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Hi,

If you own both the sites you can just do a 2 way link exchange if they are in the same niche, if they are related sites and you both own them I do not think it is such a bad thing.

I mean if you are really worried about factors around Google placing value on these links then you need to think of all the possible factors in which Google can see networks of websites:

• Is Google look at my analytics CID codes on websites I own, an easy way to spot networks?

• Is Google looking at Whois data?

• Are you running Adsense on all these sites with the same publisher ID code?

In the end the best type of link building is not using your own websites it is going out into the market and looking for quality link opportunities, making great content and syndicating it to related sites, the list goes on really it is endless what you can do.

I would not advise using Text Link ads it is a paid for link buying service, sure enough if you are buying links for only traffic and it is no follow then it is fine.

Paid for blogging posts are not aloud too, a better method is to make a press release about your new website for example and then go to market and send it to a few related blogs with a nice personal message and hope that these guys pick it up and write about it in their own words, and even better if they link back to you.

Kind Regards,

James.

If it were my site I would split them up into 6 separate pages, so you can optimize each page by itself, also so each person has their own unique URL.

You can really target the <title>+ URL combo on names of employees, have around 350 words of content for each employee too and then also have images for each employee.</p> <p>It is the same where you have offline businesses with many store locations I advise to use separate locations for each place of business.</p> <p> </p></title>

Hi,

What is the URL where the traffic is coming from,

I did some analysis on your website and noticed you seem to have a few links built from:

hbmag.com - this website does not seem related to your niche, was it a guest post or something?

Kind Regards,

James.

I do not believe this is true, Google has data centers all over the world in which they crawl from.

Google does not only have spiders crawling from US data centers.

I also have the feeling crawls are based on many factors such as link diversity per region, TLD of domain per region, PR user (still a crawling factor imo) and many more factors.

Overall do not stress Google can crawl from various regions all over the globe, I would be more worried about geo server location and TLD of your domain and also local links.

Kind Regards,

James Norquay.

Tools like "The Best Spinner" will produce low quality articles, even after pandas update these type of articles will be even hit more harder, if you use them you will probably not see the same ranks.

In regards to a content writing company, I know many yet they vary in price you have the high end ones, the mid tier ones and then the guys you can find on o-desk who are probably just using the best spinner or create poor quality content from areas where English is not a first language.

Hi,

It seems you need some assistance with Online Reputation Management, the thing is if you have news paper websites or other very high authority sites which rank for your brand terms then they links up via huge networks it can lead to having some issues with out ranking these sites.

Something which may assist you is this post: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/our-online-reputation-management-playbook

If you do not feel confident outranking these sites then yeah outsource the work.

Regards,

James Norquay

Hi,

I think the best way for you to set up your site is to -

1. Run the Facebook Page API on the website here - http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/

Then also add likes to content pages on your website where people will like the content.

2. The whole debate around if Google can even value Facebook likes is an argument on itself, Alot of people claim FB likes hold no value and the best thing to use is FB share buttons - discussion can be found here.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/does-google-use-facebook-shares-to-influence-search-rankings

I think the best strategy is to test multiple share buttons from social sites, see what has influence it has on ranks.

IMO Goolge+ will be a big player in this space we will see more in the near future.

Regards,

James Norquay

The best ethical strategy is to use offline media buys to influence the search pattern of users. Working in big agencies where you have combined teams working on various verticals it is some times hard to leverage SEO into the mix, yet once SEO is at the forefront of these campaigns you can really work wonders.

I have not really seen any killer examples of this in play yet, but many companies in AUS are trying these methods.

As Dejan SEO said you just need to get the right messaging in play.

Regards,

James Norquay

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.

I think it is every month or 2, I don't know if it is set in stone yet usually Rand will post up an update on the main blog saying that the index has been updated. My advice is just to follow the email RSS and you will get the updates when updates happen

So did you loose a site wide link on a big website?

I would advise to use your own link tracking tools like Raven for example to monitor link building yourself, when you rely on other tools like GWT or OSE it will never be 100% even though it is pretty accurate.

Place links within your content too if people are talking your content, also add the rel=author attribute.

I would also look at the link profile for your site, have you added any dodgy links recently.

Regards.

Hi,

You do not need to worry if you do not have duplicate content on your website.

the thing abotu subdomains is that google treats them as a seprate site so if you have a big site with strong authority and you start ripping apart your content to make sub domains it is very risky.

My advice is to only worry if you have loads of poor quality content, then you need to think about a sub domain strategy.

Regards,

James Norquay

Or if you are looking to post your articles on a reliable PR service which usually shows up on Google News I recommend - http://www.officialwire.com (yet it is a paid service) for a free service I recommend http://www.prlog.org

Another thing you could look at doing is to make it into a small blog and then link from that blog to your main website, from links within the blog posts.

Or you can 301 sub category pages as mentioned above.

Hi, I would use the following set up:

• 2 keyword use in the title tag.

• 2 keyword use in the meta description

• 1 keyword use in the page URL.

• H1 tag you can use 1 or 2 keywords.

• Other titles on page you can use the keyword.

• Within the content on the page you can use the 3 main keywords, main keywords near the top of the article, 8% density.

• Alt tags on images also push the keyword is it represents the image in a non spammy way.

• You can then use your internal link structure on site to push the keywords headers, footers, side bards all with the anchor text you wish to target.

Their are more factors you can tweak too but these are the top line ones.

My advice is to not be turned away if a specific keyword has a very high "keyword difficulty" score if your own website is powerful and is a brand for example.

My advice is to look more into the link profile of each specific site ranking, I mean a "keyword difficulty" score of 50 is high but not that high, I rank in a niche where it is  67 score and my website is not too powerful.

Overall just look more into link profiles for specific keywords use various tools like OSE to graph this data.Don't be turned away keywords by looking at just the keyword difficulty score you have to research these things more in depth.

The best type of user generated content is where you make users much place a specific amount into the form.

It could be to win a price or something to emphasize the users to input the amount of content. Because if you have thin content which is spammy and the same all over the web it will not do much for ranks.

I don't really think spelling errors are a big issue, that falls more down into usability, if you are a big brand and you have spelling errors all over your website it will not look professional.But from a UGC point of view I would not worry too much.

I would advise on using exact match in one line of your research then also add in other match types to supplement your data and research, but then again I agree that we see huge problems with the data provided by Google you really need to mix up your keywords with your own research you can not rely 100% on what Google gives you.

I don't think any one can give a 100% answer to this question because every one has their own methods to what works and what does not work, people will find different methods which work better for them.

Blogs are great for SEO because you have a platform for search engines to provide fresh new content, the problem with static websites is that the content is always the same. This is where blogs always push new content.

Well the best bet is to have your blog located on www.website.com/blog  people make a mistake when they have the blog on a sub domain because you don't have the right flow of link juice.

I think the ideal size is below 500k, yet I feel Google will crawl even larger sized pages if the content provides value for the users.

Back in 2005 I remember Google had much tighter figures on these types of numbers yet in today's market it is a bit different, they seem to allow larger file sizes.

I feel that linking to the Google places listings from the company website is still something which you can drive benefit from you can also link to the places locations from various 3rd party sites.

Whilst linking to the places account provides benefit, I feel that other factors have more importance such as the number of reviews, the on site text targeting the page, huge number of citations from 3rd party sites, category's also if the domain name is a EMD (exact match domain) it can provide some benefit to the ranking which I have seen.

Some plugins I advise are worth looking at are:

• All in one SEO.

• Sharing is SEXY

*** Google Analytics for WordPress**

***** Google XML Sitemaps

***** SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam

***** 404 SEO Plugin (good 404 plugin I have used)

You also need to test what will work best for you

Do not just limit yourself to the high competition head terms if you feel they are going to be hard to rank for. I know for a lot of those video conversion terms you have to go up against competitors who are selling software and people who are affiliates so it is quite competitive.

My advice is to target only a few head terms, and focus more on mid term terms and long tail traffic.

Go an get a blog set up and post a few relevant posts each month about cool things you can do with FLV converters or random other things which are related to the niche that is a great way to generate traffic fro the long tail.

Also do some analysis on social media and Q&A sites I am sure you will find areas where users are asking questions about FLV converters lend a hand and build links this way