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You are certainly being indexed. I just copied a block of text from a post only 23 minutes old and google returned your site at the top result (good job). I'm not sure that the site: operator is the best way to check the crawl.

Mine is the opposite. Gewgil wbt is showing several duplicates that seomoz missed. Maybe you have some pages blocked to google that moz is crawling anyway? I just use the reports as guidance. In the end, what google sees as a dup is all that matters.

Outbound linking to credible sources is important. However, if your linked page is linking to the same page that's linking back to you, I think that would look like a 1 to1 recip link (albeit with an authoritative site) to the algos. If it's a great article, I would write a separate blog entry letting your customers know that you were mentioned on BBC with a link to the article.

Like Matt said, it should always be helpful to your reader. I'm not sure that two pages linking to each other in an endless loop is helpful.

That's my two cents (or pence if you're accross the pond).

I run into this all the time as a local heating contractor. IMHO, the best practise is to target all the top three phrase combinations. This avoids the penalty of having too many identical anchor phrases, and, at the same time, helps you to rank well for all the different combinations of your keywords. Gewgle is smart enough to give you credit for "Painter in Texas" as a close match to "Painter Texas" and to see that Texas Painter is likely the same as Painter Texas. Anchor text variety is the key.

I'm with Zach. I'm sure there are plenty of good backlinks for which google has no CTR data because the webmaster isn't using google analytics.

Interesting concept. That might help with webspam. It would be pretty easy to game though.

My guess is that you have not yet built backlinks to your deep pages and their pagerank is coming solely from the link on the menu of your homepage (which means there's no linkjuice to redirect). If you did have deep links, a redirect would salvage some authority and add it to your homepage.

"PR3" is a pretty useless metric anymore. Install the seomoz toolbar and use PA as a much better measure of your link profile.

I don't think I answered your analytics question very well. Cloudflare is really not giving any useful stats. Just a graph of hits, crawlers, threats, and unique visitors. I still use ga for keyword and content data.

Very pleased so far, though I have no experience with any other CDN. GA reporting was not altered at all. It is interesting to see that cloudflare is reporting nearly twice as many visitors as GA. I guess there's a lot of folks blocking java script. It has cut requests and bandwidth to my server in half and blocked quite a few spammers and botnet zombies. I would certainly recommend.

Open Site Explorer does not have the horsepower to crawl the entire internet like google does. With less than infinite resources, OSE attempts to crawl many important sites and avoids many directories and other low page rank sites. If the links you have built are lower quality (like many of mine), they may not show up in OSE. That doesn't mean that google doesn't see them or that they don't help with keyword ranking. Google webmaster tools shows 4x more linking domains to my site than OSE, but OSE shows nearly all the important ones.

Hope that helps. Remember that the goal is ranking on google, not OSE. OSE is just a tool.

That's a funny pile of spam. Thanks for sharing!

Sounds like you're considering a version of this for your site? Even if it does rank, how well do think it converts? The only point in ranking is to convert and only a human can convert. Therefore any landing page must be first and foremost human-friendly.

I would classify this as gray hat but not the type of gray hat I would wear in public.

Awesome white board friday about this.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/im-being-outranked-by-a-spammer-whiteboard-friday

My key takeaway was that those 1000s of spam links may not be what google is using to rank them. They may have a handfull of high-quality links that are better than yours and are providing 98% of their rank. That is what you should focus on, not the 1000s of spammy links.

Also, I think that a few low quality links (directories, recips, etc.) are helpful. I'm sure I'll catch flak from the purists on here, but, IMO, google is looking for diversity. I think they expect to see a few spammy links on any well established site. On the other hand, spam is certainly not as helpful as a few high quality links. I think pure white hatters exagerate the dangers of black hat. Spam doesn't hurt or we could use it to sabotage our competitors. While it's benefits may be temporary given future algo changes, I believe a small amount of tasteful spam (relevent articles, niches directories, recip from similar companies) is the only short term way to compete. All the while you should still be busting it on the high-quality stuff hoping for the day that google finally figures out what spam tastes like.

Good luck. We all fight this same battle.

That's a funny pile of spam. Thanks for sharing!

Sounds like you're considering a version of this for your site? Even if it does rank, how well do think it converts? The only point in ranking is to convert and only a human can convert. Therefore any landing page must be first and foremost human-friendly.

I would classify this as gray hat but not the type of gray hat I would wear in public.

I'm a little nervous about moving to CloudFlare. I'd love to hear everyone's experience with CloudFlare or other CDNs.

PS My site is static and non SSL.

+1 for Devin's comment. There is no such thing as a domain link. If your site is like mine, most of your external links point to your home page. Therefore, your home page has more PA than a deep page on your site. You can share this existing link juice with your new page by linking from your home page (and any other page with external links) to your new page. The juice will get diluted and it's no substitute for external links, but it will give you a quick boost. If your DA is strong enough, crosslinking within your domain may help your new page outrank your competitors without any external links.

I don't see any downside to using WT. If I read you right, you've avoided WT hoping to hide this recip page from google? Rest assured, google sees it whether you're on wt on not!

As to diagnosing your rankings drop, wt will not just give you an answer nor will they point to the portion of your link profile or content that they don't like. The data that they give you on queries and clicks are very vague and inaccurate (and intentionally so), and I don't think they would help much with your issue. It is very useful for finding crawl errors, uploading a site map, and seeing +1 activity. WT is just one more tool to help you make your site more useful.

Update.

We installed cloudflare 10 days ago. Doesn't seem to be affecting our rankings. Seomoz's thursday update showsa slight improvment in most of my keywords this week. Probably unrelated. Our site is monstrously faster. Cloudflare also claims to have blocked 4% of my traffic as a known threat (likely spammers). From my short experience and the recommendation of my developer, I would have to give it a thumbs up.

I would definately keep the url active. It is well worth your time.

I guess you could 301 it to your home page, but I would consider keeping the page up and changing the design. You could give the message that you specialize in cutting edge and product X is now obselete. Check out our other cool products: and give internal links to a dozen useful products. This will spread the link juice around to pages that need a boost rather than dumping it all on the homepage.

Don't forget to change up each retired page with different internal links so you don't get dinged for duplicate content.

That's my two cents. Wish you the best.

Mine is the opposite. Gewgil wbt is showing several duplicates that seomoz missed. Maybe you have some pages blocked to google that moz is crawling anyway? I just use the reports as guidance. In the end, what google sees as a dup is all that matters.

Open Site Explorer does not have the horsepower to crawl the entire internet like google does. With less than infinite resources, OSE attempts to crawl many important sites and avoids many directories and other low page rank sites. If the links you have built are lower quality (like many of mine), they may not show up in OSE. That doesn't mean that google doesn't see them or that they don't help with keyword ranking. Google webmaster tools shows 4x more linking domains to my site than OSE, but OSE shows nearly all the important ones.

Hope that helps. Remember that the goal is ranking on google, not OSE. OSE is just a tool.

Outbound linking to credible sources is important. However, if your linked page is linking to the same page that's linking back to you, I think that would look like a 1 to1 recip link (albeit with an authoritative site) to the algos. If it's a great article, I would write a separate blog entry letting your customers know that you were mentioned on BBC with a link to the article.

Like Matt said, it should always be helpful to your reader. I'm not sure that two pages linking to each other in an endless loop is helpful.

That's my two cents (or pence if you're accross the pond).