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Hi Neil,

Yes, Google does look at the footer and they actually look in the footer for spammy links. Heres a video for internal linking footers etc.. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/internal-linking-strategies-for-2012-and-beyond

Hope this helps.

Hi Brian,

Google will not be able to read the image,if you cannot highlight the words on the image then google will not be able to index them. However, your file name and alt attribute on the image will be indexed, as long as the page the image is on is indexable.

Hope this helps.

Hi Tina,

You can set up a canonical tag that will let the search engine know which page to rank.

Heres a great article on canonical tags: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url- a-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps

This should solve your problem.

Hi Daniela,

**1. Is there any particular issue that you can spot on this site that is not allowing it to rank well on Google? **

Run the seoMOZ report card to make sure your on page data is crawl able without too much error.

Also you have a PMD (Partial Match Domain), these URLs where recently punished if they had low quality links or unnatural link profiles.

2. Any suggestions on link-building please?

I would focus on a clean link profile (anchoring 50%-75% of you links as your Brand name or URL  )

There are many ways to earn links. SEOmoz is full of articles to help one rank, however what works in one niche might not work in another.

You can find the best bloggers in your niche (it could be a "malta travel blog") and have them share an article for you.. Maybe give them a free stay if they blog about you.... (This is one example of #RCS)

Hope this Helps.

Hi,

Your link profile looks unnatural:http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/anchors?site=www.contentwritings.com

A natural link profile has 50%-75% of the links "anchored" as your Brand or URL. Most of your links are targeting keyword phrases. I would focus on building more branded type links, if you cannot use your brand use your URL.

You can also Email some of the sites that currently have your anchor text as "<a class="clickable title link-pivot" title="See top linking pages that use this anchor text">business plan writing article wr... or</a> <a class="clickable title link-pivot" title="See top linking pages that use this anchor text">article writing business plan wr... or</a> <a class="clickable title link-pivot" title="See top linking pages that use this anchor text">article writing business plan wr... and politely ask them to change it to</a> " to: "Content Writings"

If the page is indexed you can just place the site url in quotes "www.site.com" in google and it will give you all the pages that has this url on it.

Yes theres a tab that is by default set to .pdf however if you click it you can change the setting to .cvs (excel format).. You will need to add the site and keywords to a campaign n SEOmoz and then go to the on-site tab within the campaign.

If your location is part of your targeted keyword,, I would go with the longer keyword that exceed 66 characters. Basically when someone finds your page on a SERp it will display the first 66(ish) characters followed by**...**

Its best to have your title structured:

keyword | Brand Name

Right! This is far from offensive, in fact since majority of people are searching for it, I would be offended if Google hid it.

We always use the noindex code in our robot.txt file.

Why is this offensive? It's based on an algorithm. It's not Google's fault what the majority of people are searching for within the US.

IMO 10 and every bit counts, especially in a very competitive market where I am not ranking...

Perhaps you have your personal setting on

If the wording that is going to be on multipul pages is copied verbatim it will look like duplicate content. One solutions is taking the part that will look like duplicate text and making a graphic out of it, once you have all the graphics give them all unique names and titles.

It may have been, there have been no announcements from Google about it yet. Google makes about 500 updates a year, mainly the major ones get announced.

Hi Anthony,

The first article that gets indexed gets the credit and the other sites are in punishment risks if they are not tracking back to your article.

You can also contact them and tell them to remove it or link back to your site. If they disagree you can report them to Google.

Hope this helps.

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.

Perhaps google is pulling different versions of your site.. Do you have a url of www.homepage.com and www.homepage.com/index

Try running your site here: http://www.virante.org/seo-tools/duplicate-content

Hi Chris,

Here is a cool tool built by Dr.Pete it shows all the dates/events of Googles algo updates.

http://mozcast.com/events

Hope this helps.

Hi Dana,

If the page has incoming links from external sites I would 301 the page and keep the link juice (If it is similar content). However, if the page has no incoming links other then internal I would delete the page and I would also 404 the page in the robot.txt file. By doing this you actually spread more link juice on your existing pages.

Link Juice in most cases spreads from the home page because people naturally link to it. The more pages you build on the site the more you spread that juice. However, many pages may have been deep linked to by users on your site giving those pages there own value, to avoid losing this value you can 301 the page.

Hope this helps..