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Wianno,

In terms of how big a factor is (percentage of links with) nofollow, the thing you need to understand is a site with zero nofollow links or a very low percentage comparatively will look somewhat unnatural. As to precisely what that percentage needs to be, no one knows. For you, with 54%, that is really high (probably looks pretty natural though) and it prevents you from getting the link juice from all those sites. So, assuming you and your competitor have a similar number of total links, they will rank higher because they are getting juice from nearly twice as many links as you. Most of our client sites range from 1% to 10% of links as no follow.

The major factor in MozTrust is having "trusted sites" link to you or be linked to someone linking to you:

"MozTrust can be improved by getting links from other sites with high MozTrust such as goverment institutions and universities."

The description of looking at it like six degrees of separation says it best to me, if FDA.gov links to site A, and site A links to site B, and site B links to your site then that is likely providing a bit of a boost in mozTrust. (Obvious is FDA.gov linking to your site would be best.) If a site 4 degrees removed had an FDA.gov link, it would have less value to you than the first example. Then, the more trusted sites that are close in degrees of separation to you, the more mozTrust you shall be afforded.

As to high no follow and trust there is no correlation based on the definition of mozTrust: "...MozRank measures the link juice (ranking power) of both internal and external links..."

MozTrust is based on a seed group of trusted sites like government and educational sites. It is based on the number of these links and how often you get them: "Receiving links from sources which have inherent trust, such as the homepages of major university websites or certain governmental web pages, is a strong trust endorsement. By measuring the occurrence and frequency of these endorsements, MozTrust can quantify trust on the web."

So, from this I ascertain that if you had ten no follow links over 4 to 6 months from various government, .edu, and say wikipedia sites and half of them were no followed, it would still have a value that was based on getting a lot in a short amount of time. So if my competitor got the five links that were followed but not the 5 no follows, I would have more mozTrust.

Hope I did not confuse, In case I did, here is where it all comes from in the land of moz..... (What the heck is MozTrust?) (What is MozRank?)

Best

David,

One thing to consider with print is are you allowing the NYT, Home and Garden, etc. to control the story so to speak. Assuming for the designer, do you put out your own press releases? These can work two ways: Start a story for someone who the media is used to seeing printed. Designer X to preview new ABC collection in Sydney at 123. You put out the press release and say, "some of the upcoming items can be viewed prior to the event at designerX.com along with companyR.com." So, you set the stage for getting the domain names out in print. 
The other way it works is to put out press releases about the "news release in the NYT tomorrow," or about the news release in Home and Garden today/yesterday." Again, you have to be timely with these and not just put out a lot of releases about old news. ALWAYS give readers the opportunity to go somewhere and see or read more. Control where somewhere is.
You will be surprised how national media is made up of humans who copy others. So, if you keep putting the urls out in press releases, soon they will follow your lead. That said, make sure when people are coming to the site they are seeing something that appeals to them and that has quality content. Part of the appeal of print media like Home and Garden magazines are totally the images.
It is your job to drive the media and not the other way around. You can control good and bad press if you work at it just as strongly as you do your SEO. You just have to become an MO....media optimizer.

Best of Luck, hope this helps.

Alan,

I haven't seen a significant traffic drop on Bing for any of our sites (say over 10%) I have seen some odd movements in rankings on Bing for the last few months. I am not sure what they are doing overall, but it is affecting some areas more than others (an example would be around automotive where one of our clients who had been at a rank of 2 to 15 on about 15 keywords for some time, all of a sudden fell to the 30s on several. No changes to site, etc. So, we will keep digging. It can happen when someone is new are something becomes hot for some reason, but until you keep digging and watching, you won't know. 
I am assuming you are not doing PPC of any kind, etc?
Have you looked at your sources of traffic to see what changed there?
Say on given terms are you getting a lot less traffic or has referral or direct traffic fallen off?

Hope it helps.

There are ways to use math to balance CTR based on position (simple ratio and proportion), and search engines may or may not do so. Depends on who you believe. 
But, if you look at Dr. Pete's post in Feb on The 2 Metrics that Matter for SEO  you will see how dwell time may be more important.

Interesting stuff this SEO.

Best

Subdomains and Root domains are treated somewhat similarly. So, monkey-fights.mfl.com should receive a similar exact match domain "bonus." But, it really depends on what you are trying to accomplish with the exact match as to whether or not it is a good idea. SubDomains do not usually get the benefit (or at least not the full benefit) of the various ranking metrics acquired by the root domain. 
If this would otherwise simply be a single page on your main site, you are better off in my opinion to go with mfl.com/monkey-fights.com. You get the benefit of the URL having a keyword match without giving up the acquired rank of the root domain. Also, many in SEO believe the amount of "bonus" afforded with an exact match domain is weakening.

Lastly, my response in no way signifies my endorsement of Monkey Fights, I find the practice abhorrent.

Bill

1. yes it is helping you. You are getting a link to your homepage, and you have an exact match domain name for what you want. So, they likely did not really cause any problem IMO.

2. Interesting assumption on traffic here.... I think it helps you either way today or tomorrow, the same. Remember, the link is a gift that keeps on giving. One days worth of traffic will likely make no difference either way.

Best,

Jason

One thing to do is to request a feature along this line as SEOmoz does monitor the Q&A and the staff is responsive. Here is link to features request

There are also a lot of European members on moz, so hopefully a few more will pick up on this as well and provide direction.

I am also throwing in a link to a thread on submission sites, etc. I have used a couple and as yet have no opinion but some are Indian based and obviously do business with European clients. You should also look at this thread as there are some gems: Dmoz submission, Yahoo directory, etc.

Best

What I was talking about is sometimes we will add a phone number in the meta description to see if people will call straight to that number from the query as opposed to necessarily clicking through. (also, return customers will use it to call you back on a quick search they do remembering you have a number there). When we do this we use a tracking number that rolls to their main line. Since we employ a different tracking number for every client & every item for that client we are able to get a better grasp as to what is actually going on. An example is an attorney here that we thought was somehow having traffic 'assigned' to a large media firm he was doing business with. When we put in the meta desc. change with a number.....Voila! We had the answer.

Probably not what you are doing, but it made me wonder if that would increase your calls, while lowering your traffic, even thought 50% drop could be a lot.

Best Alan

EGOL - This is truly great. We have 9 copywriters of which 8 are either in journalism, English, or political science or have graduated, and done well in school. They come in and take to this and the fact that they are really learning like crazy.

I still wish there was an organization that actually had some clout with SEO that did a test or cert. for same.

We do use Craig's list, but our copywriters also go after others in advertising org on campus, etc. They make great recruiters! Your suggestion for ad is excellent and I will try immediately.

As usual, you are spot on with your answer. Thanks,

Based on my real estate site experience this has not worked in that arena. There is a large MLS (Central) site in a top ten metro area which allows brokerages and agents to pull in MLS and other demo data from their site. Having installed multiple I Frames to pull this data into (only allowed option from MLS site) our sites we have never seen even a micro bump.

The site we pull from with the IFrame is a DA of 65. I have put their Iframe on as many as 20 pages on a new site and never pulled a bit of juice.

Best of luck

ribandhull

First, the answer is no on the whole if the only way you are going about ranking is with keywords in tags. But, you are going to have some text, images, and other parts of the page that need SEO. So, make sure your images have appropriate alt text (kw=wedding photography, alt txt = Jones Wedding photos - bride and groom). Make sure each page has good title tags and H1's. Make sure your 1% text is relevant to your keywords and you should be able to do fine considering this is what a lot of photographers do.

Another helpful hint is each photographer needs to take advantage of Google Places (+1 ) listing.

Jason, actually I prefer softball questions

Value depends on what you need and want. With Yahoo directory if you look at $299 and then look at what can be obtained at that cost for other directories or submissions it might not be. But, if you have a single site that you want to promote, are in need of quality level of Yahoo, etc. it might be a good spend. 
In the U.S., for clients who have multiple sites in services or professions as opposed to an eCommerce site, it is not as good a value for sure. Can you find a couple of high quality submission sites, spend that same amount and possibly get two to three times the value? I think it is possible.

Really hope that helps.

Alan, if direct calls are slightly increasing but traffic is down, have you added a number to meta description, local seo, etc.?

Thanks Stephen,

Actually, that is well put.

I think it kind of hangs with the English majors. Enough questioning to make them open minded in SEO and, if you can read that stuff with any level of comprehension, you can probably write!

Well put.

With the links from the IFrame application to your primary site, I do not see it as a problem (if I am understanding you correctly).

Because the content in the I Frame is originating from a single source, there would only be one link to the site. It would not be 300 separate links.
Content in an IFrame can be indexed by Google, but it is indexed via the links to the source and then to the content. Such that any juice would go to the originating source and not to the site where the IFrame resides. So, that link in the paragraph you install should be seen as a single link to the site and not 300.

Hope this helps.

bcbsm

I originally ask a similar question a little over a month ago. Oddly, for every search we did, except one, we got the correct meta description which we had change a week or so before. But, on one specific search the old meta showed.

EGOL had the best answer with it was likely that for every potential search term, the change had not occurred due to essentially Google not being able to touch everything at once. So, if there is a server sitting out somewhere that for whatever reason has not been populated with the change in meta, it handles a given query, and the old pops up.

Since then I have seen this query several times and it must be more prevalent now than in the past.

I realize it's not an "answer" but it's as close as we came.

Best

Robert

Feneris,

Any plan requires first knowing where you are. You state you have a decent ppc campaign, but do not state anything about your website. How is it ranked, type, etc. When I read your plan for ranking on Google, I first see you are focusing on content: is the site new? If so, How many pages? Architecture is flat - 2 to 3 clicks to anywhere? Keywords are good to go and you are ranking for at least some of them?

If not ranking for keywords or no kw analysis yet,  I would take a step back and focus on site map as it applies to visitors coming to the site and do keyword analysis prior to the content. Believe me I am sure you know your subject, but my experience is everytime I do keyword analysis I am amazed at the way people search differently than me. An example for us is we have several attorney clients in various areas. In some cities, attorney is used as the most searched on term and in others it is lawyer??? So, I would do that first as it will apply to your content writing.

Next, I would make sure that my on page is spot on because otherwise, it is going to languish until you get the bug and you will be wasting your good content as no one will see it. A typical mistake with newer sites is identical title tags on every page - really bad for SEO. Another is you need quality meta descriptions for the organic traffic you get or they will not click through which is also bad for SEO.

I would also go after my Local SEO (places, bing bus portal, yahoo local and citation sites). If your site is new and your resources are good, I would sign up with Yahoo directory for the $295/yr. If you claim your SE local and 12 to 20 citation sites you will have helped yourself a lot.

Then, when your book goes out, set up speaking engagements and interviews for yourself and get the media links, etc. Whenever you are going to be hawking the book in the media make sure there is a link to your site. I am assuming you are creating a site for the book???

So, that is my 2 pence worth. Hope it is helpful.

Robert

BTW - Do not forget to support open source developers by making contributions when you use their tools. Keep the Internet Open.

Dana

You make a great point around the various facets of SEO and how long term some may be affected. However, I think there will be a need for SEO going forward just as there was after keyword meta tags and seeing how many times you could get the keyword in faded. I remember about ten years ago a gentleman came and presented to our company about eZines and how they were going to revolutionize the web, etc. Obviously, they did have an effect just as the PRWebs/newsline, etc. (web trash I affectionately call it now) have an effect today. But, will they still be here tomorrow? Don't think so, IMO.

There seems to be a continuum that goes one side to the next. This is driven not in a small part by those who think of the search "system" as something to beat. So, black hat says use a link wheel, hide links in periods and colons, etc. But, my belief is that people who search will ultimately determine what is Optimum or not. 5 years ago I was looking for a water pump for a small fountain for my home in Houston. I searched on Fountain pumps etc. + Houston and could not find anyone with a fountain pump in Houston. tons in Ohio, etc. I have now watched as the web has become more and more localized. That was driven not by the engines, but by their customers.

Remember that with Panda or Penguin, many perceive it as Google spanking a bad child and I see that as not being thought through. Google understands that when I search for water pump Houston and someone or two or 5 have gamed the system in order to show up high on page one, but none are in Houston. That is not a good result for GOOGLE. There customer does not like it because they were clear about what they wanted. So, the technical SEO will be there as it is very important. But, good content that is not stolen, spun, or rehashed by a "PR" vomit machine is what people want and what they will come back to over and over. If I know I can search on any engine and consitently get what I was looking for, that is where I am going.

Remember, this is a change but one that will allow the early adopters and true believers to gain a lot of real estate if they are diligent.

Thanks so much for your thoughtful responses,

Robert

Based on GWMT, the links still count toward the total. I am not sure, if it would reduce the likelihood of a penalty though or if it would negate a penalty in place. I did a quick in WMT and could not find an answer to that portion.

What are you saying EGOL??? I shaved this morning!

Fidelity One,

First, maybe yes, maybe no.... Good that it is white hat though.

Assuming your interior pages have importance to someone making a query regarding the product,

Assuming the "unrelated links" are not Casino Envy, ProSportsTips, etc. and have at least some form of business purpose (certain directory sites) etc.,

Assuming your links to promo sites, etc. are reasonable and within the rules...

They could provide some assist to the main domain over time. How much is dependent on way too many factors based on what you have given us. If you are looking at should I/should I not, I would say it is really dependent on how secure you are in the belief all is on the up and up, and how much effort you have to expend for the potential return. 
If the site is up tight on on site, on page, etc. has great content, etc. has a relevant set of pages based on likely (researched) queries, etc. and the only thing left is trying this magic..... Try it in small doses and monitor it.

But, that is just an opinion...... Let us know how it works out and then when successful I want to see the youmoz blog on your technique!

Best

Gary,

It would help if there were at least one url to look at, but i will give it a go. You say you just noticed. The change in your PA and Linking root domains is likely due to the update to OSE recently.

Now were your drops in Google Bing or Yahoo or all? If in Bing/Yahoo, I would give it less notice as for the last couple of months they have been a bit schizoid in our opinion. A dramatic drop in Google makes me wonder if you changed anything with content or on page SEO? Have you looked for crawl errors, etc.?

If your area is highly competitive or newly competitive, you could have newer sites that have popped up and are just being floated by the search engines. If so, they will slide away usually.

With more data, we could assist more.

Hope it was of some help.

PS - Support Open Source Developers - contribute when you use their tools.

Ben, My suggestion is to look at it as a broad swathe tool that can give you a ton of good data which will allow you to dig deeper. First: you can look between your rankings and your competitors by toggling the Show menu. You can see an overview with what improved or declined in a week and then by sorting on change under traffic or one of the search engines, you can make the order show most decline or most increase first. Now you are looking at what is moving. You can do the same with traffic if you have enabled GA.

At the end of a given term, you see a clock and an ecg screen icon. If you click on the clock you will see the history of all this. If you click on the ecg screen icon you get a competitive ranking analysis and keyword analysis. To me, that is a great feature. Also, I like the ability to see universal rankings, video and image rankings.

So, I look at the big picture, do a bit of drill down as needed, then if I need to, I look at some other tools to see where it is all headed or what I need to do to fix or improve.

Hope that helps,

Robert

Rasmus,

First, not knowing when the changes were made and assuming the only changes made are described above, here are some possibilities:

If the change is in the last few weeks, it may be a temporary fluctuation in the rankings and you may need to wait 3 to 6 weeks to see if there is a bounce back.

If that is not the case, in my opinion with the number of links you have, you have two issues: First, from GWMT:

• Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links.
• Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number.

There are other issues beyond this, your H1 is picking up the articles in the middle of the page (makes it unclear). The load time is long (D or F in YSlow depending on which test version). etc.

However, I would look at it from the standpoint of what did you change given the site itself. Again, if the only change was the links you described, it would be easy enough to delink them and see if you come back.

I understand with a betting site you want to show all a person can bet on and that you are trying to get people to look at info on their favorite sport, but to me the site is way over busy and could use some simplification. I cannot tell you whether or not Google sees it as spammy. I do believe there are too many links. Without testing it and just looking at it cursorily, I came up with close to 200.

Hope this helps,

Bob,

When you say "...If I click on Manage this page, it takes me to my client Google places dashboard page where I can edit some information.... "

I assume you are editing info within that Google+ account. I also assume when you say it opens "my client Google places" you are talking about the one where YOU have put in all of your clients to manage?

If you logged in as them through their Gmail account and are able to edit, I don't see how your client page would be up??? But, that said, it appears that when you use the back button you are somehow leaving their account which you logged in for and Google is picking up the cookie for your other accounts.

The Google+ account in screen shot is a verified account with Google. What you could try is a different computer without any cookies from your agency.

Best,

Luke,

You could send out demands for removal, etc. but I doubt they would get too far. I think the easier thing to do would be to move forward from where you are. First, most are not going to remove them and second, there are likely better places to spend your time (more SEO valuable). If you want to cover your client's butt in the event of a Google interdiction, send out some emails requesting the links be taken down, keep copies, and start building new links. At least you will have something to show them if there is a problem.

I have often run into this with clients and at first panicked. Today, I just move forward. Focus on the bigger issues:

Does the site have good content or is it spammy?

Is the SEO on page/site, etc. solid?

Are they targeting the right keywords?

Did I mention Content?

Are there ads everywhere?

Do you need a freshen up campaign? etc. etc. etc.

I think if you focus on those things and, if still nervous, send out the emails, you will likely be fine. If all else is solid and the site is quality, go get them some good links as I don't think Google is going to kill you over the links alone.

Best of luck.

Gosh guys way to heat up the seemingly boring I like it.

Everyone makes interesting points. Alan, as always knows the code back and forth. Ben makes a good point as well (moderation, nothing wrong with that in SEO). I would have to say that when it comes to 301 redirects, as an agency that does a few site redesigns, client purchases of sites, etc. we do a few redirects. We also have clients who end up with multiple sites for one reason or another and we convince them to "merge." Here is what I know of 301 redirects. The common belief is that you lose up to 10% of the juice with a 301. My experience has been that it is not even close. When 301's are done appropriately (url to url in .htaccess say for apache) we do not see more than a 1 to 2% loss. That is from experience and not theory.

That said, I like what Alan says regarding Matt Cutts...If it was his $$ on the line. Understand that Matt has to be Googles non committal answerer of things SEO. How many times do you here him say Google absolutely does this and you should absolutely do that?

Using the one keyword _ versus the two keyword - , for me it would come down to if my _ were ranking really well and making me money, there would have to be some component of that ranking that is based on the keyword. Therefore, in spite of what I know about a 301, I would not change it. If it is there and not making me $$ I am going to go with a best practice in my opinion of hyphen vs. Underscore and make the 301.

you guys are fun, hope I added something.

Best to all,

Hello Christopher

It appears you have done a good deal to remediate the situation already. I would resubmit a sitemap to Google also. Have you looked in WMT to see what is now indexed? I would look at the graph of indexed and robots.txt and see if you are moving the needle upward again. 
This begs a second question of "How did it happen?" You stated, "Robots.txt blocked 2k important URL's of my blogging site" and that sounds like it just occurred out of the ether. I would want to know that I had found the reason and make sure I have a way to keep it from happening going forward. (just a suggestion).

Lastly, using the Index Status in WMT should be a great way to learn how effective what you tried in fixing it is. I like knowing that type of data and storing it somewhere retrievable for the future.

Best to you,

Robert

Yes, absolutely, it can and likely does have something to do with the fall in rankings. The rel= "no follow" should help. What is happening, is that they are seeing way too many links and that is considered "spammy."

What I would suggest is to take off links where they are not really needed. This should assist you immediately. If you make a big enough dent in unlinking (I suggest no more than 100 internal links per page...but, not on every single page if you can avoid it.) you should then consider submitting for reconsideration. A question is: Are any of your pages showing up in search?

The other thing you should consider is backing up a step and looking at the overall mapping of the site: Does it make sense? (remember, I am in the US, speak passable Spanish and no Danish..sorry) Using Google translation, I think some of it could be streamlined to provide a better experience for your bettors. Take off the articles if they are not needed. (Do people spend time on them? Do they migrate to betting from them?) There is a lot to look at and that, even for a bettor, may be too much.

Hope it helps,

Joseph,

I think that its a reasonable question and will give my opinion(s):

First, I don't see the need to have multiple FB/G+ accounts for us or for our clients. I think then you are back to what is the value of it, isn't it just gaming the system, etc. I think if you have great content and do not over commercialize you will get a good result.

Then, as to the masked IP address, etc. I just don't see that as necessary even if you are doing the other. At some point, I think we end up trying to fix really low % issues and that it takes us away from endeavors that would better improve our rankings.

IMO

Thanks

Gary,

Since you say it is a well respected blog in your industry (or,even if it weren't), I would think that decision would be based on what you are posting on. If it is a short post on a very specific subject (and assuming the content is quality) I would suggest one unless something in it would be clarified or elucidated by another link. You can put more in a longer post without it looking spammy.

Content is King, so don't put any in just to put some in. If they make sense to be there they are more likely to be shared by those reading the post. If they are superfluous, they are likely to be annoying. A personal opinion is that on a short post I find it distracting to see multiple backlinks.

Best

Gareth,

Search engines show different results for different geographical areas(countries) and for different languages. When a site is a .com it is a generic site and the algorithm looks at where it is hosted (US, UK, Aus, etc). It looks at what language has been set in Google WMT as well. EN-US, EN-UK, etc. From this it determines what is most appropriate to show in search. 
If a site has a country code TLD - Example.com.UK, it is more likely to show up in the .UK of Google than a .com is unless the .com is hosted in the UK and chosen EN-UK as the language.

By doing this the engines display the results that are most appropriate to a given country.

Best

Given the only issue was the robots.txt error, I would resubmit. I do think it would  not hurt to generate a sitemap and submit that in case there may be something you are missing though.

Best

We have worked with a firm that sells "outdoor" sporting equipment for hunting, fishing, etc. They sell ammunition, etc. We have never seen a situation where "firearms, guns and ammunition" were flagged or in any other way redined by Google. 
That is Adwords or SEO.

OK Joseph, I think I need to break it down a bit from a point of view.

First, I am not sure what you mean by SEOMOZ says that seo signals are roughly 8% of SERPS and growing. If you are speaking of on page social signals, that is an opinion of a reasonable group of SEO pros.

But, you have to define that and you have to understand there is more than I got 100 likes. If you read a really good post IMO on moz by Philip Petrescu - The Impact of Authoritative Links, Mentions, and Shares on Rankings you will see that there is a lot more than it being a share from thirty FB pages. I think, that you have to read what he says first is the importance of fresh content. (We have 8 copywriters who are good on staff and produce some serious content so I know he is correct). Then, while social media mentions are important, the next piece is WHO is mentioning it? If you get a share from Guy Kawasaki or someone of similar ilk, you will likely get a lot more 'weight' from that than from your sites.

But, even that is not the issue. The issue is: What is your strategy? What amount of your time is spent manipulating a bunch of FB, Twitter, G+ sites? 8%, is IMO a massive waste of time. I would get further with content creation and that content would get legit shares, tweets, etc.

In building a site or improving it, I suggest that you decide how you are going to improve it ahead of time. What time will be devoted to what? When we take on a client or create a company owned property, we do not start until we know where we want to go and how we want to get there. In doing that we are forced to look at cost benefit within various parts of SEO, etc.

So, yes, you can put up a ton and IMO I do not think that Google per se is tracking Cblocks, servers, etc. right this second in terms of social ranking manipulation. (The reason I think this is that in order to grow that social account, there is work involved and to build 30 and handle them is not good time use.).

I think you would be better served creating high quality content for the vertical that begs people to use it/like it/share it.

But, again, its just an opinion.

Best,

Robert

If the only thing that you are looking at is this set of numbers or a Google PR, then, OK. I would give consideration to whether or not it is germane to what you are doing. If it is a guest post on a site for Happy Better Sex Gambling and your site is religious, it is probably not best. So, given the distance between those two examples, you have to decide what works in it for you.

Hope that helps.

Mark,

The first question would be... does the sandbox exist (still) and if so who is affected and how? There is a ton of info and non info on the subject, but the best I could find from any source I trust was this from Rand a few years ago: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-sandbox-still-exists-exemplified-by-gradercom

Based on Rand's conclusions, the entire domain would be affected and by changing the domain, the problem abates. 
Given that today with Panda, Penguin, etc. having their own effect for penalties, I am not sure as to the relevance of the term. My guess is that if you created a new page with unique content that page could rank on its own. The sandbox was more apparent around links than content. If you are having a duplicate (borrowed) content problem that would seem more of a penguin issue.

Hope this helps,

Daddy Smurf,

I like your question because I spent a lot of time asking the same one over the years. When I do a search in Google.co.uk, for wireless alarms, I get you with the "wrong" url at 36th (see I helped move you up! and when I search same for security systems, I get you at Number 1 and you have sitelinks showing, so good job in a tough vertical. (The search was done using incognito in chrome and screenshot attached).

Kevin makes a great point re the url (I think you really need wireless alarms in there since that is the query you want to rank for.) When I look at the page, I see opening content around types of wireless alarms without ever saying they are that. Yes it is in the H1, but I think that first paragraph needs it in the body content. Also, you are selling products and that presents the opportunity to utilize markup for products and or reviews on these which again would help you rank. I did a cursory check and say none on this page.

My experience tells me to use every possible advantage available except when there is a business reason not to. If you want to rank for wireless alarms in the way you are for security systems, get as aggressive as you were for that in the beginning and you will make it. You did not get where you are by being dumb, it is obvious you know what you are doing. My biggest enemy is complacency and I try to stay ever aware of that. I hope this helps you out.

Best,

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The title to the question is around the page being indexed: I did a Site:www.betxpert.com/bookmakere/betsafe on Google and the page is indexed. I have added a screenshot below.

If you look at the fifth item it is the actual URL you supplied so the site is indexed in Google and is showing up in the SERPs. Click on it and you land on your page. The issue could be that betsafe is a likely keyword term that is searched on (Have you checked the competition for the term given that betsafe is a site?)

Hope this helps,

Edit: Just made sure that I also checked Google.dk and it is indexed in both.

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Damn Miriam,

What do you do for fun...read SEO?!?!?! Thanks, you always find the gems. 
Robert

Gareth,

In Google, type in Site:YourURLhere

Example would be   Site:Example.com

that will tell you what they have indexed.

Robert

Chait

I think there are really two questions you should ask: the one re SEO effect, Google/Bong, etc. and, how they are perceived.

As to Google others have stated correctly there is no penalty. I am not sure that using a .ca/.in is wise even if you are US based, use US server, and make correct geotarget selections in GWMT.  The reason is not Google/SEO per se, but perception. 
It is a given that in some countries, having a cc tld that is different is not wise due to bias. A documented one is the French bias in Europe (no hate mail please, my son was born in Paris - yes France, not Texas). In the US, as open minded as half of us seem to be, there will always be a bias if someone knows the .in is India and there may well be one with .ca especially if you are in more northern states that are more likely to see it.

So, you have to factor all in and then ask: "Why am I going this way?" Is whatever domain name so critical that you are willing to sacrifice for it? Have you considered using hyphens?

We do a lot with EMD's using hyphens and without. At the same time, I believe many over emphasize EMD and could spend time and energy better elsewhere. Is there a second best EMD and then spend all the energy on something else SEO?

I cannot imagine, short of a known and, likely, very well known brand where I would risk a .ca or .in in the US for that EMD.

Good Luck, let us know what direction you take and how it works,

Robert

Josh,

Under Traffic Sources - Search - Organic, You are saying your primary dimension is Keyword, and under that first column, there are urls as opposed to keywords? 
It is not under a secondary dimension, correct?

Just clarifying before going further.

When you made the change back to original, did you resubmit the xml sitemap? I would give that a quick try. Also, to see if it is showing, Do a Site:exacturlofchangedpage  on Google. This should show if the page is there but not ranking for some reason.

Sorry to take so long to get back with you, long and busy day.

"but how to market our products and services on social media channels in a manner that can even attract the attention of totally irrelevant and unrelated people. I want people to view our campaigns and make it viral and create a perception that even an ERP company can create engaging campaigns across the channels."

IMO, when you say the above, you are to a great degree on the right path. At the same time think about how many people want something to be "viral." If there were magic to "viral" I would go into that business exclusively and be a billionaire in a year or two. Viral does not happen by wanting it; it happens by continuously creating content people share and comment on and that you engage with back and forth. You might try a hundred or more pieces of content and get varying levels of response and engagement, and not have any of it bring you even a thousand visitors. But, over time it will grow your traffic.

Except for certain situations or businesses, the idea of approaching social media for immediate conversions does not work to any great degree. The approach of using it for engagement does.

Hope that helps,

Robert

I have to agree with lavellester. Make sure you look at the links he provided. Given that you are new at SEO and are reading that is good. With article directories you will also see a lot on spinning software, etc. and, yes, it does what they say it will. Just to assist you, that is another one you need to just pass on.

If content writing is not your strong suit, hire it done and concentrate on the more technical. There are a ton of ways to find good content writers and it will ultimately be cheaper than the shortcuts.

Pravin,

Think about it this way: If a low ranking "carried over" none of us would ever be able to increase rankings. Especially those of us in agencies who go into large sites that cannot be rebuilt at this time. So, don't worry about that.

A couple of things are these: Redo the content and if the site has a blog, feature some aspect of that page in the blog and link back so that someone reading the blog who might not go to the page again sees it, they can go to it from the link.

Then, if you can change an image or  add to the page in some small way each month, do that.

If the other on page is good, you will likely see a rise. Yes, still do work on getting more links, etc.

Hope this saves you a bit of work.

Josh, 
I use GA a lot and have not experienced that. If you can either put an image (use something where you can show everything like awesome screenshot) here or if it is better, PM me, I will look at it to see what is happening. If I don't have an answer, I will shoot an email to an expert (whose only works is GA and other analytics) with the screen shot.

Thanks

Due to the scope of the Internet it takes a search engines bandwidth to be able to crawl the entire web. SEO moz hits about the top twenty five percent of links. If links are more recent, there is a chance they won't show up for 4 to 7 weeks due to the data having to be processed after the crawl and the sites crawled only once a month (you can see the dates on the site).

Majestic SEO offers a decent free service for your own sites, and the monthly if you handle a lot is small medium level is about $50 per month. Even with the free you will see a lot more links and it shows some additional data as well. For the paid, you get historic, etc.