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The trickiest part about IP redirection is that a lot of crawlers are US based, and therefore the crawlers may not see many of the pages that currently exist on your site and deserve crawling/ranking. There are cases that I've been involved in where IP detection was crucial, but I've also experienced problems with it.

The best advice I can give you is that if you must redirect, then monitor the website on a daily basis and if the site bounces up or down (all other factors equal), then look at removing the redirection.

Here's a thread that you might like to look over: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/webmasters/chit-chat/c2gk9cKWJYY

I really hope this helps!

Thanks Mat,

Exactly what I told the owner of the website, guess I'll have to see how he responds. Hopefully this will get cleaned up quickly

Hi folks,

I'm working on a website that runs on WordPress and was not updated by the owner, this has resulted in a malware injection and now when you search the companies name in Google, the site links appear with words like Viagra, et al.

I've seen this a number of times, so I went through the code and have removed all the malware.

I presume I now have to wait for Google to recrawl the website and update the site links? Is there anything else I should be doing to speed up the process?

Thank you

You could try to block the URL in robots.txt like Sanket says below, but at the end of the day, the link's still pointing to your website and therefore Google will still see it. If I'm not mistaken, Bing has launched their disavow tool already (Ref: http://www.serperture.com/blog/link-building/disavow-link-tool-block-bad-incoming-links), so perhaps you should at least start there?

David, SaraSEO states, "I cannot get these websites to remove our links" above, so I would say that she has tried that to no avail, unfortunately.

Pleased to have been able to assist

Yup, I've used YouTube, Vimeo and a few other services for video hosting and I can say hands down that YouTube is the best one for so many reasons, most of which EGOL has mentioned. The only ONE thing I can say is that a premium Vimeo account is advert free, whereas with YouTube (embeds included) you often have Adsense showing and off the top of my head, I don't think you have control over turning the Adsense adverts on or off.

How about www.linkdetective.com, fidelityim?

Hi Aidan,

I've always been a big fan of on-site SEO, so when it comes to this sort of thing, I've spent a lot of time doing trial and error with all sorts of combinations. Here are my thoughts based on my feedback:

1. "keyword | keyword" is better than "keyword|keyword".
2. Writing a meta title that reads as a sentence is better than "keyword | keyword"

So for example, I might actually go for:

"Great Chocolate Cake recipes for Christmas"

Instead of actually trying to stuff all the keywords in. If you're desperate for 3 keywords on a page, then make use of other on-site factors to achieve this, stuffing them into the title won't get you the desired result - at least, that's what my experience shows.

Hope that helps

Hi SaraSEO,

If I've understood correctly, you have backlinks to your website that you would like to have removed as they're harming your domain's authority. If that's the case, then the best thing you can do is Google about Google's disavow tool and list the domains as unwanted.

Unfortunately negative SEO is a topic that's been discussed in great detail and there are many opinions, but listing these bad domains as unwanted is a wise move. Blocking the IP addresses on your production firewall, isn't going to stop Google from seeing the association unfortunately.

Hope that helps!

Thanks Oleg,

I get like that too sometimes, where I feel like giving back to the community - karma.

Thank you for your advise and for the links, I shall do some reading and implement things accordingly.

Really appreciate this!

Hit the Good Answer button! lol.

My pleasure James, let's see if anyone else comes and adds some value, but I feel that what I've said is quite accurate and it's how I would have done it.

Hi Oleg,

Cheers for your feedback, I saw you were "on duty", hehe, so was hoping that you'd respond.

Point taken about the sidebar link, perhaps I should add one there dispite my dislike for site wide links. That said, there's a Popular Cities & Town box on the home page, that links to this page, or do you feel site wide is more important?

I didn't think about the pagination, I shall do that, thank you.

What are your thoughts on those internal links at the top of the page and possibly incorporating nofollows? I agree with you that they are diluting the page horribly, an internal link count revealed around 108 internal links on that page alone!

Let me know what you think.

PS. Yes, new design and setup would be ideal, but there isn't budget for that unfortunately.

Hi Barret,

Have you watched these two Whiteboard Friday's by SEOmoz:

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUrl6p53yfo
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5649gtXA4o

These aren't new videos, but there is a good amount of information in the mix that you could learn from.

Otherwise, a simple search on the SEOmoz Blog or Search Engine Watch will reveal an assortment of great links to read.

Hope that helps!

Hey James,

I have to tell you, I have a number of websites that I look after that have incredibly long parameter URLs and/or horribly unfriendly URLs, but none of the sites rank badly because the rest of the SEO is done well and completely white hat. So, off the bat, I say you shouldn't worry too much.

If you have a URL such as www.carfind.com?make=honda&price=20000&color=red&year=2005... but obviously on your site, is Google indexing these URLs? Surely they're just dynamic searches essentially? Each car on the website has an actual absolute URL? It's the absolute URLs that I would worry about, and I'd rather put my time and effort into that than changing search queried URLs.

Just my opinion based on sites I've worked on

Cheers.

An absolute pleasure, please keep us posted and let us know if our advise assisted you with your rankings.

Good luck!

Hi folks,

I've got a fairly interesting scenario. I'm trying to rank this page (http://www.staysa.co.za/sa/1-2-0-0-1/East-London/accommodation) better for the term, "accommodation east london". The client isn't keen on making many changes and it was built horribly with ASP, half CMS, half not.

I have made the following changes today:

1. I introduced two paragraphs of text below the H1 tag.
2. I changed "East London Bed and Breakfast", "East London Conference Venues", "East London Cottage / Chalet" to just "Bed and Breakfast", "Conference Venues", "Cottage / Chalet" as the continual key phrase duplication in my experience is a bad move.
3. I've made a change to the title tag (this is a huge mission as it's not CMS controlled, so I had to teach myself some basic ASP to do so).
4. Meta data.. nightmare to change unfortunately, at least not without rewriting part of the CMS.

I'm wondering, are there any other on-site factors that I'm missing? I'm not a fan of site-wide links, so I don't want to put an exact match anchor text link from the sidebar/footer to the page, not unless someone can motivate why I should.

Keen to hear everyone's opinions

Good point Oleg!

Hi Prime85,

There's quite a bit to this actually. I see that the link to "Plastic Bins", actually clicks through to monsterbins.com, ie. a different website. The crux of the matter here is that a link from the plastic-bins.com/plastic-shelf-bins/ website to the monsterbins.com website will add value provided the plastic-bins.com page has a decent authority and is relavant to the page it is linking too. So, in other words, you can use the Mozbar to see the page authority of the plastic-bins.com/plastic-shelf-bins/ page and compare that to the page it's linking too. Ideally, you'd want the authority to be the same or more on the plastic-bins.com/plastic-shelf-bins/ page and to ensure that the content is relevant (not duplicate either).

If you're hoping for those links to offer value through to monsterbins.com, I would suggest taking time to carefully look at the SEO on the pages, I see issues in your meta data and other areas. The SEOmoz On-Page Optimization tool is a fantastic tool to assist you with this.

I hope that helps?

Hi Samuel,

The H1 element on a page plays a large roll in ranking, but it isn't the only factor. I had a client once whose web designer placed the websites logo in an H1 tag, by removing the H1 tag, and correctly playing the targeted keywords in the H1 tag per page, we managed to jump up the ranks fairly well.

My opinion on this matter is that this could well be the problem, but if things don't change within the next 7 days, then I would look at a full audit on one of the pages in question.

It is also important to note that you should only use one H1 tag per page, and rather use H2 or H3 for subsequent "titles".

I hope that helps!