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You could also have 1000 links with anchor text associated with a particular term pointing at the page that has been graded F, and only 1 link to the page that has been graded A.

Google is obviously going to give the page with a lot more links more authority.

Like the others said, on-page optimisation is just one part of the puzzle.

Yes, they are still valuable. I'd also recommend you get a BOTW link (http://botw.org/) and possibly Business.com (http://www.business.com/info/advertise-dl/).

Have a look at the list of directories SEOmoz provides - http://www.seomoz.org/directories

Another little trick for a valuable link from a directory/wiki type site is to create a decent wiki page on AboutUs.org and ask for the links to be do follow (http://www.aboutus.org/DoFollow). Domain authority of 86...

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Hi John,

A ticketing website seems like an ideal niche to generate some great content directly from your customers. Offer them the ability to rate past shows/events, share what they are going to, discuss artists/sporting teams etc. This will not only deliver A LOT of unique,relevant content to your site, it will encourage users to become part of the 'Ticket Trail Community'.

This will make the site rank better, and it will become more 'sticky' - in that users will want to regularly visit to interact with others with similar tastes. A win win in my eyes.

Thanks,
Brad

Hi,

Agree with Alan. On the homepage, you try too hard to rank for 'Aluminum Sunglasses' - it's mentioned 6 times just in that short group of text. Except for the Gatorz and Liquid Eyewear pages, there is very little content on the site overall (even these pages still have very little content). I'd develop some more content; be it a blog, a series of 'how-to' type posts (how to clean your sunglasses, how to take proper care of your sunglasses, what types of sunglasses are best for certain situations/environments etc) or more information on product types, brands etc.

According to OSE, your site has very low inbound links as well. I'd work on getting some links from some really good sources (official brand websites as an official retailer for instance).

Hope that helps!

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I've always used Crazy Domains - cheap, easy to use, good customer support (24/7) etc.

Hi Mark,

They have business pages - see http://www.google.com/+/business/

You basically create a business page under an existing personal G+ account.

Thanks,
Brad

Hi Mark,

1. Contact blogs in your niche and offer them products to review and keep (with a couple of links back to your site) or giveaway on their blog (again, we a couple of links back to your site). This works really well when a review and giveaway of the same product are done at the same time
2. Sign up for forums in your niche and actively start posting valuable content. Don't spam, be transparent about who you are, but offer genuine, useful content and discussion.
3. Analyse OSE every reindex and copy your competitor's best links! Be it in niche directories, blogs, high authority informational sites etc etc
4. Get social - sign up for FB, Twitter, Pinterest, G+ etc and become active - share, like, follow, comment etc (regularly!)

Hope this helps,
Brad

Lee - its gonna be a big one I think we are all waiting eagerly!

Hi all, We have a YouTube channel containing about 25 videos we created professionally a few years ago. They are all product features and are hosted on our site for applicable products (a very small percentage of our overall number of products). This channel was largely forgotten about for a few years. It has now reached over 160k views. What's the best way to utilize these videos for SEO benefits? Any techniques anyone has to maximize our ever increasing number of views? Thanks

Hi all, I'd be interested to know what people think of squidoo in light of recent google algorithm updates? Digirank - your tips are pretty good. Would you still recommend squidoo? Thanks, Brad

In addition to RankSurge's response - there has not been an OSE update for a couple of months. Next one is 27th of April. Once the reindex occurs, check then (though this is no guarantee they will be in this update, particularly if the links are recent) Thanks, Brad

Hi Karen,

You have to go to 'Ask a Question' - http://www.seomoz.org/q/ask - and at the very bottom under Privacy click on "Private: Make my question viewable by staff members and moderators only."

You get one private question per month if you are a pro member.

Thanks,

Brad

Hi Lisa,

From what I understand of your question, you're trying to figure out the structure of placing Google +1 buttons and Google follow buttons on your site?

If you go to our domain, http://www.kitchenwaredirect.com.au, you will see that we have a G+1 button in the header. When a user clicks on this, it +1's whatever page they are on (homepage, a brand landing page etc). If you go to any of our products, in addition to the +1 button in the header, there is also a +1 button on the item template to encourage more +1's of individual products. Towards the bottom of the description on our item template, there is a large follow button.

This encourages a good mix of +1's and follows.

Hope this helps

Hi,

So we've heard all the updates from Google lately: don't get involved in buying links, link networks etc etc.

My question is, does buying a link from one of the traditional large directories get penalised by Google? If I was to buy a link from Best of the Web - http://botw.org/ - would this be a waste of time? Would I get penalised?

If we are only buying 2-3 high value links for our site from very high quality directories, do you think this is fine?

I'm asking because BOTW is having a sale today (tomorrow US time), half price submission.

Thanks!

Edit: Paid directories such as this are still featured on SEOmoz - http://www.seomoz.org/directories - so I'm thinking they still have value if used sparingly?

We know of a few people that have done this Vinnie.

It certainly looks better when a site has 500+ likes than some of the sites we have just launched that have less than 10 likes. It's not just about people buying from a site with more likes, it's about people wanting to join your community. Why would the average person want to join a community with another 8 people? They probably won't see any benefit in that.

Thanks EGOL - this is very useful.

I regularly try and revert back to previously answered questions for information. I've bookmarked your link. Thanks!

I tried out a '5 custom articles for $5' type thing just because I was a little bored one afternoon and wanted to see if they would actually deliver. To my surprise, they delivered the articles within a few hours and they were all unique (I checked copyscape). The articles were written in a strange manner, when loaded into a word doc every 5th or so word was underlined so that it appeared like it was incorrect spelling. A little dodgy.

I wouldn't actually use this service for anything useful. Key rule for anything on the net: if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.

Work on building meaningful relationships and that way you'll get FB likes in a natural way. And you'll be able to engage your fans and get some benefit out of the relationship, not just 1000 meaningless likes.

By encouraging them do you mean placing the relevant social sharing buttons in a prominent position on your site? If so, that's fine, a lot of companies do that.

Give your users a reason to like/follow/+1 you and they will, just don't shove it down their throat.

Hi All,

We have a site with over 6000 products, several hundred category pages, numerous brand landing pages etc etc.

As part of an ever expanding SEO team we have a number of article/content writers that are writing QUALITY content. Because we are in the cooking/cookware/kitchenware niche, these articles are on a range of subjects. E.g. recipes, how to clean products, getting the best out of products, differences between brands and styles, seasonal trends etc etc.

We currently have a dedicated blog that is a completely different URL to our ecommerce site, a number of smaller blogs that are quite spammy but rank well for certain terms that are all interlinked in a random way (hey, don't hate me), buying guides, all the usual social media accounts etc. We also sponsor a number of quality external cooking blogs that link back to our site when we give them products to review.

My question is, how would you best use this content? We are looking at starting our own blog hosted on our ecommerce domain as well (the one on the other domain is OK, but our new blog will have awesome content).

Any suggestions would be very helpful.

Thanks!