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Take a look at this White Board Friday video, it is relevant to the travel industry and contains some good ideas about content and what 'not' to do since Penguin. It may also help with idea generation! http://www.seomoz.org/blog/smarter-internal-linking-whiteboard-friday

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.

I would recommend getting the charity supporters to create content, sharing there thoughts about how they feel the charity is helping the community, etc. This content could be posted on their own blogs or social media profiles or placed on the charity's own website. Either way, they can encourage links back to their site that way and actually deserve the backlinks that way. Just my thoughts. Scott

Hi, saw this post on my Google alerts and thought it might be helpful to respond. Link building has a bad connotation thanks to spamming black hats, outspoken link critics, and a myriad of other players in the market. You can follow that advice and still be quite successful with your website. However, link building done properly can be a powerful tool for your website growth and will make building your brand online easier. You can do link building yourself or you can work with a company like ours to develop a clean and professional offsite reputation with valuable links. As a business owner or marketer you will at some point want to mention your website online. This helps the search engines recognize the relevance of your site and the popularity of it. It's a powerful variable for your rankings and if done right should also drive quality referral traffic. There will always be some form of offsite ranking variable and at the end of the day that's what we strive to provide for our customers. You don't need to take my word for it though. Take a look around the web for natural link building experts and you will find some of the most prominent SEOs such as Eric Ward (http://www.ericward.com/) who showcase the real power of link building. Best Regards, Patrick A. PS - Irving, you're spot on regarding the potential downsides of improper link building. However "Any link building company is being flagged by Google these days" is false. PPS - Keri, we've removed the logo. We are big fans of SEOmoz and use a variety of tools to regularly to help our customers. Our apologies for any confusion.

there are ways around it though such as obfuscated javascript linking and other methods of making a link unrecognized as a link

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Directory submissions are not very useful. Bad directories can even be harmful (Note. confirm form someone who has made research about directories). You also need to focus on your linking profile. Linking profile should be natural. If there is large peaks on the amount of links, it might be alarming in the "eyes" of search engines. In some business fields highly specified product directories have still big role in generating traffic and leads, but that's another story. If you find respectful and relevant listings, then go ahead and submit. If the only reason to submit links to directories is to get better rankings, then - in most cases - it might be a waste of time.

Hi 2buildonline, Is there any results with Alexa? Thanks, Speaking Petals

That is very odd that it is ranking that high. Using OpenSiteExplorer, it shows that rockymountainpatiofurniture.com only as 5 internal links. The other 2 links are blog comments. I looked and on Google, RMPF has almost 3000 indexed pages and after a 48% scan using Screaming Frog, the homepage has over 5406 internal inlinks. I can only assume we are not seeing all of the information related to this site. It appears to be pretty established and have a decent number of internal pages with unique content. That probably doesn't help much... but it does give you a little bit more information. Mike

Definitely no follow. You have nothing to lose and you protect yourself. You can be penalized by having so many dofollow links, nofollowing them completely protects your site and doesn't change your page juice or anything negative by nofollowing them.

Well, that URL is already indexed, so that answers that question! But you're walking into a bit of a minefield in this one. These URLs have also been indexed: http://www.misslovegirls.com/goods.php?id=3704 http://www.misslovegirls.com/goods.php?id=3705 You're going to have a big issue here with duplicate content.  You're pretty much serving the exact same page multiple times (with the only difference being price/size/title, from what I can see, which isn't going to be enough of a difference). My advice would be to make one product page per item (ideally with a descriptive URL, not just numbers) that includes the different sizes and colours within the page.  Furthermore, you're going to need a lot more descriptive content per product to ensure that there is enough content on the page for Google to register it as unique. Now in theory, there's nothing stopping you from indexing and ranking a URL with numbers/queries high up in Google. URLs in keywords in them are probably a bit more SEO and user experience friendly, though not absolutely essential. I just think you have a bigger issue on your hands here - your product pages are currently too thin and will likely be seen as duplicate by Google.  I imagine you will want to rank these pages, so adding "noindex,nofollow" to the pages won't solve the problem.  You're only alternative, therefore, is to make sure that each product page is descriptive enough to be seen as unique (300-400 words as a very rough guideline) and that all variants of the product, such as size or colour, are not on separate URLs, but on the same page.

Hi Doug, thank you very much for your reply. The thing I am not sure about is that when I link from some of the posts or pages to other posts or pages are no follow or follow. What are the pingbacks which wordpress creates when I link between posts? I normally delete them...should I not? what difference it makes?

This may be a good place to start: http://www.seomoz.org/article/recommended#link-building

It won't hurt to link from older articles, but I'd take a look at what kind of Page Authority / PageRank these older articles have before bothering. If new posts, without generating any new backlinks from external sites, are ending up with about the same authority as those old articles, new/old probably won't make much difference. One thing you might want to bring into consideration is the level of traffic, and through what keywords, those old posts are getting - if they're on related topics to the pages you're trying to rank, you can channel some relevant traffic to these pages while you're building the links by creating some more visual emphasis (instead of just linking some anchor text within the post, use a call-out box to entice some clicks). There are a lot of unknowns from my standpoint, but that's my advice based on what you've described.

Are you sure the link are spam? What about your own website? What if links have simply exposed it to Google's on-page filters?

Hi Guys, I think the sentiments that is being passed here is the difference between link building and link earning... Submitting to directories is a link building activity that can be achieved with little friction, and therefore is often subcontracted to other people. But what are the directories? Will the ever be used to find a business like yours OR are they simply directory spam... My guess is the later. There are a few directories out there that are worthwhile, but I would recommend making these submissions yourself. Set aside say 2hrs on a Saturday morning (OR Monday morning if it is simply the company you work for NOT own) to find the next one and make your submissions. I would take a top down approach to directory listings. Pick on the most beneficial and work your way down, continually asking yourself the question "Would I use a site like this to find a business like mine?" If you are in the States, Canada OR UK I would suggest looking into getListed.org (Please getListed/SEOMoz team, do Australia next for directories worth chasing. Also SEOMoz have a list of directories that they feel are worthwhile that you can access as a PRO user... Some are genre directories. Think about it this way, What happens if your company was to move? Running directory listings on 100, 500, 1000 poor quality directories, would you bother to update the address on all of them. If you got someone else to do it, would you have all the login details they used to generate all these links... Probably not... If you do it yourself, you have all the details, you have only approached the directories worth targeting and the task is a lot more manageable... Running low quality backlinks (directory listings included) puts you at greater risk of the Penguin update. Once you have sit below the threshold, you are at risk of being penalised either manually or by the next Penguin update. Mpst SEO will tell you, the recovery tasks involved in breaking the Penguin penalty are 2 to 5 times the amount of work that building the poor links in the first place. Don't risk it! On a final note, link earning is about chasing after those links that have the friction associate to them to acquire... EG/ Google Maps with there postcards approval process etc. You should always approach any form of backlink by believing the link will be more valuable from the organic traffic that it will bring your site from the source site than the backlink is towards your backlinking profile. Thus ends my novel, congrats if you made it this far Hope this helps, Dan

Hi Digitalkiddie, I would expect Google to be able to understand international prefixes. Can't give you a 100% guarantee on that, but I'm reasonably certain that they are sophisticated enough to get this. So, my advice is to list your complete local number wherever possible, but if some directories require a different format, follow their guidelines and provide what they want. Hope this helps!

You're going to end up with a siht-load of bad back links and a poor back link profile that will leave the squidoo page with little  to no value and which could reflect poorly on your primary site.