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thanks mat

i doubt google could ever do anything about it because so many legit sites get 50%+ of their business from their affiliates - and seems like every website has a banner of some sort linking to another site as an affiliate so i think a large percentage of the actual internet is affiliate marketing based

im sure more sites exist for the sole purpose of making an affiliate buck than actual company sites - literally every blog makes money as an affiliate in some manner or another

but thanks for the answer - i will do the site: search now

one of my clients has a TON of affiliates out there building links back to his site all with the ?ref=AFFILIATENAME tracking string

does google understand this and not count these links or is there a way to nofollow all links with this tracking string?

just wondering how big companies rank well and still have thousands of affiliates building links on all kinds of properties using all kinds of methods

thanks

what do you charge for

Individual Personalized Training? and site audits?

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brilliant answer!

i just copy/pasted the entire thing to my client - even got your pic and bio in there for added cred.

i have been asking this question in one way or another since early Feb. and you just nailed it

thank you very much

i'm happy for all the help so i'm not complaining here but i think you forgot about me paul.

also i need to know why my client is so adamant about not wanting to upgrade his php from 5.1.6 to 5..2.4 saying it could hinder his sites overall functionality. any idea why?

i want to update his WP to newest version and it requires php to be updated so we are running old plugins and old WP - his blog was hacked so his webguys moved the location from site.com/blog to blog.site.com

i feel handcuffed - no reason to run WP if you cant use plugins right?

i havent really gotten a straight answer yet for this question - my client says:

"The developers are skeptical about the possibility to update PHP on our server as this could seriously damage the entire RV site functionality."

since i know nothing about php and any potential hazards i have to ask the community to see if there is any validity to these concerns.

we cant update our version of WP unless the version of php is first upgraded from 5.1.6 to 5.2.4

client wont do this because developers say its a potential nightmare

i , as seo, want a current updated version of WP for many obvious reasons

can anyone please tell me what, if any, problems could arise from upgrading the sites php? or is it just a lot of work and the developers are making excuses because they dont want to do it?

thanks very much to whoever answers

thanks marie - thats what i needed to hear

client has banners on site 1 linking to site 2 and vice-versa but these links are auto generated with each blog post ( new post means new ad link)

is this a problem?

see, its not like he just has one banner on reach site pointing back to the other - his ads automatically appear on each page that a blog post is posted - im sure you know what i mean but im trying to to my best to make sense here

everytime another blog post is created for site 1 then another banner is also created linking to site 2

client thinks it may be a big problem - is it?

his developers say this:

The developers are skeptical about the possibility to update PHP on our server as this could seriously damage the entire RV site functionality

i have no clue why his site would be in jeopardy - he said he took care of any security issues by moving the blog to a subdomain from revisitors.com/blog to blog.revisitors.com

i also have no idea whether or not that makes his blog more secure but i need some in-depth professional advice here

this was clients exact reply:

The developers are skeptical about the possibility to update PHP on our server as this could seriously damage the entire RV site functionality

my client revisitors.com has a blog       blog.revisitors.com that we cannot update to a newer WP version 3.5.1 because his php version apparently must be upgraded first.

You cannot update because WordPress 3.5.1 requires PHP version 5.2.4 or higher. You are running version 5.1.6.

according to client it would be potentially hazarardous for him to upgrade the php

but we cant update or add new plugins because we arent running the current version of WP

what is worse?

i am responsible for his blog but i feel handicapped bigtime - at the same time i dont want him to do something that could wreck his site functionality either

any suggestions? or advice here?

thanks

how can i update plugins if i get this:

Downloading update from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/akismet.2.5.7.zip…

Unpacking the update…

Installing the latest version…

Removing the old version of the plugin…

Could not remove the old plugin.

Plugin update failed.

same for AIOSEO

hi-

my first client ranks #1 for the exact phrase of each blog post title

the 2nd client doesnt rank anywhere when i search for the exact post title

2nd client has robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/

so that shouldnt noindex any posts right?

his site ranks for many kw's - but oddly none of his blog posts are anywhere to be found - i dont mean for a kw search - i mean for searching for the entire title he doesnt rank anywhere in first 5 pages for any of 6-7 posts i checked

any idea what could cause this?

thanks

my client GWT has a number of notices for "blocked by meta-robots" - these are all either blog posts/categories/or tags

his former seo told him this: "We've activated following settings:

• Use noindex for Categories
• Use noindex for Archives
• Use noindex for Tag Archives

to reduce keyword stuffing & duplicate post tags
Disabling all 3 noindex settings above may remove google blocks but also will send too many similar tags, post archives/category. "

is this guy correct?

what would be the problem with indexing these?

am i correct in thinking they should be indexed?

thanks

thanks for the link - i will try that hack - looks simple enough

is there a better analytics tool (preferably free) that will show the actual keywords that drive traffic to a website or are we doomed to deal with (not provided) as a result of the Big G's retarded privacy policy? - seems they cant make up their minds as to whether they are going to take care of site owners or advertisers - but they should really take a stand and stop putting out half-ass results

if anyone has any helpful ideas that may ease my pain i would be forever in your debt.

my client has a page on his site: www.revisitors.com/REF/TEST

the page is for a free traffic offer...i have this page currently ranking 25th or so for "free traffic" - a great keyword to rank for to promote this offer with.....

i want the url to be www.revisitors.com/free-traffic.html  and then change the title tags to free traffic | free targeted traffic

or something along those lines....i have hardly put in any linkbuilding work at all to get to 25 - it was a surprise but now that we are there i want to tighten things up and optimize as well as possible....

how do i do this without losing previously built linkjuice and without having a duplicate content issue for having both pages exist with a 301 redirect....

if i am wrong about something please dont hesitate to set me straight...i am only masquerading as an seo expert these days anyway.....thanks.

i hadnt realized this question was answered - i actually forgot i ever asked it - but thank you for the reply - when i use rel=canonical am i telling the SE's that i prefer www. ?

if the answer is yes - then i am all set - and the confusion is over

hello-

i got this recommendation

<dl>

<dt>Recommendation</dt>

<dd>Add a canonical URL tag referencing this URL to the header of the page</dd>

<dd>from my "report card" and i see also that i have a lot of issues with duplicate content but i really dont have any duplicate content on my site.</dd>

<dd>the crawl has apparently marked every post in my blog as duplicate page content.</dd>

<dd>and the "use canonical tag" suggestion keeps appearing as a fix to my problems.</dd>

<dd>could you please help me with ------How do i create a canonical tag?</dd>

<dd>is it just rel=canonical?</dd>

<dd>and where do i put it?</dd>

<dd>i should put it on every page right?</dd>

<dd>or with CSS my webmaster could probably do it very quickly right?</dd>

<dd>i get the basic concept behind rel=canonical but i cant say i fully understand it -</dd>

<dd>i need some help with regard to how and where this tag should be placed.</dd>

<dd>thanks,</dd>

<dd>erik
</dd>

<dd>.</dd>

</dl>