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Forget building links and start earning them.

Build a blog on your site and create data that people will naturally link to and share on social media outlets. You need to do some #RCS

If you create great content and share it to the appropriate markets you will achieve results.

Remember it is better to have content on your site get shared, then content that you create for soemone elses blog which linking to your site.

These are called "Sitelinks" and they can be found in your Google Webmaster Tools (GWT), if you have GWT installed. From what I recall Google will choose these "Sitelinks" for you, however you can block them if you don't want them.

Hi Penny,

Create a brand and verify the account. You can link your G+ to your site and whenever someone +1s your google business page or site you gain authority. You can follow, interact, and circle others as a business, which is great at getting more +1s.

Once you have your business page set up you can post as the actual business and gain more +1 to your page. We've managed to get 1.3k +1's to one of our sites in 3 weeks. We post as the brand in communities that are interested in similar things.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/113582609509419286582/113582609509419286582/posts

Let me know if you have any more questions.

Yes this should help, I would focus on earning new links by creating real value to your audience/users...

What are they searching for and what is the quickest way to deliver this message. As long as you are adding value and building a clean link profile you should rank again.

If you want to rank for your site in both languages and have them crawled you need to create separate pages for each language. Read here: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/multilingual-seo/19903/

If you use an auto detect function your content will not cater good to your audience or Google.

Hi Curt,

Yes we had to change the way we are anchoring links to our sites. ensure that our linking profiles look natural. We have to stay relevant and link to sites that have clean natural linking profiles. We have to make sure that we are not linking internally in an unnatural way.

Most of the articles on SEOmoz do not contradict. SEOmoz blog articles are usually describing creative relevant content creations that users will wat to share and naturally link to.

Hope this helps.

Having site wide links like that can look like they may have been paid for.

"I know that all other things being equal (1 link from 10 domains > 10 links from 1 domain) but is (1 link from 10 domains > 100 links from 10 domains)?"

1 link that gets relevant traffic to your site is worth more than 100 links that are not relevant to your site. It's not about how many links it's all about what type of content created that link. In other words building a natural linking profile is not link building, it's creating real content and sharing it with the right people who will help that article get real natural links.

yes you can. Log in as the business and add communities to participate in. If you look at my example above you can see that we post in the star wars community allot. For us it's fun getting to be creative with others who have the same interests.

Hi Aaron,

As long as you 301 all the pages to correct locations (autodealerchat.com 301 to auto.contactatonce.com) you will not lose any link juice, and you will keep your rank on the new pages...

Google wants you to simplify everything for their users. In this case you will lose page age, so I am curious to hear what others have to say...

Hey Dan! This is interesting....

Assume you've already submitted an xml sitemap and tested it, I would think this is certainly an issue with GWT. Maybe try deleting the account and start fresh?

Squidoo is not necessarily spammy. As long as what you post is useful it will not hurt you.

No. Googles SERP data does not reflect the data on Whois, Google's ranking data has many factors. Whois is not one of them.

Just discovered this site http://northsocial.com/examples/

They charge a few dollars a day to use their Facebook apps. However, I am thinking it will be pretty simple to develop apps like these ourselves.

Also, once the app is created we can use it for all of our social media accounts.

Wanted to get some opinions on the matter.

My questions are:

1. Do apps help generate more likes?

2. Can Apps be promoted?

3. Is it challenging to create a Facebook app?

4. Are Facebook apps worth investment of time?

I don't believe so. A google search engine spider reads a 301 and automatically transfers the juice/credibility/authority/social-credit...

See here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Filv4pP-1nw

Yes, I would highly suggest creating 301 rewrites here. Like Travis said, search engines "may" be smart enough to understand that the new pages (without the .html ext) should redirect to the new site.com/page.

But I would play it safe and create the redirects from the get go.

To determine a keywords ORGANIC competitiveness seoMOZ created a tool: http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/keyword-difficulty

Many factors (over 200) go into why a page should rank.

Hi Ben,

These are the recent algorithm changes made by Google: http://mozcast.com/events

If your site did not get punished for any of these and you have a natural looking link profile (Anchor text ratio & authoritative qualities) then most likely you are not doing enough link "EARNING" Google+ search #RCS for some ideas : )

Hope this helps!

Hi Iain,

If you are looking to optimize a specific page on your site for a specific term use this SEOmoz tool: http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization/new (pro members only tool)

I would only target one keyword per URL.

Once you have all your pages optimized, check your campaign in SEOmoz and fix any warnings.

Hope this helps.

I also agree with Ray-pp & BruceA.

You CAN continue to rank well. However, I wouldn't suggest that you abandon blogging about trending topics within said websites industry. There is ALWAYS something that can be explained better/improved upon or something fresh and new to talk about with our audience.

Question: When you are asking about adding content, are you referring to your typical page content or are you referring to blogging?

Interesting. I verified the robots file and tried running through screaming frog... nothing. I' will dig into this with my dev team to try and get you an answer asap.