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Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded our Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory update and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices
Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded our Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory update and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices
Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded our Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory update and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices
Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded our Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory update and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices. While this is about directories in general and not just blog directories, I thought it'd help.
Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded our Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory update and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices
Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded our Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory update and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices
Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded our Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory update and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices
Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded our Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory update and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices
Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded our Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory update and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices
Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded our Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory update and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices
Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded our Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory update and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices
Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded the Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory updates and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices
Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded the Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory updates and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices
Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded the Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory updates and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices. It isn't paid directories specifically, but it is a freshly reviewed list that should help you out.
Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded the Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory updates and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices
Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded the Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory updates and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices
Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded the Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory updates and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices
Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded the Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory updates and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices.
Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded the Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory updates and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices
Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded the Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory updates and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices
Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded the Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information about the directory updates and link building via directories at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices
Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded the Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices.
Just wanted to leave a quick note saying that SEOmoz has upgraded the Link Directory! You can view a post Cyrus wrote with more information at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices.
Hi! So sorry for the delayed response, but having downloadable files show up as links is a known bug in OSE that we're working on. Here's a post from a Linkscape engineer with some more information: http://www.seomoz.org/q/how-are-our-competitors-getting-these-inbound-linking-domains
Just wanted to let you know that the links that are prompting a download are a bug in OSE and not real links. Check out the post by a Linkscape engineer at http://www.seomoz.org/q/how-are-our-competitors-getting-these-inbound-linking-domains. So sorry for not catching this thread earlier, hope it helps explain some of the problems.
Hi Bozzie,
Sorry to hear about this problem. I'd also suggest emailing the help desk and sending them a copy of your CSV so they can help you out.
Keri
Hi Aran,
First, Don't Panic! You're actually seeing a bug in Linkscape/OSE that we're working on eliminating. What's happening is that as we make deeper crawls, the crawler is finding more downloadable files and chocking on them, and wrongly categorizing them as links. One of the Linkscape engineers has a good explanation over on this thread at http://www.seomoz.org/q/how-are-our-competitors-getting-these-inbound-linking-domains.
Hope this helps, and so sorry for the confusion.
I'd also consider page load time. Do you have people that put 40 pictures in one post? Then you may not want 30 posts displaying, as that could really bog down page load time. My forum usually has only a couple of pictures per post, if any, but I do sometimes get ones that have 20-40 pictures.
Ryan Kent has a much better answer than I regarding keyword cannibalization on this Q&A thread http://www.seomoz.org/q/dilution-of-link-juice. You might read that and see if that helps explain things a bit more for you.
Hi Kostas
A quick note that Sha isn't a staff member and doesn't have visibility into your campaign (though she's an awesome part of our community and we're so happy to have her here!). For this it's probably time to email help@seomoz.org and see if they can shed some light on what happened. I'm an associate, but don't have that type of view into your account either.
The post that she's referring to with details about the crawl outage is at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/crawl-outage and we're keeping it updated as we have more information. Also, keep an eye on the SEOmoz Twitter account, as we'll post there when there are updates to the post.
Keri
That sounds like a good question for the help desk, as they will want to know if there's a possible bug. Email them at help@seomoz.org with this information and they'll take a look at it.
Hi Diane,
I'm following up on older questions that are still marked unanswered. Have you been able to improve traffic to this site, or have you put it on the back burner? I still see the IN2TOWN CHEAP FLIGHTS header and Yemeni security checks article when I look at the site now.
Hi Wayne,
I'm following up on older questions that are still marked unanswered. Did you ever figure this one out? I'm curious to hear what happened here.
It can actually take up to sixty days (two crawls) for the links to show up, if you happened to have built links right as one of the crawls was finishing. Unlike Google, Linkscape (in the past) crawls about once a month -- spends a couple of weeks crawling then a couple of weeks processing. Your links should have shown up by now for sure, let us know if they haven't for some reason.
Your home page links to http://www.theradiatorgallery.com/designer-radiators.html with the anchor text designer radiators, and that page links to the home page with the anchor text designer radiators. Others can give more information, but I think you need to pick one page that you want to be the focus for designer radiators and focus on that, and not send conflicting signals to the search engines with this type of circular linking.
Hi Anthony,
I'm going through older questions in Q&A. Were you able to sort this out, or are you still looking for answers?
Hi Matthew,
So sorry to hear that you want to cancel your Pro service. Gianluca and Sha both have good answers. Is there anything we could have done better to keep you as a member?
Hi Stuart,
This is a known issue with OSE. Linkscape doesn't quite know what to do with downloadable files and is falsely listing some of them as links. A Linkscape engineer has some more details on this Q&A post at http://www.seomoz.org/q/how-are-our-competitors-getting-these-inbound-linking-domains. So sorry for the confusion, and we are working to get this taken care of.
I'd email your information to the help desk at help@seomoz.org and include details about your search and a copy of the CSV in case this is a bug they need to look into.
It's a small online store -- how are conversions and sales doing? Traffic and rankings are great, but if I (with an online store that sells items related to RC warships and scale boats) somehow rank for rabbit cages and get a lot of traffic from it, I've got rankings and traffic, but it hasn't done me a bit of good for the bottom line. If you then come along and get me three link related to DKM Bismarck plans that have 1/10 the traffic I got from the rabbit cages traffic, but that traffic converts and gets me sales, I'm going to be happy.
tl;dr Are you and the customer focusing on measuring the right results?
Search Engine Land had a post on this in the past week at http://searchengineland.com/stupid-short-url-tricks-content-swapping-qr-codes-mobile-microsites-more-92867 that should help, too.
JohnMu, a Google employee, answered this on the Google help forums last month.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=74fb248959989911&hl=en
I wouldn't worry too much about the "priority" values. If you're able to generate them based on useful information from your website, then it's a good idea to do that. If you can't automatically generate them and have too many pages to set the values manually, then it's fine to submit the Sitemap file without "priority" information. The "priority" value gives us a bit more information about your site, but changing values here generally won't lead to visible changes in crawling, indexing, or ranking overall.
That should be an interesting test. I hope you can share the results with us here or on YouMoz, if you're comfortable with that.
A comment about the spyonweb site. It's to be taken as a signal, but not gospel truth. At one point, there was some common factor relating all of those sites together, but it may not be the case now. On one of my old sites, I also see other sites with the same beginning string in GA. I haven't worked on those sites in five years and don't have access to them or the GA code anymore, though at one point I did.
No. I wouldn't trust the toolbar page rank, or figure Google would catch up with them soon enough and devalue those links. The rug site especially shows no signs that it was made by humans or for humans. That site has over 20,000 non-unique articles that are generated by a keyword search. This post from today http://www.area-rug-news.com/2011/09/25/what-is-the-best-way-in-carpet-cleaning/ turns up a couple of thousand similar results in google.
The home rental site shares a Google Analytics account code with a porn site, and with several of the sites its linking too. Google can tell all of that real easy (see http://spyonweb.com/denvercohomerentals.com).
I would not go for the link.
For those two sites? I would pass. Take a look at this page on the Denver Home Rentals site. It's for House, Season Four. http://www.denvercohomerentals.com/denver-rental-property/house-m-d-season-four. If you were Google, would you trust a site like this? Would you think it should pass good karma and link juice to you? It looks like a lot of stuff generated based off of keywords trying to get affiliate sales, and hardly seems relevant to even itself, much less a health training site.
Both of those sites have the same off-topic sitewide links. I wouldn't want my site grouped with that type of neighborhood, personally.
Not all sitewide links are bad, but I'd not opt to have my site on any sites in that network.
You might also check out Rand's recent post about how OSE works for some more general information.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/linkscape-september-update-feedback
Hi Scott,
I'm going through older questions. Did you ever find a tool to do what you wanted to do here?
Was this the list of possible reasons you looked at? http://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/409821-why-isn-t-my-site-being-crawled-you-only-crawled-one-page If not, that may offer some advice. Are you still having this problem, or did you figure it out?
