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It's actually nerve wrecking - I'm afraid I'll do some auto-tweet somehow or hit tweet button on an article out of habit. Twitter withdrawal symptoms for 10 days!

I hear good things about http://www.ayima.com/ - have met Rob Kerry at SMX Sydney this year and the man knows his link building.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200622210180

Whatever it sells for I'm giving to: http://www.beaheroaustralia.org/

Thanks guys,

Dan

Are we able to see this IP / domain?

My vote goes for Magento. It's a bit of a pain to set up and configure but very robust and has not caused us any anomalies so far.

In some instances it's simply swapped but in others it seems to depend on on-site. I am puzzled though that a page with no links ranked the same way the page with links.

Google's own guidelines say the following:

If your site targets users in a particular location, you can provide us with information that will help determine how your site appears in search results, and also improve our search results for geographic queries. You can only use this feature for sites with a neutral top-level domain, such as .com or .org. Country-specific domains, such as .ie or .fr, are already associated with a country or region. If you don't want your site associated with any location, select Unlisted.

I have to admit that I have never actually set the website as unlisted but instead left it up to Google to determine where to serve. So far haven't noticed any issues.

I have been noticing this behaviour creep in slowly over the period of some months on many of the websites I monitor -- particularly eCommerce. The idea is that the user is sent to the very product page as Google determines that most users end up there eventually. Where they fail is by forcing users to end pages when they are not ready for it (still browsing and researching and would much rather see a category then a product page).

There are website crawlers you can employ to scan the site and hunt for specific parameters such as: http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

None to my knowledge. Wouldn't loading of offline data into algorithm go against Google's whole philosophy?

What an interesting topic!

Firstly URL effect is minor in comparison to the actual navigational hierarchy.

I give preference to short and neat URLs however www.company.com/category/sub-category/service doesn't sound terrible to me. What would be my primary concern is if this is how you get to that page:

Home > Category > Sub Category > Service (3 clicks)

If this "Service" is a key service to your client then it would be wise to create navigational wormholes to drill through from say home page or top level category page and label it as "popular" or within a piece of text.

In a website with 200-300 pages PageRank distribution and indexation should not be a problem (assuming you have decent links) so there is no huge need for flattening site architecture to the point where you have 1000 links on each page.

I have heard Matt Cutts validate this point in at least two or three of his videos stating that linking your main content from as high as possible is the key.

I wonder how many Serbian SEOs on SEOMoz? Raise your hand everyone.

Pozdrav!

Good point and absolutely a must, though once you exhaust all that and have already a good content strategy and your competitors are still kicking your butt - what then?

Internally we go technical, big backlink profile analysis, do the maths and go hard and creative on links. It's kind of like brute force in some respect however within 2-3 months you're going up after many months of stagnation.

I see this all the time in highly competitive industries (e.g. insurance, flights...etc).

There have been cases though where we have seen quality beat quantities (in extreme differences)... still a bit of a mystery to me if I am to be completely honest.

If your competition is getting quantities of links and beating you while your your best content effort cannot level up... that might be what you need to do - get as many new c-block links using all means possible apart from buying links and spam (I cannot recommend those).

Article submission and directories are not my favorite activity and I do not believe in it - however there is ample evidence that sheer quantities can win.

The answer I gave you is simplified as I have not analysed your and your competitor's links in details (anchor text, authority, numbers, velocity...etc).

_The quickest way to get through the queue is to have a post 100% ready to be published. _

Absolutely. This is why it's so important that your guys fix the editor, is a real pain to work with and it doesn't even allow H tags for topical hierarchy.

I really tried to have my post entered as neatly as I could - that's a promise.

Thanks for your valuable input.

If you are to sort the factors - I guess titles would be at the top of your list, what would follow?

It's safe to include rel="canonical" on all canonical versions of your site and will not cause any problems. I have done this and tested many times. If you run a template based website such as WordPress it would be much easier if all pages referred to their own canonical version (even if it be itself).

• Creating a lot of bad content is a bad strategy.
• Creating a lot of good content is a good strategy.

(Assuming it's done in balance with your capacity.)

Content is the king but a kingdom needs other roles to run smoothly so I would not completely sacrifice other SEO activities just to satisfy monthly content needs.

One example of content being a problem is when too many pages discuss the same topic and fragment your inbound links, diluting the effect. This would only be good if that was only way to get as many diverse inbound links.