Don't worry, I bought the DVD's and they shipped them over to me in the UK nice and fast... it's not the sort of company that you would ever have any unethical practise problems with.
Posts made by SteveOllington
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RE: Where's MY SEO DVD'S
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RE: Dynamic parameters
Sorry, didn't read properly. Yes you should still block those pages anyway though... internal search result pages will still cause you issues in one way or another, whether it's circular navigation or competing for keywords... I would block them anyway.
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RE: Rejected Yahoo! Local Listing Submissions
It's because of abuse of local search. There's a range of possibilities that it could be.
- Your IP submitting too many
- Too many of the same email address or phone number between them
- etc, etc...
Do the agents have actual locations in each of the places? Are you putting in one national phone number and email address or are they getting their own individual ones?
Did they get rejected seemingly randomly or did all the rejections start after a certain point?
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RE: In OSE is there a way to see the total number or links coming from each domain?
You could run Xenu Link sleuth on each of the domains then sort by name until you find how many links go out from it to a specific URL. Will take a while to run if they're big sites but still.
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RE: Historical Indexation
There isn't, or at least there wasn't about a year ago. I was looking for something like that a year ago and I searched high and low, I asked that very same question on here. If the tool does exist, it's not easily found and nobody knows of it.
Shame, but as somebody else said on here, it would be a pretty cool tool to make, a sort of wayback machine/archive.org that shows what rankings were for a site, etc...
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RE: Duplicate content across multiple domains
Ah, I thought he was saying the dupe content does still exists but no more duplication is taking place after the fix. That's where I was going wrong then lol.
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RE: Duplicate content across multiple domains
Do you want the smaller sites to still exist? If they don't matter at all then you could always take them offline though that's not recommended for obvious reasons (but it would get them out of the index fairly quick).
If they still need to exist then we're just back to the same thing, changing the content on them. If the problem has been fixed to stop further duplication then that's fine... you could limit the damage by having all of those smaller sites be dupes of each other but not of the main site by rewriting the smaller ones with one lot of content, or the main one. At least that way they will only be competing with each other and not the main site any more.
Or have I still got the wrong end of the stick?
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RE: Link Request Email on Site`s Link Pages
Well there is, but you want to only use it for reference as one of the biggest issues with it being successful is how personal it is (so never stick to a generic template). There's tonnes of tips out there, this URL should do the trick
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RE: Duplicate content across multiple domains
Ah I see, so it's a CMS which pumps out content then?
But it pumps it to other sites?
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RE: Dynamic parameters
That's not the actual product page itself, it's because it's a search result page.You should block those pages anyway as not only is there the parametre problem but they also have duplicate content of the product pages.
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RE: Link Request Email on Site`s Link Pages
Alan is totally right, offering money for it is the wrong path to take, plus, as you'll need links more and more you'll forever be paying for them. Are the sites even that good that the links are of any value? If the page already links out to loads of people then that could make the link worth less.
Sure, pay for a link off of a site with huge credibility (as advertising), but not any old site with a links page.
Write something they'd like to link to and then tell them it exists.
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RE: Duplicate content across multiple domains
You could always just rewrite the content so it's not duplicate, that way you get to keep them cached and maybe focus on some different but still targeted long tail traffic... turn a negative into a positive. I accept thousands of pages is a lot of work, but there's a million and one online copywriters who are pretty good (and cheap) that you could assign projects to for it. Google copywriters for hire or freelance copywriters... could have it done in no time and not spend that much
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RE: How cool is this Q&A Forum!
In that case I just went and put a bit of much needed punctuation into the OP in case it's in the screenshot... when I read it back I nearly ran out of breath!
Looking forward to further forum evolution
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RE: How cool is this Q&A Forum!
It's all so practical too. I would bet that anyone who spent an hour or two each day in here just reading through the questions would make a great SEO after a year
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RE: Site crawler hasn't crawled my site in 6 days!
I'm not sure to be honest but before it slowed down a little I tended to get a crawl once a week per site, whether a site was large or small.
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RE: Site crawler hasn't crawled my site in 6 days!
That's not actually that long, and there's a queue anyway... I had a small site wait a couple of weeks recently but it did get crawled, was just in the queue for a while first. Just give it a while longer and it'll be fine.
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RE: Google & Separators
Ahhh of course... that's pretty cool. And the video file/save names possibly do have too. That's a quality experiment, you should expand it and do a YouMoz post!
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How cool is this Q&A Forum!
I love it, it's brilliant. You get to peruse through the questions to see real world examples of SEO issues, and help with things you do know the answers to, as well as learn loads from seeing others answers on things you don't know the answers to... I'm getting addicted to coming on here!
The instant-ness of it all makes it much better than any other SEO forum out there in my opinion.
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RE: What are the top three CMS providers you suggest?
Hmm, so you could be held to ransom for your own site?
I'm not saying for one minute that the company is bad or anything but the problem with this type of thing is never about how much they charge, it's about the level of service... if staff changes or they take on a bigger client, or any number of things that result in you getting low service, what are you ever going to do about it in that situation?
What if the site and CMS used is no good for SEO purposes, what if they don't allow changes and don't allow others to access the source code. What if things go wrong with hosting or anything else to do with the site?
I would just get the whole thing built in an open source CMS by someone and hosted somewhere you have full access to if I were you.
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RE: Google & Separators
How interesting. Why do you think the underscores bring video results above, making the serps mismatch all the others?
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RE: How do i get to know th pages crawled by SEOMOZ?
They're all listed in the campaign. Just go to crawl issues, pick an error type and then download as CSV. It will give you every page (upto 10,000) crawled... then you can just find and replace "false" with nothing (so leave the replace with box empty) so you can see everything properly.
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RE: What are the top three CMS providers you suggest?
You're not having the CMS as the whole site?
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RE: How do you block development servers with robots.txt?
Just use a directory instead of a sub-domain and then block that directory... that's the easiest way.
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RE: What are the top three CMS providers you suggest?
Joomla, Wordpress, and Drupal. Just don't get a bespoke one made, pick the wrong company to do it and you'll be stuck in an eternal nightmare.
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RE: Rankings in Bing/Yahoo lower than in Google
They use different algorithms so you would always get different rankings. The reason they'd be higher in Google just means that you've got more stuff that Google gives weighting to for the keywords than in the others... i.e. backlinks. And then of course some of your competition may have the opposite, they might be more highly tuned in ways that Bing & Yahoo factors in as important.
Your best solution is to look at what the perceived differences are in the algorithms and then maybe do a bit more of the stuff that you might be missing for Yahoo & Bing
If you're going to have better rankings in any of the search engines though, Google is by far the best!!
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RE: What are the best paid directories today?
I respectfully disagree. I know they don't necessarily pass loads of link juice but some of the paid directories don't have all the millions of spammy links to spammy sites in... because they're paid. Some are very, very cheap too. I know most are rubbish and not worth squat but there's still lots which are cheap and do pass link juice which far outweighs the cost.
Also the paid ones add you much faster... and if you want a diverse backlink profile it's worth getting a bunch of directories in there as well as your other link types... rely on the free ones and you could be waiting forever for that.
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RE: Weird Indexing Question
It will come out of the index once G realises you've told it that both pages are one and the same. So yeah it will come out.
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RE: Could we have gotten penalized?
It depends when it was too... the Panda/Farmer update affected plenty of websites like that. It looks like ALL of your anchor text is the same which probably wouldn't help matters.
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RE: Could we have gotten penalized?
It depends when it was too... the Panda/Farmer update affected plenty of websites like that. It looks like ALL of your anchor text is the same which probably wouldn't help matters.
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RE: Google / Bing Product Feeds - Optimization - Taxonomies
Yes! Look at how items can be sorted (i.e. by price, etc... so people can see the cheapest items first). Then think how the products you're feeding in might be sorted by your target audience and adjust accordingly so your stuff comes up first in the sorted results
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RE: Ever seen a black hat SEO hack this sneaky?
I have seen stuff like that in the SERP's but the only experience I have of getting hacked is a bit different. I worked in-house for a large travel corporation a couple of years ago and whilst the company's site was fine, their very popular blog wasn't. I just started there and looked at the source code of the blog (for some reason nobody was ever checking that) and found that there were hundreds of links to porn and poker sites hidden by CSS. It was all down to the fact that the blog was on Wordpress and hadn't been updated for a while.
Other than that, we've had sites we host hacked a few times, from hidden links to malware on the sites which of course produced warnings in the browsers. Again, all down to not keeping up with security patches and other updates. I learnt some lessons there.
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RE: I need to get my hands on some already registered domains?!?
There are brokerage services yes, but you'll find you have to sign up to them and then you'll start getting a lot of spam emails (at least that's what happened to me). Your ISP should have some kind of a domain watcher service to let you know when domains become available. But you should know that domains don't necessarily keep their value when they switch ownership... if the whois info changes along with the content then it might lose any age based benefit that it did have in the eyes of Google. You might be better of just going with a whole brand new domain, just including a hyphen in there or something... will be a lot cheaper to purchase too!
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RE: Why do people rarely give each other Thumbs Up?
I do... and I think most people do it it's something really great. Here you go though... haha
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RE: Google replacing subpages in index with home page?
Yeah that's pretty odd then. I assumed it was your rank trackers since we had a similar issue once with ours and it was just an option un-ticked. I have been looking at some of our clients sites rankings today and we're not having the same thing, plus I would assume that it's not something happening to many people, such a change would mean all forums, blogs, etc... with be filled with people asking the same question and wondering what's going on. If that's the case, it means it's just this particular site.
What browser did you use to check manually? It's just that with Chrome it doesn't matter if you're logged in or not, it will still give you some level of personalized results some of the time (which is stupid I know), and to make matters worse, I found FF to be returning completely different results to both Chrome and IE for a few searches yesterday. Maybe it would be worth checking in a couple of different browsers. If it's still the same then I hate to say it but you've got two options... 1) Wait it out for a couple of days in case it's just one of those weird things that do seem to happen, and/or... 2) Start thinking about what changes were made with the site recently to have caused it. I doubt that's at all helpful as I'm sure you already thought of that but like you said, it is bizarre... bizarre Google stuff seems to be happening a lot lately!
Have you got points left to ask in private Q&A? That's probably your best bet since then you'll get one of the SEOmoz staff answering and if they don't know, no-one will.
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RE: Google replacing subpages in index with home page?
What tracking software are you using, and have you checked any of them manually?
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RE: .Co Domains - Any thoughts?
And vice versa though? Could you end up with more traffic mistaking you for your larger competitor?
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RE: Should I put a No follow on each link in a Javascript dropdown menu?
No worries... you can give me a thumbs up and a "this answered my question" if you like... I want that SEOmoz t-shirt lol.
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RE: Would you truste this link building buissness ?
Lists which you can find yourself easily enough with a Google blog search and Omgili for forums
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RE: Should I put a No follow on each link in a Javascript dropdown menu?
Yeah you can do that with the search listings page, but make sure that's not the only links in to the content that you do want spidered. Alternatively if you do go with the CSS menu then you'd need to reduce the number of links by linking to the categories first, then from the categories to the pages. It's not ideal as the architecture wouldn't be as flat but it would still be better then having too many links I think.
Have a look at www.martinco.com as one example of how you could do the stuff with the search listings. The search listings page returns results as queries and that page is noindex, nofollow... but at the bottom of the page there are also links to different regions which then go on to link to the offices within those regions. That was done as a solution for the same problems you're having... plus of course you will need to make sure you get lots of in-content text links from relevant pages to the pages you want indexed where you can.
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RE: Should I put a No follow on each link in a Javascript dropdown menu?
Hehe, I think you might be right
Try "Smashing Magazine" for CSS menus, or there's "CSSplay.co.uk" but they charge
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RE: Should I put a No follow on each link in a Javascript dropdown menu?
You should definitely just give up the Javascript menu, if the reason you don't want to is due to design, etc... then look into CSS as an alternative, you'll find you can probably replicate the current Javascript nav to appear exactly the same with CSS instead.
With regards to the nofollows, it depends... do you want those pages to get indexed and gain any position in the SERP's? For long-tail terms perhaps? If so then you don't want to nofollow them.
Can you not break them down somehow into better categories, because what you have heard is correct... that is too many links on a page.
Look at "siloing" I only recently came across siloing myself and asked about it on here, where I was referred to this article http://www.seomoz.org/blog/site-architecture-for-seo
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RE: Duplicate Content Question
You could get around that easily by having the homepage's content (the content that is duplicated) show up in the same place by using an iframe which displays the content on the actual page, on the homepage. Search engines don't treat iframe content as dupe content, they know it comes from a separate source. However, are you using keywords from that content for your homepage's SEO? Because you would effectively lose that as homepage content.
If you're using that content for the SEO on your homepage and not the other page, you could just use the robots.txt file to noindex, nofollow the other page... then problem solved
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RE: Use 301 redirects when deleting old products?
Yeah your first solution, that's what always gets recommended, and I'm pretty sure it wouldn't do (on here especially) if it wasn't above board... there's been a whole bunch of articles that I've seen on here though saying to go for it, which I do... and stuff on SEMPO, and a loads of other places all saying the same. I'm sure it would be all over the SEO blogs and forums by now if there were any change to that
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RE: SEO Value of Within-Page Links vs. Separate Pages
If I'm correct in my understanding of what you're saying, I reckon seperate pages as otherwise you're just linking back onto the same page (and even though it's still returning to the correct page for the terms, it initially says to the crawlers that you're pointing out of the page for the keyword you're trying to boost that page for). That is, if I follow your meaning, which I'm not confident that I do.
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RE: Turn grey myself or rat on black hat competitors?
Yeah it's annoying that... if Google really do want to discourage bad practise why don't they act on the spam reports. Maybe not all of them but the blatant spam with keywords stuffed all over the place and a million links from spamming forums, etc... by not doing anything about it when somebody is frustrated enough to actually bother to fill in a spam report, just makes that person then decide that what the dodgy site is doing works better... the old "if you can't beat them, join them".
Then, like the OP, other SEO's start to think, well why am I sat here slaving away to get anywhere for this client who's putting me under pressure for faster results, when that guy just used xrumer, etc... Maybe I ought to give that a try.
G are shooting themselves in the foot. I've "experimented" in darker head-wear realms a lot for that very reason, not because I want to, but because I'm driven to by G's inaction on the matter.