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Hi Oliver,

No Follow links do not leak link juice but there is a new concept in SEO called co-citation. Basically Google and other search engines are using mentions (semantics) http://moz.com/blog/prediction-anchor-text-is-dying-and-will-be-replaced-by-cocitation-whiteboard-friday to determine how to rank your website. I suspect this is Google's effort to try and reduce spam and the linkbuilding business. The more mentions you get the better your website will rank and especially if the website has authority

Thanks

Carla

Hi Jon and James,

Just a thought but if you have over-optimized a specific anchor text instead of disavowing the links you may want to add more links but with different anchor text so that the anchor text looks more diverse. I'll give you an example.

Over-optimizaed anchor text = "abc"

Hypothetical Current situation

• Amount of "abc" links = 25
• Name brand links = 100

Hypothetical Solution

• Amount of "abc" links = 25
• Name brand links = 100
• New links with "def" anchor text = 10
• New links with "ghi" anchor text = 10

Good luck!

Hi,

I ran into a similar issue while we were redesigning our site. This is what we did. We unblocked our site (we also had a user and password to avoid Google indexing it). We added the link to a Moz campaign. We were very careful not to share the URL (developing site) or put it anywhere where Google might find it quickly. Remember Google finds links from following other links. We did not submit the developing site to Google webmaster tools or Google analytics. We watched and waited for the Moz report to come in. When it did, we blocked the site again.

Hope this helps

Carla

Hi Bob,

We do content marketing ourselves and here is something we have learned. If your PR is high enough and your article is niche enough, you will rank without any incoming links. See attachment.

I recommend you contact people that are interested in the topic and see if they have an article similar to yours but not quite as indepth. Chances are they will want to link to your niche article from theirs.

It worked for us. Thanks Carla

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Hi,

We had something similar happen to us. I will tell you the story because I really do think it will help.

One of our clients liked our originally website so much that he wanted to copy it. We gave him the ok but asked him to modify the content 100% so that Google would not penalize us. He gave us access to his Google Analytics. Our client did not modify the content for about 6 months. Google recognized this as a duplicated site and our clients website received absolutely no traffic at all for keywords. The only way to get to his website was by searching his brand name. This was a great relief to us. Google penalized him not us. After about 6 months, the client finally got around to changing his content and when he did, he started ranking for keywords words.

In your case, I would disavow the chinese website and notify the Google Spam team.

Good luck.

Carla

Ok I think I just answered my own question. This is the article I was looking for and it was written by Mark Traphagen not Rand.

http://www.stonetemple.com/googles-matt-cutts-understanding-social-identity-on-the-web-is-hard/

Hi Ashley,

"Infinite scroll" is using a technique with JQuery. Many people confuse the concept of "infinite scroll" with parallax scrolling. Just to be clarify. Parallax scrolling and infinite scroll are not the same thing.

Here is a great article on how to use Jquery and SEO it at the same. The article mentions parallax scrolling because "parallax scrolling" is often confused with infinite scroll

http://www.iprospect.co.uk/blog/featured/parallax-scrolling-and-seo-how-to-use-jquery-to-seo-your-website.html

I cannot answer your Adsense question. Good luck and hope this helps

Carla

Hi Paul,
First of all congrats on the great new technique. I recently wrote an article about SEO Parallax Scrolling and Responsive websites. There is a website using the hashtag method that is semi SEO friendly here http://flowerbeauty.com/.

However that being said

To answer your concer "but my current concern is that because each subpage is really a part of the primary page, will all those URL's be seen as duplicate content". I believe Google will see this as a multiple page site as long as you have different content on different URL's. Why don't you try adding parallax scrolling to each SEO url and have the scroll function take you to each URL like www.flowerbeauty.com did. Make sure to optimize your URL's as well.

For example

www.example.com/About

as you scroll it would take you too

www.example.com/About/optimized-URL.

I would get rid of the hashtags.

Here are some other SEO friendly parallax scrolling websites. http://www.pinterest.com/ecumbre/seo-and-parallax-scrolling/

Let me know if that helps.

Thanks Carla

Hi Erin,

I have a keyword company name and domain name

Here are the pro's based on my experience

• I sign lots of websites in the footer with my company name with anchor text. Keyword link juice
• Many sites give the link in the company name. If you have a keyword in your company name you get the link juice

Con's

• If links go away in the future and co-citation gets big, generic name companies have an uphill battle

I noticed that shortly after the move from seomoz.com to moz.com the site had a PR of 6. Now my PR tools says Moz.com has a PR2. This seems wrong. I noticed they did redirects for every single URL they used to have.

I am also getting misleading titles occasionally. OSE sometimes picks up the title as the anchor text.

It is a little bit different than your error

Hi Wesley,

I find Magento to be awesome from an SEO point of view. You have two options Magento Community and the paid version. Magento community is very complete.

Hi Paul,

I think before you design your website, you might try creating a campaign for flowerbeauty.com to see if Moz says there are any onsite errors. If it passes Moz's scrutiny, then there is a good chance Google will see it the same way. I have a slot for a new campaign in case you don't have one. I would really like to get to the bottom of this as you can see.

Let me know if you want me run it through Moz to see if it passes onsite optimization. I forgot to mention that my site did pass Moz's onsite analysis. I never tried running the other 2 SEO Parallax Scrolling websites through Moz's software.

Hi Nathan,

I asked the same question awhile back and this is the answer I got. http://moz.com/community/q/does-anyone-know-why-moz-com-appears-to-have-a-pr-of-2-now

www.seomoz.com used to have a PR of 6. I suspect it still does even though the tools say PR2 because I noticed it still ranks for the same way for a lot of the keywords.

Carla

Hi Erwin,

I have been wondering about this myself. I am a believer that no-follows contribute but as co-citation, however I have no proof. Testing this theory would be fun.

Hi,

I suggest the following for Local SEO

1. Add address in footer with local schemas
2. NAP - Get your site with its address if possible in local directories or magazines or blog
3. Add Site to Google's Map Maker

Good luck

Carla

I agree with Alice I would not block them. If the content is unique, they can't hurt you. Category sections show up an SERP's all the time and will increase your CTR (click thru rate)

I agree with Streamline. We used Sucuri.net to clean up malware. Worpress sites are great but very buggy. They always get viruses. You have to buy extra protection. Sitelock is another good choice.

Does anyone have an example of a web page that is ranking soley through social media popularity and does not have any inbound (website to website) links? I am creating a presentation on SEO and Social Media and it would be great to have an example.

Thanks

Carla

Hi Ash,

I have been able to accomplish this with several websites. Basically if you go for the plural version you will also improve the rankings for the singular version. Here is an example.

We wanted to rank a clients website under "Barrios Privados" and "Barrio Privado". You will likely rank first for the plural version and then for the singular version.

Good luck.

Carla