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  • As the type of person who would pay somebody for such services I would have to say that it depends on your actual skills and abilities. How many hours work do you see this taking or should I say how much of your time would it take to acheive this. Considering you are not only doing the SEO work but you are creating the website as well. Perhaps look at breaking the cost down on a per client basis. For example one clients website might be small but another client they might require a much more involved website. If this is your primary source of income I would suggest asking yourself what do you need to survive? If you can do all this in one week then what do you need to survive for one week? Once you have built a reputation and have clients under your belt then perhaps you could charge more? Sorry I know I did not actually answer your question but I hope I have given you some "Food for thought"

    Inbound Marketing Industry | | Burto
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  • Firstly, have you received a manually penalty, I say this because its far too easy to disavow loads of links but are they really doing you any harm? If you feel it really is a problem you can disavow the whole domain: domain:article-niche.com When you disavow it will dissassociate that domain (or links) from your site. More info - [https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2648487](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2648487?hl=en) Hope that helps, Good luck!

    Inbound Marketing Industry | | GPainter
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  • Agree with Felip. Yoast SEO is an excellent on-page SEO plugin for Wordpress. I love the 'Force rewrite Titles' feature as with just one tick mark, all your titles are optimized. Cannot imagine working with WP sites without this plugin.

    Online Marketing Tools | | Devanur-Rafi
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  • Hi Jonathan, In regards to the business title on the +Local page, nothing has changed. Think of it this way: McDonald's is just McDonald's over their infinite number of locations. You should do the same. This is not the same as your custom URL, to which Google will append the city name in some cases. So, leave the titles the same.

    Vertical SEO: Video, Image, Local | | MiriamEllis
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  • Hi, honestly, as long as the page you want to plant your link on does not allow many other doing the same, you should be good. If your content, back on your page gels well or is related in someway to the content of the linking page, it would be even better. To put it short, you should plant links on a clean site which in this case is and it does not matter how many such links you have. Such links will definitely have a positive impact to your SEO campaign. Another suggestion would be, you should take enough care about your link profile and make sure it looks natural with links coming in from different quarters rather than only from a single source (type). Good luck friend. Best, Devanur Rafi.

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | Devanur-Rafi
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  • Also make sure that the content being submitted isn't copyright and being used without permission. The last thing you want is someone upset that you're reprinting things without permission and against terms of use.

    Online Marketing Tools | | KeriMorgret
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  • I'm not aware of any off the shelf tools that will go back several years, so you'll probably have to use a more advanced, do-it-yourself solution. Almost any sort of scraper technology should work, from Screaming Frog, Scrapebox, SEOTools for Excel, etc. Here's an article explaining how to use SEOtools for Excel to do almost what you are asking.  http://wiep.net/talk/diy-link-building/branded-mentions-link-building/ The difference being that this article uses Mentions.net to find recent mentions, whereas you'll likely want to go to Google directly to collect your data - probably by using a custom scraper like Screaming Frog or Scrapebox. I don't have detailed instructions as I've never done it before (and it would take like 3000 words) but the basic idea is to scrape Google for your mentions using the tools described above, then use SEOtools for Excel to extract non-linking mentions. Hope this helps! Best of luck

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Cyrus-Shepard
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  • I'm a little bit leery of enabling the asker of this question but here goes...  Just be sure you use the information for good. I've done this myself (to ban a spammer) by just using cPanel or whatever server software you have going on.  cPanel makes it very easy to see all of the recent IP addresses arriving to your server and what they requested.  The raw server logs should have the same info if not more. This would be the most direct and complete route and you wouldn't need any additional software.  If you're looking for a software solution other than that I'd check out one of the recommendations above.  Depending on what CMS platform your site is on (WordPress, VBulletin etc) there may be a plugin that does something that will get the job done.  Would need to know what you're trying to do though.  Sounds rather ominous as it stands. Edit: and to answer your question about Moz: NO it doesn't have this feature and likely never will.

    Moz Tools | | Reinhart
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  • Thanks Appreciate your help Martjin!

    Technical SEO Issues | | Ideas-Money-Art
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  • Hi there Matt, Thanks so much for the response, that makes perfect sense and was really helpful I was a little unsure if i was clicking something wrong lol Thanks again Kieran

    Other Research Tools | | K-Taz
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  • You'll get denied if the settings of the post aren't completely public. If for whatever reason that person doesn't share the post to the world, you won't be able to share it with everyone and it will have limited view on your wall. Hope that helps!

    Social Media | | EricaMcGillivray
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  • With that sort of sample per month you should be able to get some interesting data from tracking the clicks from links that have a title and comparing to links that don't. Peter

    Behavior & Demographics | | crackingmedia
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  • PS - Scott, I am so sorry for any inconvenience this issue has caused you! Please follow the directions at Moz Health, and let us know how you get on. Thanks for your patience.

    Other Questions | | Christy-Correll
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  • Hi Mitchell, Thanks for your response. I do work with a developer but one of the main things I am trying to figure out is; what type of tags can I put there. I know the obvious ones, but what about my chat widget and search code - is that a tag? Thanks!

    Online Marketing Tools | | EcomLkwd
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  • Just be sure to put in 301 redirects from site B to site A, so that Google doesn't think the blog content is duplicate content, and you should be fine.

    Technical SEO Issues | | TakeshiYoung
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  • Hi Federico, I'm sorry but I don't think I agree that someone should nofollow links to themselves, particularly in the example given in the question by James. If you overdo it, you should just stop overdoing it rather than adding nofollow to the links. Google are fine with you cross linking between your subdomain and main domain as long as it makes sense for the user and isn't manipulative. Cheers. Paddy

    Technical SEO Issues | | Paddy_Moogan
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