Yes. You would probably want your homepage to talk about generic plumbing services. Then, depending on the number of locations you have, I would probably link to them on the homepage. Perhaps include a section

Providing pluming services in the following areas:
San Antonio
Dallas
etc.

When a user clicks on one of these links from your homepage, they are brought to a landing page for the city - which would incorporate the city and plumbing in the title, description, content, etc. And then IF you have a physical address for each of these locations, you will want to use GetListed.org and link to each of those locations. Company Name - San Antonio, then link to your companyname.com/san-antonio-plumbers

And like you said, you don't want to be spammy with things. So that is why I would just list the city name and not city+plumbing.

If you wanted to take things a step further, you could do generic national homepage, then a landing page by region or state, then a page for each city you serve. The thing to keep in mind is, that if you are going to take this approach, you really should have physical office locations in each of these areas AND you will need to make sure that you create unique content for each of these landing pages, which can be difficult if the services are the exact same... so you may need to spin things slightly different for each location.

Hope this answers your question.

Mike

That is the problem... that they are the same site.

That means that Google can index both versions and visitors and other sites can create backlinks to both versions - which is not good, because it splits your backlinks up between two sites instead of one.

You need to set up a 301 redirect from one of the versions to the other, as well as set a preferred version in Google Webmaster Tools.

Hope this helps.

Mike

The hash or "#" is usually just referenced by the browser, not the server, so Google does no care about the use of a "#" at the end of your URL. In fact, you can go to pretty much any page and add "#" at the end and you will get the same page, because it is a browser reference.

Some web designers will also just put "#" as the URL as they are coding, because they do not know the final URL.

If you can pinpoint where this is happening, I would suggest fixing it, even if it is not impacting Google indexing or your SEO... just from a "good house keeping" point of view.

You would use the canonical tag if you wanted to keep both versions in place. If you only want to keep one version, you would 301 redirect, which come to think of it... I don't know if you can do, again because the hash is usually just reference by the browser and not the server.

Here is also a quick quote from John Mu (an engineer at Google), stating, "We generally ignore the "fragments" (as in http://domain.com/path#fragment) when crawling, indexing and ranking since this is generally just something that is handled on the client side."

If you provide the domain, I might be able to help you further.

Hope this info helps.

Mike

You have the right idea.

You want to create a landing page that will be targeting San Antonio Plumber or Plumber in San Antonio. This includes title tag, meta description, and content, as well as having internal links using keywords pointing to this new page.

I would also suggest you use GetListed.org to add, where applicable, your business to the specified business directories. This will also help greatly by specifying your physical address in San Antonio (assuming you have one).

Hope this helps.

Mike

Hi Lewis,

If you haven't already, you need to verify your subdomain (dev.rollerbannerscheap.co.uk/) in Google Webmaster Tools. Once verified, you can then request removal of your entire site, which in this case is your subdomain.

You will need to follow Google's Requirements for removing content to help you through the rest of the process.

Hope this helps.

Mike

I found this from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF):

"429 Too Many Requests

The 429 status code indicates that the user has sent too many requests in a given amount of time ("rate limiting").

The response representations SHOULD include details explaining the condition, and MAY include a Retry-After header indicating how long to wait before making a new request.

For example:

HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests
Content-Type: text/html
Retry-After: 3600

<title>Too Many Requests</title>

Too Many Requests

I only allow 50 requests per hour to this Web site per logged in user. Try again soon.

Note that this specification does not define how the origin server identifies the user, nor how it counts requests. For example, an origin server that is limiting request rates can do so based upon counts of requests on a per-resource basis, across the entire server, or even among a set of servers. Likewise, it might identify the user by its authentication credentials, or a stateful cookie.

Responses with the 429 status code MUST NOT be stored by a cache."

From doing a quick read, it looks like this error would be thrown when API request are called too quickly... so... yeah?

Sorry I can't be any more helpful.

Mike

According to Google -

"We only show sitelinks for results when we think they'll be useful to the user. If the structure of your site doesn't allow our algorithms to find good sitelinks, or we don't think that the sitelinks for your site are relevant for the user's query, we won't show them."

Hope this helps.

Mike

According to Google -

"How often does Google crawl the web?

Google's spiders regularly crawl the web to rebuild our index. Crawls are based on many factors such as PageRank, links to a page, and crawling constraints such as the number of parameters in a URL. Any number of factors can affect the crawl frequency of individual sites.

Our crawl process is algorithmic; computer programs determine which sites to crawl, how often, and how many pages to fetch from each site. We don't accept payment to crawl a site more frequently. For tips on maintaining a crawler-friendly website, please visit our Webmaster Guidelines."

Hope this helps.

Mike

Hi Carla,

Read this article on WordPress security goes into detail on, "... some common forms of vulnerabilities, and the things you can do to help keep your WordPress installation secure."

From my understanding, the gist of it is:

• Keep your installations up-to-date.
• Keep strong passwords and change them regularly.
• Remove unwanted plugins.
• Assign permissions to folders and files.

Hope this helps.

Mike

Hi Dana,

I don't work for SEOmoz (although I wish I did!).

I know SEOmoz uses Wistia for hosting, but it looks like they do their transcriptions through SpeechPad. I am guessing the reasoning behind it is money - Wistia costs $5 per minute to be returned within 24 hours and SpeechPad is only $2.50 per minute with a 24 hour turn-time.

And depending on when Rand and company film, they could potentially get the cost down to $1 per minute with a one week turn-time.

Only speculation on my part

Mike

Hi Rachel,

Personally, if this is an SEOmoz or other software error, I would disregard it. The reason I would disregard it is your titles and content are different... even if it is just by 1 character. This approach does make sense for your niche.

Now, IF you were having problems getting both of these pages indexed or if Google sends you a duplicate content message, that would be cause for some concern.

I just Googled clear contractor bags 42 gallon and I see both your 4mil and 3mil thicknesses listed in positions #7 and #8 respectively, as well as #1 and #2 under the Google Shopping area.

If I were you, I would not worry about it.

Mike

Hmmm...

I have never hear of a 429 error. And that error isn't listed by Google Webmaster Tools or W3.org either.

If you mean a 409 error, that means Conflict, "The server encountered a conflict fulfilling the request. The server must include information about the conflict in the response. The server might return this code in response to a PUT request that conflicts with an earlier request, along with a list of differences between the requests."

If you do mean 429, can you provide a screenshot of it?

Thanks,

Mike

According to SEOmoz Help:

"So, in sum, the On-Page Tool only automatically runs reports on pages that are already ranking in the top 50 for one or more of your keywords. Thus, your On-Page Rankings Reports update after your rankings update each week. If you have no pages ranking in the top 50, then you'll have no automatically generated On-Page Reports. If you have 30 pages ranking in the top fifty, then you should have 30 On-Page reports."

So, only 5 of your pages are ranking in the top 50 for your selected keywords.

Hope this helps.

Mike

If you don't see them in OpenSiteExplorer, you could maybe try MagesticSEO to see if you can see them there.

If you don't see them in Magestic, you could actually visit the directory to see if your site is listed.

Also, Google Webmaster Tools does list links to your site under Traffic > Links to Your Site.

Hope this helps.

Mike

SEOmoz uses https://www.speechpad.com/ for Whiteboard Friday transcription.

If you scroll down to the bottom of the transcription text you will see the SpeechPad URL, as well as http://blog.speechpad.com/video-transcription/ for the actual service.

Mike

On the Linking Domains tab, there is a Show domains with links to filter, select pages on this subdomain, then click Filter to see your results.

I think that is what you are asking how to do; otherwise, select pages on this root domain to view ALL the subdomain associated with your root domain.

Hope this helps.

Mike

MatchAll means that all of the conditions must be met for the rule to process. It has nothing to do with case sensitivity.

Give this a whirl (I added your example of including a purchase folder in the rule):

<system.webserver><rewrite><rewritemaps><rewritemap name="Redirect"><add key="/index.asp" value="/"></add></rewritemap></rewritemaps>
        <rules><rule name="CanonicalHostNameRule" enabled="true"><match url="(.)"><conditions logicalgrouping="MatchAll" trackallcaptures="false"><add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="^ON$"> 
                    <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^www.lucid8.com$" negate="true"></add></add></conditions>
                <action type="Redirect" url="<a href=" http:="" www.lucid8.com="" {r:1"="">http://www.lucid8.com/{R:1}" redirectType="Permanent"  />
           </action></match></rule>
            <rule name="AllHTTPexceptSIGNIN" stopprocessing="true"><conditions><add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="<a href=" http:="" (www.)(.)$"="">http://(www.)(.*)$" negate="true" />
                    <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="on"><add input="{URL}" pattern="download" negate="true"><add input="{URL}" pattern="purchase" negate="true"></add></add></add></add></conditions>
                <action type="Redirect" url="<a href=" http:="" {http_host}="" {r:0"="">http://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:0}" redirectType="Permanent"/>
           </action></rule></rules></rewrite></system.webserver>

If you use Google Chrome, you can go into the Settings > Show advanced settings > Language and input settings and select a primary language using the Add button. Once you add your preferred language, click the Display Google Chrome in this language button. Restart Chrome.

Once you restart and visit SEOmoz.org, it will automatically translate all of the pages to whatever language you specify.

Hope this helps.

Mike

If you go to your campaign overview page, you will see a little box below the mini overviews that will say something like, "Last Crawl Completed: Apr. 3rd, 2013 Next Crawl Starts: Apr. 10th, 2013"

I personally use SEOmoz PRO tools in combination with Screaming Frog. I verify many of the problems using Screaming Frog, then fix them, then rescan (which is instant), then wait for my SEOmoz PRO tools to reflect my changes. SEOmoz does a great job of warning you and keeping you in the know... where Screaming Frog gives you a lot of information, but you really have to know what you are looking for and would have to keep on top of it... SEOmoz is more automated... if that makes sense.

Mike

The only thing that can happen is if Google indexes an http and https version of the same page. It isn't a HUGE deal... just depends on how obsessed you are about the site structure.

You could potentially have visitors start linking to the https version vs the http version, in which case that would be a problem.

Depending on the complexity of your site and code, this rule may be able to help you... where it says, pattern="download" that means that if someone visits the downloads section of your website, it will allow for https.  You can continue to add additional folders by just repeating that code and replacing "download" with whatever the folder names are that you want to allow to use HTTPS. I did a Google search of site:lucid8.com inurl:https and noticed that your download section was indexed as using HTTPS, that is why I used it in this example.

If you are just using simple folder structures, this rule is not too bad to implement. I previously just implemented it with pattern matching and that was not fun.

Any way, if it helps great, if not, just try to keep your internal linking as consistent as possible. Sometimes the best way to do this is use absolute paths vs relative.

Mike

<rule name="AllHTTPexceptSIGNIN" stopprocessing="true"><conditions><add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="<a href=" http:="" (www.)(.)$"="">http://(www.)(.)$" negate="true" />
                        <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="on"><add input="{URL}" pattern="download" negate="true"></add></add></add></conditions>
                    <action type="Redirect" url="<a href=" http:="" {http_host}="" {r:0"="">http://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:0}" redirectType="Permanent"/>
               </action></rule>

Hi TJ,

I have actually made the switch to friendly URLs in DNN, so I know your pain.

Best practice is to make the 301 redirect in one jump. So instead of going from oldsite > dnn > dnn-friendly, you should set up your redirects to perform oldsite > dnn-friendly and dnn > dnn-friendly.

Redirecting with a chain A > B > C can slow your site down for users, as well as slow down the crawlers, which is bad.

Does that answer your question?

Mike

On the left-hand side of Adwords, there is a drop-down that says Match Types with Broad [Exact] and "Phrase".

Broad is selected by default.

Adwords defines these 3 match types as:

"Broad: The sum of the search volumes for the keyword, related grammatical forms, synonyms, and related words"

"Exact: The search volume for that specific keyword and close variants"

"Phrase: The sum of search volumes that include the whole phrase or near variants of the whole phrase"

When you are thinking about traffic from these types of keywords, it is best to use the exact match type. For example, you are typing in an exact match, "how to tube" and ranking #1. If you change your search to "how to tube surf", you are no longer #1. Do you see the difference?

If this is an internal link on your website, you would want to change the actual path to point to the newer secure-document-storage page.

If this is an external link from another website, you'd create a redirect that will take the incoming request for the old document-security page and push the visitor to the new secure-document-storage page.

Make sense?

Mike

That is the keyword at its "broadest term".

The exact match of your keyword only has 91 global monthly searches according to Google Adwords.

Mike

It can be a few different things. SEOmoz sums them up pretty well here stating:

"Why do the rankings in SEOmoz not match what I see in Google? Great question! Although there is never one “right” ranking for any keyword, SEOmoz tries to represent the ranking results that “most” users will see. If you see wildly different results from your search engine compared to your Ranking Report, it could be because of the following reasons:

Personalization – Most search engines will personalize your results based on your search history. Make sure you are logged out when performing a search. For Google, try adding &pws=0 to the end of your query string.

For example, if you searched for “SEO” the URL in Google would look like google.com/search?q=SEO. To turn off personalization, append &pws=0 to the end, so it would look like google.com/search?q=SEO&pws=0.

Geographic Bias – Search engines also customize results based on location. This means users in one city often see very different results than users in another location.

Latency – Rankings can change between the time we retrieve them and the day when they are viewed.

“www” vs. non-“www” Subdomains – The Web App is subdomain specific, meaning it only tracks rankings for the specific subdomain you track. So if you enter “example.com” as your subdomain, but “www.subdomain.com” is what ranks in the search results, this ranking won’t appear in your rankings report. This also might indicate a problem with canonicalization or duplicate content.

If you set your campaign up on the wrong subdomain, the only way to correct it is to start a new campaign. You can either archive or delete your old campaign, or choose to keep it running if you have enough campaign slots available."

You can also choose to use a different browser to check your rankings.For instance, I use IE for my main surfing habits, Chrome for my SEO and web development, and Firefox to check my Google rankings. I do this, because I do my Google-ing in IE - so things get cached, Chrome has me signed in all of the time because of my Google accounts, and Firefox I never use.

Hope this helps.

Mike

Here is an example that may help:

You have the following pages on your site - /product1.html, /product2.html, and /product3.html.

An external site (externalsite.com) links to the product 2 page on your site (yoursite.com/product2.html).

You decide to no longer sell product 2, so your remove /product2.html from your website; however, externalsite.com is still linking to yoursite.com/product2.html. You see a 404 warning in Google Webmaster Tools referencing this error.

You then have two options:

1. You recently started selling product 4, which is not the same product, but still offers the same solution to a potential customer. You create a /product4.html page and set up a 301 redirect from externalsite.com to yoursite.com/product4.html.

2. You no longer sell this product or solutions like it, because it was not needed by visitors. There is a link from externalsite.com is no longer applicable to your site; therefore, you disregard the warning in Google Webmaster Tools and the link will eventually not be followed by Google.

Now, if the /product2.html page was still accessible online, but you no longer linked to it via yoursite.com, that is kind of a problem, because if externalsite.com is still linking there, visitors could stumble upon your old/outdated/not-used page. You do not need to actively worry about removing the link, but you should work on removing the page if it is no longer used.

Does that help and did I understand your question correctly?

Mike

Cool. Glad to help.

Taking care of https is another rule that you would need to implement. This can be a bit more tricky if your site uses https for other purposes (such as signing in or a checkout process, etc.)

If you do not use https anywhere on your site, I can probably come up with some code that would work for you.

The SEOmoz scan is done on a weekly basis, so there isn't much you can do there. And as for other tools to do these scans, you really cannot get the level of detail in a user-friendly manner that SEOmoz provides - in my opinion.

Mike

Name.
Address.
Phone Number.

Just make sure that your website is matching your Google Places page and any other business directories you list in. The consistency helps ensure that you are the specified business.

Makes sense?

Mike

Whoa! Information overload!!!

1. I don't know of anything that shows you a graphical representation of your site's linking structure; however, I do know of a program that will list out all of the linking pages on your site and the number of in and out links, including anchor text, etc. The number of in links can be an indicator of structurally how your site is organized.

2. 404 errors or not bad as long as they are known. If you no longer have a page and you decide not to redirect from the old page to a new one, that is fine. Google is just giving you a heads up that your site or someone else's is linking to a non existent page. If you do nothing to fix these 404 errors, the page will eventually be removed from Google's index and not be a problem.

3. /document_security.htm looks like it is being linked to from /services_storage_fast_retrieval.htm and  /services_archive_storage.htm

I would recommend downloading and installing Screaming Frog that is the program I was referencing in my response to #1 and that is how I found the issue in #3.

Seer Interactive also wrote a great blog on all of the things this tool can do.

Hope this helps.

Mike

You could try a couple of different things.

ubersuggest.org can give you some keyword ideas; however, it would only be phrases that have to do with shoes.

You can use Google AdWords Keyword Tool, and elect the different options under Apparel > Footwear > Athletic Shoes > Cleats, Running Shoes, Tennis Shoes, etc. or if you selected Boots instead of Athletic Shoes it would display > cowboy boots, fashion and dress boots, work boots, etc.

I use both of those tools when developing a keyword strategy.

Hope this helps you.

Mike

My recommendation would be to remove the tag altogether if possible OR leave the tag blank if that is not possible.

The other "problem" a keyword tag can pose if you are utilizing it correctly is that competitors can EASILY see what keywords/phrases you are targeting.

Hope this helps.

Mike

Hi Chad,

I think you are asking if it is problematic for all of the pages on your website to be using the same meta keywords and meta description tags.

These tags look like this:

The "content" of these tags, and actually your title tags as well, is duplicated across all of the pages on your website (I am referring to the website listed in your profile - Auben Realty).

The title tag is extremely important and provides search engines with a quick glimpse of what a page is about prior to even viewing the page. These should be unique to each page on your website as they are a page ranking factor.

The meta description tag is not important for search engines, but it is for visitors. This is the description visitors will see when your web pages appear in a search engine's results page. Although this tag is not part of a ranking factor, it is good marketing to have these descriptions be unique to each page.

The meta keywords tag can be removed from all of your website's pages. This tag is not used in any way with Google. I have read that Bing uses this tag to look for basic keyword stuffing. And while other search engines may use the keywords tag for some ranking factor - more than likely you are not getting traffic from those search engines, because they are not used nearly as much.

If you check out the SEOmoz Guide to SEO, you will find additional information on these tags and a bunch of general SEO tips.

Hope this helps.

Mike

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/

Will provide you with their backlinks, anchor text, top pages, and more.

http://www.majesticseo.com/

Is another option that has a lot of the same functionality.

Hope this helps.

mike

If you are using IIS, then you would want to configure these fixes in your web.config file.

I think you'd want something like this:

<configuration><system.webserver><rewrite><rewritemaps><rewritemap name="Redirect"><add key="/index.asp" value="/"></add></rewritemap></rewritemaps>
            <rules><rule name="CanonicalHostNameRule" enabled="true"><match url="(.*)"><conditions logicalgrouping="MatchAll" trackallcaptures="false"><add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^www.lucid8.com$" negate="true"></add></conditions>
                    <action type="Redirect" url="http://www.lucid8.com/{R:1}"></action></match></rule></rules></rewrite></system.webserver></configuration>

If that does not work, I would recommend breaking it into sections - for example, try doing the redirect code first, then the canonical code second, or vise versa. I always look up examples of web.config configurations on stackoverflow.com.

Hope this helps Troy.

Mike

Are you creating both websites under one company name or two?

The only reason I ask is that from a usability standpoint people may find it confusing.

Let's say a user visits your upmarket site, but does not contact you during that visit. Then they perform a Google search again looking for your company name and the stumble upon the cheaper market and don't find the same solution and the website now looks completely different... that might be confusing, unless you are using two different company names... and if that's the case, I would hope that the companies would actually be "legit" or it may seem deceptive.

That said... I don't think you would get penalized for creating two sites in the manner you are suggesting.

I do think it may become confusing if you rank for both pages on the same page of Google, because having different URLs, different designs, but the same company name may seem deceptive to users.

Just my thoughts.

Mike

That is a change you will make on your server.

Depending on the backend software you use, the code or setting to implement this type of change will be different.

What software do you use?

Mike

Hmmm... I have never seen that guide before.

It looks like the contents of the guide are VERY similar to the help page I sent you above.

You could try viewing it with Google Translate here - I know that sometimes the translation can be way off... but it might help.

Mike

Hi Mirco,

Have you checked out: http://www.seomoz.org/help ?

They have a TON of information on all of the tools and videos on how to set things up.

They also include PRO tips for research, optimization, and fixing issues.

Hope this helps.

Mike

Hi Jesse,

To me, it sounds like a message about manual action. Per SEL...

"Manual Actions

With a manual action, some human being at Google has reviewed a site and decided to issue a penalty against it (usually manual actions are indeed penalties). The review might be triggered by a spam report from an outsider or just Google’s regular policing.

Removing manual penalties often involve the targeted site filing a reconsideration request along with showing a good faith effort to correct a problem. For example, last year, JC Penney was hit with a 90 day penalty for paid links. It made an effort to clean up those links, submitted a reconsideration request and the penalty was eventually removed, deemed “tough and the appropriate length,” as Cutts said last year.

How do you know if you have a manual action? This should be reported to you through Google Webmaster Central, if you’ve verified your site there."

From your original post, it sounds like you have a handle on which links were purchased/unnatural. And as Marie and I are saying, you need to document your efforts. You will want to send those emails of requests for money to remove your links and your other emails that are not responded to... this will show a good faith effort on your part.

Marie is correct, "It's not about the percentage of links removed.  Really, what Google wants to see is that you understand which links are manipulative and that you've worked to get rid of those and that you're not going to continue in this matter." - Google isn't going to require you get webmasters to remove all or a certain percentage of these links. They simply want you to try to get them removed 1) to clean up the web and 2) to make sure you learned your lesson ; )

From your original post, it sounds like you are on the right track. Look over the links I sent you and as Marie suggested, search SEOmoz for additional blogs regarding other peoples' experience with getting an unnatural link penalty removed. Some people it takes a month, others 6... my suggestion is to arm yourself with as much research as you can (KNOWLEDGE IS POWER), provide Google with emails, spreadsheets, whatever - showing you are really trying to get these spammy links removed, and submit a request for reconsideration.

Good luck and let us know how things turn out! Document it all and make a blog post out of it!

Mike

PS Hi Marie! Funny running into you here ; )

That's a bummer Jesse.

I would not take any action until you read through the following articles below.

First READ THIS from Google.

From what I have read, you should make you sure you are documenting your attempt to get the links removed. Matt Cutts states that using the disavow tool without requesting link removal first

Duke Tanson wrote a great article on how he used the disavow tool to removal an unnatural link profile warning.

That should be all of the information you need.

Good luck.

Mike

Hi Troy,

The issue with /index.asp is coming up because of your Home link in your footer. Instead of resolving to home "/" it is being pointed to "/index.asp".

And the reason it is also showing the www-version is because when the crawler is on lucid8.com and it crawls the link to the right of customer/partner login "customers", the crawler is brought to www.lucid8.com/downloadplus/Resource_login.asp Then, from here, if you click on any of the hyperlinks, you are brought to the www-version of the page instead of the non-www you specified as your preferred.

Jesse is correct in saying you need to choose either a www or non-www version; however, you also need to fix the /index.asp issue.

Hope this helps.

Mike

Do a scan with Screaming Frog. It can point out exact pages where you are having broken links.

They have a free trial and a paid version.

This program is great for diagnosing many different website related issues.

Hope this helps.

Mike

I believe it really comes down to personal preference.

Generally, when you see sub.domain.com, you usually see the non-www version; however, it really does come down to personal preference.

You are not going to be penalized or anything for using the www version.

It is slightly less work for the user to not have to type www.sub.domain.com vs just sub.domain.com - but I don't think 4 extra keystrokes is going to be that big of deal.

Mike

Hi Benny,

First, I love your domain name... that is awesome!

I hear you in being in an industry with highly competitive keywords. Our main keywords we are targeting are in the 75-80 range according SEOmoz tools.

It looks like casamona.com may be a competitor in your space as they are ranking high for MANY keywords that I tried. One bit of advice I can give is analyze their website using OpenSiteExplorer.org to see if you could potential get links in the same areas that they are getting links. You can also check out their anchor text as well - giving you further insight into what is working for them.

Maybe try playing around with your homepage text. You only mention the phrase, "Barcelona Real Estate" in your meta title and description - having some text on your homepage using those keywords and variations will probably help. Also, if I were you, I would maybe play around the the title tag. It looks like just one long string of text. Maybe try breaking it up a little to something like: Barcelona Real Estate | Rent or Buy Real Estate in Barcelona or Barcelona Real Estate | Rent or Buy in Barcelona Today | Suite Life.

And don't worry about how competitive your keywords are. Just keep at it and/or go after long-tail variations and you will see some great returns.

Good luck.

Mike

Well played Matt

The main reason I am saying 100% confident is that you can mess up your website VERY easily using this tool. So you need to be very cautious in choosing to use it.

This is a great article: 6 Things To Think About Before Disavowing Links from Search Engine Land. It states, "If you haven’t actually been penalized and you start disavowing your links, you’re essentially outing yourself to Google that you manipulated the system. Make sure that you equivocally know you were penalized and it’s not just some random fluctuation in rankings, a sitemap or indexing problem, or an accidentally no-indexed page."

Just sayin' be careful.

Good luck!

Mike

Are they all from different domains or the same domain?

And regarding the Disavow links tool, Google specifically states, "We recommend that you disavow backlinks only if you believe you have a considerable number of spammy, artificial, or low-quality links pointing to your site, and if you are confident that the links are causing issues for you." - I would not recommend using the tool unless you have been warned by Google or you have thousands of spammy footer links or something and you are 100% confident they are causing issues with your site.

Mike

I am no htaccess expert, but I think you want to change it to:

Redirect 301 / http://whitbypark.co.uk/

Give that a whirl.

Mike