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Hello Vincent

There is a good post here regarding app search which may help in developing your overall linking strategy

https://moz.com/blog/mobile-app-search

Hi Jay,

Its a difficult question to answer however I can point you in a direction John Mueller of Google Switzerland has a hangout on Fridays at his g+ hang out below You can pose the question to him at times if he cant get an answer he will come back to you. Hope this helps

https://plus.google.com/+JohnMueller/posts

https://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/office-hours

https://plus.google.com/events/c8ke0pi2m6ak5cieecpt3lss2t8

Hello Marina,

I would certainly recommend it, you will also future proof the sites structure as schema.org seems to be the only thing the 3 top engines can agree on to mark it up Google has a free tool https://developers.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/ with some tutorials. Hope this helps

Hi,

I agree with Jeff, developers seem to have an inherited paranoia problem with Word press and security. This can be solved by using a security plug in like word fence.

Word press is built with security in mind its weakness is 3rd party plug ins so beware when installing any always look for more popular properly supported ones.

Hope this helps

Brett

Hi I would be mindful of using rel.

I would use a simpler more logical way and restructure the pages with original content and just use 301 redirection. This passes Googles website design guidelines available here:-

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93633?hl=en

In particular:-

• You're merging two websites and want to make sure that links to outdated URLs are redirected to the correct pages.

Which is essentially what you have done/doing

Hope this helps

Hello David,

Maybe this article will help as a starting point How To Build Links To Your Blog - Case Study

Regards

Brett

Hi Alan,

Do you need this website? would it be better to ditch and rebuild a new site. Its very hard to get back from a penalty. I would advise ask yourself these questions first. The SEO company will advise it can fix these things of course for a fee. At the moments Google's spam robot has spotted your links and warned you by using disavow it may mean they take a manual look at your site. Sorry to be negative but all the time getting back from this it could be easier to build a new site and learn from mistakes.

That clears it up

Many thanks!

Nathan

I run an inbound link report for the domain www.acornstairlifts.co.uk on OpenSiteExplorer.org using the following filters:

• Show: All
• Links from: only external
• Pages to: pages on this root domain
• Show links: ungrouped

It says that there are around 30,678 links for that query.

I then go to the advanced tab, and run a report using the same filters, but when I click download report I only get 2874. I've run this for the past 2 days and I get the same.

Why?

It might be a good idea to exlude bots from your experiment, and your results.

Check the user agent string for "(bot|spider)" and then serve them the original.

This way they still see the original, until you think that the variation has won.

You may be missing the point of online recomendations. It's to increase referral traffic. Buying likes and +1's will most likely be done by a spam farm and nobody hears their screams.

Also, Google+ is a Google product, and you can bet they'll be able to spot the 'user farms' that may spring up due to the popularity of '+1 buying'.

If content is worth sharing, then users will share. If not, then might be worth trying to figure out what sort of content users will share.

In my opinion, this is not a safe, nor reliable, SEO practice.

Hi Jay,

Its a difficult question to answer however I can point you in a direction John Mueller of Google Switzerland has a hangout on Fridays at his g+ hang out below You can pose the question to him at times if he cant get an answer he will come back to you. Hope this helps

https://plus.google.com/+JohnMueller/posts

https://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/office-hours

https://plus.google.com/events/c8ke0pi2m6ak5cieecpt3lss2t8

Hello Vincent

There is a good post here regarding app search which may help in developing your overall linking strategy

https://moz.com/blog/mobile-app-search

Hi I would be mindful of using rel.

I would use a simpler more logical way and restructure the pages with original content and just use 301 redirection. This passes Googles website design guidelines available here:-

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93633?hl=en

In particular:-

• You're merging two websites and want to make sure that links to outdated URLs are redirected to the correct pages.

Which is essentially what you have done/doing

Hope this helps

Hello Marina,

I would certainly recommend it, you will also future proof the sites structure as schema.org seems to be the only thing the 3 top engines can agree on to mark it up Google has a free tool https://developers.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/ with some tutorials. Hope this helps