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Thanks Chris

We have several affiliates that use banners that are stored on our servers, I have been told in the past you can not nofollow a link like  as it is not an <a href=""> is that not the case?</a>

Hi All

I have looked in WMT and it says I am getting a lot of links from 1 affiliate - they have 100,000 pages on their site but GWT is showing me 200,000 links from their domain - each of their pages has the following code.

I think we have Nofollowed the link but does the img src="http://www.site.co.uk/affiliate/affiliation-images/470x80.gif also act as a link and if so do I need to Nofollow that too?

The image is stored on our server so the affiliate is linking to the banner image on our server.

Would something such as this affect my rankings in a negative way?

Thanks

Thanks for that Omid

Hi All

I have a finance calculator that our IT team have built and I would like to get it distributed to sites will find it useful, I am contacting sites that I think will directly benefit from the calculator, but are there sites that I can share it on (like you would use youtube for video)?

Thanks

Sean

Hi

If my site gets mentioned on a site with the web address written out but not hyper-linked do I still get some SEO value from this or is it not giving any SEO benefit?

Thanks

Sean

Hi

I have a tool that I wish to give to sites, it allows the user to get an accurate idea of their credit score with out giving away any personal data and with out having a credit search done on their file.

Due to the way the tool works and to make the implementation on other peoples sites as simple as possible the tool remains hosted by me and a one line piece of Javascript code just needs to be added to the code of the site wishing to use the tool.

This code includes a link to my site to call the information from my server to allow the tool to show and work on the other site.

My questions are:

Could this cause a problem with Google as far as their link quality goes? - Are we forcing people to give us a backlink to use the tool? (in the eyes of Google) or will Google not be able to read the Javascript / will ignore the link for SEO purposes?

Should I make the link in the code Nofollow?

If I should make the link a Nofollow any tips on how to make the most of the opportunity from a link building or SEO point of view?

Thanks for your help

Hi All

I have a website that covers all parts of the UK and I wish to be found for terms such as "car for sale London" "car for sale Manchester" and so on.

In the past I have created separate landing pages for each town and city but with the quality score of a page becoming more of a ranking factor it is hard to make 300 + town pages interesting and useful.

Is it best practice to do what I am doing and improve the quality of each of the pages or would I be better off removing the old pages and using some other technique to rank for the local searches?

Thanks for your help

Is this it

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/new-guide-release-the-professionals-guide-to-advanced-search-operators

Sean

Hi Robert

Does this help

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/expanded-advanced-operator-guide-for-google it links of to

http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html

Sean

Hi Stu

The tips for finding a link builder here on SEOmoz from Moosa are good and if you have a budget of several thousand $ a month you will be able to get some good people to help with your SEO and content focus, so if the budget is available that is a good way to go.

If however the budget is not available you can do a lot yourself, you are already doing the hardest bit, creating interesting and useful content for your market, now all you need to do is let the audience know it is on your site.

You can do this by finding other websites that look after the same market but do not compete with you, such as a car insurance company if you sell cars, then offer to write some content for their audience (guest posting).

You should also use Twitter to follow people who are influential in your market and find a way to get on their radar (help them in some way or talk about things they care about etc.) then when you have a relationship with these people you can ask them to comment on your content, they share it with the people who follow them and then you have the beginnings of a group of people who think your content is worth talking about.

By asking industry influences to help with or talk about your content it will get shared and these shares are all potential links to your site.

I hope this helps

Sean

Yes the advertising links may harm your site, it depends on a number of factors but if it looks like you have purchased a link in order to affect your rankings then you may be punished for that.

However there are also a number of other factors that can affect your rankings and it could be one or a combination of these.

With out seeing the site and knowing te quality of the back link profile and content it is hart to say.

I have not seen any drops like this on my sites but I know of a marquee hire company that was at 8 last time I used them (a month ago) and today they are below page 10, so there maybe an update going on.

Without seeing the website and knowing the terms you refer to it is difficult to be exact.

In the past when I found sites that had scraped content from our sites I sent an email asking the site owner to remove the content (this never worked)

I then followed it a day or two later with a letter to the hosting company, with a copy of the original email to their client attached, this worked every time, the hosting companies closed the accounts down (or at lease suspended them)

I hope this helps

Sean

Thanks for the help Simon. The other post has a lot of helpful information.

Cheers!

Hi,

We run a affiliate program and as part of that program we offer free tools that our affiliates can take in order to help them promote our product. We have also used these tools as a link building method as we provide highly useful information.

We have seen on Google Link Schemes page (http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356) the following part which we believe has only just been added:

Links embedded in widgets that are distributed across various sites, for example:

Visitors to this page: 1,472
car insurance

Our tool basically consists of a link of JavaScript with a link outside of the tool as per the following example:

this super widget was provided by <a>mydomain.com</a>

We are now concerned that a link building process that we have used for many years is now considered to be gaming Google.

We also do something similar with badges that we give out to approved suppliers. These would look something like the following:

http://mydomain.co.uk/

Any recommendations on whether or not the style we are using would now be considered as wrong to Google, even though they add value to our partners sites.

Thanks for any help in advance.