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_It is a worthless practice and believe me, you are not going to get any benefit out of it. After Penguin and Panda update, this practice is now being treated as another spammy SEO technique whose sole purpose is to push the rankings of the website artificially.

Rather than wasting your time on shoddy techniques like this, you should try your best to invest your time and money to come up with great quality content that adds value to your website. _

_And yes, make sure that XML sitemap and other navigational link is hyperlinked with the canonical version of the URLs otherwise, it will be sending confusing signals to search engines. _

So, you want to create satellite websites and then get link back from those sites to your main website right? Sorry to say, but this looks like an attempt to game the SERP by artificially boosting ranking of your websites.

Moreover, it is highly likely that you are going to slap those satellite sites with thin content that nobody likes, believe me search engines have started hating them too.

Ok, let’s imagine that your main ecommerce website somehow manages to get some value from these inbound links coming satellite websites. But what if a Panda refresh gets the network down and the link juice that your main website has been getting so far will be smashed in a matter of second. All your hard work will go in vain. And please do not ignore Penguin. Your main website could come under the scanner of Google for building links unnaturally.

So, here is my suggestion. Rather than wasting your valuable time and money on building something worthless why not make your existing website AWESOME. You can build a great blog and starts sharing great content that will help you earn Links naturally. There are other things to do. Invest in making your website more conversion oriented, reach out to great bloggers and share your expertise in the form of a great article or tool or whatsoever.

In short, start adding value to your website rather than chasing the crappy links and you will be good.

Just one small problem. Home page canonical is set as this - http://www.waspkilluk.co.uk/index.html . There is nothing wrong in this, but from user’s perspective it should be this - http://www.waspkilluk.co.uk/ .

And there is a gap missing here –

_ The correct code should be this –_

_Just minor changes, otherwise it is perfectly fine.

Another friendly advice. Please redirect all non www version of pages to its www counter parts. For say, this URL - http://waspkilluk.co.uk/ should be directed to http://www.waspkilluk.co.uk/ . _

_Hi, _

_Just wondering .. Did you save the txt file in ANSI format? Sometimes, people mistakenly save it different format and this is where the problem creeps in. _

when did you lose the ranking .. seem like EMD is the culprit but no way to tell unless we have the exact date

Sorry again for disagreeing. I think the blog should be on the domain – yourdomain.com/blog

_And the blog should show some characters. I mean the blog should have Google Authorship implemented and should provide enough information about the author and active participation of the author. This is not a hit and run game. You need to write content that appeals targeted audience directly. And links will automatically come to you if the content is great, however needs a marketing push from your side; no need to chase the links by creating another domain. _

1. Redirect all non www version of the web page to with www versions

http://aplacetorent.ie/ should be redirected to http://www.aplacetorent.ie/

2. Set up canonical
http://www.aplacetorent.ie/index.asp
http://www.aplacetorent.ie/

Both pages bear the same content. Set this URL as canonical - http://www.aplacetorent.ie/ to fix internal duplicate.

3. Remove meta keywords

This tag does not make any sense. Remove them from the website.

4. Writer proper meta description

This is what the home page of the website has got. Make it description. This is what Google shows in the SERP.

5. Logo and website URLs are  different

6. Robots.txt file is missing

7. Custom 404 Error page is missing

8. Duplicate content in property listing pages

9. Most pages do not have any title

Last thing – are you serious that you are optimizing this website?

Please please do not kill that website. Whatever, you are doing is killing the website. As the website is in automobile industry, there are loads of things to do. Do you have a social media marketing plan ready? What about the local seo strategy? How is the online structure of the website? Do you have a content driven marketing plan? Are you reaching out to your targeted audience by blogger outreach? Are you utilizing the power of email marketing? What you are doing in the engagement front? What plan do you have to improve the usability of the website?

_Hold the fort for a while. I am not concerned about the menu or the way you are going to feature the links. What concerns me is that you are going to make your website very much vulnerable to Panda updates. By creating pages that are solely built for ranking high in some Location specific pages, you can make your website very much susceptible to algo updates. Build a website for users and not for search engines. This is what I would like to suggest you. However, if you still want to create location specific pages to rank high in location specific keywords, you need to make sure that you are not adding run of the mill content. Focus on what kind of exciting things you are going to offer to people of that location.  _

_Yes the number of links will eventually go down but it will take some while. Google needs to re-index those pages before you can see any difference in the GWT data. Nothing to worry about. Just get rid of those bad links and you will be good. _

_You said your website is making progress in some less competitive keywords. If this is the case, I think this is not a severe penalty. But since this is a manual penalty, you have to [and I mean it] send a reconsideration request and wait for the response. And yes, there is no such beast exists here. You gotta problem and you have to fix this. _

_Ok, do a thing, do a search with some Romanians key phrase in Google.co.uk. If you find that most of them are with co.uk domain, I hope you will get a clear mandate whether to go with .co.uk domain or with .ro domain. _

_Ha ha ,.. nice to know that you have lost the rankings .. but still there is way to recover by doing 301 redirect .. yeah I can remember the day when I did a horrible mistake. I changed all the files from html to php. And when I rank report, I realized that I have done a wonderful thing. Not a single page was in first 10 pages of Google. What was a remarkable achievement.   _

_First of all I wonder how you are going to promote the German website unless you have authority on that language. Do you have got translators in your company? If yes, there is no reason to get worried about. The process of earning links will just be the same as with any other English language website. _

What I have learnt from my personal experience that Bing is not as smart as Google in locating unnatural link patterns, spammy practices, heavily keywords specific pages and other sneaky things that some webmasters still do to increase the ranking of their website in search engines. Now, as Google is getting smart at their algo,  you may less likely to find spammy sites that often in Google as compared to Bing and probably for this reason, your website is on 4^th page.

However, I am not saying that all the first pages websites in Bing are spammy. Just a thought J

_Nope they are not. These links are easy links and therefore, will not have any impact on the rankings whatsoever. And as Alan has rightly said, these RSS Feed may increase the likelihood of duplicate content. _

What you actually want? As you said that this page has already been removed from the server, just wait few days and Google will automatically detect this. And in the mean time, you should run Xenu to find out pages that have link reference to this page (if any). Just fix this and you are good.

If we go by the algorithm, yes getting 20 links from 20 different domains does help in securing better ranking in the SERP. But again this will look like; you are writing these articles solely for the purpose of earning links. Rather why not tread middle ground here. You can publish a series of such articles with the same author bio from a single website. This will have twin benefits – You will establish a strong relation with the targeted readers and secondly the whole process will appear natural.

_However, I would rather like to get all those high value content on my website and then I will promote them. If they are really great articles, my website will get direct value from it and probably, the website might have earned one or two links naturally. _

_I wonder why you are chasing PR. If you site is good, has great content and is enjoying high rankings in Google’s SERP, you are good. Do not waste your energy on thing like PR. PR shows the quality of the website and therefore, you have to earn it by coming up with great posts and by earning some natural links. And hopefully, you will see some changes in the PR in the next update. _