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Do you mind if I ask who designed the site for you. Did you do it in house or through an agency? So hard to find a good designer these days.
Is there a quick and easy way to create an excel spreadsheet with a list of all blog content and it's SEO factors i.e. URL, title, description, etc.? I know I could use screaming from to get the entire site but is there a way to just get the content on the blog?
I have a client that owns a Video production company. They have a lot of video examples of all their different types of services i.e. commercial production, TV broadcast production, business videos, training videos, etc.
Where should I host their portfolio of videos, should I:
A: Use a paid video hosting solution like wistia
B. Upload to youtube or vimeo and embed to my own site
The only videos titles with keywords that I could see bringing any type of conversions for their business would be their demo reels, for example: "Atlanta Corporate Video Production Demo Reel." The other videos would be the name of the video "Court TV: Cop On Trial For Killing Wife" and therefore wouldn't bring the kind of visitors that are searching for a video production service. This is why I'm curious about what the best hosting option is.
Any advice would be a great help.
Any idea on what to suggest they write about? All of the franchisees are not my clients, but nevertheless I imagine the duplicate content is pulling my clients rankings down. Also if I could get this project that means more money:)
I have a client that owns one franchise location of a franchise company with multiple locations. They have one large site with each location owning it's own page on the site, which I feel is the best route. The problem is that each location page has basically duplicate content on each page resulting in like 80 pages of duplicate content.
I'm looking for advice on how to create unique content for each location page? What types of information can we write about to make each page unique, because you can only twist sentences and content around so much before it just all sounds cookie cutter and therefore offering little value.
With the launch of Google's Penguin I know that footer links could possibly hurt rankings. Also too many links on a page are also bad. I have a client http://www.m-scribe.com That has footer links creating well over 100 links on many of their pages. How should I handle these footer links? Suggestions are greatly appreciated.
I have a client that's traffic dropped off on April 10th. They did get a message in GWT on March 21st. The April 10th date leads me to believe that it is a manual penalty and couldn't be penguin since penguin was released on April 24th.
I guess either way backlinks need to be cleaned up though.
So my question is, if you are getting guest posts on sites with high Domain Authority, is it really that benefitial since the actual post will have a low page authority? Is just getting a post on a high domain authority that good?
What about with your guest posting? Are you using anchor text or branded terms?
How do you target other keyword phrases that a page is not totally targeted for when Google also doesn't want a bunch of pages on a site that target slightly different but simliar keyword phrases? Is this a matter of creating great content i.e. blog posts, linkbait, etc. that target those different pages?
What if the anchor text has a lot of variation but they are still exact keyword phrase, just a lot of different ones?
I have some clients that recently got hit by "Penguin" they have several less than desireable backlinks that could be the issue? Does anyone have any suggestions on getting these removed? What are the odds that a webmaster on these spammy sites are going to remove them, and is it worth the time and effort?
My guess is that you got hit by the penguin update. What kind of linkbuilding have you been doing? Also it would be nice to see the site and no what keywords you were targeting.
Wow great info Ryan. Is there a way to know for sure that a website has been penalized by Google and if this process needs to be started?
Well yeah you've got to build some high quality relevant links. Your site is not just going to rank from on page optimization unless it is a very uncompetitive niche. Which Dentists is probably going to take some linkbuilding.
Yeah this all came right around "Penguin" so I'm fairly certain it's related. They do have a lot of exact anchor text too, but for a wide variety of terms. They were also using blog networks, and have spammy links, so it's really hard to pinpoint which of these or if all of them are the problem.
At any rate should this be my process?
Hopefully that will do it. What do you think of this process? Oh and Thank you very much for your help You're awesome.
7/6/2012 A comprehensive Excel spreadsheet template that can be easily duplicated and handed off to an outsourcer for webmaster outreach to get links removed.