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All in all, more pages would definitely increase your website's authority and provide strong signal about it's topic. So yea, it would better for seo, but only if those pages are valuable to the users - coz creating pages just for the sakes of it, would mean spamming.

Thanks, that was my impression of it as well.  Just wanted to check I wasn't overlooking something.

Just to update you all, it went through fine GBL now ranks #1 for all MRL terms, e.g cheap logo design Thanks!

keep in mind some companies count images as back links others do not this is an interesting comparison and I think every one of the major backing companies is critical to a full back link audit. FsApuY8.png

Thanks for your feedback!

What I usually do is  set the website up on a staging area set up at example.com   and modify my local host file with the ip address of the staging area with domain and access the site via example.com

Hi There - While I'm not sure of the plugin you're citing, you are right to suspect that cloning hundreds of thin or duplicative pages would not be a strategy any good Local SEO would recommend, particularly in light of Google's recent doorway pages announcement (see: http://moz.com/community/q/how-google-s-doorway-pages-update-affects-local-seo). Loading any site down with this kind of content would not be a smart move, and my recommendation would be to devote the bulk of your resources of both time and funding to carefully crafting the highest quality content for your relevant topics, whether these are local landing pages, blog posts or what have you. I would caution you against looking for a fast solution here. A better goal would be mining deep for quality, however long this might take. Additionally, it's good to remember that just because a competitor seems to be benefiting from a spammy practice, it's not really a good idea to model your marketing on this. Google can't see everything all at once, but when they finally do see something they don't like, punitive action can happen overnight. I think the best way to look at this is that competitors who are spamming are actually in a weak position. They are putting their visibility at risk, while you, taking the high road, are securing your future.

Oh, this belongs to a different thread: http://moz.com/community/q/chinese-site-ranking-for-our-brand-name-possible-hack

Hello all, and thank you for answers. I disavow the links (500), but no effects, still. 3 Months passed. Nothing, I am still "banned", if i can say so. Anyway for unserious players (Seo), this will become a precedent situation. So if you want to "kick" the competition just buy them 500 - 1000 links, and you should be 1st position. Google must pay attention to this kinds of shits. Really now :)) With respect, Andrei

Hi Robert There is no duplicate content in these websites.....checked thoroughly by copyscape. Regards Aman

Hi Aman! This won't necessarily solve your problem, and I sort of hate just plugging a Moz tool, but have you ever tried running a Full SERP Analysis Report in the Keyword Difficulty tool? It can let you know what factors are helping your top 10 SERP competitors rank. There's a great video on using it here.

I know dear Hutch42, Google said this last Aug 2014. This is just something I want to confirm. Thanks for reply.

It shouldn't matter at all. If you're worried the sites are low quality, you might consider no following, but press link pages are pretty common.

Your solution is fine... and Google doesn't have problems with sites having different language version hosted in different domains (if it was so, Amazon should be invisible...). However, a better and complementary solution would be asking to your devs to create a rule so that, everytime the site receive a visit from an IP different from the Italian ones, an over box will be shown suggesting the visitors to visit the English version of the site and offering them the link to that version. This is a good thing also in terms of usability, because users will immediately know what to do and do not need to discover the English flag or feeling as if they were in the wrong web site.

Hi Dirk, Thank you so much for your reply. I just want to be sure that this is not a recommended practice. We will show everything to users and robots, but the content won't be organized in the same way. Regards

Good idea. Thanks for the help!

If you are doing a link cleanup I highly recommend cognitiveseo.  It takes all links from Moz, ahrefs, majestic as well as allowing webmaster tools imports.  You can categorise your anchor texts, and it will run its own system and recommend links to disavow which you can manually review. On top of that, it will also create the disavow file for you.  Saved me a alot of work when I got hit by some negative seo.

Hi, I took a quick look at your site, and it appears that you have a problem with category pages. When I took the following text from your site's homepage -- "Minha esposa trabalha como manicure. Tá sempre trabalhando no salão ou atendendo nas residências. Faz tempo que trabalha num salão perto de casa" -- and searched Google, it found 3 instances of it. http://www.acervodecontos.com/ http://www.acervodecontos.com/diversos/ http://www.acervodecontos.com/busca-contos-sexo/esposa-recem-casada-liberada/2/ All were category level pages. The good news, is this is a pretty common problem for lots of sites, which means there's been a ton written about it. My suggestion would be to noindex those secondary category pages if you aren't going to put unique content on them. Here's a discussion from a similar Q&A post that adds great insight.

I'd say you need to get a full overview of what's been done so far - and sign-off on anything that they're planning to do for you in the future (including tactics, target media and so on). You might find this helpful: http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/what-is-nofollow/  See the bit here, under "How do we get natural links" http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/unnatural-links/ Switch to PR focused work, in the future, where your submissions are editorially reviewed (sure, some will be rejected - yet this is all about quality over quantity). This is a good rundown of what not to do: http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/seo-to-avoid/

Highland's analysis is correct. You should only be using the disavow tool carefully and with a measured approach, and usually in dealing with penalties.