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Hi Brandon,

If the company has something to announce, something interesting (not a website update) then yes this is a good way to build some links. My favorite is charities they are an easy win win. You help by donating time/money to a good cause. Attend a reliable charity event and network with everyone there, get the name of the person who organized the event. Call the event organizer and tell them you had a great time and you are preparing a PR on the event. They are usually extremely happy to hear that.

Once you receive the list contact everyone and offer them to leave a quote with a link to their site on the PR. Also let them know that after the PR goes out to share it with their social media.

Syndicate the PR to your own blog and have the share that link ; )

This is where everyone shared the article from:

http://www.boastingbiz.com/blog/news-and-press/a-special-event-for-children-effected-by-cancer-a-prom-to-remember/

and this is where it was originally posted:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/A_Prom_To_Remember/2012/prweb9557741.htm

Hope this helps.

Actually Google does not mention anything about meta keywords only that they do not use this as a ranking factor. Bing however looks at this as an attempt to manipulate their SERPs. Also, using meta keywords will give your competitors a free link research goto for your site. I would not recommend using them.

Yes it still works. However, site has to be relevant and authoritative. Check out myblogguest.com

If you are going to rebuild the site on a new URL with the same content. You can copy the content externally (in word or another app) and de-indexed the bad site. Once the bad site is completely de-indexed from Google you can add the old content to the new URL and submit the new site map to Google.

Otherwise you can also start contacting webmasters to remove or change those backlink so that you are not over optimizing.

People that have social bookmarking sites such as delicious, can bookmark your site from within your site and that gives your site credibility  the more credibility you get online the more search engines want to present you to their users.

Build a dedicated page with unique content for that city, and build local links FROM the city you are targeting.

If you are targeting "new york rocks" then build a page in your site www.domain.com/newyorkrocks and then build links from within New York to the NYR page on your site.

You can make it without separating the pages using a jquery script pop up like this site: http://www.livingsocial.com/

Every page on your site will rank individually for keywords. These two product numbers you have listed are not being competed for. Google has piked up these numbers from wherever they can find them. Perhaps you have these codes (phrases) mentioned more times or someone else is mentioning you to be the place for that code. In reality there are 200 factors that help a keyword rank on a SERP.

If you want to check your backlinks, and since you are a PRO member you can do so here:http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/

This is a part of SEOmoz and they have other tools that are available to assist you. http://www.seomoz.org/tools

Its up to you! as Geoff mentions above. Myblogguest is not a bad site and they have good intensions. They are helping people share content for each others audiences. Lets say I needed an article about helicopters for my boat site I can easily get content from myblogguest and the author deserves the credit.

However if it is used to manipulate or spam it wont help and might hurt. Just like everything in SEO.

Many tools out there can be used for good or bad however you are holding the wheel. "Give the people what they want, and Google will give you to the people." + Donnie Strompf

Ideally it's best to go after 1 keyword per page 2 max.  This is one of the reasons for it...

In your case I would target the keyword "isle of mull cheddar" it has the best search volume using: http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/keyword-difficulty

| isle of mull cheddar | 37 | 46 | 170 | 36 | 140 |
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| buy isle of mull cheddar | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| buy cheddar from isle of Mull | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

All have unique contact (about us, why us, benefits...).

Unique means exclusive one of a kind...

Type the URL you provided into: http://copyscape.com/ Seems like you have some duplicate content.

Also, I don't understand why you built soo many microsites.. You're better off having one quality website with all of the targeted keywords. It's easier to get ranking to a page that also has some Domain Authority.

"I agree with many of the reasons EGOL often states for not guest blogging (why would you ever create a competitor for your keywords by giving someone your valuable content?)" Hmm this is an easy question... If you have a new company and you want people to find you, why would you advertise? lol

Think about it if you have no traffic on your site and there is an opportunity to share your knowledge/product/invention whatever. Why not publish a blog on a relevant site? It’s a win! win! You see you drive relevant traffic from relevant or interested areas on the web and it also helps you get found on the web SEO and I repeat "Give the people what they want, and Google will give you to the people."

You cannot compare spam-based site like BMR to a helpful networking site like MBR!

Well the question was "How can I find more easy keywords? " keywords people place in their meta tags are usually challenging and even if they are not challenging one must do the research to figure out if they are challenging... Another thing I like to do is check for related searches in a google search

Yes keep it under 10% keyword to content ratio. This is what PR web recommends for their articles, I am sure it is safe and applies to all pages on the web.

They want to give users the best results possible, by ensuring that their SERPs are not easily manipulated they can ensure a better overall user experience.

My saying has always been:

"Give the people what they want and Google will give you to the people"

Its quite simple.. they want sites that have a natural link profile and a great user experience (bookmarked, linked to, or shared)

There are hundreds of ways to build links, depending on your niche you will find the best strategy FTW (for the win). SEOmoz has hundreds of strategies for you to review and perhaps implement into your link building efforts.

Since you mentioned you are a noob... Here is the perfect article enjoy!

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-noob-guide-to-link-building

Not necessarily they are different searches. Global numbers are an estimate of how many people search for that term worldwide, however Google.com is not the same as Google.co.uk they are different Google search engines for different continents.

Hello John and welcome. You came to the right place.

I would recommend building links from local places to you keywords. If you are building links for your keywords within New York City, get links within New York City to point at your site. Definitely anchor your keywords, best to use diffirent variations of the keywords it looks more natural.

There are many ways to build links, my favorite is guest blogging. But for every niche there wil be a good strategy that works. You can refer to SEOmoz blog to learn more on link building and how to.

Also you might want to do some AB testing to check if your uses like your site. AB testing can be done within googles webmaster tools.

There was a WBF on transcripts for videos a while back: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/video-seo-basics-whiteboard-friday-11080

What I think is good or what you think is good doesn't really count. It's what people in the industry think is good. These days creating an article takes time and sometimes a team of people.

Step one research: What are relavent topics? Who has a real following (people who interact)? What are they currently talking about?

_Find related industry's topics that are trending. Find the social leaders for these industries. _

Step two add value: Do you agree with what they are talking about? Can you add something of value?

Read what the industry is currently all about. Add content to your blog that will educate or entertain these people.

Step three connect:  Can you network with the industry leaders?  Do these industry leaders have a google +/twitter/facebook. Where do these industry leaders hang out?

_Do whatever it takes to network. Buy the flowers, movie tickets, concert tickets. Find out who they really are and what they like. Build a relationship based on other things rather then business business business... _

**Please could someone point out what are the basic guidelines for writing good content for google & users ?           **

_                       "Give the people what they want and Google will give you to the people."_

IT depends on your site design. I've seen a white board froda from Rand Fishkin on this and he mentions that it is great to create unique buttons for you social media links. i would put them around content that people like and want to share.

this should help:http://www.seomoz.org/blog/improving-social-subscription-calls-to-action-whiteboard-friday#comments

Oh yes and this SEOmoz article really breaks it down: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/building-links-with-video-content

last Thursday Google rolled out a EMD update targeting low quality sites with EMD. However Google also rolled out a Panda 20 update. Does anyone know what this new Panda update was targeting?

In the past google had a sandbox period before any page (content) would rank. However, now everything is instant. (just learned this today @seomoz)

If you release something, Google will index it as fast as possible. If that info gets duplicated Google will only count the first one indexed. Everyone else loses brownie points unless they trackback/link back to the main article (first indexed).

I have read many posts on this. However, the one thing I find challenging is getting an expert to give me a social mention. In many cases they have shared something similar in the past, and in many cases they are too busy. IMO building relationships via forums is the easiest way to find experts who will mention my site. I can engage them in a thread, and eventually take it to a Personal Messages. After building a relationship I can ask for a link or a social mention or to guest post or something.

I have attempted contacting many experts via Blogs, E-mail, Facebook, Google + etc. for many different sites, IMExperince most “Experts” (people with large followings) will not give a noob (new site w/no rankings or new user w/no following) the time of day, nor a social mention. I have read many posts on engaging experts: tag them; send them flowers; like every post; make great comments. My result… bruised lips (from kissing behinds).

I work with an SEO company, and every new site we work on seems to require a unique strategy for ranking. When we work on building relationships in fields we know nothing about, the outcome is weak. Unless we use forums.

What are some strategies that work for you? what approach do you take when you have to build a relationship with someone you cant give value to?

Go to http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/ type your URL and set your "links from" settings to internal only

<dt>Show</dt>

<dd><select id="filter" name="filter"><option>all</option> <option value="follow">followed + 301</option> <option value="nofollow">only nofollowed</option> <option value="301">only 301</option></select>all </dd>

<dt>links  from</dt>

<dd><select id="source" name="source"><option>all</option> <option value="external">only external</option> <option value="internal">only internal</option></select>all pages  </dd>

<dt>to</dt>

<dd><select id="target" name="target"><option value="page">this page</option> <option value="subdomain">pages on this subdomain</option> <option value="domain">pages on this root domain</option></select>this page  </dd>

<dt>and</dt>

<dd><select id="group" name="group"><option value="1">group by domain - Group links from the same domain to show the most link variety.</option> <option selected="selected" value="0">show links ungrouped - Show linking pages across domains, ungrouped. We display the top 25 links per domain.</option></select>show links ungroupedShow linking pages across domains, ungrouped. We display the top 25 links per domain. </dd>

Doesn't Yext provide you with 30 featured listings rather than regular free listings?

They may have not been found yet.

Are they over optimizing? Many people say over optimizing is having you keyword in you H1, title, description, footer, etc. Other believe that it is having way too many keywords embedded within way too much content.

For ex. If a site has 10,000 words on their home page they can add their keyword 1,000 times in that text and only have a 10% ratio of keyword to content.

To think that Google will punish every site for having their keywords on their H1,Title, Body, Footer, etc. is not realistic IMO, because too many sites have been built like this and many good sites will be demoted.

You can report them to google. However, you are better off focusing on your own results. Spend your time building local links to your site.

This happend because SEOmoz has made some updates to its index...

Read here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/two-mozscape-updates-in-august-and-more-info-on-why-pada-fluctuate

Hi Chris,

The on-page factors are based on the keywords you want to target for each page. You can optimize them here.

Your site does not have many backlinks, I would recommend building a blog on your site with content that others will want to link to. The key here is to get traffic to your site that can learn from it, get entertained by it, or simply just find what they are looking for. I would also recommend getting involved with others in the same or similar niche. Follow them, interact with them, buy them a drink, and then ask them to help you share your article or contribute to it.

The design of your site looks good to me but I don't eat cheese. Unfortunetly there is no set it and forget it when it comes to design... It's more of a test it and then test it again to ensure that its converting. I like to use visualwebsiteoptimizer.com (A/B Testing) for this.

I also noticed that you don't have canonicals set up... I would recommend adding canonical codes to your pages.

Hope this helps.

You can add the SEOmoz tool bar. http://www.seomoz.org/seo-toolbar

This will show you DA (domain authority) PA (Page Authority) and it has many other options for your research.

Myblogguest.com is a good place to get some free content for your blog. However you will need to give credit the writer with a link to their site.

Keep in mind content is only 1/3rd the battle. Getting that content to the right people/social networks is what will help you gain more visibility.

Links from other authoritative sites that are relavent and/or entertaining to your audience will help you gain authority. As long as the users that get to your site and like what they see, share what they see (give you an endorsement) and or bookmark it, you gain authority. Think of it from a user perspective, if you entertain them, educate them, or offer them something of interest they will naturally link to your site.

The anchors to your site must look natural as well. be sure that your inbound links are built mostly of your URL or brand name.

If your synchronize your analytics with SEOmoz it should give you the correct results. SEOmoz is pulling the data that Google analytics collect... In this case Google analytics is blocking the ip and SEOmoz is pulling the data after that.

HI chris,

I checked http://www.internationalcheese.co.uk/ and I did it in the SEOmoz report card: http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization/new

Just put the keyword you want to rank for and for which page. it will give you back a grade with instructions on correcting anything that is not best practice.

Yes : )

You can use their actual article and trackback to their original (first indexed) post, this will avoid duplicate content and save you time. Google only punishes a site if the duplicate content without tracking back to it's original location.

PR sites are distributing every press release they get to as many news sites that will take it... However these sites are all tracking back (at least the ones who know what they are doing) to the original.

Pretty sure http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com lets you do all that and they will give you a 30 day trial.. Try it out : )

IMO focus on building good links for your own site. It is completely up to you, however the time you invest trying to get them removed is probably better off spent branding your own site. If they are doing wrong things they will end up getting it. Everyone who f's with the big G eventually gets it.

This does not really matter as much as it used to. I would not worry about having 120 links as long as they are there to help the user rather then manipulate the search engine. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/smarter-internal-linking-whiteboard-friday

My favorite is Wordpress with the Yoast plugin. here is an article to help you set it up for best SEO results: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success

This is very tricky.. Giving them thousands of backlinks in one shot might raise a flag. However, are these links all anchored the same or would it look like natural links? (natural link profile = mostly URLs/brand mame some with exact/diverse anchor text.)

IMO they do deserve the credit for their work (do follow). However, doing all this in one shot with a thousand links is going to look like you sold them links/that they bought those links (NOT a natural progression). This may negatively influence both parties. I would recommend asking them if they are ok with a few links so it looks naturalt and let them pick the links they want. Also, let them know that by you giving them thousands of links in one shot can hurt their site...

I would redirect to the www version because it is more common. To do this just add the code in your htaccess file.

This should help:

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection

Hi,

If you are positive that Panda update is the reasoning for your loss of ranking then you can use a canonical tag to let the search engine know which page to credit. However, your drop in rankings can be from multiple scenarios.

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/robotstxt

Yeah this makes sense, it's ok to have links within articles to other sites that help the users. However thousands of links appearing at once is playing rush and roulette with a fully loaded gun. IMO you are better off taking their content down then giving them thousands of followed links in one shot.

Did you hit "choose file" and then "upload"? lol

Hi Chase,

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