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I'd recommend checking out Crowdire (https://www.crowdfireapp.com/).

You can sign in using Twitter immediately, and sort users you follow by those not following you back, those who have unfollowed you, those who haven't been online for a specified duration of time etc. You can unfollow people directly from the site through these lists.

Some features, taken from their website:

• Finding inactive users and your unfollowers - unfollow them if you wish to
• Finding relevant users to follow using our insightful “Copy Followers” feature
• Keeping track of how your social media updates affect your follower/unfollower stats
• Checking the relationship between any two Twitter/Instagram accounts and doing a whole lot more.

Unfortunately, without knowing the types of products you sell, what you've done so far, site structure of categories and subcategories, etc, it's difficult to say what direction to go in for a "quick win".

It might be that there's no "quick win"

In the old days it was all about the PR of the linking site. But now I'd say, stop worrying about PR of the sites that you are seeking links from, and concern yourself more with relevance.

If I have the choice to get a link on a PR6 site that is in another industry or a PR2 site that is in the same, then I'd go for the second every day of the week.

I think you have got the site hierarchy down just fine. However, taking a look at [what I presume to be] your landing page, I think that you could improve your search position by providing more information on the page here.

Start with your company USP's, maybe include a short explainer video? Then work on your written content. Make your page better than your competitors page and you should be rewarded.

I have a site in a very competitive industry with a landing page that ranks within some huge business homepages, and our domain authority is about half of theirs! You just need to keep working on that page.

Dont be tempted to throw too many links at it either. Work on weeding out only the best links from your competitor profiles.

There are some great resources here:

http://bloggerspassion.com/list-of-100-plus-blogs-that-allows-guest-blogging/

You can also try searching:

• “add guest post”
• “become a contributor”
• “become a guest blogger”
• “become a guest writer”
• “become an author”
• “bloggers wanted”
• “blogs accepting guest posts”
• “blogs that accept guest bloggers”
• “blogs that accept guest posts”
• “contribute to our site”
• “contribute”
• “group writing project”
• “guest bloggers wanted”
• “guest blogging spot”
• “guest contributor”
• “guest post by”
• “guest post guidelines”
• “guest post”
• “guest posts roundup”
• “my guest posts”
• “now accepting guest posts”
• “places i guest posted”
• “submission guidelines”
• “submit a guest article”
• “submit a guest post”
• “submit guest post”
• “suggest a guest post”
• “the following guest post”
• “this guest post is from”
• “this guest post was written”
• “this is a guest article”
• “this is a guest post by”
• “want to write for”
• “write for us”
• inurl:guest-post-guidelines
• inurl:guest-posts
• inurl:write-for-us
• keyword “accepting guest posts”
• keyword “guest blogging”
• keyword “guest post by”
• keyword “guest post guidelines”
• keyword “guest post”
• keyword “guest posting”
• keyword “submit a guest post”
• keyword “submit an article”
• keyword “submit post”
• keyword “write for us”
• keyword + contribute
• keyword + guest blogging
• keyword + submit an article
• keyword + submit guest post
• keyword + submit post
• keyword + submit your post
• keyword + write for us

The above suggestions taken from this post:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-advanced-guest-blogging

Good luck.

Taken from: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356?hl=en

The following are examples of link schemes which can negatively impact a site's ranking in search results:

• Buying or selling links that pass PageRank. This includes exchanging money for links, or posts that contain links; exchanging goods or services for links; or sending someone a “free” product in exchange for them writing about it and including a link

One thing that I think all ecommerce sites need to be adopting these days, if you haven't already, is Product schema. Even if it doesn't directly impact your rankings (which, by the sounds of it, it may in future if not a little already), it can certainly influence searchers to click on your result above others that may even rank above you.

Some reading on Product Schema, direct from the horse's mouth:
https://developers.google.com/structured-data/rich-snippets/products

I recently watched a webmaster video that said that town focused landing pages are seen as doorway pages if they only exist to capture search traffic. And then I read that just because you can sell your product/service in a certain area, doesn't mean you can have a page for it on your website.

Is it possible to create town focused landing pages for a website without breaking Google guidelines?

I wouldnt recommend Guest Blog It to anyone personally.

My articles are often stolen and the links removed. Upon contacting admin ive received no response. I even trolled their fb page hoping to get an answer, but so far.....zip.

I just did 3 random searches and you were on page #1 for all 3.

"pearl+beads" position 4
"glass+beads" position 9 (wiki is at 7!)
"shambala+beads" position 9

Seeing the usual ebay, amazon big brand domain clusters for these queries so I'd say your doing OK. You might want to consider moving your category descriptions above the fold to improve further rather than below your products on the landing page.

The practice in itself isn't spammy. Its a great way to get further exposure if you are using the right sites.

Check out "Biz Sugar" - theres a pumpin' community over there.

How do you know if a site is spam or not? If your bookmarks are sending you referrals that spend a good amount of time on site then you're on to a winner!

We recently redesigned a site which had strong rankings and learnt a valuable lesson about defining URL parameters using webmaster tools.

Basically, the new site used filters and this caused a whole load of duplicate content, causing the site to drop from postion 1-3 for every core keyword to approx position 8-10.

I didn't even know that tool existed until i asked on Moz and its been a lifesaver.

Thanks Oliver. That first article is the kind of advice i was looking for!Funnily enough, i did have the slideshare idea, and think that will be a great secondary strategy to get the most from the content and a way to market the original content.

George, this is what my gut instinct is telling me to do. It makes sense and if it works we can turn it into a series. If i choose to do this, do you feel we should provide an embed code like we would with an infographic? If so, any idea what would be the best practice for the backlink?

EGOL,  yeah...I kinda got a bit over excited about the idea. But now i have a list of comic sites that publish im feeling inspired to try this again in a more serious manner. And ive learned a valuable lesson.

Cheers everyone!

Is there enough of a difference between the two products that you could write unique content for each? Even if they are the exact same product but with different branding, if the two pages are uniquely written then this shouldn't be too much of a problem. Consider an online furniture store selling a hundred different wooden dining chairs - they're pretty much all the same thing really just with a few variations, but you could still write about each one uniquely targeting brand name, etc.

Hi Mozzers,

Really unsure if we are missing something here, but whilst trying to set-up paid ads for some of our clients on FB we have run into a significant issue.

We need to be able to allow FB to debit multiple business accounts for varying ads on different pages. However every time we try to access the ads manager to set-up a new ad, FB takes us to the individuals (the person logged in to the page) account, rather than creating an ad account for that page/business individually. What are we missing?

We use Google MCC for managing our PPC campaigns and so wondered if there is anything similar we can use for FB? Or any other recommendations on how to get round this without dragging each client into the office and asking them to log-in so that we can set these up?

Thanks!

Hiya, I dont know if this is any help? https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en I think the hreflang will be preferred over using canonical.

Hi Mozzers,

I have a website with approx 110,000 pages. According to search console, Google will usually crawl, on average, anywhere between 500 - 1500 pages per day. However, lately the crawl rate seems to have increased rather drastically:

9/5/16 - 923
9/6/16 - 946
9/7/16 - 848
9/8/16 - 11072
9/9/16 - 50923
9/10/16 - 60389
9/11/16 - 17170
9/12/16 - 79809

I was wondering if anyone could offer any insight into why may be happening and if I should be concerned?
Thanks in advance for all advice.

It will improve your Pagerank - but not to a PR 6.

It will only benefit your SEO if you are applying other methods and the site is domains are relevant to each other.

We're in the UK and 2 of our ecommerce sites that had been suffering have seen improvements this morning. One of them particularly has improved in rankings massively for many, many queries.

Also noticed that some queries are dropping forum threads as results.

I would assume their PageSpeed Insights (https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/about), as that's the measurement tool they've freely given us. But who knows with Google...

Yes, and getting your on-site SEO is very, very important too. I sometimes see much better results by modifying landing pages than "building" links.

Speaking broadly I would say yes, if the niche is the same. Particularly if the domain is aged rather than new.

Hey, yeah I'd link them up for SEO, though the benefits will be far less that if you concentrate on funnelling your visitors to these recipe pages through to the target pages. It's really hard to convert a sale when someone is looking for information, but all of the traffic that lands on your recipe pages are now aware of who you are so make sure the site is well branded too!

People are going to tell you to just "keep it natural" or "don't just make it look natural, be natural", etc. Which of course is true. But not really helpful.

I'd say have a blend of anchor text. Don't use exact match keyword more than once if it sounds unnatural, consider long tail anchors, keep majority branded or branded+modifier, look at semantically related phrasing, etc. And don't use it in spammy context!

But, possibly more importantly, make sure that the sites that you are linking from are good quality websites. Links from 8-10 relevant-but-meh websites aren't as good as 2-3 relevant-and-awesome websites.

If you're concerned about timing, stagger them over a month. Otherwise, 8-10 in a small amount of time shouldn't matter too much as some of those pages might not even be crawled by Google for days or even weeks. All depends on the websites you're linking from.