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Thank you Geoff, I create a bunch of content regularly and I was really just wondering if social bookmarking was worth the time anymore. And I figured it would likely be fodder for Google sanctions and penalties down the line; I'm very OK with social bookmarking going the way of the dodo, thanks.
Here's a great SEOMoz post on the subject:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/authorship-google-plus-link-building
And if you're using a Wordpress CMS: http://www.devonwebdesigners.com/3278/relauthor-step-by-step-for-wordpress/
Best of luck, I'm in the process of implementing this myself. And as others have noted, you can test if it's working through GWT.
Has anyone had any experience with the DoFollow social bookmarking tool "Mister Wong". Is it worth the fee for DoFollow links? Is this site subject to Google Panda penalties or others for essentially selling dofollow links? Is social bookmarking as a whole worth the time and effort?
Does anyone have any alternative sites or strategies for acquiring a high volume of dofollow backlinks?
Unless they are a partner or affiliate site I would never recommend linking out on your homepage. Good luck with the link building, here are a few other posts that might help you get started...
http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links
http://www.seomoz.org/q/link-building-i-really-dont-get-it-is-there-an-easy-way
Thank you both for your responses! I was actually able to figure out the issue on my own, but I appreciate all the helpful advice. All of our redirects from the past blog domain work perfectly and were added by hand, and we are unable to use .htaccess with our servers (quite annoying believe me). But I greatly appreciate that advice Ben; I'm sure it will help someone with this issue.
The issue that was causing all the errors was our relative path structure on the root domain. When moving the blog to the subdomain we accidentally left 4 links in the footer as relative paths instead of absolute. Therefore the bot were attempting to access the root from the subdomain through those relative paths, which in-turn created multiple 404 pages for every blog page.
I appreciate the help guys. Screaming Frog, SEO Moz, and GWT definitely all helped on this one.
Thanks!
We have recently moved our company's blog to Wordpress on a subdomain (we utilize the Yoast SEO plugin). We are now experiencing an ever-growing volume of crawl errors (nearly 300 4xx now) for pages that do not exist to begin with. I believe it may have something to do with having the blog on a subdomain and/or our yoast seo plugin's indexation archives (author, category, etc) --- we currently have Subpages of archives and taxonomies, and category archives in use.
I'm not as familiar with Wordpress and the Yoast SEO plugin as I am with other CMS' so any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. I can PM further info if necessary. Thank you for the help in advance.
