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"The guest blogging I did was through the MyBlogGuest system so 99% of the time links are do-follow. Roughly 15 guest posts have been put up, the anchor text was split from 'UK Bank Holidays 2013' to 'Bank Holidays 2013' so roughly 8 each." I made an assumption regarding the links you built as being manipulative, and based on your feedback so far it is likely I am correct. Can you post a link to one of the blog articles you wrote? Regarding your traffic / ranking drop, it could have happened due to the changes you made or your links being devalued as manipulative or other factors. The links are my largest concern at this point.

The link form Stephen to Search Engine Land is a good resource.  I'll just add a few additional thoughts here: 1.  There are several types of domains that you might be picking up - and they are not all equal.  There are 'pre-release' domains which are auctioned off about a month after they've expired.  These are the kind you get from GoDaddy Auctions or Namejet.  If you buy those - the creation date is not actually reset - so a 10 year old domain would still be 10 years old.  During this period of time, the existing owner of the domain could actually re-register the domain as well. After this, domains go through the 'Redemption Period' and then the 'Pending Delete' period.  These domains will be completely deleted from the registry, and have their creation dates reset. You're much more likely to get some 'juice' from PreRelease names, than names that have completely dropped from the registry. 2.  That said, if you're still considering this technique, you'd probably want to look very carefully at the backlinks of the site you're buying.  A large portion of the expired domains with backlinks were used for spamming.  It's probably not worth your time to disavow all of the bad links from a domain you've picked up at auction. 3.  Expired domains can be 'rehabbed'.  If you take the time to rebuild the site with valuable content, it will be able to rank for search terms, and build up page rank again.  You'd probably have much less risk in the long run by rehabbing some related domains with good content and linking back to your main site, than using the 301 technique - though I've never done any side by side experiments to say for sure.

Take every 301 redirect you can get.  There may be link equity which is unitilsed there.

Matt Cutts addressed this back in 2007:  http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/search-results-in-search-results/  Short answer: its best not to allow it as Google will drop it when they catch it so its just a waste of your time. I hope that helps!

Ya i would not over do it. Internal linking is for contextual use, although it plays a slight role in SEO its not the end all be all of SEO. IE is for user benefits to keep them on your page and find the right content. If you have 1 million pages, your goal should not be to rank EVERY PAGE. I would look at Todd Malicoats AI. He really has a vast knowledge of this See if you can view this link some people were not able to. If interested PM i can email you the videos http://www.marketmotive.com/training/tutorials/search-engine-optimization/seo-workshop-site-architecture-a-taxonomy-todd-malicoat-33009.html Best wishes, Hampig M BizDetox

Hello Jarno, thank you for replying. What other tools than Seomoz can you recommend to use? Also in seomoz im having some errors and some of them shows that my sites have urls linked on my page to non-existing pages. Is there a way to terminate these links/pages? Or even see exactly where on my site these links are placed? Best regards.

www.myblogguest.com I've found is decent for getting good backlinks from guest blogs.  However, the guest blog post has got to be to a decent standard to get accepted.  It goes into a list of posts for selected.  There's another one called blogger link up which is a kind of dating service for guest blog posts and publishers

Umm a bit complicated.. From the users’ perspective, it would look strange if the Site A gets redirected to Site B but the sub-domains do not. And from search engine’s perspective, I do not think, it will be the right thing to do. Say for Blogger.com. If Blogger.com gets penalized or starts losing traffic, it will have far reaching impacts on its sub domains as well. So, it will be great if you redirect the sub domains as well. BUT remember, when you are doing 301 direction, you are in fact carrying the legacy of the past domain. That means the new domains will enjoy all the link juice, authority and at the same time, if the website has been penalized, the new domain will also come under scanner. _So before you make the decision, you need think about this.  _

I've never had a problem on creating a large number of redirects on a site before.  It's something that happens quite a bit, for instance if a site is moving to a a site to a new domain or a new CMS, where it can often be very difficult to exactly recreate the same URL structure. There's no limit to the number of redirects, just the number of hops.  If the site had existing redirects in place, you might want to update those existing redirects as well, to point to the new final destination.

"in my article section I have a HUGE article about Samsung Laptops" Nice work! "The category page shows lots of laptops and a small section of text." OK... this is good... more text might be helpful So, what's the problem? Here is my opinion and you know that they say about opinions.   I think that Google is going to rank the page that Google thinks is best for the searcher.  Some types of queries are made mostly by buyers.  Some types are made by people looking for information. I have pairs of pages on my site just as you do.  I link between them just like you do.  My article pages are usually much stronger than my product pages but I usually see the product pages higher in the SERPs for product queries and the article pages for information queries. Even if someone lands on an article page I still have an opportunity to route them to the product page with house ads and other types of obvious links.  Maybe my article will impress them and they will decide to buy from me because they read part or all of the article and decided to buy from me because I know enough to write helpful information.  I know for a fact that this happens because customers tell me. So, if you see your article page ranking high be sure to make it very clear to people who land on that page that you are in the business of selling Samsung Laptops.   Most people would by happy to get any page to visible rankings in those SERPs. Something else that I noticed is that if I place a link to one of my pages in the persistent navigation that is on every page of the site - that page often moves up nicely in the rankings.   You might consider doing that with your Samsung product page if you want to increase its strength in the SERPs.

I am looking into this a lot too.  Our company has 1.2 million pages indexed in Google.  That sounds good except that 1.03 M are from our search results pages.  I am advising we do not keep all the search result pages index; the issues is we are making a lot of money off of them.  What did you find worked best for you? what did you decide to do?

Flat site architecture shows that any directory one step from the root shows extreme importance; so essentially you can link to any inner page in any other directories. For example:                                               USA Jacksonville     Atlanta       Mississippi       New York      Los Angeles     Ohio       Las Vegas As you can see in this model, this is natural. But it shows the flat site architecture I was referring to. Any of the cities show great value to the home page. You want to include any unique data in these directories. Essentially any file can be made important, so you don't have to worry about specific keywords you want to rank for not have an equal opportunity. You don't have to worry about one folder on your server having more importance over another. You can Google "flat architecture" http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/a-flat-architecture-in-practice http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-flat-site-architecture You can certainly should focus on your content algorithm and start planning your linking building profile.

thanks both of you! Because of i can configure the meta robot tag so i must use robots.txt :(( I wil check in Google webmaster tool!

Just checked something that has not been mentioned here, and that is that your domain name was only registered October 28th of this year. Less than 2 months old.  Matt Cutts has said not to worry about domain age that much, BUT yours is almost pristine new.  Keep on putting relevant content, and don't do anything against Google guidelines, and you will get those rankings.