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The best thing is to look at previous examples of their work and also check the rankings of the site for a specific keyword.

Ask them what their preferred CMS is and why?

What is your post penguin strategy? They should reply with something about fresh content

What was your biggest SEO blunder and what did you learn from it?

What is your best SEO win?

How long have you been in the industry?

Were about to embark on an SEO project for a franchise business with about 150 franchises.

Would it be best to give all of the franchises individual domain names or house them under the one domain?

If they were on the same domain would it be worth setting them up with sub domains or with a URL so city.mydomain.com vs mydomain.com/city

Thanks

This will be seen as duplicate content and will halve the benefits of any pages.

Parked domains generally just point to one site so all you've done is create two identical sites in Googles eyes.

Why would you submit two identical sitemaps? You could declare within the htaccess file which is the original content but again your making things complicated when you link build as you dont want to double the work needed to get your site ranking benefits.

Hi, It does sound like a similar problem to a client of mine.

We submitted all their dodgy backlink sites to Google webmaster tools but there's no way of contacting Google to see when these sites will be de-indexed.

Have you tried posting within the webmaster tools forum?

I also noticed your still using meta keywords, although this isn't harming your site, it could be perceived as Keyword stuffing.

Just wondering what the best practise is for unique meta desriptions on blogs.

When I post a blog on my wordpress, clicking the title takes you to an individual page with that blog on it.

I understand how important the title tag is on this page but when I create a meta description:

a) is it useful?

b) Should it be unique or is it ok to copy part of the post and insert that as the meta tag?

Thanks

I'm posting articles to my e-commerce site and just wondering about the anchor text links within the posts.

I don't have relevant static pages but the items do come up in a search query.

For example i don't have a specific page for red wine but if a user searched for red wine it would give a search query URL.

Should I use that search URL query as my anchor text?

Great news. Did you have to do any 301 redirects? I'm presuming as long as I keep the file structures the same this is not necessary.

Were moving our site from a UK server to an Australian server to benefit from hosting our site in our home country.

The domain name is the same, the template and files are all the same so will we lose rankings at all when the website is moved?

I plan on leaving the old website up there until the new website is cached.

What considerations should we think of before we migrate?

Cheers

With posting to multiple article sites, just make sure you post under the same author name. That way you wont be viewed as duplicating content.

The effectiveness of this kind of linking isn't that great though, your better off putting great content on your own site and making sure its shareable on sites like Google plus and Facebook.

Is their any way on your site of adding articles to a page that then pulls in the items you have for sale based on the article? That way at least you would have a relevant landing pages for linking to.

We deal with about 200 clients for a series of websites. We create a number of articles articles per site per month.

A company we used to do link building for the websites it turns out were doing a lot of spinning which has been hard hit by the new penguin update.

I'm actually really happy about it as it means we can now do some legitimate SEO on their sites.

Any ideas of what the best strategy would be for this amount of sites which we are already creating shareable content for?

I also like to add my URL that I've added content to to web 2.0 sites like digg.

Our site has 500 rel canonical issues.

This is the way i understand the issues.

All our blog posts automatically include a rel=canonical to themselves.
eg a blog about content marketing has:

Should this tag point to one of the main pages instead so the link juice is sent back to our home page?

The report they sent through is actually broken down into the article name and then a list of the sites they posted it to.

The links aren't generated naturally through sharing.

Everything I've read says this is bad SEO as its duplicate content across multiple sites.

Its not spun, that's the only good thing going for it!

I've had a link build report of all the links an SEO company have got us but a simple search for some of the content in Google with phrase match brings up about 3 pages of the same content posted to different article sites.

I think it is doing something but will it just be penalised over time?

Hi eXia,

I used to sell a lot of Fb adverts in the Uk and I can definitely give a thumbs up for brighter option SAM ad manager.

Its only useful if your setting up several accounts as otherwise it wont really make the task any easier than the Fb platform. They take a revenue of whatever you pay something like 2% (don't quote me on that ).

What sort of companies are you advertising?

In my experience it seems better as an brand exercise rather than a sales tool.
For brand awareness use the CPM (cost per impressions) model and for selling products or when you want someone to click use the CPC (cost per click) model.

The good thing about SAM is you can set up a serious amount of adverts per campaign very quickly and measure the success from the Analytics incredibly accurately.

Say for instance you have 2 images, 2 titles targeted at females and males aged 20-30 and 31-40.
This alone would create 32 adverts, as they all go out separately to measure the analytics correctly.

You can kind of white label the reports to send out.

PM me if you need any help as I still have a contact at the company on skype

I'm just starting out doing SEO as a main role. Im going to be the only person there who knows anything about SEO.
Without a team of SEO dudes to ask questions too, SEOmoz is ideal.

If I were you I'd ask as many questions as possible as this will easily justify the payout for membership.

Hi Community,
Im planning on creating an article each month centred around 1 keyword.
Is it best to post this to the same site. eg http://ezinearticles.com/ every month or should I try to post it to a mixture of different sites?

I'm trying to rank a site higher for their chosen keyword by gaining links from anchor text within each article I create.