Hi Keri & Chris
Thanks for the replies.
What I'm trying to ascertain is: is a link in the body of a post more trusted by search engines than one in an author bio at the bottom of it?
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RE: My Link Building Strategy Good or Bad?
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RE: Anchor text diversity for internal links?
Watch this Matt Cutts video here in which he says it's not an issue.
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RE: Nofollow in site archutecture. Good or bad in 2013?
Bad, bad, bad. Not me, that Matt Cutts guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bVOOB_Q0MZY -
RE: My Link Building Strategy Good or Bad?
Quick Q Chris, given that I found your answer at the top of this thread one of the most informative I've read in a while:
Guest blogging: does it make a difference whether the link back to my site is embedded in the article itself as opposed to in an author bio at the bottom?
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RE: PR directories good for seo?
Hi M M
I'm assuming you mean article directories with significant pagerank?
If so, you should watch this Matt Cutts video:
http://www.inetseo.co.uk/what-links-do-google-want-to-see/Long story short: avoid article directories.
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RE: Beyond Guest Blogging, What Else Works Now?
Hi Francisco
Thank you.SEOMOZ List - yes, but only related ones. Quite a few on the SEOMoz list are "general" directories. What's the deal with those? Avoid?
Squidoo - NO
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RE: Beyond Guest Blogging, What Else Works Now?
Thank you all for your responses.
However, my key question still hasn't been answered head-on:
Specifically, in Apr 2013 is there still mileage in directories (such as these on the SEOMoz list) or on this GetListed list; or in placing content on social sites such as Squidoo? -
Beyond Guest Blogging, What Else Works Now?
Given the importance of editorial links & co-citation, beyond guest blogging what other high-value link-building tactics should I be looking at to boost organic search placings?
Specifically, in Apr 2013 is there still mileage in directories (such as these on the SEOMoz list) or on this GetListed list; or in placing content on social sites such as Squidoo?
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RE: More authority back links but lower MozRank than competitor
Hi Greg
I think MozRank and MozTrust are good indicators but not failsafe predictors of search engine ranking (which I'm guessing is your ultimate goal)In my sector (real estate) I've seen sites with seemingly low metrics (DA, number of links, social shares, MozRank, MozTrust) outrank sites with figures twice and three times better.
I'm no guru, but what I've seen suggests to me that link relevance is becoming more and more important -- ie, a site with 40 highly on-topic links (even if from low/medium authority domains) can rank far, far higher than OSE metrics would suggest.
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RE: Linkb. uilding
That PointBlankSeo article still recommends press releases & article marketing.
However, Matt Cutts on press releases & article marketing as quoted by SearchEngineLand:
Matt clarified that the links in the press releases themselves don’t count for PageRank value, but if a journalist reads the release and then writes about the site, any links in that news article will then count.
How Valuable is Article Marketing?
Not very. Both Duane and Matt said that articles syndicated hundreds of times across the web just don’t provide valuable links and in any case, they aren’t editorially given. Duane made things simple: “don’t do the article marketing stuff.”
He suggested contacting an authority site in your space to see if they would publish a guest article that you write particularly for them. If the authority site finds your content valuable enough to publish, that’s a completely different situation from article hubs that allow anyone to publish anything.
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RE: Link Diversity
For god sakes, if the only page a website can build links to is the home page, then none of the other pages deserve to rank.
I couldn't agree more. Yet I've seen internal pages on high-authority sites rank #1 for very competitive keywords -- despite having no external inbound links and just a handful (4-5) of internal IBLs.
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RE: How do you find synonyms for a word in Google?
There's this Firefox Google Semantics tool add-on -- http://tinyurl.com/buybxq8
as well as this Google Synonym search tool -- http://www.synonymlab.com/index.php
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RE: How can I find competitor back links ?
Good, at-a-glance graphical depiction of metrics such as anchor text and the speed at which links are being acquired
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RE: How do I check that domain I'm considering buying has clean history?
I've run it through Open Site Explorer and the link profile is pretty good.
The tip about GWT's a good one - I'll ask if the seller's open to that. Is it possible for site owners to delete unsavoury messages in GWT?
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How do I check that domain I'm considering buying has clean history?
I'm weighing up buying a niche-related 13-year-old domain that hasn't expired but hasn't been used in some time.
I've read the very informative thread here: www.seomoz.org/q/buying-domains-with-prior-age-and-or-pr
The backlink profile is clean, with only on-topic links.
However, it doesn't rank in the top 50 positions for its own (hyphenated & fairly competitive) domain name. Does this indicate a Google penalty of some kind? What's the surefire way of checking?
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RE: Is it my back link profile that is affecting my rankings ?
What I'm seeing is the overwhelming primacy of relevance. I've seen sites with links from a mere 10-12 websites get top 4/5 positions (beating sites with 50 times as many links) -- because those few links are deemed highly relevant.
A key metric appears (from what I've seen) the referring sites/pages having part or all of the referring keyword (or a variation of it) in their url.
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RE: Is paid content a good or bad thing
Just wondering how google would know the difference.
I honestly don't know. Many sites already sell editorial space with links. Not all get caught. But some clearly do: http://tinyurl.com/csxu84l
Behemoth sites like Forbes can recover from getting whacked. I've seen smaller sites that never did. Like I said, you go down this road at your peril.
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RE: Is paid content a good or bad thing
If it's just paid editorial with no links (or links that are no-followed), that's straightforward advertising and you're on safe ground.
However, I'm guessing they want a followed link. Do so at your peril. And don't just take my word for it:
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RE: Press Release Company
I've heard great things about Eric Ward's URLWire. Especially if you've got content that lends itself to social shares. At $495 it ain't cheap, though...
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RE: Wikipedia Page
How To Get Your Company Listed On Wikipedia: http://tinyurl.com/cy4vocj
How To Develop A Wikipedia Page That Sails Thru Approval:** http://tinyurl.com/cfxoobh**
CBS News: How To Game Wikipedia:**** http://tinyurl.com/c3z6rfm****
These may prove instructive.
Re: Naina's comment "...if it becomes notable in any case, you will automatically find a page for it on Wikipedia" -- if you run a small/medium-sized enterprise, I don't think you should be waiting for someone else to magically do your marketing/PR for you.
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RE: There's NO reason these sites should be beating mine...Or is there?
No need to apologise. I'm here for honest answers, not to be soft-soaped.
I agree with a lot (but not all) of that. A lot of the article directory/blog footer links were obtained 3/4+ years ago by a previous SEO firm. Like everyone else, we haven't done article marketing in 2/3 years. Funnily enough, ALL our articles on article directories were high-quality and informative (Yes I know, we should have found another home for them. But time was when even Bing advocated using article directories).
Re; the 3 links you refer to, it appears the company that built our (real estate) site lists all the real estate sites they have built and puts them on a template. Trust me, I didn't ask for it, didn't pay a cent for it.
Re: PR links -- I'm fully aware they don't pass link pop. They were a genuine attempt to drive clickthrough traffic (and we have received traffic from them). Why are they bad, per se?
We actually do have editorial citations/links from related sites, including the New York Times real estate section.
I'm not defending the parts of our link profile that aren't great, just trying to improve things the right way. FWIW, our link efforts are now focused on content creation and social media.
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There's NO reason these sites should be beating mine...Or is there?
Hi
Over the past 10 months, my internal page rankings (previously excellent) have plummeted. I'm now trying to recover them.
I haven't received an unnatural links warning in Google Webmaster Tools. Also, I used to have hundreds of internal links to each of these 21 pages using the same exact-match anchor text eg, Tuscany real estate, Umbria real estate, etc. I changed this about 6 months ago.
So why am I still ranking poorly for these (only moderately competitive keywords) behind sites with poorer metrics?
1) Keyword: lake como real estate
My page here – **http://tinyurl.com/d34k8m ** -- used to rank No1 or No2 neck-and-neck with this page www.immobiliarevacanzelago.com/. He's still No1 but I’m down to about No13. Yet when I look in Open Site Explorer virtually all my metrics beat his.
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RE: Do NoFollow links count at all?
Bottom line...They probably don't care as much weight but that must certainly carry some.
To echo TextMarketing, my hunch is that no-follow editorial links from high-authority sites such as Wikipedia are a sign of trustworthiness.
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RE: Keyword report
I'm no SEO guru, but when I started out I found keyword difficulty tools quite useful.
I think if you're a newish/low-authority site, it's pointless and a waste of resources trying immediately to compete for, say "real estate" because bigger, better sites are way ahead of you.
I got around the problem by targeting long-tail keywords "eg, real estate in Chatanooga". Less competition, easier to rank for and, because it's a more focused keyword than merely "real estate", greater clickthrough and ROI.
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Counting over-optimised links - do internal links count too?
To whit:
In working out whether I've too many over-optimised links pointing to my homepage, do I look at just external links -- or also the links from my internal pages to my homepage?
In other words, can a natural link profile from internal pages help dilute overoptimisation from external links?
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Eric Ward's urlwire.com - worth a $500 investment?
I'm after a turbo boost (direct and indirect) to my site's SERPs.
How beneficial is URLwire.com? Anyone here used it? Worth $495?
Given that Matt Cutts has said links from PR sites don't pass link pop, would URLwire fall into this category? (I'm aware the idea is also to generate backlinks from other referring sites).
Thanks
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RE: Google Drop
Hi Jason
I'm in a similar-ish position to Carol in that I've seen my rankings drop (from #1 to between #6 and #25 for various keywords).
This may be because for about 9 months, for family reasons, I ignored the site, so a lack of link-building/social engagement in that time could be to blame.
Question: If I've no notification of errors/messages in GWT, does this mean I can definitely rule out a Penguin/Panda hit?
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RE: How on earth is this site ranking so highly?
The sheer volume of pages surely isn't a ranking factor. (otherwise everyone would simply auto-generate tons of pages on their site).
He has backlinks from 9 domains of which:
gohome.it - NO-FOLLOWED
comproperty -- a forum signature. also NO-FOLLOWED
www.servicesforyouitaly.com/ -- EXPIRED DOMAIN
So that leaves six -- and other than the italymag one (which dates from 2010) they all look pretty low-rent.
Backlinks from .it domains are a huge plus when trying to rank internationally.
I'm based in the UK and looking at a .co.uk and also .com search.
My website is optimised for the term (and used to rank No1 until last year)
I'm just trying to figure out what's going on here.Why the sudden rapid rise?
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How on earth is this site ranking so highly?
I'm trying (& struggling) to rank for the keyword property in italy.
Yet in the past 5 weeks I've seen this site -- betterpropertyitaly (dot) com -- rocket from about #30 to #2 for the keyword and am trying to figure out why.
The obvious is that it's in the domain name, but that can't be the be-all-and-end-all, surely? It's a 2 yr 9 mth old site, so why the sudden spurt?
I look in Open Site Explorer and the metrics look pretty weak:
Domain Authority: 17
Page Authority: 29
Linking Root Domains: 9
Absolutely zero social shares.
Good luck to him and all -- but I'm trying to figure out what he's doing right and I'm not.
My site apart, he's beating some pretty big-hitters.
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RE: Difference between Google's link: operator and GWT's links to your sites
Hi bstone81.
Not sure I understand your question. Assuming you're asking why there's a disparity between the "link:" command and what you see in GWT's, here's Mr Cutts himself. From 2009 but I suspect it's still relevant:
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RE: Backlink from foreign language websites good for SEO
No, our market is almost exclusively non-Italian. I see where you're coming from with the idea of translating certain pages into Italian, but only something like 0.01% of our clients are Italian, so -- at this stage -- I'm not sure it's worth it.
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RE: Backlink from foreign language websites good for SEO
Similarish-question to Jozef Majda:
I run website about Italian real estate that's written in English (and 99.99% of the links are in English). I have the opportunity to get a link on a partner's Italian-language website, where whatever anchor text she chooses will be in Italian. Is this of any use to me?
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RE: Why doesn't OSE show results from sites like Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter, etc.?
Hi ProspectMX
Don't know if you're still after an answer for this.
I came across this from October last year which may shine some light (with apologies for the crude cut-&-paste job)
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| Oct 9, 2012Keri MorgretOn-site Community Manager at SEOmoz
Another reason is that we just don't have the same size server farm that Google and Bing have. We could crawl all of Twitter and get nothing else crawled, or we could crawl some of Twitter, and some of the rest of the web. We aren't able to crawl all of the web, and we release a new index about once a month, so that's why you don't see all of your links or see them right away.
However, what we do offer that is different from Google and Bing is that we show you links for sites that are not your own, we add metrics about the trust and authority of the page, etc.
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RE: Is blog commenting still useful for SEO, post Panda and Penguin?
I keep hearing that certain types of links (blog comments, low-rent directories, etc) are not worth the bother.
However, I'm with the original poster on this, in that infuriatingly I still see these sites ranking supremely well for very competitive keywords.
There is one particular site in niche where their ENTIRE link profile is exact-match blog comments and low-rent directories.
And there I am like a fool focusing on high-quality content.
I really despair.
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RE: Why doesn't OSE show results from sites like Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter, etc.?
Fair enough. The follow/no-follow issue was really trying to address this comment from William Lau.
I should have made that clear.
Usually links from Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter are nofollow so it doesn't really boost your PA/DA(correct me if I'm wrong).
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RE: Google Semantic Search: Now I'm really confused
Singulars and plurals are different keywords in the eyes of Google.
See, I'm not sure about that: If I Google,say, property in spain, some of the results include sites with properties (but not property) in the title tag.
It may also make sense to create a separate page focused on the second keyword.
But surely this is the definition of webspam? If my first page is about "property", then a second page focusing on "properties" brings absolutely nothing new to the table -- apart from attempting to game the search engines.
Just my two pennies'/cents' worth.
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RE: Why doesn't OSE show results from sites like Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter, etc.?
Speaking as an SEO ingenue, I believe the situation is that no one tool gives a comprehensive view of your backlinks, although I'm guessing Google Webmaster Tools runs pretty close.
On the issue of whether no-follow links count, 2 issues in my opinion:
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Having too few no-follow IBLs suggests an unnatural link profile;
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Links (even no-follows) from sites such as Wikipedia are a huge indication of authority and boost your site, albeit indirectly.
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Google Semantic Search: Now I'm really confused
I'm struggling to understand why I rank for some terms and not for other closely related ones. For example:
property in Toytown but NOT properties in toytown
property for sale in Toytown but NOT property for sale Toytown NOR properties for sale Toytown.
My gut instinct is that I don't have enough of the second phrasing as inbound link anchor text -- but didn't Penguin/Panda make all that obsolete?
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301 redirect on Windows IIS. HELP!
Hi
My six-year-old domain has always existed in four forms:
http://www**.**mydomain.com/index.html
http://mydomain.com/index.html
My webmaster claims it’s “impossible” to do a 301 redirect from the first three to the fourth. I need simple instructions to guide him.
The site’s hosted on Windows running IIS
Here’s his rationale:
These are all the same page, so they can’t redirect to themselves. Index.html is the default page that loads automatically if you don’t specify a page.
If I put a redirect into index.html it would just run an infinite redirect loop.
As you can see from the IIS set up, both www.mydomain and mydomain.com point to the same location ( VIEW IMAGE HERE )
_Both of these use index.html as the default document ( VIEW IMAGE 2 HERE ) _
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RE: PRweb & PRnewswire
For what it's worth and to update my previous response, see this from Search Engine Land. I think the URL is self-explanatory:
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RE: Rel="Follow"? What the &#@? does that mean?
Hi, what I meant was whether I should be looking for robot txt at the top of the page or somesuch
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RE: Rel="Follow"? What the &#@? does that mean?
Hi Irvnig
Thanks for the response but the issue of adding tags doesn't apply as it's not my site.
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RE: Rel="Follow"? What the &#@? does that mean?
The only other place I've seen that is in spam blog comments (as a desperate attempt to override the blog's default "no-follow")....
Yep, that's what I've read as well.
Now he's changed it to rel="dofollow" (no, me neither) -- which strikes me as even more gobbledegook.
Obviously I'm going to ask him to leave out the attribute altogether. But what other attributes should I be looking for on the page source (CTRL+U) to ensure he hasn't sneakily no-followed all the links on the page?