thank you good sir.

Thanks Andy!

OK, imagine you have a blog, and you want to make each blog post authoritative so you link out to authority relevant websites for reference. In this case it is two external links per blog post, one to an authority website for reference and one to flickr for photo credit. And one internal link to another part of the website like the buy-now page or a related internal blog post.

Now tell me if this is a good or bad idea. What if you nofollow the external links and leave the internal link untouched so all internal links are dofollow. The thinking is this minimizes loss of link juice from external links and keeps it flowing through internal links to pages within the website.

Would it be a good idea to lay off the nofollow tag and leave all as do follow? or would this be a good way to link out to authority sites but keep the link juice internal?

Your thoughts are welcome. Thanks.

Thanks for the insight Patrick.

For many reasons the websites must remain separate, good suggestion though.

Rich

My client owns a brand and came to me with two ecommerce websites. One website sells his specific brand product and the other sells general products in his niche (including his branded product).

Question is my client wants to rank each website for basically the same set of keywords.

We have two choices I'd like feedback on-

Choice 1 is to rank both websites for same keyword groupings so even if they are both on page 1 of the serps then they take up more real estate and share of voice. are there any negative possibilities here?

Choice 2 is to recommend a shift in the position of the general industry website to bring it further away from the industry niche by focusing on different keywords so they don't compete with each other in the serps.

I'm for choice 1, what about you?

Thank you for the reply. A quick update, my client just informed me they purchased a new 800 number for the second business (instead of a local number). What are the implications with a toll free number?

thank you Vic

So in this scenario the 2 businesses actually do share the same phone number.

My client wants to promote the new business over the old business.

The 2 businesses are different in one is a music lessons studio on site and the other business is private in-home music lessons where instructors visit homes for lessons.

The thing is Google verified and displays both business listings in the [extended] local map pack. It's because of this fact that I'm hesitant to just delete the older business G+ profile. I do not think they can be merged.

The old business listing ranks well for big search queries that the new business listing doesn't. I'd hate to miss out on visibility for those queries because I needed to delete the listing.

I think that they do not compete against each other, they actually take up more real estate which gives the client a better chance to be found. Think about fishing with 2 poles instead of 1.

What do you think?

Thanks Vic

Imagine someone who has 2 separate businesses with the same (home) address. Both are verified Google My Business G+ pages, each with its own separate website.

Essentially the old business that is being de-emphasized is a guitar lesson teacher's studio. This G+ page is set as a storefront where people come to.

The new business is similar, it is music lessons (private in-home instruction). This G+ page is set to have a service area - this goes along with their new business model.

We all know that consistent NAP is essential BUT do you think these are competing against each other because they share an address even though the businesses are separate?