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Well, I know you put a lot of time into really looking into peoples issues to give a proper and thorough answer and i respect you greatly for your SEO knowledge. Some people charge a lot for SEO analysis and have much less experience than you.

One day is not a long time  but look at the code on the site if you suspect something is wrong.Check out your meta robots tag and make sure you're not noindexing or nofollowing. Check your robots.txt file to make sure you're not blocking.

Or you can run this http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/   sitemap generator and see if the are crawling your pages or bailing on the first page. If they are crawling your site Google most likely is unless you are specifically disallowing Googlebot which I doubt.

Obfuscated javascript linking currently still works.

One O in losing by the way 

I see #1.

I also see shady links hidden in CSS on customer sites.It's only a matter of time before they get whacked for this by Google. I see their link in the code but not on the page, and of course the exact anchor text they are ranking so well for currently.

http://www.agorabudapest.hu/index.php/usefulinfo/budapest

<p class="<a class="attribute-value">dnn</a>">SEO By GCSEO <a href="[http://www.greencowseo.com/](view-source:http://www.greencowseo.com/)" title="<a class="attribute-value">SEO Services</a>">SEO Companya>p>

Does anyone know what determines when Open Site Explorer will ask if you meant to type in the redirected URL or when it will automatically change the URL to the www version.

example of a site I get asked the redirect question:

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/comparisons.html?site=checkbook.org

Oh Hey! It looks like that URL redirects to www.checkbook.org/. Would you like to see data for <a class="clickable redirects">that URL instead</a>?

example of a site that redirects automatically:

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/comparisons.html?site=healthleap.com

You just built a site that Google doesn't recommend. Google prefers your main site to be your mobile site with responsive design and not a separate subdomain.

no link building is an ongoing process and it takes time for Google to give you credit for links and the longer they are up there the better they are. So even if no one is looking for chrstmas wreaths in july your site should still be ranking for that term all year round. You could kick it up a notch a few months before the season though and promote heavily on FB and social media sites. Maybe even adwords dare i say.

There are tons of all year round christmas shops now so relevant linking should not be impossible. Also there are other types of wreaths like grave wreaths that maybe the business could go into?

you mean in the <title>tag? yes you can use hyphens.</p></title>

I would post this on a PHP coding forum for a better response.

yahoo can detect spam and remove your posts and block your account. Sometimes they stick if you only do a few but any significant link building will result in Yahoo marking you as a spammer, and kind of rightfully so.

In the interim, I personally wouldn't have the patience to wait and would run some of the free crawler services to check for errors. Two of my favorite are Xenu and ScreamingFrog.

also go into Google Webmaster tools and set the www preference under configuration

Did you put the links on those sites yourself and now you want them removed? He doesn't have to legally remove them, and remember u catch more flies with sugar than vinegar.

Are the pages your links on even indexed, if not then it's not a problem.

$20 per link is a scam. I would offer to paypal him $30 to remove them all.

I never realized the behind the scenes efforts you guys put into this forum. Kudos!  Another idea to encourage people to close out their questions and leave feedback is to remind them when they login, that they have X amount of questions that aren't closing and awaiting feedback (like eBay). An email would probably be very effective as well. I wouldn't expect a great response from the initial new answer email as our psyche thinks that someone will come along with a better answer and we wait and forget to come back. and close out the question.

I see it's a problem with this tool

http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/spider/test.php?url=www.rocksolidroof.com

but I see the content recognized in Google

https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&q="even+thousands+of+dollars+on+future+repairs.+It’s+in+your+best+interests+to+make+sure+the+job+is+done+right+the+first+time"&oq="even+thousands+of+dollars+on+future+repairs.+It’s+in+your+best+interests+to+make+sure+the+job+is+done+right+the+first+time"&gs_l=hp.3...15397.28142.1.28370.129.45.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.45...1c.1.17.psy-ab.xiyDHYgHrec&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.48293060,d.bmk&fp=6ef9c55ffbdd7e46&biw=1920&bih=910

I've paid many people via paypal to remove links because it works. i don't care if it makes them think about charging other people in the future i want to get my links removed and will do it in the most efficient manner possible. I paypal them after i have confirmed the links have been removed successfully.

people are busy and if you offer someone some compensation for their coding time you get a much better response rate. especially since they probably are getting a lot of requests now.

This could also be something as simple as a bad code on some pages too. look at those old pages and see if there is a template or something associated with these pages that only they share. Might be isolating a script or disabling a plugin.

The general consensus of my SEO peers is that approximate 15% of link juice is lost in the redirect and I second what Richard has recommended.

I think a personal website is better for SEO than a shared platform such as blogger (which google owns) and wordpress.com.

But if the blog is established, gets good readership and traffic as you said then it's mostly a traffic play anyway, and I would go for it as long as it's a quality site and doesn't allow spammy articles or spam comment posts.

You can see all of that in Google Webmaster Tools

under > traffic > internal links

Download XENU - http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html - run a crawl of your site and right click the properties of any page to see all internal links linking to that page.

If the pages get indexed the link will be seen and counted (although probably discounted) duplicate content only means Google will filter the search results but you're not doing it for traffic anyway. The only thing you are doing is spamming though, at least if you create unique articles it looks less spammy.

I use linkresearchtools.com but keep in mind that all links need to be manually vetted, and that by disavowing too many links you can actually harm your sites rankings because you are cutting off page juice. Do your best to balance between disavowing really bad links with low or no PR and keeping ones that might be helping you, especially if your site is not actively building new good links. Also, never let a person or company upload a disavow file without giving it a second look.

Here are two strategies for dealing with dupe content and press releases

a) write an article for your site about the news, and write a second article which is the same topic but different wording (not spinning) and use that article for submitting as the press releases, link in the release to your first press release article URL  on your site

b) write a press release and post it on your site and get it indexed. use the same press release but not the entire press release - cut it a little short and include a "read more for the full story" link that links to the full press release content on your site

I prefer option a but it takes more time to write two articles, still i think the benefit is worth it.

you're only passing PR back and forth and increasing the chance of getting flagged. I don't recommend it.

Call him first of all if there is a phone number. Email him multiple times and offer to paypal him $20 for his coding time to remove the link. Tell him you're going to keep emailing him because the links NEED to come down. That usually works.

If you want to do this for SEO then link dofollow on their homepage only and use text not an image.

If it's for traffic then put it globally on the site (since you never know what page a user is coming in on) and nofollow the link.

Nofollow the links on your your own sites client page.

i would make the long tail list based on your keyword research and have the main keyword in there

yes, 404 means link is no longer counting and your work is done this is why people should never point links to their homepage, you can't 404 your homepage.

these directories allowed you to deep link to internal pages though? a lot of directories want your homepage link.

avoid directory submissions and article submissions, the other stuff isn't horrible if you're very smart about it.

have you been doing link building for the clients and if so have you been getting the same types of links from the same places?

Use everything. Link build with a different long tail anchor text every time. That includes with and without brand name. It's just another way of getting more variations in there.

Definitely no follow. You have nothing to lose and you protect yourself. You can be penalized by having so many dofollow links, nofollowing them completely protects your site and doesn't change your page juice or anything negative by nofollowing them.

reciprical linking is no longer a good strategy. google knows it's a "you do something for me i'll do something for you" deal and discounts them

disagree with above posts. get some page juice to your site!

a) dofollow them

b) use branded term only (not your keywords)

c) put on homepage footer only, not global. If the footer is global, simply create a homepage-footer.php file.

No, you can do it, but you'll run into some technical issues. For instance try to run this tool on one of your URLs and you'll see it gets rejected.

If you're only making the site https because of a technicaly easier implementation, then I would suggest putting the time in to set the site up right and force https only when secure pages are needed, and force http when coming off of those secure pages

http://www.internetofficer.com/seo-tool/redirect-check/

Response

Checked link: https://site.com
This link does not work.

Error message: Invalid protocol (URL must start with http://)

If you're a global site yes, if local then they probably don't hold as much weight but still count.

If you have a french section of your site and have links from .fr domains that's a good indicating factor as one of many factors.

http://www.example.com/test page.html will be converted to %20 so it could be interpreted as the same page

All three could be considered spaces, I wouldn't use any of them.

http://blogs.iis.net/robert_mcmurray/archive/2011/04/27/bad-characters-to-use-in-web-based-filenames.aspx