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I would have to agree with Whiteboard creations here. Create two seperate pages and ensure all the content is unique. This would be a lot better that targeting two keywords on one page in my opinion.

My Blog Guest is still a good source in my opinion. However, you need to be careful of websites that are just content farming. They are bound to be part of some sneaky network. Before you accept any website to publish your blog, make sure you do an opensite explorer check on them to see if their inbound links look legitimate. You don't want your website to be associated with poor websites.

Hi Ron,

I believe that slideshare links are 'nofollow' and when analyised with search engine spider they aren't recognised as 'proper' links. However, the content is readable to the spiders. Therefore, for building local citations, including company NAP's can only give you benefit in my opinion.

HI Eric,

I belive it was an update that effected partial match domains. Link the analytics to this tool and it will tell you.

Hi Bob,

There could be many factors as to why the website is not ranking for that keyword. However, I can give you a few pointers that may help:

• Remove capitalisation of meta title (far too spammy)
• Create more engaging onpage content, with keyword variations mentioned throughout.
• Meta description is far too long (Currently 211 characters, should be a max of 155)
• Many of your backlinks are from non relevant poor quality websites.
• Page load speeds are poor due to amount of images
• You have two H1 tags (The images is being counted)

I would look to get some of these issues ironed out to see if this would make any improvement.

It depends if you are looking to increase the overall authority of your website. If you are happy with the level at the moment, then yes put 'nofollow' attribute on. I would not say there was a big risk in having it 'followed' as it is an image and not keyword rich anchor text. I would also give the logo, img title/alts that are branded rather than keyword.

E.g.

commercepundit

Hope this helps

Personally I would go with image or brand name anchor text. I read an article a while back about a UK Web company getting a manual spam penalty for having 'web design location' on all the websites they had developed. They change the anchor text to brand and filed for reconsideration and the penalty was lifted.

Hi,

It is my understanding that having followed internal links will pass on domain authority to specific areas of the website and increase the individual pages authority. If you have them no followed, no/little authority will be passed on to those pages. Obviously, the higher the PA the better the chance of you ranking for specific keywords on those pages.

Cheers Guys,Thanks for clearing that up!

Hi Chris,Thats great!

So If I keep them followed, the link juice will still pass on. Do you think it will have a negative impact on the site as a whole, by decreasing the amount of pages being indexed by Google. i.e. Reducing the site size?

Thanks for the articles aswell, very useful!

Hi Bob,

There could be many factors as to why the website is not ranking for that keyword. However, I can give you a few pointers that may help:

• Remove capitalisation of meta title (far too spammy)
• Create more engaging onpage content, with keyword variations mentioned throughout.
• Meta description is far too long (Currently 211 characters, should be a max of 155)
• Many of your backlinks are from non relevant poor quality websites.
• Page load speeds are poor due to amount of images
• You have two H1 tags (The images is being counted)

I would look to get some of these issues ironed out to see if this would make any improvement.

HI Eric,

I belive it was an update that effected partial match domains. Link the analytics to this tool and it will tell you.

If Google is still indexing past page 1 of cat pages, have you gone into WMT's and removed URLs from the index?

Hi Social Engaged,

I believe this has been covered a while back, here is the link!

I also believe it shouldn't be much of an issue as Google will be able to distinguish that they are social profiles and are supposed to be kept consistent.

Personally, I think that the recent updates have targeted non-relevant linking heavily; I read an article somewhere written by the owner of a UK based web design agency. His company website was effected by the updates because they placed footer links on all of the websites he they had designed. When they changed the anchor text to brand their rankings started to increase again.

In my experience, a client of mine had dropped considerably in the rankings. I looked into their linking profile and realised they had blog roll links from several non-related websites (built by an old agency). I had them removed by contacting the website owners directly and we are now starting to see rankings return.

If you want to keep the links on your blogs, I would recommend linking with brand anchor text rather than keywords. I know this may be difficult given the URLs of the websites you have given haha.

It depends if you are looking to increase the overall authority of your website. If you are happy with the level at the moment, then yes put 'nofollow' attribute on. I would not say there was a big risk in having it 'followed' as it is an image and not keyword rich anchor text. I would also give the logo, img title/alts that are branded rather than keyword.

E.g.

commercepundit

Hope this helps

My Blog Guest is still a good source in my opinion. However, you need to be careful of websites that are just content farming. They are bound to be part of some sneaky network. Before you accept any website to publish your blog, make sure you do an opensite explorer check on them to see if their inbound links look legitimate. You don't want your website to be associated with poor websites.

Hi Karl,

Yes it has happened with 2-3 of my clients. I believe the only way to reverse the effect is by either deleting your places listing or creating a subpage as mentioned above.

The only other mention I have found online regarding something similar, is on this forum!

There doesn't seem to be any case studies on this that I can find.

I would have to agree with Whiteboard creations here. Create two seperate pages and ensure all the content is unique. This would be a lot better that targeting two keywords on one page in my opinion.

Personally I would go with image or brand name anchor text. I read an article a while back about a UK Web company getting a manual spam penalty for having 'web design location' on all the websites they had developed. They change the anchor text to brand and filed for reconsideration and the penalty was lifted.