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We are looking for a reputable high quality link building company.  Can anyone recommend any and how much would we expect to pay?

Thanks

Andrew

Thanks.  This is my point though if you look at www.moz.com there is hardly any copy at all.

If for example Moz and "another site" where equal in all other way links PR etc.  They had the same amount of keywords on thier landing page.  But the "other site" had more copy, would google rank Moz or the "other site" higher?

Hi

We have a SaaS online invoicing software website.  We want to optimize our landing page for conversion.  Everything we read about conversion says

1. Big H1 Copy, short, precise and catchy.
2. 3 bullet points

and thats it.  Very very little copy.

Question is is this bad for our SEO.  Will google rank our home\landing page if we do not have lots of natural keyword copy?

SEO and CRO are conflicting here aren't they?

Thanks

Thanks Dan, but what grey areas, what url are you looking at?

Hi Dan, Yes sorry that's the one!

Its a dotnetblogengine.com blog its open source but not sure where to start

Thanks

9000 duplicate content and duplicate page titles caused by my blog.  I have added

User-agent: *Allow: /Blog/post/Disallow: /Blog

to the Robot.txt to just allow the main site and the Blog posts

Is this a good way to fix it?

Thanks but I require a Moz crawl first.

My site was crawled last night and found 10,000 errors due to a Robot.txt change implemented last week in between Moz crawls.  This is obviously very bad so we have corrected it this morning.  We do not want to wait until next Monday (6 days) to see if the fix has worked.  How do we force a Moz crawl now?

Thanks

Hi

The blog is www.dotnetblogengine.com

The content is only on the blog once it is just it can be accessed lots of different ways

Hi Dan,

I am getting duplicate content errors in WMT like

www.mysite.com/Blog/?tag=ABC

www.mysite.com/Blog/?Page=1

This is because tag=ABC and page=1 are both different ways to get to www.mysite.com/Blog/Post/My-Blog-Post.aspx

To fix this I have remove the URL's www.mysite.com/Blog/?tag=ABC and www.mysite.com/Blog/?Page=1from GWMT and by setting robot.txt up like

User-agent: *
Disallow: /Blog/
Allow: /Blog/post
Allow: /Blog/Post

I hope to solve the duplicate content issue to stop it happening again.

Since doing this my SERP's have dropped massively.  Is what I have done wrong or bad?  How would I fix?

Hope this makes sense thanks for you help on this its appreciated.

Andrew

Hi,

I have removed the Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn and G+ links from the top of our home page so as to try and stop users leaving the page.  Is this bad for SEO?

Thanks

Thanks

Is "We also had to promote the content to encourage inbound links so we went to every blog and commented about the tutorial to give it visibility" ok to do still?

Hi,

We have a web app.  All our competitors are on http://www.appappeal.com.  We can suggest ourselves here http://www.appappeal.com/contact/suggest.  If we get reviewed and the link is a follow link is this a good thing or a bad thing.  They call themselves a directory and you can pay to get a "priority" review.

Should we avoid or is it a good link as the DA is 58?

Hi Dan,

The issue is my blog had tagging switched on, it cause canonicalization mayhem.

I switched it off, but the tags still appears in Google Webmaster Tools (GWMT).  I Remove URL via GWMT but they are still appearing.  This has also caused me to plummet down the SERPs!  I am hoping this is why my SERPs had dropped anyway!  I am now trying to get to a point where google just sees my blog posts and not the ?Tag or ?Author or any other parameter that is going to cause me canoncilization pain.  In the meantime I am sat waiting for google to bring me back up the SERPs when things settle down but it has been 2 weeks now so maybe something else is up?

How long should a "quality" blog post be?  General advice seems to be that a 300 word post just won't cut it, but advice on the optimum length is vague.  I appreciate that all posts are different but is there a rule of thumb, is 1000 words good and 1500 too long...or should they are all aim to be 2000 words?

Also with regards to pictures in blogs, can they just be taken from the web or are there sites that I should be using to source the pictures?

Thanks

Hi,

So I have my great content (that contains a link to our site) that I want to distribute to high quality relevant sites in my niche as part of a link building campaign.  Can I distribute this to lots of sites?  The reason I ask is that those sites will then have duplicate content to all the other sites I distribute the content to won;t they?  I this duplication bad for them and\or us?

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Thanks we are an online invoicing software provider so am at a loss really on what content we can provide that anyone would ever want to link to. It's not the most interesting of sites/subjects to link too.

Hi,

Links from Directories are bad.

Links for low quality sites are bad.

Paid links are bad.

Guest blogging is "maybe rumor has it" google's next big Penguin.

Where and how is everybody getting all these great links from, is there anywhere left??

All advice welcomed as we really need good links quick!

Thanks

Thanks it goes straight to www.mysite.com/Blog

The structure is:

www.mysite.com - want to see everything at this level and below it

www.mysite.com/Blog - want to BLOCK everything at this level

www.mysite.com/Blog/posts - want to see everything at this level and below it

"We're getting closer David, but after reading the question again I think we both miss an essential point ;-)"  What was the essential point you missed.  sorry I don't understand.  I don;t want to make a mistake in my Robot.txt so would like to be 100% sure on what you are saying

Thanks guys so I have

User-agent: *
Disallow: /Blog/
Allow: /Blog/post
Allow: /Blog/Post

that works.  My Home page also works.  I there anything wrong with including both uppercase "Post" and lowercase "post".  It is lowercase on the site but want uppercase "P" just incase.  Is there a way to make the entry non case sensitive?

Thanks

Hi,

We have a blog that is killing our SEO.

We need to

Disallow

Disallow: /Blog/?tag*
Disallow: /Blog/?page*
Disallow: /Blog/category/*
Disallow: /Blog/author/*
Disallow: /Blog/archive/*
Disallow: /Blog/Account/.
Disallow: /Blog/search*
Disallow: /Blog/search.aspx
Disallow: /Blog/error404.aspx
Disallow: /Blog/archive*
Disallow: /Blog/archive.aspx
Disallow: /Blog/sitemap.axd
Disallow: /Blog/post.aspx

But Allow everything below /Blog/Post

The disallow list seems to keep growing as we find issues. So rather than adding in to our Robot.txt all the areas to disallow.  Is there a way to easily just say Allow /Blog/Post and ignore the rest.  How do we do that in Robot.txt

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Hi,

What is the best way to get a "good quality" link to my blog posts?

Thanks

I realize it is bad to pay for a link but is it bad to pay for a link on a page that ranks you 1 to 10 againist your competitor, shows a screen shot of your and lists Pros and Cons of your site?  Is this sort of paid link different somehow?

Hi,

Thanks for the responses.  i want to add the blog to my site to get the SEO value from it.  I do not want it hosted at Wordpress.  I'm confused how it would work in SEO terms.  How do I get the SEO value out of wordpress.

So to answer your question its: "or just using a wordpress CMS on a domain you have such as "www.example.com"?"

Is Wordpress good for SEO?  If so, any tips?  Do I need to set up as a subdomain so www.blog.mysite.com?

Thanks

I would be link building for SEO purposes so I would not want the links to be nofollow.  From what you are saying, and if it actually becomes reality that google hits guest posts then I as our site has zero guest posts at present I am better off not doing anything and waiting for the google update, the sites above me will fall and I will rise surely

Thanks so if I don't guest blog what other ways are there to get links?

Is guest posting to get links a good idea?

I have the blogs to post but do not have the time to find, approach and build a relationship with bloggers to get the guest posts.  Are guest posting services a good idea and if so can anyone recommend one?

Thanks

Hi,

Our site has a blog.  We had "Categories" and "Tags" in our blog.  This caused SEO chaos with Duplicate content and 404 Errors.

We removed all the Categories and Tags about a month ago.

Why would these issues still be showing up on Moz as errors on our Crawl Diagnostics page?  Do we need to do some thing else other than just remove them from our blog.

Thanks

Thanks for your response but I cannot find either of the functionality you mention in your response.  Could you please describe in more detail.  Also we removed the tags 10 days ago and the last run was 5 days ago so the tags should not be in the report in the first place this is our main issue.

Hi,

My on page crawl analysis is showing that I have 38 duplicate content issues.  These issues are because we had used tags in our blog.  We remove all the tags 10+ day ago but the crawl that was done 5 days ago is still showing the tags as causing a duplicate content issue.  Why would this be?  We cannot correct is as it is already corrected.  How do we get moz to crawl the correctly?

Thanks

Andrew

I have just noticed one instance where Adwords clicks are higher..thus breaking the theory

Hi

Yes they are linked.  I think I may have just solved it.  In Google under Traffic Sources the "google / cpc" is always a bit higher than the clicks in Adwords for a given period.  On looking into the data more I can see that they are reporting the same keywords but on some of the keywords GA is reporting a few more clicks.  I am guessing this is due to people revisiting.  Is it that GA records the second visit again but adwords only records the original click?

Does this theory sound right?  It the only thing I can think of.  I suppose another way to ask the same question is "Does GA record revisits but adwords doesn't?"

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Sorry I should have made it clearer.  By CPC I mean the traffic source. Paid clicks as opposed to Organic clicks

I would expect that the CPC source in GA to match the PPC clicks in Adwords but they don't

Hi

Why do our CPC in Google Analytic not match our PPC in Adword, surely they should be identical?  We have Auto-tagging switched on and data in our history is wrong so it is not a timing issue.

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Hi,

Should all the page titles of our blogs include a Keyword(s) and\or our website name?

Cheers problem solved!

Thanks

Andrew

Hi Paddy,

Your answer prompted me to dig a little further and I have just found that it already has a dynamic one..under /Blog/sitemap.axd.

This raises 2 more questions for me:

1. what is axd, is it ok to use axd not xml.

2. Can a site have 2 sitemaps.  I will have 1 in www.example.com/sitemap.xml and 1 in www.example.com//Blog/sitemap.axd.  Is that ok?  Anything to be aware of with this set up?

Thanks

Andrew

Hi,

dotnetblogengine.net I couldn't see one.

Thanks

Andrew

Hi

We have a static sitemap and a blog...Uh oh!  We are are just realizing that the 2 are not very compatible!!  We need a dynamic sitemap.  Is there such a thing as a "set and forget" sitemap that updates itself without us maintaining a database of sitemap data?

Thanks

Andrew

Thanks Both that is what I thought

Thanks well spotted

Thanks Alan all done so far so good thanks for your help

Hi

Is adding tags into Blogs a good idea?  Does it help with SEO at all?

For example blog/?tag=/Invoicing-Software Will that help us get ranked for Invoicing Software?

Regards

Andrew

Hi

Answers below in order:

Yes

Yes folder called \Secure

asp.net

Yes