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Well if you are going to duplicate someones article they deserve the credit. I would recommend combining two or three article sand adding some personal value to it. Create something unique that your audience will like. Also linking to a reputable source shows Google that you are relevant to something. If you run an SEOmoz report card they recommend an external link to a relavent source.
Do regular citations have the same impact as featured citations for Google Local? or is it the higher a company is isted the more impact it will have on a google local page?
One of my listings says it has been closed and the business is not closed. On Google + / Google places there is a field that allows users to check that claims the business is closed. Can they actually close it?
| Your Google Places listing has been updated |
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Dear Google Places user,
Google has updated your listing data on our consumer properties such as Google and Google Maps to more accurately reflect the latest information we have about your business.
We use many sources to determine the accuracy of our listing data and to provide the best possible experience for business owners and consumers who use Google and Google Maps to find local information.
Based on our sources, the following listing has been marked as closed:
Company info...
If you disagree with the changes we have made, please visit your Place Page to edit your listing.
Note that if you are an AdWords or Boost customer, your ads will be unaffected by this change and will continue to display the listing information you have provided in Google Places. To manage your online advertisements, please sign into Google Places or Google AdWords.
For more information about updates to claimed listings, please visit:http://www.google.com/support/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1318197
Sincerely,
The Google Places Team
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Mat and Irving are correct and you can also work on Conversion Rate Optimization. Traffic is one thing, are you generating money? Are the visitors converting into sales? What can you improve to gain results?
They are doing ok. But you can do better. I have always been up against some pretty challenging competitors. Don't only focus on what they are doing, spend more time focusing on what you can do to win. Take the good from what they are doing and do better. SEO is a challenge but as long as you dedicate time into being unique and valuable to the searchers the search engines will reward you:)
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.
hmm this is strange, your link profile seems clean. Maybe there is a no index somewhere on your site? Sometimes hackers can add no index attribute to your site.
Yes you should these affects will not take place until a few month from now however they will take place. i would highly recommend fixing the issues and asking for a reconsideration: http://www.seroundtable.com/google-links-warnings-15461.html _read this article. _
I disagree with no "SEO effort". I think "SEO effort" is the problem. People are still creating content for search engines, this is not how you earn rankings. The goal is to create content that is unique, educational, or entertaining. Set yourself apart from the competition. Earn your keep. Google wants to show the best possible results and they use users from which ever matrix they can gather to estimate who will rank.
My quote is "Give the people what they want and Google will give you to the people"
No SEO effort is not good however SEO effort the way people think of it (Spamming, taking whatever link you can get, buying links, cheap tactics) is wrong.
Create valuable content, target the right people and market your business.
sure no prob... These update apply in the US not sure about France...
New Panda Update - Over optimizing / Overstuffing keywords
Over optimizing is when a page on a site is using an exact keyword without variations on a page. For Example:
Title: "Chaussures grandes tailles"
Description: "Chaussures grandes tailles" bla bla bla
H1: "Chaussures grandes tailles"
Body: "Chaussures grandes tailles" 10 times 1 in bold, 1 underlined, and 1 in italic.
Overstuffing keywordsis when a page has 100 exact phrases "Chaussures grandes tailles" on a page with 10,000 words on it. This keeps the ratio low when comparing keywords to content.
Penguin Update
This was placed to prevent unnatural link building/spam
(When a user likes your page they will link to it. Naturally the link is going to be your Company name or Brand name.)
When a company links to a page on their site 100x with an exact keyword "Chaussures grandes tailles" without variation and without a brand name it looks unnatural. This can trigger the penguin update.
A natural link building structure should be:
70% Branding
20% Diverse Anchoring (big shoe, cool big shoe, amazing big shoe, best big shoe, etc...)
10% Exact
You must trackback(link back) to the original content. Otherwise Google looks at your content as duplicate. As as you give the original content credit you can avoid duplicate content.
However If you don't want this content to appear in your sites index but you do want it to appear on your site for your users do: noindex, follow -
Or you could use a rel=canonical tag and call out the original post as the canonical post.
What sites are ranking #1 and #2?
When I ran this search "chaussures grandes tailles" :
#1 www.pasdegeant.com/ **Not **over optimizing and majority of their keywords are anchored natural (looking).
majority of their keywords are branded (same as their URL)
#2 www.sarenza.com/chaussure-grande-taille
Are these the two sites you are seeing? If not you may have personalized settings on.
If this is something you want to present to your client, it's probably best to explain the procedures of A/B testing.
"Hi [customer],
You are finally getting traffic to your site, however we want to run some A/B testings to maximize conversions on your website. We plan on running these tests and will only have results after 30 days (or more). "
The site I mentioned above will give you reports that you will be able to present to your customer after experimenting: http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/features.php#revenue-tracking
Depending on what you are selling and how your users interact on your page. many factors are involved here, color schemes, navigation layout, and content.
In my experience it is best to experiment:
Here is a good site for ya: http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/
Yes, however keep in mind that as you remove links you may start to lose ranking. I would recommend removing some, the ones that you can, and start focusing on getting good branded links.
Many factors are involved here I see that you have allot of links anchored "oxygen concentrators" and they are on pages that have a great amount of links. Not sure what your main keywords are, however your backling profile is raising red flags IMO. I would recommend building some quality links by creating unique articles on authoritative sites. Also the Penguin update is designed to find over optimization, your sites links look unnatural (they are). It is a good practice to have the site/brand name linking in more than the other anchors.
As far as your sites rankings go maybe the competitors sites were building worse links or Google has not detected the type of links you have.
To avoid duplicate content, you should probably 301 all those pages as well. If not you can deindex them in your Google webmaster tools.
Sounds like a case of the Google dance... It will balance out, unless you have some personalized settings on. If its a case of personalized settings try searching for your results with private browsing (firefox), or incognito window(google chrome). Or just clear your personal info (cookies and catch) in which ever browser you are using.
We ave a prospect client that wants to start doing SEO for his Shopify site, we are unsure if this will be SEO friendly. Will we have enough control to get great placement? Are we better off rebuilding the site for the client in an OpenCart?
No prob ; ) I also like to use Odesk.com, you can find good writers there. Just be sure to check their test scores/testimonials/overall rankings. Also, make sure anything you buy is not duplicated or spun. I use copyscape.com and I also copy some random paragraph from within the post and google it : ) hope this helps.
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.
I work with a web design / SEO company and when we complete a site we want the credit for it, a link at the bottom of the page we build does suffice... Problem is this causes irrelevant linking / unnatural linking. If we "nofollow" these are we ducking the penguin? Are we better off not linking at all?
If you are the first to publish and have the article indexed you get the credit. I would also have them trackback to your article. Many articles get syndicated on the web, however as long as it is trackbacked no one gets punished.
Here is one way we did it on one of the sites I work on: http://mbmisteelbuildings.com/faq
You write all the Q&A on one page and you use anchors on each Q within the page to link to each A.
Ok this is my plan... Tell me what you think, I'm going to google each of the directories brand nanes I submitted to off of seomoz, and if any of them are not ranking #1 in google for their brand names I will request a link removal... Should that suffice?
Ahh man just submitted to a handful of them...
What about the directories that are recommended by SEOmoz? Are these good directories?
SEOmoz recommends a bunch of directories and some cost money. How much influence do these directories have? Is it worth investing in some where the category makes sense or all where the category makes sense?
Hmm so why is this a high importance factor? I understand everything you wrote and agree wit it but having a high importance factor for a page is just crazy talk IMO.
The report card should be corrected, there needs to be some 'if's' in there.
I know that getting an A is not enough to rank, but these report cards are kinda misleading with the importance hierarchy.
How can one place two keywords in the beginning of a title : )
A report card is directed towards one keyword. What if one is to target two keywords on one page?
For example, if I want to target SEO in Miami, Miami SEO, and SEO Miami it would be impossible to get an "A" on the report card for all three. What is the best way to target two-three keys on one page? Lets say these keywords are equally beneficial to the site, and we do not want to have to use hierarchy for one key over the other.
Would it be wise to build a page for each? I feel like that would be redundant to the user.
It says I need the keyword 4 times in the body so I should have 4 "SEO Miami" and 4 "Miami SEO".
High importance factors. What makes them high importance? The keyword should be in the beginning of the title. How does this make sense as a high importance factor. Many titles are going to sound spammy if this is how they are written.
Lets use Miami SEO again as an example:
Miami SEO from [company name] bla bla bla sounds like spam.
Learn about SEO in Miami from [company name] sound much better and is probably more likely to get clicked on.
How important are these High Importance factors?
I was always under the impression that we build the site for the user however the report card changes that perspective.
Does indexing category archive page for a blog cause duplications?
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/setup-wordpress-for-seo-success
After reading this article I am unsure.
hmm... Perhaps you can move them to the blog (if you have one... From my understanding every site should have one) and have the old pages de-indexed from your google webmaster tools.
Simply trackback to the originals. As long as you trackback to the original content the search engines will know that this is not duplicate content.
If you are using Wordpress for your website simply click the "screen options" on top and check "send trackbacks." That will add the field.
I attached an example of the "screen options" tab with the "send trackbacks" selected.
We have submitted our sitemap.xml to search engines so now that they have that should we use a nofollow attribute on the sitemap.html? Do we even need a sitemap.html?
For other links on the site such as:
Contact us
About Us
Locations
and other phrases that we are not trying to rank for should we set these to nofollow?
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.
Yes you must first start a new campaign with your website. Once you have the campaign you can add multiple keywords by placing commas or spacing them one keyword per line. SEOmoz users get to set up 5 campaigns and run reports on a total of 300 Keywords.
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 
This is a good question you should contact Ann Smarty from my guest blog, she also happens to be an SEOmoz user...
http://www.seomoz.org/users/profile/54095
Other related sites:
http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/blog/search-engine-optimization/ann-smarty/
Vocus is very useful. I have been using their services to post PRweb Press releases for quite sometime now. The only thing is you need to come up with creative marketing strategies for example:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/A_Prom_To_Remember/2012/prweb9557741.htm
In this PR I had everyone that attended the event link to a syndicated version on our site, these are all local sites and now we rank well locally
Here is another example of a good Press Release:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/MacbookDecals/Contest/prweb9555256.htm
In this Press Release we offer 3 free decals for a simple like (we got a good amount of like from this). We are now #5 for macbook decals, we were on the 3rd page before this release
The Press Releases themselves include links and get distributed to many syndicating reputable sites. I love the use of PR's through Vocus.
With the PR plan we got from them we are able to sell PRs to our customers as well. This is a Win-Win in my experience : )
Meta tag keywords are not good for SEO anymore, Bing looks at this as a spam indicator. If the site you are looking at still has these tags on their site they are probably not up to date with the latest practices.... I wonder how good their phrases will be
Use Google keyword tool to find good keyword phrases. (be sure to check [exact] field on the left of page) This tool will also suggest other keywords for you. The thing is it will show competitiveness for Google Adwords not organic results soo...
Once you have the keywords you want...
Check SEOmoz keyword tool to see how competitive each phrase is. Since you are a pro member you can check 5 at a time.
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>
Ive gotten many mixed opinions on Link Assistant and its complete suite, I wanted to get some opinions on the matter..
Anyone use these tools?
What is the difference between these tools and other tools on the web?
Would adding the free SEOmoz API into this software show better results?
From my understanding its best to get likes on a website rather then from within the Facebook page for SEO purposes.
What is better to set up a photo gallery with a like button on each image so that every URL gets liked separately for each image or having a like button for the entire gallery.
10 likes on one page or 1 like on 10 pages?
