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Hey Mark if you still think that meta keywords have no impact on rankings then you are wrong. Actually meta keywords became a part of on-page optimization again and as a proof for that Google has lunched Google Tag Manager.

At the same time everything what belongs to on page optimization has an impact on rankings.

Cheers,

Russel

Her Amit,

You just need to wait for more time. Sometimes it takes more than 1 month.

CHeers,

Russel

From my side I will recommend to add some more text on front page, otherwise it will not be so easy to achive high rankings by highly competetive keywords.

• Title tag is very simple and not informative. It can be something like this:  
  "Gudville - Discover, lead and support causes you care about"
• Add meta keywords and meta description

Cheers,

Russel

Hi there,

1. For sure Google will count it as duplicated content and in my opinion it is even worst than having duplicated content on the same domain. I will suggest you to remove content from 2nd domain as soon as possible otherwise it might make a negative impact on your 1st domain rankings.

2. Better hire a copywriter and make a content rewrite, this will help you to avoid negative impact.

Cheers,

Russel

Hi Dino,

I can assume that Mozbot haven't index  your website yet, that's why it is not showing any backlinks in OpenSiteExplorer. I have the same problem with couple of my websites as well.

Try to check backlinks through MajesticSEO Backlinks tool.

Cheers,

Russel

Can you please provide a link to your website, because otherwise my answer will be just a guess.

Cheers,

Russel

Dear Joel,

This is definitely a good start for your SEO campaign however putting it in local sites which you've mentioned is not enough to rank higher than your competitors. Most probably you moved back to page 2 because your competitors are improving their links profile. You need to focus on getting some quality links, for ex:

• Links from Catalogs/Business Directories
  Pros: Free, Strong positive influence on ranking, which may have some reputable directories. 
  Cons: Take time to submit, Some directories have ban from Google)
• _Comments in blogs _
  Pros: Free to submit. 
  Cons: Take time to submit, Links can be nofollow or noindex
• Social networks
  Pros: Free to submit, Ability to get relevant traffic, Helps to increase page indexation time 
  Cons: Take time to submit
• Social Bookmarks Pros: Helps to increase page indexation time, free to submitCons: Low quality of links, big time spends
• News and PR **Pros: Make a big positive impact on rankings, ability to get several links from one pageCons: **Usually it cost money
• Bulletin board Pros: Free submit of external link**Cons: **Low quality of links, some of them baned by Google
• Sponsorship Pros: Ability to get high quality linksCons: Risk the link will not be permanent, cost money
• Forum links Pros: Free to submit, ability to get targeted traffic**Cons: **Post may not pass moderation, post may be closed from indexation
• FAQ services
  **Pros: Free to submit, ability to get targeted trafficCons: **Take time to submit, post may be closed from indexation

Of course this is not only the places where you can get some links and improve your rankings, if you will go through SEOmoz blog I am sure you will find some other ways for ex. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/8-things-you-can-give-away-to-earn-links-mentions-whiteboard-friday

Looking forwards to see you in Google's top,

Cheers,

Russel

Hi Raphael,

If you have lost some rankings on some of your keywords then most probably your SEO strategy is not the right one.

First of all I will suggest you to start from on-page optimisation for those keywords, where you've lost your rankings. Just make sure that all your title tags, H1 tags, Alt tages are written properly. Then check if you have sufficient number of targeted keywords in your content and make sure if content is not duplicated.

Then you can review your linkbuilding strategy and try to get some relevant (by website theme) links from good quality websites. Also you can use new Google tool to disable bad quality links.

And I am sure your rankings will recover.

Cheers,

Russel

Hi Jodi,

If you are talking about 404 error in Google webmaster panel, I think now there is an option there to tell Google that following 404 problem has been fixed. You can select an URL and "Mark it as Fixed". Before they added this option, you should wait around 1 month for broken links to disappear from Webmaster Panel.

Meanwhile your traffic has dropped with your keywords rankings. If you are using any software to track them, I am sure you will notice some negative changes. If you are not using, then better to do that, because this is one of the best ways to monitor your blog recovery.

Hope it helps,

Cheers,

Russel

Hi Cyril,

What I would suggest to you is to make the 301 redirect from this page to home page. Then create another Privacy Page with slightly different URL. I believe this page has been ranked high because it has more text and better optimised than any other relevant page on your website. Second maybe someone has posted some external links to this page.

Another option can be cross linking. Try to make keyword  "Mardi Gras Parade Tickets" as a link pointing to your home page.

Hope it helps,

Cheers,

Russel

Hi There,

They best way to check can Google Bot crawl your text is to Fetch page as Google. You can do this in your webmaster panel. If you will be able to read the text yourself then google will not have any problems to do the same. Meanwhile as I know Google has no problems in reading code in Jquery.

Here is some additional information from Google support: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=158587

Hope it helps,

Cheers,

Russel

Actually it is not yet confirm that Facebook likes have a direct impact on your keyword rankings in Google, but definitely it is one of the signals which Google use in their algorithm, especially after update in April, 24th.

According to number of likes or shares, I believe Google pull out this data from social plugins like AddThis.com or social code snippet which Social Networks provide for developers.

Cheers,

Russel

Hi there,

1. Loading tooltip through ajax will not prevent Google Bot from indexing your page. You can always check how google bot sees your content through Google Webmaster Panel. At the same time I believe it will not make any contribution for your ranking.

2. This wouldn't  be counted as duplicated content since you will be loading tool tip information from other websites. As I know from the latest news, Google are not counting citations as duplicated content. But of course it should be marked properly as citation, I mean HTML.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Russel

Hey Ben,

There many various factors need to be counted in on-page optimisation before you start linkbuilding.

• First of all make sure that your pages are accessible to Search Engines, check robots.txt
• Check if you keywords repeat several times (2-3 is enough) in your page's content
• It will be good if you will have the keyword in your page title, but don't keep only the keyword
  for instance if your keyword is "dhow cruise" then the title can be "Unforgettable dhow cruise in US"
• Avoid keyword stuffing in Document
• Avoid multiple titles on one page
• No more than one canonical URL tag
  (correlation research has shown that pages which employ the targeted keyword(s) at the front of the title tag benefit greatly in the rankings. There is a direct relationship between proximity to the front of the title element and prominence/rankings as seen by the engines, and the further back in the page title the keyword appears, the worse the correlation with high rankings)
• Keyword usage in image ALT attribute
• It should be less than 200 words on a page
• Appropriate usage of H1 tag (1 times is enough)
• Meta Keywords and Meta description should be filled it
• Keyword Usage in Bold/Strong/Emphasized/Italics also might help
• Avoid Excessive External Links
• Avoid long URLs
• Don's use a lot of ads on page

Also you can check this article about page layout http://www.vanseodesign.com/seo/page-layout-algorithm/

Cheers,

Russel

Better for those 3 website to be on different hostings. Otherwise cross linking may not be effective and will not make an impact on your rankings. However I think it depend from the number of websites located on 1 hosting. Maybe if it is 3 still fine compare to 100's )

Russel

Actually this is not the first time when SeoMoz showing wrong ranking results for non US keywords. I have the same situation with my campaign in Google.ae.

Frankly speaking I never use SeoMoz ranking statistic to check my keyword rankings. From my experience this question has been raised several times in SEOmoz Q/A. I did it onces as well, here you can check what answers I got. 

Cheers,

Russel

Hi Sara,

I can't really agree with you that people in Russia don't use Google. I've been living there for the past 20 years and I can assure you that Google.ru is very popular there.

Currently for the keywords research I know only four best and quite accurate tools:

1. Google Keywords Research

2. Google Insights - Helps to find trendy keywords

3) SeoQuake

4. Wordtracker

Also if you speak Russian language you might find this post very interesting for you, it has 42 tools for keyword research.

Hope it helps,

Russel

Hi, this info I pulled out from Google Support,

Hope it helps:

Ranking of Google Places listings

Google Maps search results are based primarily on relevance, distance, and prominence. These factors are combined to help us find the best match for your search. For example, our search technology might decide that a business that's farther away from your location is more likely to have what you're looking for than a business that's closer. Here's more detail on what relevance, distance, and prominence mean:

Relevance: Relevance is how well a local listing matches what someone is searching for. A complete and detailed listing in Places can help us better understand your business and match you to relevant search results.

Distance: Just like it sounds -- how far is each potential search result from the location term used in a search? If you don't specify a location in your search, we'll calculate distance based on what we know about your location.

Prominence: This describes how well-known or prominent a listing can be. This is based on information we have about a business from across the web (like links, articles, and directories). Some places are more prominent in the offline world, and we try to reflect this online as well. For example, famous museums, landmark hotels, or well-known store brands that are familiar to many people are also likely to be more prominent in search results.

Google Maps and Google Places are free services, so there's no way to request or pay for a better ranking. In addition, we do our best to keep the details of the algorithm confidential in order to make the ranking system as fair as possible for everyone.

Thanks,

Russel

I am pretty sure that you have been hit by Penguin, I have the same traffic drop approximately at same dates. (24-25 of april)

Even if  Google revoked penalty it doesn't meen that your rankings will return.

At the the time you need to understand how Google filters work:

Penguin is all about wrong on-page optimisation and unnatural linkbuilding! Don't buy from link farms and etc.

Panda is all about ads on website.

Thanks

Russel

Actually you can made it bold or italic or underline, whatever you want. The most important is to put your text between

tag, which show Google that it is quote.

I personally do it in Italic and I never had any issue with Google. In bold you can make some of the important keywords, this will help you a little with on-page optimisation.

Thanks,

Russel

Using rel=author helps to protect your content from being copy/paste. You should use this link on every page with content which belongs to you. It shows Google who is the author of the page's text.

According to the picture in SERP results, I can say that this privilege mainly for bloggers, however I successfully did it for one of my clients in dental field. Now if you will type "dentist dubai", you will find his picture in SERP. Unfortunately y ou can't use your brand logos or any other pictures (this is from my experience).

On the last point I will agree with you, however as I said you can't put your company logo.

Hope it helps,

Russel

I have faced an interesting situation about linkbuilding strategy. Currently I am doing SEO for one of my clients located in United Arab Emirates, so accordingly he has a website in English language. And keywords are in English.

So what do you think, can the links placed on Russian language websites pass some link juice (make a positive impact on rankings) and in which language (Russian or English) should be the text surrounding the keyword?

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Russel

Quite a few month ago before Google implemented Penguin algorithm I had a great situation.

After 24th of April my ranking and traffic dropped instantly. Here a a screenshot from my GA: http://imageshack.us/a/img15/4717/screenshot20121013at120.png

I have reviewed my linkbuilding strategy and on-page optimisation however some keywords which dropped out of page 5 don't want to come back even close to page 1.

I would appreciate a professional advise on how my strategy, on-page optimisation can be improved.

For those who are interested here is my domain: http://www.desertsafariabudhabi.ae

The keyword which is more interesting for me is "desert safari abu dhabi".

Thanks in advance,

Russel

Hi,

I can advise you to go for Advanced Web Ranking software, I have been using a professional edition for 2 years and quite happy with it.

It has all important features for SEO and Social Media analytics. At the same time it has a variety of packages which can fit your budget.

And here you can get more information on what exactly it does for social media.

Here I need to note that I am not trying to promote one particular product, I am sure there are plenty of other product which can do the same stuff, however this one has been tried by me and I really like it.

Thank you,

Russel

If you’re in need of a quality backlink, you really can’t go wrong with  “hubs”.

• These hubs tend to achieve PageRank pretty easily
• They can produce DoFollow backlinks with a high enough hub author score (75 last I heard)
• It’s scalable (you can create unlimited amounts of hubs)

With HubPages you create “hubs”, which is a good name for these types of pages and a good concept to explore in your overall SEO and Link Building strategies.  The term hub means center of activity which is what authority sites are… To be a hub, or to be an authority means you need to be talking about/linking to not just yourself but others as well, much like WikiPedia does.  Selfishly hoarding your links and limiting them to just internal on-site links doesn’t show the search engines you’re an authority, it merely depicts your site as an “island”.

Hope it makes sense for you.

Hi there,

Actually the sponsored posts is still good way of getting a good rankings for your keyword. Just make sure that this website has theme relevant to yours and the post itself will be unique not copied.

If the following link will be no-follow then it is depend on how much you are going to pay for it. I can't really say that no-follow links are not carrying any value for SEO, especially after many updated done by Google.

To find out if the link is no-follow you can use http://www.seomoz.org/seo-toolbar

Hope it help

Ruslan

Hi Istvan,

Thanks a lot for your advise I am really surprised how I could miss that webinar. Watching it now! But accent is terrible. Franky speaking leaving in Dubai, I can hear the same accent every day.

Cheers,

Russel

Hi Istvan,

Thanks a lot for your advise I am really surprised how I could miss that webinar. Watching it now! But accent is terrible. Franky speaking leaving in Dubai, I can hear the same accent every day.

Cheers,

Russel

Hi there,

I am quite confused about how to get a good rankings on Google Places? It will be much appreciated to get an answers from PROs on following questions:

1. On which websites I need to submit my details in order to rank well?
2. Are there any rules which my website need to follow in order to rank well in GP?
3. **Which techniques are you implementing in order to find proper websites influencing on Google Places? **
4. If there any 3rd party websites which helps to do so?
5. Could Google Adwords have an impact on my presence in Google Places?
6. Any major mistakes I should to avoid?****

Your detailed answers will help a lot, I am really upset about my knowledge about GP.

Cheers,

Russel

Hi Chris,

You've touch the exact problem I have. My website doesn't appear in Google Places at all. I am really confused about it, because I went through all Google Places guideline and make sure that everything filled in properly and account has no violetions.

However my website do not want to appear in Google Places! When I did analysis of my competitors I've got a feeling that those people just appear there without doing anything!  Just because Google decided to put them. Our website has the hight DA, MT, PA among all our competitors.

Please give some good tips about how to be listed in Google Places, what I should do for that and what is the best places to submit a link for GP?

Cheers,

Russel

Wow that's really exotic place to meet it proves once again you never know where you meet your soul mate.

In dubai it is really hot and because of high humidity you feel it very much! But still it is a great place to visit and there is a lot nice things to see! Especially dubai grow up very fast, almost every year they build something big and beautiful!

Look according to the Google Places (if you will read my comment to Chris), I really have this issue, which bothering me a lot. Can I get a comment from you, what do you think it's need to be done to be listed in GP.

Cheers,

Russel

Dear Robert, Thank you for your advise in terms of On-page optimization. I know there is some work needs to be done an do am working on it. But when I said that I am a little bit lost, I mean linkbuilding strategy. What will be the fist step to start? BTW where did you meet your wife? May be by chance you've been in Dubai ? Cheers, Russel

No, she is French, but English for her is the main language, because in Dubai it is business language and all company websites done in English. Before it had some translations, but after website redesign, they didn't have time to upload them.

Hi Robert,

Thank you for your reply and attention to my topic. Honestly I am not trying to build my seo strategy according to what my competitors DO. I was just curious how this simple directories can make a good impact on his ranking.

But from another side I am a little bit lost in how to optimize the Dental Clinic website! May be you can give me a good advise how to start ? And how to get some good links for this website?

Cheers,

Russel

www.clinickv.com  - Competitor www.versaillesdentalclinic.com - My website

Recently I did a research of one of mine competitors and to my surprise his major backlinks located on seo directories like:

• http://alistdirectory.com/
• http://www.ggfb.org/
• http://www.bitterskank.com/
• http://www.directorypage.net/

And .... he is showing on first page of Google by particular keyword "Dentist Dubai". Frankly speaking I am confused a little bit, because I believe that this SEO strategy has stopped working a long time ago. Could someone share with me his thought about this?

Furthermore all of those websites are asking about a Reciprocal link, which I did find on his website. How he did it?

Thanks,

Russel

Yes, you can do it from time to time. I once did a study of one of my major competitors and to my surprise I found a few good links it in the comments!

But if page has been created a long time ago then it might take a long time (aprox. 1 month) for Google to index it again!

Cheers,

Russel

Hi Mihaly,

The life live in Dubai is great It is a perfect place for me since I don't like winter time at all.
It is a beautiful city with a great culture and places to see and enjoy! If you get a chance in future to visit Dubai, don't lose it! Business here growth very fast, only during one year there are around 20 SEO companies appear on the market And all of them pretend that they are Professionals.

Cheers,

Russel

Hi there,

First of all make sure that you use particular keywords in anchor text, in order to increase their placing in SERP.

For example if your keyword is "Donuts in Dubai" then make sure that you use this words in your anchor text. 
In case if you will simply put the website link, then it will make an impact only on your Domain Authority but not on keyword ranking!

For the forum you can do it in same manner. The link can be at the beginning of the text, middle or end.

You can't do anything in terms of  increasing the possibility of indexing this page by Google. It depends on Page Authority, quality of the website, popularity of the text on this page and even on qty of backlinks to this page.

Cheers,

Russel

Hi Mihaly,

First of all congratulate you with the start Hope you will get a lot of fans and followers. Let me try to answer your question, actually there is a lot of ways, and different opinions.

• You can post at least one article per day or even more, depend on how fast you can get an interesting information and convert it into unique article!

• Actually if you have a new blog and fresh domain, which doesn't have history in front of Google, than I recommend you to build not more than 50 links per week!

• Of course to get better positions in Google, make sure that you are following simple steps:

1. Make sure that On-page optimization and keywords density are fine, for this you can use SEOmoz tools on any other additional software!

http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization/new

2. Install the Google Webmaster tools and make sure that you doesn't have any problems with HTML, duplicate titles and etc. That your blog can be indexed well.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/

3. Try to make sharing easy and add social plugins like AddThis and etc. Nowadays Google likes to see social plugins installed on the blogs.

http://www.addthis.com/

4. Of course no need to mention that content should be unique! And don't forget about cross linking, it gives you an extra point for SEO.

5. Read some interesting articles from SEOmoz oracles like Rand Fishkin Here is his recently added one:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/21-tactics-to-increase-blog-traffic-2012

6. Don't forget about account on Twitter, Facebook and add a feed to your website.

I am sure there are some more good things you can do, but this is a bunch from me, the rest you will get from others

Cheers,

Russel

Yes you are right Of course on PDF file the link will be more secured, but it is not comfortable to adjust the text there. So the best option still will be MS word, the when the editing will be finished, you can convert the doc into PDF.

I am sure you know that you can't simply copy the text from PDF on website because text in MS word has hidden coding and it might mess your HTML!

Cheers, Russel

Dear Saurabh,

There is a very low chance that those links might leave a negative impact on your website, because the anchor text doesn't match with your website subject at all. So I think that Google will simply ignore these links. Of course there is always a way to send an email asking to remove the link from the website but not in your case, where you have 9000 links

The best what you can do in this case is to get some valuable links from trusted websites with relevant information, thereby you will get some credibility in front of the Google!

Hope it will make sense to you,

Cheers ,

Russel

Dear Edward,

I will suggest you to keep the docs in Word format, because this is the easiest format for adjusting the text and adding the hyperlinks!

Also make sure that your article doesn't have more than 3 links, because then your article might not bring any value for SEO. Meanwhile the recent research shows that the highest value will bring the link located in the first paragraph! So if you have for ex. the keyword "Roller skates", try to locate this anchor text with the link in the first paragraph.

Hope it will make sense to you,

Cheers,

Russel

If search engine robot can't read this information then it means that it is useless for search engine optimization. It will only help to increase your brand name population !

The best way to check is to place an image with your details on your website. Then open Google Webmaster tools open it as a Google bot. I am pretty sure that it can't read this hidden information.

Cheers,

Russel