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Hi there,

On the campaign setup, you are given 3 options there:

subdomain, root domain and subfolder.

Try to change the setting to root domain so that only the mywebsite.com will be crawled and analyzed.

Hope that helps!

Hi Michelle!

Here are the steps on how tell Google when your site had moved:

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=83106

Just follow the steps there and you'll be fine.

Cheers!

Hi there,

Have you tried to Ping your sitemap?

Google:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml

Bing:

http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml

It normally takes days (even weeks) several days, weeks, or months for the search engines to show any results. You can check from time to time though..

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 there,

As far as I know, Google places (Google +) do not have the multiple users function. Google says only one gmail account can manage a claimed Google Places.

An alternative method is transfer your listing between Google places accounts:

http://support.google.com/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=17104

Hope that helps...

Hi there,

Bing is all about good, original contents, authoritative inbound links and well structured webpages. If you want to be optimized in Bing, you may want to focus on those.

Here are some useful information on Bing optimization.

Search engine optimization on Bing

How to build quality contents

Hope that helps!

If its organized and really simple like the footer here in SEOMoz (check below), then keep it. If its just 5-6 footer links, I dont think it would take up a lot of link juice.

Plus footer links, (not considering SEO and Google) are indeed useful for site navigation purposes.

Hi Kristian,

Global footer links are not anymore recommended to have on websites as they used to.

Aside from what you mentioned about link juice being passed on away from the more important pages, footer links are, most of the time, devalued by search engines and they also get low CTR.

Still, a lot of sites are still using them as resource for link placement.

So I guess it still depends if you have a really nice organization and layout as a footer (like this: http://shopper.cnet.com) then keep it. If not, it might just be a waste of your time.

Cheers!

Hi there,

Having .com or not having .com on the title do not really make that much of a difference. If you think you have a unique title, then the best thing to do is to just optimize that title without the .com

For example. Amazon.com has the .com on their title, but Google, Yahoo, Ebay do not have. But they are all branded names just the same. So i think its a matter of branding your title or name.

Hope that helps!

Cheers!

Hi there,

It is possible that your site will be searchable for the keyword "breast cancer" and if someone searches for "Breast Cancer Foundation AND breast cancer".

But for that to happen, you need to optimize that keyword first. You need aggressive and targeted optimization since it is a very competitive keyword. And if you do a sample search on Google using that keyword, you'll see that there are a lot of other sites that are ranking for that.

You asked if you will get a backlink for both "Breast Cancer Foundation AND breast cancer". A backlink is when someone links to your site. For example, if the foundation added your link in their site, then you'll get a backlink for that. If you're not linked in any authority or good sites, you wont get any backlink.

Cheers!

You're welcome! Hope that study will help you and your client decide what strategy best to use...

Hi there,

I've heard about some stories and case studies stating that organic listings seem to be disappearing and is being replaced by local listings. There are some articles about that online:

Is Google plus local replacing organic results?

Are your organic listings being replaced with local listings?

In your client's case, maybe the local listing has not been optimized yet.

You can link your Google + local page to the site as "publisher". This tells Google that the site is the publisher of the profile's content. Relevant contents on the site is also very important as they help strengthen the site's brand. Gathering customer reviews about the business is also very helpful.

Besides, according to SEOMoz's Eye-Tracking Google SERPs, local listings are more likely to be clicked in the search results.

Hope this helps!

Cheers!

Hi there,

In SEO point of view (and as SEO good practice) it is preferred that blogs are placed in subfolders.

In your case, the subfolder would be: furnacefilterscanada.com/blog

Since your blog will have link worthy contents that will be useful to your website, then it is recommended that you create a subfolder for that instead of the subdomain (blog.furnacefilterscanada.com).

Hope that helps!

You're welcome. Happy to help!

Hi there,

I asked this same question last week and got really good opinions from some of the members here.

Blog commenting can be risky if you'll just use it to optimize your keywords. However, if done right (written properly and with value), this is an effective way to build keywords, and credibility, online. If you're giving out comments that are useful, sort of like this Q and A here, then readers actually listen. Plus Google will also see how authoritative you are and will probably credit your site for it.

Here's a case study of one SEOMoz member, who have found out how blog commenting can still be effective Post Penguin. This might help you decide whether to still pursue that strategy.

Cheers!

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!

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I understand your despair. Site optimization has really gone a long way from just throwing links out there.

Thanks for the advice. I think a lot of marketers are still using this technique but they're just real careful on how they do it so they don't fall out of the good graces of Google.

One website I checked is ranking well on Google. Upon checking its backlinks, I found that most of them are blog comments.

Is blog commenting still valuable? Anyone encountered any recent problem (ranks gone down, etc)? Are there any specific strategy to blog commenting these days?

Thanks!