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I personally wouldn't even link to it.  Many people believe that Google still looks to see what's on the other end of a nofollow, so I wouldn't even test the waters by linking to the adult site at all.

First off, I would definitely suggest not linking the two if the non-adult site is trying to rank for something not adult related.  You are the company you keep on the internet.

With that off my chest, what kind of content is going to be on the non-adult site?

This might help:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/are-you-wasting-budget-with-online-press-release-distribution-14595

I steal local traffic from other towns since they don't optimize for it.  Such as [City] [State] Car Dealerships or [City] [Make].

However, I just switched website companies, and some of my pages didn't transfer well... Oh well...

As for the Yukon, we only have two in: http://www.resslermotors.com/search/Yukon Denali+q

I've been eyeing this software for a while:

http://www.buzzstream.com/

However, I just use Google, Gmail, SeoMoz and Majestic SEO for now.

You could start building your own Google Doc tools, though.  Here's a starter:

http://nielsbosma.se/

Excel SEO Tools

From what I can find on the internet, it depends.  Matt Cutt's has stated that these types of links are for profit, so would typically be devalued.  However, a few people have found value in these types of links.

Soooooo, it depends on the situation, but the main purpose of your affiliate network is still in place; to get more leads.

I work at a Toyota, Scion, Chevrolet and Cadillac dealership, and the format that has produced the best results for me are:

[Year] [Make] [Model] for sale in [city] [state] | [Dealer Name]

As long as you aren't in my area I have other suggestions, too

How else are those pages being linked to?  Have you ran a Screaming Frog scan to see how many internal links they are getting compared to similar pages that are ranking well?

Maybe have some sort of arrow pointing out that the next step is to pick a size?

You said it much better than I did.

I'd ask for the sale sooner.  Put check boxes with the different models for each type, and have an "Add to Cart" button below it.  I thought I was on a review website until I got all the way down.

Less on what I saw, and more on analytics.  Are you looking where your highest exit % pages are?  Are they in the Cart, or on product pages?  What % exit?

There are some minor negative correlations when it comes to length of domains.  If it's a competitive search, then it may not be worth the minor interference.  However, if it's a low competitive vertical, then go right ahead.

My opinion, though, would be to use a shorter search phrase like goingoninfrance.com.  This will give you a broader appeal to consumers by not having the "right now" part, and it is short enough to remember.  This also keeps you safe if the algorithm would change to further impact long urls.

I can't remember where I saw the data, but the benefits of a link drop dramatically after the first few.  So, spending all that time building links to a secondary blog that will only give you good juice on probably two links seems a waste of time.  You would be better off buying a well established blog, drop a couple links to yourself, and continue to utilize it for its intended purpose.

If it were me, I would put that quality content with the products themselves, and work on getting them ranked.  With a well designed page you should be able to convert these people for the phrases they searched.  If additional help is needed, link out to it from this page, and not as a separate blog.  It will benefit from the very relevant link on your own site, and you can continue to build links to it if its a popular search phrase.

First thing to find out is if there is sufficient traffic to any of the individual searches (Yamaha R1 Cover).  I'm going to assume that some motorcycles are more popular than others.  If that's the case, then I would start with the most popular motorcycle, and start creating landing pages specifically about that.  Maybe do this for the top 10 types that are purchased.

Make sure the content on these 10 pages is pretty convincing on why they should buy from you, but also make sure they are optimized for search.  Then it's the simple part:

1. Get ranked
2. Get traffic
3. Study analytics

If they lead to sales, keep going with other pages!  If not, then forget about it.  It's easy for one of us to tell you what to do, but the reality of the situation is that you could possibly benefit from this additional traffic, or it could just be a learning experience.

It's not so much that you have to have a blog, but you do have to have content on your website.

Awesome content that is link-able = Good for SEO

Also, don't make your blog a stand alone thing.  If a post is relevant to a page on your website, make sure to link over to it!

I'm having a similar experience at the moment.

2. From the perspective of controlling the SERPS, and having multiple listings in each search, Youtube wins.  However, as other's have mentioned on this same post, that listing will be to Youtube, and not straight to your company.  You then have to contend with that user's urge to continue on Youtube when trying to get them to your website.  To me, this is a problem.

Instead, I would use hosting company that allowed you to actually have the video on your website, and not just frame it in like Youtube or the basic Vimeo.  This will make the video count for content on your website, as well as allow you to have the video rank in SERPS.  Check out Wistia, as previously mentioned, or Vimeo PRO since both of these will allow you to properly place them on your domain.  I would also suggest using Schema markup for these videos.  Doesn't hurt to swing for the rich snippet fences!

For starters I would look at where your duplicate content is.  You will then want to go to these pages to fix those errors.  Some of them are as simple as changing the Title Tag to something more specific, and other will require getting rid of a duplicate page that shouldn't exist.

From there you can tackle the harder stuff that may require a web designer's help.

First off, make sure to keep the 2012 url.  It has generated links that will benefit your site as a whole.

Secondly, I would create the 2013 page as soon as possible, and post the movies that are supposed to come out in 2013.  Make sure to update every so often to keep it up to date.  This will allow you to start generating links to the new url.  This will then improve your site as a whole, and give you a step up for ranking high with the new page.  If you find a movie estimated for a 2014 arrival, slap up another page.

You are going to want fresh content on your website, so having a small snippet of your blog posts could assist in that.  However, having too much of the post could potentially dilute your overall content on that page.

I've talked to a couple people that have said that 301's will pass on the penalty.  A better alternative would be to try move the links over to your new website in waves.  If you experience a drop, then you know the link exists in that group.  Just do some quick checks on their domain, and see what you find.

Of course, if you are working with 10,000+ links, your batches are going to have to be pretty large.

Then again, if you don't have more than a couple hundred, go through the various domains, and try to identify problematic links.

Common perception is that "nofollow" links still deplete your link juice, but the other site does not benefit.

That being said, there is no correlated data saying that linking to high quality sites will hinder your rankings (if done in moderation, and properly).  In fact, the correlation is very minutely in the positive.  So, if you think something is good enough to send your customers to, just let the link go free.  My only suggestion would be to control your anchor text, and make sure it's not something you would wank to rank for.  Ultra safe scenario would be to link with their brand name.

-Maximum number of internal links on a page

Depending on how powerful your site is, I would suggest keeping it around the 100 links mark per inventory pages; at least initially.  If you offer the ability to see more products at once that will keep all of your customers happy.  However, the fewer links per page, the more power you send down to your product pages.  If you start building links to these product pages, though, that could become irrelevant - depending on competition.  If you still need to give extra boost to specific products, look for ways to link them internally from other pages.

-If Google frowns on really long category pages

From what I read, Google doesn't really consider the navigation pages to be very valuable content.  However, I would only be concerned with that if you were trying to rank your search pages.  So, I would focus on what your potential customers would want.  If you feel like you need to rank for a specific phrase, generate a landing page that leads into that specific inventory search.

-Anything else

I would suggest testing multiple designs.  It's easy for us to tell you what you should do, but it's better to hear it from your visitors.  Also, don't spend a lot of effort trying to get a specific search to rank, instead create a landing page for that product category, which will then lead into your search.  You will have a lot of unique content on there, and your customers expect to see a landing page.

Here's the only example I know of: http://www.kbzk.com/home/

If you go into the source you will see the KBZK.com Title tag, and then a Title tag with their Tag Line.  The search engine only recognizes the first one, as well as any browser that you would use.

Call me lazy, but I just use Schema Creator(dot)Org: http://schema-creator.org/

I'd punch in your info, and see what it pops out.

SEOBook has a rank checker that you can use.  I'm not sure how high it goes, but it has a decent reach.

Welcome Tani!

As you could probably guess by my name, I work in the auto industry.  Which you would assume is pretty competitive.  Well, when I do my keyword research in the Google Keyword Tool, I'm greeted with .9's usually.  This sounds extremely daunting, but it really isn't that bad.  When I hop onto the keyword tool that SeoMoz offers, I get a 34%.  Now, that sounds really friendly!

So, my strategy is to generate my keyword list in the Google Keyword Tool, download the CSV and use excel to manipulate the data.  Once I discover the keywords I want, I run them through the keyword tool here at SeoMoz.  I know there is a way to just automatically do all this in Excel, but I've learned that I really don't know how to code in it.  Anyway, I then copy over the stats I get from here to the excel sheet for another column of data.  Finally, I look at what might be worth ranking for, in the short time, out of those keywords.  From there I will visit the top 10 sites, and see if they are doing things correctly for on page.

Depending on that stat, and my current websites stats, I will decide to go after a keyword or not.

Just to give you a little perspective:

You have 103 Root Domains pointing at you.  Geeks has 4300.

Now, they aren't doing their on page perfectly, but I'm going to guess that they haven't really needed to.  They are trying to rank for a few different search phrases on the page you've provided, so in a sense they are diluting their strength.  However, they are strong enough, at this point, where it doesn't matter.

As you will always hear, though, I'd suggest working on your on-page ranking factors, and trying to acquire high quality links.  I ran a quick check on your site, and you are internally pointing at 301's (such as http://www.theprinterdepo.com/plotters-drawing.html).  This will cause you to leak a little link value.  I found about a dozen in a couple minutes.

Great suggestion!

Just for a quick reference, though, ranking correlation for Places has been stated in this order for the few articles I read:

1. Claiming your places

2. Completing your profile

3. Local citations

4. Reviews

Local Citations are things like Yellow Pages, Yelp, City Search, Etc.  A company called Whitespark has a tool for checking citations, but I've never used it, so I couldn't honestly recommend it.  However, I do plan on using it sometime in the future.

One of the tools I use is seoquake.  However, I turn off every feature except the "strike-through no follow and no-index."  That way I can just quick glance at a page to see what kind of links are on there.

Also, hopefully you aren't just exchanging links to improve your link total.

for the www I do the "site:domain.com -www" search.  That way you can find all the pages without it.

• Make sure the individual services pages are well optimized (internally and externally).  Focus on link building to those places.
• Focus on one keyword on the home page, but make mentions of the other services in the content.  Build a wide array of links that mention those keywords.
• Then, use exact match keywords to link to your service specific landing page.  Building relevant links to those pages.
• Make sure your most important pages have the most authority being passed to them through your web pages.

1. Run an "Open Site Explorer" check to see what links are pointing at you.  Start with the lower quality ones, and do a site:domain search.  If they aren't indexed, get rid of that link.
2. Check where your links are located on these sites.  Footer?  Request a new location, or request to delete the link.
3. Check your keyword density.  If it's obviously high, decrease it
4. Find straggler pages.  Judge it to see if its valuable.  If not, 301 it.
5. Check out all of your pages (starting with most important).  Do they have light content?  Write more good content

• Car Rental Catastrophes
  • Keep a log of stupid stuff people do to your cars, and how you fixed it.
• Funny Video
  • Show someone that is revving up the engine (with some insanely powerful sounding engine revs), winking to the ladies on the street corner and then show him peeling away in a Toyota Yaris/Chevy Aveo/Honda Fit.   (like this, but with an actual good idea!)
• Do a daily FML picture
  • Someone blocks you into your parking spot... FML
  • Suggest readers to submit their photos
• Give a link to my website... Oh woops, how did that get on here???

Most listing I see now are the hybrid ones.  Meaning they attached your Places page to your website, but the click thru still goes to your website. If that is the case, then that is where you now rank.

It's when someone searches for that exact phrase.  You can change your Google Adwords to exact on the left side of the page.

Exact = Blue Widgets

Broad = My Blue Widgets are Crazy Awesome

My favorite one is creating a PDF of a resource for other people to use on their website.   Inside the article I will have my website linked from the keyword phrase I want.  They upload the document, because it's helpful, and I get a link.

Truth be told, I just started doing this, but I've had a good response so far.

Another option is trading a SEO white paper in exchange for a link.

Digg is a great medium.  I would also suggest writing a great piece of content, and using that as an ice breaker for requesting guest posts.

Like:

Look what I can do!  Let me do it for your site!

I think it could generate quite a few leads for you.  Even though there is quite the controversy over their ranking factors (I've read money is the main one a few times), I've talked to quite a few companies who said that they receive quite a few leads from it.

Here's how I would look at it:

• People outside of the SEO business are going to go there to find talent (because there isn't really any other place that offers rankings).
• People in the business aren't going to hire you unless they know you.  You are going to generate these leads by attending conferences, meetings and other social activities.

I would just let it ride, and see what comes.  You probably couldn't get your money back anyways, so just enjoy the marketing

3 and 4 all the way.  There's a bunch of ways to peel a potato!

Sorry SeoMoz!

I usually use Majestic Seo to check my backlink process.  I don't know the timelines for when they update, but their charts make me feel better about my link building (since the usually show growth).

I'm at the 18,000 mark with mine (Actually much lower because of Title and Body being counted separately)

We have 10+ matches of each Make/Model of new vehicles, a finance page for each of those vehicles (going away soon), a test drive page for each of those vehicles (going away soon), request more info page for each of those vehicles (going away soon), as well as some other random duplicates.  It's been a process to convince the developer to do any of it...

I have unpersonalized Google searches in Firefox, as well as my data cleared out all the time, but I always end up with personalized searches.  I just feel more confident using something that is "untainted."

Do U.S. teams usually have a marketing/Public Relations department?  Do you think you could get interviews with players and coaches?

I'm wondering if I should if should optimize our ecommerce categories to be descriptive or use abbreviations to help keep the URL length to a minimum?

What kind of search traffic could your categories generate?  If they do generate a lot, I would just create a landing page specifically for that portion, and then use /short-category/exact-match-best-served-product-phrase

Like:

/shoes/whatever-shoes-kids-are-wearing-these-days

What kind of content do you think is missing that they might be able to fill?  The only thing I know about soccer is that you need an SUV to haul your kids around

I use a separate browser to search my rankings.  I kept getting biased results from the three browsers I use (Chrome, IE, Firefox), so I downloaded Opera for the sole purpose of checking ranking.  I never click anything with it, and always clear my data from it.  It's been pretty accurate over the last 8 months.

That's the right bias to have!