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Tks Sorina

Hello,

Well I have a problem with a competitor. What happens is that when i search for the keyword "Cadeira de rodas" in www.google.pt a site of a competitor appears in the first place and I'm in second.

Well thats life, right?

My problem with that competitor (http://www.cadeirasderodas.net/) is using a page exclusively to the keyword. The title, domain and the only keyword is all "Cadeira de rodas" and then there is a redirection  to another site after you enter.

Since Google consider this as a fraude, where can I denounce this situation?

Tks in advance!

PP

www.invacare.pt

Hello guys,

My question is about link building and reciprocal links. Since many directories request a reciprocal link, makes me wonder if is not better to create a unique page in the website only for this kind of links.

What do you guys recommend?

Thanks in advance,

PP

Hello Guys,

My question is about a link building process. We all know that some directories/sites do require a reciprocal link.

Does it make any sense to creat a page in website exclusively to reciprocal links?

And what we do with this webpage in terms of indexing, do folow, crawling...etc.

Any sugestions are more then welcome

Tks in advance!

PP

Hello lads,

I need to creat a XML sitemap for a website so I can add to Google Webmaster and Bing Webmaster.

What do you guys recommend?

Tks in advance!

PP

Tks Mark - Will do

Hello,

Can anyone help me finding a tool to have closer look of the XML sitemap?

Tks in advance!

PP

Claudio,

These are directory sites that have reputacion and Google knows that. This is not a link-building tactic to fool the search engines.

Anyway you can check this video from Matt Cutts, and if you pay attencion you will hear him talking about directories

This video from July 2012 as more interesting things about SEO. Check it out

If you have the money, you have the chance to get links that maybe ur competicion doesnt have. Try to check if they are there. If they aren´t is a small step ahead and is a secure one

Hello,

No folow links dont pass juice, so in my opinion there is no harm from those type of links.

Matt Cutts talking also about no folow links....

Hello Brian,

If you get that analysis from Open site explorer you have to understand that some information is not there, since OSE is constantly updating.

I usually use more then one program to make a on-page analyze. Try Screamingfrog and lets us know if you see a more complete information about internal linking.

Regards,

Pedro M Pereira

Hello Claudio,

Yahoo directory along with DMOZ, Best of the Web and Business.com are consider by most of SEO´s as important backlinks to a website.

Do I recomend it? Well it really depends on the budget that you have, but yes they are important backlinks.

I hope it helped!

Regards,

Pedro M Pereira

Love your awser MetmiX and in my experience thats the way I feel about this question. I was just feeling the community....;)

Hello,

The SEO world is a bit confuse in the last months with the Google Antartic updates. Its normal since Google is trying to kill SEO to have more Adwords publicity results.

My most recent doubt is about directories. I heard Matt Cutts from Google in a recent Google Hangout saying that registering a website in directorys was ok, but not the ideal method to become relevant in the internet world. However it seems that this procedure is not against the Google policies.

Now, here in the forums, I already saw someone writing about adding your site to directories and how dangerous that situacion is.

So, whats your opinion about adding your site to free and pay directories as first link-building strategy? If directories are out of the question, why SEOmoz as a huge list of paid directorys? Is SEOmoz outdate?

Thanks Phil, it solved my problem.

I change the regional setting and boom, problem solved!

Cheers!

Hello,

Im having a problem with the data I pull off from Open Site Explorer. Everytime I download a report in CSV, when I open it in Excel 2007, all the information is like this:

http://i.imgur.com/rwMxO.png

What can I do to extract the information exactly as it appears in the Open Site Explorer with all the fields in the right place?

Tks guys,

Regards,

Pedro Pereira

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The file from SEOmoz appears like the image I attached in here.

Any ideia how to fix this?

Tks!

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Hello,

I would like to export the reports from SEOmoz to an Excel sheet. However when I downoad the report and open it, all the information is random and is hard to work on it. Since Im not an excel expert, I have to ask if there is an Excel sheet ready to receive the SEOmoz reports.

Tks for the help,

Regards,

PP

I made all the on-page and off-page analysis and I have conclude that the site in the present is very week comparing to the competition.

I would say that it will loose nothing by changing the domain name.....

Hello,

Im working a e-commerce shop, and my question is about choosing the domain.

Presently the website is not performing good with the domain www.casaobjecto.com, that is the brand name of the shop.

Now I have made my analysis about keywords and conclude that it would be very interesting to have a domain name with the main keyword that im targeting. The domain is available.

If I choose the maintain the www.casaobjecto.com as main domain and the other keyword domain pointing to that site, whats the influence that can take in the keyword im looking for?

Or should I replace the target keyword domain (becomes the main domain) by the brand domain name? Whats the best choice?

Tks in advance,

Pedro M Pereira

Hey,

Did you check http://www.seomoz.org/directories ?

It has alot of good links to add your website. I hope it helps

Regards,

Pedro M Pereira

Hello,

I have a blog for one year now and in the overwall is going great. In all this time it was an awesome way to discovery some SEO mysterious and learn with experience wich in my point of view is the best way to do it.

Now my observation is about links to other sites and what does that do. At the present I have about 35 keywords in the 3 first places in Google, bing e Yahoo. All good.

I notice that the posts that I have links (dofolow) to other sites are performing better then those ones that only have internal-links. And Its curious that this change as starting to surface in Dezember of 2011.

Now the confusion is about the SEOmoz observation towards external links.

"You should avoid having too many (roughly defined as more than 100) hyperlinks on any given page. When search engine spiders crawl the Internet they are limited by technology resources and are only able to crawl a certain number of links per webpage. In addition, search engine algorithms divide the value of some popularity metrics by the amount of links on a given page."

Now hell with this observation I say. Its working for me and for now on I will actually apply this SEO strategy when Im talking about a subject in a post:)

What do you guys think? Whats your experince on this?

Regards,

Pedro M Pereira

Dr. Peter,

I have a doubt. I usually make my link building manually and I definitly think is more wise doing like this, because I actually can choose what links are interesting to my objective and also I can document all those links and control the situacion.

My main doubt is, how many links should I do everyday? I mean, is there any limit? Any thing that I should now?

Tks in advance!

Pedro M Pereira

Yeah, I also didnt saw any huge diferences in Google Analytics data.

Seems that you work on the site is working on!

Hi Rodney,

My vote goes for the subfolder. www.example.com/blog

Regular, quality content on a blog will get crawled and indexed very quickly, and if you are savvy with your internal linking, this will really boost the main site too.

You can also check some opinions from the guru´s of SEO here and Im sure you will reach to a conclusion.

http://www.agent-seo.com/blogging/seo-subdomain-vs-subdirectory/

I hope it helped

Hello Digini,

No big secrets here. I really recommend you this video from SEOmoz.

http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/all-about-google-places

It contains all the secrets to get the results you want to achieve in Google places/SERPS in Google.

I hope it helps,

Pedro Pereira

Tbiz,

Write an article. Publish in that article directory. Wait 1 month and see the result. Dont let others affect ur own experiments.

Regards,

PP

Hello Tyler,

For wordpress I use this tool Redirection. Is a plugin and its damn good and very simple to configure.

Let me know if it helped.

Regards,

PP

Hi Prasanth,

I also recomend Google Alerts. Set it up with the keywords your looking for and you will receive all recent articles from blogs to those terms everyday.

Next be certain they have do folow in the coments.

Regards,

PP

Ok, I got it Jeffrey

Tks for the help

Hello,

I have a blog www.digitaldiscovery.eu and I have been working the link building.

Now I have a few links pointing into my blog and in Google Webmaster and in Open Site Explorer I can see the URL of those websites.

In scale from 1 to 10 how usefull is to have a blogroll in my blog pointing back to those high PR links?

How usefull is this in link-building strategy?

Tks in advance!

PP

Hi :),

First of all, tks for the response.

About your second awser my problem is this. I have a URL (http://digitaldiscovery.com.pt/servicos-de-marketing-digital/publicidade-online/) that is too long as you can see.

The keyword I want to target is publicidade-online that is in the finalle of that URL. However with some test that I already did, I reached to the conclusion that to target the define keyword I have to shorter the URL to http://digitaldiscovery.com.pt/publicidade-online/.

Whats do you think? Is this a good ideia to climb in Google with that keyword?

Tks in advance!

PP

Hello guys,

I have a doubt. If I reedirect a url with a pagerank of 2 to a new URL, will I loose the PR?

My problem is that I have a long url in one page wich is not effective to target a keyword that Im persuing. Im climbing in Google, however I want to 1º place and I dont think that with this long URL I will make it.

Advices?

Cheers!

Pedro M Pereira

Neil,

In my prediction those black hat techiniques will be punished sooner or later by Google in 2012. Just keep your SEO clean and you will the results that you are looking for.

Got it

Cheers Cyrus

Awesome guys. I think I can manage from here. Tks alot for sharing the knowledge

Well tks for the aswers guys.

I reach to the conclusion that those tags are not a huge important factor for SEO. I will remove them since I have no porpuses for them in my website

Tks for the help guys

Well as far Im aware the crawling in SEOmoz is once a week.

However I have a project with the same problem as yours. In www.digitaldiscovery.eu I have like 200 on-page links in SEOmoz analyze. I already made the correction but in the SEOmoz analyze it still shows up 200 links in several pages of the website after 2 months..... I think we need help here Soren

Anyone from SEOmoz support team please?

Hello Soren,

Your talking about links in your site that are pointing to external websites, right?

If so the SEOmoz tools will take a while to show the situacion updated. Still a SEOmoz member crew would be usefull here

Hello,

I need to reedirect a URL of a page that I have in my site (http://digitaldiscovery.com.pt/servicos-de-marketing-digital/publicidade-online/) to a new URL with SEO porpuses. Whats the best way to this?

I use Wordpress btw.

Tks in advance!

PP

Hello,

I use the Wordpress plataform in my blog. What I want to ask is, how important is the tag field in the posts area.

Since I have the title tag and meta description how important is that field?

Its really a question that was in my mind since I start doing SEO

Tks in advance guys

Hi,

Well the website is www.digitaldiscovery.com.pt and as you can see in the Open Site Explorer only haves like 8 root domains point to it.

However I have been making quality link-building like DMOZ and Alexa and much much more since 2 of January and none of those links shows in open site explorer.

Is there any other program where can I see those links?

Tks in advance!

Hello,

I have been doing link-building for my website since 2 of January. However those links are not in the Open Site Explorer. For example I have the DMOZ website pointing to my website and I cant see it in open site explorer! Why??

Tks in advance!

Hello,

I have a website http://digitaldiscovery.eu here in SEOmoz. Its strange since the last week SEOmoz is crawling only one page!

And before it was crwaling all the pages. Whats happening?

Help SEOmoz! :))

Lawrence,

The link-building is a important part of off-page SEO. In my point of view, you should start creating a strategy to associate your site with others of the same area.

Also if you have a blog you should creat relevant content with texts and share them on the social media plataforms such as Twitter (that you already have), Facebook and also Linkdinn. You must have the Goolge +1 on the site aswell.

Last but not least as I see in Woorank (http://www.woorank.com/en/www/playgrounddevelopments.co.uk) you have alot of work ahead of you......on-page and off-page.....

Regards,

Pedro M Pereira

As always is a privilage to be in here in SEOmoz forum. This is like taking classes and learning from the best. Tks guys! It really helped!

One last Question Cyrus. How many links would you recomend to link to my site since it doesnt have many yet (www.digitaldiscovery.com.pt) using the SEOmoz tool of directorys?

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