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I have an affiliate subdomain on a larger company's domain. (For example I have: www.victor.company.com on www.company.com). Would working to attain backlinks to the subdomain help it rank or will I just be putting forth my effort and helping the domain rank?
Thanks. Someone else told me it is a good sign of a trustworthy site. I was thinking of doing a link to a Wikipedia article or such of relevant reference material on topic.
Will outbound links to a related topic on an authority site help, hurt or be irrelevanent for SEO purposes. And if beneficially, should it be Nofollow?
I've always had better luck and an easier time ranking with less trailing slashes.
If you listen to Matt Cutts, the advice would be to think about the user experience. If those links on that page make it easier for the user and makes your page better, than that is how Google would tell you to go. You said that kewyword optimization is a no-no, but Google says OVER optimization is a no-no. In my opinion, I think they are referring to linking over-optimization for a particular keyword and lack of link diversity, creating an unnatural-looking linking pattern.
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Based on this post, I just tried Screaming Frog and it is an awesome tool/resource! Thanks Seiomoz crew!
It's possible that a lot of the sites that linked to you were devalued, thus bringing down your page's value with it.
It depends. Are the people that are finding your site for the other terms converting into sales?
Why not 301 the 404s to similar pages? Fix your problem AND transfer some of the link juice.
I would go for the phrase - hotels Perth. For converting traffic it is going to be the most natural search form. Most people are going to search something like: Find hotels in Perth, Cheap hotels in Perth, etc.
If you listen to Matt Cutts, the advice would be to think about the user experience. If those links on that page make it easier for the user and makes your page better, than that is how Google would tell you to go. You said that kewyword optimization is a no-no, but Google says OVER optimization is a no-no. In my opinion, I think they are referring to linking over-optimization for a particular keyword and lack of link diversity, creating an unnatural-looking linking pattern.
For anyone else with Website Tonight, I have finally found a work around if not a fix. Being that Website Tonight will not allow you to do a 301 Redirect of an old page, I have figured out that if you re-create the deleted page (just the URL not the content) and use the Meta Tag to do a REFRESH to the new page, anytime the old page is clicked on it will bring them to the new page. Not ideal, of course, for SEO purposes but at least they are no longer going to a 404 and HOPEFULLY your old link juice will pass on.
I wouldn't do anything to cut down any traffic regardless of where it comes from. At least your traffic stats and Alexa ranking will improve, which in turn should help your sites ranking and thus increase US traffic along with it.
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