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personally, If I even had to question a link, I would add always rel="nofollow" to the urls. It is definitely important to send outbound links to high authorities, however I micro manage every single outbound link and make sure they're accounted for. I think it is a good practice to go by, because clearly all the top 100 Alexa ranked domains are ridiculously stingy with their outbound authority passing links. I doubt there is such a thing as too many nofollow links because comments/forums and such have a user base in which is beyond the sites. But there certainly is such a thing as too many outbound dofollow!

Much similar to many of the rules and guidelines by which Google calculates search rankings, they don't openly provide that type of information to the general public, because obviously their users would take advantage of it and manipulate the crawlers for the purpose of altering their rankings. If you wanted to know something like that for sure, you would probably need to conduct field research doing something extreme like having 100% javascript content in one segment of your site and 100% HTML on another and track which IPs and user agents hit the pages. However an educated guess of mine believes this: The bots that crawl HTML also crawl Javascript. To make separate bots to do individual tasks would be stupid. there would be absolutely no benefit nor would the sanitation of the data the crawlers obtain be increased using seperate bots. Because it can be clearly concluded the difference between html and Javascript, and at an automated level as well.

I had a simlar issue on a couple Wordpress freebie sub domains I made while conducting reputation management for clients. What had ended up happening was The site would index immediately and then 24 hours later be ghosted completely. Turns out I was submitting the news sitemap that it automatically generated and being that I wasn't in their list of approved news sitemaps, I guess it just ripped everything out, as I'm sure the news sitemap and the regular one had the same pages listed just with more detail on the news one. I doubt it's the exact same occurrence but if you recently submitted a sitemap, I'd check it closely, as it has been known to trigger a similar problem, at least for me!

You are a gent! 

When we find our content on other sites we choose one of a few routes to take. If the infringing content is on the site of a reputable business, it usually appears there as a result of an employee who does not realize that taking the content of others is an action that can result in civil or criminal action, or it is a result of a dirtbag SEO or marketing service who steals content instead of writing their own.  In these cases we write to an officer of the reputable business and inform them of the problem.  They usually thank us for letting them know, take the content down right away and educate the employee or fire the SEO or marketer who did this. More often the infringer is simply a spammer.  In those cases we use the DMCA dashboard of our Google Search Console account to file a complaint with Google.  Google usually acts within 48 hours, often the same day.  If the infringer is using Adsense, we then click the "Ad Choices" button on one of their ads, and follow the route to complain about copyright infringement.  When Adsense receives these complaints they often turn off all ads on the infringing page, and if lots of complaints are filed about the website, the turn off all of the ads to that site or close the  adsense account.  Hitting spammers in the wallet or putting fear into them that their adsense account might be turned off is effective and getting the infringer to say away from your sites. Before you start filing DMCAs or complaining to reputable businesses, it is important to understand fair use and understand the limits of your copyright rights.  A consultation with an intellectual property attorney can help you understand this.  They can also craft complaint letters that you can send, offer to send them for you, and take over if you send an informal complaint and the company does not comply.  I've found that copyright attorneys cost less than I feared and are worth more than I pay them.

No problem! I hope it goes well I often use this third party tool to check on redirects: https://httpstatus.io/

Nigel brings up an interesting point that sheds light on the importance of content relevance. With the increase of different types of results, business listings, brand/product markup, Articles, Videos, it really solidifies how crucial it is to make sure ALL of your content matches up with the subject. Even when you do do your best to do everything right, definitely expect Google to throw some curve balls at you. For example I couldn't rank for "Font Awesome Rocks" but apparently, Awesome Rocks got taken down! ROFL DhdXm_SUYAAmVIl.jpg:large

When you're acquiring links for a person or a company you definitely need to be in a position where your client is comfortable with you representing them or their brand. When it comes to Guest blogging you shoot for the ABSOLUTE BEST, and for the highest links you can get! So if you want to rank for SEO, you get links by answering 200 questions on MoZ, because they're an authority in SEO. You write guest articles for search engine journal, because any piece of content from a well known authority serves as an endorsement. DO NOT EVER use fake anything for yourself or for someone you represent. Writing is a valuable skill to have, and if you guest post about anything at all, you're going to have to do very SOLID research to be an AUTHORITY. However I have come to find, you don't have to be a psychologist to write a better article that paints and defines the difference between bipolar I and bipolar II better than anyone formerly had done before! The 3000 word compendium that you gained your source of information on the subject matter, nobody needs to know that was your clients website and onsite SEO you did for them. money in the bank for you, backlinks for your client Sorry, kinda strayed to the fake name segment and gave it priority so back to your numeric order: 1. What is your outreach process - Do you pitch as a marketing manager or as a subject expert? on a local level SEO clients can be acquired by ranking in the term city name + SEO. It's actually seemingly easy aside living in a massive metropolis. By doing things as simple as ranking a Youtube channel with tutorials, writing a nice 2000 word local SEO blog. You'll most likely kill your competition. 1.2m population here in Tucson and not one of these guys has a Youtube channel that breaks 100. In summary, I provide content and that teaches others through my experiences. When it comes to SEO, right or wrong, results and positive client reviews will bring in the crowd. 2. What do you mention in your author bio? I lost count of how many profiles and forum membership sites I've signed up for, many of them vary, tailored specifically to that particular platform, and who my target audience is. This changes despite selling specifically web design and SEO, for example a profile and blog on ActiveRain or AccountingWeb, you would need to be specifically targeting realtors or CPAs. So I base my blog posts specifically on those markets. There really isn't a specific template aside simply saying use current pictures, make profile names a nice variance of different target keywords, and whenever possible use 400+ words to make your links contextual. You'll never need to use a clients name for your offsite/onsite SEO especially if you are winning them links and leads with quality content marketing.

I am a big fan of Lure Creative's- http://lurecreative.com/, as well as https://www.agence-me.com. We are seeing a lot of awesome things done with website design and dev these last few years and it will be exciting to see what new developments come in the next year or two!

I agree with Nigel here, in the end it shouldn't matter what your site is built in. As long as your site has great user experience and is fast (which goes hand in hand) then the technology platform behind it shouldn't make a difference. In some cases it can help boost the experience but very few sites are able to do that.

Amazing. Thanks so much, Nigel. Very helpful!

Hey Jeff! Great topic. Let me number by responses for easier reading: First of all, important to be clear here that regardless of how you think of the business location, their name on all their local business listings must simply be their real-world brand, as it appears on street signage. So, only Apexnetwork on all listings. Not Apexnetwork North Madronna, Apexnetwork South Madrona. When franchises operate in cities where there are distinct, known districts (like San Francisco with North Beach, the Sunset District, Bernal Height, etc) this would be my favorite way to differentiate branches on the website, it terms of what I would put in the URL, the tags and the text. People actually search this way (pizza North Beach, pizza Sunset District). But, in other cases where the public doesn't strongly identify different neighborhoods of a city, I recommend following Taco Bell's lead and just going by street address. Here's a example: https://locations.tacobell.com/tx/dallas/3127-inwood-rd.html?utm_source=yext&utm_campaign=googlelistings&utm_medium=referral&utm_term=001331&utm_content=website So, unless you have two franchise locations on the same street (unlikely), the above model can work. Just remember, this is for website use ... not for differentiating the names on the listings. Finally, if you're needing to separate out a variety of locations for something like a spreadsheet, or Google My Business, or Moz Local, you can assign a store code to each of the locations. Hope this helps!

so weird, Ive checked on multiple friends and family devices and we all see "HYPR Biometrics" Sitename is NOT "HYPR Biometrics" and should not be.  don't know where this is being pulled from. Would forcing breadcrumbs help overwrite that title?

I checked using another tool and as I suspected it's an issue how your website is handling the redirects. Two major issues with your website SEO Your URL performed 1 redirects! While redirects are typically not advisable (as they can affect search engine indexing issues and adversely affect site loading time), one redirect may be acceptable, particularly if the URL is redirecting from a non-www version to its www version, or vice-versa. https://www.keyhub.com/en and https://keyhub.com/en should resolve to the same URL, but currently do not. I hope this helps. Regards, Vijay

Thank you that is getting a little more clear. From my understanding it is a bag a words that go together.

Hi Seoan, "keyword " is the exact string of letters identified as a search term for which someone may want to rank. "Co-occurrence" relates to terms that are similar to the keyword or words that often show up near, or along with, a particular keyword. The "Co-occurrence" thing kinda showed up originally as a foil against early article spinner-type spam tactics that just threw a bunch of words together into sentences and paragraphs peppered with keywords without accounting for actual readability. By building the co-occurrence thing into the algorithm, google required "marketers" to up their game as far as the copy they used on their site.