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In my understanding, affiliate links' value are demoted. I think it's pretty easy for google to see a link is an affiliate link. Clicking it will add a certain type of cookie and I believe Google can easily distinguish between these links. Adding a reL=nofollow to the link is the appropriate way to have these links on your site. Beside that, Amazon's affiliate programme is well known, so Google will definetly compensate for that.

However, people aren't convinced that the rel=nofollow attribute doesn't give any value to the link. Some believe it still adds to domain diversity and other fankers besides the "plain" link juice.

I'd say: the URL isn't accessible via the menu? Can't find it anywhere? I tried looking under http://www.professionalindemnitynow.com/Medical-malpractice-insurance but couldn't find a link to the page. Is the page only located in your sitemap? That might be why it isn't indexed. Link to it (more!)

The other thing is o/c: high keyword density/spammy usage of the keywords you are targetting

Because 95% of the content is equal. 3 links and 20 words are different. The rest, all the links, menu, etc. is the same.

I'd try adding a bit more uniqe text to each page. Tell search engines and users a bit more what they can find on those pages.

The way they're planning it now is really, really a bad idea. First you put a part of the new design. New url's start popping up. SE's crawl that, might find duplicate content, you need redirects in place, but what happens when the site is moved again, you have to change redirects again... So it sucks!

You can put everything on the www2 domain, but put a noindex nofollow in the header. Better still would just to let the new website sit behind an authentication screen so only you, developers, etc. can reach it. Once it's fully ready and you know what all the new urls will be, setup redirects (301's!) and once they are ready to go, than move the new site in place.

The A and F problem is probably a little bug in the pro tool. Maybe try reporting that and file a bug report.

The rankings that keep going up and down is pretty normal. I manage a couple of sites and I see rankings go up and down all the time. The thing you want it to see an upwards trend. News or other universal search results might push your result more down, changes in the algorithm, etc. They all influence your ranking. So I wouldn't look at it week on week, I would look at the bigger picture and look for a up going trend.

You're most welcome! Have a good weekend too and lots of success with the cleanup

Hmm Well, I'm not that technical either, I just know a little bit about 301's

Try this in stead of the second code snippet:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^\.domain\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

Less competition in India than USA.

Website hosted in India?

Lots of links from Indian sources?

• Scrape Google?

• Make your own scraper and keep the requests per second really low ?

• Maybe the site has an automated sitemap somewhere ?

• Google webmaster tools -> download "internal links" table

The one with the 2 code snippets is the one you needl! You just have to realize: what is accessed more often: the www version of a page or the / version of your pages? This speeds up apache a bit if the one that is accessed most is on top of the other.

Cheers!

You should indeed create 301 redirects from the old redirects to the new aliases. People could have linked to those url's, so you want to keep benefitting from those links and built up value over the years.

url.com/index.php and url.com are 2 different url's in the eye's of SE's so you should redirect that 2. Basic rule is: 1 unique  page should be available on 1 url.

Good luck redirecting!

LOL

Yes you could look at it the other way around. If they write blogs in the company's time, tell them to rel=canonical to the corporates blog version.

This will be considered duplicate content. If you want to give full credit to the original post, you can also add a rel=canonical tag to the head of that page. That way, almost all value that the page receives on your corporate blog will go to the website of your employees.

The consequence of the rel=canonical is that your corporate page will not rank (for any and I believe all keywords) in the SERP's.

Yes!

And to add: look in your analytics how your pages are being found now. Are they being found more on part number than on anything else? And is your title composed of anything else besides the part number?

What would be the most user friendly way to compose your titles? Fly wheel black 6 inch or 113-24322-423? In car land, garages usually find parts on numbers, not on names The question is: are you marketing to consumers who don't know part numbers, or businesses who do?

Crawl the sites and see if the url is somewhere on it?

Query google with: site:website.com "the anchor text that could've been used"

Bing used to allow the linkfromdomain query. That made things a lot easier, but they stopped supporting that a while back.

There is of course a difference between hiding text and being user friendly.

If you read Google's policy on hidden text, you'll see there is no mention of this method. The link isn't downsized to 1px, nor is it impossible to see for humans. So I don't agree Erica, on this instance

That would be totally different if we'd do this with more text than just one (brand name) word, reducing visibility, placing [Viagra-text] behind the logo/image that has nothing to do with viagra, etc

Good tips from EGOL.

How does the bigger site on the keywords that the smaller site ranks for, rank?

If they don't rank for it period.... as in: not in the top 50 for those keywords, it's really no use to redirect the pages. Because probabluy their entire on page optimization is crap. So in the beginning all will be well. Search engines will just give the rankings to the bigger site, but they will drop because the new content and site structure cannot maintain the rankings.

Try blekko.com and use /domainduptext behind yourdomain.com

No. It will update automatically, so you don't need to manually do it.

Never heard of this. Looks great!

There isn't a simple solution. Google looks at IP, browser language but also what kind of keyword is used as a search term. So there isn't a 100% match if you use a rank tracker. It depends on where the rank tracker is situated and how the rank tracker is constructed.

I don't know any rank tracker that checks Yandex, so can't help you there.

SO you can measure the rankings, but there will be discrepancies between the rank checker and the "real" SERP's.

Aha, so the content was already posted on your site. Than I wouldn't worry too much about the SCRIBD embedding. Are the 60 pages of blog posts also available on one page on your site? If not, I'd make a page with all the content on it and link to the PDF file near the top of the site to have a good alternative.

No problem, glad I could help! Good luck!

I understand, no problem In this scenario I would actually link to the page with the brand name as anchor. But I wouldn't put it in the footer. With a simple tweak in your css file, you can make a text link and still get the logo up in the top left.

Can't reproduce it right now (not a css expert) but I know it works because I've used it before.

Is there a particular reason why you embed PDF documents?

To make sure your website gets credit for that content, either post it on your site as content or as a PDF document on your domain.

If you want to rank for a particular keyword, you're always better to have your pages ranked in stead of the PDF file. It's a lot more user friendly and people can continue browsing your site if they land on your web page in stead of your PDF file.

No. You'll easily rank for your brand name, so there's no need to do that.

Footer links are an old practice. They aren't used a lot for navigation and thus search engines will not value those kinds of links a lot. (Read: almost none)

There's also a lot of writing about the fact that only the first link to certain link gets "counted". You probably have the logo in the top left directing to the home page? So that will cancel out the footer links' use.

No. Search engines look at the subdomains as two different sites. One letter difference, or one hundred won't make a difference.

Good luck!

Ctrl + Alt + Delete

Delete it from the server. You could bother to redirect if you can automate the process. Otherwise don't even bother because nobody would have linked to those pages.

Especially with Panda, you really want all your pages to be filled with unique content. Not with duplicate content.

You need a bit of technical know-how to do this. You could post a question like this on freelance.com or something similar. Fetching data and making a site around that data isn't hard. But adding 100k unique content items is hard, manual labor.

Best thing you can probably do is make pages around neighbourhoods or cities. The listings constantly change, but the cities and towns will always stay there.

So tell something about that and link to the listings from those pages.

If you simply want rankings: make guest posts on other blogs. As diverse as possible. Don't link with too much exact match keywords.

But make sure you have content on the websites you link to. If you have a very thin site with a lot of backlinks won't help your rankings. You need a site of "substance" to guest post to.

Add unique content of your own Extract the data via XML or whatever and add your own unique content. That's the only way around.

mykeyword.wordpress.com = a new website. That site needs to accumalate new google juice. So it will take a lot more time before it starts ranking and before that starts sending some nice juice to your site. It still is only 1 link from 1 ip address to your main site.

So I would blog on your main site domain.com/blog and do a guest post now and then. Make sure you do guest posts on different sites, to add to your IP diversity.

Keyword tool = crap.

1. Did you look at the traffic for phrase match keywords? Or broad match?

2. Second thing you have to consider: the data Google uses in the keyword tool is also from search partners. For instance, in the Netherlands (where I live) google also adds keyword volume from a craigslist type of site. So me searching on the site for daytona insurance will add "a tick" in the keyword tool as well, even though google's results page wasn't shown for that search.

3. Did I mention that the keyword tool is crap? (With instant search on) Start typing daytona i... and see what starts apearing. Than compare the keywords that appear before insurance to the data you got for daytona insurance. See if that makes any sense.

Good luck! And remember, especially these days, rankings aren't everything. Traffic is!

Inbound links are links you receive from external websites. So the internal links won't show up there.

Try looking at your robots.txt file to see if you have any exlusions in it. The data will be different in a few weeks of course, but you'll still be comparing apples and pears

Inbound links = from external sources.

Internal links = your site linking to different pages on your root domain

The only thing you might want to change in your site/url structure is drill down to city level. If applicable? Don't live in the US so...

I'd put more effort in constructing the perfect title tag than the perfect url's. What you are talking about isn't really structure, it is more like: what to put in the url's.

Simply use the first url you mentioned. And in the title mention Florida Contractor license bond.

So the FL will not make any difference. Just make sure you mention it in your title and on-page of course, because that will help!

What I mean by real value:

Link wheels are just websites you create, put a bit of (spun) content on it and link to your main site or to another site in the link wheel. It is not really adding anything to the web. It is just getting you rankings.

Why not try to make genuine, real content people appreciate and link to, talk about on social media, etc. That way, in the long run, getting links and getting higher rankings is actually much much easier. Because you don't have to do any more work.

Make something great, that people will like and they will create a unique "link wheel" if you like, for you!

No. It's not counted as an organic visit, but as a paid visit. So you'll see the keyword data under google (cpc)

Link wheels are 2010.

Stop using them.

Start adding real value to the web.

Google isn't stupid. It will see what you are doing, especially if you are making such a basic link wheel. It will denote the link wheel links and your work will be worthless.

Sorry I can't give you more "solid" advice on your link wheel.

You can't go like: automate the process that you get keywords where your competitor ranks for. Somebody should build a tool for that :0

You can go like: see what pages your competitor has optimized, how he structured his site, see where he gets his links from and with what anchor text and go from there.

And of course you can use the keywords you want to rank on and see where your competitor ranks for those keywords.

It should not no But we still don't know how google computes PR. But yes, this is a long shot, compared to my first response

Might have something to do with: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/giving-you-fresher-more-recent-search.html

No mentions in social media? Facebook, Twitter? Typing link:www.domain.com/pr3page in google might not give you a full overview. Neither will OSE and neither will all tools combined. So you might have missed some links. Check you analytics to see if any visiters entered your site via that page and via a referral.

Like:

# /robots.txt file for http://webcrawler.com/
# mail webmaster@webcrawler.com for constructive criticism

**User-agent: ***
Disallow: /_system/
Disallow: /holiday-database/ControlPanel/

Search engines typically only look in the root of your domain to find robots.txt and sitemap.xml files.

Google crawls the pages. Google sometimes even tries the search box by typing in a random word to see what happens.

Have a look at this url: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agoogle.com%20inurl%3A%22search%3Fq%22 You'll see that search queries have been indexed. It happens if people link to it. It doesn't matter that the url is "non existent". It actually is, because it doesn't display a 404 error or any other error. It gives a 200 OK code, so search engines see it as a normal page. Google will probably not index a page it "makes" by filling in a random search term, but will index such a page when it is linked to.

For what purpose do you want to crawl the site?

A web crawler isn't really hard to write. In 100 lines of code you can probably code one. The question is of course: what do you want out of the crawl?

Can't you give the urls of your live site?

It should be as simple as:

RedirectMatch 301 /lifestyle/feed http://www.newsite.com/location-of-new-feed

Wasn't your feed (also) available on the url that is displayed in Google webmaster tools?

Because www.example.com and www.example.com/index.htm are (for search engines) 2 different pages, even though they have the same content.

The webmaster of example.com should redirect all index pages to his root domain. index.html, index.htm, Default.asp, index,aspx, etc, etc. The root domain should only be accessible via 1 url. www.example.com