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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 Jeffrey, I think that using splash pages will definitely hurt the Search Engines & this effects would easily recognized on the SEO.

I short it will affects the websites.

For more details please refer to the below link:

http://www.shimonsandler.com/splash-pages-bad-for-usability-bad-for-seo/

&

http://seofreelancingindia.wordpress.com/category/splash-page/

Thanks.

Ok Keri I will make it more clear .

Thanks for your suggestion.

Yes you should definitely continue with the directory & Classified submission. It will help you a lot. If you have any query then surely concerned with me.

Thanks

Hi KS_,

As you know that Directory submission mostly used by all the business companies for the promotion of their websites or products.

The directory & classified submissions are mainly used for getting listing in all major & useful directories.

The both above submissions are used according to the target area or population.Classified submissions are similar to yellow pages.The most important  thing to remember while doing listing is that it should be of same niche where the listing is to be done. This will leads to indexed pages & rank higher in search engines & it will helps to gain visibility via search engines.

The above both submission helps to increase in sales of products, website presence specially in search engines.These will helps to gain non reciprocal back links from high Page Rank Websites/ Directories.

I hope that your query had been solved.

| Hi Jeffrey, |

Splash Pages are the web pages that do not have enough content  in them which tell the spiders of he search engines that not to indexed these types of pages & this  will results in cloaking & these cause search engines to penalized you.

We know that using these splash pages in our websites  would definitely results in loss. Below is link which helps you to know more about using the splash pages

http://www.seologic.com/faq/doorway-pages .

Hi Deciph22, As you already know that page rank depends on the quality back links. It means that If the link we got  is from  well known site. reputated site , then it matters most.

It is most important that you got the links from other website pointing to your website is of do follow type.If you got the do follow back link for any of the individual page then it means, that inner page rank will be higher.

At the last I want to make clear to you that If google sees these condition again then it will results that inner page rank will be high because of most relevant data for that specific keyword as compared to home page.

Thanks

Hi Lh66, First of all I want to make sure to you that if you had changed the url structure for your website then somehow it will affects your website ranking.  In general If someone wants to change the url structure then it will have to perform 301 redirect because If someone has changed the old url then it will have to redirect to the new url to know the users that old page has been chnaged to the new page(url).

For this you had to know that  which is the  best strategy for picking up the url.

From the above link it is clear that how to change the url structure for a particular website.After changing the url structure you should  know the exact reasons that why change in url affects seo.

i hope that your query had been solved.

Hi James, As you know that these issues are always remain because we have seen number of times that the if the website have number of pages then you will find that ,out of these number of pages some of the pages are indexed .i. e the number of pages are indexes are less as compares to number of pages in your sitemap. This is the only problem for which the Google  themselves are not sure whether it will index all the number of pages it the sitemap.

Google also having the same issues with the sitemap images, they won't directly index the images from the sitemap but hey will indexed it indirectly.i.e they index the page that would have image in it.

This is cleared from the above that direct sitemap images would not be indexed.

This is not the only issue that I had seen but I had seen it number of times that if there are number of images in your sitemap then only few percentage of it are  indexed but if you want to indexed it all the sitemap images then you should have to create the number of back links but one thing should be kept in mind that we have to create a quality back links because If we created the quality back links then it will helps to increase the ranking & all the sitemap images are indexed.

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi DerekM88, When we talk about broken/bad links, it always affects our website. It can be very destructive & can create a adverse effects on our website. The website may results in negative user experience  because when a page is removed we get an 404 error message , it will leads to user a negative experience & it will never visit the website again.This overall reduces the the reputation of the website from the SEO point of view.

So we have to take certain measure for fixing these bad links. In my personal opinion you should delete the bad links because whenever search engine spiders crawl a website & suddenly he founds some bad links then it will not crawl it & leaves a negative feedback also. Below there are some measures from which you can easily fix these erros.

Fix the broken links

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi Gustavo, First of all I  want to tell you about the duplicate content. Duplicate content always hurt your website ranking & which overall decreases the website visibility.This duplicate content is easily recognized by google which results in removing the webpages from indexing.The first thing you need to do is to identifying the duplicate content on your website & If you find the duplicate content then it should be fixed by using several fixing techniques for duplicate content that was mentioned in the below :

Fixing the the duplicate content

I think that above link helps you to solves the problem of duplicate content.

Hi Almenzies, As you mentioned that SEOmoz  repots you by telling that there area 1000 of pages which are having the issues of duplicate content , so below is alink which solves the Duplicate content issues:

Solving the Duplicate Content Issues in Magento.

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi Brandon,

duplicate content issues can be solved by following  in wordpress:

1. No Follow  (No Index)

2.Robots.txt

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi Ssssrpm, This is happened most of the times specially in the office which have about 15 computers & all are running on the same ip address. I advice you to use hide my ip software & then work. Most of the times when the google search is used then this happened  according to google ters & conditions.

Google analyzes that the most of the searches are came from the same ip address because you are using about the 15 computers with same ip address. that 's why due to security issue the google for captcha.

But there are different coders which develops the software to resolve the captcha issue but they are in black hat category according to google conditions.

i hope that you query had been solved.

Hi Pauledwards, I had noticed some facts about the color of the google+ button which are shown in below link:

Colors of the google + button.

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi Ennovation , As we know that link exchange is done to bring a large amount of traffic to your blog. Link exchange helps in bringing the traffic  to the blogs & websites.

In link exchange  you have to kept one thing in mind that instead of  mailing thousands of webmasters pick the one that you feel  would be the best for your niche- not only for link exchange but for maintaining longer relationship in that niche.Then cal them! for link exchange.

Always remembered that link exchange request  will be done from related niche or same niche, otherwise it will be spammy.

After the link exchange request are accepted then it is depend on us to gave the do follow or no follow link. Most of the times we provide the no follow links. Do follow depend on the admin of the website , if they think that the content is helpful ,for others users also the admin make the link do follow.

For more details on the rel= no follow, refer the below blog:

Rel=Nofollow  Should we use!

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi Jmacek07, I would like to tell you about the Neagtive SEO.

It is the black hat seo technique used to attack a website.

Negative SEO sometimes get penalized in SERPS or it results in sometimes banned the website which will may affects the target website by search engines.

As you already know that these Negative SEO techniques mostly used by the new & small organization because it would leads to higher in ranking without doing any hard work.But we should know that when negative seo is most effective.

Today negative seo are being very common because  neagtive seo does'nt needs too much efforts,hardwork to increase the  rank of a particular websites.

For more details please check the Becoming Common -Negative SEO

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi Simon, As you know that both  http://www.example.com and http://example.com are seen by Google as two different sites.

Regardless of how you choose the website name i.e www or non www , we don't worry about the people,they will always find a way to visit both the www & non www versions of your site. It is impossible to handle both the cases. Inspite of this people will always find a way to visit both the www and the non-www versions of your site. It is imperative that you handle both cases.

As we know that www is a sub domain, so site without www can create duplicate content issues.

To solve this problem of duplicate content  you had to add the site in Webmaster Tools and  simply use the choose the preferred domain version: then redirect [301] the non-preferred version to the preferred one:

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi Patrick, As you know that first impression is the last impression. So by building the home of our website attractive we can easily catch the audience.Simply by optimizing only the homepage is not important as well from SEO point of view but we have to optimize the most crucial pages which may bring the target audience & the conversion ration is also increased.

Mostly people don’t realize that the most common purpose of a website & the importance of their home page.Mostly people think that it helps to increase the interest, establish credibility & to promote their  company & the products. But we should always kept in mind that we never tried to sell everything on the first page(home page) but it helps to make awareness.

There are some tips for Home Page to get optimized which helps us a lot.

From the above it is clear that home page is optimized for the customer & how they get attracted to our products/organization.

I hope that your query had been solved

Hi CommercePundit, A sitemap is a a navigational tool that lists the web pages of a website, which is used by search engines and visitors to help look for pages within the website. Sitemaps are typically organized in a hierarchical style and provide indexing information for search engine bots.

Site maps are very useful for a website. there are 2 types of websites search engine site map and User site map XML Sitemap & HTML Sitemap.

XML Sitemap of a website will be created and submitted to webmaster's console in order to ping the search engines crawler to index the inner-pages of the website. An HTML site map is a page within your site that links to all the other important pages on your site. HTML site map is important, two main reasons i am telling you why?It helps search engines crawl and understand your site, and it helps human visitors browse your site more efficiently

The effects of both sitemap in SEO is also crucial.

Overal multiple sitemaps helps to increase in indexation  & traffic.

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi Samuel, First of all I want to tell you that 404 Error page is about the  "Page not found" i.e error page is  displayed whenever we tried to access a page  & that page  was not in the website.

For this problem we had to display the message that "404 Error Page not found . After that we had to redirect to the homepage  or simply put the homepage link

Samuel here is the solution to fix this 404 soft error.

Google Fix this Soft 404 Error .

For more details on how to fix the soft 404 error please vist the below link also:

google-webmaster-tools-adds-soft-404-pages

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi Project#Labs, As you know that seomoz is best market place for seo but there are some other websites which plays a crucial role in SEO market place:

1.Inlineseo.com

2.SEO chat forums

3. SEO Forums.org

4. High Ranking Forum

5. Digital Point Forum

These are some of the best market place in SEO.

I hope that you will like it.

Hi Discover,I think that whenever we access the web pages , we have seen number of times that there is run time error & they asking for debug. This error message is helpful for the developers only but not for the users.

I think that you should please refer to the following link:

Blocking Javascript

The truth about non javascript

I hope that above content help to solve your query.

Hi Gaz09,

I am providing you the list of all directory submission software :

1. Semi -Automatic Directory Submission Software

2.Fast Directory Submitter

3.SeoScorpio.

4. Annzo Corp

5. Submiteaze

6.Directory Submitter

7.SliQ Submitter 

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi Gonzalo, I had just analyze your website both www & non www. I had come up with following perspectives that are shown below:

URL: http://www.pacomarca.com/

PR: 4

Alexa Rank:18752550

Backlinks: 32

&

URL: http://pacomarca.com/

PR: 4

Alexa Rank:18767880

Backlinks:114

From the above analysis it is clear that the non www has more number of backlinks, so it is better to redirect www to non www.

Redirecting www to non-www

If you want to do the opposite, the code is very similar:

`RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^my-domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://my-domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]`

In this case we are explicitly typing the domain name. I'm sure it's possible to do it in a generic way, but I haven't had the time to work one out and test it. So remember to change 'my-domain' with your domain name!

If you want to know how to redirect the inner page then please check the link:

How do I redirect all visitors to the 'www' version of my Web site (or vice versa)?

I hope that your query had been solved.

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 Jason, When people think of site maps, they often think of XML sitemaps that contain a link to every page on your website. But for the purposes of planning a site, a visual site map can be very helpful. By drawing even a simple sketch of your site and the sections you would like to have on it, you can be sure that you capture everything about your website that you need to be sucessful.

There are list of some xml sitemap creating tools:

1.Web-site-map

2. Sitemap Automator.

3. XSitemap.

4.Sitemap Generator

5.Make a Sitemap

For more details please refer to the below list also:

Sitemap Generator list

Xml Sitemap Tools

I hope that your query had been solved.

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Hi MirandaP, Below there is a list of tools that helped you alot;

1.20 Free Online tools for website speed testing.

2.10 best tools.

3.6 tools to find out the website speed

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi Zapprabbit, For you to understand the Rel Cannonical errors you must visit the Cannonical URL Tag.

In wordpress these cannonical url errors are fixed up with all in one seo wordpress plugin.

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi Applesofgold, Please look at the below link:

Dmoz the Legend !

Firstly you should know how to submit the site to the open source directory(ODP).

After that why it is so important i.e DMoz Listing?

I hope that you will found the solution.

Hi Shelly, As we know that Infographics plays a crucial role for marketing of a websites.

Here are 10 awesome tools to make infographic.

You should know some ways to promote your infographics ;

1.7 ways to promote your business.

2. 11 ways to promote your infographic.

As we know that infographic help us to promote your business but there are some mistakes that people make while using Infographic.

6 Mistakes make with infographic

I hope that you will like the solution.

Hi Guido, I want to tell you that SeoMoz provide us information about link building & directory submission that will help us to gather information by SEO experts & Webmasters.these are below:

1. SEO Guide to Beginners.

2. Professional Guide to Link Building

3.Directories by SEOMoz

I hope that you will like the above links.

Hi TSpike1, I am providing you tthe list of all the web analytics tools :

1.Google Analytics 

2. Piwik 

3. Clicky

4. Coremetrics 

5.Crazy Egg 

6.Omniture 

7.Webtrends 

8.Yahoo! Web Analytics

9.AWStats

10.eLogic

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi Nitin, I think this is happened due any of the reasona below:

1. Most of the times this may happen due to the changing Google algorithms. However irrespective of that it is essential to post regular content for the respective keywords. There must be continue backlink or backlinks at regular intervals for your keywords. This is estremely essential for keeping the rankings intact. Dont stop working on the keywords after securing good rankings, otherwise the rank would fall down again.

2. This still happens to a few sites who are new. With new sites its known as the Google dance which is very common. As I said though, I still get it with sites that are over a year old. No one will every know for sure other than Google why this happens, but I guess we just have to get on with it.

3. It may be true that some times it happens of duplicate content, not user friendly and other reasons happen for disappear.

4. There are only two scenarios here. It's either your website is sandboxed or penalized by Google due to some unethical SEO practice or it could just be a mere Google Dance. Just wait 1-2 weeks. Your site should be back on track.

Fore more reasons please refer to this link:

5 reasons why  your google web page ranking fluctuates.

I hope that your query ad been solved.

Hi Applesofgold,According to google page rank is numbered from 0 to 10.Google had given the particular rank to a page & these page rank is given by google according to his algorithm.

Page rank really matters for a website even after several years of doing  SEO.

For more information please refer to the Science of Ranking 

I hope that your query had 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 Bucky,First of all I want you to please check the crawling & Indexing of a web page.

Google will index all of your pages that are not blocked by a robots.txt file, password, etc.

I'll bet you had links from your home page to the other pages. That would be one reason why you are seeing other pages indexed.

It sounds like you may have had some duplicate pages. You should address those if applicable.

In order to get a specific page indexed please check this link:

How to get a specific page indexed.

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi Mkaloud,

If you are facing problems with Crawl diagnostic Notices for rel Canonical then please check the below:

Fixing the Crawl diagnostic Issues

I hope that your query had been solved..

Hi Barry,

Duplicate content is where a search engine identifies different pages as similar. A you want to know from where you can find the duplicate url's, so here is the way;

First you go to your SEO Moz account & logged in.

After that select the research tools .

As you enter in the research tools then you find the various tools.

Then you select the on page optimization tools for finding the duplicate url's.

For more details of the various tools please refer the below link:

SEO Moz Pro SEO Tools.

I hope that your query had been solved.

Hi Commerce, I was certainly came across a blog post on this topic on Google's Webmaster Central blog, it covers most of the questions around 404 errors.

Generally speaking:

• If these are pages that you removed, then the 404 HTTP result code is fine.
• If these are pages that changed addresses, then you should 301 redirect to the new addresses. How you do this depends on your setup, for Apache-servers you may be able to use the .htaccess file for this.
• Unless these are pages that used to receive a lot of traffic from search, these 404s won't be the reason for your site's traffic dropping like that. Google understands that the web changes and that URLs disappear - that is not a reason for Google to stop showing your site.

So my recommendation would be to check the URLs that are listed as 404 crawl errors. If any are important, then set up redirects to the appropriate new URLs as soon as you can. If none of them are important, then keep this in mind as something worth cleaning up when you have time, but focus on the rest of your site first. Often drastic drops in traffic are due more to the general quality of the website, so that's what I'd recommend working on first.

For more deatails  refer to  How to Fix Crawl Errors.

I hope that your query had been solved.