Good observations in regard to EMDs in general. However, if you take a look at the site in question, I think you'll agree the OP needs to do a lot of work on the site regardless of the fact that it's an EMD.
Best posts made by David_ODonnell
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RE: Best techniques For EMD Ranking in 2013
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RE: Are there diminishing returns of keyword stuffing domain names?
Straight from the horses mouth, checkout this video from Google's Matt Cutts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAWFv43qubI
Importantly: "Now if you are still on the fence, let me just give you a bit of color. that we have looked at the rankings and the weights that we give to keyword domains, & some people have complained that we are giving a little too much weight for keywords in domains. So we have been thinking about at adjusting that mix a bit and sort of turning the knob down within the algorithm, so that given 2 different domains it wouldn't necessarily help you as much to have a domain name with a bunch of keywords in it."
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RE: One Keyword Penalty
I've seen keyword specific penalties applied when people have been overzealous in linking with specific link text too often. Lesson: vary your link text.
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RE: Link Building for Landing Page
Hi Michael,
Question: Should you be selling services you don't know how to deliver?
Follow-up question: What if someone (unintentionally) gave you bad advice here and you acted on it?
Typically a business hires another business to provide a service they are experienced in delivering. I realise the only way to get experience is to do, but perhaps you should be learning on your own sites before moving on to clients.
To touch on your questions, local directories may be a very small part of a link building strategy, but they're definitely not the only part. Also, you are going to be extremely limited in the types of links you'll be able to achieve building to a 'coming soon' landing page. It also means you can't build deep links.
I would recommend reading, 'Starting A Link Building Campaign' here for starters: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links
If, after reading that you don't know if you can deliver a quality link building campaign, perhaps look at outsourcing the job to another SEO until you're up-to-speed yourself.
I don't mean to be come across as an ass, I'm honestly concerned for both you and your client. I hope this helps.
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RE: Sudden, drastic drop in # of links and root domains on website?
If you're talking about the # of links reported in SEOmoz / Open Site Explorer, a smaller index = fewer results. See: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/july-mozscape-update
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RE: Any recommendations on how to keep track of time that clients can see
I asked a similar question a while ago: http://www.seomoz.org/q/project-management-program-for-seo
There are a number of products discussed there. However, the consensus seemed to be that while there are a number of options available, no one product seemed to nail it for SEO specifically.
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RE: Reviews and multimedia in subfolders
IMO I would keep all of the content on one page, that way you are creating one (hopefully) great, unique content filled product page, instead of watering it down with a number of weaker pages per product.
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RE: 301 re-directs to similar content, good idea?
If you can 301 to similar content, that is the best option, for users and search engines.
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RE: Finding links online that already exist as link juice based on search results
Looks like a custom Google search on a domain, probably running adsense.
These are just search results and are not going to help your rankings.
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RE: API Request Rate Problem
Hi Chris,
You might be better off checking out the API discussion board here: https://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293196-developer-discussion-group
Or contacting the API support via api@seomoz.org
Good luck!
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Looking for Video Production Setup Guide post
Hi Guys,
I'm looking for a specific video post I recall watching, i thought it was on moz.com, all about creating a decent set up for video production. It discussed things like lighting setup, sound, hardware on a budget etc.
I have searched the moz.com blog video tag archive, as well as the Q&A, but haven't been able to find what I'm looking for.
Can anyone help?
Thanks!
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RE: How Can Low Quality Links Be Removed?
If you had a list of the URLs you could outsource the job of actually contacting the sites using a template link removal request. However you might find that a lot of the low value sites that accept articles from UAW and similar are highly automated, so the chance of getting a reply / link removed may be quite low.
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RE: SEO for Wordpress
A few things I like about Yoast that All in one doesn't do:
- It has some minification options to help with page load speed - as well as integration with Google Page Speed.
- It includes an xml sitemap creator that allows you to include images
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RE: How do you track new inbound links?
You might want to track things like # of links on a regular basis (monthly) from multiple sources (OSE, Ahrefs, Majestic, GWT). You might also track DA over time using OSE.
You'd also want to look at how the link building is affecting your organic search rankings and traffic.
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Implications of Google discontinuing Website Optimizer
Hi Guys,
As most of you probably know, Google is discontinuing Website Optimizer and introducing Experiments within Google Analytics.
However, doesn't this mean that now, every site you want to run an experiment for has to be using Google Analytics? This is possibly one of the motivations for them making the change I guess?
I also find it inconvenient that every 'experiment' now has to be based on improving a pre-defined goal in Google Analytics. This means that for a lot of situations we'll be creating goals just for the experiment and the clients actual goal conversions will appear quite inflated. I guess we'll just have to filter the new 'goals' out from the actual goals.
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RE: Finding specific name to send email to: Broken Link Building
Here are a few tools that dig for contact details:
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RE: All in One SEO weirdness
Check the plugin settings, you may have specified to add that to the end of each title.
If it's a post check <a title="Click for Help!">Post Title Format:</a>
If it's a page check <a title="Click for Help!">Page Title Format:</a>
The default setting is usually %post_title% | %blog_title%
So if you blog title (in Settings > General) is Acme Widgets Inc. it will be added to the end of your post title.
Let me know if that helps.
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RE: TLD Distribution
The quality of the site is more important than the TLD, I don't think it should be much of a consideration.
You may see some benefit regarding localization in terms of getting high number of appropriate country specific TLDs. But, once again, quality still counts.
However, I often notice that sites with poor backlink profiles tend to have a lot of .info domains from directories.
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RE: When will links appear
If the blogger's sites are new/small/not well linked to themselves, it may take some time the mozbot to discover the links to your site. You should also consider the last time OSE was updated (Feb 12th 2013) and run another check the next time it's updated, looks like next update is set for March 12, see:
https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule
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RE: Code to change country in URL for locale results
Try adding &gl=(country code) to the URL at the end of the Google search query.
For example:
&gl=uk for United Kingdom
&gl=us for United States
&gl=au for Australia
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RE: Advice and Opinions Required Regarding creating new pages for similar keywords
I think you know the answer and hinted as much. If you were to create new pages, you'd be creating those sub-pages purely to try manipulate rankings. Considering they are just keyword variations you'd probably end up with very similar (duplicate) or low quality content on them. You'd be better off creating one awesome page and optimizing that with an instance or two of each phrase
Good luck!
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RE: Cool linkbuilding presentations?
You probably couldn't go past the LinkLove 2012 videos, an entire conference on link building, and very recent: http://www.distilled.net/store/ll-2012-videos/
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RE: How can I download all the inbound links to my Site?
If you can't afford a pro membership you can still get a decent amount of data from the free membership.
Otherwise you might want to take a look at the links reported by Google Webmaster Tools, you can download the links Google reports there by going to Traffic > Links to Your Site > Who Links to your Site - then click More.
You will then be able to download the current list, or even just the latest links.
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RE: How to track link building? What metrics?
A. I'd recommend steering clear of UAW, it generates low quality spun content that is hosted on low quality (trash) sites.
The content strategy is legit, but you might want to look at moving towards publishing only unique content and working more on outreach to get published on authority sites in your niche.
B. You might want to track things like # of links on a regular basis from multiple sources (OSE, Ahrefs, Majestic, GWT). You might also track DA over time using OSE.
You'd also want to look at how the link building is affecting your organic search rankings and traffic.
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RE: Yelp, Tripadvisor, Urbanspoon, etc
I guess it depends on the budget you have to work with and your long terms goals. I'd be gunning for both!
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RE: Url rewrites / shortcuts - Are they considered duplicate content?
Regarding bit.ly, from their FAQ:
_bitly works by issuing a "301 redirect": a technique for making a webpage available under many URLs. When you shorten a link with bitly, you are redirecting a click from bitly to the destination URL. A 301 redirect is the most efficient and search engine-friendly method for webpage redirection, and is what bitly uses. Because bitly doesn’t re-use or modify links, we consider our redirects to be permanent._So you're fine there. Re your own short links, you'll have to check whether they are redirecting or using cannonical tags.
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RE: Cool linkbuilding presentations?
Slides here for a taste of what to expect: http://www.slideshare.net/paddy_moogan/35-ways-to-get-links-in-35-minutes-paddy-moogan-at-mozcon-2012
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RE: Raven Reporting Alternative
I asked a similar question a little while ago, there were some suggestions there including: AnalyticsSeo and SEOanalytics, I haven't used either of those, but maybe check them out.
You might want to wait and see how the new Moz analytics performs, how the reports look. I understand Raven Tools are also working on something new atm: raventools.com/simple/
I'm quite eager to get my hands on both!
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RE: Shared Hosting Vs VPS Hosting
For a site of that size and traffic volume I think you'll be fine with shared hosting - as long as you choose a reputable, quality host - which can be difficult when it comes to choosing a shared hosting environment!
I hesitate to recommend specific hosting companies because I've had both good and bad experiences with a number of hosts. Do your research and find a host with great support, reputation and standards.
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RE: Does anyone use pingler and is it any good
Sounds like a waste of money. Simply pinging search engines is not going to influence how likely they would be to index your content. It may help discovery, but you can use free tools to do that (pingoat, pingomatic), Wordpress has the function built in.
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RE: Internal Linking Questions
2. If you do that you are going to dilute the strength / confuse the of relevance of the anchor text to that page. There is no good reason to do that.
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RE: WIX & SEO
How recently?
OSE's index was last updated on May 15, if it was later than that, you won't see any data. Next update is due on June 12. But to be blunt, wix is horrible for SEO - get a self-hosted Wordpress install, with a few plugins you'll be on the right path.
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RE: Setting up goals in Google Analytics
Correct! That way you are recording successful form submissions.
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RE: Anchor Text Usage
Judging by the links in the screenshot you attached alone, you've most likely been penalised for building too many exact match text links from junk sites. I note you said you think those links are valuable, but all I can see is free-for-alls like hubpages, squidoo and junky article sites.
In my opinion you're probably going to need to clean these up (remove them) or start fresh and focus on higher quality link building. Good luck.
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RE: Duplicate content in product listing
I suggest using rel=canonical on those pages, but be aware that they may still show up in the moz report.
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RE: What tools/techniques you use to check if a domain has been penalized?
Is there a site on the domain at the moment, or has there been one recently?
If there is you could see how well indexed it is (site: command), see if it ranks for it's own brand terms, and even moderately competitive terms.
You can also run the site through opensiteexplorer and see how dodgy the external link profile is.
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RE: How to Delete a Campaign and add another
View this campaign > Campaign Settings (little text option under main nav) > Delete (scroll to bottom of page)
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RE: Setting up goals in Google Analytics
You leave out the destination URL from the funnel.
Cheers.
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RE: Links on My website
Don't sweat, you won't be penalised for linking out to the BBB, even if it's site-wide in your footer.
You might be getting confused with possible penalties for having low quality links from other sites link to yours, especially from site-wide and/or footer links.
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RE: Blog article URL - with or without date?
Personally, I would omit the date. It unnecessarily lengthens / add folder structure to the URLs.
I also prefer removing the trailing slash at the end of the URL.
It's your call whether or not you change the existing URLs, be mindful to implement a 301 redirect if you go down that route.
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RE: What tools/techniques you use to check if a domain has been penalized?
These appear to be tools to check if the site has been black listed for email spam. While it's good to check for when buying a domain, it won't tell you if Google has penalised the site.
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RE: Best SEO Tool Set ! What Are they ?
Everyone is going to have their own personal fave's, but top 3 are:
Raven Tools for an all-on one interface (un till last week anyway) still nice for streamlining reporting
BuzzStream for outreach prospecting and management
SEOmoz for crawl / on-site issues
(obviously Google's suite of Analytics, Webmaster Tools, Adwords, Insights & Alerts go without saying!)
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Adwords Dynamic Keyword Insertion for Location keywords
Hi Guys,
I'm managing a campaign targeting multiple cities across the country. The campaign is using DKI to display locations in ad titles. Is the following example the best way to handle it (example data only):
Ad headline: {KeyWord: Local Chocolate Delivery}
Keywords:
chocolate delivery
chocolate delivery Dallas
chocolate delivery Austin
Etc etc?
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RE: Ecombuffet.com are offering a Rescue Review focused on Panda - Penguin and identifying issues. Has anyone used this service or aware of the organisation in general?
"Overall I think they are reasonably priced..."
Based on what price?
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RE: Finding a good guest posting service
You may not like this answer as I'm not going to recommend some service which makes it easy to find quality blogs that will accept your content. Because that service does not exist. There are plenty of sites offering such services, but the quality of sites that partake are typically pretty sketchy. A few years ago this may have been an option, but now that guest posting has blown up, those sites are ineffective in my opinion.
If you want real results, you'll have to do some outreach to secure posts on awesome sites that aren't simply a free-for-all accepting posts from anyone. Of course, this means the content you put forward has to be equally, if not more awesome.
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RE: Over Optimization & Footer Links for Crediting Web Design to a Company
These links are not editorial earned but I have mixed feelings about them, here's why:
I don't have a problem when a designer ads one text or image link with their brand name in the footer, as long as the client is happy with it. If you've designed an awesome site that link may act as lead gen.
However, I have noticed designers getting a bit crazy with this and adding multiple (2,3,4 more) keyword rich text links (web design, web development, web deigners location etc etc) in footers which I really do have a problem with as they are only there for one reason. It looks spammy on the client's site and may actually get their site penalised.