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Well to be honest if it is a TLD which you can SEO even if it is a domain hack any thing can be possible imo.

.IS is the country code for iceland.

I have seen ranks for .me, .tv and many more wthin search engines.

I mean "www.who.is"  has around 911 root domains, 45k links pointing to it.

What kind of numbers and SEO does your domain hack have?

Regards,

James.

I would not worry too much that is just a .info spam website, what the do is they use content spinners to generate very low quality articles then they keep churning them out on their websites.

It is all a ploy to gather more revenue from existing ad units. The thing is they probably do not even rank.

I wouldn't say so, if you use brand terms for a specific anchor text terms, and then you join that up with another factor such as an EMD (exact match domain) factor. Connected with correct on page optimization. Then you need to target only a percentage of the natural links you acquire to have the term within the anchor text.

Yeah the better the quality score the better your CPC will be, $1.56 is for new advertisers.

You could also look at pulling all long tail versions of this keyword and seeing if you can gather lower CPC, also miss spellings could be cost effective too

Good luck with it

We have implemented the reviews function on a few website in my opinion it is worth it.

I mean things like REL author and other Schema's are 100% worth looking at.

Well the CPC is around $1.56 for that keyword, so I think if you want to target 5,000 fans for that keyword it is not going to be easy.

to be honest it is not worth getting into a fight with a competitor and posting on their Facebook page, I would look at alternate strategies that are going to drive likes to the clients page.

If competitors post very negative and un true things you can always delete them and move on.

Hi,

A lot of changes have been happening with Google places over the last few weeks, we have seen 3rd party review data changed. And Google has been making a bunch of tweeks.

another thing I noticed where Google is taking more and more time to make changes is the verification of things it will take 8+ week to get bulk upload feeds accepted these days.

I also wonder when Google will fix the problems but for the moment you have to sit tight and monitor the blog: <cite>google-latlong.blogspot.com</cite>

I was actually doing some research on wine the other day, a half decent site to look at is: http://www.cellarmasters.com.au/ only problem is that this is for the Australian market.

I would look at top keywords for the wine industry and research any company which owns the market, most of the time you see whole sale company's who dominate as they have larger online marketing budgets.

You can link up on majestic SEO and view the top 10 results for a keyword and then pull the back links view quickly within the software. Only issue is that they are using the Yahoo link API so it is not all that great.

In regards to software that pulls the top 30 rank links that would take a lot of demand.

Hi, To be honest I do not really feel DMOZ is the best site to worry about any more.

It is not the most important directory that it once was say 8 years ago in SEO, where people were desprate to get on.

You can try and apply a few times, but from my experience it is really a chance thing it can take around 12 months if not more some times to get accepted.

If you want your site to get indexed, build some good content, links from a few social sites like twitter, digg, stumble upon, add the site to webmaster tools, try and generate some buzz via related sites and it should get indexed with no problem.

Sub domains will not affect the PR and the Domain Authority as Google treats them as a separate domain.

The common issue made with sub domains is that people place the same content on the sub domain as they have on the main site and think it is ok. Well it is not and this causes duplicate content issues. So my question is when you have this search function for you site will it house the data which is already found on your website and also on the sub domain it could cause some concern with multiple content showing.

But really another problem with sub domains is that people start linking to them and then you have no link juice flowing to other parts of the website.

A good way to get real keyword data is to run adwords campaigns for the exact keywords, yet it is never going to be exact due to demand increases and drops over time.

I was looking at the URL mentions within SERP results,

The non hyphen seems to have 126 mentions compared with the hyphen domain at 76, don't know about the quality of these links what link building tactics were employed.

Both seem to only pick up one link via OSE been on your main website.

I would also question the hosting/who is data and any other common areas for the website, a funny thing is if you view the cache version of the website Google notes that the hyphen domain as splitting up the text with spaces.

When comparing IP data from the host, seems as though they are on a similar server yet not the same correct?

IP Address     174.121.38.186
IP Address     174.121.38.162

But overall very interesting test, and thank you for sharing.

My Advice is to make a deck/ business case for the programmer show him the problems with having two versions of the website indexed. I have encountered a few developers who are not really in tune with the whole issues around duplicate content and SEO. I think the best idea is to act on the same page, show the developer some respect, show him the design is good but then also educate him about SEO.

If you do a cononical tag, sorry to say but it is not going to be a long term fix, it will just be a short term fix.

Try and push for the 301's.

Hi Nice term,

I am seeing some funny results for this term:

santacruzcustomcabinets.com

<cite>santacruz-customcabinets.com</cite>

Yet it is not like these domains have no URL mentions and links to them, check the domain in google for example:

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=%22santacruzcustomcabinets.com%22&oq=%22santacruzcustomcabinets.com%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=877l1574l0l2006l3l3l0l2l0l0l219l219l2-1l1l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=af0e63f933289f02&biw=1422&bih=609

we see 27 links/mentions for the URL.

This shows that the domain is been noticed by Google, the term is also very low competition so the power of exact match domains will also come into play.

Yet look at the second result it is a domain with just the keyword in the URL and only 11 links.

I hope this helps,

Regards,

James Norquay

Are you getting these results when logged in? Or logged out of you Google account.

I have found that some times you see crazy data when you are logged out, yet when you log in the data seems a lot better.

I do not think that is possibly to acquire a 30+ point increase in PA and DA when links have dropped, could be a bug with OSE.

If the app isnt accesses by search engine crawlers, then it would not have an SEO benefit.

Yet it would be beneficial for Traffic for sure.

If the app is also hosted on a website or mobile site it is beneficial for seo.

You can do this in Advanced Web Ranking, where you can check say 3 different competitors over 40 keywords.

But I am pretty sure you can not do that in SEOmoz, unless you make a profile for the competitor.

Yeah good idea you can target a lot of traffic via Google images, but you must remember to make sure you link back to the original owner of the images. Unless you have taken the images of the celb's yourself or they are stock photos

Yeah I noticed it was down, seemed to be frozen on the last question I answered.

All up and running now

Hi,

Have you been targeting any specific keywords for your SEO, I looked at your link building you don't seem to have a common theme for generic terms.

I pulled the home page on copyscape:

http://copyscape.com/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alltopics.com

Yet when I look at internal pages:

http://copyscape.com/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alltopics.com%2Fsuggested-car-transportation-companies.html

The story is different.

IS this content spun? I would be doing more research on internal pages it could be low quality content imo which is causing this problem.

Regards,

James Norquay

Hi,

I have never used the software as they don't offer it in my Country.

Yet if you are part of an agency/global - you could try and ask if they can leverage the pricing of the product if you will have more users.

Also I would research what they offer on the site, some sections such as Facebook SEO, I would ask more information about that.

Also if possible see if you can get a week test liscence, some software vendors do that it is worth it. Like the saying goes try before you buy some times demos can be rushed and you do not get the functionality till you try it.

Regards,

James.

Hi,

I have noticed this problem too with my OSE, I contacted the dev team about going back to the old format where you can download the files to CSV and they said they are looking into it. (I hope they do)

I think it is also a matter of demand on the website, I would wait till a SEOmoz rep also confirms this.

Regards,

James.

Hi,

I would advise to block the directories which the files sit in in robots.txt, over adding no index tags to specific pages.

Yet then this would also leave these pages to not be indexed by Google, other search engines and also this Link Smart software you are referring to.

The thing is if you add a no index tag or if you add a robots .txt block to pages it will also block all search engines too.

So yes their is some risk involved, you have to do things carefully around this area.

Kind Regards,

James.

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.

Hi the best tool you can use is the ad preview tool from Google:

_https://adwords.google.com/select/AdTargetingPreviewTool**_**

With this tool you can view how your website ranks for all different GEO locations around the globe

I don't know getting a web developer to go into a server and change a robots.txt for a totally random business is something which I would not advise. they have obviously blocked the directory for a reason, possibly they do not want it indexed due to the content it holds?

Most web devs need good reasons to do things, I know I have dealt with 100s the bigger company and especially govt devs are hard to move in hurry, they usually have a bunch of other jobs to do, or they will put it on the requests list.

Yet I agree with your point you could contact this website via email or phone and touch base to see if they want to include your link as it is highly relevant to them.
Yet in my experience most government websites are very funny about small business asking for links even if you are a huge business they ask a million and one questions before you can acquire a sucessful link.

But like the old saying if you don't ask you don't get, so email/call away.

hi good question,

I have seen this question asked a few times in the past, and I also use RSS on most of my personal websites and I have never really had any problems with it. In my opinion RSS is good for pinging new content to SE's and also to 3rd party sites who take your feed.

Sure enough if the client is worried and the content is more so static on the website then I would not opt for RSS.

Yet if the client has a website where they are promoting alot of content on a daily basis and weekly basis pretty much all the time then it is advisable to ass RSS in my opinion.

A good answer to this question can also be found here:

http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showpost.php?p=96875&postcount=6

and also here:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=688304ae0edc7faf&hl=en

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.

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,

My advice is to submit them if they seem highly relevant to your industry, they can provide some small amount of weight for your link building yet it is not going to be hugely beneficial.

Some great analysis was done by Rand on directories in the past here:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-makes-a-good-web-directory-and-why-google-penalized-dozens-of-bad-ones

If the directory seems spamy then it is probably not advisable to use imo.

Also for further directories they can be viewed here:

http://www.seomoz.org/directories

Regards.

Hi,

I think it is evident that many companies in the market are providing best practice for Twitter and Facebook SEO, you show clients how to use these properties effectively to aid SEO.

I mean Twitter can be used for not only link building yet also link prospecting.

Facebook is a bit more difficult for optimization yet you can acquire a keyword rich URL and optimize specific sections of your Facebook profile such as Info/About me which is crawled by Google. You can also do thinks like optimize Facebook comments boxes to AID SEO.

In the end it is not so much about passing juice it is about creating buzz to aid link bait, PR, create noise, I also feel that Twitter has great SEO benefit. Yet you can be still smart with Facebook pages to aid SEO.

Regards,

James Norquay

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.

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:

http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/webmaster/archive/2009/09/03/search-engine-optimization-for-bing.aspx

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

Hi, I have seen this happen for quite a while on Google I remember mid last year I was first sent an email about this change where direct anchor texts are show on pages.

In my opionion it is Googles way of showing users that this specific term is of high importance, this can be due to the factors:

1. The website has many anchor text links with this specific term.

2. The internal link sctructre has many links using this term.

3. Users come to your website using this specific term, so Google shows relevence.

4. It could even be by a in correct re direct showing to this page from a keyword rich term that has the same anchor.

In the end of the day it is Googles way of showing users what they want.

It is like how you have Google auto over riding your title tags to show new terms.

I think that reply is pretty good at least they will consider it with the product team.

Could be a easy way to get this feature implemented.

I think it is a strategy which has been around pretty much since SEO started, I have seen this done for soo many years say the last 12.

I saw recently for a very strong term a site was over taken by a site that has 1/4 the total links of the top site, reason been the top site has say 1000+ and they place site wide footer links for a term on all these clients website.

It is obvious Google is aware of this practice and is de-value these types of links.

It is good for the company but I guess because they provide free advertising and also links back to their main website.

But it seems to hold some value, overall the best links are within content, near the top of the page on authority websites.

Good question Chris, I think we need this within link management software, would be beneficial.

@dejan Will it be Omniture ready Dan and not just GA

But really I think this is something that Raven Tools should implement, I would email support and see what their thought is on it.

Paid reviews are pretty much the same as paid links, becuase you are paying for the content to be placed on a block with links.

The worst thing is if the person you purchased the paid review is listing the stuff on a public forum or public site. Then Google can easily just see the content and hit it hard.

In regards to making content that is not paid I advise to use Guest posts where you make content for free for a site.

You can try and make sections of the site on sub domains and see if they have any ranking, I would also advise to make sure then content is natural and unique.

Maby it is worth while also too type in site:yoursite.com into google to see if it is also still in the index, worst case senario is if Google has removed the site from the index.

My advice is to try a reconsideration request if that is the case.

The Facebook Comments would contribute to traffic, and possibly the Addthis has some effect. Yet in my opinion the Addthis sharing buttons are not the best as they have hidden links back to the addthis website so if you have 100,000 pages they get 100k pages links. I would go for other sharing buttons options.

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.

Weird, what was the area if you don't mind asking.

I have seen Facebook be a bit buggy with ads recently, but all the campaigns I have done usually target very large demos and broad groups I don't do niche targeting.

My advice is to wait a week, try some new ad creative i.e. new images and what not and see if any changes happen. Or you could even try running the campaign off another account from the business.

Kind Regards,

James

Once a month we see an update to the index for OSE.

I think in the coming days we will see a few update so I would hold tight.

Or you can use other services to track incoming links to your website.

Hi,

Some factors you need to think about:

1. Set the GEO location in webmaster tools.

2. It may be worth using a USA based host for this website, I notice it is hosted in Dublin currently.

3. Are you using links from USA based sources of UK sources?

I hope these points assist further.

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.

The first question to ask would be are all these medical locations in the same building/business on the same level for example then you will have issues with Google allowing verification for a whole bunch of different medical offerings, from what I have tested in the past.

If these locations are all from different areas/locations then yes I would advise on having seprate locations for each specific medical company.

Advantages of having seprate locations are:

You can target various content and images in separate location areas in Google places, you can target different practices, different keywords, yet you need to use the business name for the listing title.