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I use semrush for this. It can only go back a few months but does give you some incite.

Hi guys,

I'm working on a project and I need to identify any on-site issues that may be affecting this website:

http://www.jerseystamps.com/

If anyone has any thoughts, I would be more than happy to hear them.

Thanks guys

Hi Akhilesh,

In theory it sounds simple - you create great content on your site so your visitors will naturally share and link to it. However, that's easier said than done.

Cheers.

Hey y'all,

I know this question has been asked many times before but I wanted to see what your stance was on this particular case.

The organisation I work for is a group of 12 companies - each with its own website. On some of the sites we have a link to the other sites within the group on every single page of that site.

Our organic search traffic has dropped a bit but not significantly and we haven't received any manual penalties from Google.

It's also worth mentioning that the referral traffic for these sites from the other sites I control is quite good and the bounce rate is extremely low.

If you were in my shoes would you remove the links, put a nofollow tag on the links or leave the links as they are?

Thanks guys

It does say noindex, follow

When I tried to check if it was indexed that way, it didn't return any results

I can access the category page on their website.

However, when I go to Google and type the cache:..... it returns a 404 error.

I'm just getting that 'Error 404 (not found)' page with the picture of the broken robot.

They may have just no-indexed the category pages, I didn't know that was possible.

I have recently given some content to another site for a link. When I originally checked the site, it was indexed by Google and seemed ok. However, when I tried to check that the catergory page that my content was posted on was indexed, I received and error message from Google, however the homepage is still being indexed by Google. Is that the sign of a penalty or not?

Hi Miriam,

Thanks for your response.

I didn't know it was typical. Someone told me that we had a duplicate Google+ page and I was trying desperately to remove it and couldn't find a way. But if it's normal, I will just leave it.

Thanks

Does anybody know how to connect Google Places to Google+?

When my company name is searched in Google, the Google+ page appears on the right hand side like it should. However, under the meta description of the first search result there a link saying 'Google+ page' which links to a Google Places Local account.

Does anyone know how this can be sorted?

Google is definitely taking your location into account when delivering you search results.

As every Google user is going to get different result I don't think there is any point targeting a national keyword because everyone's search results will be based on the area they are searching from. My advice and this is something that has worked for us is to create unique pages for the areas you would like to be found for. As far as I am aware Google considers 'local' to be a 30 mile radius. So I would say pick the biggest towns/cities in every 30 mile radius and create a separate web page for them. For example, one page for Christchurch, one page for Auckland etc.

This is an example of one:

http://www.splut.com/cgi/visit.cgi?type=search;phrase=danfoss oil pump;id=24a4

Does anybody know how long it will take for rankings to improve (if they do) once the links have been removed?

I have managed to contact the website and they said they would remove the links.

Hi all,

I just wanted to check with you all about removing links from spammy directories. We have 100s of links from directories like this http://www.groundanchors.co.uk/ all the same layout and registered to the same person.

I just wanted to know if our rankings will be affected in any way by removing these links - bearing in mind there are 100s of them.

Many thanks.

Hi all,

I just wanted to ask you all about backlinks that redirect to your site. I recently used Link Detox Tools to carry out a link analysis. However, some of our backlinks are redirecting to our homepage. Is this ok? Why is this happening?

Thanks guys!!!

Hi Keri,

I've used Small SEO Tools too, and have found that it doesn't pick up on everything. Copyscape and Duplichecker are the 2 best in my opinion. I think it would be good if SEOmoz have a duplicate content checker for PRO members.

Does anybody else here use the Guest Blog It site?

I have tried submitting an article but it's telling me that it's 47% duplicate content. I have ran it through 2 plagiarism checkers and they both said it was 100% unique. I have tried contacting the site directly about this but as of yet have had no response. I was just wondering if anybody on here knows what they use to check for duplicate content so I can take a look and amend my article.

Thanks

Yes, if you have a good page rank then you should be able to compete for the most competitive keywords. However, you will need to optimise your site for these keywords correctly.

Does anybody know if Google makes allowances for duplicate content from press releases? If you submit a press release to a press release distribution service, does it have to be different?

Any help would be much appreciated.