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I am trying to put together a case study with big brands that have changed their domain names over the last 2 years. So far I have:

t-mobile.co.uk -> ee.co.uk

guardian.co.uk -> theguardian.com

Are there any others you could think of? It'd be much appreciated!

Thanks,

C

Hi all,

Have you ever created an hreflang sitemap using in-house resources or a third-party company for a group of over 70 sites, each with hundreds of pages and all with localised URLs?

If so, would you mind sharing how you did it, or the contact details of the company you used?

In this specific case there is nothing in the URL or code that I can use to group the alternatives automatically.

Thanks,

Carlos

You are right, when I used screaming frog with Googlebot as the agent it didn't pick the link

Their selling point was that because bloggers would be rewarded for their links they'd feature our brand and products more often in their posts..... I don't think it is the case. We are just losing organic links and paying for traffic that used to be free.

I'll make sure they are taken out of the program.

Thanks for your help!

Chris, thanks for your advice, but I think we are going into a completely different subject.

• Some of those links were created years ago. Created by the bloggers because they simply wanted to. We didn't request them or had any input on what that anchor text would be.

• I suppose that when I wrote "That link, and hundreds just like that" could have been misinterpreted. There are hundreds of bloggers, linking to hundreds of different pages from our site, all with different anchor text. Again, 100% organic.

We didn't build those links or tell them what the anchor text should be (there are not two with the same anchor text). They were 100% organic links for years, but once Skimlinks joined our affiliate programs, SKIMLINKS changed all those links into affiliate links.

Ok, maybe if I give some background it will be easier to understand.

That link, and hundreds just like that one used to be organic links, that bloggers created because they wanted to link to an specific product from our site. As soon as Skimlinks joined our affiliate program all those links became affiliate links.

As a result; sales that used to be attributed to the referral channel, are now attributed to the affiliate channel. But what worries me the most is whether those links are still SEO-friendly or not. In the source code they still look SEO-friendly.

They are not affiliate links, they are organic links. What happens is that the blogger uses a tool called Skimlinks (they are the affiliate) that turns organic links into affiliates.

Skimlinks gets paid by us and then they pay part of the comission to the blogger.

If I were to kick Skimlinks out of the program, the organic links would stop redirecting to our site via a 302.

In the source code there is no affiliate tagging in the links, it looks clean. I'm guessing the redirect is done using JavaScript. My questions is: does Google see a clean link, or do they also get redirected via 302 when they try to follow it?

Hi All,

If you're not familiar with Skimlinks, what they do is turn organic links into affiliates links so that publishers can earn commission through our affiliate program. Pretty much every SEO's nightmare.

myfashionlife.com/archives/2013/07/16/get-anne-hathaways-paper-denim-and-cloth-look/ anchor text "Floppy straw hat"

Looking at the source code the link looks clean, but as soon you click on it you get redirected via a 302 to our site. My questions is; is it just users that get redirect or is it the same for search engines?

Screaming frog recognises the link as a 200.

Are we losing all the link juice, or is it fine? I've have half a mind to kick them out of the program.

Cheers

Hi Mike - Thanks for your response. I can see how breadcrumbs could inflate internal links, but I don't it is the case this time.

Mens_Bags-600/ - 436 products, all with links to that page.

Womens_Bags-226/ -   771 products, all with links to that page.

Both pages can be found in the site-wide navigation.

According to Webmaster Tools, the men's page has 203,062 internal links and women's 8,644.

If the difference were due to the breadcrumb, the women's page should have had more links, right?

Cheers,

Carlos

Hi all,

I have around 400 links in the navigation menu (site-wide) and when I use webmaster tools to check for internal links to each page; some have as many as 250K and some as little as 200.

Shouldn't the number of internal links for pages found in the navigation menu be relatively the same? Or is Google registering more internal links for pages linked closer to the top of the code

Thanks!

Hi Sean  - Thanks for your reply. That means we'd have to check for all domains we want to  disavow whether both versions are indexed or not. Or disavow both versions just to be be on the safe side...

Hi Sean  - Thanks for your reply. I just edited my question, maybe it wasn't very easy to understand. I was just wondering if to disavow a domain that has both WWW and not-WWW versions indexed in Google, I had to disavow both:

domain:www.example.com

domain:example.com

or just:

domain:example.com

I understand the risks of using the disavow tool and asking for the links to be removed is no longer an option.

Hi All,

Just a quick question ... A shady domain linking to my website is indexed in Google for both example.com and www.example.com. If  I wan't to disavow the entire domain, do I need to submit both:

domain:www.example.com

domain:example.com

or just:

domain:example.com

Cheers!

Hi - The google on/off tags idea I got it from https://developers.google.com/search-appliance/documentation/46/admin_crawl/Preparing

| index | Words between the tags are not indexed as occurring on the current page. | fish shark
mackerel | The words fish and mackerel are indexed for this page, but the occurrence of shark is not indexed.
This page could appear in search results for the term shark only if the word appears elsewhere on the page or in anchortext for links to the page. 
Hyperlinks that appear within these tags are followed. |

Hi all,

I have 1000s of products where the product description is very technical and extremely hard to rewrite or create an unique one.

I'll probably will have to use the contend provided by the brands, which can already be found in dozens of other sites.

My options are:

• Use the Google on/off tags "don't index
  "

• Put the content in an image

Are there any other options?

We'd always write our own unique copy to go with the technical bit.

Cheers

That may have worked with YouTube's old embedded code, but not with the iFrame one.

Will give the video sitemap a go.

Hi,

Does anyone know how to implement schema.org markup with YouTube embedded videos?

Thanks

Carlos

Hi all,

I've been checking and it seems like there are only 2 options when disavowing links with Google's tool.

Disavow the link:

http://spam.example.com/stuff/content.htm

Disavow the domain:

domain: example.com

What can I do if I want do disavow a subdomain? i.e. spam.site.com

I'm also assuming that if I were to disavow the domain it would include all subdomains?

Thanks.

Hi - Will those tools allow me to see how many likes, tweets, +1s, etc my competitors have? Cheers

Hi Irving,

Thanks for responding to my thread.

Yes, that's also what I think. The only thing that worries me is that when you click on the link, because of the Javascript, instead of taking you to www.example.com it just triggers the script.

Have a look at an example here http://www.surfdome.com/Mens_Boots-677/ - Links under "Related Styles" at the top.

Cheers,

Carlos