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But if you sell football boots and you manage to rank for a competitors brand name, but the landing page did not mention the competitor brand name but delivered lets say 10%Off promo code as a call to action then I cant see anything wrong with this? Unless im actually wrong and you cant do this!

Ok,

Are you talking about ranking top when a user views this page in Google, related:www.competitordomain.com?

Hi,

I have a blog on the blogger platform from Google and it currently sits on a sub domain which can be added into the settings.

But I got a feeling Google wont see this as part of the website because when I add the sub domain into the main websites sitemap it kicks an error for it.

So basically what I got is a website and an external blog. The external blog gets a post a day with an anchor text link back to the most relevant page on the main website but I have read on the SEOMOZ website that smashing one external blog is not anywhere near as effective as syndicating the content across a range of blogs.

So I have an external blog with pr4 and 100 backlinks, I have to say I did not set this up it was handed over like this and I cant move the blog onsite either.

I'm thinking it would have been better to have 10 blogs with pr2 with 10 backlinks on each instead.

I need to double check this before I action this from now on.

Hi,

I'm about to start guest blogging for the first time, I have a particular keyword I want to push up, it currently sits page 2, position 1 and I would like to push this up into the top 5 results.

The 5 results I need to jump past also happen to be my main competitors, but I don't think they are activity link building for this keyword as url's are not SEO friendly (containing query strings), meta descriptions don't have the keyword word exact.

So the solutions is link building with anchor text links from relevant, auth websites.

The method I want to use to achieve this is guest blogging but as I am just starting out on the guest blogging front does anyone have any tips on how to find good blogs which will help?

I found a website called myblogguest.com but the blogs on there dont seem that great, I have been doing a few queries in Google to try and find them instead such as;

"write for us" keyword

then researching the blogs with the SEOMOZ tools.

Cheers

http://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=1115997

May not catch everything I guess and this could be a good example.

Ok thanks for the update.

What if I told you the keyword includes the word Him, after seeing the impressions I added the same keyword in another adgroup but changed Him for Her and im getting roughly 2,500 impressions.

Well I got the EMD and its up, when it kicks in I can share the analytics with you for organic traffic, im sure within a few days of that ill come to a conclusion, most likely your one but who knows until its tested.

Thanks for the reply,

See are you talking about a phrase match keyword? Because im talking about an exact match keyword, so the only keyword it would get impressions for is itself.

Similar though in the fact we sore 4,005 impressions yesterday with 8 clicks, CTR 0.20%, Avg Pos 1.6.

But the Ad for the Adgroup the keyword sits in, is not that relevant because I just quickly added it to just see the impressions, would not really want the click through because the term is not that relevant to the product.

BUT organic wise I would go for it because the EMD is free and comp wise not a lot so would not be that hard to rank.

What you think then? Do you think the search volume me and YOU experienced is actually real?

Sup people,

Check this out, I found a keyword from the search query report in Adwords, its had over the last month 120,000 impressions and its long tail ish (4 words).

Now when I check the keyword tool it says less then 10, when I check Google insights nothing.

So I check if EMD is free and it is, so now im really interested!

Speak to Google account manager about it he says yeah its super weird, checks account to make sure its not coming from display network and it isn't, so we add the keyword from search query report as a exact match and let it run, this is the second day, yestarday when we added it it done 4000 impressions, today so far its done 500.

Whats the score, does it sound like it is doing the traffic or do you think its some sort of bug in Adwords as other tools (keyword tool, Google insights) dont show the same result.

The only thing I can think of is, its just kicked in on Google suggestions but not 100% other then that I don't know.

I totally agree with you EGOL, you have given this advice to me in a earlier post which was noted, but I suppose my challenge to this is:

How will this great content get links if know one knows about it?

If I spent 2 days writing a piece of content that was the best-online with pictures etc and put it on my website it may never be found unless I social bookmark it.

Would you not say guest blog until rankings kick in and relevant traffic is aware of my site through the guest blogging then start posting my great content on my own website.

If in your experience this is not the right way then just say.

Cheers

I might try a few of those methods, cheers.

Hi,

Say you have a shop and connected to the shop is a nice blog with tons of great content, articles, tutorials, news, Q&A's and so on.

How would you use the RSS feed of this content to help promote the blog?

I see a lot of SEO's use feedburner but how does feedburner help SEO and exposure?

Thanks for the response,

Blogroll's are hard to get on though, what did you offer in return to get on the blogroll's?

Hi,

I want to discuss the different methods for increasing ranking positions for a keyword using offsite SEO methods.

If your targeting a keyword which gets 20,000 exact match searches a month for a new website then the first thing you are going to want to do is rank in the top 5 within Google for that term.

I know onsite will come into play as well but lets just say you have used the SEOMOZ tools and your onsite SEO achieves a grade A.

So what needs to take place in order for your website to start climbing ranking positions?

I myself would be more inclined to spend a few days creating 4-5 nice articles and offer them up for guest blogging with anchor text links.

I may also use the content on a hub page, squidoo lens, wordpress blog, blogger blog, weebly blog and so on with social bookmarking thrown into the mix.

But will this alone over a period of time (depending on the competition) increase rankings?

Am I missing a trick here???

Cheers

mm but what if we are talking about the same page?

Ok,

Guest Blogging is new to me so let open this up a bit for me to learn

What are the benefits of guest blogging? Every SEO I have spoken to have said its like gold dust.

You say you guest blog on the most relevant websites possible with auth coming in 2nd, are you doing this because you are trying to target the most relevant audience possible or because you believe relevance of the website is more important then auth when it comes to ranking?

Hi,

I have performed a search on a root domain and the page auth is higher then the domain auth?

I would have thought they would have been the same or at least the other way around!

As SEOMOZ ranks Authority through percentage, at what percentage does a domain become authoritative?

I'm looking for guest blogs/websites, which have a authoritative root domain to try and help increase our own auth and in turn rankings.

So far I have found a few guest blogs, which have around 40-50% but I kind of think I need to find ones which are more like 70-80% for this to really work.

Cheers

Could you not use the 'canonical tag' and link it back to a page which gets the largest volume of traffic?

Ref:http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394

The more relevant the better so option 1.