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Kiran,

I suggest you use the disavow tool wisely. Matt Cutts did a video recently on how to use the disavow tool. Here are two videos that will help

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=393nmCYFRtA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX5K741AlWg

I want to buy a domain that has clean backlinks and then redirect it to my new domain to bump up my PR. Is this considered a black hat technique?

Thanks

Carla

Hi Everyone,

Does anyone have a "Semantics Communication Plan? I am giving a conference next month and I was planning on introducing the concept of a "semantic​ communications plan". I manage lots of digital marketing campaigns and I notice that a communication plan is created but not the sematics related to the content that will be produced. And even worse, the semantics used in different areas such as SEO (content marketing), Adwords, Social Media is arbitrary based on the person caring out the task. Consistent semantics in digital campaigns seems like it would benefit SEO if it is based on demand (google's using those keywords)...what are your thoughts on this?

Thanks

Carla

Hi Takeshi,

Thanks so much for getting back to me on this one. I am aware of Bing's experiments with Klout and just signed up for it today to test it out. I will be your response to my client. I can see this is a very aggressive move on Google's behalf. I wonder if eventually they will get dinged as Microsoft did on monopolistic behaviors. hehe...time will tell.

Tks for your time! Have a good weekend

Carla

Hi Jesse and Tuzzell,

We have several competitors that use constant black hat techniques. They have been doing this for over 2 years and for some reason the Google Algorithm updates are not taking effect. We have stuck to white hat techniques but are getting a bit impatient. For over 2 years our black hat competitors continue to outrank us. We waited 2 years before submitting them to Google Spam and the only reason we did it was because they have not stopped using black hat techniques. It's a bit frustrating. We are not going on a spam crusade...its more like helping Google do their job and testing the Argentina Google Spam team and learning more about SEO. BTW, we also submitted ourselves to the Google Spam Team about 2 years back to see if our links were in line with Google's policies.

Hope it makes sense...

Carla

Hi Egol,

Thank you so much for taking the time to write such a clear and informative answer. This is exactly what I was looking for. The company that made me the offer is not big and your comments regarding "who is paying me" are important. The ranges you posted are extremely helpful

Thanks

Carla

Hi Moz,

I know you guys changed your interface awhile back but I have a question about the new reports. On the old interface, I used to use a report that would automatically run when I created a new account letting me know where the dup titles and meta descriptions were on an entire site. Where can I find this report on the new interface?

Thanks

Carla

Hi James,

I did encounter something similar. You have probably overoptimized a specific keyword. If all your incoming links have the same anchor text and it is not your brand name then Google is punishing you for non-natural link building. Are you ranking for other keywords?. You might have been sandboxed and not know it. What is the domain name?

Thanks

Carla

Hi Paul,

We recently optimized a store with 1000 products. Here are some tricks

1. Use Product Schemas http://schema.org/Product
2. Use concatenation formulas to add more descriptive words to each product. For example =concatenate(cell with generic concept ketword, " ", Product name)

Your site looks very optimized and nice. I noticed you added images for the tables instead of creating them with HTML so that the content can be picked up by Google. THis may be something to improve. Also instead of having a long page you might want to throw your information on tabs. Google reads them as lists and it makes the page look prettier. Here is an example

Hi John,

Does the report say who created the content first. I had a very interesting experience with copied content. You can ready about it here. http://moz.com/community/q/copied-content-copied-website

The post is useful

Thanks

Carla

Excellent point and something I have not considered.

Thanks Jon

Hi James,

I just answered your PM. thanks

Carla

Hi Martin,

Great question. I run into this situation all the time just like trying to tell a potential customer that their Flash website has to be redone.

I usually call them and try to educate them on what Google is now requiring. That poor link building practices work in the past but not today and that their a in danger of getting dinged by the Google Spam team. I also try and fine one good article that explains all this from a very reliable source so that they don't think you are making it up.

Education is the only way. I find educating my clients the best way to sell white hat linkbuilding services. Yes it is time consuming but effective and it builds trust.

I would not bash the other SEO company. I would just explain that Google has improved their algorithm and that these techniques are considered black hat or poor link building techniques and that they should correct them or else....

Hope that answers your question. The same issue pops up with websites that have poor web architectures. When you suggest to the client, that they need to modify their website, they freak out.

Good luck and I hope this answers your question

Carla

Hi Steve,

Egol is completely right. This approach is very expensive to maintain and Google frowns upon duplicate content.

This approach is very passe