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a) If i was the owner of the site i wouldn't want to leak PR on every page even if i did like the work that was done

b) If i was the website company i wouldn't want sitewide footer links on sites which make it look like I am paying for sponsored themes

c) if the links are nofollowed, both parties lose, PR is still leaked from the owners site and benefit is not gained for the website company

I think the best solution is a dofollow homepage ONLY footer link. This is the highest PR page, usually the most traffic so good visibility for advertising,  you're not creating tons of sitewide links with identical anchor texts, and the owner is only leaking some PR on their homepage.

yea i'd like to see TV channels with no commercials too.

That is an incorrect assumption. Not all backlinks surface in GWT right away or ever. You can check to see if Google has indexed the pages that have the backlinks by finding those pages in the Google index and checking the Google cache date.

1. The value of the Keyword reduces with each character. The first character has highest value and the last the lowest. where did you hear that? the file name is more important than the folder name for SEO

2. Google only counts the first mention of a Keyword and the 2nd mention of Toga doesn't add any value. Agree, more than one instance is stuffing. This is exponentially true when you create URLs that have a keyword mentioned twice in the URL, and then if the page is linking several times to these sections you create too high of a keyword density. Google prefers less and doesn't want keywords shoved down their throat.

3. Plus Google only displays 35 characters of the URL so one should aim to keep the total length of the URL below 35 chars. I respectfully disagree, just because Google only shows 35 characters in the display doesn't mean they disregard the keywords in the remainder of the URL - they are just doing that to keep the display looking clean - 35 characters is nothing. Most blogs go WAY over that with autogenerated filenames, it's all a matter of making sure you don't keyword stuff.

subfolders are better than subdomains, it's all under one site instead of 59 (according to obama) individual subdomains.

that was an old school strategy when Google really gave push to having the keywords in the domain name and spammers took advantage of it to rank better by creating subdomains for each keyword phrase

how about giving Ryan some thumbs up and answered status for all that work and time he put into helping you out

The extra effort required to create a blog under the domain rather than the subdomain is worth it. subdomains are created by the web team when they are looking for the easiest solution and not taking SEO into account.

Creating a blog on the main domains is widely agreed in the SEO community as being the best option. You are creating additional content and interlinking on your site  plus if the blog is link worthy you are getting good PR passed to your main site instead of off to a subdomain.

No this won't work. it's called pagerank sculpting and used to work but Google fixed that a couple of years ago by making the nofollow counts as a link and instead all you are doing is throwing away your page juice.

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definitely stay away from that - they have a link network of splogs it sounds like and they will get you penalized.

I'll go one better. DON'T COLD CALL ME. I know how to use the internet to find things.

It definitely matters, since it's an aged and trusted domain AND it's a not for profit site definitely leave it as .org and forward the .com name to the .org site.

My real life experience has shown me that the uppercase and lowercase have no effect on ranking. However, given  a choice, i would go with all lowercase as that seems to be the standard.

Go into GWMT and resubmit sitemap.xml files (with the URLs you want indexed) for recrawling and Google will digest the sitemaps again, instead of waiting for Googlebot to come around on their own, you are requesting it to come around, also include those new sitemap files in your robots.txt file.

I would not hide text on the site.

a jquery actually shows the text to the user and is spiderable (seo friendly) so i would go that route

http://www.pgi.com/us/en/video/pgitv-home/602045087001/Save-Money-by-Going-Virtual-with-PGi-Easy-to-Use-Web-Conferencing

click "view transcript" link below the video to see

"there is a huge exchange of links between the same sites"

that's called a link farm - stay away or you'll be begging for a penalty. Look at the sites that are currently listed on there and see if they are penalized / rankings suppressed.

you are not supposed to include blocked URLs in the sitemap.xml files, or Google considers it wasting their crawl time. Are these automated sitemap.xml files?

You're basically saying "come index these pages i've listed, but don't index them!"

Remove the URLs that are blocked content (or rerun/regenerate them) and resubmit the sitemaps and the warnings will go away.

He is correct. those two URLs in your post are duplicate

decide on the best url to represent and canonical the dupe pages to that URL and your issue should be fixed. 132 pages should take you a few hours probably.

Also your title tag dynamic insertion is broken and you are missing meta descriptions:

  <title>CCI Solutions - <%=title%>title>  <META name="<a class="attribute-value">description</a>" content=""> 

Why do so many great responses in this forum  never get labeled as the  "Best Answer".  Questioners should realize that many experts give them great advice for free and the least they can do is to show some sort of appreciation by giving a thumbs up.

it's in a different folder right - block that folder in robots.txt and request URL removal in Google WMT and those image pages will get deindexed.

Don't use WIX or you'll be wasting your time if you want good SEO.

Consider wordpress if the site is going to be substantial because it's a widely used CMS so anyone can hop in and knows how to use it.

If it's a small simple site and a CMS is not needed you can download a free template, there are tons of free template sites on the web. Remove any sponsored links in the footer if you're using one of those though.

Don't hire a SEO from spam emails is my first suggestion. I would ask around these forums and look for someone who has a lot of moz points and is respected in the community.

Cost is hard to say, it depends on the size of the site, the platform and the amount of technical issues that need to be fixed. He could hire someone for an SEO recommendations document and then implement the changes himself, that's the cheapest way to go.

Yes, hosting the video on your server is what you need to do if you want your site to rank for it, and optimize the page for it as well.

Individual pages would only be better if you have enough content on all of those pages sections to justify their own pages. If the content would be too flimsy, then you're better off keeping all the content on one beefy page.

Yes, Google sees the rendered code. Otherwise a billion sites out there would be screwed. Most title tag content for example is dynamically inserted code.

Absolutely not, your site is aged. A new site is like starting all over even if you do 301 the old site to the new.

a) work on improving the on page SEO on your site

b) if that new domain is available you could play around with setting that up as a stand alone site and see if you can get it ranked #1, it could take 6-12 months before Google really trusts it enough.

c) if it's that old and outdated maybe he wants to sell it at a reasonable price if it's worth that much to you?

If it's a commonly used acronym then both the full keyword phrase and the accronym should be included in the SEO optimization process.

If you think a short tail keyword for a professional industry like "doctor" is not competitive or hard to rank for you're mistaken I don't even have to look it up.

• No title tag on the homepage
• No meta description on the homepage
• Too many ads
• Pages with almosrt no content not liked by Google

http://www.oluadeonline.com/home-theatre-universal-remote/

• Tags are getting indexed - google will consider it spammy

Champigny -

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two keywords, main and secondary, and plural. if the brand name is the name of your URL then that's not needed, it's only using up valuable title tag space.

remember all title tags need to be unique across the site

You have three separate instance of GA analytics code on your home page. Your stats are probably all messed up. Here's my two cents. Take a few hours and read through your page source on your page templates and flag anything you see as questionable and make sure your code is clean. Sounds a little harsh but this is probably your best route for accuracy.

The difference is naturally occurring links from regular non paid diversified sites vs paid links from directory type sites that Google has already flagged as being bad neighborhoods used for SEO, and these sites are most likely linking to a lot of penalized sites as well which makes you guilty by association.

So it has more to do with the places you are linked on than it does overusing your brand name in the anchor text, plus naturally occurring links will have their own keyword mix and match diversity.

brandname

brandname.com

http://brandname.com

http://brandname.com/

www.brandname.com

www.brandname.com/

http://www.brandname.com

http://www.brandname.com/

visit brandname

visit brandname.com

go to brandname

some will be do follow, some will be no follow, some might be image links

Your URL may be successful because of external and internal link juice being passed to it. The F grade only takes into account page optimization.

I wouldn't draw attention with the disavow file unless your boxed in. Google clearly said it should be used as a method of last resort and they would even prefer that you write your story of link removal attempts in comments in  the disavow file. Try to contact the blog editor or webmaster and ask to remove or nofollow your links. You may even offer payment for the removal.

I would definitely not use a .info - it's a bargain domain extension that was used by spammers.

Help him find a better .com also EMD power is getting devalued by Google so he might want to consider his name or hybrid between brand and keywords

Not a definite penalty because of that but you're in a place you don't want to be. I would undo your link exchange campaign before you get that dreaded email from Google in WMT. Link exchanges are very easy for Google to detect.

Bad idea, without content the homepage won't rank. This is one of the #1 cardinal SEO rules. Homepage must have content.

It's only terrifying if you aren't ahead of the curve with SEO. It's scary for people hiring SEOs too because they are hiring someone who is supposed to know but quite often they don't and wind up hurting the site.

Google is coming down very hard on links which is why they had to provide a disallow tool to help you combat poor SEO past practices or negative SEO attacks which before you could not really handle other than getting all the links down that are harming you.

Also, onpage optimization can hurt you just as easily, because Google knows you are in control of those factors, so under optimization is the new optimization.

Sitewide links are never good and blogroll links were sold big time a few years back, i would not interlink non related sites owned by the same entity, or if you do nofollow them and in either case don't use main keywords.

if the shop is in canada you should use the .ca site and not just redirect it because the ca site will rank great in google ca

He should write the article on Monday and then post a tweet and link on Facebook on Friday. If his blog posts are permitted into Google News, he may want to wait until Friday, since freshness matters most in Google News. In any event, the client's content and link building efforts are the tools to get good rankings and it doesn't really matter what day the articles are posted.

We all get a little sloppy at times. Just yesterday , someone pointed out that I accidentally blocked  the robots from one of our primary pages, because it was being included in a wildcard match on one of the disallow commands in  robots.txt.

Sometimes the mistakes are very basic. The one below is just too funny. I thought I would share the love. Search Google for "MD care"

MD Care Inc. - Welcome<a id="LXPLSS_979677678U1"></a>

<cite>www.mdcarehealthplan.com/</cite>

This is an SEO description that will be seen by the search engines and used in the search results.

The meta keywords tag is even funnier:

<meta name="keywords" content="spam,the,keywords,here,like,this,and this,good" />

File a DMCA takedown notice might be the best way if you've already reached out to them and gotten nowhere. Tell them this is your next course of action if they don't remove your material that should get them listening.

http://www.sfwa.org/2013/03/the-dmca-takedown-notice-demystified/

BOTW is just another link and citation. If you are having trouble getting quality links naturally from around the web, then BOTW is most likely worth the money. I heard a recent Matt Cutts video where he did speak favorably of BOTW. However, I strongly advise you to try to create likable content that can easily be shared.

Two separate issues

a) keyword density. it is now better to not overuse your keyword or keyword phrase in your content, your example is way too high. you only need a few instances in the content - add synonyms and similar industry terms rather than the same keyword over and over again. it reads horrible and Google knows you're keyword stuffing.

b) content on page. yea the word count absolutely matters in a post panda world. flimsy pages with 250 words or so will be considered low quality. pages with 500+ words will have a much better shot at ranking.

that is pagerank sculpting and no longer works for SEO.

If you have 5 links on a page and want link juice to go to only 2 and nofollow the other 3 links on the page, the link juice will not go 50/50 to those two dofollow links.

Instead the link juice will still get divided by 5 and you will be throwing away the PR that would normally have been passed to those 3 links.

You need to research on exactly what channel of traffic has declined and then you can start analyzing the cause of loss. I would spend time analyzing each traffic channel and check for things like unique search queries and unique landing pages per channel. I would also pay attention to the Google and Bing Webmaster tools and check for crawl issues.

You say "the service was basically a backlink building farm."

If links are your major concern I ask you this -  are these links pointing to your homepage or internal pages? If internal pages you can simply change the URL structure and 404 all of the old URLS and the links will no longer be pointing to your site, problem solved. If they did link building to the homepage you would need to go through them and contact the webmasters and ask them to remove which is very time consuming.

That being said, if you don't have a penalty from these links you might be OK, and 404'ing these pages would cut off your PR and could cause a major drop in rankings. Like Alan said, make sure your on page optimization is squeaky clean.