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Our releases have appeared on big sites like the Financial Post.

Is it possible they just get buried under other news so OSE can't find them? I know Google indexes these pages, we get the alerts.

How effective is OSE in crawling press release links?

We have released a few press releases recently (over the last couple of months) and OSE doesn't seem to have found them.

Whats a product feed?

My popular landing pages are all the same...

We're getting more referral traffic from searchcaveman.com - what is that? It still doesn't account for everything though.

My traffic has nearly doubled over the past few days, and my conversion rate has doubled as well.

It looks like our rankings haven't changed...

We haven't done anything to the site recently, although we did submit a couple of press releases through the wire not too long ago (within the last few weeks).

I do not think that this is a cyclical/seasonal jump in traffic because last year this did not occur.

Any ideas?

There's never any love for Quebec and the horrible french we speak! However, I obviously still need to rank in French SERPs. Anyone know of any good directories or possible backlinks for are Quebec/Montreal/French/Canadian ish?

Thanks folks!

Yeah, I want to see where I stand vs my competitors.

Thanks for the quick answer.

I've recently obtained some great backlinks from popular news sites but OSE hasn't picked up on them yet. Is there a way to "show" OSE what's happened, or do I just have to wait?

Actually I requested an invite to a tribe that I wanted to join. They invited me in!

It's all about what you can offer them it seems.

Thanks for the help though guys, you rock!

Hey all,

I've recently learned about Tribber (http://triberr.com/) as a way to network your blog and increase followers.

Does anybody have any experience with it? And how can I get invited in order to give it a shot?

Yes - we are aware of our duplicate content problem.

To establish our brand, we have applied the same template throughout our network. However, except for some minor things like titles, many of these pages contain the same content. It's something we know we have to change.

Is it a good idea to use the same template in all of these sites, if they all had different content? We want them to link back to our main site - but from an SEO perspective should they all appear to be distinct? Remember we want to establish our brand, we want Google to recognize our brand.

That's very interesting.

However, we don't engage in any black-hat SEO - so no random directories, no paid links, nothing like that.

I want to point out 2 things:

1. I just changed the navigation system on my website. Originally the main menu displayed something like 60-70 internal links (through sub-menus etc). What I did to change this is categorize all of my pages, and then show different submenus for different categories. I understand this is a good move because it reduces the # of on page links (of course I 301 redirected all of the old URLs), correct?

2. We have a network for related websites (province/city specific) which contain a link back to our main site. These sites currently contain duplicate content (they were acquired this way). We will be changing this in the future. Also they are hosted on the same server. Nevertheless, they are different (though very related) to our main site. My question is, could having my entire network with its current (duplicate) content point back to our main site have a negative effect on my PR? Or would it have the opposite effect?

My PageRank has been penalized by Google - dropping from PR3 to PR2.

I've done some research online and I see that the PR changed on June 27.

How can I find out if my site is being penalized - and what can I do about it?

I am improving my site internally as much as I can - will these factors help improve my PR directly, or is this a metric solely dependent on inbound links?

Thanks Dan,

My main concern is moving some of the links on the top menu of my website elsewhere and reducing the number of on-page links.

My goal is basically to increase the link juice given to my more important pages, and have my other, less important pages, accessible from a deeper level within my website.

I think this methodology follows the best practices - but, again, I am worried about any potential negative effects that can occur with the changes I want to implement.

I have a question about this:

If you place the Google +1 for the domain only, wouldn't that benefit all of the domain's pages?
Wouldn't it be better then to just increase the Google +1 metric for the domain, and in consequence increase the social value of the entire domain?

I purchased the Ultimate Advanced SEO Bundle DVD set and I understand that I can also watch it online.

Where do I have to go to view it?

MC

I want to restructure the navigation of my website for a few reasons:

1. It isn't intuitive/clear to the user

2. It is way too big, it has too many links and thus causes the number of links on many pages to be >100.

3. I want to get rid of file extensions as part of the URLs (.html, .php)

4. I want to achieve a "tree"-like navigation system, with categories, subcategories and so on.

In the process of cleaning up my website, I had to 301 redirect a lot of duplicate pages, fix broken links, etc. I have a lot of 301 redirects already, and in the process of restructuring the navigation of my website I know I'm going to get more.

Will the addition of new 301 redirects have an effect on my rankings? (I'm basically going to be changing all of the URLs)

What kind of SEO effect will restructuring the navigation at the top of the page (reducing the # of links on the main menu) have on my site?

What is the best strategy to implement in this situation?

This should be fun... lol

Thanks for the advice!

Even if we have the 50 acquisition sites separated into 3 different hosting sources/companies and the main site hosted with a 4th? Damn google... Too smart.

We were considering one of two options:

1. Place our main sites brand on the acquisition sites so that the client knows that they are in our network. The majority of the sites have a geographical term (Canadian city, province etc) in the domain name so there shouldn't be any disconnect when hopping from that child site to our main URL and application hub. More than a warning.. a blatant disclosure

2. Brand each site individually.

Obviously there is tons more work with the latter option and not necessarily realistic give our current resources.

Pandora's box or not, I need to make a move... Oi

Hey All,

First off I wanna thank everyone who has responded to all my previous questions! Love to see a community that is so willing to help those who are learning the ropes!

Anyways back to my point. We have a main site that is a PR 3 and our main focal point for lead generation.

We recently acquired 50 additional sites (all with a PR of 1-3) that we would like to use as our own little back linking campaign with. All the domains are completely relevant to our main site as well as specific pages within our main site.

I know that reciprocal links will get me no where and that google is quickly on to the attempted 3 way link exchange.

My question is how do I best link these 50 sites to not only maintain there own integrity and PR but also assist our main site.

Thanks All!

Do iFrames embedded in a page get crawled?

I have an iFrame which prints a page hosted by another company embedded in my page. Their links don't include rel=nofollow attributes, so I don't want Google to see them.

Do spiders crawl the content in iFrames, or do I have to ensure that the links on this page include the nofollow attribute?

Amazing thanks for the quick response!

You just listed exactly what I had in mind but needed to confirm.

Thanks for your input

Hey All,

So to make a long story short, we own a site that has been passed through many hand and many strategies. We are in the financial field and rank high for many relevant search terms.

My job is now to audit/optimize and purge out site of the garbage that has collected over the years (since 2002).

During the audit I have found many issues, fized them, but I am not sure own how to proceed with the follwing issues.

Any advice to solve the following would be greatly appreciated!

1. 9932 orphan files - does just removing them affect my SEO.. I like a clean house, can I somehow use them to my benefit?

2. Hundreds of 404s with many external "follow" links that we are no longer getting juice from

3. 8 Sitelinks in webmaster tools, but only 4 show in our search

I am straight n00b so sorry if this is 101 for anyone you but your input would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks!