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Agreed

Hi Ben,

• Are the pages canonicalized?
• Have you considered no indexing search results?
• Do you have links pointing to search result pages?

To be honest I wouldn't until the newer sites mature a bit. But if you were to go forward with it, I would recommend you no-follow the links.

@lindsay

Yup I saw the matt cutts tweet

You can also look at http://mozcast.com/ if you ever feel like something odd may be going on. SEO Moz is great at keeping track of fluctuations for you.

Things look in order on you site, are you using someone else's text?

Hmm interesting! The 301 works fine.. Lets ask some people via twitter

Update: just shot a tweet out to @dohertyjf @portentint @stonetemple @CyrusShepard to see if they were up to the challenge

lol yup, if you had fun doing 8+ hours of link building, you can enjoy it even more when you have to remove them. #damnthegoogleoverlords

Good rule of thumb, if you're getting links from:

• .info
• .ru
• .biz

They are usually poor links and should be avoided of removed.

Check your site's links in OSE (Open Site Explorer)

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/

If they are:

Directory links or article submission links it should be easy to log in and delete them, assuming you were provided with the credentials.

"Part of the dental associations core is sharing information to make them better dentists and to help their patients which in addition to their education, is why they are considered to be some of the best dentists in the world. As such, we build links from what we consider to be valuable content between the sites."

Don't worry about all of that. Sounds like you guys are squared away ^_^

A viable solution, but I don't want to be too covert about it.

Solid answer, I didn't even consider no-indexing the page, it'd primarily be for users anyway.

I'm curious do you think Google would fault you or you'd get less link power if you made a page (on your website) of your guest posts from across the net and linked out to them?

Thanks for sharing the tool Miriam! How'd you come across it?

I wouldn't foresee an issues but to be honest I have no idea. I'm interested as well.

Hi  Luis,

I would try that first. However I don't think you need a buffer page legally but don't quote me read up on 2257 first:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2257

**Who is your CC processor? **

I know for a fact CCBill requires a buffer page, but once you get your account and sub accounts approved, they don't check up on you. So if one were to remove it..

Regards,

@bnspak

Haha no worries Alex, we've all been there!

My first step is to usually create a work process for each SEO related task I'll need, for example:

http://www.popvia.com/work-processes/guest-post-acquisition-and-follow-up/

How are you planning on billing?

• Monthly
• Per hour

What KPIs are you using to determine campaign success?

• Traffic
• Conversions/Sales

What tools are you going to use for?

• Rank Checking/Error Checking (SEO Moz assumed)
• Quick 404 error checking
• Task management (try trello)

Let me know a little bit more about what you are looking for and we can build upon your questions.

Regards,

@bnspak

Do you know of someone who has done a case study on this that I can look over? I appreciate your input and would like to verify it.

Does Google slipt the rank of:

• example.com/index.php
• example.com/

Nope, they choose the best page to show people.

If you add different content to different pages does google rank them differently?

Yes.

You know what you need to do.

The past couple of days there as been some flux industry wide. http://mozcast.com/

• How much traffic are you loosing not having Google the places listing rank?
• Are your increased organic rankings going to get you the same, or more traffic?

If you can have something better with this new change with little work, spend your time on that.

I'd agree with @goodlegaladvice

301 in this fashion.

http//:www.example-keyword-domain.com

http//:www.example.com/keyword/

• Move any relevant content
• Make sure you don't have overlapping content