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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:
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:
Also:
ensosplastics.com
www.ensosplastics.com
www.ensosplastics.com/index.html
all bring the same pages. My suggestion would be:
Low hanging fruits are usually common errors/mistakes someone made. So for starters I would do the following thing:
Register with Google's webmaster tools.
Crawl your site with xenu's link sleuth (google it, its freeware).
Yes, do it. It helps twofold.
First: pages linked to in twitter were almost instantly crawled and indexed. Secondly: Twitter / FB Shares and G+ all create links, thus generating a little buzz signaling google that your site is still active.
Just ask a few friends to share the links / retweet now and then. Especially FB shares are more valuable then likes. I am pretty sure, that these signals will help a lot in the near future. Esp. Bing uses FB data already.
Ask yourself: What structure offers a better user experience? Which one is easier to read, more concise, offers more orientation? Use that one!
Do you really need folder-folder-page ? How about just ".com/page.html" ? Or at most .com/category/page.html
I am pretty sure that
widgets.com/green-widgets.html has a better CTR than
I would not worry too much about that info. You rank well for a term like "austin tx martial arts" so everything seems good.
On a sitenode: If you ever want to reuse content and check how similar two pages are you could use a service like http://utext.rikuz.com/en/ to test it algorythmically.
Hope this answers your questions.
Don't overdo on keywords in anchor tags...use broad match and a lot of branded:
DO: If you need soothing massage in Chicago, check out XYZ at www.XYZ.com
DONT: If you need soothing massage in Chicago, check out XYZ at www.XYZ.com.
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
Assuming that the offered service of this store has a strong regional focus I's say you need more local links (Links google can attribute to Anytown).
Potential sources could be:
Also check your Google business page, see if the store is in pages like yelp / qype etc. Get local ratings and so on.
Adding to Ryans post:
The amount of links is one thing to consider, but also consider the depth of your site, that is: how many clicks does it take to reach any given page. Use a crawler like Xenus link sleuth and crawl your site. You should look into anything over 4 or 5, depending on the amount of pages.
For an ecommerce site i wouldn't worry about the 100 links per page warning, but 200 visible links are too much. Best thing to do is too look at every object of a page (links, images, buttons, badeges etc.) and ask yourself whether it is really necessary or dead weight. Reduce as much as possible.
Nearly forgot to ask you: are you using some sort of social media widget? These little buggers sometimes contain links to tons of sites, thus increasing link count. There used to be an addon for firefox called link grab! which printed out a list of all links on a page.
Hey Paul,
here is the explanation:
www.simodal.com and www.simodal.com/index.htm are considered separate pages by google, although both are your sites "starting point". Some Content Management Systems (CMS) make thiis mistake, i.e. delivering the same page and not distinguishing between simodal.com/ and simodal.com/index.htm.
As said before, you should decide whether all your pages should be www.simodal oder just simodal.com. There is a great Whiteboard-Friday Video by Rand on this toppic. Then you should rewrite your URLs to either version.
Additionally you might want to add a rel canonical to your page, maybe just to your starting page. a
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.simodal.com/" />
on your starting page would tell google to ignore the /index.htm and use /
But watch out, rel canonical is somewhat tricky...but there are good tutorials here.
To be honest: I know quiet a lot of pages, that make this mistake. Google should be able to correct this, so dont qorry about rankings. You should however do the redirect www. (or the opposite) as this will trigger googles DC filter. Also: if you plan to use SSL (https:// ) make sure that these pages are also not indexed, best by using rel canonical.
Two things come to mind:
a) are you searching in- and outsinde of Anytown with completely different computers from different IPs etc? Personalization could skew your results.
b) I know, that the datacenter you are queriyng plays a role. For example: I have 2 different webbased services tracking keywords for a local service: seomoz and a german based company called keywordmonitor.de. Both have discrepancies for certain "Service in Anytown" results, stemming from the fact that there are 2 different datacenters involved. You said "500 miles away" so this might be the reason.
PM me if you want to talk about it without divulging your client.
BTW, the ultimate seo advice applies: you need more and/or better links
I would give it a try. Having a 4 year old domain (probably registerd to your name) with existing backlinks and a natural link profile is worth a lot. The worst thing that could happen is that your exixting links will be devalued a little bit b/c they are no longer relevant for the topic.
Make sure to 301 incoming links to / or another reasonable page, thus getting the linkjiuce. If you use wordpress as cms this is pretty easy: just add this to your header.php and test if it works (with life http headers or so)
Get a local profile with google, bing etc and start from there.
Either get the Yoast SEO Plugin, which does a <meta name='robots' content='noindex,follow'/> on search pages automatically or if you want to code it for yourself something like:
'; } ?> in the header.php file.
Hope this helps.
Sebastian
If the correct spelling is "one two" then one-two is the clear winner. If the correct spelling is "onetwo" i would consider both domains equal, but as Robert pointed out "one-two" is a lot easier to read and therefore "better".
BTW: Get both names and also every combination of "one-two" onetwo and .net .com .org You might even consider plurals and the like.
According to Matt Cutts page load speed is not as important as a ranking factor as one may think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3zmP0W26M0 old video, there is a newer one from 2011 which i cannot find 
Regarding the usefulness of page load speed: I heard about tests run by amazon and google that more or less lead to the conclusion that 1% faster meant 1% more revenue (to be taken with a grain of salt). But it is obvious that really fast pages produce more pageviews (and ultimately more ad-revenue etc.) and also increasing your sites user metrics (time on site, avg PI ...).
Some tips: go over every element and ask yourself whether you really need that element.
As Robert stated I would aim for a average page on an average domain to load between 1,5s and 2s.
Good ressources are:
Googles own Tool "PageSpeed"
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.