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Hi! Thanks! I completely understand. We would never want to prevent URLs on the client's domain from being crawled. That could clearly put our client's online presence at risk. However, we're more concerned with Google noticing the shopping cart's domain is pointing to every page of the client's website which could appear unnatural & potentially, put the client's site at risk. What we're hoping to achieve is preventing from Google crawling the third party URL on every page to avoid any penalization.

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Thanks for the feedback!  So the robots.txt is the best way?

The shopping cart's URL does not have much authority so it's not important for us to get the link juice from the separate domain which is why we're debating how to implement a no follow. Do you see any harm in doing so?

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Rez

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We have clients who are using an e-commerce cart that sits on a separate domain that appears to be providing site wide links to our clients websites. Therefore, would you recommend disallowing the bots to crawl/index these via a robots.txt file, a no follow meta tag on the specific pages the shopping cart links are implemented on or implement no follow links on every shopping cart link? Thanks!

Thanks for the feedback! Are you saying that the KMZ file is for when you have more than one location for a particular business/domain? If you only have one business location, would a KML be ideal as it relates to local SEO exposure? We work with independent hotels. Therefore, locally speaking, what do you feel is the best strategy regarding site maps?

When should you use a KMZ file? What are the benefits to using a KMZ file as opposed to just a standalone KML file?

Is it frowned upon to use basic anchor text such as "click here" within a blog article when linking externally? I understand, ideally, you want to provide a descriptive anchor text, especially linking internally, but can it negatively affect your own website if you don't use a descriptive anchor text when linking externally?

Yes!!!! Thank you!

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Agreed!! The problem we'd like to solve is being able to manage multiple accounts from one location rather than setting up multiple add-this accounts and checking in separately. Would you recommend setting up these accounts individually and measuring through social tracking via Google Analytics (that's what we're currently using for tracking)? Would that be optimal?

Hi! What is a recommended social media share plug-in (SEO-friendly) to implement across multiple websites (desktop & mobile) for an agency? Also, does the suggested social share plug-in provide a dashboard to review multiple accounts via one location?