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Thanks for the answer. I will look into social media network and try to contact blog owners that way. Not sure if they own bunch of blogs and link to themselves.

Hi Paul, Hope all is good for you in the new year.  I just wanted to thank you for your great and articulate response regarding the use of 301's. I have implemented your suggestion and - it works!  Thanks again. Happy New Year -Jimmy

Hi Michael, Yahoo Answers is a good way to build traffic to your site if you provide informative answers to the questions and not just spam your link even if it is not related.  If you provide an informative answer, you can also include an URL to further answer the question. However, I believe all links from Yahoo! Answers are no-follow.  Therefore, posting links on the answers won't give you the backlink benefit in SEO.  But still good for traffic. Furthermore, if you want your link to be clickable, you will need to become a level 2 user in Yahoo! Answers.

It is my personal experience with link building that links now take a couple of months before they help you with rankings. Back in the days we used to see instant movement, now it seems that Google wants to see the link is sticking before assigning credit to it. Probably done to deter spammers and give website owners a chance to remove the spam links and also to deter or frustrate link builders in general. Hopefully the link brings you some traffic or brand awareness, don't expect it to really help in your rankings though.

That page is indexed and prweb links should show up as links. i wouldn't obsess over it though because links from known pr services like pr web won't help your SEO according to Matt Cutts. the very first link to your site in that article is broken btw - definitely make sure all of your links are working properly before pushing out your releases

Hey, sorry, just seen this and your email, will fire you some details over shortly. Cheers. Marcus

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You're not considering a lot of factors that go into SEO: Page speed could be better on #1. Over optimization on page 2 - with many links with anchor text that includes "editing" "editing" appears 80 times on page 1, 66 times on page 2, despite page 2 having more text.  I'm not saying this is a case of keyword density/spamming it, but maybe they're on the line and #2 is under it. Better overall inbound link authority to #2 possibly. Page 2 has repetition of both keywords in the title.  Google already punishes this if you don't have noODP by replacing your title with a more suitable one.  They aren't big fans of duplication but even so, #2 has a much different title. Co-citation.  Even with a better DA and PA, the related inbound links may be more relevant to essay editing on page 1.  Also, more domains may point directly at the subpage essay-editing.html than they do the absolute page at /essay-editing/index.php Analytics matter.  If #2 bounce rate is double #1, and the time on site for #1 is 4 minutes longer per visitor and they get more traffic through an email list that actually stays on site, they'd have a natural boost in the "analytics" department, as well. There are always a million reasons why one site could or may outrank another.  All you can realistically do is improve your site as much as possible, create relevant links back, get citations that all match, engage on social and have a site that responds well when people click it.

Even if you want a blog on a separate domain, I would still go with a self hosted wordpress install. You'll look more legit, have more freedom, be able to modify / optimise the site the way you see fit and not have to worry about any 3rd party rules / limits etc.

Depends on where you publish the article as to whether or not it will be treated as quality. Obviously links1.html?some-value is a different link than links1.html, but having the canonical will help to clear that up somewhat.  If links1.html is the main target, the link would give you more strength pointed directly at it.

many of these linking pages doesn't even exist anymore, and they are not listed in webmaster tool. don't know if I have dropped, because the site was not ranking for anything since 8 weeks ago, and now it is slowing grown (but not as I would expected) but how can you explain that OSE is listing this pages that doesn't have ANY link to my site? http://02a9785.netsolhost.com/index.html http://www.childrensmusicworkshop.com/schools/wns/index.html EDIT: more on this: anchor text are totally random. some examples: clifton beach tasmania, veil hijab, libya crisis gaddafi, navy tote bag, brazilian mastiff dog, knit book cover, dubai biggest building... what is happening???

You can take a quiz at http://www.mytrafficdropped.com/ to determine if Panda or Penguin might have caused your traffic drop. To do a good job on the quiz you will need analytics data that clearly shows the date of the traffic drop.

Hi Mark, If the newsletters aren't adding to your site in any beneficial way (long term, after they have been sent), you could always choose to have them not indexed in Google. However, having had a quick look at your newsletters and Share Point Community as a whole, these links won't affect your site. They are based around online marketing, tools etc. I wouldn't worry too much about it. You're only linking to trusted resources not dodgy sites. Cheers

Thanks Moosa So some information about the author and testimonials would be a good thing to have. Very nice. I'm not sure how to get them not to bounce back from the website though.

EGOL, Firstly, I want to state what a truly great answer this is. Since most people are not playing in this niche, they may not appreciate the insights you've pointed out in such little time. Content is going to be a large part of our strategy.  While others have done this to an extent, you'll notice the same bland, boring stuff recycled over and over.  There's a huge opportunity in this space to take content to a new level and create truly great stuff.  That's what we're planning on doing. Regarding creating multiple service pages for these specific keywords... I think you're absolutely correct.  When I can't figure things out, I tend to think obsessively about them until I believe I have an answer.  Last night, before heading to a friend's birthday party (and before you answered this question), I reconsidered my standpoint (also after I poured through some Adwords search and conversion data for our site. I decided that the best approach would be to create a general "essay editing" page with footer links to pages like "fix my essay", "revise my essay", etc.  Like you, I realized that there actually is different intent for these search terms than there is for "essay editing service" and I greatly appreciate your answer in helping confirm my hunch. The one place I do believe you're not quite spot on is where you say, _"This is not an easy business niche.   Your competitors have been around long enough that they will not be defeated quickly or with little effort." _  This niche has not been disrupted like many niches have in the recent years.  The players, in my opinion, have become complacent and nobody has been attempting to become an industry leader here (I believe there's definitely an opportunity to do so).  The guys ranking toward the top of the SERPS do not have very impressive link profiles, they don't create good content (if any), their user experiences and design of their websites are awful. I'm not saying it won't take effort and time to surpass them, but I do believe it's one of the more "doable" niches out there. Again, thanks for the great answer.  If you've got any more insights, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Cheers!

When did you acquire the link? Some links dont show up for a while, i have experienced that myself, I guess it depends on when your last crawl was. For example Seomoz shows my backlink profile different then what my webmaster tools show. So segway into the tool i would recommend to check is signing up for webmaster Tools. My Best Suggestions Hampig M BizDetox