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Hi Ryan, Thanks for your thoughts. After chatting it through internally, we believe the same as you ie. no point creating a Brand page for this client! Cheers.

Hi Kristina, some more detail to hopefully help answer this query. URL: https://www.boardshop.co.uk/surfboards/soft-deck Keyword: foam surfboard Moz on page grader counts 8 appearances I count 29 in the source code Text: 6 Element Titles: 12 Itemprop: 2 H1: 1 Data-title: 6 alt: 6 I hope this helps

Yeah, I think we need to mess around with the template files to make it look better. Btw, the website in question is AndroidBeat.com. I will look into the schema markups, though the structure of the site is quite flat, so not sure if breadcrumbs would be useful. When your website has to depend on advertising for revenues, page speed is difficult to optimize. I keep getting told that the page load cannot be improved further because of the ads on the website. So it is important to strike the right balance. If you know someone who can help with improving page load times then please let me know. I am happy to get a second opinion. Thanks again for the suggestions. Any thoughts on this point: How about internally linking to the same page with multiple anchor text. Wouldn't we end up confusing the bots. We have seen category pages doing well in some cases. So wouldn't this approach affect the ranking for such category pages that are doing well.

Typically, links from multiple subdomains on the same IP address aren't recommended or wanted. It's links from separate websites that are on unique Class C Blocks of IPs. This way we know that most likely each site is not owned by the same site owner. Just on a side note, typically we don't recommend getting a lot of links from blogspot sites. There are unique cases where a link is okay, but we don't prefer blogspot links.

So glad if the links were helpful, James

Chris, I really appreciate the time and effort you put into this thorough answer! Truly proud to be part of such a great community! You said some really great points and put some of my worries to ease. I will continue link building and making a few corrections. Thanks again for your helpful advice! Rachel

Absolutely agree with Alick3000 on it depends what your profit margins are per product, by knowing what you have available post sale, tax etc have been accounted for then this is likely your maximum cost per aquisition which can be used to determine you bidding activity. If you do not already have in place, make sure you have conversion tracking in place so you can see how many click lead to a sale/lead. Why not also do some of the Google Adwords trainng over at Google partners to give you a better understanding of bid strategies.

Finally, i decided to do the next: Delete all pages from my site with filters (i have the option and it wasn't a problem) Delete URL using GWT individually It works!

Hi Rebekkah, Sounds like you already understand the pros&cons of using GWT country targeting. Obviously it is hard to make any recommendations without first knowing your niche and auditing the off-page SEO metrics of your competitors, since the big G acts in its own way per niche. There might be some indicators which will make your life harder or easier to rank well for a variety of keywords in US and India at the same time. I would suggest making an off-page audit to understand where your well ranking competitors are getting their links from (where are they hosted, what is their targeted audiance, what kind of social signals they are getting, what language is their anchor keywords?  etc..)

Gotcha well I would recommend going into your analytics platform and setting up some sort of segment that just includes past job listings and see the sort of organic traffic they have brought in over the last say 6 months or so. If they are bringing in traffic I would add some sort of unique job ID etc to each listing to make it more unique. If not I would consider added a no index tag on them. I hope that helps some.

Open Site Explorer doesn't track sites over time, so if you're looking to keep an eye on another site, you might wish to include them as a competitor in one of your campaigns! For subscribers, there isn't a hard and fast query limit for Open Site Explorer, so you can search by hand more or less as often as you like. I hope that helps!

I think it will be hard to discuss this with a paragraph or two. I would suggest watching Rand's whiteboard Friday video. Even-though he is not specifically talking about "how to target local terms on different pages" he makes very good suggestions on how to "optimize" a page to rank for local-terms, which should be your start point. Definitely Google is smart enough, but if you leave this in Google's hands you will be out ranked by other optimized local results. Best Yossi

Hi Guys Thanks for all of your help. After weeks of trying lots of suggestions (including the ones above), we have finally found a solution - Cloudflare. We have done our 301 redirects via cloudflare to remove the .aspx E.g. /old-directory/page1.aspx has been 301 redirected to /old-directory/page1 using cloudflare. This has removed the .aspx and allowed me to use business catalyst's 301 redirects to direct /old-directory/page1 to new-directory/page1 This has fully restored my page rank! I would like to thank Adam at Redback Creations in Northern Ireland for helping me with this issue. Keith

Nice new article on the subject, with input from none other than our very own Dr. Pete! Should You Worry About Voice Search? via Entrepreneur

Matt Cutts on Sitewide Backlins That pretty much will tell you everything you want to know. As far as the domains being spammy, really that's going to have to be a personal decision. Just because the word directory is in the name, it isn't a spam site. Just because there is a hyphen, doesn't make it spam. Google is progressively becoming more and more powerful, and more and more capable at telling what is real, and what isn't. Visit those websites, do they look like spam to you? Do they look like a directory listing site do you? If you worked at google, and had to do a site audit, would you ding someone for linking those sites? Really for all intensive purposes wikipedia was a directory, and then it started getting powerful, and gaining traction, and then it was being abused. Anyway, I guess to answer your question, you will have to look at the websites to actually know the answer. Is the website functioning as merely a place to gather links? Then yes, it is probably spam. EDIT: Also, at first I thought this was a competitor analysis, but considering that you are mentioning disavow, I will presume this is for you. The disavow tool is VERY powerful, and I would use it very sparingly. Do what you can to organically remove the links before disavowing them. Not only that but if you still have links from these sources, you are still getting some sort of juice, so build a bridge before burning a bridge. Replace those links with new ones, from legit sources. Write some press releases, post some solid social media, reach out to bloggers etc.

Thank you! I just always felt like, why use the plugin? When I could hard code it in on a server level. It wouldn't even need the website to still get the redirects!

The ONLY last thing I would add. I'm sure you will notice a lot of eCommerce websites will keep products that they don't sell anymore, and just keep them as "sold out". People still hit those products and land on those pages. Check and see how often people are hitting these products. If some of these pages have some juice left, it might be worth recreating a page in its place for a product that isn't being sold anymore and up sell for something you are selling. Or as Ricky said above me, 301 them. Don't just prune everything at once. Slow and steady wins the race. Make sure you know what you are cutting before you cut it.