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Her general example was based on her, Matt Cutts and another Google employee having Fitness websites that she then buys and how she would go about the use of canonicals and 301s to show users and search engines that she is the most relevant authority. One of the pluses with the canonicals involved branded searches that would still pull the Matt Cutts site instead of the Maile Ohye site but link equity would be directed to her site and users would be less likely to bounce since the canonical would serve the Matt page whereas a 301 may be jarring at first because if you're looking for Matt and get Maile you may be more likely to bounce even though its the content you are looking for. (God, I swear I can explain this better in my own head than I can once I attempt to write it out... which is bad considering I actually make a living writing)

Thank you very much for the answer!

I was of the same opinion untill i started to think of the what the possibilities could be for EMD's etc. Might be a great oppurtunity that won't come by often.

Hi Iqbal, Have you setup targeted country as Pakistan in Google webmaster tool ? Have you listed you website in Google Local Map ? Have you listed your website in major Pakistan's Directory ? I have checked five three home page blogpost, they have very less content in comparison to your  ads on your page. Its look look like you have just created blog for ads, you are not highlighting content but your ads.

_I can feel your pain here. Since we cannot count on the ranking only because of its unpredictable nature, you can compare and contrast things like the number of total visitors, total organic visitors, referral visitors etc. I think these metrics are good enough to figure out how things are faring. _

I have design and development people on the payroll. The rest would be done mostly by help I have here in my office when they aren't busy with client work if what I was thinking. I ran the idea by my wife (who helps run the office) and she told me that's a great idea once I get caught up with potential new clients and the work load from the ones we already have which is her way of saying never! Thanks for the response! Matthew

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Yes, because sharing the IP address with known adult or spam sites will raise a warning flag in the eyes of search engines, which may in-turn, lead to banning the complete IP address from its index.

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Until the public gets educated on the "Alternatives" we're stuck. Sorry

thanks very much , i got it

Don't mean to distract from Paul's issues, but Marie I have to take issue with your Panda analysis. One of my websites was also hit hard by Panda over 27-29 September. It is NOT an EMD site, by the most common interpretations, so it can only be Panda. The site has 130 pages of mostly very well-written content, tight on topic, targeting long-tail search phrases. So it does not fall into the "very little crawlable text" category. The site has no duplicated content. I have run Copyscape across every page of the site and nothing more than about 3-4% duplication. It may be that the internal tag linking structure, or pointer domains, give Google an impression of duplicate content, but SEOMoz says my canonical structures are good. There are virtually no spelling or grammar mistakes on the site, unless Google cannot handle international spelling. I am a writer by profession. There are very few ads on the site at all. Certainly not to the level Google describes in its Panda rules. So why was my site hit by Panda? And what can I do to recover? I am currently working through every single SEOMoz Pro report and checking the site page by page using the analysis tools, but what I am coming up with is really marginal. The only things I can imagine could have been of concern to Google were (1) I had some scraped affiliate content on the site - hotels by location; (2) I had a decommissioned URL with a lot of indexed posts pointed at my domain; and (3) I had a lot of 404 errors due to a major change in permalink structure. (1) and (2) were corrected weeks before Panda and (3) has also been corrected. I understand there has already been a Panda refresh since September and it made no difference at all. I had no messages from Google and they have confirmed (through a reconsideration request) that no manual penalty has been applied. All URLs are still indexed on Google, but appear around pages 45-50 of the results. I still get a trickle of Google search traffic, but overall it's down 85-90%. URL is traveltipsthailand DOT com if anyone cars to check it out and give me their thoughts. Maybe Paul can also learn from what I am doing. photo.jpg

That was amazing. Killing it.

Hi Ryan, Appending that to my query string didn't work, but using the Search Tools dropdown and setting my location to US did the trick. Thanks for questioning me, was great to be able to see this.

I'm seeing a little drop too.  If you switch this to monthly view and zoom all the way out, you'll see that their domain as a whole took a bit of a dive this month: http://www.quantcast.com/squidoo.com I'd suspect that 90 degree day on MozCast 11/19 gave them a swift kick in the junk.

SOme positive impact increase in CTR, because after these updates all the spam sites hit down towards and our website get more exposure...

I don't know the exact composition of seed sites that SEOmoz uses, but it's believed to be similar, at least in theory to a process that search engines use. This would include seed sites such as universities and government agencies and other highly respected sites, for example the Red Cross would be considered a high trust site that would make a good seed. The set is updated frequently as sites can be gamed. But I wouldn't go as far to say that all newspapers and media sites go in the "bad" category. Some do, some don't. It's funny that you mention a "cynical" algorithm. It's believe Google does use something similar to a "SpamRank" algorythm.

seems to be working fine. I tested a few sites and it gave a correct response.