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I wouldn't buy that answer either. I don't think they have some secret knowledge, or way of doing things with site structure that would be against best practice yet still work. I think the templates are just made poorly and they are trying to make an excuse that some people will believe.

opps, I had a total misunderstanding about it, sorry about that.

I don't think you understood the question as it didn't have much to do with links. This is related to a content management system which has an ugly url which a developer then took to make it more user friendly. While a user browsing the site sees clean URLs, webmaster tools reported 500 errors which are essentially server errors. It doesn't seem those errors are in the console anymore. But, I was wondering if anyone has seen sites receive penalties because of a handful of 500 errors even though the site looks pretty good from a user perspective. (Note: the site is fairly large and a few 500 errors appeared).

because you have no backlinks you have six total and your site apparently has an incredible amount of duplicate content after running it through screening  frog and site liner you have a ton of broken links as well. From only scanning 250 pages total I was able to come up with quite a few huge issues with out the www. 400 Bad Request: Top Issues 1,301 pages were not scanned. 772 broken links were found. Your site is missing an XML Sitemap. WWW vs. non-WWW: Server error. Your Pages 250 pages scanned of 1,551 found. Normal Pages: 67 Skipped, Redirect: 10 Errors: 173 Not Scanned: 1,301 Duplicate Content Duplicate Content: 15% Common Content: 59% Unique Content: 25% ** the complete PDF report is right here http://cl.ly/WF4O will** http://www.siteliner.com/www.hemjakt.se/omrade/centralt/?siteliner=broken OSE backlinks http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?page=1&site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hemjakt.se%2F After using the elite addition of Ahrefs ( the different editions offer different abilities) Summary of links found for www.hemjakt.se http://cl.ly/WEkK You have roughly 2 domain backlinks total from utilizing both tools I would run it through MajesticSEO but I do not see the point. you need to fix the problems with your site I have a guess as to how you are ranking, but I do not believe it was natural. If you had built that many pages on a website and really gotten only about 5 or 6 backlinks out of that only 2 our from domains/ IP's to link to your site total I would find that impossible to believe. You have clearly scraped them or somebody else has been doing a lot of scraping and you may not know about it. Here is a lot of information I hope this helps, Thomas Ub0hJuM.png x0OTizY.png bI0jrFJ.png MbiU6fb.png

NICE!  that does the trick  thanks

Thank you for this, it answers the question. I am going to get the sites which shouldn't of been cleaned out back into the mix.

I agree with Samuel. I also saw a video in which Matt Cutts was saying that they were removing authorship benefits (photo in the SERPs, showing to people in your circles},  for lots of low-quality authors. So, just slapping authorship onto a page isn't going to be a magic bullet.

That makes a lot of sense. We might as well target as large of a targeted audience as possible to maximize our efforts.

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As to your question I think it is very well answered in this Q&A http://moz.com/community/q/webmaster-tools-indexed-pages-vs-sitemap However you can check for some problems using these links http://blog.kissmetrics.com/beginners-guide-to-google-webmaster-tools/ http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2326164/Index-Your-Content-Faster-With-the-Fetch-as-Google-Tool Check your website using Moz for crawl errors as well as take a look at it through Google's eyes using http://www.feedthebot.com/ & http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/ A friend of mine found an interesting problem with robots.txt and JQuery being blocked on word press I noticed from your URL that you are using. By adding Google's JQuery plug-in it enabled navigation and other major things that were being blocked on mobile devices to be seen. Take a look at the way the site was being viewed by Google when using Google Fetch as a Google bot before and after. https://www.authoritydev.com/dont-block-jquery-from-googlebot/ Moz has some of the best tools on the planet if you run a campaign and the on page section will most likely find your errors. However if you need to dig deep into your site the Pro version of screaming frog is worth it http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/ Sincerely, Thomas

David, If you have Google Adwords running by any chance, Most of our keywords are set to 'phrase match' but then daily i look further into the specific keyword details by ticking all of my keywords within the adgroup and clicking 'Details' and Search Term 'Selected'. If your ad text is relevant then you are looking at the exact search terms that our ads and content is most relevant too, I have tightened up on this by building up my negative keywords list, Also although Google have tightened up on keyword information, Bing certainly have not so we use the keyword data from Bing webmaster tools, their is absolute tons of keyword information from Bing Thomas has a great list of good tools already mentioned, I hope this helps James

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Hi Gianluca & Eric, Gianluca you are correct reading the question the first time I assumed it would be best to allow each language to have a chance to rank. Clearly I should have focused on a method of getting the site to rank using what must be considered normal dialect as it is that popular. I agree Google will figure it out. In addition, I agree with everything you said below if you want to rank for a country use its dialect in H1 title tags everything listed below. thank you for clearing that up Gianluca. All the best, Thomas

Hi Akhilesh, Link velocity is determined by hopefully real natural factors. For instance, your client and you discuss a way to get some attention brought to whatever their product or services. Let us say you put out a press release and because that product is unique enough or interesting enough therefore it will be picked up by a lot of bloggers and legitimate media outlets including sometimes national news stations. I have a client who currently gains 60 links a day on average naturally he went from gaining maybe two a day to a natural 1000 today when it hit Fox news, NBC ABC etc. we got lucky to an extent but we knew the negative link velocity was going to occur it was not like this was in a be a surprise. So I can tell you that Google does view things that are not manipulative to their rankings as legitimate therefore will not come after you. To imagine a peek like that for a week and then a consistently higher daily link intake than you had before that is great but it did not affect the rankings negatively when it came down but what was really doing was just settling it had no idea that there was going to be a slowdown to that degree until it occurred. At the end of the day I am still extremely happy of what we did we got the website a lot more domain authority and domain trust long with a lot more traffic we have quadrupled base traffic in one quarter. The use a lot of techniques because you have to use Google plus, twitter, linked in whatever will get you attention and it has to be high quality or people will not stick around. I know people use that word a lot but it really has to be a lot of work done. I have put a lot of time and wrist a lot of my own money proving that press releases are completely legitimate method when used correctly not when you are just throwing stuff out there hoping some is going to catch it and then write it. I recommend actually putting in the time and the money with a real quality public relations agency I also recommend using Wistia in order to have your clients make a once a week the video similar to white board Friday's however make it relevant to their industry. You know they talk about it I got to speak to Chris at search love and they grew their business by speaking about relevant topics in their industry and getting ranked that way through videos pointing back to their site. That is amazing because the cost is not high it has white hat it is great for content and the end-user it should be implemented immediately. You should also transcribe them this will create content for you that is natural and one-of-a-kind. Videos have the schema in them if there using the super or Seo embed on Wistia in addition to helping your site rank they keep people on your site longer and if you allow them to have the embed code (the I-frame embed code) and the video is good enough it will be shared people will simply put it on their website and it will point links back to your website. You can do this with other video providers I believe there is a tool on distilled if you look up "Phil Nottingham distilled back link video tool" you will find it. Keep in mind though all the stuff that you need is already in Wistia if you can give those PR releases out with your video you will get a lot of links. I hope that answers some of the questions here are some links on link velocity and other methods being used that are okay with Matt Cutts by the way PRWeb and PRNewswire our extremely well known however PR serve is a new PR agency that promises not to charge you unless you make money. There are referral only system however it is not impossible http://www.prserve.com/ http://www.linkresearchtools.com/tools/clv/ http://blog.ahrefs.com/link-building-lessons-matt-cutts-stay-googles-good-side/ http://blog.ahrefs.com/filling-gaps-link-profile-ahrefs-competitor-backlink-analysis/ http://www.searchenginejournal.com/link-research-tools/41291/ http://blog.ahrefs.com/build-links-manually/ Sincerely, Thomas

I agree with EGOL, and my crystal ball is on the fritz it keeps fading in and out so I cannot tell you if you are going to lose your job in the future that is kind of a little bit out there are you being serious? EGOL did a top notch job answering your question and you should take everything he said to heart. It is only going to get more complex if you want to keep your job and do exactly as was stated keep up on everything join services like Moz this is one step closer to being able to understand what is going to occur in this industry. Attend conferences MozCon, SearchLove & SMX you will be able to network with fellow SEO's and learn far more than I ever thought I would by attending their truly worth the time. Join team treehouse if you not know how to code learn. Join distilled.net/U you will have some goals when you think about the time taking forever you will know that the continued to keep adding new modules so you could learn more about different events that have occurred in online marketing so they are always up to date. I suggest you stay up-to-date because as was referenced before if you do not you will fail to give your customers the best service possible and they will get angry the whole thing will not end well. I believe that the Internet is the biggest thing to happen to my generation I am 35 years of age and my great-grandmother lived from the time of the flight of the Wright brothers until the space shuttle that is a pretty big change in one area aviation. Do I think anyone at Kitty Hawk could have predicted what the future of flight would be probably not as well as one would have to in order to know if their point keep their job in search in 2014 considering you are old enough to read and write you most likely fall into the category of the Internet is the biggest thing that ever happened to your generation. No I do not think that search will live forever based on this I think our planet will not substantially life after a very long time a few billion years give or take 5 billion or could be over tomorrow I do not know, but I do know people are not helping things. Respectfully, Thomas

You can still utilize this form of rich snippets using XHTML _"In general, RDFa uses simple attributes in XHTML tags (often  or _ ) to assign brief and descriptive names to entities and properties." https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/146898?hl=en&ref_topic=6003477 Simply update your site it is not a hard thing to do I would recommend using an HTML 5 boilerplate things are only going to get better for HTML 5 sites and Harder for HTML 4. if it will not validate using HTML 4 and you are not comfortable trying to get it to work even using googles highlighting tool which allows you to highlight rich snippets or schema then place it into your website. https://support.google.com/webmasters/topic/3068649?hl=en&ref_topic=4600447 http://help.simplytestable.com/errors/html-validation/there-is-no-attribute-x/there-is-no-attribute-itemtype/ use an HTML 5 Bpoiler plate if you keep having problems. http://html5boilerplate.com/ All the best, Thomas