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Hey everybody, how is it going?

I have a simple question, that i need answered.

I have a main domain, lets call it domain.com. Recently our company will launch a series of promotions for which we will use cname subdomains, i.e try.domain.com, or buy.domain.com. They will serve a commercial objective, nothing more.

What is the best way to block such domains from being indexed in Google, also from counting as a subdomain from the domain.com. Robots.txt, No-follow, etc?

Hope to hear from you,

Best Regards,

I am also fairly new to SEO. I found this recent guide to be exceptionally accurate in order to rank better, increase traffic and conversions. Blueprint to Rank. Also the beginners guide to SEO is a great resource, view it here. http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo. If you plan to invest time on reading, i would read the book The ART OF SEO by Eric Enge.

However, the best way to learn is to get into the mess and actually have the SEO experience. Start by making your company and site SEO and User Friendly. Then try to engage in the Ranking and Driving Factors such as inbound links, social signals, and user engagement.

As a roadmap per se i would recommend the Blueprint to Rank. Its grrrrrreat!

Hope you like them.

Regards!

Did you look at your anchor text profiles for each word you´ve been degraded?. Ive seen that Penguin has good taste for overoptimization, especially on anchor text and low quality links.

I found this posts very helpful to overturned some Penguin attacks last year: Google Penguin AntiSpam. Another resource on strategies to combat the little penguin is right here.

You could also wait it out, maybe its not penguin, it just some SERP fluctuation. Good luck, hope the best!

Hiya Senol,

Link building for ecommerce is hard, specially with B2B companies. **After generating the best content possible i would suggest you start your link earning or building campaign taking into mind the following resources. **

1. Link Building Strategies in PointBlankSEO, 2. Link Building Resources by Paddy Moogan, also enjoyed the Noob Link Building list.

I would start with some high quality directories such as (yahoo, business.com, BTOW, etc). Then some Press Releases such as PRWeb, and quality guest post. I would try to really look into the niche your company is serving and make some strong connections with the important people. Generate some tutorials, some DIY, some videos, with quality content is easier to gain backlinks.

Always aim for diversity in your link profile and also in your link anchor text. Try to make your brand as "out there" as possible. Sometimes its hard to gain authority and traffic in boring industries, but dont give up. Get creative, be proactive, and try to solve as many problems from your customer base as possible.

Regards!

Also, how is your anchor text profile for each keyword you dropped traffic or ranking? I found that unreal anchor texts with the addition of some spammy links can be really harmful with penguin updates. I used this anti penguin resource in conjunction with unique content creation, social signals, and are seeing some good results.

Best Regards, and best of luck!

He meant that he should lower the links containing the anchor text "makeup artist sydney" to something more natural.

its important to have a natural and clean link profile, the same goes for anchor text. Google will frown upon and also take action with overly optimized anchor text.

Best regards!

Hey there Christopher,

There are a lot tools from which to generate a quick, but excellent video sitemap.

I love how is it explained on this post (http://www.seomoz.org/blog/video-sitemap-guide-for-vimeo-and-youtube). I used it, and its fairly straightforward.

Regards!

Loved your post!! From a SEO point of view, i think you are right on the money. I happen to agree almost on everything.

But from a marketing strategy POV, i would think that social signals are key. They not only strengthen your brand, but also ensure engagement with an ongoing and ever changing audience.

You mentioned this " Google does look for this, I had a case study in 2012 that proved this floating around somewhere.". Where can we find your study case! i would love to read it!

Also "every 3 months when Google makes another update lol" haha so true! cruel but funny!

Thanks for sharing your experiences!

Hey everybody. I have been reading several resources on SEO, and wanted to know your opinion on these topics. I know they are diverse and should be on a different set of questions, but i wanted to give it a try.

I run a Heavily Specialized Steel B2B eCommerce Site. So my question would be what is the importance of the following topics, taking into mind the nature of my site.

• The importance on how often the page is updated ? Recommendations on updating relatively static pages ?
• How important is to meet HTML and W3C Standards, also its validation.
• The NoFollow and Follow ratio of incoming links.
• Your opinion onthe inclusion of outbound links to other relevant pages. Is there a best practice?

Any comment is welcome, and would be deeply appreciated.

Regards,

Yeah, it really its a dilemma. However, i apologize for using that word (cluttered). Basically, you should aim for the taste of your market and users. For me, an ideal or almost ideal ecommerce category or product page would look something like this page. Paddy Moogan gives excellent advice on optimizing ecommerce for conversions, there are tons of advice on optimizing a page for ecommerce.

Its a great thing that you get a lot of traffic, now its time to reel them in. The first thing would be setting your conversion goals. Are you looking for 1) Sales , 2) Subscriptions, 3) Contact forms or calls, amongs other. Or a mixture of them. CleverPhD correctly points out that you should monitor the pages, conversions, everything, and analytics software its a must, wheter is google analytics,or some other software.

In order to gain more trust  (And convert more) and be seen as the most trustworthy option in stackable bins you should aim for five things, and synch them real nice:

• Product Usability: the user wants to be able to experience the product or service features. This can be achieved by incorporating multiple images of the products. Customers actually using the product. Customer reviews are also really important.
• Explanations: I think your site already gives a detailed explanations of the benefits. However, a FAQ would be a great idea to build trust with thorough responses to objections within skeptic customers.
• Simplicity: Keep it simple!, ensure that only the right information is presented.
• Follow Up: This is where a subscription, or registration would come in handy.
• Security: Include trust signals such as TrustE, Verisign, BuySafe etc.

Thanks for sharing your case in this Q&A. I hope at least something was helpful!

Best Regards.

Hola!! Bienvenida!

Estoy de acuerdo con la solucion que brinda "smarties". No es problema muy grave, solo es un aviso. La recomendacion es tener 100 enlaces dentro de una pagina. Sin embargo es una recomendacion que en ocasiones es dificil de cumplir en sitios "ecommerce" como el tuyo, con tantos productos. Lo que pasa es que aquellos enlaces superiores a 150-200 no los va a contemplar el robot de google.

Lo mas esencial es que el sitio sea totalmente navigable y sea facil de usar para los internautas.

Tu pagina inicial no tiene tantos enlaces, es en las categorias y productos donde se detectan mayor cantidad de enlaces 200-400. Una solucion es quitar lo que no es esencial para la navegacion y agregar mayor contenido de valor. Veo por ejemplo que quizas algunos enlaces en busqueda avanzada se puedan obviar.

Si es posible tratar de reducir a menos categorias tu sitio. En general el diseño de tu sitio me gusta. Solamente siempre tener en mente la navegacion para el usuario.

Saludos, cualquier duda me avisas! y en lo que podamos ayudarte.

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I agree with overall comments of smartie. The general guideline is to have 100 links per page. This a recommendation made by Google however the limit is flexible. With more links you risk losing the ability to have additional page crawled by Goog.e

The most important thing is that your site is SEO Friendly and has the right user experience!

Your homepage doesnt have that many links. The problem arises in deeper links found in categories, and products where i found 200-300 links per page. A possible solution is to have only the most essential links and add more value content. For example, i see that some links in advance search could be trascended.

If its possible try to reduce the overall categories. I like the overall feel of your site.

Its vital to have always in mind, the mind of the user.

Regards!!!

Thanks Takeshi,

Thinking in terms of usability. The right on page anchor text would  1) describe the action of clicking on that link, such as "download here" or  2) to give the user an idea of what the "link destination" entails, such as "technical sheet of this product"

Regards!

As i am responsible for the page changes, i didnt do much really. Just some minor tweaks in the description page, some new content, my incoming links have been increasing slightly. But i see better results with the pages with titles with no dividers.

Maybe its a coincidence, i just thought maybe something was going on with the dividers. But it doesnt seem that way. Is there anything else i might be missing as why these pages rank better than other similar pages?

Great star trek example haha, thanks!