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Probably not wise to hide the business address, it might impact on how it ranks from a local point of view.

The only reason I can see someone would want to hide an address is if they wanted to shut down a location or move a location.

If you are using niche specific directories I think they will be fine.

The directories you need to stay away from are sites like freeSEOdirectory.info

Do your research and see if the site is active, if they have quality content, if they have an approval process on new business owners been added.

It does sound like the site was legacy and the update did take too long to occur, we have seen this same thing with other business owners on legacy CMS's who have not moved over quickly enough so it is a common issue.

I guess the thing you need to think about is the following -

1. Were all the links disavowed pure spam, most of the profile looks branded, We have seen SEOs disavow quality in the past which can have an adverse impact on the domain (see attached) I presume the disavow may have been mostly legacy spam.

2. The domain may have been hit by Panda in the past (see attached) though without seeing internal data it is hard to give a more accurate analysis.

Hope this helps, 
James

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The thing with running a article based site it is not wise to use articles which are already indexed on other sites, this will cause the pages not to be indexed on your site and you will receive no organic traffic.

To prevent something like this you would need to use the Copyscape API on your site and pre check all content which is added to the site prior going live - http://www.copyscape.com/api-guide.php

The API calls are not cheap though this is a viable option for checking large amounts of content on a daily basis.

I would No Index TAG pages on your blog/website. The SEO benefit from these tags is limited the userbility benefit is evident.

Using tag pages is still not a bad idea as they can help with fine tuning your category level targeting.

Also the attached image is a great example to compare the two from this post - https://moz.com/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success

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I guess you could push the "Located in Canada" message on your domain, and on the meta description for example to increase CTR. If you want to increase authority and ranks it is a question for the whole domain.

This is an issue you will see in all markets, even in Australia for example .com.au is country specific TLD will do well, yet US companies on .com will still rank for long tail. You just need to push the "Buy local" message in your titles/ Descriptions where possible. My advice is test it and see what happens.

You could have implemented the Canonical tag on the site to stop any cross site duplicate content issues.

The only time I would remove URL'S is if you have a staging site with the same content on a different URL for example.

Upload slideshows on Slideshare.net Google loves the domain from what I have seen, if you have a great range of links to the Slideshare content you can have them ranking for great terms.

If you upload slideshow content to your own domain it may not be as effective.

1. MajesticSEO is another decent link tool, Ahrefs is very good as well.

2. I like White Spark for citation finding.

3. Optimizely is good with CRO it depends on your budget tools go from one price to VERY expensive some are 4,000+ a month.

4. Hootsuite for social management is good, I also like Topsy for social monitoring.

5. Wordpress is good if you use the Genesis framework ?

You can track beyond 50 with tools like AWR - (Advancd Web Ranking) you may need a proxy to run it depend on the number of keywords you want to track.

If you want estimate rankings for free then you can use (Google Webmaster Tools Ranking data or SEM Rush) which will show ranking data. That been said the data from SEM Rush and from GWT will be limited and will only be taken as a estimate.

It is hard to give an accurate percentage, in my eyes if you want to be in the clear just make unique content on pages if it is not unique content then place a canonical tag to the right page.

I mean Google is coming down harder and harder on sites for poor quality content/duplicant content if you play by the rules and do things right tit will be a long term strategy.

Hi,

this specific page is blocked in robots.txt

http://www.familyservices.govt.nz/robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /media/
Disallow: /webadmin/
Disallow: /directory/

So I would not waste any time trying to get it ranked.
Kind Regards,

James.

To be honest I would focus my efforts into making one or two really good websites rather than making 15 different websites.

Using exact match domains on a larger scale is a lot different in today's market in comparison to say 2 years ago where you could make a 5 pages site and get the EMD ranking.

If you do go with a 15 site strategy, you need to make 15 x sites, 15 x content pieces to make sure its unique, 15x splitting up hosting  I would not even use any tracking that can link up the sites imo.

To be honest it will work better if you buy the exact match domain and then build a small site on it and have it rank for the keyword.

Just buying an exact match domain will not mean you will get it ranked if it is a 301 re direct, the only traffic it will yield will be direct type in traffic for the domain and this is only small.

Hi,

Here are some ideas to get you started

1. Look for related directories online where you can submit your business.

2. Type in your related business keywords, then look at which competitors are ranking for these terms then go to OSE and research the links the competitors have built, you can pull a report.

3. Possibly start a blog and get fresh content related to the business on the blog each week, then syndicate the content via social media.

4. If you have social media channels for the business, start link building via them you can build links via Twitter, Stumble upon, Delicious and a host of other social website.

5. Think to yourself do you have any suppliers who you currently use, ask if they want to link to you or want to add a badge to their website which is for your business for example a partner of your website.

For further ideas here is a fantastic post:

http://www.seobook.com/archives/001792.shtml

Hi,

If your website is very new and suddenly you add 20,000 pages of links it can have a impact on search engines, I have seen this on new websites in the past, hence why I do not try and gather a huge amount of links in a very short period of time.

But the thing is if you have a website which already has a huge amount of links 500,000 for example and you have 20k pages added then it will not really have a impact.

Kind Regards,

James.

to be honest Ezines are going to yield smaller results, you really only want to target the big ezine websites which are high quality and indexed by Google news.

In regards to what other strategies you should use to build backlinks for your ecommerce site some good posts can be found here:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/creative-link-building-for-ecommerce-sites

http://backlinks.com.au/15-ways-to-build-backlinks-post-google-penguin-update/

I would look at using more of the above methods over lower quality article submissions

The best one I have seen to date is from this blog:

http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/8342-how-to-steal-some-not-provided-data-back-from-google

Yet it does come with warnings and potential data loss.

To be honest I would put a fixed description on the page even if it changes 5 times a day.

You can have a description which is targeted to the news page and also a title which is targeted to the news page, rather than a random news story from that day.

In my eyes having a fixed description is a better strategy.

Another thing you can look at doing is if your site is added via Google news you can obtain Google news site links for the latest news, this is more of an advanced strategy, more information here:

http://jamesnorquay.com/google-news-additional-site-links-feed/

(only a limited number of sites have this)

if the blogs are on different blogspot domains and they have seprate information than it will be fine.

Try and aim to acquire links from locations rather then just blogs