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EMD = Exact-Match Domain. There are some Penguin cases where if you had a domain like "makemoneyonline.com" AND you were aggressively targeting "make money online" in inbound anchor text, you could run into trouble.

You can also try some social media tools such as Twitter and Google +. By setting up an account at each and tweeting your non-indexed pages URL, you may see that those pages become indexed sooner.  Pretty easy to do but not guaranteed to work.

You are a UK based company yet your TLD is .com This wont help your UK rankings whereas having/using henstuff.co.uk would. Also having a .com for a UK normally correlates to less UK searchers clicking on your site as they think it might not be a UK store.

Always think "is this natural looking?"  Meaning step out of your SEO perspective and think about a site owner who's never heard of SEO. In a natural web, links exist that point to all sorts of pages, not all home page focused.  Why? Because if you've got a page two or three clicks deep with really great information that I want to share, I would link directly to it.  Because why would I want to force people I'm sharing it with to go to your home page and maybe or maybe not find it? Forcing through the home page is definitely NOT natural. Based on that very specific notion, search engines reward a site with more value that has links pointing to a diversity of pages within the site than they do to a site with links ONLY pointing to the home page. Of course SEO is extremely complex with hundreds of factors, so some sites MIGHT rank even if all links point to their home page.  But that's where you can actually get a competitive advantage, and leap-frog ahead of them if you follow the "what's natural" approach.  You can get higher rankings with less pages and less links going the "what's natural" way. Do NOT, however, ignore all the other key SEO factors (link quality, high relevance of the page that has the link in it to the page it's linking to, and all the rest of the factors that need to be considered related to link building).

Thanks for your reply, I'll take a look at the links and see if i can increase the rankings for my websites on Yahoo/Bing.

Hello there, In an ideal world I would recommend (wherever possible) that completely different content is created for UK / US / Canadian markets. I recommend this mainly because there are a lot of differences in consumer behaviour. Although we all speak English, the English we speak, the way we search, the messaging we respond to etc is different. Obviously the option to create separate content isn't open to everyone (budgets, resources, etc). As such, if you can't stretch to creating separate content for each market I'd probably go with the rel=alternate hreflang implementation. I hope this helps, Hannah

My site is bronxpad.com and their site is Bronx agent . Com my main keyword is Bronx homes for sale which they don't even rank for and the other keyword is Bronx homes which they do rank for on page one. I'm on page one for both. How do you thing they are doing this? Thank you

Great responce Shane, thank you for the information. Also it's not a few each week, it's each day that's why I'm trying to figure this out. I think i'll try to dominate my niche the wrong way and then go whitehat once i'm raking in the money. (We can all dream, but I don't see why I can't try this) Again thank you.

Hi there, We always recommend our clients place their blog on a sub-folder, rather than sub-domain - so practo.com/blog rather than blog.practo.com. This way any links gained to your blog posts pass more power to your domain. In terms of the URL it's up to you whether or not to include the category, but we generally don't on ours and client blogs. Practo.com/blog/article-name would be a good way to go (assuming you're talking about blog posts). If you're using Wordpress, change your permalink structure to %postname% and that will do it for you. To do that write a new post and hit 'edit' next to the URL under the title in Wordpress, then select 'custom permalinks' and enter it in there. I'd also recommend installing the Yoast Wordpress SEO plugin, which will really help you nail down the SEO elements of your blog posts and attack long-tail keyphrases. For tracking and comparing month on month / year on year Google Analytics is excellent (and free). For getting your content indexed, make sure you have a sitemap (a segmented XML sitemap will work well) and submit to GWT. Try and build some links to your content - or better yet, produce good content and promote it via social media and the links will come naturally, which will help with indexation. You could also consider submitting your site to Google News if the content is good enough and your site meets their requirements. Hope that helps! : )

My site has 100+ unique articles and all are having 400+ words. I was getting 3K visits to this till yesterday. I haven't done any link building BH or WH to the site recently only just few bookmarks. I also personally believe that the redirect itself should not be the reason but can't find any valid reason to for this deindexing.

I totally agree.

I did the fetch as google and everything looks normal. I also do not have any erros that have anything to do with this page. It's very strange. It seems to have happen all of a sudden.

thanks John that's good to know

John, Believe me - we all understand how frustrating it can be, and how difficult it can be to go with the patience path.  So I totally feel your pain!

I think this is where we'll see the relevancy of content playing an even more important role.  It will provide more opportunities for higher rankings - with KG applied, you'll be fighting against others in your category instead of the broader multiple-meaning terms.

Great - in our case we need open page content generation and cannot put wordpress in the root folder and start out of it. So I need to put it in the sub directory and then begin writing content. I could of course change the name of that directory from blog to something else. That reminds me have you also optimized the site above for some keywords in google? If I would want to check how these sites are ranking etc? Would help me in the forthcoming wordpress site too. Thanks

I didn’t see any problem with the idea. But long tail or short tail keywords are not defied on basis of its competition but because of the length of the keyword. I will consider ‘dermatology’ as a short tail keyword with low or medium competition. Keywords like ‘Laser Skin treatment drawbacks’ can be considered as a long tail keyword. Adding the keyword in the title and still works (may be not as effective as it use to be) but I still prefer people using it as it tells more about what the page is all about.

If 50% of your links are [Exact] keywords, there is a good shot of the penguin. I would recommend going back and changing the links from the [Exact] terms to the brand name.