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SEO Link Vine looks like a blog link network similar to Build My Rank.

They advertise "How to get hundreds of thousands of high quality one-way links, taking your Google ranking from wherever it currently is, straight to page 1 over time."

And talk a lot about automation... free content.. etc. Install a piece of code and you're done.

Doesn't seem like something Google would recommend.

Agreed with everyone above. I started there as well and got fed up with the "overnight results, push-button easy!".

There are some smart people with good stuff on there, but too much to wade through to find it.

Your time is much better spent on SEOmoz, in my opinion

Hi Samuel,

You're on the right track with this question, but you might want to think about your site architecture some more.

I went to your wedding-singer page then to the homepage and couldn't find any way to actually get back by clicking any links. You should think about reviewing your navigation on page.

You're right that /home/ isn't adding any benefit but you won't receive any huge benefits just by changing the directory to /live-music/ either.. but I do think it's better to have something more relevant than not.

If you do change the URL, you'll need to set up a 301 redirect to point all links to the new page, and thus flow the old link juice to the new page as well. Wordpress has some good plugins that are very easy for that (simple 301 plugin for example).

Be careful about creating too many 301 redirects with the WP plugin as it can cause your site to slowdown as all of those redirects are stored in the database, rather than in the .htaccess file.

The link juice lost isn't that significant in my opinion. Just work on building some nice authority links to the new URL. And remember to be "organic" in your link anchor text not to face the wrath of Penguin

Hope that helps,

Jordan

Hi Nik,

We work on a very holistic approach where we seek to deeply understand the client in their current situation and what they want to get out of working with us (which is (usually)... more revenue!)

So, you want to sell a benefit, not a tactic.

Link building is a tactic (that "anyone" can do), you want to sell "increased revenue", and how will you do that? With link building

See the difference? It's small but makes a big difference.

Remember, people don't really want to buy a drill, they want to buy a whole in their wall, but the drill is what does it.

Many people will measure links built, or rankings, or whatever else -- and those things are great -- but at the end of the day, all of that stuff boils down to a simple question : Did we make more money because of the work you did, yes or no? If no, they probably won't want to work with you much longer, no matter how many great links you've built.

It's the dilemma of connecting the business side to the technical side.

When doing a proposal, we look at the competition and see how far behind our client is. Then we do some estimates as to what we would need to do to out rank them and come up with a total amount of work.

At that point we can gauge it to the clients budget.

For example, if we think it's going to be 6 months at $4K per month, and they can only do $2K per month, then we would do "half" the work we planned on per month, and stretch the timeline out to 12 months.

Same amount of work, but the client controls the timeline based on the budget.

There is a limit however, if the client wanted to spend all $24K in the first month, we wouldn't be able to complete everything and get the rankings so you have to space it out realistically.

Remember to build into your costs some of the "meta" work like reporting, calls, link outreach, getting content created etc.

Hope some of that helps.

I haven't heard of what you're looking for, but I did take SEOmoz's feed URL (http://feeds.feedburner.com/seomoz) and just do a google search using that URL as the query.

Not all the results are good, but you can find some sites using it/talking about it.

wise words of advice!

When did you set this up on your site? Did you submit your url to Google schema program?

Great answer John -- I agree that this is a very vague/grey area. Are there any videos or interviews with Matt Cutts talking about this?

I think similar scenarios should be brought up with Matt at conferences so we can his answer "straight from the horse's mouth" as this topic is getting more and more attention (and more severe penalties ie. iAcquire)

Thanks for your answer

Hey David,

SEOmoz themselves do a nice job of documenting the major algorithm changes and linking to supporting documentation from sights like SearchEngineLand/Journal, etc.

It's also nice historically if you want to go back and look at past changes

Google Algorithm Change History:

http://www.seomoz.org/google-algorithm-change

Hey Ian,

Hard to say for sure without doing some more detailed analysis, but I would say it's a warning flag for sure.. A lot of Google's changes recently revolve around "over-optimization" and spam/crap links, blog networks, etc.

41% of your backlinks are exact match anchor text for "nutritional therapy", that doesn't look natural at all.

We are doing a back link study right now and some sites who are ranking very well for big keywords have little to NO exactly keyword match anchor text links to their site. They have really good on-page describing the KW they are targeting and have very high quality/authoritative links spread through their sites, usually with their brand name or URL, and sometimes with a keyword.

You should check out a very good article on SEO Gadget about this

Link Building: Anchor Text Optimisation Best Practices in 2012 - https://seogadget.co.uk/link-building-anchor-text-optimisation-best-practices/

Hope that helps,

Jordan

Doesn't look like your pages were deindexed.

Try site:floridainboundmarketing.com and you'll see them there.

intitle/allintitle is usually to find which pages are trying to rank for a keyword, since good SEO practices use putting the KW in the title. site:site.com shows the pages indexed for that site

Hi Bob,

Many people are also using

Blogger Link Up http://www.bloggerlinkup.com/ and

Help a Reporter Out (HARO) http://www.helpareporter.com/

Hope that helps!

Hi Nik,

We work on a very holistic approach where we seek to deeply understand the client in their current situation and what they want to get out of working with us (which is (usually)... more revenue!)

So, you want to sell a benefit, not a tactic.

Link building is a tactic (that "anyone" can do), you want to sell "increased revenue", and how will you do that? With link building

See the difference? It's small but makes a big difference.

Remember, people don't really want to buy a drill, they want to buy a whole in their wall, but the drill is what does it.

Many people will measure links built, or rankings, or whatever else -- and those things are great -- but at the end of the day, all of that stuff boils down to a simple question : Did we make more money because of the work you did, yes or no? If no, they probably won't want to work with you much longer, no matter how many great links you've built.

It's the dilemma of connecting the business side to the technical side.

When doing a proposal, we look at the competition and see how far behind our client is. Then we do some estimates as to what we would need to do to out rank them and come up with a total amount of work.

At that point we can gauge it to the clients budget.

For example, if we think it's going to be 6 months at $4K per month, and they can only do $2K per month, then we would do "half" the work we planned on per month, and stretch the timeline out to 12 months.

Same amount of work, but the client controls the timeline based on the budget.

There is a limit however, if the client wanted to spend all $24K in the first month, we wouldn't be able to complete everything and get the rankings so you have to space it out realistically.

Remember to build into your costs some of the "meta" work like reporting, calls, link outreach, getting content created etc.

Hope some of that helps.

If I'm implementing just a "normal" robots.txt file I always put

User-agent: *
Allow: /

But you can also list a directory that you don't want to be indexed like

Disallow: /downloads

So if you wanted your whole site to be indexed except for /downloads and /users I believe your robots.txt would look like

User-agent: *

Disallow: /downloads

Disallow: /users

I called in one time because I had a problem and was instantly answered on the phone by staff and it was resolved. I also tweeted them about my Q&A questions not coming up and I got a response within a few hours.

I understand how you feel not getting responses back, but I think in general they're doing a good job.

Marie,

Echoing what a lot of others have said, it's about how you use it. What's the difference between spinning a piece of content and putting it on someone's blog who will accept any piece of text (regardless of if it even makes sense!) vs spending hours on a well researched article and having an editorial team review and accept your content?

Both scenarios describe a) your piece of content, b) someone else's blog and c) a link back to your site.

However, Eric Ward talks about this a lot -- If you are doing things ONLY FOR THE BENEFIT OF SEO, you should stop and think about what you are doing.

Think about this scenario -- what If you could get guest blog articles placed on 5 very highly authoritative and highly trafficked sites, without a link, OR you could have 5 "ok" guest post articles on "no-name" blogs... but you get a link..

In the first scenario, you will most likely drive a lot of traffic via people searching for your name and your brand, and consequently could also trigger sales.

Isn't that what SEO is all about?? We need to remember.. SEO isn't just for the sake of "SEO" or being "#1"

If you can make a great ROI doing guest posts with no links... do it!

I would say if they are all independent of one another, and NOT like the scenario Mango Man described than you should be fine. You should only face problems when you're links are primarily coming from one host or ip or web server.

Hey Pedro, I agree with Zsolt's response -- there are much more important factors than PR.

If you are creating great content, your rankings for various keywords is improving and you're bringing consistant or increasing traffic that is reading and sharing your content, you're doing the right thing.

Google is looking into so many different factors today than they were 5+ years ago.

What if you put up a new site dedicated to being the highest quality provider of content on Niche X. You could theoretically become very highly ranked and bring in good traffic in a short amount of time (depending on how much time/work you put into the site). If you were driving great, high quality traffic, what would increasing your PR do for you? Your users certainly don't care.

You can't get higher than ranked #1 for a KW

Good luck,

Jordan

Yeah it looks like there are a couple of issues going on.

• Looks like you are over optimized for exact anchor text links to that page for "driveway alarm"

• You also have a high number of total links, but a low number of separate linking root domains (according to OSE)

• Some of the links have low value/authority

I've attached the OSE report with all of the noFollow links to your site. Looks like there are many to the other pages, but not to that specific page.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gd8vpv05akv67vk/inbound_links_ose_060112_576934.xlsx

Hi Samuel,

You're on the right track with this question, but you might want to think about your site architecture some more.

I went to your wedding-singer page then to the homepage and couldn't find any way to actually get back by clicking any links. You should think about reviewing your navigation on page.

You're right that /home/ isn't adding any benefit but you won't receive any huge benefits just by changing the directory to /live-music/ either.. but I do think it's better to have something more relevant than not.

If you do change the URL, you'll need to set up a 301 redirect to point all links to the new page, and thus flow the old link juice to the new page as well. Wordpress has some good plugins that are very easy for that (simple 301 plugin for example).

Be careful about creating too many 301 redirects with the WP plugin as it can cause your site to slowdown as all of those redirects are stored in the database, rather than in the .htaccess file.

The link juice lost isn't that significant in my opinion. Just work on building some nice authority links to the new URL. And remember to be "organic" in your link anchor text not to face the wrath of Penguin

Hope that helps,

Jordan