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Hey,

It's easy peasy. Here is what u need to do:

1. confirm your site sitename.com/ with google webmaster tools.

2. check the craxl errors section after 3-5 days. you will find lots of 404 errors under the /store/ directory.

3. Make the right fixes to those 404 errors (most will have to be redirected 301 to the new location urls under the new subdomain shop.sitename.com ).

Let me know if you need more help here !

Hello,

Yes google uses many signals to identify the related searches for a query, but the most important factor is user behaviour on google searches. When many users type "x" and then are not satisfied with resutls they browsed, than they type "Y". Google will identify "y" as a related search for "X".

So influence related searches for G, you have 2 solutions:

1. Push/guide users to search for Y query after X.

2. Code a script that can do some manipulation (grey hat stuff, i did it 2 times for some clientd of mine ).

If you have further questions, get back to me.

Thanks

Hey,

I have a problem with a website of mines. Lately, it has been loosing an imortant number of links (like 20-30 % of the while link profile). Those links are good and coming from relevant blogs with PA/DA >25  and majestic seo CF/TF > 20 .

My question is: What's the best way to deal with those lost links ? I have 2 alternatives here:

1. I reach out to those bloggers (whith which i have good relationship) and as them to put the links back. (But i fear this can trigger a signal of bought links; smth like, "I didnt pay so i got my links removed the, and now as i paid again, here i get my links live again")

or

2. I forget about those link sources and go search for new, fresh opportunities

So, which option do you suggest here ?

thanks

Well explained @Jane , that's what i tried to say. But u made it simpler to understand for newbies. Good

Hi,

Well it all depends on your needs; here is a quick breakdown:

1. if you want these pages (domain.com/jobs?location=10) to remain accessible, but not crawlable, you can just use the rel cannonical in header (for those specific pages only) and point it to: domain.com/

----> you will lose some linkc juice here

2. if you dont need those pages to be accessible anymore, just redirect them (301 rediects) using header locations php code (no htaccess as it's a little tricky to do with rls with partameters)

----> You will preserve 90% of link juice here.

Hope it helps

Hi,

Google has no problem with collapsable Div's elements that are crawlable. I mean if the bot can see and read the content in the collapsable div, there is no issue with that. I have used this 100's of times and never had ranking issues + in the text-only version of google cache, i see the whole content.

So, use some css + onclick njs function and u're good to go. Here is a sample hidden content in a collapsabel div , that is totally legimate: derniereminute.net  , you can check this screenshot for more details: http://awesomescreenshot.com/08c2ie9rff

If you need more help, let me know

Hi,

I had this kind of penalties in a client website. I knew most of the bad links were targeting the homepage + some brand-dedicated pages. Those were the pages that had the big drop in traffic.

We worked hard to remove the bad links, and after 3 months or so, we got this penalty lifted. Now we are regaining rankings progressively and our penalized landing pages are climbing in traffic.

So what you have to do is simply remove the bad links, use the disavow tool and send a reconsideration request to G (this is a manual penalty).

Hope it helps !

I totally agree with Lars, you just create 1 inner page for every city, optimize content and meta tags afor that city+keyword and use thge right anchors for links and citations, and booom, u're ranked !

Hello,

Ihave recovered more than 3 websites affected by unnatural link penalty (which is a manual penalty) and used the disavow tool for several clients of mine. Here is what i do recommend for u:

1. Be more determined/accurate with links analysis. You may classify links into 3 groups:

a/definetly spammy: links in footers, sitewides, links from low quality directories, linsk from blog/directory networks, etc...

b/maybe spammy: these are links that appear to be good, but you may have to digg mire to be sure if it's really good (these could be links exhanges, links from websites that have been spotted of seeling links, etc...)

c/good links: this are links using branded anchors, parital matches or low number of exact macth anchors. These links should be placed in relevant websites and high editorial level (not linking to every rubbish oin the web)

About the redirected links, if i were to take this project, i would analyze the redirected links and check if most of them are spammy or have little to no value, i will remove the redirect and take the time and effort to build new links to the .com domain. Creating new links is better than deleting the old ones, here is why:

1. creatinng links is easier and funnier (you feel success when u earn a new good link)

2. it takes less time to see results (disavowing and deleting links may take upt to 3-6 mnths to reflect resullts as google takes time to process these data)

If you have further questions, don't hesitate to  get back to me.

Regards

Amine Rihane

SEO Consultant

Yes Philipp B, but even with the portfolio onsite, i still recommend nofollowing those links to stick to google guidelines and play in the green area !

Hello,

The best practice with these links is nofollowing them, unless you want to get hit by penguin or unnatural links penalty. Actually, footer links have no more value for SEO (or just litle value) and abusing them makes a clear pattern that will surely get you penalized.

I have dealt with several Google links penalties, and have recovered 80% of my clients. One thing i'm 100% sure of is: site-wide footer links when placed in multiple websites/domains will hit you soon or later. I know it's not that easy to convince you, but ask your self these questions, and u'll will surely nofollow those links:

1. Do those links add value to the page where they are placed ? (NO)

2. Would you click on a footer link, or give it trust ? (A very few people would)

3. Is that link editorial (the webmaster has placed it and he's happy to present it to his visitors to provide  them with usefull resource) ? (No)

Just add rel=nofollow to that link, and start building some genuine links (guest posts, shares, broken links method) to get your site rank higher and earn more customers !

Hope it helps,regards

Hello,

As i may understand, you want to get a list of websites linking to internal pages of your client's website (which are now borken 404). So, you can benefit from that link juice by doing some internal 301 redirects. Welll i have gone through such issues times before, and here are more tahn 1 way to get those links:

1. Google Webmaster Tools: This is the easiest one i think. Go to Google WMT ---> Traffic ---> links to your site ---> You will find a list of top linked pages at top left. (screenshot here: http://i.imgur.com/fFoLEJC.png). Click on "More" (i have it in french here: "plus"). You will geta  list of the most popular pages in your site. Click on those pages 1 by 1, and u will get the external inbound links to that page.

2. Open site explorer from Moz.com here: Go fetch the inbound links to that domain, then click on the "top pages" tab. You will have a list with internal pages who received links and social share. Export this to a csv file. Then, take those urls 1 by 1 and fetch their inbound linsk using opensiteexplorer again. You will get a list of ddomains/pages linking to those internal pages 1 by 1 .

3. Use cognietive seo tools. They have a filter by url, so u can exclude hpage and llok for inbound links to remaing pages. But their index is limited (my own opinion)

4. Majestic seo tools: great index, easy-to-use filters so u may exclude hpage and lookup the rest.

Hope it helped.

regards

You got a manual link penalty i think. I have dealt with such penalties 3 times now (2 turned successful and 1 is in the go). Here is what you should do:

1. Get rid of spammy links (low quality and medium quality too) When you're manually reviewed, even the good links can become bad (algo can't detect them, but humans do)

2. Use disavow tool to ignore the remaining medium/low quality links you couldnt delete ( and the one you deleted too). Try to disavow domains either than simple urls. Struggling in taht penaly is worse than over-disavowing links, as it's easier to build ne links again.

3. Build a link asset onsite and try to grab some high quality and natural links (this should be done before reconsideration request). If your site is deserves to rank high, it should still receive High Q links even if it's not showing in G results.This sounds logic, right ?

4. Wait 4-6 weeks after submitting the diseavow file to google, and then send reconsideration request.

Bear in mind, you wil be most likely denied for the first and 2nd request like to 80% of the times, but  the 3rd one can turn to be successful more often. So you have to be patient.

One last piece of advice: if recovering your website doesnt pay off the amount of work, time and money you will invest, just throw it away and start over with a new domain. And if you need someone with experience to handle the problem and take a closer look (audit) on your link profile, don't hesitate to call me back.

Wish you good continuation

Other than internal links, that could be some hidden links in there. If you use wordpress, some themes/plugins do add some hidden links. I have experienced this issue before.

thanks

Hello,

Sure, meta keywords are not important for google bot, but for other search engines it does. Yahoo, bing and other smaller search robots do care about these keywords. They help them associate the indexed content to the right keywords, at least in the starting phase. So, if you want to get rankings only in google and not in other search engine, remove the meta keywords.