Welcome to the Q&A Forum

Our landing page www.domain.com/abc/ got about 90% of links containing 2 main keywords "abc" and "def"we target on that page. That is a concern. It is highly unnatural. It sends a strong indicator that you are in control of those links which may lead Google to discount their value.

"A hyperlink in word can easily be stripped out by someone and then it is not clear what the link was to or what words it was on." Personally in my opinion this is the nature of the beast... If you give good relevant links that help the authenticity of the article, then the poster, will not have as much inclination to remove the hyperlink... But if it is obviously trying to be an SEO Anchor text link, then you run the risk of it being removed as this is not the aim of a link in a press release... A link should be informational and not self serving (or not seem self serving w00t!

Totally agree with EGOL on this one, I find running some long tail keywords from PPC, around the quality content helps to get the sharing process going, like EGOl said add some social sharing buttons, make sure the content is above the norm and you should see some sharing going on through the buttons. I know EGOL doesn't really like this but you could use myblogguest to post some content on other related blogs in your niche.

That was a great post inhouse....  if you add a little more it might make a good youmoz post.

I would think it would depend on the age of the article and whether or not people were actively linking to that. So even the old article, if all of a sudden people started linking to it (like a bio for a actor when there is suddenly news about him) it would become relevant again and likely good. If it is only a couple of months old, I think it would be more worthwhile than something that is 2 years old.

i know not everyone will agree with this, but we really don't monitor how many links are follow/nofollow. The key is to get links pointed to your site that are topical. Just by that tactic alone, you will get a typical blend of both kinds of links.

To the best of my understanding, adding the rel="noreferrer" attribute to an <a>tag (i.e. attaching it to a link) just means that you don't want the user's referrer information (e.g. what browser, operating system, etc. he/she is using) to get passed along. </a> <a>My guess is that it has more to do with privacy, rather than SEO. From a search marketing standpoint, I wouldn't spend too much time thinking about it, if at all.</a>

Well... Of Course there are some world-class sites better ranked than us and that's fair. But I think we're not at the right place... Proximeety is 7 years old... There are websites before us that are really younger, with very less backlinks, with far less content, far less members, etc... That's why we really thnik that there must be a mistake on Proximeety which penalize us... Of course we'd like to hire a SEO in France, but it's hard to find the good person... We don't want a SEO who will explain us that we need to optimize our title or obvious things like that...

Hi Mark, You might want to ask this in a new question. Currently, Q&A admins are the only ones who can sort questions by most recent activity, so your comment isn't going to show for people just browsing the recent questions submitted to Q&A.

cheers thanks for your input. Makes sense

Also, don't forget to have a look at your links in Webmaster tools.

I'd be really cautious about making yourself look spammy by putting too much of your duplicate content out there. Instead, I'd focus on doing great in the social places where your customers are based. You said you're going to registar 150 (this seems excessive), but not use them. In order to get good social signals, you actually have to build content and groom your accounts. Who wants to follow someone on social media who basically has a dead account?

I'm afraid I have to generally agree with Dejan SEO. First off, the evidence that .edu and .gov links are really valued higher (at least over the last couple of years) is limited at best. SEOmoz did a correlation analysis in 2010 that suggested .gov links only slightly outperformed .com, and .edu under-performed .com - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-vs-bing-correlation-analysis-of-ranking-elements Part of that may be due to the fact that higher education sites have been relentlessly spammed. It's just too easy to set up a profile on a deep page and get a cheap .edu link. That's the core problem, too. In general, a .gov or .edu site may have more trust or authority than the average .com (although I can't even prove that). That doesn't mean, though, that EVERY link on a .edu is worth more than EVERY link on a .com. That's a gross oversimplification that ignores the dozens of factors that define a link's value. See Rand's post here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/10-illustrations-on-search-engines-valuation-of-links If you have a deep link on a .edu site on a page with no inbound links that links out to 400 sites, all of which are irrelevant and spammy, that link will be crap. It doesn't matter that it's on a .edu. That page may not even be indexed. Chasing .edu or .gov links ignores a lot of other factors. Is suspect the international links are treated much like their .com equivalents. If your site operates in the US and is in English, and you get a .edu.tw (or .com.tw) link from a Taiwanese site written in Mandarin Chinese, that link is going to be low-value in the vast majority of cases.

pretty competitive - the likes of corporate video video production web video and variations of the above it seems to be the same pages (my home page in the main - most of my link building has been to my home page)

Great content bla bla bla, aren't some of you people sick and tired of giving your silly little text book answers all of the time, yes you do need a site that has great content and yes it is a mandatory requirement if one is to succeed online, but why is it that when someone asks a direct question such as "Is Linkvana good yes or no!" do people side step it and go on a long spat about how they perform link building. Most of the people in this community say they know a lot about SEO and go around as Goody two Shoes preaching the same lines over and over again! What we need to realise is that services such as Linkvana or Build My Rank would not still exist if they did not work. I use both and have done so for a considerable amount of time, they are a vital part of my SEO efforts but are by no means the only two elements. If one has the desire to generate revenue online via SEO one must speculate in order to accumulate.