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I would try and stay clear of doing this to be honest. It won't validate, older browsers may have problems with it and I'm not sure how search engines would treat it (they may not follow it). There are better ways to do it.
If you set your anchor tag to 'display:block' you can then set the height and width too. This way the whole div would be the link, not just the text.
Purely from a link profile point of view (I haven't looked at the quality of either sites onsite optimisation) I would say that their link profile is of a much higher quality than yours.
Their MozRank is much higher than yours (remember that this is a log scale). You have 4 times more external links than they do, 10 times more total linking root domains, 7 times more C blocks. Despite this they still out rank you in MozRank and MozTrust. This probably indicates that their link profile consists of high quality links from trusted websites while your links are of a much lesser quality (could even be considered spammy).
I think you need to focus on obtaining high quality links from quality websites. This is just a suggestion from quickly looking at the link metrics, you should do some in depth comparisons of the links going in to both sites. I hope this helps.
There are no links to this site. I also had a quick look at ahrefs.com and there are zero links (also searched for with and without www). If you've only submitted to a few directories then it's possible they weren't approved.
I would also recommend moving hosts. Shared hosting is so cheap these days, If you look around you can find decent hosts who are much quicker than GoDaddy and are still very well priced (I don't use WordPress though so don't have any recommendations for you).
Hi Jay,
The two will be viewed as entirely different pages. You will need to 301 redirect all .html pages to the .php version.
My opinion is that freelancer.com is not a good place to find quality SEO services. The problem is that developers are competing against low cost workers in places like India which is forcing everyone to drive their prices down and the end result is that the quality of work delivered suffers too. Everyone is trying to turn a quick profit by doing as little as possible.
I would agree with the above comments, this is not a quality SEO package as it is mostly based on strategies that used to work but have drastically been devalued by search engines recently (do some research on Google Penguin for instance) and is more likely to get your website penalised in future. I have sadly had the experience of trying to recover from these penalties and trust me when I say it's not something you want to go through.
Why do these guys have great reviews? it could be a number of reasons. As mentioned already the reviews are not all genuine. Another major reason is that the majority of the users buying SEO services do not understand that what they bought was low quality! They see the work has been delivered quickly and are happy and offer a good review, they may even have an initial improvement in rankings. What the review may not tell you is that they picked up a penalty months down the line when the work is paid for and Google has caught on (it's happened to me).
What would I recommend The sad truth is that today when buying SEO services you need to become fairly SEO savvy yourself because there are still far too many black hat SEO's trying to make quick money who will offer you these services. Spend time on this forum, read the articles and become familiar with which tactics are future proof and which tactics are now considered black hat and dangerous. This way to can judge for yourself if a proposal is offering you value. Try find a local agency or freelancer who you can talk to easily or meet in person rather than someone who will do quick work and then you will never be able to contact again. Link building is an expensive game now because there is no quick, safe and easy way to get results any more! If you have a low budget then go after one quality link pre month rather than 100's of rubbish links. You need to find the right people who have the skills to get your content in front of the right people in your industry and build natural links.
It's probably not what you wanted to hear but hope that helps in some way.
Click on Content then Content DrillDown then select the page you want to see the keywords for. Near the right, bottom side of the page there is a link that says Entrance Keywords. Make sure to apply the filter that says non-paid
If you are referring to the latest OpenSiteExplorer index then have a look here:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/july-mozscape-update
Annoyingly the latest index is about half the size of the one before it so this could explain the loss in links. They say if you had a large amount of lower quality links you could see a big difference in total links as many of these are not indexed anymore.
Yes, the resource is still correct. The 302 will pass none of the link juice, changing to a 301 will pass most of the link juice (90%+).
The product 1 image doesn't seem to exist. Are you sure you don't have it cached in some browsers? Follow this link and press F5 to see if it loads - it doesn't for me.
http://www.just-insulation.com/007-graphics/popular/01-prod.png
HI,
If you can provide your URL then I can check the redirects for you, or you can try the 3 url's using this tool
http://www.internetofficer.com/seo-tool/redirect-check/
It sounds like the 301 hasn't been implemented correctly as SEOMoz should pick that up.
No you should not.
When the nofollow tag first came out you could "sculpt" page rank by saying which pages you can pass it on to, this is no longer the case. Google made a change a few years back to stop people from doing this. An example would be:
When nofollow first came out: If you page had 10 links on it, each link would pass on 1 point of page rank (PR). If you nofollowed 5 of these links then each link without the nofollow tag would then pass on 2 points.
They changed this (I think in 2009) to : If you had 10 links on a page and 5 were nofollowed each link would still only pass on 1 PR point. The remaining 5 points essentially disappear into thin air.
So by adding nofollow to internal pages you are wasting your PR, rather let it be passed on to your less important pages which will return a certain amount back to the top level if you linking structure is correct. Only use nofollow for external links which you don't want to pass on PR to e.g. If it could be considered a bad neighbourhood etc. This may not be 100% how it works but the basic concept is correct, there are extensive explanations of this on Matt Cutts blog.
These errors don't affect you negatively at all, it's more for you to find errors in your site. Follow Alan's advice by looking at the 'links' data and fix the one's that are caused by any coding problems in your site. You will always get a certain amount of bad links coming from external sources, you can either just leave them or if you are finding many links to the same 404 page you can actually recapture that link juice by 301 redirecting them to a relevant page on your site.
The PR flowing through will be divided by the total number of links on the page (not necessarily equally), regardless of whether they are internal or external. I have seen various articles suggesting that maybe external links "could" receive more worth than the internal ones but it's hard to be sure. I can say that the 3 links would not get a third of the total PR in your example, the internal links would dilute it.
If the page simply exists on your site but is not in the navigation and has no backlinks to it then the chances are slim that you will rank well enough to drive a decent amount of traffic.
This strategy can work but you will also need to add these pages to your link building campaign to raise their authority.
Hi,
We are planning to host videos on our site for the first time. It looks like YouTube is a bit too over focused on ads these days for commercial use, can anyone recommend any better video hosting services?
I also realize that hosting somewhere like YouTube has little SEO benefit, am I better off hosting them on our site if possible?
Please share your experiences with the various services and methods of hosting.
Thanks
Will that return a 301 header though? Shouldn't it include "R=301"?
I think many people have misinterpreted this article. They say that they have changed the way they categorise links in Webmaster Tools, it does not mention any change in the algorithm. Many comments on the article asked for clarification on this and here is the response:
"Re: all the search algorithm- and ranking-related questions: This update only changes how links are displayed in Webmaster Tools. It doesn't affect how links are valued in relation to the search algorithm or ranking. It has nothing to do with Panda, nothing to do with keywords, nothing to do with PageRank."
So you should still leak a bit of link juice from a 301.
I've recently undertaken the same task and I decided to make a decision based on the quality of the directory. If you currently have a low amount of back links with your brand/domain in them then changing the anchor text on some of the links will definitely help you build a more natural and strongly branded profile.
Install a page rank toolbar if you don't have one already and check the PR on the home page of each directory. If it comes up as 0 then rather just remove the link (if possible) as it's either a low quality directory to begin with or it's been totally devalued by Google.
You'll need to post the URL of your website for us to give you a definite answer. Try browsing to your website then right click and select 'view source'. if you can't see the links in the source code then crawlers can't see them either.
Sometimes menus are built badly with JavaScript, you will probably need to ask your developers to change your menu.
Agreed 100%, don't nofollow internal links, let your PR flow normally.
You don't, your IP address may be recorded by the site you have submitted the link to but not by Google.
However, if you are using proxies then you are probably doing something questionable in the first place and there is a chance you will get into trouble anyway. Especially if you are creating 200 links per day, they will notice this as it wouldn't look natural. It sounds like you may need to focus on a more natural link building strategy if you want your site to stay in the SERPS long term.
Hi Maria,
I've just had a very brief look and it seems that the menu is quite reliant on JavaScript (try disabling Javascript and you will see that you can't access most of your pages). Crawlers do not use JavaScript so this could be a problem.
The ideal way to do this sort of thing is by showing and hiding menus with CSS, not JavaScript. I can have a better look and provide you with more info tomorrow if you need it.
It's just a notice telling you that a canonical tag _has _been implemented, it's not an error or warning.
I would be very concerned with this strategy. If they are building 40 links per day then these are almost certainly going to be low quality and artificial looking links. The anchor text of a link is not the only way that Google judges if a link is artificial or not. You could be digging yourself into a much bigger hole. I also think the general consensus is that branding should be higher than 50%, maybe around the 70% - 80% mark.
Personally I would focus on obtaining some high quality, authoritative links and at the same time try to remove as many of the spam links as possible.
Hi,
It would depend on the authority of the existing site, the more authoritative and important the site is perceived to be the quicker Google would crawl your new pages and update it's index. It could take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. You could check your Webmaster Tools to get an idea of the average crawl rate for your site.
The problem is that you lose all previous authority to your existing URL's as any inbound links that arrive at a 404 do not pass link value into your site. You would also have a negative customer experience for anyone following an external link and arriving on a 404 page.
Hi Andrew,
Are you referring to the rel=canonical under the notices section? If so then this is not a problem, it's just showing that there are canonical tags implemented for these pages. You don't need to change anything.
Lynn posted a link where lit looks like you are losing links but have a look at this version:
https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/overview/subdomains/www.ppp.net.nz
It looks like your SEO is building links to www.ppp.net.nz instead of ppp.net.nz and the link acquisition rate shown above is definitely going to look unnatural.
Low quality links are not worth the hassle. if you are building 40 a day that is most likely going to end up in links that you have to try remove in the future which is much, much harder work. I've spent months cleaning up a link profile before Google lifted the penalty.
They are probably referring to the office application macros which are scripts that run inside word documents, excel spreadsheet etc. If this is the case then the language you would need to learn is VBA, there are tons of tutorials online you can search for.
As goodlegaladvice suggested, this is probably for creating reports and analytical data etc. If this is the most important thing that they are doing then I would ask for a more detailed explanation of their work!
No problem Andrew.
It depends where in the basket area they are. Keep in mind that the search engines won't submit forms or get into any secure areas so those pages would not be worth changing.
No this isn't a problem because all the www requests for your site are being correctly 301 redirected to the non www version. But all the links being built for the www version will also count for the non www version.
Thanks!
It relates to elements that are floated. Options are left, right, both or none. So if you have "clear:left" then this element can not have any floated elements to it's left and would therefore be bumped to the next line.
Have you tried the telephone number listed in Whois?
Vicente, Francisco fco.vicente.oc@gmail.com
NA
20 de Noviembre
Mexico, Mexico 12365
Mexico
+52.55516489
The new synonym pages are not ranking anywhere significant for their exact synonym - it is the primary synonym page ranking for them.
To me this would be proof that they are seeing the synonym pages as duplicate so you may be better focusing on one page per keyword. Although if these pages are only a week old they could take more time to get picked up. As Ryan mentioned, changes need time to settle in properly, you won't see final results in a week.
As you mention in point 3 you are definitely going to decrease the strength of each location if it has to share link juice between 8 similar pages, so you are making it harder for them to rank well.
I agree with Mike, this is the article I was going to point you towards.
So in summary: You can stop yourself from passing page rank to another site by adding a nofollow but you cannot save yourself from losing link juice by adding nofollow. This has been the case for several years already (If you go on what Google is saying).
Is your website www.gmrtranscription.com?
If yes then it's very possible you have been hit by one of the recent updates which target over optimised backlink profiles. You have over 800 links with the exact anchor text "transcription services", which your most linked term, many of these are also sitewide. These links do not look natural to search engines and I would recommend that you try and get them changed.
A natural link profile would mostly contain your brand name or url and then have a wide variety of other terms. I think you need to try to address this balance.
If done carefully you may not see much (or any) drop in traffic. I've recently restructured the entire URL structure of a website and saw no drop in traffic or rankings. This was also on a Microsoft Server and I used this software for the URL rewriting - http://www.isapirewrite.com/
As long as all your 301 redirects are configured correctly (test thoroughly in your test environment before going live) the transition from the old URL's to the new URL's should be pretty seemless. It would be a good idea to submit a new sitemap shortly after the changes have been made to let the search engines know what your doing.
Thanks Greg.
Sangeeta, At the moment these are your top anchor text terms:
As mentioned already though, many of these are sitewide so you should be able to address the percentages fairly easily by contacting some of these sites and asking for the links to be changed.
I think they only pay attention to the anchor text of the first link, this would stop people from stuffing multiple links to the same page each targeting a different term. So if you have a few text links to the same page make sure the first one contains your primary key phrase.
Nofollowing the rest of the links wouldn't have any positive effect. The total link juice a page can pass on is divided by the total number of links on the page (regardless of follow or nofollow). In fact it can have a slightly negative effect as the juice from the nofollow links essentially evaporates instead of being passed to other pages on your site. Here is an article on how this works.
Did you read through all the comments? There is a lot of useful information in there. Here is another article by Rand shortly after the update that describes how this will affect websites:
Here's a simplified example: Say you have a page with 10 links on it, this page is essentially passing on 10 points of Page Rank (PR) to other pages on your site. If you nofollow 3 of the links you are only passing on 7 points to the rest of your site, the remaining 3 points evaporate. If you have 500 pages on your site and you nofollow just 3 links on each page then how much of your PR are you wasting in total?
This is why Matt recommends that you let your PR flow freely through your site. PR sculpting using this strategy used to work before they made this change in 2009.
Of course this is still down to interpretation and how much you believe what Google says, obviously they don't give away too many secrets. This question gets asked in this forum every week and I would say the vast majority of the SEO experts here advise against this practice.
I hope that helps
