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Hello,

I know you can add rel="author" to blog posts but has anyone tried adding them to normal pages?

Does it work?

Does it improve CTR?

Thanks,

Scott

Hello,

One of our sites have been hit by the first penguin update back in April and ever since then we have been removing links and submitting reconsideration requests...

It only seems to have affected our home page as some of our internal landing pages are still ranking OK in the SERPS #1 / #2.

I'm just wondering if we created a landing page for this keyword and drove high quality / relevant links to this landing page could we get it to rank higher than our homepage even though our Homepage is on the 5th page.Hope the above make sense.

Has anybody had any joy with this?

Great reply Don!

The main reason to ask the question really is for general knowledge.

Our main site was hit pretty hard in the penguin update back in April and we have been removing links and completing overhauling our website to try and get out of the penalty.

We / I was just checking this couldn't be effecting the panda update neither.

We are thinking of targeting the models slightly more though like "bwm 3 series warranty"

How do you fully test long tail keywords...

When I say they are the same template, here is an example:

http://goo.gl/PzoHO

http://goo.gl/6z5hJ

Let me know what you think of the above.

Howdy Guys,

We currently have around 19 landing pages that are near enough identical for each make of car.

The content on each page isn't identical but you can tell its a template.

Do you think we should change this and just target models instead of makes.

Thanks,

Scott

Great answer yet again Ryan.

Thanks for your detailed response.

Thanks,

Scott

Hi Guys,

I wonder if any of you can help me out.I'll be shortly submitting another reconsideration request to Google.I've been working on removing bad / spammy links to our site http://goo.gl/j7OpL  over the past 6 months and so far every reconsideration request I have submitted has been knocked back with the following message:----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear site owner or webmaster of http://goo.gl/j7OpL  ,

We received a request from a site owner to reconsider http://goo.gl/j7OpL  for compliance with Google's Webmaster Guidelines.

We've reviewed your site and we still see links to your site that violate our quality guidelines   .

Specifically, look for possibly artificial or unnatural links pointing to your site that could be intended to manipulate PageRank. Examples of unnatural linking could include buying links to pass PageRank    or participating in link schemes   .

We encourage you to make changes to comply with our quality guidelines. Once you've made these changes, please submit your site for reconsideration    in Google's search results.

If you find unnatural links to your site that you are unable to control or remove, please provide the details in your reconsideration request.

If you have additional questions about how to resolve this issue, please see our Webmaster Help Forum   for support.

Sincerely,

Google Search Quality Team

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I've removed over 70% of all our links - we had some large sitewide links on big sites with exact match anchor text to our main money keyword, I've also removed a large link network that our previous SEO company setup.

Today I have completed an overhaul of all our internal links, near enough every blog post that we added to the site had a link back to the home page with an exact match money keyword.

1 thing that I did notice was when we got hit by the penalty it didn't affect every keyword we target just our main / most competitive keyword, yes some of our other keywords took a dip in rankings but not as much as our main keyword.

When I submit our next reconsideration request I'll also attach a spreadsheet of links that I can't remove either because I can't find any contact details / blocked by whois or I'm just not getting a response when I email them.

If anyone can point out anything else that I have missed or might have missed that would be great.

Thanks,

Scott

Thanks for the quick reply.

Yea, I'm keeping all correspondence in an excel spreadsheet which I'll submit with our next reconsideration.

Thanks again.

Howdy Guys,

I'm currently working through our 4th reconsideration request and just have a couple of questions.

Using Link Detox (www.linkresearchtools.com) new tool they have flagged up a 64 links that are Toxic and should be removed.

After analysing them further alot / most of them are link directories that have now been de-indexed by Google.

Do you think we should still ask for them to be removed or is this a pointless exercise as the links has already been removed because its been de-indexed.

Would like your views on this guys.

Hi EGOL,

Thanks for the reply and a really good answer.

Thanks again.

Scott

Hi Guys,

I was listening to the over optimization penalty Matt Cutts was talking about at SXSW over at Search Engine Land.

http://searchengineland.com/too-much-seo-google%E2%80%99s-working-on-an-%E2%80%9Cover-optimization%E2%80%9D-penalty-for-that-115627#

Looking at my on-page reports through SEOMOZ I have A report cards for each page, will we be OK or do we need to take a look?

Thanks,

Scott

Howdy! Are you using any plugins to control your tag descriptions? Scott

Hi Guys,

Were wondering what to do about our main domain name, we were ranking quite high for our main keyword and before Christmas our site dropped to 10th and we have been there for a while - last week our site dropped again onto the second page.

The worrying thing is now our main domain name is now ranking 1 place above another domain name that we don't really use but its an exact match domain name for our target keyword. This exact match domain has hardly any links pointing to it and it currently has a 22 domain authority.

We are wondering if we 301 our main site to this exact match domain would it rank higher than the top of the 2nd page where we are now for our main domain.

Cheers.

When I say they are the same template, here is an example:

http://goo.gl/PzoHO

http://goo.gl/6z5hJ

Let me know what you think of the above.

Great reply Don!

The main reason to ask the question really is for general knowledge.

Our main site was hit pretty hard in the penguin update back in April and we have been removing links and completing overhauling our website to try and get out of the penalty.

We / I was just checking this couldn't be effecting the panda update neither.

We are thinking of targeting the models slightly more though like "bwm 3 series warranty"

How do you fully test long tail keywords...