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Not to be a jerk, but "Quality of BMR" hehe BMR had no quality standards... As the sites they used held absolutely no user value.... (who would go to a crappy blog, with crappy content, about crappy sites?)

Not trying to be rude, but just pointing out that if BMR was your standard of High quality, then you might be looking to get yourself in more trouble...

IMHO of course

sorry not to really answer your question, but the question is almost impossible to answer....  As if another BMR type network sprung up, it would be a gamble and high risk to use it.

I personally would stick with services like Myblogguest and put out quality content there, and on your own site - forgetting the "network" mentality.

The reason is probably -

Giving someone blanket advice that is only partially helpful is not good...

So he waits a week, and has done no research into what may have caused this, what then? Panic?

I would fully agree that panicing is the wrong idea, but so is sitting around doing nothing, as an agency - it is very easy for a person to say - just wait it out, but as a consumer what does that mean - sit around and do nothing, or proactivlely begin researching the possible causes?

So I would think a more correct answer IMHO to someone who is new to the game, would be...

Don't panic, but don't be complacent - Begin researching your tactics over the past years, your link profile your on page seo ect.. so in a few weeks IF it does not "Magically" clear itseld you can have a clear actionable plan to begin responding - two weeks of no money coming in could mean death for a business.... So why would you not begin researching while "wating"

I also do not think the "dust" will settle, this is an ongoing battle, and will be for some time to come - so waiting a few weeks on a site that = livelyhood is not a smart decision either

IMHO of course

If you own the domain - you have the rights to do with it as you please. If he owns it then he does.

I would not say he is "required by law" to do a 301 redirect, but you can forcibly take domain and registrar control, to then do with it as you please - by contacting your domain name registrar or current host. (unless developer is your host, then you will need to go straight to the registrar.

Be sure to have the new host/environment setup prior to this though as you will need to tell the registrar where to send domain control rights (name servers) then at that point you will have domain control at a Host/registrar of you choosing.

Yes, In my opinion this is the exact game of G+...

Google's way of using "social proof" to drive valuable content up

If you are really an expert in "insert trade/industry here" then you would obviously have many people with relevant friends, posts ect about "example trade/industry"

And when you post something within your "industry realm" and it has you as the rel=author, then Google can begin to give you preference as an expert in your field for further content if you have large amount of industry relevant followers

I think this is their answer to spam and manipulation, as an SEO/SMM agency will have issues without actually having meaningful content and strategy of gaining industry relevant followers. Of course there are always ways around these sorts and I am sure someone will begin gaming it (if not already)

But overall i think the author is being a little over dramatic (probably on purpose for exposure reasons)

But nevertheless, I think this is a step in the right direction for a more genuine user experience in the Social World.

With these tactics you will probably get to page one (position 6-10) for some low competition keywords. But i highly doubt you will even see the return on even this low amount of money.

With long-term employment of this strategy you do run the risk of getting a penalty, but at these volumes (depending on niche and keyword comp) you should not get one, but that does not mean i am advocating it.

I would highly suggest against tactics like this and companies like these as they probably have a huge footprint, that can be seen as "spammy" techniques easily.

19 spun versions of 1 article - This would be the worst of all. They have actually taken an idea, and made it less effective then if they just did the one LOL

I say no go.. do this work yourself and concentrate on what you think the users of your site would want, not what some SEO company thinks they want in a box...

w00t!

Hi,

Google's crawler (GoogleBot) has a separate larger database, crawl rate ect... than Open Site Explorer (RogerBot)

I also think in general the OSE index is updated once a month ( i think they are working on making it more often and expanding the crawl database)

Google's index is updated more often than that.

In short, OSE is just a different "snapshot" of the net then Google's much larger database of the web

Hope this helps

Now Bulloogle.com, that is something I can get behind

all BS all the time, you never know what you will get!

Never done it, but I would say no.

The benefits of Social, in my opinion do not come from a one time like or one time + It is the continuation of creating a genuine following that is niche related and active in your community.

Of course like most things in Search Engine Land, it could greatly help you until Google or Facebook picks up on the footprint. So I guess it is a gamble really. One that I personally would never take cause what benefits are you going to get from a bunch of irrelevant one time likes in the social sphere from accounts that are probably loners, or already on the spam radar?

I guess if you use it as a "starter" for a really great infographic, video or piece of content, it might help with initial exposure, then the REAL signals may carry you but still in my opinion it is a gamble and probably a waste of money that could be put into a real strategy instead of a shortcut.

w00t!

Hi,

My main advice to you is to not worry about they are doing to rank above you.... I know that might seem counter-intuitve, but at this point it seems that is not really helping you, it is only making you focus on a goal that might not bring you business.

As Eric says,

1. Are you sure these are good keywords that bring targeted traffic?

If so, take away the idea of forensics, since you do not want to emulate what they are doing, you want to do things that make you stand apart from them...

I am sure you have heard someone throw around the word "content"

Well so am I.... Content...... Make sure you are providing a user experience on your website that would garner true interest in content that people looking for you, or looking for information around items/services you may provide.

Build this content, and build a social circle around it, build relationships and the rankings will come, if they are truly using "Black Hat" tactics they will eventually either get penalized, or you will outrank them due to you will be providing a more genuine user experience with genuine content.

Also this more sets you up for the future, as Search Engines might not be the only game in town for long, so making a more well rounded "person-centric" strategy in my opinion is better than worrying about why competitor a or b is beating you for a single term in Google.

Hope this helps

4 letter words are appropriate at certain times, in certain situations..... Much like directories.....

I think the answer would be Noindex, but continue to follow - So not by Robots, do by Meta.

Since these pages are just duplicates of others, with little content difference - I would suggest this due to at some point these could begin to drag down the rest of your site - and also they are technically creating competition for your specifically ranked non PPC product pages.

I think Pre Panda/Penguin - the advice might have been closer to keeping them, and targeting them for secondary keywords, but not sure if that strat is really good anymore as it brings too much risk, for an un-known pay off now.

IMHO

This really does not fit the description of cloaking, the content is the same, just different languages right?

If this is the case IMO this would not bee seen as cloaking as your are not delivering different content, just user experience.

Also as long as you are not separating IP delivery by source (meaning sending spiders somewhere different than humans) this would not be the definition of cloaking.

WIKI:

One use of IP delivery is to determine the requestor's location, and deliver content specifically written for that country. This isn't necessarily cloaking. For instance, Google uses IP delivery for AdWords and AdSense advertising programs to target users in different geographic locations.

As of 2006, many sites have taken up IP delivery to personalise content for their regular customers. Many of the top 1000 sites, including sites like Amazon (amazon.com), actively use IP delivery. None of these have been banned from search engines **as their intent is not deceptive.  **    Keyword here..... Deceptive 

Others may have varying opinions, but I am not sure i see much value in this strategy...

It could gain you some short term benefits (not even sure of that much) but as a longterm strategy it kind of seems like a throw away of resources to attempt an SEO trick.

In my opinion a better strategy would be

widgetbrands.com/bluewidgets

widgetbrands.com/redwidgets

widgetbrands.com/greenwidgets

Of course others may have a completely different view.

Shane

I believe homepages are only accepted.

Also I am pretty sure a 301 would make your submission in valid and rejected and YOU DO NOT GET A REFUND!!!!

I would suggest just submitting the homepage, but not sure this will really help you in your specific link building efforts even though the Yahoo directory is powerful and respected.

w00t!

Hi,

Use;

Redirect 301 /olddirectory/example.html http://www.example.com/newdirectorylocation.html

keep in mind that it is relative to document root, and if you have spaces in any of these, you will need to put quotation marks around like so...

Redirect 301 "/olddirectory/example 2 of 2.html" http://www.example.com/newdirectorylocation.html

hope this helps!

w00t!

if you want to do some more research  http://www.webweaver.nu/html-tips/web-redirection.shtml

One extra resource is this article

http://moz.com/blog/set-it-and-forget-it-seo-chasing-the-elusive-passive-seo-dream

It gives a little more info in researching broken links from other sites, and even gives a great explanation of using the levenshtein distance to automatically correct incoming broken links on the fly.

It depends alot on your needs and budget:

Rackspace and Amazon are good when it comes to reliability, but dedicated is VERY expensive. If you are okay with the cloud they both offer this and can be quite reasonable.

I like Rackspace as you have a little more wiggle room and it is a little cheaper than Amazon.

What are you needs/requirements in a web server?

w00t!

"Minimum guaranteed number of media websites on which your release is posted" alarm bells!"

Not necessarily an "Alarm Bell" on its own, as that really is all syndication is technically -

BUT what this probably means is a HUGE group of websites that just dynamically place any niche relevant content on the sites of that niche. It is most usually all no follow, so penalties would not be felt - but results might not be felt as well. (Unless it is real news and you are just trying to gain exposure and traffic)

I am not the biggest fan of online press releases so I am probably jaded, but from an SEO standpoint it is not necessarily an alarm bell for something bad. It just means your content will be automatically accepted on the distribution partner sites (as long as it passes quality checks for most reputable release agencies)

Shane

There is actually a patent that tackles this exact issue. Over 2012, in my opinion there are going to be more "Panda style" updates that target this method that filters out domains that are exact match, but really just a "loophole" doorway page.

Of course these are not really "doorway pages" by technical definition, but the underlying motive is to game the Algorithm into ranking a single entity for many keywords using multiple domains just junking up the web, in my opinion.

w00t!

Did I mention #STOPSOPA  ? 

Resource;

http://www.seobythesea.com/2011/10/googles-exact-match-domain-name-patent-detecting-commercial-queries/

"With progressively less usage are four more name values: robots, to control whether spiders should index the page or follow any of its links; generator, used to indicate what tool was used to generate the page; author, used to give the name of the author; and revisit-after, supposedly used to tell search engines how often to recrawl the page. **To our knowledge only one search engine has ever supported it, and that search engine was never widely used — at this point, it is nothing more than a good luck charm. A remarkably widely used one. **More pages use the completely worthless  than use the _ element!"_

https://developers.google.com/webmasters/state-of-the-web/2005/metadata

I believe the General consensus is subfolder.

Eample:

www.example.com/blog

Hope this helps!

Every Link is not necessarily counted....

If the Blog comment was a nofollow outside of his niche, and on a completely irrelevant subject, it can't necessarily "hurt" but it sure wont help.

Maybe back in the days when Authority was based solely on the amount of links or Page Rank. But sorry, from a long term Internet Marketing and Strategy perspective it is a waste of money to get 60% Nofollow blog comments, especially since it was done by someone who there is no idea what he was posting.

So maybe if you just want to make your clients do good for a few weeks or even months, but as a longterm strategy paying someone to do this is a wasted effort in the grand scheme/big picture.

Where you are correct, a link is a link in the fact that someone looking for a service may see the post and if it is genuine and on topic you may get residual traffic, or even a conversion.

But as a strict link building tactic... It is very weak and money could be alloted to other places for more return on investment.

It is not always about just gaining links... it is about Return on the money invested.

SO in the aspect of return, it was a waste of money, but sure your right, he gained a few links.....

Hi,

I believe, and have seen many others here with the same opinion...  find this is a very unreliable way to see links, it is usually very outdated, and a very small percentage of your link portfolio if any.

Personally, I would take operator link: results with a grain of salt.

w00t!

Shane

At one point this was taken as a "suggestion", but I believe almost all search engines automatically ignore this nowadays.

I think even when it was a valid command, it was still more often than not ignored by Googlebot

Shane

I think this would be situational....

Much like Facebook "Likes" you can put a "Like" box that directly makes them a fan, or just a "Like" for the webpage in question.

It really depends on what you use you Facebook/Google+ page as.... Is it purely for SEO purposes or is it a relationship tool?

If it is a relationship tool and you are an established brand i would suggest getting them into your circle/fanbase as this is a more longterm strategy for relationship building as well as Brand Building.

If you use your social media for purely SEO reasons, then the direct webpage would seem to make more sense.

Should a business have more followers or +1's?

Of course you would want both but if a decision needs to be made of which one you need to decide which one will benefit you the most.... It is situational and no blanket answer can really answer this question in my opinion.

w00t!

You can help this!

You can use the data from WM tools to create 301 redirects on your site that will direct these incorrect queries to the correct page, preserving more of the authority than letting it fall off with a 404

There was actually a post recently (4 or 5 months ago) about doing this automatically using a server side script that actually "fixes" it for you automatically. But it is pretty advanced, and if you aren't dealing with thousands of them, might be easier to do yourself (or have your webmaster take care of) (I was not able to find or remember what it was called, maybe someone else will)

If this is just PDF documents and Files that have been picked up by scrapers, I personally don't worry about these so much, but someone may disagree with that

w00t!

"So, its hard NOT to want to throw up a blog farm and do as "the Romans do". "

Yes, but the Roman Empire fell, and fell hard

Content, Content, Content - Would be my advice to combat a spammer! But BETTER content and and EVEN BETTER content Quality not quantity, make sure you are smartly using social and trying to do everything the right way and the tortoise shall beat the hare!

There are hundreds of resources here on SEOMOZ that can help you with an Internet Marketing and Content Strategy Start with the Blog and work your way to Whiteboard Fridays and even last couple webinars have been really informative and timely

Hope this helps

http://www.seomoz.org/blog

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/category/whiteboard-friday

And I am sure others will add more sources and ideas

Hi,

I am in no way experienced with E-commerce as i have never done it, but from an SEO/Marketing perspective.

In my opinion Option 3 would be the most helpful both in SEO and Branding.

Because...

SEO - you have now consolidated your link building potential into one domain instead of spreading it out. Also this way you can get a little more keyword power without resorting to exact match tactics which personally I think are going to "fizzle" out over the next few years.

Marketing/Branding - You have created a better user experience and also the possibility of an up sell.. A person that is looking for a handbag, might also be looking for a matching pair of shoes... So use a "suggestion" algorithm at checkout that suggest "relevant" products. Option 3 in my opinion is also better for branding, as you can easier position yourself better in your filed as a "One Stop Shop" for all your "accessory" needs. If you have multiple different domains, it is hard to get a "brandname" going for yourself - even if you just sell other peoples brands.

I am sure others will have more suggestions, just my 2 cents

w00t!

I have been trying to think of a response for this, as I am confused...

Are you asking how to convert your Black Hat Tatics to White Hat - Or How to Mask Black Hat to look White?

If Black Hat Tactics to White - Focus on putting out great content related to your niche, gaining social signals and building links in a manner that is not just for "Link Acquisition of Anchor Text" - Build a trusted prescece on the web. Focus on building informational long tail queries and building a following of people who think you or your product is interesting. (in very short)

If the latter....

I am not sure this is the right forum for that question, as most of us here spend our days doing things the "Hard' Way" (as described in your question) Due to this IS the longterm strategy - IMHO

Black Hat Tactics in General will never be consistent, cause the latest "fad" will always be rooted out as soon as the masses who follow the "Guru's" who always follow their leader, and latch on and abuse whatever loophole was discovered - Then Google will react - (Circle Ensues)

SEO is still marketing, and the focus always needs to be the consumers - So in general as a Marketing Tactic, black hat is not only un-ethical it is also a loosing strategy in the longrun (as the strategy must consistently change for fear of retribution)

But if you are really only 19 and in this for a few hundred bucks a week..... Then learning and testing to learn your limits as an SEO is important - Just as a suggestion jumping on the Black Hat Train is dangerous not only for you never know what tactic will next week be the new focus of Google's rath. But also consumers in general are becoming more "wise" to webspam and manipulative traffic, thus affecting not only your Search Engine trust, but also consumer trust (which is most important in my opinion)

The old adage "Work Smarter, Not Harder" is incorrect - You must work Smarter and Harder....

Shane

Author rank is based on social (amongst many others), so gaining positive social signals would be elevation of author exposure. Just because a site has a bad reputation, does not mean it does not contain the recipes for exposure...

I think you are confusing backlinks or PR with Social Signals that go along with author rank and the signals of content relevance it takes into consideration, and how as the spectrum becomes more crowded, the smallest of differences will affect ranking (much like PR and Backlins does now amongst others)

So in essence we are talking about two different things, squidoo is not a backlink building tool, but it is an exposure building tool, or can be.

Cool you trust a SEO figure over someone youve never heard of that was quite a burn, man you have a razor sharp wit....

Hi,

I would have your network team look at reverse proxy..

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-is-a-reverse-proxy-and-how-can-it-help-my-seo

This will allow you using either IIS or Apache modules to use a reverse proxy to turn blog.website.com into www.mysite.com/blog/ even if they are hosted on two completely different servers

hope this helps!

w00t!

Hi,

As Mark says a "Knee Jerk" reaction to a Google "Talking Point" is usually a bad idea in the Search Engine World -  Not saying it is not important to listen to Google, but also have to take what they say with a grain of salt, and understand they have there own business to run with motives ect...

With that being said, Mark is correct - The way you have it is actually good for Search Engines and User Experience - As a consumer (and Search Engine) personally i think it would be better to get someone to the correct, quality non duplicate content "Landing Page" that has specific info for a specific query... Not a generic "Home Page"

So the way you have explained your information architechture, you are on the right path - the key is to just make sure you are not using "manipulatory" tactics to elevate your pages...

But as to what Google's term of the word manipulatory is, i think is opening more and more for interpretation by Google..

Hope this Helps!

Hi,

Sounds correct, but the best way to make absolutely sure of markup is the rich snippet testing tool as it gives you debuggin hints or tells you if correct.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

5. No this should not prevent Authorship - Just make sure you have submitted the author

https://plus.google.com/authorship

Are useless, and I think were always "An Old Wives Tale" that they worked (or at least within the past 4 -5 years give or take) (index, follow is default unless specified noindex, nofollow or by other means robots.txt ect..)

is disregarded by Google, but there are still bots out there that accept i believe

Pragma and site verification are for you to decide -

Pragma just tells the individual browser not to cache, and site verification is just for Google Webmaster Tools - which can be done many ways. (.txt, DNS Zone ect..)

Some others are Author, Publisher and Canonical - but especially in the case of canonical - if you do not do it correctly it can really mess with Bots.

Hope this helps

Extra info on Author and Canonical

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/authorship-google-plus-link-building

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps

Hi,

others may have a varying opinon, but of course a canonical could be used to clear up any dup content issues while you slowly do the transition, but I am not sure I see the value in this specific situation of keeping both up an running. But I may be neglecting to take something into consideration.

This kind of old, but may help with a few questions http://www.seomoz.org/blog/expectations-and-best-practices-for-moving-to-or-launching-a-new-domain

But personally i would just do everyting i could to make sure I was ready, then just "rip off the bandaid" Keeping both up and running seems it might be setting you up for some confusion in the longrun.

It is a brand, so would fall under the Trademark Policy, and will be held most probably and reviewed on a per case basis

http://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6118

I say this not from experience, but because a Google Search with a few searches I did with Facebook resulted no PPC - So I assume Facebook has asked google to not allow this as part of TM policy - But a few queries like

"How to use Facebook" had a few advertisers.

So it probably is dependent on words used in conjunction and what you are selling/promoting - And I assume they always take the cautionary view, due to the competitve nature of these two companies

I also found some people in forums who said they were suspended for this.

Hope this helps

Hi,

Your admins saying that, is like someone saying "we need to shut the site down, we are getting to much traffic!" Common sys-admin response (fix it somewhere else)

4GB a day downloaded, is alot of Bot traffic, but it appears you are a "real time" site, that is probably actually helped and maybe even reliant on your high crawl rate....

I would upgrade hardware - or even look into some kind of off site cloud redundancy for failover (Hybrid)

I highly doubt that 4GB a day, is a "dealbreaker",but of course that is just based off the one image, and your admins probably have resource monitors - Maybe Varnish is an answer for static content to help lighten load???? Or CDN for file hosting to lighten bandwidth load?

Shane

Does this help?

http://support.volusion.com/article/seo

I would also try their support, it says with purchase, you get lifetime support on product, and SEO as you mention should be a hallmark of any CMS (these days)

whatever Google's default is in GWT - It sets it for you.

You can change it, but it is not reccomended unless for a specific reason (such as Michael Lewis's specific scenario) even though, I am not completely sold that Gbot is what is causing the "dealbreaking" overhead.

Probably not, but would run it through a Gbot emulator to make sure, as Google can parse some Jscript now - But not sure if it would in the section

Is PhP not an option? as it is dynamic and renders server side and echoes can be used for page by page basis

Hi,

Here is a link to the SEOMOZ Jobs Board where you can create a company profile and post Jobs/Search for contractors/companies within the spheres of SEO/SEM/SMM Design ect...

http://www.seomoz.org/marketplace/jobs

Hope this Helps

w00t!

Hi,

Maybe an Associate can put in the WB Friday where Rand went over how Google sees duplicate links on a page.

But I believe the basic concept was that the first link on any given page is the only one that is "recognized"

Example if i have a site about blue widgets targeting the keyword Blue Widgets....

"Hi, I love my site about Blue Widgets[LINK www.bluewidget.com] I think we make the best Blue Widgets_[LINK www.bluewidget.com]_ in the WORLD!!!!"

Both anchor texts above link to www.bluewidget.com, so only the first would count the other is redundant and would be ignored by Gbot.

SO

If you are integrating more links to attempt to gain clout with search engines, then this is a lost effort, but if you are doing it for navigation or user experience then this is completely fine in my opinion.

w00t!

Safe may be the wrong outlook

This strategy is definitely employed by many, but i think they are slowly seeing the returns on these types of strats slipping. Not to say they do not work, but not sure it is a good idea in such a small niche (probably a pretty big SEO footprint will be left)

If you have articles that call for linking to your site that has a logical and informational purpose, then this is a good strat, but just throwing out content with anchor text to your site is sometimes a waste and possibly hurtful.

IMHO - Forget so many word presses and concentrate on having a blog on your site that generates quality informational content that is related to your niche both directly and abstractly.  This is a site link building strategy that can payoff in incoming links and traffic.

Now this is not to say that other avenues should not be taken, but if you have lots of content that can be created then i would keep alot of it on your site mostly in one place so you are not spreading all that potential traffic to alternate sites not on your domain (wordpresses)

Just an idea

I know this one is good, but very hard to get into as not many sites qualify.

http://www.ipl.org/

Other than that I am not sure how many more out there would classify as Free AND Quality.

Although there are good sites out there that you have to pay for, paying is not a sign of being bad, just like free is not a sign of good.

If money is the issue then this a completely different story,

But if it is just that you do not like paid directories, then in my opinion look at the directories on more factors other than that..

Last Cache data?

Do they rank for their own brand name?

Are they a PR 0? (Bad sign)

Are they laden with Adsense and Affiliate links?  (Bad Sign)

Do they serve a purpose other than another directory in the thousands of directories?

Are the sites all properly categorized?

Do they allow bidding? (Bad sign)

Do they allow all sites? or do they have strict rules on Pharmaceutical, Gambling, Drugs ect....

This is just a few things to look at

hope this helps

Hi,

I have never heard of doing a single redirect for each individual page to redirect non www to www (and not sure how one would do that, not sure it is possible as an infinite loop would be caused)

but below is how to do it in both Apache .htaccess and IIS 7.0 using URLrewrite

Apache = Must have rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

IIS= URL Rewrite http://blogs.msdn.com/b/carlosag/archive/2008/09/02/iis7urlrewriteseo.aspx<configuration> <system.webServer> <rewrite> <rules> <rule name="Redirect to WWW" stopProcessing="true"> <match url=".*" />
          <conditions> <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^example.com$" />
          conditions> <action type="Redirect" url="http://www.example.com/{R:0}" redirectType="Permanent" />
        rule> rules> rewrite> system.webServer> configuration>hope this helps

Does PR Web treat some differently than others?

Yes, I believe so on a few different levels -

You can purchase multiple levels of distribution options that get you more exposure and links from PRweb itself separate from the external distribution channels. I have also noticed depending on the editor score of the release you are sent to different levels of distribution channels.

I do agree as well that actually PRWeb itself gets more SEO/SEM benefits from press releases than the person doing the release.

I have also seen diminished results from PRWeb over the last 3 -5 months**.**

I personally came to the realization (and many may disagree) that Press releases as a SEO/SEM strategy might be loosing quite a bit of steam, but as a general marketing tactic i think they are actually effective.

As long as you actually have news to announce, and not just writing fluff to get some links. I think it will turn more into a Social Media Marketing tool other than and SEO tool over the next years to come.

But this is all just opinion...

What i have always wondered is how does Google Treat press releases? It seems to me it is just like distributing a bunch of duplicate content, so what links count and which ones don't in the actual distribution network?

Just off the top of my head, there are a few low tech ways to do it....

If you have Win 7 the searching has improved greatly - just move all files to a local machine - and search the directory you placed in for the content you are wanting to check - it will give all files that contain the words. (but can become overloading)

If you have dreamweaver or other enterprise level editor - almost all have a site search function to where you can search/profile code/text and have it find one by one which pages contain the searched terms - or globally list them.

Other than that, probably a custom script -or a google search for an HTML profiler might help?

Shane

You need to ask for a reconsideration if you cannot get those links removed.

You need to explain what happened (Did you hire an SEO firm who got these "unnatural" links.) Explain exactly what happened and if you were inexperienced when you did this, there are lots of SEO firms out there that claim they use "100% White Hat Tactics" Which in most cases is complete BS as a white hat tactic is not thousands of links in a day..... No matter how you want to spin it. (Before anyone screams at me yes there are perfectly rational explanations for a thousand links in a day sometimes.... Sometimes....)

There is a CHANCE (small chance) Google will take this info into consideration and give you a "reprise" or second chance...

I am not sure I would 301 a penalized domain to a new domain, but of course understand this may be un-avoidable.

Sorry for your troubles

w00t!

Hi,

everlasting is a term that is rarely associated with the type of links it appears you are looking for, as unless you are submitting high quality articles/blogs to sites that are not just content farms, "everlasting" is a term i think you will rarely find.

Personally, I think http://myblogguest.com/ is good, but there is a monthly fee.

Will Critchlow from Distilled did a recent post and talked about different tools they used...

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/link-building-tools

There was a specific tool called http://ontolo.com/ that would satisfy the ability to look for Blogs/site by keyword, niche ect... But this DOES NOT allow the automatic placement of links, you still must build a relationship, and have high quality content.

But onto the actual question, I am not sure there are any tools that are single payment, and would give the benefit of everlasting link that you would actually want (or would give authority) for longterm purposes.

I really did not spend to long looking at your site, but was not sure I understood why canonical was used at all?

I see that this site, is not really being utilized as a traditional "Blog" so you would not actually have the duplicated content issues that come along with Blog Posts having their own page, plus being on the homepage.

I am not sure I can give you a suggestion to give to the developers except, why is canonical being used when it appears it does not need to be used?

If you do have multiple pages of duplicate content then this would be a reason, but I did not see them.

The notices you are getting from SEOMOZ are just that... Notices that the Canonical is in place i believe.

So i guess in summary the actual question I would have is do you really need the Canonical Tag at all?    I am not sure it is hurting you, but not sure you need it either.

There are also some META tags that really have no use.. example INDEX, FOLLOW the default without a counter NOINDEX or NOFOLLOW or robots.txt is always INDEX FOLLOW.

Hope this helps

w00t!