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It's a reasonable assumption to make and I'd say if you can get those .co.uk links, then by all means pursue them. However, it can be argued that Google does recognise .com as a global domain name, not just US specific.  So if you were to get links from a .com, while not .co.uk, it wouldn't be as far behind in value as, say, a .pl or .in. Ultimately, where and how you're getting the link will matter more on your link profile than the referring domain extension.  It would look out of place if a .co.uk had an 80% incoming link profile from .ro domains for sure, but if there's a healthy mix and even a non .co.uk extension being the majority of incoming links, you could still rank highly - provided that the links are on relevant site and come along with content that is beneficial for the user. In closing, if you can get those links then go for them - but what will have a more defining impact is how you're getting the links. If it's done in an above-board, white-hat way, then you shouldn't need to worry too much about what domain extension it comes from.

Social signals are not strong ranking factors, at least not yet.  The only social network that has direct impact on rankings is Google+.  Twitter activity has been correlated with rankings, but the results are debatable (although Twitter is great for getting new content indexed). It is impossible to get followed backlinks from Instagram, so it has no direct impact for SEO per se.  However, it can still be a great way to build up your brand, build an audience, and gain free organic traffic.

I can't say that my CTR has increased.  Nothing noticable.

Hi there, Google or for that matter any legit organization should be very cautious with their privacy policies and stuff like that. Its part of their legal requirements. They try to implement these with whom ever they work for or with. From an individual's stand point these may sound silly but its a best practice to have a privacy policy statement, an About US page and a page of Terms and Conditions for all your web properties. These pages can instill the much needed trust factor among your visitors.Hope this helps. Best regards, Devanur Rafi.

I think it's erroneous to say that users don't want to see "built by" in the footer. I am often curious about who built or designed a website, and seeing that in the footer helps me navigate there. How does Google decide what a user wants to see or doesn't want to see? If a link is clicked on often, by a variety of IP addresses, could that indicate that it's a useful link and shouldn't be discounted, even if it's in the footer?

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I'm happy to hear you've found it useful. We're definitely working on next steps to make it more powerful - should be some cool data coming out on the site and blog over the next few months.

It's easy to overcomplicate these things. Is it a good site? Is it relevant? Do they allow anyone to guest post or are the guest posts always quality and relevant? If it's relevant, quality and visible in search then go for it. Hope that helps! Marcus

There are a few opportunities from Google+ the biggest of which is the impact a +1 for your site can have on the results of signed in users. Beyond that, posts are indexed and you can create followed links from them so the more authority you build there, the more shares your posts get, I would imagine the more weight those links would carry. I am unaware of any kind of experiment on this as it is hard to implement but there is certainly the ability to build links, improve visibility for logged in users and see your Google+ posts indexed as well. Likewise, much like how you would comment on blogs or discussions, leaving high quality comments on high profile threads could drive traffic and raise your own visibility. Experiment and let me know how you get on. Marcus

Arrows, Colors, Whitespace, Images A combination of those usually gives the best direction cue to visitors. People are attracted to images/colors so that is where the eyeball jumps first. If you have a loud page, people's attention is going to jump all over the place (which is when arrows come in most handy). If you have a clean page (lots of whitespace), any graphical/colorful element is going to pop and attract attention. Best advice I can give is to Always Be Testing. Set up experiment after experiment to optimize the visitor flow. Cheers & Good Luck! -Oleg

For all practical purposes, Google doesn't seem to index pages where it recognizes the canonical as legitimate. You won't find them in a "site:" query, "cache:" command, etc. Google may call that a "filter", but once it's reached that point, the URL is as good as de-indexed. There may be subtle, technical distinctions, but the end result is virtually the same.

Seems that way, but therein lies the value and appeal. Harder to get, but more valuable when you do.  It'll be equally as hard for your competitors and others, so if you can crack it, it's a great string to your bow.

I'd certainly have a look into it, if I were you. Have a look at the websites around you and see what sort of links they're getting. Others on here might be able to give you a more definitive answer with regards to links being indexed/serp movement

Let me explain a little more here. When someone goes to your page they want a questions answered, what we call their "query".  If they are looking for kosher hotdogs then your page needs to be exclusively about kosher hotdogs. (not sausage, hamburgers, metz or brauts....kosher hotdogs) Sure, it can have links to mustard, ketchup or places to get hotdogs but the user intent for this query is to find something about kosher hotdogs.  Your job as a website is to answer that query. With that being said, yes, I try to make each page we create exclusive for one keyword.  For instance, let's say you are a dentist office and you want to rank for the keyword phrase "Dental implants".  The entire page needs to be SEO'd for the phrase "dental implants". Step by Step: (I don't work with any dentist, and never have, but this is what I would do) Try really hard to have the URL have the keyword in it.  For example:  www.mylocaldentist.com/dental-implants Let's go ahead and set up rel=canonical to make sure we don't create duplicate content on accident. Use the keyword in your Title tag and tag near the beginning of them (I generally keep these two texts the same depending on how your site is built.)  Title Tag <title>Dental Implants</title> Dental Implants (Don't think they need to be the same or different.  I personally believe they can be the same and rank well.  You'll get different opinions on this but from my experience they can be the same) Now write great content....actually don't write content....talk to me.....Show me that you know all about dental implants and the benefits, pros and cons, ways your company can help me get them if I decide to get them and how to get more information. Now that you have your "content" lets do a little SEO... Your keyword will naturally be in the "content" but lets go to the all the incidents it is used and bold it by using dental implants I like to link to an off-page authority (as well as internal pages that are helpful, ie. Contact Us, Locations, financing, etc) to help with my rankings.  For example, you could say that "we use the finest dental implants from 3m, Anew, etc" and have the link point to the ADA site like I did. Add a photo of dental implants (that your company has taken) and add the title and alt tag as "Dental Implants" Let's make sure that the our Meta description has the keyword in it (not actually an SEO thing but when someone searches it in Google you want them to see it in your Meta Description) After you have done this then run your on-page report from SEOmoz to make sure that everything looks good....... That was lengthy but I think that everything on a given page should be to answer a given query.  That simple! Darin. I am adding this part below because I just realized you asked a question about two separate keywords "cheap red paint" and "red paint" I would look up the two keywords and use [red paint] and [cheap red paint] (that is exact match) and you'll find that one is much better than the other.  (I know this is just an example but one has 880 searches vs. <10) If for instance both did have pretty good results, I would use the more searched one as my keyword and link to it both ways but optimize for your main keyword first and rank it.  For example.  If you use www.paintstore.com/red-paint and I would do a link campaign to link to the page as "red paint" (mix it up though.  don't get hit by penguin!)   I wouldn't start worrying about "cheap red paint" until I started ranking for "red paint".  Once you start ranking for "red paint" you can start to add to that document a few instances of "cheap red paint" and link to the page that way.  Basically what I am saying is that you don't need two pages for these keywords because they are variants of one another.  Until you have good domain authority, stick to one keyword and focus in on it per page. Hope this helps.  Sorry it was so long.  If you have any questions feel free to ask.

yes, this is what I choose to believe because as you know in the dynamic world of SEO, there is no such thing as ultimate answer.

Hi, I see it that diversifying the anchor text will make things look more natural instead of looking like trying to target a specific keyword.  Furthermore, by mixing up the anchor text linking to the a targeted page, you are targeting multiple keywords that are related to that page.  Hopefully, that page can be ranked for multiple keywords.

linking in content with hyperlinks gets clicked more than images or buttons, and if it is relevant it will help get users to convert or go to the pages you want them to visit, while also helping your SEO by creating better anchor texts than you can achieve by simply breadcrumbs. With breadcrumbs you will be creating tons of links with the same anchor text on every page and it's not in content. so if "whole life insurance" is your main keyword for instance the breadcrumbs will only target that. But in your content you have the ability (and this is very important to do now to avoid over optimization penalties) to mix up your anchor text with variations such as "whole life insurance quotes" "whole life insurance policies" "what is whole life insurance" etc.

As a PRO MyBlogGuest user, you already have access to the link tracker (that's the update you are getting if any of your guest posts get removed or any of your links gets deleted), so since you are using MBG, MBG tracker would be extra We are working on the quality issue and haven't noticed that many poor-quality articles. I personally track ALL rejections (I get an email each time the publisher rejects the article) and I don't recall seeing that many rejections either... Could you please report any time you receive a poor article? About the blog quality, we have had lots of discussions in Private area about that and haven't still come to any good solution. Making another level of membership where only high-quality articles can go and only high-quality blogs can enter sounds like no problem to me. But I've heard some serious concerns about that being a closed network Google might once consider as breaking the rules. Right now our doors are open to everyone, and yes, it is much more natural this way