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hmm, myblogguest has also been recommended by Rand

http://moz.com/blog/4-valuable-link-building-services

thanks for bring it to my attention

check his "Link Anchor Text" via OSE, see how natural the back links are (he might be using a lot of anchor text in these new links)

You could also use "Just-Discovered" in OSE, to see what he is up to.

If hes buying links and breaking penguin rules I wouldn't be that worried,  but it is always worrying when you see a competitor start to seo stuff, some day he might start doing it right

So did you urls change when you upgraded the site?  If so did you 301 redirect them correctly?  Or are they all 404s now?

I agree with Tom and Lynn.  It would be technically possible if you make sure there is no connection with the site, (who is, theme, content, different host/ ip range, etc), there would be no way for google to know one person is behind it.

But the amount of work to do that with white hat methods would be incredibly hard ( even with black hat it would be very hard), for a decent keyword worth ranking for..... I don't think its possible these days.

sounds right,  OSE does not get all links, I have found links it has missed a few in the past (normally low DA sites) or it might take 2 crawls before it picks it up.  If its still missing after the next crawl or too, might be worth reporting (since it a big PA backlink)

In (very) short, "Seo"  does not cover all what Moz now does, it has expanded from that. (+ there are other reasons, see article above)

yes, you can track  google.co.uk, bing.co.uk etc in your campaigns

Clearly methods on blackhatworld work, ( or it would not exists), but the questions what type of site does it work for.  Some one with multiple disposable domains with affiliate links as the earner that if they lost one of them, it would be annoying but would not be the end of the world, they just start again. Or it it a long term investment brand (e-commerce store? ) if de-listed by google would be the end of the world.

It depends on your position.  But I don't think you should do both black and white hat, because once you get hit by google badger update, all that white hat will be wasted, (or you spend a very long time undoing the black hat work, and even then you don't know if its worth it as it might have been only the black hat stuff that was making you rank)

yeah it a more complex system, but I have seen it been used before and seen other offer this type of think before and at some stage it did work, and maybe it still does to a degree.

It basicly their plan is:  crap ---> shite ---> balls ---> yourwebsite = win!!

but more importantly its the type of thing google does not want you to do and its some thing that could be spotted and so they will target it in the future (badger update?), so long term its not is a good strategy IMO.

I would rather but the $169 toward getting some real "beautiful" blog post/ info-graphs etc, because you don't have to worry about those links biting you in the ass in a few years.

"creating beautiful web 2.0 posts with well-written unique content on premium web 2.0 hosts"

so submitting blog articles to crappy 2.0 blog networks?  This is the type of stuff google is targeting, I would stay away.

$169 for 10 good articles, on 10 actually good blogs you would want a backlink from is too good to be true....

I don't know the company, but that my (cynical) opinion

when did you add  <meta name="<a class="attribute-value">robots</a>" content="<a class="attribute-value">noindex,nofollow</a>" />, the page was cached on the 30th of may, maybe google has not crawled the page since it has been added.

I can confirm chris is correct, our crappy CMS does the same thing (for certain pages), and the pages are not indexed

I can't tell you which is the best  as I have only used a few (I think most people are the same)

I have used zen-cart alot, and with ceon-seo module (free),  I have had very good results seo wise.  But I had to do alot of custom work to it (eg rich snips etc),  but the good thing about opensource your in complete control, it also has a good community.

But I would guess its not the best option out there, but I would recommend it for small businesses that want to get started on the small budget.

A competitor used x-cart and he does very well seo wise (rich snips and all), but I have no idea if that's out of the box, or they have done alot of custom work on it.

Currently we are on a small closed E-commerce CMS (not zen-cart) which is very frustrating, I so I'm planning to migrate to a different E-commerce.  Magento seems to be the top contender, but as someone with experience with it, what's its pros and cons?

that page seem fine, and it also indexed by google, so I'm not sure whats the story with that.  Might be best to contact seomoz support (help@moz.com I think)

can you give an example of one of the pages the is  "blocked_google"

Btw try screeming frog ( you can do 500 pages for free), it should pick up the same error and might explain why.

OK found one problem

on this page

http://www.odin-groep.nl/Home/ctl/OverOdin/ReindersICT.aspx

you have a link to

http://www.odin-groep.nl/Home/ctl/OverOdin/OverOdin/LesscherIT.aspx

which i think should be

http://www.odin-groep.nl/Home/ctl/OverOdin/LesscherIT.aspx

ok I did a quick screaming fog and I think I have an idea, you just have to follow the breadcrumbs

You said in you example "In Links 9", you need to find out what those pages are and follow it back to the point of origin As I think its just one bad link that cause this nested link effect.

eg

http://www.odin-groep.nl/Home/ctl/OverOdin/OverOdin/OverOdin/OverOdin/HeutinkICT.aspx

is being linked from

http://www.odin-groep.nl/Home/ctl/OverOdin/OverOdin/OverOdin/StationtoStation.aspx  (as well as others)

You just have to follow that trail till you find the source of the problem

I think Screaming Frog will tell you the page it found the weird url, then you can check the source, and find out whats producing that link.

apologies

I did think for a second after writing "He" maybe I should have said "the person" or "they", but then laziness kicked in 

check that those pages don't have some like:

meta name="robots" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW" />

in the source code

Are you talking about the rankchecking tool (http://ranktracker.moz.com/)  or via a campaign?

you can upload multi keywords at a time with the campaign rank checker, but I don't think you can with http://ranktracker.moz.com/

he means when you manuly search google gives you personal results that can be very different to what everyone else gets

so if you search oasis-land.com, the url is :

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=oasis-land.com&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=rcs

add &pws=0 to the end of that url

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=oasis-land.com&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=rcs**&pws=0**

that will give you results with personal results turned off

note: we track .co.uk and have had no problems with moz's tracking

considering this thread has only 36 views I think you should go ahead a post on youmoz, as I think its deservers more exposure ( maybe added pieter point and your warning about not to blindly follow removem)

I think its really depends on you website and budget.  Some people say its worth it others say its not.  Some get direct traffic from it, but I think most do not (from my own experience I got no direct traffic from it).

I'm not going to say you should not get it,  but for my own point of view  I have no plans currently to get it for my own site

The article is 6 years old, a just far to out of date in the seo world!

When I first started on "seo" I found a 2007-8 article on link sculpting you site Nav with No follow.  Then after doing a ton of work applying this to the the site Nav I found out it all changed in 2009, and it was now a terrible Idea!

you will just have to pay around the the include and exclude filters to get the results you want.  If you could "mark" your landing page commonly that you can then exclude them filters eg a string of text or something, You will just have to have a good think about it

Sorry I could not have been more helpful, but there are loads of guide on how to use filters in this way on the internet.

Little if any I would have thought, but to be honest I have never looked into it.  Think it of it as a tool tip, giving a bit more info for the user.  If it helps the user then use it, if not then don't

edit:  Here is an old topic asking the same thing (hope that helps)

http://moz.com/community/q/link-title-with-anchor-text

The value your looking for is "title"  eg:

link link

Hopefully I'll never be in the situation you found yourselves in, but a great read and now I know what to expect if I ever do (touch wood).

This might have been better as a youmoz post than a forum post btw.

Your DA and PA are weak so if I were you I would be selective on what your target. Do some research on keywords you would like to rank for and see what the competition is like for that keyword in the serps and if you have a hope to rank ( you might want to start on mid-long term keywords).

You can also see what pages your currently rank for (page 2 or 3) and if a little improvement with the PA would it get to the front page, then you will know if it worth having a site wide link (via the Nav) to get the max PA to that page from your own site.

But don't for get the people have to use the site so it might not be possible to have every link on the nav to be a landing page.

I think alot off people are not taking into account about the penguin 2.0 update its site that are backlinking to you might be devalued.

So you look at your own backlink profile and you think its ok, but the backlink profile of the site that backlink to you might have hand there authority reduced (maybe even penalised). And then what about the backlinks to the backlink of the backlinks ( backlInkception)

My under standing is that penguin 2.0 is only about backlink profiles (like 1.0), and everything else is speculation at this stage without a lot of research.

I'm not saying what your have noted is not correct, just that there are far to many variables at this stage to come to any conclusions and some bigger research needs to be done on it.

"so we are focusing now on links to home page"  I think that might be a good idea, more links to the homepage would look more natural IMO

you have to think what your landing pages are related to the keyword, (are your products your landing page or are your categorys your landing pages)   the 145 links on the nav is really splitting your PA of you pages very thin.  eg the 27 pa of your homepage is being spread over those 145 pages.  Its better to reduce those site wide links to just your landing pages, with clearly always thinking of your users use the site and what works best for them.  Think of it like this is a menu with 145 really helping your users?

I'm currently doing the same think for our website, reducing a 222 link nav down is about 20

don't put the 2 different analytics codes on your page!

What you can do is use segments or profile filters (you can have multi profile for one site) to split your data up

the most likely explanation is the moz's bot had not crawled that page ( is too deep), to give it a value.  Note: google bots crawls a lot more than moz's bot and so it will give that page value, its easy to test, google the url and see it its indexed.

Does it pass any authority is a different question.  I have heard mixed opinions about the yahoo directory, some saying its worth the money, other saying its not.

Personally and currently I would not bother paying for it, but I would not tell someone they shouldn't get it.  At my last job I did not renew the link one year and it did not seem to have any  effect on the site's serp (but I cannot prove it did not)

If you search the forums you will find alot of topics about it.

moz's bot crawls 10,000 pages on your site and will report every error it finds on those pages.  If your 9999 page is a dup of 10,001 page (ie the a page the bot does not crawl), it will not report about the dup (as it does not know about it)

Also the next time the bot crawls the site it might crawl different pages from the first 10k it crawled (eg if your have changed the site structure etc), so the report might change even if you have not removed the dups

note: the bot normally crawls slightly more than 10k, (eg 10,234 pages)

I think its take a day for the points to be applyed ( I think I thats what happened when I filled mine out)

I'm going to be taking over the PPC for my company.  A 3rd party currently does it but I have done a review and they have not been doing  a great job ( I spotted a few very basic mistakes), so we want to switch it to in house

I have experience with PPC, and I'm confident on the basic  of it, but I was looking for a good (recent) PPC resource or guide so I can make sure I'm doing it right, basicly a ppcmoz

For example current the campaigns are set to accelerated, but I have been told that is very wasteful, but the 3rd party explanation is:"We set the campaigns to be accelerated to avoid missing out on potential sales.  These can be set to standard if you wish however there is a higher chance that sales could be missed."

Which is correct?

are you sure that there are only 100 pages?  I noticed you have different urls/pages for each language version of your site, so that would x5 to start off with.

if you google site:http://www.clearviewtraffic.com

you see you have at least 868 pages crawled by google

If you look into the report in detail you can see what pages have the errors which will give you a clue were its getting the 19k pages from

you could also contact the hosting company of the site, they might take down the site for you, or  aleast contact the fake site owner

Example 1 is mostly correct, but jazy point is that it would be more like this:

5 Nofollows: 0 juice each but 47.5 thrown away (2.5 naturally lost)

5 Follows: 9.5 juice each (47.5 juice total, 2.5 naturally lost)

Total 47.5, with 47.5 thrown out and 5 naturally  lost

I would think that you would still get benefit from the link on a domain level, but not as good as link to a proper page (as you pointed out).

You could 301 redirect the links to a landing page for the pdf file, but should you? I don't know.

Still it weird that a government site is hotlinking files on your site, I would have thought that would be bad practice from their side.  Still its good news for you.

I agree with the guys above, it less to do with seo (if any) and more about human error.

I used to help with a uk gaming website that had a lot of american visitors, and I notice over the years people (the old time) would link to "sitename".com instead of .co.uk, which was held  by a domain shark, so lost back links.

But I think this is because of an American audience used to everything being .com

Note:  ultimately we bought the .com off the domain shark, I contacted him and originally he wanted $1000s for the domain, I said $300 would be the most I would page for it and said good bye.  2 month later he came back to me and sold it for $300.  So if you have a domain shark with the .com play the long game with them.

It all changed in 2008/09, and link sculpting in this way does not work anymore.  page authority is shared  equally to all links, but for no-follow its not passed, just just thrown out the window (not retained)

you might want to  remove (or break) that url to you competitor stolen article as this forum is crawled too...

if you search "keyword" the url looks like this:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=keyword&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

change to

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=keyword&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a**&pws=0**

so you don't get personal results

I have only used dreamhosts shared hosting, don't know about dedicated.

"would you expect the hosting company to let you know that your site has been hacked or is it down to yourself to know"

Generally no, that you be your responsibility (or if your have a maintenance contact with the web developer).

Again dreamhost has some cool auto safe guards eg one of my clients had malware/virus on his pc and was sending out spam, they auto reset the password when it was picked up.  I also think they have other auto features to inform you about hacking, but its guaranteed service, its just a bonus they do.

I'm not saying you should go with dreamhost, I'm just telling you what they can/have done, (i have only use a few host companies)  but I'm sure there are alot of hosts that do that too (maybe even more).

worked in my moz tool bar in firefox

you can manually check some of the urls, there are loads of tools online that will check it

http://www.internetofficer.com/seo-tool/redirect-check/

I came across this site  http://www.sponsoredreviews.com/,  thought its idea was a place were you can offer your product to be reviewed by bloggers, (fairly white hat I would have thought),  I had a quick look and it seemed to me its for for selling back links on blogs, but before I dismissed it completely I just wanted to see if anyone else had any experience with it?

Update:  if this website is no good, are there any genuine places were you can offer you products for review?