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Hi All,

To clarify my question I will give an example.

Let's assume that I have a laptop e-commerce site and that one of my main categories is Samsung Laptops. The category page shows lots of laptops and a small section of text.

On the other hand, in my article section I have a HUGE article about Samsung Laptops.

If we consider the two word phrases each page is targeting then the answer is the same - Samsung Laptops.

On the article i point to the category page using anchor such as "buy samsung laptops" or "samsung laptops" and on the category page (my wishful landing page) I point to the article with "learn about samsung laptops" or "samsung laptops pros and cons".

Thanks

Just wondering,

Are the backlinks for "yellow diamonds" or you didn't go so deep?

Thanks but I'm not even talking about anchors and/or links from other places.

I'm talking about plain on-page texts.

The page does no have the phrase "yellow diamonds" written even once.

It's amazing

Hi,

While looking to buy a Christmas gift to my wife I was searching for yellow diamonds.

Being a bit familiar with SEO I gotta understand how the following page was ranked 4th for "yellow diamonds":

http://www.bluenile.com/diamonds/fancy-color-diamonds

The phrase yellow diamonds is not mentioned even once!

Thanks

EGOL thanks for the answer, please see my response in Dorothea's thread.
I think that my question wasn't clear enough.

Looking forward to your response, Thanks

Thanks Dorothea and EGOL,

This is for both of you...

Maybe I wasn't clear - my client will do anything that I will request.

He is unwilling to play with the material written in the product page because these are medically written guidelines and information.

Any minor change and he might be liable for lawsuits.

The question is how do I make his product pages better?

Each product page will hopefully be the landing page for people looking for the specific medicine.

What type of materials and texts can I put there if I am unable to write my own texts (at least in the info section).

Also, should I put all the guidelines in blockquote (it is a major part of the page).

Imagine that the product is Aspirin...

Thanks

Hi

I'm trying to promote an ecommerce site that sells vitamins and health goods.

The site owner doesn't want to add texts in the product pages because it is medical material.

therefore he Currently has non unique (duplicated) content in each product page'

It is the same exact content all others have (taken From the manufacturer)'

Any ideas?

Thanks

Hi,

While searching for co-operations and guest blogging opportunities I found several sites that look legit and that lost all SE traffic (according to various tools such as SEMRush).

By legit I mean sites that have PR3 and up. Have many solid looking articles and that the articles are on the site's subject and that the articles do not necessarily point to other sites with exact match anchors.

Should I post in these sites or are they probably penalized and therefore being there put me at risk?

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Not necessarily, one for example is an aggregation site that brings articles (or headers) from other sites and it shows as if he has 2000 links pointing to me. Some are directories (not that good ones) that also show 100-200 links pointing to me.

These  are not links that I mind removing... but I wondered if they currently do extra damage showing that many links. Does google think these are types of site wide links?

Thanks but you miss understood me.

The link is good and valid.
However, WMT shows as if it has 2000 links to my site and not only 1.
I assume that the site that links to me is poorly built and has no canonical tags etc.

It also happens when the site that links to me has the link in a certain page and the page number keeps changing then google shows the their url with parameters such as p=23 and also p=24...

Should I disavow that domain?

Hi,

Looking at Google's WMT "links to your site" it shows few sites that have thousands of links pointing to mine.

There are actually only 1-2 links pointing to me from a site that Google shows 2000.
I assume that it is simply because they don't have canonical tags.

Should I ask for the 2 links to be removed?

Thanks

Yes they are:

www.domain.com
www.domain.com/blog

However, it was just an example.
Also, in my main category page when people go to the category wiki (info page) I open a new tab in order not to completely take them out of the buying page.

Thanks

Thanks for the answer.

But do you mean to point people from the adwords to my G+ account or as usual to my landing pages?

Hi,

When I open an internal page with target=_blank (for example taking people from our store to our blog) it may cause a session timeout on the store page (assuming they stay on the blog and don't come back).

Does that cause a bounce? Does that mean that the store's page just became the  "Exit" page?

Thanks

Hi All,

My question doesn't actually refer to the fluent work of maintaining a page but rather to the basics.

In our Facebook page we simply "bought" ads leading to our page and got the followers over time.

I don't see an equivalent option in G+. Do I need to use  regular adwords and point people to the G+ page or is there a place I can place ads inside G+?

Thanks

I believe that social signals are important however I doubt if Google has a way of knowing how many "likes" you got (Bing may know due to their somewhat partnership).

What I do believe is that Google does recognize people coming from social media like FB and gives you credit for it (as a site that has social appearance)and that it does recognize other types of shares such as twitter, tumblr, stumblupon and obviously Google +.

There was an article here at MOZ once and they tried to analyze social signals. I thinkk that the result was that there is a correlation but not necessarily causation.

Good luck

Thanks for the fast reply.

My fear is that Smith Computers will not get an audience from within Google +
and that the audience from within will look for plain computers and not what we do (and unfortunately we cannot change our brand now ).

I think agree with you and will go with 3 or 4.

Hi

Let's assume that our company's name is "Smith Computers" and we specialize in Ultrabooks (for those who don't know - super light and slim computers - a niche within computers for the matter).

Under which name would you open the Plus account -

1. Smith Computers
2. Ultrabooks
3. Smith Ultrabooks
4. Smith Ultrabooks Computers

The example is not 100% but the question remains -

1. No one knows Smith Computers and even if we turn up in search results for computers, the customers are not looking for our type products.
   However, it is our brand name!
2. Ultrabooks - I assume it will help us gain followers faster but will be hard to brand. The followers will be people who like the product and not the company but might be good people to sell to in the future.
3. I'd say that option 3 is half branding and option 4 is 75% branding
   Both will also have good chances to pop up in search results.

The company at hand is a family owned business. We do not plan to rule the industry but rather taking it to the next level. We do not count on having thousands of people searching Google for "Smith Computers" like Best Buy etc.

Please consider that at the end we want to use it both for promoting our brand (slowly) but also (and maybe mainly) SEO (by getting more people that click +1 onsite).

We currently have lots of Facebook followers but naturally they only Like and not +1

Please help...

Thanks for the fast reply.

I agree with you that in some cases where you buy a service from a person and not a company (i.e dentist, lawyer, CPA etc.) it makes lots of sense and will probably help CTR.

However, if I can't use a logo, then it is just for the articles and not for the categories (even though there are informational texts there).

Thanks

Hi,

As far as I know, in the past Italic was used to emphasize (similar use to Bold).

Now I've seen people use Italic for quotations. Is that the correct thing to do for an entire paragraph or is it a problem for Google wise?

Thanks