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Hi Sean,

A sitewide link with a keyword you are not interested in can be a good thing and a bad thing. It depends on the diversity of your anchor text. If you need diversity in your anchor text then this may work for you. Do you want to send me your link so I can look at your portfolio?

If you do not need anchor text diversity, I recommend you do the following.

1. Ask the blog owner to make them no follow or ask her to add your brandname.

I would not disavow them.

Hi Dhinesh,

I just posted a link building strategy here http://moz.com/community/q/duplicate-content-69.

There are many strategies.

Hi Stu,

I totally agree with Tom Roberts. Something to keep in mind as well. Redirects are absolutely necessary is you have incoming links to those pages. If you have a lot of pages you can get away with only doing redirects from the URL's that have incoming links.

Hi Studio33,

I used to do the same thing about a year ago. I will tell you why my strategy.

1. Most bloggers or websites that accept content only receive original content. They do not want a duplicate.

2. Google does pick up that the content is duplicate and I cannot say for sure, but I am pretty sure that the incoming link does not have any worth. I do not know this for certain.

My link building strategy

When I bought my domain (keyword domain) it had a PR2 with lots of spammy links. I bought it 2 years ago.

1. I disavowed the spammy links

2. I did directory link building, and content link building to bring it up to a PR3. I was not showing up in SERPs because my PR was so low.

3. Now that I had a PR3, anything I wrote was showing up on the first page (SERPs)

4. Now I just write articles that attract the link I actively looked for and occasionally go out and look for links. If you write about topics which people are interested in (do your keyword research) and focus on niche issues and build great content with awesome graphics, you will attract links. If you go for big concepts, it is hard to get a link. Focus on the niche. You will rank high in SERPs.

5. I will give you a specific example. We wrote an article on SEO and Parallax Scrolling since most parallax scrolling websites do not do SEO architecture. We posted the info on our blog. Note the article focuses on a very niche concept. We also had to promote the content to encourage inbound links so we went to every blog and commented about the tutorial to give it visibility. All the comments gave us a nofollow links but it did promote the material which eventually encouraged a blogger to use it in one of his articles. http://www.posicionamientowebenbuscadores.com/blog/tutorial-seo-parallax-scrolling-espanol/ - my content

inbound link - http://www.factorsim.info/2013/06/19/parallax-scrolling-en-la-narrativa-web/

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

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 am also very interested in the answer to this question. We do international SEO.

Thanks

Carla

Hi,

I know this is kind of an amateur question. I just created my first feedburner account here

http://feeds.feedburner.com/posicionamientowebenbuscadores/edxv and I noticed that all the links to my blog articles are do follow and from a PR7? Will this boost my PR or SEO?

Thanks

Carla

I'll give an example. Seomoz became Moz. What happens to all the citations that still say Seomoz? Is Google smart enough to redirect co-citations to the new URL?

Thanks

Carla

Hi Dealblogger,

This is a common phenomenon. For some reason Google makes some sites oscillate considerably and eventually they hit steady state. I know this is not much of an answer but it has happened to a lot of us SEOer's. Your blog will hit steady state if you can get some excellent incoming white links.

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.

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

Hi,

You absolutely need to do onsite optimization for your mobile website. I also recommend you look into what responsive web design is. It basically makes your site look good in all screen sized. When doing your mobile website, remember to leave the content, add titles and metas. So many mobile sites get rid of the content when that is what Google uses to determine how to rank you.

I hope this answers your question.

Hi KLLC,

It is really important that your titles, metas, urls be unique and consistent. We were really careful with this. http://www.posicionamientowebenbuscadores.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/SEOoptimized.jpg

You need to try and accomplish consistency and keyword focus.

Onsite optimization is 30% of the battle...

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 Irving. I would only add no follows to outbound links.

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 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

Wesley,

The default SEO settings with Magento are very good. I agree with Bradley that you need some modules to perfect the SEO features. These are all default SEO Features

• Titles

• Meta Description

• Alt Text for images

• SEO Friendly URL's

• XML Sitemap is an easy add on

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.