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Thanks Marie and Tom,

Marie, this is what I meant. Now that people are disavowing more and more domains and links, the OSE picture is plain wrong (unfortunately I disavowed a lot).

I will work with the excel for now.

Thank you both

Thank you Irving and Matt,

The previous companies were removed but their names and emails still exist in the history (they were given an Owner authority).

Is there a way to remove them from there?
Also, what authority should a company be given?

Thanks

Hi,

Is there a way to add to the OSE a list of disavowed domains?

Also, how often is it refreshed?
I know that the GWMT shows us links on sites that are down for months now.

Thanks

Hello,

As a site owner, I've worked with several SEO firms in the past.

Even though a long time has passed, they still appear in the GWMT list of admins (though inactive).

I wouldn't like other companies and consultants see that in the future.

Is there a way to remove them?

Thanks

Hi,

When working on unnatural links penalty, is removing and disavowing links shown on the GWMT enough or should the list be broaden to include OSE and Majestic etc.?

Thanks

Thanks. Its a great idea - I will try it.

However,  I am looking for a company which specializes in content creation. Someone I won't even have to tell them what to write about and that I can have fluent work done - I'm not sure this can be expected from bloggers.

Thanks EGOL,

This is why I was looking for a company assuming they have several writers in various areas of expertise.

I updated the main question adding more details.

Hi,

I am looking for a recommended company which specializes in content creation to fluently create posts for our blog.

This content needs to be of the highest quality.

Areas of expertise - luxury goods, diamonds, diamond jewelry, fashion

Any recommendations?

Hi,

For the example I will use a computers e-commerce store...

I'm working on creating guides for the store - 
How to choose a laptop
How to choose a desktop

I believe that each guide will be great on its own and that it answers a specific question (meaning that someone looking for a laptop will search specifically laptop info and the same goes for desktop). This is why I didn't creating a "How to choose a computer" guide.

I also want each guide to have all information and not to start sending the user to secondary pages in order to fill in missing info.

However, even though there are several details that are different between the laptops and desktops, like importance of weight, screen size etc., a lot of things the checklist (like deciding on how much memory is needed, graphic card, core etc.) are the same.

Please advise on how to pursue it.

Should I just write two guides and make sure that the same duplicated content ideas are simply written in a different way?

Hi All,

Lately its been discussed a lot about the various penalties and the one that is least clear to me is over optimization.

I'm currently dealing with my site's sub-folders naming.

My site sells computers yet the domain name has nothing to do with computers.

The question is should I put computers in every folder name?

Examples:

domain.com/surveys/xxx    VS     domain.com/computer-surveys/xxx

domain.com/Questions/xxx    VS      domain.com/Computers-Questions/xxx

and

domain.com/Education/xxx     VS    domain.com/computers-education/xxx

Where is the limit?

Just saw on another post that they are having problems. Will wait another day or two...

Hi

Last night some of my good links suddenly stopped from being display displayed at the WMT list of links

Any thoghts?

Thanks

I actually agree with what Mark Ginsberg said that it might be an SEO firm we hired way in the past (we don't have anyone for over 6 months) and might have pipe lined articles on our behalf.

But yes, main keywords to the exact landing pages

Thanks, what you are saying makes sense.
(even though we haven't been using any SEO firm for many months now).

Yes these links are the only ones. It is really strange...

Hello,

I do not believe so much in spammy links attacks and I definitely do not believe my site is worth attacking.

However, I'm seeing new links pointing to my site that I have no idea where they come from.

I just spotted three articles on a poor crappy article site with exact match keywords point to me. The articles are completely unique (copyscaped them) and they were posted according to the site time stamp during Oct and Nov 2012. (And they Appear in the WMT recently discovered links from more or less the same time).

What to do (besides for disavowing this domain)?

Thanks

Hi,

I am disavowing some links.

Does anyone know if Google removes them from the WMT?
This is interesting for followup purposes.

Thanks

Hi,

I have few articles on my site that are quite good both SEO wise (getting organic search traffic) and as a reading material.

They get lots of traffic and people are staying and reading them (2-4 minutes on page).

The problem with these articles is that people are reading them and then leave. These are landing pages for certain queries so I assume that the readers are getting what they wanted but when they finish they exit.

The bounce rate is 70%-85%.

Are these type of pages good or bad for my site?

Last note, my site is an e-commerce store. I do try to "motivate" more people to navigate to other pages but the majority do and will probably leave (because they were looking for answers and not products).

Needless to say that the articles are related to my site's subjects and products.

Thanks.

Question though, I'm not using canonical, only next and prev.
I don't think canonical should be placed since it is not the same content (different products).

Any thoughts?

Hi,

In our e-commerce site on category pages we have pagination (i.e toshiba laptops page 1, page 2 etc.).

We implement it with rel='next' and 'prev' etc.

On the first page of each category we display a header with lots of text information. This header is removed on the following pages using display='none'.

I wondered if since it is only a css display game google might still read it and consider duplicated content.

Thanks