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Owkej, thanks!

keyword = buikspieroefeningen voor thuis
url = www.debuikspieroefeningenvoorthuis.nl

Hmm I just created an On-Page Report Card for that specific keyword and url.

Yes I understand the report statement, but I can't find myself doing that...

I just ran a grade report for one of my niche websites and I can't seem to fix the following issue:

Avoid Keyword Self-Cannibalization
Easy fix Cannibalizing link "Buikspieroefeningen voor thuis en een lager gewicht" and "Buikspieroefeningen voor thuis"

Explanation It's a best practice in SEO to target each keyword with a single page on your site (sometimes two if you've already achieved high rankings and are seeking a second, indented listing). To prevent engines from potentially seeing a signal that this page is not the intended ranking target and creating additional competition for your page, we suggest staying away from linking internally to another page with the target keyword(s) as the exact anchor text. Note that using modified versions is sometimes fine (for example, if this page targeted the word 'elephants', using 'baby elephants' in anchor text would be just fine). Recommendation Unless there is intent to rank multiple pages for the target keyword, it may be wise to modify the anchor text of this link so it is not an exact match.

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Well, I've tried really everything (I believe) but this issue is not going away.
Could anyone help me out with this?

My site = www.debuikspieroefeningenvoorthuis.nl

Thanks!
Dennis

Please note that those page that I want a link from are just "start pages". Better known as "directory sites". Those pages are very famous in the Netherlands and millions of people have it as their startpage when they start-up their browser.

So no weird or scammy sites here...

Hi,

I wanted to give my EMD (Exact match domain) some more links and added it to some general start pages, just as my competitors did. The disadvantage of such link sites is that you have to add a link back to them.

So I created a new page in my footer "links" and added a link back to those who requested that. However, I made all links a nofollow because I don't want them to benefit from my rankings.

Those sites really have nothing to do with my subject and are just interested in a link to give them some boost I guess.

I'm sure not everybody like my approach, but my question is. Will those nofollow links on my page back to the ones that requested it affect my rankings?
Or should I remove the nofollow?

Thanks!
Dennis

OMG! I feel a bit ashamed now. Thanks!

Hi,

I'm totally new to this community so please forgive me if this question is a bit dumb.
A client of mine is trying to get better rankings for a specific keyword and if we check out the competition we notice that our site has way better and more unique content.

The tools here at SEOmoz indicates that the competitor sites have more authority, and so probably more backlinks.

With the Open Site Explorer I can quickly see what sites are linking to competitor sites.
And since we're in the same country and trying to rank for the same keywords we also are after the same backlinks.

Now there are a few that my client is missing compared to the competitors.
So I would love to get a document that tell us what backlinks we are missing instead of
downloading many reports and do all the checks manually.

Is this possible?

Thank you,
Dennis