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I wouldn't worry too much if you are using your brand name or domain name then you are building natural links.

Personally, if you have different types of widgets then vary the anchor text / URL in the embed code for each.

Norberto,

It would be great if you could leave a link to your site so I could see your current navigation.

You could categorise the pages based on the team therefore all pages relating to a particular team would be interlinked with one another. As Alan recommended if running WordPress a plugin such as YARRP will help to link related pages together automatically based on content, tags and categories.

But linking your pages will help to flow link juice from old to new pages and help users navigate to related stories and fixtures.

Hi, you are running All in One SEO Pack 1.6.14.2 by Michael Torbert not Yoast

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/

Hi Ian,

Open Site Explorer only crawls a percentage of the web and your DMOZ listing might be in a page that is too deep to be crawled and indexed by Linkscape. Also the OSE data is only updated every few weeks with the the next update due at the end of the month.

If you run a Google Search for site:dmoz.org  "Nutrition Mission"

You can see the listing page has been indexed by Google and the last page cache is showing as  9 Apr 2012 10:18:13 GMT, so Google has visited the page recently and discovered your link.

That's right wapkilluk.co.uk is the root domain and www.waspkilluk.co.uk is your sub-domain

Hi Ankit

If you are trying to optimise your WordPress Blog then I recommend the Yoast Wordpress plugin.

It will certainly help you implement the correct Canonical URL for category/tag pages  http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/#canonical

Find the articles bringing in no traffic first some pf the articles might be bringing in some long tail traffic but gradually switch to the new articles when & where appropriate.

Ok so on further inspection I can see a lot of Anchor text heavy reciprocal links which have no doubt triggered the Webmaster tools message.

Reciprocal links themselves are not inherently bad but can often be implemented (particularly at scale) in ways that are not true to the spirit of trust and authority.

Reciprocal links are viewed negatively if there is an agreement or incentive in place to do so. This type of linking can get you in trouble if it makes up too large of a percentage of your overall backlinks.

In addition to these links you have internal links within poorly written content within the blog posts. Content written with the purpose of containing links is almost never high quality.

If you want quality links you need to take a personal approach to your emails. Whether that means offering some free advice e.g. Broken link building/Site errors, pitching a guest blog or just asking for a link. Good content + good relationships = good links

I'm sorry to hear of your bad experience. Without seeing your site I can't comment 100% on the quality of the content. By the sounds of it your former firm were trying to rank 1 page for 1 keyword I assume the pages are 350-600 word garbage posts? Personally I would consolidate the pages by trying to rank one page for several keywords. I would delete them, get a writer to write new content & 301 them to the new pages. If you want me to offer additional advice please feel free to send me a private message or email me via my website.

In my opinion, yes, there is some value in getting your website listed in some directories–but not all.

The main trick is figuring out which directories are worthwhile. I'd put a higher value on sites such as BOTW or DMOZ over 99.9% of directories in your list.

The main thing is to check how often the listings are updated, are the pages cached regularly by the SE's and the general quality of the sites that are submitted.

What you're trying to do is to figure out how much trust and what value the SE's are giving to the sites.

There are probably a few jewels in your list but I would be very selective and once you have found a dozen good sites you'll have a high quality list for most projects.

From an SE point of view XML sitemaps are enough, if you have a large site you may want to consider having more than one sitemap for different categories.

As Kieron suggested HTML Sitemaps are useful for people to navigate your site it might be worthwhile writing some PHP to convert the XML into HTML and making your HTML Sitemap a little more dynamic?

Many SEO Hosting services use the same Domain Name Servers for their accounts and then you allocate a different Class C-IP once the sites are propogated.

This means that there is a footprint to follow especially as the Search Engines have easy access to Whois and DNS information.

You don't have to be a  genius to do a query to match the SEOHosting DNS information against a Whois Database to compile a list of sites for reviews.

There is no set hard and fast rules so this is simply my opinion.

Google is pretty lenient if the percentage of content you have copied is low compared to the rest of your page.

Duplication issues can also be overcome if you have other good SEO trust signals i.e. good back links, established domain, unique content etc. I assume this is why Rotten Tomatoes get away with duplication issues as they have an established brand.

As long as you are citing the original source and the duplicated content is not a large percentage of your page then you should be ok.

If you want to build links from your images then you will need to allow hotlinking from your site - there is a great piece of code from Patrick Atloft and also a Wordpress plugin that will mean you can get links via this method but the script can be heavy on your bandwidth each month.

As for using your images as part of your social media then Pinterest and Flickr would be good places to start.

You  want to rel="canonical" the actual products in the categories for example with Magento with just 5 products in a category page you can end up with nearly 200 different URLs because

• You can sort them by Grid or by list
• You can sort them by Position, Name, Price etc
• You can show 9, 15 or 30 per page
• You can sort them ascending or descending

So basically any link that changes the visual elements of a page but doesn’t change the content of the page I'm not sure if your site does this but that's why its important to use rel="canonical" for eComm sites..

Hit CTRL + U and now compare the 2 pages you can see that this page has just 3 products on it this means that about 90% of the content on this page i.e. the header, sidebar, footer is the same as this page.

1. Your titles are also very similar one is 1994-02 5.9L Dodge Cummins Diesel Performance Parts and the other is 1994-98 5.9L Dodge Cummins Carbon Fibre Hoods make sure your titles lead with the difference i.e.

Carbon Fibre Hoods for 1994-98 5.9L Dodge Cummins

2. Canonise your Product Pages - make sure you use the rel="canonical" on the individual product listings

3. Remove the common text - e.g. opening hours from the sidebar and consider a page specifically for that content

4. Try adding a unique paragraph to each page - this is easier said than done depending on your CMS but every little helps

Zeke To learn how to use the linkscape/OSE try this article from distilled http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/getting-started-with-the-free-linkscape-api/ SEOMoz has a toolbar just like SEOQuake http://www.seomoz.org/seo-toolbar

As Ryan mentioned the ratio is not important the only difference is do follow pass PR no follow do not.

I would return a 404 as the content no longer exists. If visitors are discovering this page via a link that provides traffic then you need to ask why you are not creating alternative content as a replacement.