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Creating a page every time someone performs a search could probably spiral out of control pretty quickly.  If you have a certain amount of 'page rank', based on all of the back links you have, that page rank will get shared to all of the pages that you have across your site.

One way you could more naturally control what gets indexed, is by what you link to from your home page.  For instance, if you track the most blocked big sites, as well as the most blocked keywords, and have those pages 1 link from your homepage, you could expect those to get indexed naturally when your site is spidered.

As you get more links from other sites, and your trust from the search engines and page rank grows, you should be able to support more pages getting indexed across your site.

There is the issue of your site contents potentially being regarded as 'thin content', since many of the pages appear to be the same from page to page.

One question I had - I saw your site hosts both Chinese language words and English language words, and checks whether those words are being filtered.  Perhaps it would make more sense to only show the words in Chinese characters on the zh. subdomain, and the English words on the en. subdomain?  Just a thought.  Is there any difference between the zh and en subdomains, aside from the language of the template?

Really interesting website.

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Hi Mememax,

I think your idea of providing Google Places support for local businesses with no website is a really good idea. But linking them to your site might be tricky. I havent seen any google places listings which are hosted on a only one, and non-related, website.

For one, if the listing is being searched and people will want to learn more, will you be able to provide those details in your site? Also, pointing them all to one domain is kind of risky.

Maybe you can offer google places and website support. Then include your link as the host on either the google places or site. That would mean more links for your site. Just a thought...

Hi - I usually use the URL format shown here:

http://www.seomoz.org/api/keys

They have a "sample request" shown here, that you can use to get started.  I know they recently stopped supporting the old API format, and it caused a bunch of the scripts I run to stop working.  One of the tricky things about the new API format is the 'cols' parameter, where you specify the data that you want returned.  They added this to restrict the amount of data that is returned.  Before it returned a bunch of data, that maybe users were not really interested in - and so it used more of their server resources and bandwidth.

You can see details about how to use the 'cols' parameter for URL metrics here:

http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/url-metrics

You have to add up the bit values for the fields that you want to have returned.  So for instance, if you want only the 'external links' data (32) and the 'mozrank' data (16384), you'd set the cols flag to be 16416  ... (32 + 16384).

Hope that helps ~

My thoughts:

Maybe one of their campaign, like videos, went viral. For that amount of new links, it has to be a link or content or video that is shared, syndicated or reposted, a lot of times.

My other thought would be using automated software and buying links. (Though I'm not saying your competitor did those).

You could check your competitors' site using tools like Raven Tools or Website Analyzer or Link Detective, to see where those new links are coming from. That will help you figure out if those are "natural" links.

As long as you trust the site, and think you're linking to a valuable page on the web, there's nothing wrong with leaving them as 'follow'.

Hi Egol,

Honestly, Google+ still has not brought impressive referral traffic to our website...there are few but Facebook and Twitter are our biggest source and Pinterest is also showing a good potential.

Thanks,

Roy

I really don't see too much value in article marketing at this point.  If you made a really high quality article, why would you want to waste it, by posting it into a place where no one would ever read it!

I consider guest blogging to be a stronger strategy overall.  It takes some more work from you up front, but in the long run, it will pay bigger dividends.

Search out a list of 20 to 30 blogs that write good articles in your industry.  Reach out to them (either a contact form, or Twitter, or LinkedIn ,etc), and see if they accept guest blog submissions.

If they do, send them your article for review.

If it gets posted, you'll have a link from a respectable site, that people actually read, and will send you some traffic over time as well.  It can be a good way to make connections with people that have similar interests as well.

Putting a blog or other content on your website that is marketing focused to complement the content that is primarily meant for your business or customers is a good idea. This type of content allows one to drive new traffic, to get links in, or  to get social shares.

It would be good to keep  it on the same domain and to use subfolders. Like footballgames.com/blog or footballgames.com/articles.

But you do have to avoid stuff that might make your blog appear manipulative for SEO purposes. Try to link  across intelligently from your blog to your business content and vise versa. Don't have anchor text rich links on  every page of your blog linking over to the business pages. Optimize the blog to be helpful to visitors not just for the benefit of the crawler. A blog should try to entertain, educate, and build  trust with your audience so that one can improving the site's browse rate and get people to look at more pages.

Hope this helps.

Was the domain previously redirected to photobooklaos?  Both the Google info:photobookworldwide.com and cache:photobookworldwide.com are showing up as photobooklaos.com, which happens if a domain was redirected.

As a first step, I'd setup Google Webmaster Tools for the site.  Telling Google about your site might help to reset that.  Additionally, you can use the fetch as Googlebot tool there, to see if there are still any redirects happening that might confuse Googlebot.

This Whiteborad Friday blog post might be able to help. This clip helped us to cope and understand the post-panda environment. Combine the video with the data showing the falling rankings as proof that traditional SEO methods that get low quality links are no longer effective. Showing them other articles and videos on the changes since panda/penguin might also help to change their perspective.

They may be finding it hard to change methods and tactics because it has worked well for them in the past. Convincing them that their techniques are no longer viable can be quite difficult as they probably still believe that old methods are still the best. Perhaps if you compile a lot of articles or videos from top SEO experts, then perhaps they  would come around an decide to change gears with their SEO campaign.

Hope this helps.

There was a fad a few years about doing microsites, where everyone was trying to create as many 'feeder' style sites as possible.  Lately, the trend has reversed, (Penguin / Panda) where the focus is more on creating a single great user experience and a brand associated with it.

In your case, 'personal development' and 'personal development training' could be considered as competitive, just based on the sheer number of ranking pages, and the number of advertisers for the 'training' keyword.

By putting the two blogs as subfolders (or even merging them into a single blog with 2 authors), you can expect to gain backlinks and build up social activity around your site at a much faster rate, compared to running them on separate blogs.

It potentially would be more fun for the blog authors as well, as there should be more readers and potential comments and discussion, and readers who follow one author stick around to join the discussion on the other blog authors posts.

So, I strongly vote for a single site / blog platform.  Of course, you may have to contend with some personal egos, to convince two people to share the same blog, but for SEO and ranking, it will produce much faster results.

Carla - the answer is .... it depends!

There are various different strategies for buying domains, and attempting to use them for SEO purposes.

The best case would be to negotiate privately with the owner of an existing website, and purchasing the domain and all of the contents of the domain from them.  Businesses merge all the time,  This is regular thing, and Google won't punish or look down on anyone for doing this.  It will be clear that the domain changed hands, probably by updates to the name servers, and whois information, but since the website never expired or dropped from the registry, Google would probably assume this was a merger.

Also, if you do this, one of the best strategies for dealing with the domain would be to redirect individual pages to the most analogous page on your site, to take greatest advantage of the merged site.

It's also possible to buy up expired or expiring domains.  There are different stages in the life cycle of domain name expiration where you can buy names.  If you buy them in what's called 'pre-release' status, the domains will be transferred to your own account before the name dropped out of the registry, so it will maintain it's original creation date.  You won't get the content with the domain, but this kind of domain purchase 'might' have some more life to it.

Finally, there are domains that have completely dropped out of the registry.  The links from these won't have much more life to them.

But in general, if you can buy the domain and website content directly from the original owner, it should show up as a business merger (or even as 'rebranding' in your case, since your website is new), and should be a relatively safe tactic.

Kevin - there are a lot of different factors that go into rankings.  In general, it's better to have links from more root domains, rather than a large number of links from a few root domains.  However, you can't disregard the quality of those root domains.  If you only get very low quality root domains linking back to you, while your competitor has a couple of great, high quality links with the right anchor text, they could still hold you off for a while.

Sounds like you're on the right track though.

Guido - the reason the .com version is showing up now, is because you have the .IT version redirecting to the .COM version ( a 302 redirect is in place now ).  As long as you have that, you won't see the .IT version in the search results.

What's your goal here?  You'll have an Italian language (.IT) version of the site, and an English version (.COM)?

I would make a clear project plan for each site first, including creating the content for all of the different sites.  If you really want to go ahead with this plan, I would make unique English language content for the .COM site, and unique Italian language content for the .IT site.

Then, register each site with Google Webmaster Tools, and set the geotargeting option to the specific target country for each site.

If you just want to have a single website - the .IT version - then just use a 301 redirect to point the .COM version to the .IT version.

Let me know if you have any other questions ~

Sincerely,

Mr SEO Addicted

I don't see any reason why not to add it to any page that was actually created by a human author.  I'm not sure if it would be appropriate for a automatically generated pages like category or other archive pages for instance.  But with the new way of adding rel=author in the head section of a site, it's much easier to add now than before, and I expect it to be more and more widely used.

Hi there, I think having the exact same alt text on the links is not a problem unless you did received a warning from Google about excessive usage or worst yet, spamming using that alt text.

But just to be on the safe side, I would advise for you to check those 600 links to see if they need to be disavowed. Normally, links that you need to disavow are:

• "Unnatural" backlinks that you created on your own or are purchased. This is especially for those with targeted high-volume keywords in the anchor text.

• Backlinks that are auto generated.

If those 600 links do not fall into any of those categories, then I advise for you not to disavow those links. It would be such a waste if you disavow those links from good sites that link to you because they think your site is good.

AOV

to shift from one language to the others i decided to put a php code that automatically recognizes the browser  language and redirects users from .it  to .com and vice versa, do you think is a good choice?

I'm pretty sure that's not a good idea.  For one, when Googlebot comes to your site, it will probably always get redirected to your .COM domain ( depending on how you have the redirect setup, but I'm sure it doesn't have show itself having Italian browser language) - so your Italian language content would never end up getting indexed.  This is also probably the cause of the 302 redirect I see when I come to your site.

The most pure SEO way of setting this up would be to make two separate sites (two separate virtual hosts on your server), the Italian one, and the English one.  Each time you have new contents, just add it to the appropriate site.

There are lots of debates about the best way to setup multi language sites.  The most common options are either a sub folder, a sub domain, or a separate domain.  Since you've chosen to do a separate domain, you should go ahead and set it up as a unique site, rather than tricky server side redirects, which will confuse those silly search engine spiders!

Lots of companies have setup separate international domains, for example:

http://www.coca-cola.com/en/index.html

http://www.coca-cola.it/

http://www.coca-cola.com.cn/#/home

Sincerely,

Mr SEO Addicted

ahh, I see.  I think there can be cases where it's valuable to pull in a feed.  Perhaps an index of relevant headlines around a topic, or maybe headlines from a users blog posts.  I wouldn't use it as the primary basis of an SEO strategy though.

Also, one tip if you're planning on doing something like this.  It's much better to cache the results of a feed on your server, rather than pulling in a live RSS feed every time a user loads a page.  Given the value that Google places on page speed loading, you would probably have a greater negative impact on page load speed by adding RSS feeds to your site, unless you have a cache system in place.

Hi there,

SEOMoz has a great article about link building for 2013. With all the changes that has been going on with Google, you may want to try and do proper SEO for the website, meaning no keyword stuffing and buying of links, as Takeshi Young had said.

The focus now on link building is providing "evergreen contents". These are valuable contents that people would want to share, repost and retweet. Examples of these are tutorials, know-hows.

Also, it is important to build a reputable and authoritative online presence. Social networks, groups and communities can help you with that.

Hope that helps!