Internal anchor text would most likely not dilute your anchor text profile for good or bad. I believe a Google employee did confirm internal anchor text would not be penalized by Penguin...external sources pointing to your site with anchor text could though. So that paints a picture for you.
Posts made by William.Lau
-
RE: Do Internal Link Anchor Text Count Towards Overall Ratio?
-
RE: Can a hidden menu damage a website page?
Its not cloaking.
However, I'd suggest adding a noindex, nofollow to that landing page, so there is no confusion between which is the original. The company I currently work for, we noindex, nofollow all of our testing pages that have different linking structure, and works well for us. Our test pages are activate under certain criterias like new user, 2nd time user etc.
-
RE: Re-Launched Website: Developer Fogot to Remove noindex tags.
Make sure you send in a sitemap and all should be well.
I've dealt with cases where certain pages were noindex but then removed. As long as you fixed all your errors, it should be back to normal. Think of a site going down intermittently, rankings don't get affected too much (I believe Matt Cutts confirmed this in a youtube video)
-
RE: De-indexing product "quick view" pages
You can use that in your robots.txt, which should work on crawls.
Or
you can also go into WMT and setup your parameters, in this case would be ?prodID.
-
RE: Which rich snippet is better for SEO ?
I agree with Vadim.
Authorship is normally for articles while ratings are for reviews. Having a rating on an article is not as useful as having it for a review.
-
RE: Google disavow tool ( how long does it take ? )
From previous experience and from what I've read, it is usually in affect within days. At most 2 weeks.
-
RE: Could Retail Price Be A Google Ranking Factor???
I'd be curious as well if anyone has seen any correlation between prices and rankings. I'd believe there would be no reason Google to rank an authoritative site lower just because a semi-authoritative site has a better price. Example would probably be Amazon and eBay, vice versa. The site's general authority would probably matter most and pricing would be a miniscule factor.
-
RE: Dofollow Links on Press Releases: Good or Bad?
I'd disagree. This is obvious depending on where you release it. The new guideline does state optimized anchor text and if you are just linking to your homepage, that is fine.
As long as you are not optimizing the anchor text, it would be alright if you just link to your homepage with just the URL.
-
RE: Anyone Else Frustrated with the new Keyword Planner
I was doing keyword research earlier today and now see the replaced landing page. This tool is garbage for SEO and more tailored for SEM.
The search volume for some terms are remarkably inaccurate. I really hope they start fine tuning this tool because it is definitely that great.
-
RE: Why is the weekly rankings report often inaccurate?
That is not the problem, Moz rank checker is often done at random times and at any given time a keyword could not be ranking.
I'm pretty sure Moz crawls pages with personalization off (pws=0). For instance I use to do freelance for http://www.canvaspaintings.com and they rank #1 for "canvas paintings", however sometimes they would not even appear in the top 100.
If Moz often gives the keyword the wrong ranking, you should follow up with them. If this happens maybe one or twice, it should not be a big problem. Just know that you are ranking.
-
RE: Why is the weekly rankings report often inaccurate?
Moz crawls and rank checks are all done at a specific point. And then fully updated on Mon/Wed I forgot what are the days now.
Basically it checks the rankings once or twice throughout the week and if your keyword is not ranking at the time...it state it was not ranking.
Best thing to do is to rank check certain unstable keywords by using firefox or chrome addons.
-
RE: Recent Google Link Scheme Updated ? What's Your Reaction against Link Building, Link Exchanging ?
I partially agree with this.
The company I work for gets featured in lots of authoritative sites like MSN, Yahoo, NYTimes and etc. The problem here is that we get natural optimized anchor text and a lot of the times there are content partnerships with these sites where the same article is republished on their network.
So now you have 5-10 authoritative sites using the same article and followed anchor text AND you have 100 other low quality syndication sites/scrappers using the same article. This is all natural and part of how the business works in online publication. So penalizing this type of natural anchor text will become a problem in general if Google doesn't find the right way to classify this.
In no way, shape, or form are we trying to spam our anchor text, everything is natural. So this sucks a bit.
I'd be interested in hearing what others have to say about this.
-
RE: Mozbar showing 0 links for pages in the main nav.
Restart your browser, maybe that will work. It could be viewing links from previous site you were viewing.
Also it could be possible that OSE hasn't crawled your page yet. It is updated monthly.
-
RE: Links how long do they show?
Typically they will be removed in a few updates on their crawls. The timing may vary with each different crawler.
This is a good read on which crawler could be more reliable. Again there is no perfect tool that can crawl all the web...except maybe Google.
-
RE: Google Rankings Dropped in Past Few Weeks
You will have to refer to the 'multi week' update which was implemented on about June 24th. These changes affected PMD a lot and then recovered a bit on/after July 4th.
You will have to figure out what is going on with your on page optimization, links and so forth.
-
RE: Changing the Title Tag But It Does Not Reflect In Google Results
Again, it takes time if your site is not crawled often. On my SERP it shows it was last crawled on Jul 11, 2013.
-
RE: Changing the Title Tag But It Does Not Reflect In Google Results
That tool is just another way to crawl your page to see what they see. You should wait a few more days to see if it will update.
-
RE: Changing the Title Tag But It Does Not Reflect In Google Results
It is working.
Please see screenshot below.
http://screencast.com/t/BJIQx16J
Give Google some time to crawl and update.
-
RE: Changing the Title Tag But It Does Not Reflect In Google Results
When did you change it? This can take some time depending on how often Google crawls your site.
You could try using the rich snippet tool in Webmaster Tools to perhaps see what Google sees. Or you can also fetch as Google. These can be done via Webmaster Tools.
-
Using advance segments or primary dimensions?
Hi guys,
I haven't played around with advance segments enough to know the answer to this, so looking for some help.
What I want to track is a keyword through the whole analytics, so I created an advance segment for "KEYWORD". This segment is Include - Keyword - "KEYWORD".
Now when I remove the advance segment and do the following: Traffic Sources - Organic - Primary Dimension - Keyword - "KEYWORD"
The amounts of visits differ a lot. I'm guessing this has to do with sessions? Looking for a clarification on this.
-
RE: What is Considered Over-Optimization?
Over-optimizing can be a variety of things. Majority of the time if you are doing something for SEO more than for the reader you might be borderline over-optimizing.
Some things Google will easily notice is your domain anchor text link profile, exact match anchor text is no longer as ideal as it would've been a few years back. Now it is more important to make sure your anchor text profile is wide spread and using more generic terms like "click here" or domain match anchor text.
Other similar things could be using too many h1,h2, etc tags and using those tags as exact match rather than something more descriptive of what is being offered in the body of the content. Also using bold and italics when it is not necessary could be easily noticed.
SEO has started to be more about quality and usability and with more updates, they will start weeding out those that are not as user friendly. So just think user friendly optimizing. I work a internet company and we get mentions on Yahoo, CNBC and other highly authoritative sites and we NEVER have our PR guy ask for anchor text links. Everything is done fluidly and at the end that is where SEO is headed towards.
-
RE: Title tag length
Title tags may vary. And could be anywhere from ~50 through ~70. It is measured by pixels.
http://www.highervisibility.com/blog/title-tags-are-measured-by-pixels-not-by-characters/
-
RE: Subdomains or subfolders for language specific sites?
What Tuzzell quoted is true. Subdomains is not for languages. It is mainly for SEO value and structuring of your site.
-
RE: Subdomains or subfolders for language specific sites?
Subfolder is the way to go.
The rationale is that subfolders will have links from all parts of the site including from the different language section. For subdomains your ranking might fluctuate between different languages.
Subdomains are not used very often except to differentiate a primary domains core business and purpose. If it is usually just language, a subfolder is what everyone normally uses.
-
RE: Lol - 3 pages of videos on SERPs
I had to do quadtriple takes on if I had the video tab selected. This is probably just an isolated problem that would be fixed soon.
Looks like Google might be messing with their video search criteria/algorithm. Funny that they are all YouTube links.
-
RE: Is anyone having problems with sending emails
This looks to be an IP problem obviously. But this could also be a faulty configuration in your DNS settings. I believe there is an setting for DNS managers where you set the name of the MAIL IP or URL.
I suggest contacting the host about the DNS settings or if you're using a type of DNS manager. I've seen this in CloudFlare where you have to set your configurations correctly prior to sending emails.
-
Lol - 3 pages of videos on SERPs
Google: "back to school supplies haul"
I thought this was really epic and first time I've ever seen such a results page. No ads, no text results.
Anyone else seen this?
-First post on new Moz design.
-
RE: Duplicate content on report
You can noindex them but in my opinion and experience small things like that are not worth the trouble. I suggest moving on and working on something that is more impactful to the site. Messing around with something that has little consequence is not worth it...especially if you might ruin something if you don't know what you are doing.
-
RE: Duplicate content on report
You can use the canonical tag if you are having too many duplicate URLs.
As for the crawl, you shouldn't look at it as if you don't do this or that, your site will not be ranking well. These things do happen and every site will have issues like that. No one has a perfect 5k page site without some sort of error. The crawl is giving you suggestions and you should choose which ones are more detriment to your rankings.
Smaller errors and things like duplicate pages are normal within a website, and the bottom line is sometimes you have no choice as it might mess with your site's usability.
-
RE: Wikipedia page need suggestions
That Wikipedia page Muslim_Academy needs links from other Wikipedia articles and vice versa. That is a simple explanation to how to get those notifications removed.
-
RE: Left Nav / SEO
You need some sort of navigation, and if you already have a top nav and the left bar is repetitive and doesn't have any real good use other than SEO...I'd say remove it.
If anything too many on-page links is not a good thing.
-
RE: Next Google PR update
The secret is that the number is irrelevant. Sure it might be a measuring stick but it is one of the last thing you need to worry about.
The only people really worried about PR is people trying to sell links or sell a site. Other than those reasons PR doesn't do anything for a site's performance.
Lets say your PR is showing 0 right now, and next update you will be PR 3. You will already be performing as a PR 3 even if your toolbar doesn't say so.
-
RE: Moving from Shopp to WooCommerce...
Redirect if you plan on changing URLs. One thing you have to make sure is having all URLs in an excel sheet and create redirects for each one that is changed.
You'd also have to make sure to import all your descriptions and title tags etc etc.
Those are some of the main hurdles in SEO and changing carts or CMS.
-
RE: Wikipedia page need suggestions
No links to other Wikipedia articles mean you have to linked certain text on that URL to other Wikipedia pages.
Like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Academy has anchor text to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim
Orphan means vice versa, where let's say
FOR EXAMPLE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Academy
Points to:
-
RE: Should I use nofollow when interlinking large, networked sites?
First off, I would think to myself what is the reason we are linking them all to.
If the reason is good enough to cross link the sites together, I'd nofollow them.Sitewide links have been proven to be a bad option and if it is a must, I'd nofollow them.
-
RE: Will changing content managment systems affect rankings?
I think you mean 301 redirects. The best way to not lose any rankings at all is making sure each URL has a 301 redirect to the new URL. Otherwise, all your links will just return an error.
Usually this is the best way to ensure link juice is being passed to your new URLs. It is tedious but needs to be done.
-
RE: Thin/spun content or No content at all?
The site itself has valuable and authentic content EXCEPT product pages.
I've got in touch with the spam team at Google and there was no spam action taken on the site. However, I still feel the product pages are doing poorly since I Google the exact text in the product description without "" would not provide that product page...instead links to a article directory (spun content).
-
RE: Confirmation of penalty
Claudio,
To get a definite answer to your question, simply go to Google Webmaster Tools and send a reconsideration request.
They will notify you if you are still penalized or there was no action taken on your account.
-
Thin/spun content or No content at all?
So I'm working on a site right now that has been plagued with spun/rewritten content..we are talking in the thousands.
Now would it be a smarter idea to just remove all the content or leave the content?
This is an ecommerce site and I'm tasking a few people to rewrite fresh authentic content. So all of the spun/thin content will be removed eventually.
The main question is to just delete it all right now or just replace as we go.
I'd like to know what you guys think.
-
RE: Product Review Permissions
I agree with Mike. Letting a customer know you are choosing their review to be posted on your site generally gives a good sentiment to the customer.
You benefit in both ways, creating a good relationship with your customer(more WOM referrals) and giving your site a legitimate review.
-
RE: Money Deducted twice
It can happen by accident. If it was posted and not pending I would ask SEOmoz to review it.
You can contact them by going to this page:
And click "Contact our help team"
-
RE: Duplicate Content of Reseller Product?
Re-writing everything would be ideal but it might be costly if you really have a lot of content.
You will have to weigh out the pros and cons.
-
RE: [HTML Gurus] Is the only nofollow = rel="nofollow"?
Thanks Andy.
I was more curious in regards to the <a></a>tag.
-
RE: Duplicate Content of Reseller Product?
You should always want to get any advantage on SEO. So I'd suggest changing up the content just a bit unless you don't have the manpower to do all of them.
Negative would being flagged as spam for duplicate content, however is sometimes rare for shorter descriptions.
Larger bulks of content could be more likely to be flagged, so I'd keep that in mind.
-
[HTML Gurus] Is the only nofollow = rel="nofollow"?
From my knowledge only way an HTML link is nofollow is using rel="nofollow".
I was wondering if you have a link , is there anything you can put OTHER than rel="nofollow" within the <a></a>tags that make a link nofollow?
-
RE: How to increase "domain authority" in opensite explorer?
Link building is the way to increase your domain authority.
Generally links to any part of your website will slowly push your DA up. So continue getting quality links and wait for the next few updates to see your DA go up.
I wouldn't fuss it if your site doesn't have a high DA or links aren't being found. Google will most likely have them indexed anyway.
-
RE: Looking to share PRweb.com subscription.
Sorry for the misunderstanding. I mean't that this proposition is for 1 release for 12 months. The plan I purchased was 2 releases per month.
Sent you a private message.
-
RE: Does anyone use inspect firebug for their site
Its an awesome tool. A lot of browsers offer these type of tools now a days and its great that you can manipulate the code and have an actual visual of the changes made to the site.
-
RE: SSL Seals, Good, Bad or Neutral for SEO?
SSL seals are usually for conversion purposes to let customers know it is secure.
However, SSLs like Norton, have icons next to their SERP if the user has Norton Antivirus option installed. So this could increase your CTR.
In terms of SEO, there is little to no effect. I've implemented Norton Verisign and saw no change in rankings.