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Yes according to Google:

"How does Google handle nofollowed links?

In general, we don't follow them. This means that Google does not transfer PageRank or anchor text across these links. Essentially, using nofollow causes us to drop the target links from our overall graph of the web. However, the target pages may still appear in our index if other sites link to them without usingnofollow, or if the URLs are submitted to Google in a Sitemap. Also, it's important to note that other search engines may handle nofollow in slightly different ways."

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=96569

Hi Mike,

Check you anchor texts, are you linking in with all keywords and no branding/URL? Does your linking profile look natural? Are your links quality/related to your niche?

Is your site a good site do your users like what they find? or do they go back to the SERP for another link?

Without a URL its hard to give you real constructive criticism.

Thanks Nakul,

I appreciate your help.

We do many Press Releases for many clients and it is recommended to have an about us at the bottom of each Press Release...

If we have 200 words at the bottom of each Press Release that we submit to PRWeb should we change them up so they look unique? Will this be considered duplicate content if we leave the bottom section of our PR's identical?

Hi Margaret,

If these pages are all targeting the same/similar keywords and the backlink profiles are similar as well you can do a 301 redirect from all the ranking pages to the page that is closest to the first page. Once this is done I would still focus on building more links like Tina suggested.

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 Penjman,

Within google analytics go to admin (top right) --> filters tab and you can block it within there.

I would "noindex" everything but your categories on a blog/news site.

It's best to have majority of your links branded. If you are getting links from quality sites for a term without your brand name it looks unnatural and that is what will sound the alarm.

if you URL is www.makemoneyfast.com go ahead and build as many "make money fast" links as you want... However if your brand name / URL is Moneymakefast.com link 70% of your links to your URL / Brand Name (Money make fast), the remaining 30% link to your exact and diverse links.

Here's a good slide show: http://www.slideshare.net/wilreynolds/google-is-making-changes-how-to-prepare-for-them

Hi Rochelle,

I like hootsuite and you can use a shortener (within the software) for your URLs that will give you analytics. Also, recently I have started using http://www.wildfireapp.com/, which I recommend taking a look at (btw Google bought it)

Not a good approach. If they are getting away with it now it will not last long...

Watch this:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/smarter-internal-linking-whiteboard-friday

YEAH BABY!

The site is relatively new. Ideally I would not focus on his current rankings, I would just continue to build good relevant helpful and authoritative links. The linking profile should mostly anchor in using a brand name or a URL. The internal linking structure should be built keeping the Panda updates (no duplicate content/no attempts to manipulate the search engines) in mind.  Also, be sure that when you are checking for these rankings you are doing so from a browser in which you have cleared your browsing history and that you are not logged into any google accounts.

Add Google + buttons to your site.

Add a blog and post something unique (helpful to your users) every week targeting different pages on your site.

You need to create a robot.txt file and upload it to your server.

www.akaalpet.com/robot.txt does not exist...

This should help you set it up: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/robotstxt

Without a URL it's difficult to tell... I would check your robot.txt file for a disallow code or check in you Google Webmater tools to see if you are not indexing this page.

Yes the Google Author tag lets Google know that you are a reputable source. It gives you as a user authority/credibility. IMO your Google + page has a PR and even though there is no case studies on this yet, I would bet that it helps your site gain authority.

Heres more about it: http://www.slideshare.net/blindfiveyearold/google-plus-seo-and-authorship

Ahh I see read this prior to my morning coffee...

Yes you are correct, don't know why I was thinking that the sites where going to be migrated... However, if 3 pages are on the 2nd page of Google for one keyword, doing a 301 redirect from 2 of the 3 pages to 1 page should help win.

As long as the sites don't have penalties or too many bad (non relevant) links pointing at them you should be fine. What is the reason for this? are you trying to push PR to one site? If so... What does your linking profile look like?

If the new site will target the same keywords or if you are going to use the same exact text I would recommend doing a 301 redirect so that you can keep you link juice (authoritative qualities) and avoid duplicate content.

I see to answer your question, no this will not influence your targeted keywords or help build your site authority.

This helps with reputation management. For example if someone types your brand name into Google and all of your social media accounts are labeled _**twitter.com/brandname facebook.com/brandname etc... **_Then it will help these social networks show up, for your brandname within the SERP.

As far as correlation between a website and an active Twitter/Facebook/etc... account, I don't believe one has a direct impact on another.  However, if you have social buttons on your site/content such as: "Like" us on Facebook "Tweet" this article and "+1" or "Follow us". That will have a strong impact on your site, especially when the links continue to get shared amongst social networks.

You can also try searching your URL in google using exact paramaters...

inurl:http://www.yourdomain.com

or if you dont have a www.

inurl:http://yourdomain.com

You can use the SEOmoz OSE you can use your google webmaster tools and you can also use Majestic . 17,000 to 165,000 indexed pages is a huge jump.

For SEO/marketing purposes I would recommend using  www. subdomain because people are accustomed to seeing it.

here is a great answer:http://www.seomoz.org/q/www-or-no-www-in-search-results

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

Found this article: http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/beginners-guide-to-mobile-seo-11793  maybe it will help...

If you talking about the results in google places you can build citations (yelp,yellow pages,city search, chamber of commerce, etc...). All you need to do is make sure that your address, phone number (url if available) are listed exactly as they are listed on your google places.

From my understanding there is no difference between searching from a PC or mobile as of yet.

It depends on a number of factors. PA is just one of them...

How competitive is the keyword?

Do they have any social interaction?

What is the DA? (Domain Authority)

Is their content amazing?

Maybe Google just likes them...

Or maybe your logged onto your Google account when searching

Or maybe your browser has saved settings and you need to clear your browsing history in order to see real results.

In any case there are many factors so it is simply very hard to tell. Especially without a URL and keyword you are observing.

Thanks

They have been mentioned many times on SEOmoz, I never used them but I am assuming they are good.

I really like this approach, and I think it is very beneficial. How do you use this approach on a topic that is not that interesting. You may get one or ever ten articles however I feel like this becomes redundant especially if all these article s are on the same site. For example if you had a client that was doing property management or apartment rentals, what would you write about? and how much of this can you create?

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)

Here you go:

Paid-service: http://www.removeem.com/full-service.php

or

Self-service http://www.removeem.com/self-serve.php

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.

Links from other authoritative sites that are helpful to your users.  There are many ways of getting these links: Help them fix page problems and after you help them ask for a link. Offer them some value and then after you give some value to the site owner you can ask for a link in return.

here is an article full of strategies and SEOmoz has many more strategies available in their blog:http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-noob-guide-to-link-building

Yeah with this info I would not bother to do a 301 redirect. Knowing that for some reason the bad links are continuing to come in is not a stable solution...

With that being said, what you can and should do is point all the good existing links at your new site.

What did Google respond? you can also go onto Google forums and explain your story there. I see where your coming from and it is very unfortunate... Cleaning up someone else's garbage is not fun (especially not knowing if you can succeed in getting all the stains out.).

IMO if you cleaned up the bad links and the anchor profile is mostly linking in with URL/Branded anchored text you might as well try to do the 301. Reason being is because you have already invested all that time, if those links are not pointing at the old site anymore they might not point at the new one. With that being said this is a coin toss.

Outcome A) You do nothing, site is not ranking.

Outcome B) You do a 301 (since the link profile is clean) and see what happens.

or you can do what Oleg says...

Have all those good (relevant) links point at the new site without a 301. Just make sure you change all of your content to avoid duplication.

Brent explained it very well I'd like to help with your last two questions

"Are there any other good strategies for getting into google places ???"

Yes, get citations for your site. Not sure what they are in Barcelona, however in the us: yellopages.com; yelp.com; yahoo.com/local; citysearch.com; whitepages.com; chamber of commerce... Any citation site where you can list your company name address and phone number (website optional) will help. By getting citation you give credibility to your cite in Google eyes.

"Do I need more links from local sites or how is this local serps working ???"

Yes getting links from local sites is an excellent way to get better rankings locally. This will help you with your organic rankings for the term "yoga barcelona" or "barcelona yoga" or "yoga in barcelona". Ideally you want to anchor your links with a natural look (majority of your links should anchor with the URL/Brand name). I like to use SEOmoz keyword tracking tool to find my low hanging fruit (keywords with low competition and high local traffic).

When you pass these sites via 301 you are passing those same link profiles. I would highly recommend not using these sites. Google manually penalized sites and they are smarter then us... The only way to 301 sites that used BMR (This Is Terrible/SMH) is by taking down as many bad links as possible and then requesting forgiveness from Google. Google does not care if you bought this site or not, they only care about the domain and its reputation. Taking two domain with terrible reputations (penalized for spam) and linking them to a new URL is most likely going to end up in the same place, unranked.

IMO try to fix the linking profiles of these sites and ask for forgiveness, if this does not work do not 301 redirect. Focus on building real links (educational, entertaining, or funny) that people (users) will want to share, bookmark or naturally link to.

I recommend a link building strategy. You have a good site however it needs to have some authority (relevant quality links). There are many ways to build links to your site: Guest Blogging / Press Releases / Contacting a webmaster and giving some value in exchange for a link. Also take a look at your competitor links for whatever keywords you are trying to rank for. Type the keyword in google and take the top site paste it into OSE and evaluate these links. Are these links relevant? Do these sites have fresh content? Will your site / Can your site add value to the users of these site? If all three answers are yes, do whatever it takes to get those links or similar links.

Build a blog on your site and get others to blog on it using a good blog service (http://myblogguest.com), make sure that you only link to other relevant quality sites (sites that have good linking profiles).

Be sure to keep you link ratio natural (majority of your inbound links anchored with your URL/Brand name)

Create content on your blog that others will be interested in: Cute video of 20 kittens in a plastic bin... 5 reasons why our bins are indestructible... Yogi gets stuck in bin...

Create unique (entertaining, educational, funny) content that others will naturally link to and then share it with niche related people via social networks.

SEOmoz has hundreds of great link building strategy that you can utilize. Simply go to the search in the top right and type: link building or guest blogging or Press Release.

IMO it helps if you have real comments and not spam on your site. If you allow real people to comment and what they write adds value (questions, opinions, humor) then it will help your site because more people will bookmark it, and return to it. I've read in many articles that when you start your bogging, you should also visit other blogs within your niche and get them and some of their users interested in your blog and add comments (value) to your site/articles.

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.

It's best practice to disallow tags from indexation. Check out this blog post (it is based on using Yoast for WP, however the rules still apply)

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success  (Indexation section of article)

IMO its great to give content away in a boring niche. As long as it's going to a site where someone can benefit from it and guide them to your site.  How else do you plan on building external links to your site? Naturally? by creating great content and sharing it via social media (what if there is very low social for this topic)...

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

Penguin is designed to penalize sites that have low credibility and the way the sites are linking in. For Example: If your site has 90% of its inbound links anchored with your exact keyword it becomes obvious that your are trying to rank for that specific keyword. The penguin update looks at where your sites are linking from and how they are linking in. If it looks unnatural to the search engines you may get penalized.

Best practices are to build good articles on any site that can help/entertain/educate users within your niche. Best structure for your anchor text is 70% to your brand name or URL, 20% long tail keywords, 10% exact keywords.

Blogging on these sites:

wordpress.com
weebly.com
blogger.com
livejournal.com
tumblr.com
squidoo.com
blog.com

Is fine if the content is somewhat helpful/educational/entertaining and if the links look natural.

A 301 redirect takes time, all those links need to be calculated. If the page where your link is sitting does not get indexed, neither does the link you have on it. I recommend checking all of your backlinks and having the webmasters/website owners of those sites change your links to the new domain. Dont spend too much time on this however definitely work on your better more authoritative links.

If the links don't benefit the users they wont benefit the search engine. If these sites are linking in using [exact] math anchored text I would recommend having them take it down. If the sites are anchoring in with the URL or Brand name just leave it and focus on new relavent (helpful to users), educational, or entertaining content to link to/from.