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Twitter implements nofollow tags since without them it would be a spammers paradise - that's why you're seeing the nofollow on Open Site Explorer because your link has that tag on it.

I have up to 40 tabs open in firefox and a machine with only 2GB of RAM and the seomoz toolbar installed and there is no slowing down due to the seomoz toolbar it must be being caused by something else!

Hi I'd also like a copy - who do I need to PM?

Hi there

There are a few ways to do this, and it would depend on your goals.  Obviously you don't want two different domains with the exact same content so here are some options to consider :

• Apply correct use of cannonical tags so that search engines know which is the original source, and then put your link building efforts into the original

• Create and add unique content around the Bulgaria sites property content and apply Bulgaria specific on-page optimisation to them.  The only problem with this approach is that if these properties also feature on the main(buypropertyanywhere) site that you'd be competing against yourself.

• Redirect the bulgaria site to your main site and make sure that your site architecture is good and has bulgaria as it's own 'section'. Put all your seo efforts into just your main site.

You've not given exact URL's which is fine - but if you were looking to rank the Bulgaria site on Bulgarian search engines and specifically for local searches there then the redirect option might be excluded from the above.

Hope that made some sense

Hi Sue

Had a quick look at the sites, and did a reverse ip lookup too since I was curious if both were hosted on the same server(which they are not). I then noticed that you need to redirect the following :

http://datlabs.co.uk/

to

http://www.datlabs.co.uk/

You also have a .com version which is identical(as far as I could see from the quick look I had) to your .co.uk site - are you only accepting business from the UK and are you only interested in ranking on Google UK? If the answer is yes then I'd advise you to redirect the .com site to the .co.uk and/or implement canonical tags so that Google knows which site is the primary one.  These kinds of duplicate content issues can and do affect rankings.

Another bit of advice is while I'm not going to get into the whole debate over paid links, I will say that if you use your company/domain name as the anchor text for paid listings in quality directories then you'll be far less likely to be penalised.

If you need some help with the redirect code and implementation just let us know

edit : and take out those keyword meta tags!

Hi David

Had a quick look in the SERP's and my guess is that they 'seem' to be the only page one result that has the map embedded on their site.  http://www.guestwalker.co.uk/find-us/google-map/

It's just a guess from me - but I'd give that a try and hopefully google will add that map link for your clients site.

edit : Have a look at the clients google places page and also look into rich snippets if you've not done so already.  I ran the URL that you mentioned through http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?view=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guestwalker.co.uk but they are not using rich snippets btw

This explains site architecture and the 'what is a silo' all perfectly -> http://www.seomoz.org/blog/site-architecture-for-seo

edit : as for the data at the bottom of the page I believe they did that due to their top level menu being ajax - even though google can crawl and understand ajax it might have been from years ago when it was a bit hit and miss and they wanted to be sure.

It's pretty much a useless metric these days - and remember that there might be two seperate 'Page Ranks' - the one on the toolbar and the internal one that Google has in it's vault

I'm not saying that a keyword matched domain should receive a penalty, I'm saying that it should be a more neutral ground when it comes to ranking factors.

If your site happens to have a keyword matched domain but has great content and value for a visitor then it should rightly rank higher for relevant queries - and if they changed the weighting on the matched domains then it should(in theory) weed out the thinner value sites.

Matt Cutts did mention in that interview the phrase 'level playing field' - not that I personally believe this could ever be achieved with an algorithm

I'd like to see a lot less weight being put into keyword matched domains for a start..

Hi Paul

Which CMS system are you using? I ask because there can sometimes be a ready built solution to your problem in the form of a plugin or module.

It will make no difference if you include the http:// or not - it's really up to the directory which they prefer.  What is important is :

• correct and most relevant category

• anchor text still matters I believe

• you want to try avoid the 'free for all' directories or placing your link on a page with LOTS of links on it already(or like all the way down on page number 40 of the category).

Hope the above helps

ps. As with most things in life balance and moderation is key - so don't go overboard with directories but rather use them as a part of your overall link building strategy.

Hi Brad

Keep in mind that sometimes the DA can be misleading when a site or link is on a subdomain(blogger being a good example) since Google will class the blog/site on it's own and you would then look at the PA.

Also worth noting is that the links relevancy and position within the relevant content and anchor text is ideal.

Personally I would check the competitors backlink profile, sort by domain authority(keeping an eye on subdomains that inflate this figure) and then start checking for relevancy.

Hope this helps

Hi Pandy

Set your htaccess file to redirect all non www variants to the www ones (or vice versa depending on which you'd prefer).  That should prevent the seoMoz 'bot' from reaching the 'wrong' ones(and also make sure search engines don't too.

On a side note - if Bing has your pages cached without the www and you want to go with the www variants then I suggest you first do a 301 redirect of all the pages and the domain itself so you don't lose out on any traffic and links built etc

Edit : going to leave my reply even though it seems THB beat me too it(only just though!)

I'd say you should look at using the canonical tag on all the duplicates so that search engines know for sure which is the original.

The $1 basically copies everything that precedes it ( http://www.example.com/ )

This is so that for each URL it rewrites you don't have to give it the above URL over and over again.

Hope this makes sense 

**'**If the matched regex contains groups in parentheses, $1..$9 in the replacement refer to the captured text in the
matching group "$1" meaning the first group, "$2" the second, and so on.'

I definitely agree with the keeping focus on one domain - it can just be frustrating seeing low quality sites with pretty much no banklink profile ranking on the first page.

I don't think they will be selling it, since I've noticed LOTS of the same thing all owned by seemingly the same owner.  It's just a little frustrating when such generic sites rank on the first page - but I guess this should just server as more motivation to beat them.

Such as http://www.newhomessurrey.co.uk/  http://www.newhomesglasgow.co.uk/  etc etc

I'm sure this has been asked and it also has been answered but I'd like some insight from another SEO as to why this site ->  <cite>www dot newhomesglasgow.co.uk/ </cite>

is ranking on the first page for the keyword(you guessed it) 'new homes in glasgow'  OSE shows about 4 backlinks.  Is it just the content on the page(that's jammed with keywords) and the matching URL?

Any feedback would be appreciated