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If the server performance is better and you page speed load times improve then it will help your SEO.
Google no longer requires you to have your site hosted in the same country as your target region.
There are so few people who really know how to do safer link building these days, and it's very time consuming and expensive, I would advise against hiring someone to do this for you unless you are willing to take the risk of getting penalized.
Read up on it first so you know what you are getting into before hiring someone who can harm your site.
the longer the domain name the harder it is to remember it or type it in.
URL length should be kept as short as possible which still being descriptive but not keyword stuffed, that includes directories made up just for the sake of adding in keywords. However people have done experiments and Google will index pages with extremely long URLs, but it doesn't mean it's good.
Basically, just use common sense when purchasing domains and naming pages. what looks better to you
or
www.wayneinspections.com/10-tips-on-choosing-the-right-home-inspector-in-nj
you can have over 100 links on a page now. that was an old rule when Google had limited bandwidth and the crawler would abandon a page acter following a certain number of links. now google sucks up whatever there is on a page.
do what makes most sense for user navigation. too many links can be overkill or might fit perfectly into your model.
Keep in mind you are really splitting up your PR by having so many links and pushing pr to all pages instead of the main ones.
it is not bad if you are doing internal linking and not anchor text spamming in the footer links. It can be used to pass PR to more important pages but should mostly be though of as providing the user a better experience when navigating your site.
footer links are bad for SEO when linking to other sites or when other sites link to you since that creates hundreds, thousands or even millions of links with the same anchor text. it's an old SEO tactic that no longer works
I would especially avoid SEO companies that guarantee placement. No one can guarantee that and no reuputable SEO company will. Google's algorithm is always changing. If they do guarantee first page placement they are most likely talking about PPC or lying to you.
you should have enough of those names being generated naturally IE www.site.com, site.com, site so I wouldn't worry about wasting hard link building efforts just to add your domain name which you already should rank #1 for
the trick is to use long tail variations - if your main keyword is "movie posters" then
vintage movie posters
selling old movie posters
buy classic movie posters online
and point them to matching optimized pages, not all to the same page.
a) Is it OK to post a description & title & links on those 20 pages that are the same? (duplicate - but account for less than 5% of total on-page content)"
I would make them unique, if you're building out these pages just rewrite the tags it's too easy to not do.
nofollowing is always safer for your site. if the other site is not requesting the links to be dofollow, then nofollow them and protect your site.make the link open in a new window so you're not kicking the user off of your site
widget is good because it keeps people on your site longer and lowers bounce rate. Probably better for conversion rate too so it's you've getting a cut you want to implement whatever method will convert better.
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.
don't add folders just for the sake of getting keywords in your URL. keywords in your filename are better for SEO anyway. If anything I would recommend you rename your pages for better SEO accompanied with better optimization on the pages themselves.
that being said, you won't get penalized just for adding a folder it's a combination of overdoing that keyword in your pages that could trigger a penalty
also are all of the pages in your site navigation - if orphaned google may not index them. Also are they unique and have content?
It is my personal experience with link building that links now take a couple of months before they help you with rankings. Back in the days we used to see instant movement, now it seems that Google wants to see the link is sticking before assigning credit to it. Probably done to deter spammers and give website owners a chance to remove the spam links and also to deter or frustrate link builders in general.
Hopefully the link brings you some traffic or brand awareness, don't expect it to really help in your rankings though.
That page is indexed and prweb links should show up as links. i wouldn't obsess over it though because links from known pr services like pr web won't help your SEO according to Matt Cutts.
the very first link to your site in that article is broken btw - definitely make sure all of your links are working properly before pushing out your releases
let them get indexed. Google won't have a problem for you taking pages down on your site. They probably won't accrue much PR in a couple of months so you could probably just remove them and be fine and mass 301 them to the main product page
Even better create unique descriptions for them and keep them live and also put them up on your new site. Careful setting up multiple sites and interlinking or you can get penalized
Of course all title tags should be unique and main keyword should target that product so if you have a section about laser cartridges it might be something like this
Main Laser Page (general)
Buy Laser Printer Cartridges | Toner Cartridge in Color and Black Ink
Laser Product Page (more specific)
Xerox 2030xp Laser Printer Cartridges | Color Ink Toner Cartridge
If the name of your site is your brand name there should be no need to waste valuable title tag space, because with the name in the domain and a few times in the page content you should rank for that already.
a) Don't repeat any keyword more than once
b) If inkjet and laser are different those should have their own landing pages
c) I doubt cheap is as valuable as you think
Original: Ink Cartridges | Toner Cartridges | Cheap Cartridges | Inkjet Ink | Laser Toner
Updated: <title>Buy Printer Cartridges | Ink and Toner Cartridge for Inkjet and Laser Printers</title>
Notice a singular and plural instance of "cartridges" and also a singular and plural "printers" which is probably an important keword missing.
Also we still get "buy" "ink" "toner" "inkjet" and "Laser" in the title
Also reads better
you should be concerned, because your main keyword is also your domain name so you can get penalized for over optimization even if you are going for relevant links.
If you are coffee.com get people to link to you with "www.coffee.com" "http://www.coffee.com" and "coffee.com" as well as other variations. Too many instances of "coffee" and you could get hit with an over optimization penalty since your domain name is coffee and that is one more major factor where they keyword is linking up perfectly.
Go to archive.org and take a look at the history of the site and what it used to be.If you see it was a shady site and also has a shady incoming link profile I would avoid it. My guess would be that a lot of really good domain names (short, keyword rich names) were dropped because of penalties.
Dropped domains are not simply "reset" or owners would just let their penalized domain expire and pick it up again under a different name.
What do you mean by "Now Google also able to search images so it will also going to play some role in seo."
I was asked by a friend if there was anyway I could help promote the watch brand that they are responsible for. The brand has only one page on the corporate site.
http://gevrilgroup.com/fortis-watches/
My first reaction is that this is impossible to do without creating a stand alone web site and then doing some super cool marketing to get your brand noticed out of the sea of watch manufacturers. My second gut reaction is to stand clear of this request and not get myself tangled in something that will require a lot of resources for someone on a low budget. Any suggestions?
Removing links may help.
some other tips:
1. add a robots.txt to the site
2. using htaccess force https to redirect to http (perhaps share your the contents of your htaccess for review)
https://www.leatherhidestore.com/ should not resolve ...
3. get rid of the meta name="keywords" tag
4. Some tips from SEO moz report card for your home page.
Easy fix
<dl>
<dt>Occurrences of Keyword</dt>
<dd>21</dd>
<dt>Explanation</dt>
<dd>We've seen evidence that excessive use of keywords can negatively impact rankings and thus suggest moderation.</dd>
<dt>Recommendation</dt>
<dd>Remove instances of the targeted keyword(s) from the document text of this page to bring it below 15</dd>
</dl>
<a class="more expanded">Minimize</a>
Easy fix
<dl>
<dt>Page title</dt>
<dd>"Upholstery Leather - Buy Wholesale Leather | Leather Hide Store"</dd>
<dt>Explanation</dt>
<dd>Using the targeted keyword(s) more than twice in the title tag may be perceived as keyword stuffing (a form of search engine spam) by the engines, and thus we recommend against it.</dd>
<dt>Recommendation</dt>
<dd>Do not employ more than two instances of the targeted keyword(s) in the title tag.</dd>
</dl>
<a class="more expanded">Minimize</a>
Easy fix
<dl>
<dt>Cannibalizing link</dt>
<dd>"Leather Buying Guide", "Our Leather Collection", and "Leather Remnants"</dd>
<dt>Explanation</dt>
<dd>It's a best practice in SEO to target each keyword with a single page on your site (sometimes two if you've already achieved high rankings and are seeking a second, indented listing). To prevent engines from potentially seeing a signal that this page is not the intended ranking target and creating additional competition for your page, we suggest staying away from linking internally to another page with the target keyword(s) as the exact anchor text. Note that using modified versions is sometimes fine (for example, if this page targeted the word 'elephants', using 'baby elephants' in anchor text would be just fine).</dd>
<dt>Recommendation</dt>
<dd>Unless there is intent to rank multiple pages for the target keyword, it may be wise to modify the anchor text of this link so it is not an exact match.</dd>
</dl>
Moderate fix
<dl>
<dt>Number of Canonical tags</dt>
<dd>0</dd>
<dt>Explanation</dt>
<dd>Although the canonical URL tag is generally thought of as a way to solve duplicate content problems, it can be extremely wise to use it on every (unique) page of a site to help prevent any query strings, session IDs, scraped versions, licensing deals or future developments to potentially create a secondary version and pull link juice or other metrics away from the original. We believe the canonical URL tag is a best practice to help prevent future problems, even if nothing is specifically duplicate/problematic today.</dd>
<dt>Recommendation</dt>
<dd>Add a canonical URL tag referencing this URL to the header of the page</dd>
</dl>
good lord.
please mark sandip's and/or matts response as a good answer or thumbs up if they helped you
contact webmaster and ask them to remove the link(s) and tell them you'll paypal them $10 or whatever for their time. gets their attention and works. otherwise link removal requests often get ignored
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.
If your site is less than 3000 pages this tool is pretty good
shows you the URL where the broken link is and also where in the source code of the page the broken link is
if domain registration is not private then they know this, if email addresses and physical addresses listed on the site are same they know same owner, if ips are the same they know same owner
if you do linking, link the lesser site to the main site only.
bottom line is if you are targeting the same keywords you are against Googles TOS because you're only supposed to have one site for your business.
If they have any PR at all you should 301 them to the most appropriate pages or categories and not let them 404. Only 404 junk pages with no matches that have no PR.
linking in content with hyperlinks gets clicked more than images or buttons, and if it is relevant it will help get users to convert or go to the pages you want them to visit, while also helping your SEO by creating better anchor texts than you can achieve by simply breadcrumbs.
With breadcrumbs you will be creating tons of links with the same anchor text on every page and it's not in content. so if "whole life insurance" is your main keyword for instance the breadcrumbs will only target that. But in your content you have the ability (and this is very important to do now to avoid over optimization penalties) to mix up your anchor text with variations such as "whole life insurance quotes" "whole life insurance policies" "what is whole life insurance" etc.
I would suggest not more than 100 links on a PR 5 home page and 50 links on a PR 4 home page or otherwise risk spreading your page juice too thin for any pages to rank. However, the most important rule of thumb is that all links should have user value and SEO value. I would change the developer to someone who understands how to design a site for users and search engines
Something very screwy with your URL. Open site explorer says its redirecting back to the old URL - The URL you've entered redirects to another URL. We're showing results for www.leatherhidestore.com/servlet/StoreFront since it is likely to have more accurate link metrics. See data for www.leatherhidestore.com instead? I would look into htaccess settings and your configuration settings on magento and your hosting provider.
Also, I would disavow your links from the link exchanges.
I just looked at your site and you don't have a H1 tag on the home page. Let me advise you to setup a Bing Webmaster account for your site and review the SEO report. It will caution you on H1, title, meta, duplicate pages and more.
What is your target keyword phrase for the home page. Keep your focus on that phrase. The first option is certainly spammy, but I can't figure out your prized keyword target from your second paragraph. What is in your H1 and title tags?
nofollowing the links won't stop the spiders from finding those pages, that will only throw away your PR. block them out in robots.txt, noindex and/or canonical the duplicate content pages to reign in the number of pages instead.
I would look at the navigational structure and see if you can narrow down the hierarchy a bit if there are 300 links on each page, it's a bit overwhelming for the user. Link to main category pages and on those pages branch out to individual products or sub categories.
"BTW the entire site is an ecommerce site wth millions of products and each product is its own wordpress blog post...YIKES! Thoughts?" I think wordpress is the wrong platform for a large ecommerce site with a million products and a migration might be in order which is a huge undertaking. You must have tons of duplicate title tags and junk on this site, it's inevitable when creating so many pages.
No you need less instances of keywords, also need to look at the anchor texts on your site and anchor texts and types of links pointing to your site. The combination of these three things being overdone usually results in specific keyword phrases that you were pushing too hard for to get suppressed in the rankings.
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remove your links on sites like these, luckily i don't see a ton of incoming links so you may be able to fix this issue a little bit easier.
Why do you have a bunch of links in your menu as nofollow, you are throwing away PR they should be all dofollowed. If you are trying to page rank sculpt then you should look into javascripting those links instead.
Let me guess you lost all rankings for "trophy/trophies" and or "award/awards" related searches? You are keyword spamming, only one instance of "trophy and one instance of "trophies" in your title tag and meta description, lose the keywords meta completely it's useless.
script type="<a class="attribute-value">text/javascript</a>" src="[http://c15009118.r18.cf2.rackcdn.com/mobile-redirection.js](view-source:http://c15009118.r18.cf2.rackcdn.com/mobile-redirection.js)">script><title>Trophies & Award Plaques from Trophy Central. Trophies, Unique Trophies and Awards.title><META NAME="<a class="attribute-value">keywords</a>" content="<a class="attribute-value">trophies, trophies and awards, trophy cases, trophy, award ribbons, plaques, awards, engraved plaques, award medals, crystal trophies, display cases, award pins, sports trophies, corporate awards, trophies and medals, championship trophy, trophies and plaques, sports trophies, engraved trophies, crystal awards,free engraving</a>"> <META NAME="<a class="attribute-value">description</a>" content="<a class="attribute-value">Shop for Trophies, Awards, Trophy Cases, Plaques and Medals. Free Engraving on Trophies. Quick Shipping on Trophies and Awards.</a>">
they are necessary links pointing to product pages though. nofollowing them is sufficient.
Did Google WMT send strictlygifts.com a email message saying that they detected unnatural links pointing to the site? What makes you think you are penalized, drop in traffic or rankings?
You don't need to remove the links pointing to your main site you just need to nofollow them BTW
each are different targets and need individual pages and unique content to rank well for their search
how to lose love handles and how to get a flat stomach are similar topics but if the content is written completely different it doesn't matter. if you use one article and slightly modify it for a second page then you may have an issue because it's spinning and is not entirely unique. be creative
yea if one fires off and the second fires off that's a second page visit
gotta be a tracking code or site coding issue
wordpress SEO plugins. weeding out pages with low content, fixing technical issues like dupe content canonicals, 404s, 302's. etc
I agree with EGOL, unless you are trying to dominate the first page with search results for the same keyword phrase. Then in that case they need to be completely separated, no interlinking and no shared content.
if the content is of benefit to the user then include them in your navigation. Why are you blocking them in the first place, duplicate content?
I am unable to click the canonical links EGOL provided, but i see the page two is canonicalled to itself, and the page has PR2 which is good. Maybe cut out some of the extra links in the article, for each extra link you include you dilute the PR being passed to your page.
Whether or not this article is posted on other sites does not matter if he is concerned with links and PR and not as with this page ranking and bringing him traffic. If it's indexed and has PR this is a good page to be linked on, plus it's forbes which is a powerful site so i see good link building here. Mix up the anchor texts if possible between posts, even if it's off by one character or so.
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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?
If the secondary page is getting indexed it should still accrue PR, maybe slightly less than the 1st page of the article, if people are linking to the article they will link to the first page obviously. But if the site has good navigation structure, the secondary page will get indexed and get some PR too so i wouldn't be too concerned about it.
if you have a paid hosting company call them and they'll run tools on your site to find any exploits.
if your traffic is holding steady you might be ok, just get those links off your site and take care of the security holes. Also your FTP write/edit permissions might need to be tightened up.
just on the checkout for the reason that the happy dude in the teal shirt said above me
make sure when the user jumps to and from https and http that you are using absolute links or you could wind up with duplicate versions of the site indexed in both http and https