overlays the algorithm change dates over your traffic data.
Also checkout webmaster tools for messages for unnatural link warnings from Googs themselves.
Hope that helps!
Honestly, that site is poorly optimised. I wouldn't be surprised if you earn an over optimisation penalty, or already have one.
There are 17 occurances of 'timber Melbourne' on the homepage.
The site is not written for humans, first sentence on the homepage, "We sell Timber Melbourne Wide. Timber Melbourne are the Melbourne Timber Specialists"
That is really bad.
Step one would be to re-write the content for humans, then revisit the on-page SEO, like titles, metas, alt tags etc. Then have a look at the UX, it's really hard to read the content on that background.
Lots of work to do here my friend, I suggest reading the SEOmoz beginners guide to SEO first though.
Good luck.
At this point in the game it's really not going to make much difference at all. It's one link that was at one time, thought to be critical. Now, not so much.
And how much do these 'opportunities' cost? lol.
Short answer: High PR links can help you rank, but if you get busted buying links, well, that does the opposite.
You could prioritise based on the pages that get the most impressions in search.
Seems to be a number of Timber businesses at that address...
Regardless, 17 occurrences is going to set off some red flags.
Just trying to help you out with your query.
"the www version has more linking root domains, and for most of the keywords the www version shows up in Google"
In that case I would stick with www.
I have a client who is currently ranking close to the top of the Google Places results for a handful of important local keywords.
They have a competitor who is pretty consistantly ranking in number #1 and #2 organic positions, above the Places results.
Does anyone know the average click through rates for results similar to these? Do the #1 and #2 organic positions still outperform the lower placed Google Places (with side map) results when the search intent is very local?
I just wonder if they are possibly in a better position as-is if people are more likely to use the map or places listings on the SERPs page, rather than click through to another site.
Thanks
You might want to get some rel="alternate" hreflang="x" attribution on those different domains to be safe. Especially if you are (you should be) using localised spelling for each country.
See: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en
From above link, scenario where rel="alternate" hreflang="x" is recommended:
"Your pages have broadly similar content within a single language, but the content has small regional variations. For example, you might have English-language content targeted at readers in the US, GB, and Ireland."
Perhaps this will get your on the right track, from http://flintanalytics.com/how-to-determine-if-you-should-advertise-higher-priced-goods-to-mac-users/
Average Order Value Statistical Significance
To do this you need to download the transaction data for both variants, because you need to be able to determine the variance in order value. You can download this data by going to conversions > ecommerce > transactions in Google Analytics. Once there, Google only lets you export 500 rows of transactions at one time, so to keep it simple I ensured my date ranges were under 500 transactions.
Once you get the order values for each set of customers in Excel you need to perform a t-test so that you can compare the means of the two groups. This t-test will give you the p-value that you will use to determine if the difference in average order values between the groups is significant. Yout formula in excel should look like the following:
=t.test(array of group 1, array of group 2,two-tailed distribution, two-sample equal variance homoscedastic)
I wouldn't be too concerned, Google is clever enough to identify page elements, like header, nav and content serparately.
Once the redesign is live, do a crawl as Googlebot within Google Webmaster Tools to make sure it can crawl the entire page.
The other consideration you might look into is site speed, have a look at how the redesign impacts load time, you can compare within Google Analytics (Content > Site Speed report), and/or use an external tool like http://www.webpagetest.org.
If possible add unique content to your category pages, and use unique post extracts. Then no need to block.
Don't block "read more" as these link to full posts.
In short, no. But checkout http://www.opensiteexplorer.org with SEOmoz Pro you'll have unlimited access to it.
SEOmoz tools don't report PageRank, but they have a similar scoring method called Domain Authority (DA). Enter a URL and checkout the linking domains report, it will give you a listing of linking domains in order of DA.
It doesn't tell you whether a domain is a blog / wiki / dir etc - that would be quite difficult for a machine to understand. You can often get an idea by the domain name, or check them yourself manually.
Agreed, it's not easy getting duplicate content indexed, and usually, that's a good thing.
In the case where the client wants the product page removed from the site, we've had custom programming to implement 301 redirects, up one category level, so that the customer is take to relevant products in the same category that they were seeking.
I use Textbroker for a number of reasons.
1. You can specify the quality level per article and pay accordingly. I wouldn't recommend going any lower than 4 stars though. I have mostly good experiences with 4 star writers, 4 star is actually quite affordable too.
2. If you don't like the article you can request it be re-written, by the same or a new writer.
3. They have US English as well as UK English writers, there's actually a .co.uk version of the site too.
4. You can create teams of writers, so if you have a large volume of requests, you can send the requests to writers you've worked with before and know what to expect from. You can also create teams for specific niches etc.
This list includes some paid directories http://www.seomoz.org/directories
However, it looks as though it has not been updated for some time.
You'll have to re-create it.
You can delete the current one if you need by going into the campaign > Overview > Campaign settings. Scroll right to the bottom and click delete.
"Panda is a filter that Google has designed to spot what it believes are low-quality pages. Have too many low-quality pages, and Panda effectively flags your entire site. Being Pandified, Pandification — whatever clever name you want to call it — doesn’t mean that your entire site is out of Google. But it does mean that pages within your site carry a penalty designed to help ensure only the better ones make it into Google’s top results."From http://searchengineland.com/why-google-panda-is-more-a-ranking-factor-than-algorithm-update-82564Sub domains are not treated entirely separately. Moving content will not help, you need to improve it or lose it.
Re ideas for content, start by finding out what people actually want to know about the product.
For example try using Google's auto complete feature <-- link to screen shot examples.
Find out what is already ranking for those keywords, then produce better content than those results.
You can take it up a notch by using http://ubersuggest.org
Good luck!
Some people argue that it's better to host your own feed, but I like Feedburner as has some good customization options, gives you access to some nice stats as well as giving potential subscribers a number of ways to subscribe to your feed.
I noticed there hadn't been one since April, I just assumed the team were busy working on something big.
But agreed, the webinars were pretty great, hope we can expect more, more often.