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Hi,

Yes, Justian is absolutely right, knowing your competitors is fundamental when want to do good SEO! Checking out your competitors‘ backlinks is definelty the best way to start looking for healthy link opportunities. I would go for the LRT’s competitive link detox (CDETOX). The tool checks yours and your competitor’s (up to 9) backlinks and tells you, which ones are healthy ones and which ones are not. You can sort the links by their power and their link risk, so it is a good way to decide on which sites you’d like to build a link. I think knowing if the links are bad or good ones is essential when trying to copy the competitors‘ links, caus in the end it doesn’t help having the same links as your competitors if they are bad ones!

Also the tool calculates your total link risk and your competitors‘ total link risks‘ so it is a good way to see what kind of link risk is normal in the particular niche or you can see if it is likely that some competitors will be punished by a penalty in the near future. This is also good to know when planning your own link building strategy.

Regarding the recommended amount of backlinks created per week I have to say that the most important thing here is that you link growth is steadily and increases slowly! Everything else would look highly unnatural. Of course, some seasonal fluctuations might be normal for a particular industry, e.g. a higher link growth some weeks before christmas and so on …

Hope this helped a bit.
Cheers,
Harry

I do understand the skeptical attitude here. Anyway we have many clients sending us success stories that the Link Detox Boost works, but unfortunately they are afraid of publishing their success of a penalty removal because they don’t want to get into the focus of attention.

Nevertheless we could even confirm that the Link Detox Boost works not only for manual actions but also for algorithmic problems, like Penguin. The client disavowed ~40% of his links on Friday, got the Link Detox Risk down to 207, ran Link Detox Boost on Monday, and had an almost instant jump of 20 positions.

And that just not the only one.

We are working on detailed case study that should go live very soon.

The Link Detox Boost works and speeds up the disavow process significantly, if the users have done everything correctly.

As Marie has pointed out already it is really important to a really good base of good links underneath the low quality link to rank again. So even if you have disavowed a lot of URLs and boosted them (and they have been recrawled), then it can happen that you don’t see a recovery.

While boosting will speed up the whole disavow process for Google, it can still have many reasons why the Link Detox Boost does not work as expected for a penalty in a specific case.

You need to look into your link profile in more detail to find the answers, especially if you work with the Link Research Tools, you can check the link profile with DTOX and CLA easily:

• Do you have disavowed enough bad links? How does your Link Detox Risk score look like?
• Have you disavowed all suspicious and toxic links? Quite often people disavow too few links because they want to      hold on to stronger links that cost them a lot in the past… wrong way
• Did you upload your WMT file and other backlink source files in the Link Detox report to be sure that no links get lost?
• Have you used the DTOX tool correctly (including the MUST DO steps)? http://help.linkdetox.com/m/link-detox-step-by-step-guide - Have you received more bad backlinks in the last days or weeks? Please re-run your Link Detox to be sure or start a    Link Alert. Could be a negative SEO issue or simply forgotten to upload GWT link data
• Have you disavowed domains or pages? It is recommended to disavow the domains.
• Have you boosted all URLs which you have disavowed?
• Have all links been re-crawled already? You can check this by using the reprocessing button in your report. This is free.
• Do you have enough good backlinks to rank again?
• Do you have any unnatural tops in your link profile, even when you clean up your report? Start a CLA report for checking it.

TL:DR – Link Detox Boost speeds up the recovery process and working in Disavows faster, but if it’s not enough disavowed, it’s not enough.

However we are working ongoing to improve the tools and we also want to publish more success stories in the future for proofing that it works.

Hi Melia,
we are using MagicSubmitter since 2 years - we have good results - its like manuel linkbuilding because u can schedule every task (post). MS u can use to pos to almost any side.

Hi Melia,
we also hav bin using OnlyWire.com - the problem of OnlyWire.com is that they are postin all at 1 time - and all the same so that does not look very natural.

You still get links but like I said I dont think google will give the same value to it if they notice that it is automated (all at same time / all same content)

The only tool that works out 4 us to automate some parts of linkbuilding ist
http://www.magicsubmitter.com/   - the page look little spamy but the tool ist the best!

hope that did help

Hi Melia,
what software are u using - and how u are using the software? (are u using variations of keywords, descriptions, URLS....

harry

Hi Llya, As you mentioned in the question that you have a company  with 2 offices. SO It would be better to choose a category of Company, Institution & organization.

I would like to recommend you the company category because Local Business or Place is for hotels, restaurants,places, etc & Products or brands is for apparel, cars, electronics and financial services.

Thanks

Hi Bryan, I think that using the navigation bar  helps us to maximize the link juice passed accross each page.

Below link help to solve the query.

http://curiouslittleperson.com/seo-optimize-internal-linking-structure/

Hi Taylor, As I had done some of the analysis for your both domains. If you use both domain then it will hurt your ranking according to google.

The analysis that I had done as below:

shwoodshop.com

This is website that have Page rank =5

Google Indexing Backlinks=274

Secondly your shop.shwoodshop.com is redirect to http://shwoodshop.com/collections/all   these page which have following factors:

This is website that have Page rank =4

Google Indexing Backlinks=274

One of the most important issue that I found that your website does not have 301 redirect error set up.

This would results that there are two separate domains i. e http://www.shwoodshop.com/ & http://shwoodshop.com/, so it is better to redirect it to the one & only single page according to their preferred domain.

Below there is a link which tells you that multiple domain are bad for SEOm& website too:

http://www.seo.com/blog/multiple-domains-seo/

&

http://blog.ineedhits.com/tips-advice/why-owning-multiple-domain-names-is-bad-for-seo-02539442.html

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi Bryan, Yes the link juice is pass via headers.These is more explained to you at the below link:

http://www.davecain.co.uk/blog/link-juice-head-jquery

&

http://www.affilorama.com/blog/pardon-me-but-you-seem-to-be-leaking-link-juice

Thanks

Hi Vijay,

I think that there are various tools in the market from which you can easily generate your own video sitemap but if you need professionals for these task then you should have to outsource the work from various outsourcing companies like odesk,freelancer, etc.

In my opinion you should embed youtube video into your post.It is because youtube is better video channel than vimeo from all the perspectives that you had mentioned above.

From SEO perspective youtube is the best video channel because it helps to perform better Google Search Results. It is so because youtube has more users than vimeo therefore it helps to provides better optimization.

As we already know that youtube videos performs better search results than vimeo.

As we know that vimeo is somewhat more secure & more restricted to upload your videos /content according to his guidelines.

For more details please refer to the below link, it helps you to clear all your queries:

http://www.webfuel.ca/youtube-vimeo/

Thanks.

Hello Hawkvt1, Fisrt of all I want to tell you that  the protocols (http/https) are different, they are considered two separate sites, so there’s a good chance to get penalized for duplicate content. If the search engine discovers two identical pages, generally it would take the page it saw first and ignore the other pages.The solutions are described below:

S__olutions:

1. Be smart about the site structure:  to keep the engines from crawling and indexing HTTPS pages, structure the website so that HTTPs are only accessible through a form submission (log-in, sign-up, or payment pages). The common mistake is making these pages available via a standard link (happens when you are either ignorant or  not aware that the secure version of the site is being crawled and indexed).
2. Use Robots.txt file to control which pages will be crawled and indexed
3. Use.htaccess file. Here’s how to do this:
4. Create a file names robots_ssl.txt in your root.
5. Add the following code to your .htaccessRewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 443 [NC]RewriteRule ^robots.txt$ robots_ssl.txt [L]
6. Remove yourdomain.com:443 from the webmaster tools if the pages have already been crawled
7. For dynamic pages like php, try< ?phpif ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] == 443){echo “< meta name=” robots ” content=” noindex,nofollow ” > “;}?>
8. Dramatic solution (may not always be possible): 301 redirect the HTTPS pages to the HTTP pages – with hopes that the link juice will transfer over.

For more information please refer to this link :

http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/solving-duplicate-content-issues-with-http-and-https

I'm sure that your problem is solved.

Hi Upick,Fisrt of all I wan to tell you that It’s no secret that one of the tactics search engine optimization specialists use to increase search rankings is domain purchasing.  The idea is that you find a domain that currently ranks well within your niche, buy it and then redirect the site to your domain.  Alternatively you could purchase this domain and continue to build off of it and utilize its existing rankings and site traffic.

Below are several do’s & don’ts to keep in consideration when purchasing a domain.

DO:

• Look for existing rankings
• Research websites existing links.  Are they all pointing to the home page or do internal page links exist?
• Examine the existing content on the site; can it be leveraged for more links?
• Take into account the domain age/authority before purchasing
• Take the time to determine if the price of the domain will outweigh natural content building and link building.
• Check to see if any existing penalties or filters have been placed on the domain.
• Map out domains internal pages to the pages of your current website.
• Look for websites that are relevant to your niche.
• Examine incoming links and see if they target your specific keywords.
• Determine if the links from this domain will stay put even after a redirect placed.
• Do look for yahoo, best of the web, DMOZ, business.com directory links.
• Look to see if the backlinks come from other sites that the current site owner may own as well.  There is a good chance these links could disappear after the purchase.
• Check out the websites existing traffic and verify it if possible.
• Check the age of the domains existing links.
• Look for authority news sites linking to the domain.

DO NOT:

• Purchase a domain based off its Google Page Rank.
• Purchase a domain that only has low quality and spammy links.
• Place too much value on a keyword matching domain.  (watch out for hyphenated URLS)
• Redirect the entire website to your homepage.
• Buy a site that’s not indexed in the search engines.
• Purchase domains that are not in your niche.
• Use any other redirect outside of a 301 redirect.  The value will not pass otherwise.
• Substitute organic link building with multiple domain purchases.
• Purchase a domain that has its entire link equity coming from a small quantity of domains.
• 301 redirect several newly acquired domains at once; this could send a red flag to Google.

These “Do’s & Don’ts” of domain purchasing hopefully will guide you in the right direction when it comes to you purchasing additional domains.  There are too many scammers with the intent of selling you a low value site at a high price.  This is why it’s crucial to do your homework before you purchase any domains.   Yes there are deals to be had out their but you have to be extra careful when you think your getting a steal.  If you follow the basics tips listed above you should be just fine!

For more details please visit the Buying Expired Domains

I hope that your query has been solved.

Hi Lhawk, First of all I advice you to look at below link for proper understanding of the Time to First Byte.

Time to first byte (TTFB)

I hope that above content helps you to understand the TTFB.

Now its time to reduce the TTFB which is most important for a web page because it overall reduces the loading time & helps to load page faster & overall website performance is increased.

For more details see the 12 steps to faster web pages.

I hope tat your query had been solved.

editor's note: source for this answer at http://www.creativedevelopment.com.au/web-design/reducing-time-to-first-byte-ttfb/

Hi Stefanita,

First of all Keeping in mind that the alt-text is meant to be an alternative text that could be shown in place of the image (and accordingly, it's indexed as part of the page), it could be confusing to see the exact same text over and over again," said Mu. "Search engines generally aren't impressed by seeing the same text that many times, so I'd simplify that a bit by perhaps using the full text for the main product image, but not reusing it for all of the smaller detail-images."

Using alt tags is definitely best practice but keyword stuffing (anywhere really) is not. Keep alt tags short, descriptive and relevant to the image they are being used for and you'll all but guarantee that alt tags help (and not hurt) your rankings.

editor's note: see the complete post at http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2011/04/26/keyword-stuffing-alt-tags-for-google.aspx

By doing the above mentioned it leads to keywords stuffing.

.Filling alt attributes with keywords ("keyword stuffing") results in a negative user experience, and may cause your site to be perceived as spam. Instead, focus on creating useful, information-rich content that uses keywords appropriately and in context. We recommend testing your content by using a text-only browser such as Lynx.

Hope that you found the solution.

Hi Logan,I would like to tell you that the basic concept is to make the URL search engine friendly — and by friendly, we mean optimized to rank better.

The short answer is that you should use a hyphen for your SEO URLs. Google treats a hyphen as a word separator, but does _not _treat an underscore that way. Google treats and underscore as a word joiner — so red_sneakers is the same as redsneakers to Google. This has been confirmed directly by Google themselves, including the fact that using dashes over underscores will have a (minor) ranking benefit.

Again, SEO URLs should use hyphens to separate words. Do not use underscores, do not try to use spaces, and do not smash all the words together intoonebigword. As of 2011, dashes are still the best way to optimize your SEO URLs.

ccording to Matt Cutts - a senior software engineer at Google - he recommends using dashes for Google.

According to his article, "Dashes vs. underscores", if you have a URL like 'keyword1_keyword2' Google will only return that page if the user searches for 'keyword1_keyword2' (which almost never happens).

If you have a URL like 'keyword1-keyword2', that page can be returned for the searches for 'keyword1', 'keyword2', and even 'keyword1 keyword2'.

Don't forget to inform Googlebot and other search engine crawlers that a page has moved to a permanent location by adding 301 redirects to your web site's '.htaccess' file.

301 Redirect

For example:

Redirect 301 /old_directory http://www.example.com/new-directory

Redirect 301 /old_page.html http://www.example.com/new-page.html

Redirect 301 /old_directory/old_page.html http://www.example.com/new-directory/new-page.html

Note that the first URL only includes the directories (if any) and file name. The second URL must include the domain, in addition to the directory (if any) and file name. This is because the redirect may point to a file on another domain - it doesn't have to be on the same domain.

I hope that you will found the solution.

Hi Cameron, First of all Link exchanges are programs in which one site offers to link to another site in return for a reciprocal link.The key component of a link exchange is the _requirement  _for a reciprocal link.

Link exachange is good when the page to which your linking has a high authority, trust, meaning it ranks high in search engines, which will add value to your site as well. Usually sites having the domain extension ".edu"&".org"are considered to provide high value links. However links from authoritative sites are not easy to obtain.

Link exchange is good for incoming links as it bring lots of traffics towards your website and it does helps to navigate from one site to other to find valuable content.

Link exchange and reciprocal links are natural to some extent. On the other hand, obvious and massive link exchange schemes or networks can be detected algorithmically, so you end up penalised sooner or later.

Please check Google's policy on Link Schemes ( http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356 ) express that excessive link exchange is bad.)

I feel that

Limited link exchange is good.
Aggressive link exchange is not good.

I think that submitting your website on free directories & not on relevant web directories would hurt you because If you are not on the same niche directories it will affects in your visibility & overall ranking as well. So keep in mind that keep submitting your website to all free directories & as well as same niche web directories.

Hi Michelleh,JavaScript is not SEO friendly. You can find this statement all over the web.

Now a days Google is much smarter at dealing with JavaScript. Google can execute some JavaScript, but not all. This effectively means that Google Spiders can read JavaScript and have become smarter at knowing which forms to execute and read, and which parts to leave alone. It seems certain that as long as websites continue to use JavaScript, Google will continue to refine its ability to read the language.

Google Spiders can read JavaScript -- but only to a limited extent. Nonetheless, Google Spiders may read and execute some of the JavaScript embedded in your XHTML or elsewhere on your site. As with most things related to how Google ranks websites and reads pages, the exact extent of how the Google Spiders crawl and use the data is unknown.

Google can now use JavaScript for indexing. For more information please refer to this link:

http://searchengineland.com/google-can-now-execute-ajax-javascript-for-indexing-99518

Hi Dan, SEO Competitor analysis could be simply defined as a process of discovering why competing websites are highly ranked by the search engines.

The first step is using your keyword research data to do a detailed analysis as to whatwebsites are competing for the same keywords and phrases.  From there, detailed analysis of their websites construction will yield clues as to how they are achieving good ranking in search engines.

For you to understand the Dan you should look at the Deep Approach to Competitive Analysis & after that competitor site analysis & back link analysis also.

I hope that your query of competitive analysis of inbound links has been solved.

Hi Kenneth, A backlink is a link from another website to yours and they form the basis of Google rankings. The more quality backlinks to your site (or lens), the more attention you're going to get from Google. Google's algorithm is based on avoiding spam filled sites, a thousand low quality links will not compete with a handful of high quality ones.

So what do I mean by quality? Well first of all the sites linking to you should be as relevant to your lens as possible, if your sites about games then get links from gaming websites! The second factor in quality is pagerank, pagerank is a number between 1-10 that Google gives to a website, the higher the number the more important a site is to Google.

A backlink is basically a vote from another site to your site, by linking to you a site is basically telling Google 'Hey check out this site, its great!' The higher the pagerank of a site the more Google is going to pay attention. There are countless ways to get backlinks to your site and getting good quality backlinks is a large focus of ranking highly in Google.

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Building Backlinks

Backlinks form the key of your traffic and search engine ranking, so how do you go about building these backlinks? The most important thing is to try build DoFollow links, NoFollow links don't hurt your rankings and may still bring you traffic, but they are not as helpful in getting a high Google ranking. (See the No/DoFollow Section for more information). There are numerous ways to build backlinks including:

**Forums - **One of the best and most simplest ways to promote your sites. Sign-up for some forums related to your niche/keyword, place a link to your lens in your signature and build a backlink everytime you make a post. Be sure to keep your posts full of quality and you'll start seeing traffic coming from these forums aswell. This is also a great way to promote multiple lenses, by placing more then one lens in your signature you can build backlinks for numerous lenses at once! Having trouble finding good quality forums? 
Directories - Personally I no longer submit to directories, they are a waste of time. They bring little to no traffic (in most cases none) and are created by people to earn money, they don't care about your site in the slightest (with the exception of a few directories.) To make the most of directories you have to use the paid link options. This makes sure your link gets approved within the same year and you'll get a good link placement. Submitting to a few of the major directories doesn't hurt, but don't waste too much time here.

Articles - Article submission can take alot of time, but it's often well worth it, articles are indexed quickly by google and often rank very highly themselves, giving you a large rank boost since they link directly to your lens. Writing articles can be very easy or hard depending on your lens topic. Don't ever submit the same article to more then one submission site, you must make every article unique which can be time consuming.

-Social Media/Social BookMarking - Digg & StumpleUpon are both examples of social media sites, and are one of the newest ways to promote your lens, these sites give good backlinks and its very easy to get your lens on them (usually doesn't require any approval). There are literally thousands out there, so get socialising! There are just way too many to list here or even link to, I will discuss my favourites later on, if you're after regularly updated lists, I suggest joining the forums also listed below.

-Other Blogs/Lens - Getting a link on a related lens is very easy on Squidoo, it's called the discovery tool, so there's little work to be done here. If you have other lenses and/or blogs put your links on them, don't forget to use anchor text! Other ways include featured lenses and groups.

Helpful Backlinks To Get You Started

There are countless ways to get links to your site, the best way to stay updated about them all is to join some webmaster forums, place your lens in your signature and promote while you learn! Below are the sites that you should submit EVERY lens to, these should be your first steps after you first create a lens. There are thousands of sites like the ones listed below, but this list will only feature GOOD and QUALITY places to build backlinks.

• The Kingdom of Squidoo, Lenslike, Squidoo Directory, SquidUp
  Lens orientated directories just for us Lensmasters!
• Wizzley
• Zujava Is just like Squidoo and a great place to build up some backlinks and drive some extra traffic to your lenses.
• Ezine Articles
  Best article site around, write and submit your own article.
• MyLot A highly active website full of discussion on any and every topic. Signup, add your lenses to your profile page and get easy backlinks and traffic.
• SocialMarker
  Want to get listed on 49 great social sites easily? SocialMarker can help you there, it lists links to all submit pages, saving you time.
• Reddit
  Add unlimited lenses to Reddit, very quick and easy it also features a PageRank of 8!
• InfoTiger
  Quick and indexed regularly.
• IceRocket
  Accepts Blogs/Lens on anything, PageRank 5 and a great site layout.
• LensRoll
  Another one just for lensmasters.
• Stumpedia
  Half search engine + half social media = 1 great quality backlink.
• DMOZ
  Best free directory around, acceptance is not guaranteed, but its definetely worth a try, you can also submit RSS feeds.
• FeedAge
  Another free RSS submission site, another great backlink.
• FeedAgg
  Submit your RSS feed for free, not only keeps your lens regularly indexed by Google, but counts as a high quality backlink.
• Viral Bookmarking
  Get your Social bookmarking links a boost.

I think that using .org as your first back link source is most important.I think that your query had been solved.editor's note: see http://www.squidoo.com/rank-first-on-google for complete post

Hi Amosnet,
I would suggest to write a blog post maybe u also find some semantic other Keywords around your main keyword for this new post - then u can also put this as tags - that can help

Harry