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Hi ,

From my understanding Panda is also about thin content. SEOmoz's videos are somtimes 15min long which produce alot of content.

Our are vids are about 1min each which gives you about 150 - 180 words.

Within the site there is the core commercial pages, tips and guides, then  video news content.  Over time, the site could be made up of largely 150 word pages.

Any other ideas?

Hi Guys,

I have a quick question. We have a website and in the wake of Panda, we are worried about our video news section.

We produce about 10 videos news a month on a templated page and beneath it is a small extract of the words spoken in the video.  The text  below each video is about 180 words each.

Currently the video news section makes up and 1/5 of the content on the site. I.e Out of 500 pages, we have about 100 video news articles.

Should I be worried about  being wacked by  Panda for this?

Can I tell Google this is a news section?

Hi Guys,

I have a site that ranks quite well in a very competitive vertical and the company is now planning to do a site relaunch.

SEO is very important to them and all of the sites within in the top 10 have the primary keyword in the urls example

search: key1 key2

site.com/key1-key2/
site.com/ key1key2/
site.com/key1key2.php

Our site is the only one that is positioned within the top 10 without the keyword in the url and homepage only listing

so the top 10 result looks like

search: key1 key2

site.com/key1-key2/ site.com/ key1key2/ site.com/key1key2.php oursite.com sitekey2.com/key1-key2/
key1site.com/key1key2.html

Currently we do not have a separate landing page for the target keyword hence why link building is focused on the homepage.

As part of the consultation, I recommended we create a landing page for our primary keyword so we get  **oursite.com/key1-key2/  **and shift the on-page keyword balance towards this page.

the hope is, we get

search: key1 key2

site.com/key1-key2/ site.com/ key1key2/ site.com/key1key2.php oursite.com/key1-key2 sitekey2.com/key1-key2/
key1site.com/key1key2.html

Would Google simply replace my current domain only list  for the most relevant url  for a term?

Does anyone have any experience with this?

Or would  i need to build links into the new url for the change to take place.

what i'm hoping for and expecting, is for somthing like this to happen

http://www.seowizz.net/2011/04/it-doesnt-matter-where-you-point-links-google-will-pick-the-page.html

Hi Guys
I have a client who ranks well within a competitive sector of the travel industry. They are planning CMS move which will involve changing from .cfm to .aspx

We will be doing the standard redirects etc

However Matt's statement here on 301 redirects got me thinking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW5UL3lzBOA&t=0m24s

He says that basically you loose a bit of page rank when you do a 301 redirect.

Now, we will be potentially redirecting 1000s of links and my thinking is 'a lot of a little, adds up to a lot'  In other words, 1000s of redirects may have a big enough impact to loose some rankings in a very competitive and aggressive space.

So recommended that we contact the sites who has the link highest value and ask them to manually change the links from cfm to aspx. This will then mean that there are no loss value as with a 301 redirect.

-But now I have another dilemma which I'm unsure about.

So the main question:
Is link age factor in rankings ?

If I  update any links, this will make said link new to Google, so if link age is a factor, would this also lessen the value passed initially?

Hi Guys,

Question,
Lets say I have a page oldfile.php at position #2  then set-up a redirection in the following way

100 incoming external links--> oldfile.php [301 to] newfile.php

Google comes along and updates its index to newfile.php and ranking of newfile.php remains at position #2. Everything is good.

Lets say in 5months, I come along and delete oldfile.php so we have
100 incoming external links--> deleted(oldfile.php)

or

100 incoming external links-->404 error.       |||| newfile.php

Do I then loose the rankings on newfile.php.

My thinking is that now that all the external links now point to a page not found, newfile.php should loose rankings

Am I correct in my assumption?