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You want to know what links look natural to Google? The answer >>> natural links! Links that you have earned, not built.

Well said!

Hi Marcin,

a) what percentage of your all incoming links these links constitute?

• roughly 70%

b) do you have other links from other sources with varying anchor text, possibly with your brand as anchor text, etc.?

• Yes

c) are these sites linking to you quality sites or spammy sites?

I would say spammy. Here is an example... www. iraqculturalattache-prague .org/

d) is your website well established, with a history of >1 year and stable traffic?

• Yes. We are well established.

If you could provide these answers, I could provide a more specific recommendation.

Hello,

I checked out link profile and noticed that we have 169 linking root domains with 501 links containing the same KW anchor text - all pointing to our homepage.

I found out that it's actually a friend of the owner who is getting the links as a favor. All links were in a short time, and it's making our link profile look unnatural. The linking root domains look like... www. iraqculturalattache-prague .org/

I did notice a positive increase in rankings for the KW; however, i'm sure that this will be short lived, as Google will pick up on the unnatural link profile.

Should i ask that he remove the links? Or just leave them? I don't want out website to be penalized.

Thanks!

Thanks Marcin. Some great info.I tried a few of the suggesting prior with no luck. But will try a few of the others. Hopefully i can come up with something.

Is there an example when you would not perform KW research and let the post rank naturally for long tail KWs, say like this Q&A forum? I know that these Q&A type posts do end up raking for the long tail, though each seems not to target an KW in particular via on-page.

Thanks for the info activitysuper.

We are adding FB and G+ buttons to each page. I'm also leaving the meta description blank so the search engine will show long-tail KWs in the snippet to the searcher.

I guess, like this Q&A blog, each post will show in the index and rank for long tail KWs, possibly as the topic gains in popularity.

Hello,

I'm writing some on-going Q&A type blog posts and perform KW research for each post; however, there are a few where the question is not a popular topic at all and because of this, there are no KWs to target. I've checked a few sources.

The question needs to be answered and i'm trying to get as much SEO value as i can. Just wondering how have you gone about this? Just answer the question and it will naturally target the long tail?

Thanks guys. Some great info!

Hello,

For each page on my site, I've targeted one primary keyword and three to four secondary keywords. All of the keywords variants are tightly themed. With some on-page, I've ranked page two or three for all of the keywords and many are starting to convert based on Analytics data.

Each page scores an "A" using the SEOmoz KW targeting tool for the "primary keyword only". For secondary keywords, I've only included words but not the complete keyword. For example, if the primary keyword is "blue green widgets" and the secondary keyword is "get blue green widgets", I've included the word "get" throughout the copy to target the secondary keyword.

My questions are...

1. Should I include each secondary keyword once in the copy and not just the word "get" for example? Just wondering if there is a better approach to target all of the keywords via on-page.
2. When getting links to each page, how would you vary the anchor text to target all of the keywords, primary and secondary?

Thanks!

Hello!

Advice is much appreciated.

I'm targeting two keywords, primary and secondary. Should i bold just the primary keyword or primary and secondary? The same for the alt tag and URL. Should i include just the primary keyword or primary and secondary?

Thank you.

Shane