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Thanks, Andie!

Ahrefs is showing that I have 1,278 no follow links.

Many of these are from a site that I'm totally unfamiliar with (growmap.com) and don't see any reference to my site on. Perhaps I left a comment on it at some point?

But more than 800 of my nofollow links are from this site.

Is this going to hurt me?

Thanks. My url is http://www.farnorthkennel.com if curiosity comes about.

Thanks, Andie!

Hi friends,

I changed my blog name url from "german-shepherd-blog" to "dog-blog."

Now I am getting a large amount of duplicate title tags.

How do I tell google I made the change? Is there something on my site I need to change?

So I'm super new at SEO and learning a lot. I'm a small business owner and enjoy doing it myself.

Are long URL's good or bad?

Like this:

http://www.farnorthkennel.com/german-shepherd-puppies-the-girls/long-haired-german-shepherd-puppies-lava

Is that too long? The german-shepherd-puppies-the-girls is an actual page with actual content.

Do those hurt me?

Thanks for telling me this, Takeshi!

I didn't know most of this information. Very helpful information.

It happened literally overnight today. The competitors seem a little shuffled. The people at the number one slot, who have a small DA seem to always be in that slot.

I'll get there!

Hi Jesse,

Thanks so much.

Did you look at my link-building to see that it's good? That'd be a major relief - I have been working hard. The backlinks are small - I've been doing this for about a month.

Am I linking within the site too much?

Thanks again!

Yesterday was a jubilant day!

Our website http://www.farnorthkennel.com hit the #2 spot on google for one of our keyword searches "german shepherd puppies in Alaska." We are new at this and it took a lot of work and about 2 months to do this (I realize this is fast).

What happened overnight? We have new pages on page 1 towards the bottom, but our homepage fell to around page 4? What would make this happen? I didn't make any updates to the homepage recently.

Am I linking to it too much interally? Am I running too many categories? The "too many on pages links" warning comes up all of the time, but I feel like my site is structured user friendly.

I am blogging like mad and successfully getting guest blog posts on reputable sites like mad. I have 30,000 Facebook fans....

but will never understand google.

Any takers? What happened overnight?

Hey guys,

My question is about blog comments. I have them disabled on my blog simply because I didn't want to have to deal with them. I get reasonably good traffic to my blog (mainly from my facebook fanpage).

Am I making a mistake by having comments disabled?

What about WP Plugins like CommentLuv. Will having this enabled hurt my SEO? What if I make every comment need approval and keep the Spam out?

And finally, does commenting on others blogs that do have CommentLuv enabled help?

Thanks!

Thanks, Paul and Kevin. I understand now.

I've often thought about doing a campaign to find out which of my followers would be willing to give us a link. As I understand it, offering a coupon or something would be a big no-no, so I've been a little unclear on how to do that.

I really like the tools here and the list on www.pointblankseo.com. They've both helped, but we're new and it's slow, yet enjoyable, going.

That confuses me, Paul.

Google measures the traffic from Facebook to my site for me - it's in my Analytics.

I've learned many things to do to improve my page rank over the past several months (thanks, seomoz). Our website, www.farnorthkennel.com, has improved greatly thanks to your help.

Here's my question. I have 13000 fans on FB. If they all read a blog post I put up, does this help my page rank?

Does new visitors hitting up my website make the Google gods smile upon me?

Thanks for the help!

I have several warnings for duplicate page title....

I thought that I had good structure, but I guess I am doing something wrong.

On my website (http://www.farnorthkennel.com), I am getting duplicate page errors for pages like this:

http://www.farnorthkennel.com/german-shepherd-puppies-the-girls/hazel
and
http://www.farnorthkennel.com/german-shepherd-puppies-the-girls/emerald

I thought that this sort of structure was a good idea since the end page is different. Should each page be set up right after the original domain name?

I'm new at this....