I do not think it's much of an issue. I don't think footer links bleed that much. I would not worry about it, being perfectly honest. Why not ramp up a few more internal links to these pages or some external links?
Posts made by DavidKauzlaric
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RE: Eliminating outbound links for long tail-targeting pages
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RE: Geo-Targeting Content
Generally, I would use something like the following:
"Botox Procedures in Atlanta, Georgia" for the H1 or Title tag, make sense? You just need to rewrite the content so that it is written from a geo-targeted area, does that make sense? You can't simpy find and replace to add in geo-targeting, unless you want crappy content.
Rewrite it with geo-targeting in mind. The biggest thing would be a few hyperlinks with the geotargeted anchor text, title tag, and H1 tag and some links.
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RE: How to implement a temporary splash page?
Then definitely not an issue, Apple does this like you said, all the time! So do many others!
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RE: How to implement a temporary splash page?
With how great the indexing and reindexing rates out with Caffeine, I would not worry too much about it. I would try and keep the title tag and meta desc the same, but changing your actual page to show a splash page wont hurt anything, unless you plan on it being a splash page for more than a month?
I've used this many times before and never had an issue!
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RE: What tool do you use to check for URLs not indexed?
We built an internal tool to do it for us, but basically you can do this manually.
Go to google, type in "site:YOURURLHERE" without the quotes. You can check a certain page, a site, a subdomain, etc... of course if you have thousands of URLs this method is not ideal, but it can be done.
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RE: Do you validate you websites?
Sure.
We do it because it's a great sales tool. Rarely do we ever find a competitor that builds W3C valid websites. In our sales pitch we talk about how our websites are W3C valid, it's adhering to a set of rules and guidelines and it's cleaner code generally which can increase load times.
We tell them they can display a W3C valid button on their site, most of them like that.
It's also a matter of doing things the right way... you can build a frame out of anything but there is a right way and a wrong way to build a door frame. We choose to do it all according to standards and best practices.
It's almost like a committment to excellence type of thing.
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RE: Ideas for making a mini-content farm more valuable to end users
Allow users to review each person/company/service and give their thoughts?
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RE: Domain Authority / Page Authority
I don't think that hurts your domain authority. At least, in my experience it never has.
The way to get your DA up is by getting more authoritative links, a higher diversity, and that is pretty much the basis of it.
Work on getting authoritative and hard to get links like .EDU, links from high PR sites, etc...
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RE: Aside from creative link bait, what's a solid link building strategy involve?
This is what I do for my clients and my own website:
-Forum profiles on high PR sites. Start with 100.
-Submit to all local directories recommended by David Mihm.
-Optimize Google Places to be in accordance with David Mihm and above.
-Do a slow-drip to directories.
-Do-follow social bookmarks
-Twitter/FB/LinkedIn/YouTube profiles that are active.
By that time, rankings appear and you tweak from there. I use that as a starting point.
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RE: What can i do with it? Black hat in my competitors.
Unfortunately, as Barry said, there is no rules being broken here. What they're breaking is a best practices kind of thing, but that wont get them in trouble with Google.
Focus on having quality writers create you top notch content, go after some high authority links like .EDU, and just keep trying hard. You'll get there!
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RE: 301 redirect on the root of the site
If it'll be a couple months, a 301 makes sense. Get it fixed as soon as possible and get things setup with proper 301's and you'll be okay!
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RE: 301 redirect on the root of the site
You'll lose link-juice, PR, and authority. You'll get some, but some will be lost. Especially once you redirect it back. Depending upon how long you will be doing that, you may actually want to look into using a temporary redirect.
I'd hire someone to fix it if you can't in-house, that is a big issue!
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RE: What can i do with it? Black hat in my competitors.
Yes, you need to focus on yourself. In due time he will be removed, it just takes patience. You can also report his website for breaking the ToS for Google, if he is doing black hat stuff. Duplicate content is not black hat, so you'd need to prove that he is doing cloaking or something similar to that.
Focus on links, a broad variety of links, and high quality content. You'll eventually get there!
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Who here outsources your link building?
Anyone here run an agency? Do you outsource your link building to another company overseas so it's cheap, or what is everyone else doing nowadays?
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RE: Do you validate you websites?
It's very important to my company that all websites for our clients validate. Why? Because we feel they pay for a service and we want to provide the highest quality service.
It's like building a house and not sticking to code. We'd rather stick to code and do it the "right" way, rather than just have something that "works".
It's also a sales tool! Because none of our competitors build sites that are compliant, our sales guys use this and it works well. We explain what W3C is, why it's important, and although it doesn't help rankings, we feel it's important because it's simply a matter of doing it the right way. They like that!
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RE: Is this Duplicate Content?
Yes, that is duplicate content and is an issue. Robots.txt is unreliable at best and there are very stringent guidelines to using it properly.
Instead, use an actual meta tag of noindex! That will solve the issue.
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RE: How can I get Google to crawl my site daily?
Proper sitemap that tells the SE's to come back can help.
Write content daily. If you have a blog, ping google when you post a new piece of content. If you show Google that you write content daily, they'll come back.
I did SEO for a very successful conservative news website and Google crawled them 15-20 times a day and indexed things in sometimes seconds.
Make good use of pinging!
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RE: For Service Sites, having a phone number in meta description ALWAYS a good idea?
An SEO who does not optimize for conversions should be fired. That is their job. What good is a ranking if half the people do not click it because the SEO failed to use text that would convert. Getting rankings is only part of the battle. SEO's cannot be 1-dimensional, this industry is not meant for 1-dimensional people.
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RE: The perfect work environment?
Hmm, tough question
For me... triple monitors, a high-end Mac Pro w/ Apple Cinema Displays. An exercise ball at my desk so I can switch between that and a chair so I can maintain great posture (I have horrible posture).
The desk should be quality, nothing cheesy or flimsy, big surface area.
For the actual office...
Pool table and air hockey are a must. Unlimited supply of purified water. Unlimited supply of grass-fed beef jerky that was made with no sugar, sugar substitutes, or MSG. Also an endless supply of meats and cheeses.
There should be a nice 60" big screen somewhere w/ xbox/PS3 and cable. Tied into Netflix.
Ability for each employee to customize their work environment, paint the floor, desk, etc... personalize, no matter what they want.
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RE: Post Title - Use the blog's name or not?
Personally, I like to fit in the site name or business name whenever I can. What I recommend doing is disabling any kind of auto-tagging for the site name and enter it in manually only when it fits and if it's relevant.
For example, All in One SEO Plugin for Wordpress by default appends your site title to the end of all title tags, no matter what. I disable this and do it manually so I know I have 100% control over my title tags.
It helps for branding purposes!
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RE: Is there a recommended format when placing a business address on a webpage?
All I could really say is the higher up the better. However, it depends upon the context of the website.
If you are trying to run a local directory site, it's ideal if you have the location/info/image and relevant information as high as possible.
If it's a website and you have footer information with your business address, that is perfectly fine.
What GeoTarget tool are you using?
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RE: Are 301s advisable for low-traffic URL's?
The link doesn't need to be broken. 301 redirect the existing link to the new one and anyone that is linking or typing or clicking into the old URL will be forwarded to the new one and they wont know it. Make sense? Yes, do it!
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RE: How Social media can help rankings?
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-bing-confirm-twitter-facebook-influence-seo
That should give you some insight! Get on FB, Twitter, and Youtube!
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RE: Are .html pages better for ranking than .asp pages
The actual extensions don't matter. In fact, you should be using mod_rewrite to remove extensions on all your pages! All it does is add clutter and unnecessary junk to your URL strings. HTML is HTML, it doesn't matter if it's static, created using PHP, or created using ASP!
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RE: Directory URL structure last / in the url
Matt Cutts said in a video with Rand that you could use either way, but he recommends choosing one way and sticking with it. He said using a trailing forward slash was preferred and is the more technical way. So, I would use that way, since you seem to be using that anyway.
What you need to do is setup server-side 301 redirects so if someone goes to www.mysite.com/blog it will automatically redirect them to mysite.com/blog/ --- using a 301 perm redirect will eventually clear out any bad indexed pages and willl get you going on the right track.
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RE: Factors that affect Google.com vs .ca
It's a pretty well known fact that non-US versions of Google are not using the same algorithm and therefore are "behind". This could be the case where you are employing methods that a couple years ago were effective and are working well for .CA but on .COM not as well.
The biggest thing you can do is work on high quality content and build links. Remember, linking is somewhere around 70% of the algorithm alone. Work on getting more .COM authoritative links from sites like NYT, USAToday, etc...
Also, if a good portion of your links are from .CA, that very well could affect it too!
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RE: Are .html pages better for ranking than .asp pages
There is no difference. ASP is just a web programming language that can output HTML code the same way a straight HTML page is HTML or PHP can output HTML. No difference.
If you mean having the actual extension in your URL, there is no difference.
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RE: Yahoo non www in SERPS
Are you utilizing server-side redirects? (301 PERM) for non-WWW to WWW? Do you have a lot of links that point to the non-WWW version? Give me your URL and I can look into it further.
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RE: Link Age - Ranking Signal
Don't worry about it. As Rand says, if it is a ranking signal, it's tiny. Why waste time/energy focusing on that when you could focus on the things that matter, like content and linking!
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RE: How much weight does Google give to Exact Match Domains?
Generally speaking in my experience, EMD's are junk sites because usually the person is doing AdSense or something and the site has junk content w/ an EMD for page one rankings for the AdSense revenue. Just my thoughts, though.
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RE: How much weight does Google give to Exact Match Domains?
Because it's generally too limiting. It leaves little room for growth and having a brandable domain in my opinion is better.
My comment about a crap domain was in reference to a domain like www.GuitarLessonReviewsInfo.com or something. He was talking about those earlier, where people add-on some words because the EMD is taken but still want the phrase in there to get the EMD boost.
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RE: How much weight does Google give to Exact Match Domains?
You are very welcome!
You could cover electric guitar reviews using "AcousticGuitarReviews.com" but why have a domain that implies you are only reviewing acoustic guitar reviews? To me, it makes more sense to build a brandable website!
With Google liking brands, it makes sense to build a brand and do things the white-hat way, this insures you don't fall off the map on every whimsical algo update, you know?
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RE: How to do SEO for famous fortune 500 companies
Hi Samuel,
In my opinion it is easier for a Fortune 500 company to get authoritative links than a new company. Personally, I think blog commenting and forum marketing is not that effective.
If I had to do SEO for a Fortune 500, here is what I would do:
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Write amazing content. Write content that provides huge value! Being that you're a Fortune 500, it's very easy to get media exposure and as a result, links. Providing high quality content is where its at!
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Next, definitely implement a company blog and start engaging your potential customers, existing customers, and anyone in between. Write blog posts that provide value and are insightful for your industry, typically you can get a good amount of links for a valuable blog post. Look at SEOmoz
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Press releases through a top-tier distribution wire like Vocus are great. They're expensive but do work well. For a Fortune 500 company, it shouldn't be an issue.
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Donate to universities or sponsor them in some way, shape, or form. Generally you can get a nice .EDU link in exchange! (In a relvant and contextual manner too!).
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Donate/sponsor a bunch of non profits or well-known organizations, they generally have a lot of authority and a link back could be huge from them.
I hope this helps?
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RE: For Service Sites, having a phone number in meta description ALWAYS a good idea?
I've never seen a phone number in the title tag hurt rankings at all. In fact, there is a chance it adds relevancy to the query and could increase your rankings, possibly.
Beyond that, while the meta description is not used for rankings directly, I am of the personal belief that it does influence rankings using CTR.
Since we do not know every piece of the algo, I would venture to guess that Google uses CTR as a determining factor for rankings. So by providing a piece of content that could increase CTR, it could increase ranking.
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RE: Google place page Images
I really don't think it would make a difference. Worry about providing high quality content that provides value and is engaging. That'll benefit you far more!
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RE: For Service Sites, having a phone number in meta description ALWAYS a good idea?
YES!!!
This is critical and a common mistake many SEO's overlook. Make sure you use a number that is trackable so you can see the kind of return it generates and go from there.
You can even put it in the title, depending upon the circumstances. I have specific experience utilizing both of these methods and they both worked well for generating leads for my clients!
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RE: How much weight does Google give to Exact Match Domains?
Nobody knows the exact boost you get, but I can assure you that it is quite significant. Very significant.
You will not get the full boost unless you have the entire keyword/phrase in the domain. So yes, your competitor would have an advantage over you. How much? No one knows for sure, but I will go out on a limb and say it's pretty substantial. You can beat EMD's but it requires a lot of links and a strategy that outperforms on every level.
Yes, it qualifies as exact match even if there are added words as long as the exact phrase appears in the domain.
It all depends on the keyword to determine how difficult it would be to outrank him without an EMD.
My advice? Don't use an EMD... they'll eventually take that boost away and you're left with a crap domain. Focus on high-quality content that is engaging and provides a ton of value. That will yield you better results in the long-term.
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RE: RSS feeds- What are the secrets to getting them, and the links inside then, indexed and counted for SEO purposes?
You load links into it, it then creates an RSS feed on their end that gets pinged. You can load any kind of link into it and it'll ping them.
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RE: Google dropping pages from SERPS
Seems unlikely he would drop 90% of indexed pages and regain them back soon after if it was a PR thing, don't you think? Aren't PR updates generally quarterly?
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RE: Results in the On-Page
If you're having an issue with a tool, I would recommend contacting SEOmoz support!
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RE: Google dropping pages from SERPS
I also think it's very possible his previous experiences with rankings dropping and pages getting de-indexed could have been at key algo udpates as well. Mayday, etc...
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RE: Google dropping pages from SERPS
The answer could easily be the Google Farmer update. If you are not familiar with this, read the latest post by Rand: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-farmer-update-analysis-of-winners-vs-losers
That will help you understand the latest algorithm update and how you can do something about it.
It sounds like you dropped off due to the algo update and that leads me to believe that Google thought your content was not high enough quality?
I would read Rand's post, evaluate your website, and then have the content analyzed and see if you need to hire a really good writer to build high quality content that is valuable to the users. If you were building mediocre content to target thousands of keywords, specifically long-tail, you need to revamp that strategy and focus on amazing content first!
Hope that helps.
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RE: Subdomains vs. Subfolders for unique categories & topics
Definitely use subfolders!
By using your subfolders you pass all link juice and PR to the main domain which is mainsite.com. If you have say 10 subdomains, you are splitting the authority/link-juice/PR.
I know there are others who say Google passes the juice between a domain and subdomain, and it does pass some, but not all.
You cannot go wrong using subfolders. You build up one main domain, it's clean, user-friendly, etc...
SUBFOLDERS!
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RE: On Page Report Card... with or w/o local modifiers?
Something that helps a lot? Get some links with the local modifier in the anchor text. Once you get a few of those, you'll see your rankings increase for local searches.
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RE: On Page Report Card... with or w/o local modifiers?
While I definitely agree with you, I find that you can rank easier and faster for local terms by optimizing for local keywords as well. It adds relevancy to your result and can result in better rankings for other local keywords that you are NOT targeting. I've experienced this first hand.
If you are a 100% local business, why not focus on everything local? It's much easier to rank and it should help establish that your website is local so any terms with the local modifier in it, are much easier to rank!
Just my 2 cents.