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Hey Ahalliday,

I have seen huge structured-data driven sites with 100k+ pages set online at once to no detrimental effect, but I wouldn't do it. Generally speaking you should be save to start with half and see what happens.

What I would suggest is that you split your pages by categories / types or whatever seems appropriate and list each type in its own distinct sitemap.xml . When you turn in the sitemaps in the webmaster tools you can see the indexation by those categories / types. Any low indexation % might be a hint that the pages are indeed spam and not worth indexing.

Sebastian

Hey all,

I discovered that the link from the public profile might not count. To my knowledge Google "counts" the first link to another page on any given page. The public profile has a nofollow link before your follow link:

linktodomain.tld

linktodomain.tld

Doesn't this invalidates all the public profile links? What is your stance on this?

Regards

Sebastian

One of my client tags image-links with nofollow if those links are before a regular HTML link in the source code, e.g.:

.
.
.
Check our page aboutreally cool shoes.

They do this to "better pass anchor tags" to the page /page-about-shoes.html.

My question: Is this a good practice to do?

Thanks

Sebes

I have a client using the following construct throuout the site:

linktext
linktext2
linktext3

This is obviously wrong, but does it work? Does Google / bing recognize all links in the paragraph as nofollow? Any ideas / opinions?

Hey Erica,

thanks for your answer. What I need is a way to decide on-the-fly whether two pages are similar or not. If they are too similar I need to depublish or at least rel canonical one of those.

Best solution would be an API that takes 2 pages, but it seems as if I have to build it myself then.

Thanks for your efforts.

Does anyone know a service or API or php lib to compare two (or more) pages and to return their similiarity (Level-3-Shingles).

API would be greatly prefered.

There is a new German based service called strucr.com which does exactly this: analyzing large sites and their internal linkstructure. But it is mostly for realy large sites.

Other options you have is to use xenu link sleuth and crawl your site by yourself.

Short answer: DONT!

Repair the glitch even if it is a little bit longer. Let me phrase it this way: "redirects are serious business" and not for html problems.

More on redirects and statuscodes: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/http-status-codes and http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection

Hey MarieAnne,

ok, so you got 5 different designs for your page and more domainnames that you want to point to one of your designs. This is perfectly ok, you should only watch a few things.

I made a quick check on canadafur.com. It does not redirect with a 301 statuscode, but with a 302 (temp redirect), you should change that to 301 here is more on statuscodes: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/http-status-codes

I also noticed, that furcouncil.com does not have a rel canonical. This is optional, but in a scenario you are describing it realy gives you security not make a mistak. What you should do is: rel="canonical" href="http: yourdomainhere.tld/page" /> in the header of each of your pages. This will tell the searchengines that yourdomainhere.tld/page is the version you want to display and what they should index and rank. 
Why to do this? If you screw up one of the redirects it could happen that the exactly same page is one time crawled and indexed on yourdomain and one time on anotherdomain, thus creating duplicate content.

More on that topic:

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization and  http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/duplicate-content

If this helped and answered your question I would be very thankful if you flag this answer as helpful If you have more questions just ask or PM

Thanks

Sebastian

I soo am wainting for the first "PM me & we talk" posts

But on toppic: If you need to buy links, than see what domains/pages are also ranking for your targeted keywords and directly contact those webmasters and see what you can work out. Skip Teliad et al. There are bloggers here and there who will link to you for a free sample of your product or some paid article without disclosing it. But beware: you are in violation of Google's webmaster rules.

I see it this way: if the topic is about your webpage and you can add something valuable to the discussion then go for it, but see it as a way to build an audience and not so much links.

Even if the links are nofollowed or not indexed at all: nofollow-links are essential to a "natural" link profile, as most websites do have a number of nofollowed links (and even links from noindexed pages, which google crawls and "sees" nevertheless).

My best guess would be to read the great article on copywriting by cyrus shepard: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/10-super-easy-seo-copywriting-tips-for-link-building . The following principles could be used for writing a good description:

2. Why Headline Formulas Work
3. Get 20% More with Numbers
4. Free and Easy Power Words
10. Be Honest

The page targeted keywords should be in the title.

Short answer: DONT!

Repair the glitch even if it is a little bit longer. Let me phrase it this way: "redirects are serious business" and not for html problems.

More on redirects and statuscodes: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/http-status-codes and http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection

I agree. I would argue that tld distribution is partly determined by link sources (i.e. what country the page is located in) and the targeted pages language/country. So a strong deviation from that will probably red flag a domain. Exampel: a page hosted in Germany, about Africa recieving tons of links from china might be fishy. A page in Poland about Germany getting links from Poland (or Germany) might be totally relevant, but with differently tld distribution.

EDIT: So the best rule of thumb is to ask yourself "If a human QA rep would look at the page and it's links, what would he think?"

Hey all,

I discovered that the link from the public profile might not count. To my knowledge Google "counts" the first link to another page on any given page. The public profile has a nofollow link before your follow link:

linktodomain.tld

linktodomain.tld

Doesn't this invalidates all the public profile links? What is your stance on this?

Regards

Sebastian

The best way to do this is to make sure, that you have a postal adress (i.e. an office) in all cities. If you do, create local business pages on you domain:

domain.tld/computer-fixing-new-york.html
domain.tld/computer-fixing-san-francisco.html

Make a little page about your office and your services, use schema.org to mark the adresses (-> http://schema.org/LocalBusiness ) Use pictures etc.
Next: create corresponding Business Profiles with google and link to your local pages.

Get local links and reviews for your corresponding pages.

There are business related keywords that google doesn't recognize as local businesses. These are usually very easy to rank for (very few, but there are some): For those phrases a simple optimized page "Keyword New York" etc. will suffice (use the seomoz "perfect cupcake" as an example. To test whether a keyword is considered local just see if there are the 7 or 10 local results in the SERP. If not, you might have found one.

Google is pretty good at discovering affiliate links (esp. to the well known networks). But to be sure use rel=nofollow.

Be aware that google is able to render pages with javascript and thus able to see the links and I would never dare to cloak anything

Nofollow links usually don't contribute to your ranking, although getting a few links from wikipedia certainly helps.

The thing about nofollow links is that they belong to a "natural" linkprofile. If all your links are followed and from very good sources, google might consider these links unatural (aka. bought). if all your links are nofollowed this might be considered spammy (not for new websites, though).

So get a natural mix of followed and nofollowed links. Also get some pages with you websites URL but not as link, just as text. Best thing would be to analyze the linkprofile of the sites in your industrie, erspectively your keywords. You will probably find a low percentage (5-25%) nofollowed. This would be a good target ratio to begin with. A new website usually starts very slow in link growth and usually starts with a higher percentage of nofollowed ones.

EDIT: Best source for natural nofollowed links are blogs / comments in your industriy

Hey Bob,

some points:

• I'd suggest you make your phone number more visible, maybe in a different color or as graphical button.
• I would add the social buttons above your newsletter sign-up and make it "fixed" so it stays in the top right corner if s.o. scrolls down.
• I would change to color of the signup-button to orange. It is your CTA, so it should be visible.
• Make your testimonials stand out (example from my site: www.waescherei-suche.de/referenzen.html)
• Most commonly used buttons are: Google+, Twitter, Facebook, linked in, stumbled upon. Check out these wordpress plug-ins: Social Media Counters or Slick Social Share Buttons

Also:

• Enable gzip for .css and .js files
• remove <meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.9.1" />  so nobody can see the version you are running (exploits etc.)

ensosplastics.com
www.ensosplastics.com
www.ensosplastics.com/index.html

all bring the same pages. My suggestion would be:

• redirect all URLs to either www.ensosplastic.com or just ensosplastic.com.
• Google is pretty smart about discovering and judging index.html and / , but better make sure and put a rel="canonical" to either / OR index.html. I would suggest to **use **
• Another suggestion: only use smallcaps and not CamelCase in URLs and folders (i.e. (/aboutus/aboutus.html NOT /AboutUs/AboutUs.html). You might even want to drop the folder altogether and just use /pagename.html