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This is along similar lines to the bio's but for companies that have industry body membership or sponsorship. Many industry bodies allow you to post news and have detailed descriptions where you get a lot of control. These sites are usually authorities on your subject too. I have used these to good effect.

Good point also!

I would recommend using a 301 redirect to the home page as this will pass link juice. If they can be redirected to the specific product category that would be useful.

An alternative would be to still serve up the old page so it results in a 200 code or a 301 to a product suggestion page. Having a products like this suggestion page and or a search for products page would likely convert better than just a blanket 301 redirect to the home page.

Another thing you could do is create an intelligent "catch" page that uses the search parameter (if there is one) or the title of the page referring the site and use that as a parameter for searching your products database and serving up some relevant products.

Getting listed in DMOZ is difficult. You have to ensure that you have a high quality site with all errors atteneded to and the site fully functional before you submit.

Generally you only get one decent shot at getting listed.

The time for inclusion into the directory can be quite long.

First, check that your category has a moderator.

Second, try and chose a more specific or locally targeted category that has a different moderator to the category you submitted to.

Thirdly, you could become a moderator of an un-moderated category that is relevant to your field.

A fourth option is to try and contact the moderator (some times they can be located) and ask for a reconsideration. I would cite some new and useful information and your comittment to producing a quality site within your niche.

You need to ensure a top quality site and an ethical and honest approach towards the moderator of the category.

Thanks Gil, that is a good tool.

I hope the Moz team introduce something like this into their software.

Hi Thanks for the quick response.

I like the Wintzell.net tool, and I run Linux (without wine) so the Snafu tool won't run on my system. I prefer to use a web service anyway.

Does SEO Moz Pro not have this tool? It seems like an obvious facility for it to have? Links from a site to another site can be very important too, so it would seem logical to be able to analyze the links that you have a lot of control over to make sure they are not linking to bad neighborhoods.

It would be ideal to be able to get a .csv download from Moz Pro link analysis for the links from your site to other sites. It would list the external URLs being linked to and form which internal pages they are linked from, along with the anchor text. It could even automatically show which of the sites were black listed or classed as bad link neighborhoods.

It would also seem logical to show which percentage of your back link (IBL) profile was black listed or considered a bad link neighborhood.

Thanks

Trevor

Hi

Maybe I am missing this but I can''t seem to see it.

I am doing some analysis on a client's site and want to get a csv list of links from the client's site to external sites. So what I am looking for is a list of Out Bound Links (OBL) from the client's site.

I want to run these past a black list / bad link neighborhood checking script I have.

This would actually be a nice feature in SEO Moz Pro, unless it actually already does and I am just missing it or not setting filters correctly.

Thanks

Trevor

Also, if a page is indexed, which is highly likely (due to XML sitemaps, Google Analytics, Google Toolbar etc), then just removing the 301 redirect (links or no links) means that when this page disappears due to the site changes then you will have an indexed page resulting in a 404 error.

I maintain that you should have single hop 301 redirects on all of the pages that will not be there or will have been moved due to the site updated.

I also agree with what Ryan Kent says about links - you may have some links that have been discovered but not yet recognized pr picked up. If there is a chance that the content has been indexed then it should have an appropriate redirect.

I would change the original 301 redirect to the new location.

I would then add an additional 301 redirect to the secondary page (the old redirect) to the new location.

So you will have your original URL and the older redirected URL both 301 redirected to where the content now resides. This way you only have one hop on the 301 redirects and you have both old URLs pointing to the new one.

I completely agree with what Ryan Kent said. As with a lot of things, and even though it is a bit messy, if you are doing things for genuine reasons you are probably OK. If all of the redirected sites are pointing to where the content should be and now resides that is going to be OK, just make sure that you leave the 301's up there for a good amount of time (6 months or more).