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Should we use the preferred url structure starting NOW or stick with the old one?

Stick with the current URL's. They are pretty much just as SEO friendly and there is a greater rick to lose traffic if you change/redirect all of the URLs.

Sounds like it is a bug/mistake on their part. I agree with sending a second RR and mentioning the discrepancy between your GWT message and previous RR response. If they send back the same thing (no penalty yet GWT still shows the penalty), I would post to the Google Webmaster Forums with screenshots and hope a Google rep responds.

However, there is probably something going on with your site if traffic dropped so precipitously and you received a message in GWT. I would review the links in the GWT report as well as OSE and look for any possible issues.

Try adding this to .htaccess and see if it works:

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

I would... it shows that your business cares about it's customers. Like you said, it would also encourage them to share more of your links since they feel 'special'.

The comments you post on other people's shares will not spam up your business page's wall so unless you keep saying "thanks" to the same people everyday, I don't think anybody will be annoyed.

Hmm. Try making a video sitemap with a few videos that currently aren't appearing in serps, submit to GWT and see if they appear in a week.

Only if it makes sense to have each business location on a separate page (i.e. your include maps, location specific deals, content, etc). I'm not sure if having a location on the homepage makes it the "main location" in G's eyes though.

If you want to put all the locations onto one page, wrap all the locations within one "LocalBusiness" schema tag and list out multiple PostalAddress locations. Check out this post for an example.

Video markup should also appear on regular search results.

Are your URLs just not in web search or are you ranking but no video thumbnails are showing?

You can have both markups on a single page, they shouldn't conflict.

There have been a bazillion posts written about this topic.

• http://blog.kissmetrics.com/guide-to-guest-blogging/
• http://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-7-step-no-fail-formula-for-finding-and-placing-guest-posts/
• http://moz.com/blog/five-steps-to-finding-the-right-guest-blogging-opportunities
• http://www.dailyblogtips.com/3-less-known-ways-to-find-guest-posting-opportunities/

Top two are my faves

"Our language really is a series of bullet points which explain a new concept to most and why you should use us."

Sounds like his repeating text are bullet points highlighting his services. Not something that would be marked up.

I think it should be fine.

An image is 1 duplicate entity while a block of text is many duplicate words.

If you want to avoid the duplicate image part too, you can make it the background image to a

element via CSS.

Well according to Matt Cutts, you shouldn't worry about it. An alternative is to turn the text into an image and display that instead.

http://info.vilesilencer.com/top

You are better off just finding local and niche specific directories by searching google, then run some metrics on the sites (PR, DA, Social, Indexed Pages) as well as visit the sites to see which ones you should post to.

I think you should still be fine as I've not noticed any penalties when thats the case. However, you can throw the brand name into the title. "Keyword - Brand" with "Keyword" as the H1 is very common and wouldn't be overoptimized for sure.

Nofollowed links are worse than "dofollowed" links as they do not flow link authority.

Its unlikely that all of your links will be dofollow but if you have too many nofollowed links, could be a bad sign. Usually nofollowed links are 1-15% of the profile but depends on industry. Compare your portfolio to successfully ranking competitors to see where you should be at.

Don't know of any script that would do that but it can be pretty easily done with cookies.

You can create a counter cookie that tracks number of visits based on the timestamps relative to the last visit (where you set a different cookie). Tracking pages would get a bit more complicated but can still be done.

If you are unable to find a pre-existing tool that accomplishes this, look into hiring someone to develop it for you.

Cheers,
Oleg

Not sure what you are looking to hear. There are sooooo many more factors than just # of links to look at.

• Number of linking domains
• Authority of links/domains
• Penalization status of the linking domains
• Anchor text distribution
• Nofollow distribution

You need to consider all of these variables when performing competitor analysis, not just the number of links.

Cheers,
Oleg

Definitely not black hat but could impact SEO and negate any schema markup you have.

I would go to GWT > Crawl > Fetch as Google and see what HTML is received by Googlebot.

If all the async elements are there, you should be gravy.

Looks fine to me. Ran it through several xml sitemap validators and they all came back as valid.

Only change that would make sense to make it to update the urlset line to:

<urlset xmlns:xsi="<a class="attribute-value">http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance</a>" xmlns:image="<a class="attribute-value">http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1</a>" xsi:schemaLocation="<a class="attribute-value">http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd</a>" xmlns="<a class="attribute-value">http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9</a>">

(Taken from Yoast)

As such, I think the link will be followed normally (it would be as if someone added rel="banana" to the link).

In Webmaster Tools, go to Crawl > Fetch as Google and fetch a page on your site. What response code and HTML does the spider see?

Please share the URL to your sitemap (or copy/paste it to http://pastebin.com)

The www. vs non-www is causing the issue. You should 301 redirect your site's pages to the www. version since it has a higher authority.

You can use the following .htaccess code to accomplish this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Just fix the link(s) that are causing the problem by adding a / to the start of the url. Then rerun screaming frog and you should be golden.

If you are still having problems, share the URL and I can take a quick look.

You have an incorrect relative link (probably link to 'img/photo-competition-winners' folder instead of '/img/photo-competition-winners') coupled with a faulty mod_rewrite/redirects (which loads the same page again, but this time you are 1 img folder deeper).

The href target stays the same so now it links another img folder deeper and you have your infinite loop.

The domain has been hit most likely - check out the incoming anchors

Spammy anchors from bad sites. You need to do a disavow and hope you come back.

robots are blocked or its coded wrong. Those are pretty much your only reasons.

Perhaps you can provide a link for us to check out?

You best bet is to contact google about it. Click on the "Contact Us" button, then either request a callback or email them.

Good luck!

I believe you can just claim the listing with another account anyways. You'll just need to re-verify the address with the postcard PIN.

DA/PA are Moz metrics, not used by any of the big search engines. Although there is a correlation between DA/PA and "good" links, it is not enough of a metric to go by. There are plenty of high DA/PA sites whose backlink would be considered "bad" because of the content (e.g. its a blog network, lots of spam, malware, etc).

I would try to get any link from any "real" website, no matter the DA/PA. There are plenty of good new sites who haven't had the time to build up a strong DA/PA but a backlink from them would still be beneficial to have. So if you are unsure about a site, visit it to see how legitimate it is.

That could work too. Something along the lines of "View more jobs at www.site.com" (basically, don't use money/keyword anchor text)

Here's another idea - when you post a new job on your site, post it to your company's google plus business page as well (and/or personal). G+ links are almost instantly crawled so you can post to the other job site right afterwards.

1. I would use a subfolder instead of a subdomain

2. Instead of having the viewers watch all the videos on one "videos" page, try to split them up into topics and have a article with related videos for each. Create a video sitemap and rank all those pages.

Just be careful not to copy/paste the a pre-existing piece of content, otherwise you'll get slapped with duplicate content penalty.

If it isn't against the TOS of the site you are posting on, it'd be silly not to link back to your site. One thing I recommend is that you have different content on the page or make sure you post the job offer to your site first, get it indexed, then post it on the other jobs site with a link back.

Go to GWT > Crawl > Fetch as Google and enter the URL you wish you spider. If the results come back and you see the meta info as it should be, then there shouldn't be a problem.

Also, I recommend removing meta keywords. They don't help SEO in any way and can be used by competitors for keyword research.

Doubt it'll work, but if it does, it won't in the not-so-distant future.

Page should be totally unique and those types of tactics were caught after article spinning.

Check this out - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en

Basically, if the same page loads on several URLs, the canonical tag tells search engines which URL is the "real" location of the page.

Combine all the products into one product and make color a variety/option they can choose on the page.

If this is not possible, I would canonical all the products to one of the product pages.

Having the same product in several categories isn't that bad. As long as that isn't the case with the majority of products so each category is effectively the same products.

Although I haven't done or read any studies about the impact of a wikipedia link on rankings, I would say it has a positive effect. Although there is no link authority/page rank flowing, the co-citation/occurance on a SUPER high authority website would drive direct traffic and increase your site's trust. I would say that one way or another, this has an impact on your rankings.

I like it. Has a bunch of the KPI metrics a ecommerce owner would want to see on one page. I would put up a feedback form somewhere there are well to see what your users think of the design and any changes they would like to see.

Keep an eye on your GWT Links Report. If you start to see many fishy links pop up there, it might be safer to disavow them periodically. This sounds like a negative SEO attack and should be dealt with proactively.

If you are ranking great without those new spammy links, it safer to keep removing them before G decides to slap you.

1. Ubersuggest to generate a bunch of keywords. Twitter/Quora/Yahoo Answers/Forums to see what questions people are asking for possible topics.
2. Get their keyword volumes (filter out the real low search quantities) via Keyword Planner
3. Group/combine common keyphrases
4. Determine which topics to write about based on 1) competition 2) search quantity 3) topic intent/relevance (would this topic attract visitors that would help my site fulfill its goal?) 4) timing (seasonality, availability, trends)

Just keep in mind that every website/business is different and could use information from different sources. I recommend trying out all of the tools and seeing what they have to offer. From there, you can streamline your own process that is most effective for your situation.

First big problem - You have a bunch of pages that look like this - http://fastlocksmithdc.com/automotive/car-keys-made/ford/

Not only are they duplicate pages of the other car URLs, but the pages are also blank. This really thins out any links built to your site by having a lot of worthless pages.

Secondly, lock smithing is a local search and should be attempted to rank for using Google Plus for Business pages. You don't have your address anywhere on the site (I recommend adding it to the footer).

Your best use of $200 would be to optimize your homepage/site to rank for keywords locally, setup/optimize a Google Plus page and then build $200 worth of local citations.

Having access to the actual facebook pages would help us discover what's wrong with it. Right now, it sounds like your Facebook page is in the supplemental index for your BRANDNAME. Does the Facebook page provide information that is different from the website or is it all the same? e.g. Is the "About Us" section copy/pasted from the website?

Can't get more specific without more specifics =/

Removing links won't increase your rankings. You need to 1) produce relevant, quality, unique content and 2) build quality relevant links to the website.

The reason you started dropping in rankings is because your anchor profile is too keyword heavy. You need to focus on getting more links to the homepage using the naked url or brand keywords i.e. "Helen Batt Photography", "Helen Batt", "Photos by Helen Batt", etc

Other specific actions you should take:

• include the full business address on the website footer
• get links from local and niche directories (photography related, wedding related, UK-based, Kent-based)
• review the competitors that are ranking above - what kinds of things are they doing? where do they get there links from? can I use these methods on my site?

Cheers,
Oleg

301 redirect would probably force a loop/redirect error. You should use .htaccess/IIS to auto-magically redirect/rewrite all /index.html pages to the root folder. In addition, I would set up canonical's on the page as well with the definitive page url.

Hmm odd. You don't have a video sitemap set up do you?

You can try encrypting or obfuscating the code that displays the video in order to hide it from G.

No, as long as none of the links are broken, I don't see how this would have a negative effect on SEO. If the user experience doesn't change, it generally won't affect rankings (minus markup data).

Overall, won't make a huge difference. It you want to be perfect, I think this would be the best setup.

Example page: http://www.in2town.co.uk/health-magazine

• H1= Health magazine - Fitness, Nutrition, News, Weight Loss
• H2 = The health magazine for men's health, women's health, childrens health & healthy living
• H3 = Article titles

On an article page, make the title of the article H1.

If he has little-to-no natural, high authority links, changing to a new domain may be a better move.

Once again, it all comes down to "do you have real, natural, high quality links pointing to your site?" If you only have a couple, it may be easier to move domains and contact those link owners to point to new url. If you have many good links that would improve rankings, it may be easier to remove/disavow the bad links instead of getting all those links changed to point to new location.

Adapt. Find other sources of keywords and rethink our current keyword practices. GWT is the next best bet since they aren't hiding what keywords people used to reach the site.