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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:
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
You need to place a 301 re direct from the www to the non www (or vice versa)
Ideally you need to pick the most authority version URL for the website,
In my eyes the non WWW is a strong choice in today's market.
My advice is to not target directory links too much, becuase they yield little benefit only if it is highly relevant.
Target links from:
Guest posts on related sites
Articles writing on online PR websites
Related site comment marketing, sharing advice.
Social media websites promtions ect.
Ideally only target the home page to 10%, focus more on the category level pages.
Google is pretty good at picking up a network on sites within the same c-class sever.
That been said think of the following methodology, if you acquire 4 links on newspaper websites on the same sever and all those links are very high authority then it will provide 4 different links all with good value.
so that been said if you can acquire 4 different site links on 4 high quality sites on the same sever it is worth it for sure.
But be wary if some one goes to you i will sell you 50 site links on 1 sever all with low authority sites I would steer clear as it is a link network.
To be honest if I was going to roll out a theme and it was used by 10,000 people I would worry if the anchor text is the same on 10,000 sites. I know when Penguin 1.0 rolled out many many websites which footer links on a massive scale were hit VERY hard. Their were even case studies from wordpress theme owners on Moz.
The key element here is you are worried is to make the footer link no follow.
Where to distribute it, depends if you want to push it for free or to make money from it, Theme Forest is a good start, their are 100s of free theme sites in the market.
Hi turning off personalized search is hard because even logged in or logged out Google can still hold search results.
Some ways you can do it are:
1. Add &pws=0 to the end of your search terms.
2. View the keyword in your selected market via AD Preview Tool - https://adwords.google.com/select/AdTargetingPreviewTool
If you you purchase a domain which has been indexed for 11 years and it has quality links and quality content it will work far better then a brand new domain. I have tested this many many times and it is true to the story as it has trust and age with search engines.
Furthermore watch out on buying domains on the basis of PR it is easy to fake PR, people can get burnt very easily, do a historical PR check from the SEOmoz pr history check, view Moz domain authority and page authority.
As said above Archive.org is a good tool to use, but some sites block it.
You have two versions of your website www and non www.
What you need to do is pick your most linked to version, and then use that as the main URL.
Personally a lot of websites are dropping the www these days.
Then do a domain level 301 redirect from the www to the non www for example.
You can do it in .htaccess here is some further information:
http://www.scriptalicious.com/blog/2009/04/redirecting-www-to-non-www-using-htaccess/
To be honest some of the best results I have have had in the past are not going direct to a design house or creative agency. Some times they will just charge alot and not provide the best info graphics.
A niche technique you can try is find a design school, design forum then run a competition with a cash prize (make it decent/worth peoples time) for the winner. You then get a few entries and you can pick the winner, some of the quality I have received in the past is great, some times not the best.
Really it is also up to time you need to gather the info graphic too.
Overall this technique has saved me a lot of money over the years.
Kind Regards,
James Norquay
Moz trust and Page rank are different they use different methods to score the specific values I have put together some information and sources for you to read up more to have a better answer:
**How is MozTrust Scored? ** We determine MozTrust by calculating link “distance” between a given page and a seeded trust source on the Internet. (Think of this like six degrees of separation – the closer you are linked to a trusted website, the more trust you have yourself.)
We score MozTrust on a logarithmic scale between 1 and 10. Thus, it's much easier to improve from a MozTrust of 3 to 4 than it is to improve from 8 to 9. How can MozTrust be improved?MozTrust can be improved by getting links from other sites with high MozTrust such as goverment institutions and universities.
Further information:
http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/moztrust
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PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the importance of the page that is casting the vote determines how important the vote itself is. Google calculates a page's importance from the votes cast for it. How important each vote is is taken into account when a page's PageRank is calculated. PageRank is Google's way of deciding a page's importance. It matters because it is one of the factors that determines a page's ranking in the search results. It isn't the only factor that Google uses to rank pages, but it is an important one. From here on in, we'll occasionally refer to PageRank as "PR". Further information:
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If the domain is registered as a dropping domain Google can take the power away from the domain, they note the loss in back links, I have tested this many times the thing is that Google is a registered domain buyer and seller so they have huge lists and know exact what is dropping or what is a policy delete domain.
My advice is to not worry, but to re build the site and re build content, make new links and then see over time it can in fact bring back some of the power which has been lost from the domain.
I am not just an SEO I personally am a domainer to so I know quite a bit about this type of stuff.
I don't think you can out smart Google by putting websites on various sub nets for hosting, you really need to think about all levels how Google can track for example who is data, GA tracking codes, Adsense ID codes and thing that can link up the dots to show it is a mini net.
If you have a blog and the same site my advice is to host it all on one domain, sure enough you can host the site on 2 separate websites if you are using different TLD's and want to GEO target your website.
It is advisable to match the style of the blog's with your main website.
From a design point of view it is always something I advise site owners to implement.
From a cross site branding point of view too it will look a bit funny if you do not use the same design.
Keyword tool has been down for a few days, I use it daily on my work account.
Thread about this problem here:
http://www.seomoz.org/q/seomoz-keyword-difficulty-tool-been-down-for-a-few-days
their is also a dev area for updates here:
https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/22457872-keyword-difficulty-and-rank-tracker-issues
hope it is back up soon, I know the devs at SEOmoz are working hard to fix the issues, but I need to finish off some work
A few options:
1. As david said make the page a 401 page.
2. Try to remove the links on scale, review why they are comming in i.e same IP address, same who is, request sites to remove them, if they don't remove add them to the disavow.
I wouldn't 301 pages this will just transfer the problem to a new websites, ive seen numerous cases where domains have been hit because of cross site 301's.
The thing is that all 3 search engines use pretty similar ranking factors.
For example Bing/Yahoo/Google all love the following:
1. Links from relevant sources.
2. Great relevant unique content.
3. Great on site design for crawler access.
4. All onsite SEO and off site factors, some small changes like the size of title tags/urls ect may be slightly different on each website.
You can also optimize for Bing webmaster tools for example you need to add every thing in a similar way to Google webmaster tools:
<cite>www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster/</cite>
Also Bing Ranking information can be found here:
If you have not done this I would highly recommend it, you can even use keyword research from Bing.
I also agree with DMAC that Bing seems to favour EMD domains (exact match domains) more so then Google does, I have tinkered around with a few tests on Bing and that is evident.
Also Bing has more social data to play with so you even need to push social rankings harder on Bing as they have the Facebook data access, which Google does not.
I hope this helps.
Kind Regards,
James Norquay
Well yes they do count as internal links,
If you have a website with say 20,000 pages you can use anchor text specific titles on the navigation, so it can give you a boost to your "internal link juice". As an example you have a page about "Soccer Boots" you link to that in the title, sure you also have your main product specific pages too and main navigation pages.
What you can also do to supplement your main header navigation is to have a footer navigation.
You must also bare in mind that you do not want to target more than 100 links per page, this is a guide from Google.
Hope this helps.
I think the main question with link removal is the following:
Are you trying to get out of a Manual or Algo penalty.
1. If the link is no follow - do not worry about it (many of these junk sites are no follow)
2. If the site is using a BRANDED anchor text or a URL anchor text on it I would not worry to a degree.
3. The main links you need to look at are GENERIC anchor text based links, the thing with these dodgy submission sites is if they have generic follow links to your site then yeah I would try to delete them and disavow.
It is really a case by case scenario, another think you can do is use the Majestic Bulk backlink checker on the URL level for any link removal you can check 150 urls at a time so it is good on the fly.
Best way to do it from my experience,
Then you have specific content for each market.
It will work more powerful then using a sub domain method especially if you come up against all .com.au websites in local SERPS.
In the end of the day the best thing you can do is make unique articles on your blog, if you want to showcase content only of another site what you can do is take an image of the content then write a paragraph below the content about the image which you have from the other site (an idea)
But the method I usually use is to make unique content on most of my blogs, and not copy it accross sites.
Yeah my advice is to target mostly .com.au sites where possible.
You are only going to run into problems if you build your whole link profile on .co.uk for a .com.au website, I have seen this happen in the past.
You can still add articles to .com PR websites, it will still assist with overall SEO.
You can try the following:
Hire a student fresh out of uni.
go to uni and say you are looking for an intern.
hire and established writer.
Look for niche blog in your sector and ask for content writers.
Overall finding a good writer can be done in many places you just need to test them before you hire them with some basic content work too see the style.
It is advisable to link out to high quality related sites where possible.
Also link out to websites within the content as said about it can be more effective than linking out via a blogroll.
Hope this helps.
Hi,
The thing about country level TLD's is they will rank well in that country, If you use a .com.br domain it may not rank well in Australian results or USA results only for the brand term, even if you geo target sub folders on the domain.
Can you acquire the .com domain? From my experience .com works the best on a global level.
My advice is to use the domains you have for specific markets on the CC TLD's yet for other areas which you are not able to acquire the domain use SUB FOLDERS on the .com domain and then GEO target these sub folders in Google webmaster tools.
Finally do not use sub domains it is not a wise strategy, you will have no internal linking value.
Did some consulting for a plumber a while ago.
It is a very competitive area that is for sure.
1. Get people in the office to make a blog, take photos of jobs, document things online, write blog posts online.
2. Take photos of jobs - Upload them to flickr and other websites, drive traffic back to the website.
3. Take videos of testimonials/jobs and put them on Facebook/ YouTube (link back to the site)
4. Find associations and build badges back to your website, suppliers anything.
5. Do some community work if you have time and get links back from community websites.
I mean all this stuff is not easy but even with a budget of under $1,000 you can do it you just have to be wise with the money.
Kind Regards,
James Norquay
Hi,
I work in SEO for the Australian market.
My advice is if you host e-commerce websites then I would advise to host the website in Australia, you want speed you want to host it where the user base is.
Furthermore if you are looking for hosting deals many Australian companies now offer good rates, I use Ventra IP I am quite happy with them.
Also in regards to power of .com.au, it is far better then using a geo targeted .com in my experience.
Hope this helps.
Kind Regards,
James.
To be honest is is not a wise thing to do where you have a working website with good PR and links and to park it/ take down all the content and then the domain goes out of the index.
My advice is to keep that site live until the new site is ready to launch, on that day implement 301 mapping from the old site to the new site.
Hi,
I had a quick look it seems this site has around 2,000+ pages of content in a different language on a .us domain, so they are targeting people who speak chinese I believe from the US market.
Quite a good idea I guess, I also believe the competition would be lower as .cn domains would not have the same power as the GEO rich .us domain.
If you have great content, a huge number of pages and a few very targeted high quality links you can rank for a whole lot of long tail keywords.
Regards,
James.
Two options.
Option 1 - 301 redirect to a similar sub category level pages for that product.
Option 2 - Set up a landing page which states this product is no longer for sale, and show up similar items for sale. this is a common strategy used by group buying sites.
My advice is not to use sub domains as Google treats them as a separate domain, when you have a sub domain you have no flow of direct link juice as you do when you have a sub folder.
You only really need to think about sub domains when you have duplicate content issues for example.
Example of a advisable blog URL:
not advisable:
Hope this helps, Regards
Hi here is some advice for your info graphics page:
Build the page on your website and have good internal link structure within the website.
You must use a dedicated page for the infographic.
Have share buttons on the info graphic page for example Tweet, Stumble, FB Share, Google+
Have a section below the info graphic where users can copy and paste the info graphic on their own website/blog make sure you have a link back to your site in this code.
In regards to ads I wouldn't reccomend it, yet if you really want put some CPM ads on the side of the info graphic or below it, I wouldn't use ads on a commercial website for info graphics.
Hi Mate,
To be honest you do not need to add your main keywords to every web page to see a benefit or increase in rank.
You need to be smart about how you optimize your website,
Some advice:
Make a blog on the website, add relevant information about your local area talk about things you are doing to help the local community. You can mix it up with a few industry reports to gather high quality links.
Work on off site link building, make sure you have all your suppliers linking to your focus on high quality links.
Work on adding to the social benefit of your site, grow your social base.
I hope these three points help.
Kind Regards,
James.
Launching a new site you need a strategy for your marketing, This would involve what type of things you want to use.
A few quick tips to get links:
Blogs in your niche, see if you can guest post.
Social Bookmarking websites.
Upload your content to video sites.
Make social profiles for your business, link back to your site via these.
Link u via your linkedin profile to your site.
Hope that helps
I would not worry too much about text to code ratio as an exact number.
Things I would more so worry about are the following:
1. Do you have more then 200 words of text per page.
2. Do you have low amount of code errors on page.
3. Do you have alot of code space on the page (I have see this numerous times.
4. Make sure you have the key text elements near the top of the page when Google crawls the content first, also your key on page elements.
To be honest the main blog would out rank the blogger content and the content on blogger would never be indexed to the same quality due to the fact that Google saw the content on the main site first.
If you make a blog make sure you have unique content on both sites, it is well worth spending the money or time to make unique content believe me.
Kind Regards,
James.
Depends what CMS you have, can be easy or hard, you can do the redirect in the htaccess file using a 301 for the correct page. Some more information here: http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles3/spiders-301-redirect.htm I would also talk to your developer if you are not sure how to do it.
Kind Regards
Here is a website with the top forums around the world: http://www.big-boards.com
You can also break it down via niche,
Most forums will delete you instantly if you do on to use them for SEO, the best way to use forums from my experience is to go on make a name for your self, talk to users, help out with questions build a few posts so people know you are a real user, then place a link or 2 in related sections yet do not be sneaky about it.
If you have a limited budget I would work on targeting only a limited number of pages and a limited number of keywords.
You can run into problems where clients have limited budgets and they have a site with say 10k pages.
I don't think you would ever optimize every page of a website you have pages on sites like T's & C's and Privacy Policy Target the low hanging fruit and pages where you can gather quick wins, I would go top 10.
The best back links you can build for free is where you find a list of resources on a highly authority website you then find the who is data of the website and call them up or you email them.
For example you find a list of information with only 4 links on a government website, you can then contact the web master and ask if they will add your related link.
My advice to find these links is to use open site explorer and to scan competitors for high authority links or use the Link Analysis Tools.