Welcome to the Q&A Forum

OK would it pass pagerank?

I know back in 08 Google started crawling forms using the method=get however not method=post. whats the latest? is this still valid?

Wayyy back when (in the days of yore) Mr Cutts spelled out in a video that page rank is distributed equally between the external links on the page. If there are two links on a page, each gets passed 50% of the available page rank etc. (Perhaps an oversimplification but bear with me).

As a result of this, the company I worked for at the time (this was the dark ages when sidebar homepage links were in vogue) decreed that we would only ever approach a site about a link for a client once, as additional links had little extra SEO Value.

Now you could argue that if there are 5 external links, each acquiring 20% of the power, and your site has 2 of those, you are getting 40% of the power, but lets forget the basic math for a minute.

I have scoured the web and Mr Cutts' videos and I cannot find the answer to my question:

If my site (Site A) has a backlink from SiteB Page 1, and a backlink from SiteB page 2 - does this count as two separate links in the eyes of Google? If the SAME site links out to my site, linking to different pages in different posts, does this give me more SEO benefit?

Thanks for your time!

Yes a "sponsored blog post" should be "no follow"

Just opening this up really - looking for inpiration besides the obvious posts that you see ranking online...

What is the best mid-level link bait case study that you know about which gained 300+ links?

Thanks Dana, I just needed a bit of affirmation really - which you certainly provided.

I believe the brand anchor should be segmented under the umbrella - the difficulty is getting an accurate % that may correlate with rankings across multiple niches - a bit of an algo chase admittedly(well a small part of it anyhow!)

I survived thanksgiving this year! I hope that you didn't feast on any relations.

Thanks for your response (last May - a while back I know)

I re-read your answer and it got me thinking - does OSE only find trusted seed set sites in the eyes of Google? Or does it consider beginning its 'trust' quest journey by what other engines consider,   or humans even??

If google turned on a 'cynical' algorithm - surely it would consider most of the newspaper and media links as 'gamed' - turn these off - reverse the polarities and go to find the far remote honest and unbias independent citations from deeper parts of the web. How does one judge what a seed site should be in each country? Is this a manual choice?

Hi guys, I just wanted to know what your take is on this and whether anyone knows if google has published any info on this.

I am wanting to analyse a fairly large backlink profile. The idea is to discover how far it correlates alongside recent SERPS ranking data (based on anchor text distribution) information that has been published across the web.

There is so much data to categorise and segment. This is due to overlaps in categorisation, (which is possibly a good thing as it appears more natural) though I often it difficult to decide which goes where.

My question today relates to brand anchor text - in determining the % of overall brand distribution for a backlink profile -

Which out of the below do you think rings true?

1.) Should I be considering the homepage url anchor text as a branded link anchor?

2.) Should the brand % just be 'pure brand' anchor text?

3.) Should it contain partial brand + KWD data?

4.) Should it comprise of all of the above elements?

5.) Should I divvy up / segment partial brand, pure brand, brand + kwd, citations etc into new sub categories and see how this individual data correlates to current ranking factors in the SERPS? (Not sure if there is any recent published data in this amount of detail)

Anyway, I just wondered what you guys thought about this in the eyes of Google., and also to find out how you go about classifying and segmenting backlink profile data.

Thanks for now

SEOMoz doesn't crawl the whole web.

SEOMoz find new links every 4-6 weeks on its recurrent spidering paths around the web.

It now shows a link for me that has dropped out - with present technology vs practicalities business-wise it can't physically  go real-time yet

Can you provide a screen shot?

Google places is / has migrated to google+ profile local - I'm sure google places still works as I set one up a week ago. Maybe it's rolled out later here?

Some resources that you may find helpful:

http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/localnow-with-dash-of-zagat-and.html

http://www.elevatelocal.co.uk/blog/how-to-create-a-google-local-page-31057661

SEOMoz doesn't crawl the whole web.

SEOMoz find new links every 4-6 weeks on its recurrent spidering paths around the web.

It now shows a link for me that has dropped out - with present technology vs practicalities business-wise it can't physically  go real-time yet

Does anyone know of a tool which can check the cache date of each page of a site?

i can get each page of the site into a .csv or xml file

One client (Domain authority 47 ranks for 100s of tough brand related keywords) and had duplicate content on its internal brand pages (the same few 100 words of brand info on each brand page) and was hit badly.

We have other clients in this vertical (Mens designer clothing in UK) , some with duplication have increased in rankings, but they might have a slightly higher Domain Authority 50).

All the ranking drops happened on April 12^th, across all pages which had internal duplication (you can see traffic drops by dissecting brand pages in GA).

We have re written all content and placed it on all pages so there is no internal duplication. All the new content has been there for a month and each page has been cached. No change to our rankings.

Anyone know if the changes they have made have seen any improvements? Surely if this algorithmic then once the algorithm picks up the changes then it re-assesses you and will change your ranking? Surely you can’t now be a ‘marked’ domain???