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Hi Matthew

I wouldn't have thought it would cause any problems as long as it was true.

If you can truthfully claim to be the 'best' or 'No1' in your business market its worth double checking that there are keywords based around this for your brand/business before changing your title tag.

Hope that helps.

Hi Juan

From what I have read most directory sites, outside the likes of Yahoo, are actually link farms in disguise. Google is targeting these websites and you will receive no benefit from the transfer of link juice. You are far better off spending time creating strong links with relevant sites and share-able content that will provide great information for your visitors.

Rhea has created a great webinar on the subject of link building that would be worth watching http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/link-smarter-not-harder

Hi Hayley

I'm not sure if this is of any help:

http://nagranowrimo.tumblr.com/post/44185866832/day27webcomichosting

or this one

http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/image-hosting-websites

Have you thought about putting it into a Powerpoint and hosting it through Slideshare?

Hope you are able to find the right place for the comic - it sounds like a really interesting idea!

Hello,

It doesn't matter what keyword I put into Google (when I'm not signed in and have cleaned down my browsing history) the contact us page ranks higher than the home page.

I'm not sure why this is, the home page has a higher page authority, more links and more social media shares, the website is an established one. When I have checked Google Analytics my home page gets more people landing on it than the contact us page. It looks like people are ignoring the contact us page and scrolling down until they find the home page.

I'd appreciate any help or advice you might have.

Thank you.

Hi

SEO MOZ have a great explanation of what Anchor Text is http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/anchor-text

They also have a great explanation for keywords http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/keyword-research

In short it is best to use your keywords within your anchor text rather than generic words such as click here. The search engines will see your keywords within your anchor text and will understand more about the areas your business is targeting. e.g using your example of black German shoes, if you had this phrase in your anchor text search engines would understand that you were a company selling shoes. Simply having 'click here' wouldn't tell the search engines anything about what your business was selling.

Hope that helps.

Hello,

I have been doing some research this morning and have come across Scrapebox, does anybody use them? What do people think of the comment poster?

Thank you.

Hi

I was reading this article the other day http://moz.com/blog/tips-to-use-google-for-seo which talks about how Google + can help SEO. I have also read in another blog post that if you place a link to your website within a status update and then your post is reposted by someone else on Google + that this is counted as a link by Google and can affect your Page Rank.

It might be that the majority of the page rank that the website did have was from using these kind of tips and from links from within their Google + status updates being re-tweeted and when their Google + Account was suspended then all of the page rank stopped being passed to their website?

Hope that helps.

Hi

Hope that you are well.

Single words are really hard to win especially ones as highly competitive as these.

By creating really great content within these pages that contain your keywords and writing your keywords within your title's/urls/alt tags you will be strengthening these pages. By having other pages within your website that contain links to these pages that have content relevant to seo and web design you will further strengthen these pages.

SEO MOZ have this great blog post as well that should help you http://www.seomoz.org/blog/perfecting-keyword-targeting-on-page-optimization

You will have to be careful to ensure that your site isn't overly optimized and you have a strong link profile attached to your website. Try Rhea Drysdale's webinar - I found it really useful. http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/link-smarter-not-harder

Hope that is of some help.

If it is purely from an SEO point of view then I think that I would avoid doing the micro sites, I think that you would get penalized from search engines.

I agree with Tom if you are putting all that work in that they are suggesting then why not just put that amount of work into your main website/blog/social media? That way you are unlikely to suffer any negative affects and will receive long term benefit in terms of content production, traffic and social media shares?

Hope that it all works out well for you.

Have a great weekend.

Hi

I have just been reading this article:

http://www.google.com/ads/innovations/ratings.html

within the page it says this:

If your online store is rated in Google Product Search, you have four or more stars, and you have at least 30 reviews, you'll automatically get seller ratings with your ads.

It might be that the reason why the rest of your review are not showing is because they are less than four stars?

Hope that helps

Hi Juan

It is worth taking the time to treat the pages as separate. The search terms can change from country to country and may mean that you are optimizing for a term that is not searched for in the English speaking country's that you are targeting. Have a look and see what your competitors are doing, this should give you a good starting point.

As you say it would be important to ensure that you did the link building differently for each website. English language websites pointing to the English page and Spanish websites to the Spanish pages.

Are you able to host the pages in different locations? If you could it would be worth doing so, you will find that this has a positive affect on the SEO.

You can also change the country that you are trying to target within Webmaster tools. (Sorry to write this if you know that already)

Hope that helps

Hi Chris

I hope you are well.

It's not something I have heard of before, I have managed to find this explanation http://digitalmarketing-glossary.com/What-is-Drip-feed-blast-in-SEO-definition

I'd stay well away from it if anyone has advised you to do this for your website as I think that you would get punished by Google for a practice such as this.

Hi

We do both in house SEO training as well as SEO consulting. We have found that SEO training is a great way for people to learn more about us as a company and then we can introduce the other services that we have to offer as well.

When people choose to have the SEO training over us completing the SEO they then understand the work that is involved, this can then lead them to changing their minds and wanting us to complete the SEO.

I would embrace the opportunity of being able to offer either training or consulting to your client. Either way if they are a happy client they will talk to other people about you and your company and this may then lead to other bigger clients.

I hope that helps.

Hi

I guess it would depend on what the product is and what the article is about, I think the best way is to think like a customer. How would you see your customer using the blog? What would they be interested in reading about?

Using your example of the running shoes and the best athlete blogs article, I think it would work really well if you included in the article a picture of each athlete and then a link beneath the image to the page within your e-commerce website that has the pair of running shoes on that they are wearing.

That way you get an interesting opinion piece article that will encourage discussion as well as a link to your e-commerce website and different products within it. Hopefully this way people are less likely just to read the article and leave; instead they will have a look and see what type of shoes their favorite athlete wears. (and then hopefully buy them as well!)

Hope that helps

Hi

I'm not sure if this is what you are after, if you go to analytics and then Goals - Overview - there is a box on the main part of the page that says 'Goal Completions' which I have been using as the total number of Goals. All you then need to do is change the date range at the top of analytics to see the cumulative total over any given period of time.

Hope that helps.

Hi Seda

I have just been doing some research on the passing of link juice from Twitter this morning and came across this article online. http://abertram.com/t-co-no-longer-passing-link-juice/ I have also read that Facebook links have 'no follows' attached to them.

Twitter/Facebook etc are really great for passing traffic to your website. With Opensite explorer showing how many facebook shares, Google +1 button etc then it would be important to keep encouraging genuine customers/clients to share and like the content that you provide on your website.

I would have thought that as long as the links were genuinely created by real Facebook/Twitter users then I wouldn't have thought that the links from Social Media would be a problem (as far as any Penguin penalties went). Any drop in search rankings is more likely to be because of links from websites that Google considers from bad neighbourhoods/link farms etc.

I hope that helps with some of your questions.

Hi David,

• Is there different address/telephone numbers on the websites, one UK and one American?
• Is there one website with UK £ for currency and American $?
• In webmaster tools is one set as a US based website and the other UK?
• Does one website have American based links pointing to them and the other UK based links?

We looked into something similar for a client that was wanting the same website in terms of content for 3 different countries and we came across this blog post http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/working-with-multi-regional-websites.html

After reading it we felt that along as the above were different and that the UK website had a UK IP hosting address and the American one had an American hosting IP address we felt it would be ok.

Would be very interested to hear from other people's experiences with regards to this in case we have got it wrong.

Hope that this helps.