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Sad to see there is no alternatives but thanks for the info. I'm sure one day the 10% average might be 80% average.

Thanks for the link already using that which is quite useful better than nothing.

I'm sure everyone is sick of the (Not Provided) keywords because I know I am, and Google reckons that you should only see 10% or less (I'm currently around 13% and growing).

I am seeking alternatives or hacks that will help display the keywords? If you have a hack to actually display the keywords, please share it your ideas and thoughts?

I recently implemented a hack that will show the landing page of the keywords which is better than nothing. But as an eCommerce site, I have about 10% of my transactions which not provided, knowing the keywords would really help.

Would love to hear your thoughts?

Didn't think of getting bloggers on board but rather outsource the writing and running it all. Did you use your network to link back to your own sites?

Yes its amazing how BMR goes down and everyones panicked. I guess the moral of the story is link building the old fashion way is always the best way.

Anyways I understand that if you have your own small network of blogs linking to each other is not beneficial and without link juice its means nothing but I had another strategy in mind by not using the blogs to link to your own sites but rather 3 way linking outside of your network using the blog as leverage.

At the end of the day its a long road ahead and can be costly to run a bunch of blogs let alone 30+.

Thanks for the 3 great links Nakul especially the one about google making liars out of good seo guys.

I'm not sure about any other factors but if you're saying your domain and sub domains are less than 1 ratio then maybe your building too many deep links instead of root links. I find on my sub domains there are usually less dmt/dmr but the homepage main domain, always has the highest dmt / dmr.

Provide a link so we can all take a look?

With the lose of buildmyrank and many other services like this on the verge of extension I was looking at building a small blog network of my own for private use. Adsense and also 3 way linking.

I'm wondering if anyone has experience with this? I know this takes a ton of time to build but if anyone who's done something like this and wouldn't mind sharing some of their tips I would greatly appriciate it.

Quick Question
Is it safe to register say 30 domains under the same person? Or would it be wiser to use whois protection to guard the names?

Anyone else want to contribute their 2c to this strategy please be my guest.

I think you are all going off topic, if someone wants to keep going down the same path then let them. Anyways to answer your questions I've been looking at Link Authority and LinkVana.

I won't vouch for them as all these networks could be targeted next, but if you have seo clients who don't pay you top dollar then I would use these link building sites. At the end of the day you and they pay for what they get.

But yes I also agree with everyone else here about using these services, eventually they will be found and you will be caught out. I've been google slapped and panda slapped, its not pretty. So short term go with these sites until you find a better way.

I've recently came across one of my competitors who's looking to sell their domain. Now they currently rank higher than my primary site for a few keywords we are targeting.

Would it be wise to buy the domain and do a name server change over to my primary domain? Would it even help boost ranks for the keywords they rank higher for? Or will the link juice be minimal?

Any thoughts would be great!

Thanks Kane, I will try that. Its just some times budget does not allow that much time to look for blogs with guest posts. But got the point cheers man!

Hey guys,

I've been using an article network to post unique articles (not spun). Been posting 1 paragraph articles with 1 text link.

Just wondering what the main difference would be if I were to post a full article with 2 or 3 text links vs 1 paragraph with 1 text link, besides the fact that you get more links and save more time writing only 1 paragraph.

Will the full article with 3 backlinks improve keyword ranks more or not by much?

Cheers!

Awesome link Stephen!

I noticed recently that one of the main sites I run dropped ranks quite heavily across the board. I then noticed that with very link building during the time that the ranks were down (about 1 month) that my ranks went back up again really quickly. All this with very little link building effort, and its the same link building campaign I've been running for a while.

So I'm wondering has any been experiencing ranking flux between jan and feb?

I know that people reckon if you fix some things your ranks can improve again, but I barley fixed anything on the site and yet it dropped some keywords from 1st page to 3rd page and then back to 3rd page; some keywords went back to original position some were lower but non were higher.

I personally never give a guarantee of 1st page rank or #1 rank, and most people would tell you if you're paying for SEO and someone guarantees you 1st page rank or #1 rank they are lying.

The is no 'surefire' way of getting top ranks, well not for me anyways, I battle it out with my top competitors everyday for the top position and some days I win and some days I lose.  The only way of dealing with clients in terms of ranking positions is your past work. I usually show my clients analytic reports of how my work has played a major contribution to sales, traffic and conversations. I also prove to them that what I'm doing is increasing their sales figures on the organic level.

Don't play the card where you say I'm going to get all your top keywords to the top, WRONG, because at the end of the day you don't need to rank #1 for the biggest keywords in your industry, you need to rank #1 for 1000s of the small 'low hanging fruit' keywords with 10%-50% conversation rates. That's the real skill and results that my clients want to see.

Well never hurts to do both, thanks will look into runing both cononical and 301's

Yeh I wouldl have to agree, if its not paid its organice, no matter what news, local, etc...

LOL yes man, anything that is SPAM is auto delete in my books

I don't think having index2.php as the main loading page is a huge issue, I've seen heaps of sites with high PR and they 301 to longer urls eg: www.url.com/page-1?.aspx or something along those lines.

But it is a good idea not to use index2.php, just check the htaccess. you will find a line or 2 with 301 redirect to index2.php.

Thanks Ryan, I suppose I'll leave out the Conanical tags

I was thinking of using 301 redirects for trailing slahes to no trailing slashes for my urls.

EG: www.url.com/page1/ 301 redirect to www.url.com/page1

Already got a redirect for non-www to www already.

Just wondering in my case would it be best to continue using htacces for the trailing slash redirect or just go with Canonical URLs?

Would it be wise to combine both have homepage intext links and also footer links? Wouldn't footer site wide links also pass a signification amount of link juice as well?

I wanted to site wide link a few sites together as they are sort of in the same network of ownership and wanted some advice.

1X PR1
2X PR2 
2x PR3

1. Would it be best to just get home page links before the footer, the links will be within a paragraph of text

OR

2. Just site wide link them in the footer with a heading of "Our Shopping Network"

Yeh, linkjuice I'd say is worthless.

However I'd still do them regardless of the low / no linkjuice, its just links to the site and you'll get picked up on yahoo and bing. still, and I'm sure Google will notice them and count it as something even if its only a very small amount of juice, its better than nothing.

How about Press Release? You can pay companies like prweb.com or similar sites to do a massive press release for you. It's another for of link baiting, that gives you results. But it all depends on how viral or how good your article is to get that extra level of links you would if you got on diggs front page.

Well worth the try!

Thanks guys, I totally forgot seomoz has it on a sub folder!

Andrew, I'm not a huge expert but I'll give you my 2c

When I analyse links in opensiteexplorer I tend to filter out the links with PA less than 20.

I've found that with links above 20 PA works for me. There's a huge amount of PA under 20 and you can tell they are usually pages with PR of 1 or 0.

Anyways hope that helped.

Going to setup a blog for a 4 year old ecommerce website and was wondering if it would be a good idea to put a blog on the sub domain or just a folder like www.domain.com.au/blog

I'll be using the blog to

1. Link bait articles
2. Social bookmark traffic
3. Linking keywords to products on the ecommerce site.

I wanted to know if

1. The link juice would be greater if we cross link from sub-domain to main domain?
2. Any major dis-advantages in having it on a sub-domain vs folder?
3. Any other major differences?

Cheers!