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Thanks guys for your suggestions. Really appreciate it.

Hi guys,

Our website have a very strong landing page (PA 80, more than 1,000 domains linking) but is currently not ranking at all as the targeted terms are dominated by exact match domains.

We are thinking of redirecting this particular page to a new partial match domain targeting the same keywords.

Is it a good move?

Hi guys,

Our website has this landing page:

www.example.com/service1/

Is this considered keyword self-cannibalization if on the above page we link to local pages such as:

www.example.com/service1-in-chicago/

www.example.com/service1-in-newyork/

www.example.com/service1-in-texas/

Many thanks

David

Also we use SEOQuake toolbar all the time which as far I know check Google PR + results count for a particular URL/domain. Is it a potential issue too?

Thanks for your prompt responses guys,

The solutions I intend to use are:

1. Use other SEs (Bing) for non SEO related searches (e.g. research, staff personal use etc.)

2. Stop using Rank Checker for rank checking.

3. Split the computers into using 2 internet connections so 7/each.

I don't really like the idea of using Hide My Ass when working all the time as it does slow down your connection + we can't send emails in Outlook when it's turned on too (which we often forget).

Any other suggestions you want to add/feedback for the above?

Thanks

David

Hi guys,

Our office has about 15 computers all on the same IP address and about 10 actively search on Google.

Recently we have been asked to type in CAPTCHA almost every single time searching on Google and would like to know if you have any suggestions of resolving this.

We do use Firefox Rank Checker to check ranking once per week (around 400 keywords) but we use Hide My Ass to hide the IP.

No malware or virus detected on computers in the network.

Many thanks for your help in advance

David

Hi guys,

We have done some work to try to remove pages from Google index. We have done the following:

1. Noindex tag

2. Make pages returning a 404 response.

Is there anyway to notify Google about these changes so we can speed up the process of removing these pages from Google index?

Also regarding the URL removal tool, Google says that it's used to remove URLs from search results, does it mean the URLs are removed from their index too?

Many thanks guys

David

Hi Doug,

Thanks for your reply.

In terms of traffic, it's about 40% but in terms of overall conversions, it's about 5% (compared to overall Google organic traffic). Hence we said it's not converting very well.

We did adjust the page so that when visitors arrived from Google there's a form to list a similar request but probably since they were actually looking for prices/specs of those items they were not really interested in the services we provided.

But I do think you made a really good point there of trying to establish a relationship with prospective users. Probably that's a better way of using this traffic.

Thanks for the suggestions they're much appreciated.

David

We run a service website and basically users of the site post their request to get certain items fixed/serviced.

Through Google Analytics we have found that we got lots of traffic to these request pages from people searching for those particular items.

E.g. A member's request page: "Cost to fix large Victorian oven" has got many visits from searchers searching for "large Victorian oven".

The traffic to these pages is about 40% of our Google organic traffic but didn't covert to more users/requests well and has roughly 67% bounce rate.

So my question is: should we keep these pages indexed and if yes what can we do to improve the conversion rate/reduce bounce rate?

Many thanks guys.

David

Hi Casey,

Thanks for your answer.

As you were saying the 2nd link from same domain will be counted, will it be diluted in value even if it's from a different page to the first link?

E.g. Link 1: www.externaldomain.com/page1 linking to www.mydomain.com/page1

Link 2: www.externaldomain.com/page2 linking to www.mydomain.com/page2

Will the 2nd link lose some value as externaldomain.com already linked to mydomain.com?

Thanks.

David

Hi guys,

In SEOMoz Search Ranking Factors, one of the the top ranking factors is number of unique root domains linking to the page:

http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors#metrics-5

My question is: do these unique root domains need to be unique root domains liking to my domain also?

E.g. www.mydomain.com/landingpage1/ already got a link from www.externaldomain.com

If www.externaldomain.com has another link pointing to www.mydomain.com/landingpage2/ will this link be counted? If yes will the value be diluted as www.externaldomain.com has already linked to www.mydomain.com/

Many thanks.

David

Hi guys,

Our website has an eBay widget which lots of eBay users put on their listings. We are thinking of using that as a way to get links from eBay listings.

However, since most eBay listings will disappear after 90 days, is this worth doing and also will Google count those links?

Many thanks

David

Thanks Ryan,

We also noticed a potential issue: the majority of the external links are keyword rich, e.g.

Our landing page www.domain.com/abc/ got about 90% of links containing 2 main keywords "abc" and "def"we target on that page.

We have heard websites could be penalysed for over-optimised, unnarual link profile, should we be concerned about the above?

Hi guys,

After the latest Linkscape update, we noticed that our website have 424,671 external links with 4,395 linking root domains, so roughly 100 links/domain.

Does Google consider this to be a negative thing or we do not need to worry about it.

Many thanks.

David

Hi guys,

As with many link builders we have been building lots of dofollow links for our site, so many that mainly our incoming links are dofollow. Some pages have 99.5% dofollow external links which I know is not very natural.

In your experience in terms of percentage how much should you have in terms of nofollow external links in your link profile.

I noticed SEOMoz has about 12-13% nofollow external links, shall I go with this figure?

Thanks guys.

David

Hi,

We have a directory of 25,000 odd companies who use our site.

We have a strong PR site and want to rank a page for each company name.  Some initial testing on one or two company names brings us to #2 after the company's own web site in the format:  "Company Name Reviews and Feedback" - so it works well.

We want to do this for all 25,000 of our members, however we do not wish to make it easy for our competitors to scrape through our member database!!

e.g. using: www.ourdomain.com/randomstring/company-name-(profile).php

unfortunately with the above performing a search on google for site:domain.com/()/()(profile).php

would bring up all records.

Are there any tried and tested ways of achieving what we're after here?

Many Thanks.