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Hey Guys,

I started getting some links to my website.  When do you think I will see an increase in rankings?

Thanks!

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Hi,

I have a startup that connects people with lawyers.

There are a lot of directories of startups.  These are legitimate directories and not like the spammy directories.

Is it worth getting links from these types of directories?

Let me know.

Hi, I run a Lawyer lead gen site.

I could get links from like my bookkeeper and accountant but is it relevant?

Let me know what you think.

Hey,

How does it work with sponsorships and paid back links?

I have a lawyer website, and I know lots of people who do plays and play shows.

I could easily sponsor a band for like $100 and get a link on the page.

Is this allowed?  I could even write stuff on their page to make it more relevant.

let me know, thanks.

Are Reddit links worthwhile?

I hear they are sometimes follow and sometimes not follow.

Also what about links verses self links?

I'm pretty handy with reddit so I can probably make content that would actually be upvoted a lot.

Let me know, thanks.

So I have a site that does lawyer lead gen and I'm trying to make link magnets.

I know a lot about certain types of internet marketing.  Unfortunately not SEO.

If I make a blog about what Lawyers should know about say, new adwords changes or something like that, and then get links from PPC type blogs, would that help?

What if I made a blog about top movies with lawyers in them or something like that, and just got links from non lawyer sites.

Is that worth while?

Let me know.

I looked up that testimonials for like, some of our providers, with a backlink back to us, is a legitimate backlink.

The thing is they are a provider, not necessarily in the same industry as us.

Do testimonial backlinks work?

Hello.

I made a lot of car accident lawyer city pages.  They probably weren't as unique as they should have been.

Suddenly, they all disappeared from the rankings and I freaked out.  Then, two days later, they all returned.

Is this a bad sign?  Should I be worried? Why would they drop out of the rankings and come back in?

Let me know, thanks.

Ok, so going forward if I let's say, profile a local lawyer on each local page, or a few local lawyers is that ok?

Can I still title it Find a Lawyer Brampton, Find a Lawyer Mississauga, Find a Lawyer Stratford, if it is more unique from page to page?  Let me know, thanks.

Rafe

Interesting.  Perhaps I will try that.

Do you think leaving all these cloney pages up right now is a risk to the site?

If so how do i manually (temporarily) de-index them until I fix them?

We don't have a physical presence but we have a large partner network across those cities.

Ok, so let's say I'm willing to spend significant time on each page.

What could I even write that would make them really unique?  I mean I am giving the same information for each one just for the specific cities, no?

It's not that page that's de-indexed.  It's all the pages linked from that page. See when I do the same thing you just did it says de-indexed.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.lawyerconnection.ca%2Fpractice-areas%2Fcar-accident-injury-lawyers%2F&oq=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.lawyerconnection.ca%2Fpractice-areas%2Fcar-accident-injury-lawyers%2F&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.804j0j1&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8#q=site:http:%2F%2Fwww.lawyerconnection.ca%2Fcar-accident-injury-lawyers-in-mississauga%2F

Hello,

I am new to SEO.  I had this plan and understanding that I thought was a good one but seems to not be working as well as I thought.

Basically I thought that showing for a keyword was based on how close you had a page on your site with a title tag to the search and how many quality links you had to your sites.  Also the content had to be original.

So I had two plans. The first was to make specifically high value pages on my site (what to do when you are stopped by the police) and then try to seek out links for those pages.

My second plan was to make keyword specific pages for things in different cities.  IE Car Accident Lawyer Brampton, Real Estate Lawyer Brampton, Find a lawyer Brampton.  I hired some law students to re-write the same page basically with different language for every city, thinking that this would solve the duplicate content issue.

This worked very well at first but for some reason yesterday all of my car accident city pages were de-indexed and I'm not sure why.  http://www.lawyerconnection.ca/practice-areas/car-accident-injury-lawyers/  Very few other pages were de-indexed but I know that one of the find a lawyer pages was de-indexed.  Also the page I linked above was not de-indexed, just the city pages linked from that page.

I am not sure why the car accident pages were de-indexed.  Too Similar to each other?  Too similar to the slip and fall pages?  (Any help on that much appreciated)

Anyway I'm freaking out and now questioning the whole plan!  Any thoughts on my whole general SEO plan would be much appreciate.  Is this a good one?  Am I doing something wrong?

Hmm do you see the ones that I said look like they've been de-indexed?  I think they were!  Why would that be?

Let me know thanks.

I appreciate the help.  What is "Over Optimization?"

So here's why I think they're de-indexed.  I'm tracking google rankings and all my "Car accident lawyer-City" totally disappeared today.

If I go to google and I search:

http://www.lawyerconnection.ca/car-accident-injury-lawyers-in-oshawa/ or

http://www.lawyerconnection.ca/car-accident-injury-lawyers-kingston/

It doesn't come up.  Yesterday it definitely did.  This is why I think it's de-indexed.

Also my impression was I couldn't do Google My Business for all the different places because I don't have have brick and mortar locations in all of those cities.

Thanks and I appreciate the help.

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Hello all,

I am very new to SEO.

For some reason many of the pages on my site were de-indexed.

Specifically the ones linked from this page:

However other pages, like the ones linked from this page and this page were not de-indexed.

http://www.lawyerconnection.ca/practice-areas/car-accident-injury-lawyers/[1]

However the pages linked from this page were not de-indexed: http://www.lawyerconnection.ca/practice-areas/slip-and-fall-lawyers/[2]

http://www.lawyerconnection.ca/podcastresources/[3]

That first page itself was not de-indexed, just the site that it links to.

It just happened today, so maybe I am jumping the gun but I doubt it.

When I enter the page into google webmaster tools again and press fetch, one of the child pages, it re-indexes.

What could be the problem here? I had someone re-write the content for every city but I have a feeling that there is less differences in the car accidents pages?

Is this considered duplicated content do you think? Am I making some other mistake I can't think of? Is it just a one day blip (I doubt it)

Let me know, thanks.

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So how about this link to Lawyer Connection at the bottom?  www.rafesongs.com
What if I made a blog post about Law or something and linked it?  What if they did?

What if I make a blog post "things a real estate agent needs to know about law" and links back?

I saw an SEOMoz whiteboard video earlier who said that it doesn't matter if the site is related ornot.

Ok, I know this has kind of been answered, but...

I have a website that helps people find lawyers.  I also have a lot of friends who are musiciansand singer songwriters.

I could get these bands to link back to my page.

Should I do this?

Some are follow and some are no follow.  They show up in webmaster tools and not in site explorer.  In addition why do some other links show up in webmaster tools but not site explorer?

Thanks! Very helpful!

Hey, So i'm looking to make content that is optimized for Finding an injury lawyer in boston.

The Phrase "Personal Injury Lawyers in Boston" get's a lot more searches than "Find Personal Injury Lawyers in Boston" but with the Find is it less competitive?

The same thing goes for "Find lawyers in Boston" vs. "Lawyers in Boston."

My question is, is it better to put the word FInd in front or not?  Is there a downside?

Ok, so let's say I have a page on my site that says "Find a Personal Injury Lawyer Boston"

Obviously that is very competitive and it is hard to get links for.

However somewhere else on my site I have an article that says "10 mistakes to avoid when making a will."

In theory, if I can get links to the "Making a Will Page", that increases the domain authority of my entire site, and boosts the likelihood of ranking for "Find a personal injury lawyer Boston."

Is this correct?

Let me know and thanks for your help!

I really appreciate the help!!  Which one on the google page do you think it looks like?

So if I'm promoting a lawyer website, and I get a link from, say a newspaper, the newspaper is not about lawyers, so does that help?

What if I wrote content on everything you need to know if you are making a will, and I get links from retirement homes.  These sites are also not about lawyers, so would this help?

Ok, i'm promoting lawyers.

So I wouldn't post a comment in the comments section.

I would contact the pizza place owner who knows me and say "Hey, I really like your pizza!  I'll do a testimonial if you agree to make the link Follow"

So if I got a follow link for a lawyer website from a pizza place, would that be valuable assuming the pizza place has good domain authority?

Hey guys,

I am pretty new to the whole SEO thing.

I did have an idea though.  There are things that I like, IE restaurants in my neighbourhood.

If I did a testimonial for say, my local pizza place that I really like, with a backlink to my site, would that be useful.

IE "Jimmys pizza makes the best pizza in the neighbourhood by far
-RafeTLous president http://www.mybacklink.com"

Assuming the page has good domain authority would that be helpful?