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Thanks a lot for your time and ideas Lynn!

It seems to be the case with Books, CDs, Video Games & DVDs. Thank heavens these SERP results are still a minority.

This case is interesting:

[La vie est belle Priceminister]

http://goo.gl/0QApO

Amazon is N°1

[PriceMinister La vie est belle]

http://goo.gl/RySHQ
We occupy the first 6 results and Amazon is nowhere to be seen.

Thanks for your help. : )

Hi Lynn,

Thanks for taking the time to look into our problem, it’s much appreciated.
You are right when you say that we are very similar site to Amazon.fr and that we are often linked to jointly in the same articles. But we are an established e-commerce pure player in France and it seems insane that Google would rank an Amazon page higher than ours on a branded query.  : /

To answer your question regarding branded queries, they’re in the millions monthly.

Frustration aside, As an SEO I find that these results really bad for the end users who want to buy a product on our site.

I wonder what Google think of this issue...

Hi Kyle,

Sure our domain is priceminister.com

Hi all,

I have noticed a very bizarre phenomenon in Google SERPs. When I search for a branded keyworks [Product + our brand].
Amazon.fr appear above us on thousands of results. Google even ranks Amazon above us for queries like [ PriceMinister google plus].

I have tried to ask Google about it but I can’t seem to get an answer. Here is the topic I posted on Google’s forum:

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/webmasters/crawling-indexing--ranking/DFvTPr14o_o

This seems like a mistake on Google’s side, some kind of semantic association with our two brands! Basically they are sending our customers to our main competitor even though they specifically searched for our brand (PriceMinister).

I find the phenomenon quite interesting for the SEO community and frustrating for our company.

Does anyone have ideas on this one?

Do you think it's a bug from Google?

Cheers

Oliver

It's all in the Title!

Hi Barney,

It really depends on the size of the site you are trying to optimize.

But Idealy every page should be optimized for it's own keywords.

You also want to make sure that your meta tags are different on every page of the site.

here is a post by Rand on the subject: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/tactical-seo-how-many-termsphrases-should-i-target-on-a-single-page

Add this plug-in to your browser https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/seo-status-pagerankalexa-toolb/ and you will be able to instantely see a web pages PR & Alexa Rank

If you want to get the PR from a list of URLs in an excel sheet add this plug-in to Excel : http://nielsbosma.se/projects/seotools/

Hope this was helpful!

Oliver

Hi there I have also noted some radical changes in my rankings but it also came with a 30% + drop in organic traffic.

have you experienced similar "side affects"?

Thanks for the answer David. I already use most of these tools I thought that there might be a hidden gem somewhere that I hadn’t found yet ; )

Hello SEOs,

I work for an e-commerce site and we often open new categories Babycare, Arts & Crafts, DIY...

Does anyone have any killer methods to find the right key words for sub categories, items,...

Handy tools? Tips?  Google doc spread sheet cheat?

Cheers!!!

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Thanks for your answers Daniel & Andy

But realistically isn’t it very time consuming to build quality relationships with each blog we would like to get a link from?

That almost sounds like a full time job to itself.

Would you say that 4-5 long time relationships with quality blogs is better that a one off “blogger competition” campaign  with 50 new backdomain links.?

Thanks for your time guys

Fellow SEOs,

I’m looking for a new way to reach out to bloggers and site owners for links.

There are quite a few link bait techniques to lure bloggers thanks to = amazing content, infographics,...but there are not so many articles on ways to contact bloggers/webmasters and ask for links...

We all know that contacting site owners directly and politely asking then to place a link on their home page is as useful as a comb in Bruce willis’s hand.

Link exchange is as dead as the Dodo and business partner links are usefull and easier to get but opportunities are often limited.

I have been organizing contests for bloggers recently and it has been quite successful up to now, but I always like to have a spare trick up my sleeve.

So if any of you have a decent method to reach out to  bloggers/webmaster and get decent links please let me know, I will be forever thankful ; )

Cheers

Are there any risks of getting penalized by Google if one was to publish a blogger competition on a corporate blog, in which participating bloggers have to include a link* on their blogs to enter?

Bloggers also receive a small prize (CD, book,..) to thank them for participating.

After what happened with Overstock.com do you think this kind of link-bait is risky?

*each blogger has to write an original article and the links are organic.

Thanks for your help.

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