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Hi,

I've seen a new article by Dr. Pete on diversifying links for 2013 (http://www.seomoz.org/blog/top-1-seo-tips-for-2013), now my question is this:

Dr. Pete talks about mixing up the anchor text for links, is so we don't get caught out by Google or actually mixing it has a better impact?

For example:

1. 20 anchor text links targeting just the target term.

2. 20 anchor text links targeting 4 variations of the target term.

Is number 2 recommended so things look natural or does it actually have a better impact on SEO.

Thanks

How important is internal linking from body content?

If you have 500 words of content on each page is it good practise to try and get a few links in to other pages?

Surely if you do this your pass more juice out of the page, which might lead to devaluing the page in the SE's.

I agree with what your say but with anything automated your going to be sacrificing some quality, against doing it the manual way of contacting the owner through the blog.

I personally think it's a great service BUT could be made greater.

This is how it is from the other side of the fence Matt.

I produce 500 words of unique content for each article, I know they are good because when they do get on a blog with good social following they achieve levels of social sharing above other articles.

But because I think my articles are good I only work with blogs with PR3+ and usually look for a DA/PA 35+. Now these types of blogs are getting close to being big enough they don't need to be on a guest blogging network, so you end up with 5 offers 4 are PR 0/2 DA/PA 17+ and the other is good.

I would be more then happy to pay double for a Premium area where articles are checked manually and only blogs of PR3+ DA/PA 30+ exist, I also think if the user is not active within a month they get bumped out of the area until they login again.

That would be sweet.

Hi,

Just come across this and thought I would share it, looks good from the outside but not yet signed up, going to though in the next hour or so.

Anyway looks good - http://tracker.myblogguest.com/

Hi,

I have been kind of stuck with guest blogging lately.

The amount of times I have seen PR1/2 root domains but SEOMOZ tool bar says DA:35/40 mR:4+ mT:4+

I know you are supposed to look at the content itself and other aspects but what do you trust more SEOMOZ tool bar or Googles PR?

Cheers

Thanks for reply.

That put some confidence in my commenting activity.

Anchor text titles worry me a little because if I spend the time writing a nice comment I wouldn't want it to be removed. I look at it as if I was running a blog, if someone placed an anchor text title on the comment I would straight away assume they was posting for one reason.

Although I would love to gain a few more anchor text links this way.

Thanks.

Hi,

I don't tend to blog comment that much unless it's actually a genuine comment as in, my first thought wasn't gaining a link back.

What is the best practise for this type of link building?

This is how I do it (When I am looking to gain a link back)

title - brand name

website - root domain

comment - I try and go above and beyond with this, take it out of the spam arena by reading the article and then replying with at least 100 words referencing to part of the article.

Would you classify the above as the wrong way about it? I know some say no-follow links (most blog comments out there) don't count but when I see the external link pop up in WMT it does make me think no-follow links count for something.

Cheers

I thought a .org domain could only be used for non-profit? Or you had to go through extra loops to use it for commercial use? I don't use them so I could well be wrong, just remember something along those lines, sure someone else can clear that up.

Have you ever tired ranking a emd.org domain before?

I have found nothing else works well apart from ccTLD and .com domains.

I myself would go for a branded name or add a word onto the beginning or end of a .nl

Interesting thread though, I will keep watch of what others say.

I'm sure the domain brokers are hoping they dont!

Looks interesting and I totally agree with why they are doing it, so many TLD's have been eaten up by domain brokers, time to free up something new.

I personally think Google will be all over these.

Hi,

I've read so much lately about social signals and got basically 3 completely different responses.

1. Yes they are going to over take normal link building in 2013 so get on it.

2. Yeah they do help with rankings but not massively, don't focus to much on it.

3. Na they don't help, you need to gain 1000's of signals and even then it will be a short SERP increase and then back down you go.

So... What im looking for now is a straight up Yes or No, should you be on social signals now?

Should time spent on gaining social signals be increased? If your doing 10% of your time on social should this percent now shift to a larger percentage?

Cheers

Cheers Greg,

What about diluting like this?

Quality red paint at great prices - CompanyName

Hi,

Lets say you have these 2 title tags.

1. red paint, blue paint, green paint - CompanyName

2. red paint - CompanyName

Does the longer title tag dilute the term 'red paint' when it comes to ranking?

Basically out of the 2 which title tag would show the best results when trying to rank for the term 'red paint'.

Cheers

Thanks for reply Greg.

Glade you mentioned Guest blogging because that's what im talking about really.

Yeah I spoke to Ann Smarty from My Blog Guest and she agreed, DA over relevance (to a certain extent).

What happens though if you guest post 5 articles to say DA60 blogs where your in travel and the blogs are in SEO?

I would have thought 5 guest posts on DA40 blogs where your in travel and so are the blogs your posting on would have worked a lot better.

It's a tough one for me.

Hi,

What does Google look at when assessing a backlink?

How important is it to get a backlink from a website with relevant content?

Ex:

1. Domain/Page Auth 80, website is not relevant. Does not use any of the words in your target term in any area of the website.

2. Domain/Page Auth 40, website is relevant. Uses the words in your target term multiple times across website.

Which website example would benefit your SERP's more if you gained a backlink? (and if you can say, how much more would it benefit - low, medium, high).

Hi EGOL,

This caught my eye - 'If you nofollow a link the PR evaporates.'

When someone nofollow's a link, in most cases the person doing so thinks they are stopping PR from leaking out of the site.

If it evaporates, no one gets the PR?

Maybe I have got the wrong end of the stick here?

Thanks for the reply,

I had a read and some good points.

I don't think all blogging services are bad, I do use MyBlogGuest and have been for a few years now - works really well.

You can read Rand's post here on MyBlogGuest - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/4-valuable-link-building-services

Hi,

Has anyone used blogdash.com before?

It says it has over 100,000 blog owners registered, which does sound good  but when you look at the sites own social following its very poor and when you start to dig a little deeper you can find blog owner profiles like this:

http://www.blogdash.com/blogger/ari-herzog

First view, you think Ari Herzog has signed up to Blog Dash and you can pitch him content for blogs such as Huffington Post and Mashable, took about 10 seconds to realise he isn't actually part of the network as the yellow box is asking him to signup if he ever finds that page.

Has anyone used this service? I can imagine 2% out of the 100,000 are actually members who have signed up.

Thanks for that Barry.

Hi,

I want to talk about anchor text and the effect it has on search engines (Good & Bad).

Here is a fictitious example we can talk about:

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www.supercoolrunningsneakers.com

Title Tag: Running Sneakers - The Super Trendy Running Trainers

Keywords targeted: Running Sneakers, Running Trainers

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How would you vary your anchor text to target these terms? If you had 50 unique articles to play with how would you vary the anchor text using the articles?

Would you push 25 articles at 'Running Sneakers' and the other 25 at 'Running Trainers' or would you link some articles using the domain name anchor text?

Q: I'm guessing running 50 articles using anchor text 'Running Sneakers' would benefit the SERP's moe for that term then mixing it up with say 'Running Sneakers', 'Running Trainers' & 'Domain Name Links'.

Cheers

Got the same as you.

Surely this is coming up due to the volume of search queries for that sentence?