It is quite common. You're safe till you're not caught.

David Liu is right, Google still not have any such mechanism which can instantly identify the bad or good. But what I don't agree with is "obeying the mantra 'build great content and they will come' will take you a long time to get where they are, if it ever does get you there"

Start targeting the top notch blogs in your industry to get referral links and recommendation, and it won't take much time to take you to get where your competitor is. Make sure the content you share bring some value to the blog force readers to share it with their social/ personal network.

My website is Adcart.com, we were no where, some 3 months back, in Google search results. But now you can enter any keyword, which comes to your mind by looking at our website and we rank in first 15 results and in top 10 for almost 90% queries. We just published in 13 high quality articles in exceptionally high quality blogs to achieve these results.

If you don't use hreflang="x-default" there can be some potential search issues:

1. Searchers of a particular language/region aren't shown a URL tailored to them when one exists.
Google might show:
www.example.com/en-us/product-item (in Google UK - searcher was searching for example product item)

2. Search results might disply two similar URLs from yoru site, confusin users

3. Search engine might not be aware of all language variations

However, if the main index page (www.example.com) doesn't exist and has been 301 redirected to en-us then you can keep en-us as your default page and use .

Or, if you've have a URL that doesn't consistently serves content in one language - perhaps it redirects to different language pages based on the user's IP, or it dynamically serves different language content on the same page, or it's a page which only asks the user to select their preferred home page then your hreflang value can be x-default. x-default signals to search engines that the URL's language is broad, rather then specific

Hreflang doesn't harm in any which way even if you're using proper redirects

Firs off don't don't build links for same keyword (if you're).

Second, if these links have not been crawled by Google for last 15 days, then they are not at all quality links. Though, as Erwan mentioned do check for those backlink Google Webmaster Tools, MOZ to see they these tools are able to crawl them or not. If They're also not able to crawl them then those links are of no value.

Business profile listing is nothing but listing your business in business directories, like:

crunchbase.com

bing.com/businessportal

getlisted.org and many more

And yes, you can submit your business (offline/online) in any of these directories but you should prefer only domain related directories, as you would get better results from there.

Page Rank really doesn't matter as long as the website/directory is authentic, relevant and is of high quality.

As far as the advantages are concerned so you get good referral traffic, in some cases back link as well, it also helps you to get some good reviews as most of such directories provide their customers/visitors with a functionality to vote or review any business which they have used or like. So you build a positive image among the customers and in the eyes of search engines as well.

It would certainly not have any impact on the existing rankings and crawl rate. infact the crawl rate would improve

Well to answer you question. Yes, you should always use xml sitemap also submit it with search engines. It helps search engines to access all the pages of your websites. If fact you can even tell search engines about your most important and less important pages.

It also enables you to tell Search Engines about the content update frequency so that search engine could crawl those again which you update daily/ weekly.

Furthermore, there is no problem if you update the XML file daily as long as you're not removing pages. However, if you need to remove pages, keep them in sitemap for at least one week and redirect old pages to new ones.

Hope I was able to understand your question and answered properly

heya

I read the whole post but couldn't find a single point which says that "This strategy died years ago"

Even matt uses nofollow for RSS/Atom to not pass PageRank and showing RSS/Atom in SERPs

I am really interested in knowing if it has really died. please guys provide some more credible and straight posts/information.

1. As long as the content is genuine and you/ your visitors feel that those tabs are required along with some text, google is okay with that.

2. Make sure, those links are genuine links, google is smart enough to track down any malpractice, but if the no. is bit low that don't worry, Matt has just said that it is okay to have a few bad links. Refer: http://t.co/rhV6DjzQ

You should always try to not to get into any such activity appears to be fishy or you make some deliberate efforts to increase you back link count.

But if you're developing the links in this fashion, then chances are quite bleak that you would not be caught.

out of 100% links:- 20% are no-follow, 20% are developed with your brand name as a anchor text. and rest 60% divided with different anchor text.

Firs off don't don't build links for same keyword (if you're).

Second, if these links have not been crawled by Google for last 15 days, then they are not at all quality links. Though, as Erwan mentioned do check for those backlink Google Webmaster Tools, MOZ to see they these tools are able to crawl them or not. If They're also not able to crawl them then those links are of no value.

It is quite common. You're safe till you're not caught.

David Liu is right, Google still not have any such mechanism which can instantly identify the bad or good. But what I don't agree with is "obeying the mantra 'build great content and they will come' will take you a long time to get where they are, if it ever does get you there"

Start targeting the top notch blogs in your industry to get referral links and recommendation, and it won't take much time to take you to get where your competitor is. Make sure the content you share bring some value to the blog force readers to share it with their social/ personal network.

My website is Adcart.com, we were no where, some 3 months back, in Google search results. But now you can enter any keyword, which comes to your mind by looking at our website and we rank in first 15 results and in top 10 for almost 90% queries. We just published in 13 high quality articles in exceptionally high quality blogs to achieve these results.

Business profile listing is nothing but listing your business in business directories, like:

crunchbase.com

bing.com/businessportal

getlisted.org and many more

And yes, you can submit your business (offline/online) in any of these directories but you should prefer only domain related directories, as you would get better results from there.

Page Rank really doesn't matter as long as the website/directory is authentic, relevant and is of high quality.

As far as the advantages are concerned so you get good referral traffic, in some cases back link as well, it also helps you to get some good reviews as most of such directories provide their customers/visitors with a functionality to vote or review any business which they have used or like. So you build a positive image among the customers and in the eyes of search engines as well.

1. As long as the content is genuine and you/ your visitors feel that those tabs are required along with some text, google is okay with that.

2. Make sure, those links are genuine links, google is smart enough to track down any malpractice, but if the no. is bit low that don't worry, Matt has just said that it is okay to have a few bad links. Refer: http://t.co/rhV6DjzQ

You should always try to not to get into any such activity appears to be fishy or you make some deliberate efforts to increase you back link count.

But if you're developing the links in this fashion, then chances are quite bleak that you would not be caught.

out of 100% links:- 20% are no-follow, 20% are developed with your brand name as a anchor text. and rest 60% divided with different anchor text.

heya

I read the whole post but couldn't find a single point which says that "This strategy died years ago"

Even matt uses nofollow for RSS/Atom to not pass PageRank and showing RSS/Atom in SERPs

I am really interested in knowing if it has really died. please guys provide some more credible and straight posts/information.