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Im not talking outreach software or anything like that but more along the same lines of myblogguest.

Id like to know which ones you have actually used and your opinion, there are tons of them out there but most are spammy cr+p

There is no 404 though, the page is there just not in the results

Many thanks for the reply. Here's some answers No one has touched the code or made any recent changes to the site, there's no Robots txt , no follow and the canonical links are working ok Back links are fine, nothing untoward at all, and there is nothing tht breaks any guidelines Both sites are 100% different not even in the same areas, we only work on one site but the client has 2 sites on a shared server an they both have the missing home page (doesn't even rank for brand terms) I've just checked in webmaster tools and although there are no messages or errors I've just spotted that the http://www home page is showing as a 404, which is incorrect as you can type it in and view it with no errors. The site is set to resolve at the non www. This is set in the CMS (wordpress) with the canonical link and within webmaster tools

If the old products are indexed then you will get some long tail traffic to the no doubt, so deleting the page is a no no, i would either keep the page and display the new products underneath or 301 to the new product page.

If the old products are indexed then you will get some long tail traffic to the no doubt, so deleting the page is a no no, i would either keep the page and display the new products underneath or 301 to the new product page.

What more info do you require, I cant post the URL

Ok odd one. 2 sites hosted on go daddy, neither sites has any cause for concern. But both sites have had there home pages deindexed or - 10000 penalty for no reason. We do the SEO for 1 site and not for the other. The server is shared with go daddy no idea on how many other 3rd party sites are on it. I've filed a reinclusion request for both sites. Any help is more than welcome.

Oh sweet! Thanks, this just saved me a headache. Yes I was going to host the 2nd site locally and make any local content changes.

Any Oz based hosting companies you recommend?

We have the co.uk and com.au ccTLDS and currently operate out of the UK only but plans are in place for Australia. We can't get hold of the .org or .com so it has to be the ccTLD.

I want to use the same site for both countries and either host 2 identical sites (same content) or 1 site with different domain names + meta tags for the 2 countries.

Whats the best way to make this happen without screwing things up?

Do you rank number one for your domain with the hyphen in it? Do you want to prevent someone else coming into your market?

OK which brokers / sites do you use to buy your links or gain links from and why.

The site resolves on the non www now?

Which is best www or not?

I'm interested to hear more about

Also, I would really question the merits of your fire and forget link building. Link velocity is an important metric (also shows you're not "gaming" the system).

This is true, loads of links on the page already can't be good.

1 pages sites won't work. Add in some more pages perhaps go for some long tail traffic. I've tried lots of one page sites and a few years ago they would rank, now however you need to do more as google doesn't like these one page sites used to push people away to other sites.

A site I'm working on resolves on the non www address and has 100+ links pointing at this address, last month it started to rank and had various phases within the top 50, this month it's totally gone from the search results. The www has 5 links.

My questions

Which is best? Www or non

How do you fix it?

Any reason why the rankings have disappeared!?

It's a word press site domainname.co.uk = 100+ links

www.domainname.co.uk = 5 links

No offence taken. And I understand and agree there are no fast gained sustainable shortcuts to long term SEO - I have this conversation daily! However unimportant it is with grand scheme of things, sometimes you get a new client who will no be educated and only cares about PR - Hence to keep said client you go get some PR for them!

I'm not really going to start selling links on sites with PR that I have created! Thanks for the advice though

I have a great deal of SEO knowledge and I have a few ways of getting a site to have PR but I'm always hungry for more knowledge, hence the question on this SEO q+a site!

But what if my business plan was to build sites gain PR then sell links?

What are your sure fire ways to build up page rank, quickly and effectively for long term gains.

Do you have a check list?

I need to create somethng that works on the fly, without any analytics or webmaster account

Which API do you use though? The SOAP is not around anymore and this page http://code.google.com/more/ doesn't have anything that jumps out at me

http://goo.gl/2fWd5   here we go

How does any rank checker tool work then? Say the report you can run on SEO moz.

Or any of the ones that you see here

http://goo.gl/2fWd5

I try and keep it to 1 link every 300 words (or page) and I mix up the anchor text so its not always the same to prevent it from looking spammy.

Rememeber you need to link across all your pages, not just have a load of anchor text links heading to the home page

I can't seem to work this one out.

Basically I want to make a very simple rank checker tool something similar to http://www.mikes-marketing-tools.com/ranking-reports/ where a user simply type in a domain and a keyword and in return is shown the position within the results.

The problem is I can’t work out which API's I need in order to build it, does anyone know what I need to poke about with?

It must work with Google and ideally with Bing and the rest

If you set up a 301redirect  then theold  page will automatically redirect to the new page with imediaite effect, therefore rendering the old page useless I belive?

Are the pages you have 301'd linked from around the old site? If so I would keep them there in order to maximise conversion from users visiting these pages from searching within the site and from organic listings.

I don't belive there is a penatly for leaving the pages live... that said im not certain.

For me at least It would of been better to build the new site and populate it offline, then make the switch with 301's on every page in one swoop so there is no confusion.

Do you know of any resource that will support this

As the linking page changes over time (# and authority of links to the page, outbound links on the page), the amount of "link juice" it passes will change also.

I have read reaserch on google only passing the anchor text once , so even if you change it wont. But nothing on the passing of "link juice" over time

Cheers, pretty much on the sames lines as my thoughts - might do some good, but better of building direct links.

Would like to know more about sub question 5 ! My dective work begins.

Right then here we go

You have a link in an article on a well known national newspaper site that points at your website. Is there any benefit of linking to the newspaper article in order to build up the PR of the article page and therefore passing over some link "juice"?

Sub questions

1. Would it be more beneficial simply to gain links to your main website?

2. What are the chances of the article going into the archives and then at some stage being deleted?

3. If the article link points to a domain, which then forwards to a another domain will this pass on any "juice"?

4. If the article points to a domain that then 301's to another domain will this pass on any "juice"?

5. Does Google simply register the link and "juice" on the first pass or will it revisit and upgrade the "juice"?

6. What are the negatives?

7. What are the positives?

Nice little tool* *This comment is not personal!