I'd either use a plugin or RSS feed from the current blog for the new site. If the content is good enough you want to be passing as much PA to the new page. An external blog with inbound anchor text can be misconstrued as link manipulation (or link wheeling ). I'd only bother with external if you use it for co-citation and/or diversifying your anchor text.
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Posts made by Martin_Harris
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RE: What is better for SEO, keeping a current blog or creating a new one?
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RE: Google changing title tags to branded
Is it branded or non branded search terms you're using in the SERPs? Google has a habit of changing branded meta titles when it see's fit.
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RE: Wordpress & trailing slash on domain name
Does www.domain.co.uk redirect to www.domain.co.uk/ or are they treated as separate pages?
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RE: Wordpress & trailing slash on domain name
Are you on self hosted Wordpress or wordpress.com? Usually on self hosted you can edit the URL under general options.
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RE: How to use a large budget
15K pm... media or media & management? If it is just Media it seems bizarre they would spend that much on SEO, when they could hire a top PR/Copy writing agency for a lot less.
I digress.
- Paid online publications
- Viral competition promotion
- Invest in the latest tracking/technology resources
- Content, Content, Content (Info-graphics, Written Content, Video, Photos ect)
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HTTPS on OSE
Just wondering if any of the Moz team can give us a heads up when open site explorer will support HTTPS?
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RE: Old URL showing up in SERPs 4 months after Re-direct
A few people have mentioned a refresh, supposed i'll have to wait and see.
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RE: Authorship and Publisher on WordPress
Are you using a plug in?
I'd try: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cool-author-box/
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Old URL showing up in SERPs 4 months after Re-direct
Hi guys,
I did a full site redirect back in October to a new URL, SERPS eventually changed to the new URL and everything was fine.
However recently i have started to see the old URL showing up?
Anyone else seeing this?
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RE: "ghost" links on opensite explorer
No OSE isn't being crazy, My guess would be lazy link building. Check your SERPs results and see if you have dropped in any keyword positions.
If you have, use the Disavow tool on webmaster tools to get rid of any crappy links.
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RE: Digital Strategy For CPA (That Targets CPA's)
If they have local stores around the states, i'd attempt Local listing SEO. Accountancy ( despite your prospective client being national) is still a hands on profession, which is why geographical targeting would be ideal.
I'd look into PPC also for the same reason.
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RE: Help on blog topics for my niche
No worries Shaun.
If you can get a debate going between industry heads and influences, you could quite easily generate national PR.
Flooding is hot topic in the UK media atm, i'd exploit it while you can.
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RE: Help on blog topics for my niche
Lots of things you can do, normally when i'm struggling for content i'll merge current events with an industry spin.
For Example:
UTXs and trackside drainage.
Find a latest news article about the recent flooding that is/was affecting transport and refer the link around the industry (email, social media ect) get people opinion (you could possibly get a guest blogger or get a industry head quote) a good piece of content could lead to inquiries.
other suggestions would be:
- Product History
- Advancing technologies
- Company snippets (target, sales, charity ect)
- Sales targeted blog
- facts and facets
- Top ten lists ect
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RE: A good META title for a front page....
I think when it comes to branding you have access your business aims, industry, current keyword performance and competition.
A lot of people will drop it in the meta title and say "its for branding" without understanding what the impact will be.
Ask yourself would having my brand name in the meta title encourage a branded search the second time round?
How well do people know my brand?
Would i generate more sales from a higher search position because of a shorter Meta title tale?
Unless you are dealing with a national retailer, I'd focus on high traffic keywords for the homepage and then optimize the rest of your keyword targets through better landing pages.
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RE: Can anyone explain these crazy SERPS?
Looks like he's using multiple keyword relevant URL's to pass link juice to Purplepayday.com.
I'd assume the domains that are ranking highly are relatively new, as normally 301 redirects disappear from the SERPS after a short while.
As to why they are currently ranking highly? i'd just put that down to keyword relevant URL's followed by .co.uk addresses.
If he is doing this for more than 7 sites, i'd guess it won't be long until Google red flags the site.
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RE: Title Tag: Phrases vs. Keywords Separated by "|"
I'm a fan of piping, from personal experience CTR have been higher from dashes or commas. Which one is best, well according to Matt Cutts it's neither:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2_7PTio3Qc
As he suggest, it's trial and error. See what works best for you.
In terms of keywords, i'd try and keep it to two keyword phrases, use Wordtracker or Google's keyword tool to see what is getting the most traffic and split between.
Remember the value of each keyword is diluted the longer the meta title gets, as Ryan Kent suggest, focus on one or two, depending on if you want branding in the Meta title.
My rule of thumb is:
Just keywords:
"Keyword phrase 1" | "Keyword Phrase 2"
Keywords and Brand:
"Keyword phrase 1" | "Brand Name"
Hope this helps
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RE: Attribution Modeling with Offline Variables
Hi Jess,
Has your site visitors increased since you started the online campaign? Take the average increase in offline sales pre-campaign over the average increase in offline sales post campaign. This should give you a rough estimate.
If you want more accurate conversion tracking, Use your sales team to collate data where the referral came, this can be done post sale over the phone or direct mail questionnaire posted with the product.
Hope this helps.
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RE: Ranking report not accurate
Hi Charlotte
First of all make sure you are not signed in, even with incognito on it will still bring up personalized results.
Personally, I tend not to use SEOmoz for rank tracking as they tend to be slightly off (something that i think they are working on), for full SERPs reports i'd use Ravens Tools or do it manually.
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RE: Does spinning content work any longer?
Keri,
Of course, that level of copy-writing, should be penalized, especially if they are that lazy to create an article that doesn't make sense.
I'm talking about top quality spinning. Something that Journalist and PR Specialist do, day in, day out. In fact, the majority of the news stories written today would of been reworded from another source. How else can news spread across outlets if it is all seen as related/duplicate content?
If i get 5 stories, take a piece from each story and reword it and add my opinion, at what point does Google see this as spun content?
It can't. Otherwise the majority if not all of the blogosphere would be seen as duplicate.I wouldn't even class this as grey hat. Just unoriginal topics with a differing opinion.
Thomas
A single blog on my own servers, used a "fashion news" related site, with the occasional client anchor text dropped it, it has active social presence with many followers and ranks highly.
Manipulation of semi grey hat methods is needed for smaller clients. It is this stepping stone that creates traffic and leads to more organic methods in the future.
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RE: What is the best way to share good content (and help myself in the process)
I find social outreach is the best plan of action for back links. I usually find a good article (usually from an author with active social presence) , copy the best paragraph from said article and then do a write up quoting from that article. Once written, then tweet, post (google +, Facebook, ect) the author. Saying you have done write up on them and to come check you out. Build a relationship and hopefully you will get linkin return.
Rand and Ruth Burr have done some good videos on the topic:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/using-twitter-for-link-relationships-whiteboard-friday
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-separates-a-good-outreach-email-from-a-great-one-whiteboard-friday
Hope this helps.
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RE: Does spinning content work any longer?
I spin content on a daily basis and haven't noticed any sufficient drops as a byproduct. I think if you do it right it shouldn't be an issue. Just make sure you change the title, sentence structure, paragraph structure, anchor text and outbound links.
Also how often does the specific site/blog link to the page your trying to rank for? The beauty of having 10-15 clients is that when it comes to blog spinning each article, the anchor text is diverse to the previous 10 blog posts already posted.
Mix things up and make the content unique and you shouldn't have an issue.
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RE: Site Wide Title Tag Discussion
I think by most SEO standards, people would suggest diversifying your keywords as much as possible.
However, I have multiple sites that in order to stay targeted, I have to use the same high traffic keyword, hundreds of time throughout the site.
I've had very positive results when dropping in the keyword, in every meta title (including product pages) and adding any additional keywords in the long tail. (the majority, if not all page 1)
I thinks as long as you mix things up for the rest of title it shouldn't be an issue.
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RE: Http://domainame/brooklyn or http://domainame/brooklyn.html; is there a difference?
Yes, as Paul has suggested any additional characters in the URL will be seen by Google as a separate page. If it's identical home page content you could see canonicalisation issues and as you have already suggested, a 301 re-direct/ rel canonical would be the best practice.
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RE: Does PPC Help your Organic Placement?
As Keri has suggested, no.
There has been a study however to suggest that including a PPC ad next natural SERPs results increases search trust and as a byproduct improves CTR for your organic listing.
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RE: Does anybody do directory submissions anymore?
For fledgling sites i always start with directory submission, the best practice is to get listed in local directories or niche-specific directories that can send highly targeted traffic to your website. (all of which you find in that list)
I personally don't bother for already established sites.
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RE: Google changing the meta title for the homepage causing branding issues
Thanks Ankit,
The site has been re branded for a months now and has had "Ross X Bute" backlinks and anchor text for some time.
The "Ross & Bute" title however has only popped up the last couple of days.
Is it just a case of doing more of the above and sitting it out or is there more of a quick fix i could exploit?
Cheers
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Google changing the meta title for the homepage causing branding issues
A client of mine." Ross X Bute" current meta title is "Luxury designer clothing | Womens designer clothing" for the homepage.
If i search for luxury designer clothing it will show the full meta title for the homepage.
however if i search for the brand name.... "Ross & Bute" will show instead of the meta title.
Whats the problem?
Well my client a few month ago has decided to re brand the business to have a "X" to show instead of the "And".
The rest of the site is branded with an "X" rather than "And"
The URL www.rossandbute.com, so you can understand where google is getting this assumption from.
Is there anyway to change this so it reads the the meta title in the SERPs?
Thanks
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RE: Why has my keyword dropped and risen so much in only 7 days?
I also have notices sporadic jumps in search traffic, not just daily but hourly. One keyword keeps going back and forth 3-5 search position.
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RE: Sub domain will not index - Next plan of action?
Thanks for the prompt response....
Backlinks* Inbound*
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Sub domain will not index - Next plan of action?
I'm not sure exactly what option i should take next. but i'll run you through a few points:
- The page is optimized to a rank "A"
- The page has 350 backlinks*
- a strong social presence
- Interlinking pages.
- High domain authority
- an OK page authority
- The domain ranks highly
- Every other sub domain rank highly.
I make a search and the first page that ranks for this domain is a product page within the exact sub domain i'm trying to rank for, followed by some external blogs I've written and then the rest of the product pages.
I've submitted the URL to web master tools twice and yet it still will not rank for that keyword.
The only time i see the page index is if i copy the exact URL into Google.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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RE: Can I get Google to re-evaluate my comany's website?
Yes, go into webmaster tools, fetch and submit your URL's. When you submit a URL in this way Googlebot will crawl the URL, usually within a day and then consider it for inclusion in its index.
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RE: Using "Read More" buttons as a tool to cram in Content
I was literally about to post the same question, I've seen a fair few competitor sties doing this, not wanting to taint the design of the page, so they just add a keyword stuffed doc with <--more--> tag in the footer.
Black, grey or white on this one? I have a client that has insisted on design block heavy site which makes it very difficult to optimize for.....adding something like this could be very useful.
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Product pages optimization impact on sub level domains.
How great of an impact will the optimization of product pages have an impact on a sub level domains?