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He is a reference to what Google says it's supposed to be used for as well.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html

I personally would say it would have the same effect as if you did a redirect on Domain B pages.

Domain B would rank but Domain A would drop off.

I've never tried it but I'm taking an educated guess.

If Domain A was sitting on say a exact match domain and Domain B was not, then I don't think rankings would be mirrored. So it's not a straight forward flip.

Thanks

Nice little thread here, read all of it :).

I would be inclined to attach a signup form for a newsletter as the content is good.

Then I would include the latest informative article, tutorial in the newsletter connected with car accessories, link to facebook, plus 1, twitter page.

First to get some social engagement which in turn should help out with SEO but then an added benefit of flogging some accessories (although you would need to sell a lot of smelly trees to make anything) but you get the idea, I would site down and draw it out, give it some serious thought.

What's the score though when you have multiple offices, sometimes you see on a contact page, offices in, then unique address for each building along with numbers etc.

Like I said something I used to do but stopped purely because its 'crap'.

I still think it is, but wanted to make sure I wasn't missing a trick here and actually could benefit from it.

I take it you don't touch it then?

Yeah helpful,

So basically your saying:

10 keyword anchor text links + 10 brand links, will benefit rankings more then 20 keyword anchor text links?

Does anyone do this?

I don't any more but what I used to do is:

Find 20 article directories I thought were good, register to all and note down in a excel sheet.

Generate 1 article (500 words) and make a byline to go with it containing my anchor text link.

I would then systematically go through my excel sheet submitting my article to each one.

2 weeks later repeat the process.

This is something I used to do a few years ago but stopped because it was duplicate content across the directories but I think I was probably going about it the wrong way.

Anyone?

Hi,

Ok, bit of a muddy subject for me because lots say it's a good method, great for getting things started and some say it's a complete waste of time and it's spammy.

But I guess the difference between the two opinions is quality!

I have stopped using directories but think it's time to add some diversity to my link profile.

In the past I have used this - http://www.directorycritic.com/free-directory-list.html

What are your thoughts on that list? Does it actually fall into the spammy category and I should be looking for a much higher quality list.

Cheers

Hi,

Does splitting data apart using microformats & Microdata, help Google better understand your content and in turn could be used to increase relevancy?

O and does anyone know if it's supported across major browsers.

Depends on db requests per page and all sorts of stuff.

Anyway SEOMOZ recommend these guys and wordpress backs them as well - http://wpengine.com/

Check it out

You would need to rewrite the urls in the .htaccess file.

Note down the how you would like the urls to look and give it to your developer who should know how to rewrite urls.

I personally think the first url is ok, but the second needs work.

Thanks nakul,

I do use guest blogging as my main way of building SERPs as ive had some great success with it in the past and current.

But I think it's time to start mixing it up with social signals, directory subs etc, I dont expect this kind of link building to do much it might just open my link profile up a bit and fingers crossed the diversity alone helps the SERPs.

Hi,

Some might see this as a very (VERY) basic question but wanted to drill down into it anyway.

Onsite content: Lets say you have a service website and attached to it is a blog, the blog gets updated every other day with 500 words of relevant content, containing anchor text links back to a relevant page on the main website.

Forget about social signals and natural links being built from the quality content, will adding the content with anchor text links be more beneficial then using that content to generate links through guest blogging?

10 relevant articles onsite with anchor links, or 10 guest posts on other websites?

I guess some might say 5 onsite and 5 guest posts.

Has the star rating dropped?

I know Google Adwords has a trigger at round 4 stars+, if the star rating drops below this the stars turn off.

So this might/might not be the problem.

If you had 1 blog with good mozbar stats but hosted in the US and another with lets say 75% of the mozbar stats of the first but hosted in the UK, and your website is hosted in the UK which one would benefit SEO the most?

Can you not see the data you need in Google Analytics?

You might be doing this already but you could split test 2 pages using Google Conversion Optimiser and see the results in Google Analytics.

You might find 'crazy egg' heat map service quite useful if you haven't come across it.

Cheers guys

I would do the same as EGOL.

If I did go the infographic route I would keep some money back for stumble upon ads and adwords to try and get the social signals going.

Number 2 if done correctly.

And if your client still doesn't see sense - email them this: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66736

This must be on the forum somewhere already but I cant find it.

Google are updating there algo to penalise over SEO'd sites, is this a game changer?

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/373630/google-to-demote-seo-heavy-sites

Cheers