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Hi Highland, Thank you so much for your input here.  I actually wondered if it applied if it applied to me because I had one brand across all 3 domains.  The reason why we established it this way was because it does send better signal to our local customers and in that case we are ranking quiet well for competitive keywords in Australia and New Zealand.  The USA domain is quiet slow at the moment, but I'm sure that is because it is a lot steeper. One thing that stood out in Rands video was the content and the audience overlap.  Content is the same for all three and our audience is the same for all 3.

Thanks Hectormainar, My developer confirmed that they were not pages, just links https://www.zenory.com.au/profile/26/buttons https://www.zenory.com.au/profile/5/buttons https://www.zenory.com.au/profiles/16/buttons https://www.zenory.com.au/profiles/20/buttons https://www.zenory.com.au/profiles/12/buttonswith these would there still need to be a noindex metatag added?

Thats so much Daniel! A directory approached me the other day to tell me how much traffic I would get if I listed in their astrology category and that they receive so much traffic to that category a month looking for my services.  If i listed there they would give me a 20% discount taking it to around $400 a year.  So I was sitting here thinking is it the more expensive the more human-edited and non-generic the directory is? I also read their guidelines and they consisted of quiet a lot.  For eg: they don't list websites with spam content, broken links etc Thanks for the information regarding the manual outreach, I will take a look into the buzzstream as iv seen this floating around but didn't quiet understand the actual intent behind it, now that im looking into link building it all makes sense. What do you think of SEO agencies that offer to build your backlinks? I'm a little skeptic around it but in saying that not my place to comment as i have not been there yet.  I have had an seo guy work with me in the beginning who i found out was giving me all sorts of nonesense advice after discovering moz. cheers

Take a good look at some of the pages you have indexed here https://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://superbetting.com/forum/&num=100 Decide what should not be there and remove them with a noindex. This will help with quality Score. Then do a fetch in Webmaster Tools to speed the indexing up. That should help you on your way. Disavow all the crap links ASAP

If this is a competitor doing this. How could we figure out who it is?

Thanks Richard, I had an email just now from the site owner saying they have created a rel canonical and credited our site!

The reason why everyone has different views on SEO is because there is an exception to every rule, and for the most part every website is different.  You will have to find what works in your niche market.  So take it slow. My suggestion is to watch 1 White Friday every couple of days - go back 6 months and start from there.  No better education to be had on SEO.  So that is the best place to start and then try and work out from the WBF's what is relevant to your website and what are the priorities. I write a list down for each site... You simply can't do everything that needs to be done.  You need to prioritize. One more thing. Firstly google are emphatic that Adwords has no relevance to organic search. I see things a little differently. But you might want to run a small adwords campaign, create a relevant and quality landing page - even a small budget of $10 a day for a few weeks for your targeted keywords. Then watch how the customers respond to your page, review the User experience - review your message. It might hasten up your understanding of some issues... Good luck

Hi there Yes - as Andy said, avoid this practice. I would also make sure that you read up on Google's Link schemes resource in Google's Quality Guidelines. It has everything you need to know about what Google thinks about these sorts of things. I recommend you also read Moz's Beginner's Guide to Link Building as well for more tips. Hope this helps! Good luck!

Hi there I guess I would ask why you're taking the news on one domain and moving it to another? I would think you'd move it to a directory of abc.com? Is there a reason why you're doing this? Check out Rand's post on Subdomains vs. Subfolders, Rel Canonical vs. 301, and How to Structure Links for SEO - it's extremely helpful! Hope this helps! Good luck!

Hey RedSweater, Thanks for your in-depth response. So firstly I wanted to ask with regard to the pop up modals for each star sign are you saying if we use the AJAX instead of the javascript to pull in each additional sign like you were saying would this be a better way to optimize the page for spiders to see, also how we currently have them creates the duplicate content effect? Another question I might ask is, why are you archiving all the daily horoscopes? Are you seeing visitors to old horoscopes, or are you holding onto them for your own records? No, we are not holding them for any records at all, not that I see or know if there is any benefit in doing so.  We currently do keep backup copies offline. That way, you could have a permanent "Daily Cancer" page with a more refined meta description that ever changes, and every day you just go in and edit that sign. Same for all the other signs, and same for the weekly sign pages. Anytime people link to these pages, they would keep that value - and I think that might help your rankings. Right now, with every horoscope being on its own separate daily page, say 2 people share that link on Facebook. Those links go straight to say the Cancer horoscope for June 1, 2015. That means they're kind of frozen in time. If instead you had a "Daily Cancer" page and they linked there, and then a week later they shared it again because they liked the new horoscope, you'd have 4 incoming links to the same page. I think I see what your saying now: So if I'm correct in my understanding I can create a separate page for each star sign, and every day while updating the dailies I can go in and replace the old with the new this way the links are staying the same etc the only thing I would be tweaking is the meta tags des now and again and the content for each star sign. Is that correct? Thanks for you in-depth look into it really appreciate it. Justin

Thanks!  I figured as much, but I wanted to hear it from another guru rather than assuming on my own. I appreciate it

Greeting Hamid As John Cross and Sander Van Dijcke explained you clearly what you lack and basically provided you with articles to refer, I would like to mention few more points which I think you can follow: As you are having low domain authority i.e. Domain trust Focus on Content and convert it into keyword rich (Note: Maintain Keyword Constancy and Don’t Stuff Keywords). As you are having low domain authority i.e. Domain trust check for any errors or broken links in your Webmaster crawl errors database. Focus on Social Share and Building links with high page authority. There are ready available tools, which you can find out whether your website is penalized or not (http://pixelgroove.com/) Check this out. And use MOZ Open Site Explore and try to disavow spam backlinks. Check for website Speed and other small issues using free tools available online (http://gtmetrix.com/ ). Hope this helps Thank You

Hi there There's a good answer in this Q+A thread regarding Bing disavow. I will echo that usually what you would consider bad enough to include in your Google disavow file, probably would be good to include in your Bing disavow, but remember - these are two different search engines, so you have to treat each as their own entities - traffic, conversions, rankings, etc. It's important you analyze each and make decisions that way. Hope this helps! Good luck!

Thanks for sharing GKLA, Very useful information . Thanks you all!

Thanks so much Michael, all is done

Ten. Years. Later. XD It is pretty interesting to note that they specifically state they've removed the 'bonus' internet points from Thumbtack profiles. I would imagine they were told it might improve their case. It's definitely a bit of a SWAG on my part, but even the goofy internet points may have been considered material. One could see how possibly having more 'internet points' may influence a purchase/contract decision. So that may be enough to support a materiality claim as well.

Would that be Google's "Badger"?

No problem. You were just trying to help.  Appreciate it.

Thanks for your response. Anchor text is where my thoughts lie. I think there could be something here as they do have lots of exact match anchor terms for their brand name. plus one of the dropped keywords is that term. Not phrase but one word term. Say their brand name is Gym Shack. They have dropped considerably for the term Gym whilst maintaining or improving for Gyms in England or MMA Gyms. This is where I am leaning towards. What can be done here if Google is devaluing the term Gym? Is it the links that need removing or does the focus need to shift somehow? Thanks

  glad to help