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I was looking at the news articles they were writing. Its not like a press release but it comes from a really good source. does anyone know?

Please take a look at this site in OSE: www.ehealthinsurance.com.

If you sort by highest ranking domain with do-follow and outside pages only you can see that they have a lot of news sites, like cnn and msn money, with high domain authority to write a bunch of barely useful articles with many links in them. I was interested to see if anyone know how to get these sites to link to you as a resource?

I cant seem to find a contact person nor can I find a way to submit the articles yourself. any help is appreciated thanks.

If it was panda its algorithmic, wait till Google re-crawls your site. Also keep in mind if you are removing links that you will need to not only remove them but replace them to regain rankings.

I would go with WMT. Besides the fact that it is Google, they seem to update every week or 2 vs moz who can barely stay on track for their monthly updates.

I dont think there is a 100% tool but from what ive seen all the links that show up in other tools can be seen on webmaster tools and then some. although this may not be true for everyone it is so for my current profile.

also keep in mind that just because it doesnt show up in the profile does not mean it is not counting for you.

not enough details it could be a variety of things you gotta be more specific

You can use this website to check for duplicate content.

http://www.copyscape.com/

I wouldnt worry about duplicate content too much if it is only a couple of places ripping your content. Keep it on your sites for your audience. I think Google only cares if hundreds or thousands of sites have the same content and only devalue pages with it not penalize. But i could be wrong.

can you please elaborate i am also curious to know

Will a link from a website with a high domain authority but a low page authority help my site build authority and rank?

The reason I ask is I have the opportunity to get a .edu link however its on a sub-page with no page rank or authority.

cause i check impressions and my link list with WMT and the GA for visits, time on site, and goal conversion.

If only they had 1 place to check all 5 lol....

but I'm sure if you wanted more macro data then the other features are useful.

I have a site that is about 4-5 months old. I don't know how accurate seomoz tool bar is at updating and determiningactual authority (i think theirs is an algorithmic guess) but I out rank plenty of people with higher domain authorities and page authority than mine.

If its brand brand new I'd guess DA around 10 but again I dont think Google takes this into a account as a huge ranking factor.

Why would you not use Google Web Master tools as well? I personal opinion is that Google info is as good as it gets. While it may not show everything I feel it gives you a good idea of what Google feels is important and looks at on a frequent basis.

the only stats i really look at is time on site, visits, and goal conversion. maybe cause my site is till new but I dont really need any other fancy tools.

I personally also only use WMT and Analytics. Nothing seems to index as fast as Google... obviously

I would start here SEOmoz beginners guide It will give you a basic understanding of what you should be doing.

works fine for me.

Of course. SEO is basically about 2 things:

1. On site optimization
2. Off site optimization (link building)

once you have optimized your site with good content and a great site structure, you should start promoting  and marketing your website. I don't know if you have done it or not but I would make an site map and robot.txt file for the webstie. Once you finish the onsite, move on the marketing it and thats when youll start to see ranking improvements. While good content will drive links being built it doesnt hurt (well it can) to give your website a kick start. If you are ready to move on to the off site optimization I would start learning about link building which is the hard part.

can anyone tell me how to properly link my facebook page http://www.facebook.com/Shiftinsurance with my website www.shfitins.com.

On OSE it shows that I only have 1 FB like when i have 29. I would like to make sure this is accurate. thank you.

thanks guys the reason i ask is after i convert traffic im having my new clients give the website a +1. i just wanted to know if this was worth the effort since i only knew it effected their search results and not the true organic serps.

i know a plus one effects your serps and people in your google cicles but do you think that it has any bearing on regular serp rankings?

1. does anyone know if these have a huge seo impact and if it is worth the effort to get these.

2. if you had to choose only one to focus on would you pick fb, twitter, or +1.

sorry

i think he means move ur nave to the right. its debatable but true.

If it is an older site that acquired a lot of basic level links fast and you are going to be slowing down the process to increase quality I would not worry too much. Think about it from the search engine perspective for a second and how a normal linking trend, similar to your situation, could go.

a new site pops up its in trend people like it, maybe it even goes viral for a period of time, and a lot of links start pouring in. Then just like everything its 15 minutes are up, links drop. Then it comes out with the next hot thing and links shoot up again. Then its old news. Then its hot again..... ect

If you make good content for this guy, you are probably going to follow this trend. You will be doing it in a more legitimate way but if your client is already ranking with those bad links then your quality should reign supreme because good quality will bring good quantity (if done right).

As far as link velocity, no I'm sure you will not lose serp rankings because you built 0 links in a month. the only way this works is if your competition is out linking you (both q's) and you lose rankings that way. I dont think google says well this guy didnt do shit this month.... PUNISH HIM!!!

well you hit it on the head for me with the colors/ theme but the reality is you probably have a high bounce rate because:

1. Your colors scheme makes me not want to read anything on the page

2. On that specific page, your call to actions are hidden. You actually have 3: should I read your blog, buy now, or join your news letter (all are above the fold). If this is a landing page, make sure what you want the user to do is clearly defined.

You have so much going on and your color scheme is like camo. My first impression when I get to the page is "what am I supposed to do?". To give you and idea of what I mean here is why I would bounce.

When i first open the page my eyes land on your slide header. Ok I see a few testimonials all with pictures of fake people. What do I think.... Fake testimonials. Then I look up to $39.95 (at the top not the side) and leave. Why do I look up at the $39.95? Even though it is small you put it in red (an action color) When I look in that area, regardless of how small it is it stands out especially since my eyes first landed on the slide header.

If I were you I would:

1. do some research on colors and how the impact purchasing decisions.

2. use your slide header for the call to action or use it direct people to the call to action

3. dont use testimonials with fake pictures. either get pictures of the people giving you these great comments or put them discretely on the side or. I would try getting the real pictures if they are real testimonials.

4. make the page less busy. if it is an internal page that users navigate to then sure it may be ok, but for a landing page, i would make it as clear and concise as to what you want the user to do.

Hope this helps good luck.

Because it is not out and nobody is the search engine the best you can get is speculation. If you want opinion, here is mine. You can put multiple H1 tags into your code now, even if it is not good optimization, so I don't see why you would not be able to do so in all future versions. The reality is search engines only give minor weight to the first H1 tag on the page and don't even really look at your h2 h3 h4 ect tags. If they ever allowed multiple h1 tags, I'm sure the search engines would either put even less importance on the h tag, if any at all,  or would do what it is doing now and look at the first one and disregard all others. The main use of h tags is to create good readable content not to optimize for seo.

yeah hopefully moz sees this iono if Im willing to pay a $99/ month to be a forum member....

i completely agree with you i have the same issue with rank tracking im a new seo also and have been running up the ranks and it is really insignificant to track rankings with moz data. what i have been doing is a using a second browser with no cookies and no chache settings to track rankings so you might wanna try it that way.

i dont know if its possible for them to deliver data on a daily basis but thats really what i think small business seo needs is very micro data analysis (at least we do). when we change things on a daily basis to our websites it would be nice to have more up to date data.

it says it updates weekly but ive also noticed very out dated data for my site especially with link data. it might be because moz is for seos that run multiple campaigns and do things on monthly schedules because they manage multiple campaigns. maybe they should do more frequent updates for small business owners or people with like 2 or less campaigns that need more daily activity reports.

you can technically point as many keywords to one page as you want. if your domain has a high enough authority you can rank for terms without on page optimization and rank on links alone example: esurance.com not many words on the page but ranks well for quite a few terms. but since your site is new i would optimize for no more than 3 or 4 max per page because otherwise your text will probably not make sense to readers and look like you are stuffing keywords. focuse on building branded anchor text with some keyword anchors and while optimizing your page for your target keyword. just make sure its user friendly and you should be fine.

yes but it only updates weekly

It means that your page titles are too similar. Especially if you are using keywords in your titles it is poor optimization strategy to name pages similar titles. When google bot crawls your website it will chose which page is more relevant for "shower repairs dublin" or "dublin shower repairs" since they are closely related. This means you are competing with yourself for rankings by having 2 pages with the same title. Hope this helps

see the thing is it is linked with both GA and webmaster tools. currently the GA works but not WM. There is nothing wrong with the code at the top it just stopped working.... Also I wouldn't be able to get the other fixes to work until monday so if anyone can give advice on what happened I would appreciate that.

Randomly today google web master tools all of a sudden wants me to re-verify my site and is giving me the error:

Verification failed for **http://www.shiftins.com/ **using the Meta tag method (less than a minute ago). We couldn't find the verification meta tag.

but if you view the page source it is clearly listed..... this happened only today while  no changes were made to the site. Does anyone have a solution?

thanks for adding on 14 questions is a lot and if you couldnt tell i kindda got lazy with end questions

cut the guy a break......to answer your question it would probably cost way more than $400 or a lot of time to have all those links removed. to be honest if you payed $400 1 time, you prolly just got like 200 directory submissions, 100 social bookmarkings, x amount of forum/blog comments ect. in the scheme of things its honestly probably not gonna matter. you may still even see a boost in rankings. just focus on more long term strategies and dont make the same mistake twice. i wouldnt worry too much.

I'm no expert but I will start answering some of these. Anyone else feel free to make corrections or answer the ones I have not.

1. I am also an seo noob and after 2 months here is how i stand
54%-rank 4 (2.5 months)
63%-rank 20 (.75 months)
73%-rank 25 (.75 months)
i would say try a varied strategy short, medium, and long term goals. You never really know how the search engines will see your efforts.

2. On page optimization is the structure of your site/pages and how the page is well.... optimized for certain keywords. Things like load times are may have a minimal effect on your rankings but this doesn't really have anything to do with onsite optimization.

3.  Self-cannibalization means you may have multiple pages competing for the same keywords. For instance If you have your home page pointing a link to your blog and to your resource page using the same anchor text, they are in direct competition for that term. When the google bot crawls your website it follows links around to find pages and when presented with, lets say 2 pages with the same target keywords, it will determine (instead of you dictating) which is more relevant. So to optimize the site correctly fix your links so that pages do not compete with each other for keywords.

4. Lables = keywords or tags. They categorize your posts according to certain words you want to associate with the post. Do they help directly with SEO, probably not but they can help your readers identify posts with certain words and find other related posts.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_attribute : Google doesn't read Images unless you put a description, I wouldn't stuff keywords in there but if your keyword describes the image then do it.

6. Which ever should be fine. From what I understand Google bot does not read images unless you give them alt text. So as long as your readers can view the images you should not have any problems.

7. You can start building links whenever, just make sure you don't go too crazy with the link velocity (rate at which you build links). Start off slow and build your way up. Is there a right amount of links I think this is debatable. I personally think as long as they are high quality you wont have issues as long as one day 1000 links don't just pop up pointing to one page with all exact match anchor text you'll be ok.

8. People say the web 2.0 links have been devalued because of things like link wheels. Google doesn't like duplicate content so it wouldn't be best practice, but they do get indexed and they do tend to carry high domain authority and can build up page rank. All I can say for sure is that my web 2.0 links show up in my Google Web Master tools so I continue to do them at a moderate rate.

9. It is a situationall thing. It depends on the site

10. I would do what is most natural. If you have good content, links will go to multiple places on your site.

11. This is spam. Google's recent update penalizes for spam commenting. I wouldn't do it too much or at all.

12. I don't think that has any SEO value.

13. It will not hurt if you have a well written Robot.txt file and sitemap. If you want to block specific pages you can do so in google webmaster tools.

14. http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?locale=en_US&page=content&y=PROD_SRCH&id=SLN2210&impressions=true

Hope this helps. It may not all be correct so if anyone has anything to change feel free I'm just trying to get the ball rolling.

Im not 100% sure but I would assume no. For google +1 the user must +1 each individual page(s) so the metric is on the page level. with face book and twitter those are also directed at individual pages unless it is ur actual company page. my logic says no but i could be wrong. hope his helps

Does anyone know what the odds are of a website getting rejected from the yahoo directory. I don't want to pay $300 to have my site declined. They have very basic inclusion requirements but I'm not sure how selective they are with accepting websites. From personal experience does anyone have any idea of how hard/easy/likely you are to get listed if you pay the $300?

What constitutes a link showing up in Google web master tools? I know I have links to my site that do not show up in WMT. Have they just not been indexed or does not everything just show up? If it just doesn't show everything, what is the criteria for links to be displayed?

Also when I run OSE it does not show all the links that have been displayed in my Google profile for a while. Why is that?

In the future if you want to know lots of useful page information download the SEOmoz tool bar.

http://www.seomoz.org/seo-toolbar

it shows things like page rank, domain authority, and much more

The only seo value I could see between using 1 page vs many is if you allow do follow links in your commenting. this would allow links to carry a higher page rank instead of the comments on page one having a higher value than later links.

now for users, I personally tend to read more comments and get more involved when there is only 1 page regardless of how long. everything on 1 page makes it easy to read individual comments without searching through pages and i think to some extent it is phycologicallye more enticing to post on when you see a long list of coments.

thank you. Does anyone know of at least one more? you know the variety helps.

Does anyone know of any good keyword tools that will help me find and then maintain a list of keywords? I currently use Google adwords and now the keyword tool from Moz but I am looking for something that will help me find and generate keywords not just get statistics about them. Thank you.

Check out the moz video section. Its got a ton of great resources. number one is similar to what you are looking for

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/10-myths-that-scare-seos-but-shouldnt-whiteboard-friday

if it was an algorithmic hit check out this video

watch?v=ES01L4xjSXE

thanks for the response but im curious, I have already been building links using exact match anchor text and have been ranking fairly well forbthose terms. Would building branded anchor text terms help increase my rankings for terms im already going after?

what do you think a good link profile looks like in respect to branded vs non branded anchor txt?

I have been doing a lot of research about my competitors on open site explorer and have come to see that most of them are getting a high percentage of links from branded anchor text. It is almost to the point where they are not even using any keyword terms as anchor text. I have a few questions:

1. why are they doing this

2.. how are they ranking for keyword terms when I cannot find any anchor text in their link profile that reflects their target keywords.

3. is it better for me to focus on building branded anchor text keywords than to do exact match keyword terms especially after the panda update

4. if it is better for me to focus on branded anchor text only, how do i rank for keyword terms?

Check this out i saw this video yesterday about this very question.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/10-myths-that-scare-seos-but-shouldnt-whiteboard-friday

the answer you are looking for is his number 6

Well some of my link profile has this work done already. Would it be a bad idea to add a little bit more then focus on building high quality links? I mean the worst that could happen is all of the spammy links would be devalued right?

So prior to joining SEOmoz I have tried a few seo companies and had somewhat decent results. All of these companies did things like:

directory submissions
social bookmarking
social profiles
blog comments
article syndication
press release

and so forth. These things that they were doing worked and improved the rankings of my websites in the serps. After some time and research I figured out that all this stuff was easy to do and that I could do these things myself.

After joining SEOmoz I come to find that these types of links are not considered high quality because they are easy to acquire. Some of you may even say that they are the basis of a spammy link profile. My question is why would you not want to do these things if they work and all of your competition is using these strategies, including big name brand companies?