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_Do not take it an SEO advantage. It helps you build your brand and of course, you get a link back when you are making a comment. So, for sure, there is an SEO benefit that you simply cannot ignore. _

_I can understand your pain. It seems most of the online marketers are oblivious of the fact that the traditional link building things do not work anymore. Now, as they do not know anything other than spammy link building, they are adamant on following those cliché techniques even at the expense of losing visitors and courting penalty.

Yes, it is almost next to impossible for a website to get as many as +600 visitors per day unless the website is producing share worthy content or have some great tools under its sleeves. Now, this will take really long time and the client needs to spend money to build a great website._

You need to talk to the clients. Make him see how things have changed and why it is impossible for you reach that target. Tough call indeed.

And of course, you should not join all the forums that come along the way. I have seen people skipping reputed forums because they do not give instant back link from the signature section. This is a sickening mentality. Participating in forum is about helping others and not just getting a link back from them. So, if you wish you can add a link back to your website with Branded Keyword, avoid exact matched anchor texts like plague and you will be just fine.

_Great effort. Just make sure that the Page header and Title tag are not conveying different meaning. Title tag should be using main keywords and this tag is predominantly used for search engines, whereas page headers should be used for general visitors. So, there is no harm of going a bit creative with this page header. _

ohh sorry did I mention the URL -

http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/www.google.co.uk/en/uk/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf

take your time, read this first ..

site:https://www.ramsdensforcash.co.uk/buy-it/find-your-nearest-branch/arbroath/

Not indexed

yes .. it is fine as long as you are not using it for the sole purpose of giving a push to your website's visibility.. take it as an attempt to make it easier for people to navigate your website.

Here are my two cents -

_We have ecommerce sites and the 1st crawl flags – as appears typical

• too many on-page links. We display up to 20 products (each with three links!)
  and I’m trying to push to have fewer but meeting resistance from colleagues.
  We have links duplicated all over the site believing it eases navigation._

-          _I do not think that Google or any other search engines have any such problem with too many internal links. Did you receive any such warning I Google Webmaster Tools? That would be weird though. Ebay, Amazon have loads of links site wide. Unless the page has some insane amount of internal links, I do not see any reason that it would affect the ranking.

However, it makes sense to have fewer products displayed on a page as it can directly affect page loading time. If your website is taking too long time to load just because the page has loads of content, you should go for pagination and applying rel=prev and rel=next._

My question is just how critical is the number of products displayed

and the resulting volume of links to SEO results?

Yeah. It is critical that a page has some products. It can be anything like – 20, 30 or 50. Just trynot to cross the logical limit. Think like this, if your product page contains 20000 products, would your visitors mind scrolling down the page. I do not think so. They will use the navigation or search option.

Also we currently have collections of products displayed
across several pages which of course have the same page title and this is flagged
as a duplication error.

_It seems you are talking about canonical issue. If the same product is accessible via different URLs, you need to follow this – http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html . _

_There are thousands of ecommerce websites doing exactly the same thing, so how on earth your website is going to rank high leave aside getting natural links? Moreover, I am really concerned about the quality of the write-ups? Do they read good? Are they offering any interesting perspective?  Do readers find them usual? I hope not. When you are restricting the word count to 500 words – a sweet SEO spot for majority of SEO companies, it leaves little room to the writers to go crazy with it, leaving aside doing proper market research.

rather  than focusing on adding low quality content, why not come up with a 2000 words well researched content that people would love to share with their friends. _

After Google's latest Exact Match Domain update, I do not think that you should be concentrating on keyword rich domain name. Moreover, keywords rich domain has problem with branding. For say, if you have a domain like this -

http://www.keywords.com

You will find it really  hard to promote your brand presence. And even when you are building links with Branded keywords, Google may consider it as an attempt to game SERP by building excessively with exact matched key phrases.

_From pure link building perspective, commenting on the same IP blogs may not be adding that much value to the link profile of your website. But do not take it this way. Blog commenting is more than just link building, it is about engagement and believe me when you are commenting on reputed sites that match the theme of your website, it can really drive real traffic to your website. So, please do not post thinks like this – “Great Post”, “Awesome mate, keep posting like” etc. You need to do post comment that adds value to the conversation. _

Yes, you can try but there is no surety that it will start showing a snippet of your website at the right side panel.

Keyword density is passe. Just make  sure you have used the targeted keywords in the title and a couples of times in the body content. But no need to use them as it is. For say if you are writing on Web design NY, you do not need to use the phrase as it.

yes it will fix this

_Hi I am using it for the past 2 years and I am very much satisfied. In fact, I cannot even analyze a website if I do not have access to this brilliant tool. _

_They give you data than Google Webmaster tools can provide and I do personally feel that it is not good for us to wait for Google to find the flaws in our website; rather we should use this tool to fix those flaws proactively. _

_But go for the paid version and You will Definitely get benefited. I am 100% certain. _

_It is perfectly normal to use - &trade and I do not think that it will make any impact on the visibility whatsoever. _

It seems like the latest Robots.txt file has not been cached by Google so far .. this is what it has –

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CRaSSwlGyiQJ:www.kozelben.hu/robots.txt+site:http://www.kozelben.hu/robots.txt&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

So, you need to use Fetch As Google Bot and Submit this Robots.txt file to index to fix this issue at the earliest.

What concerns me that defunct URLs like this - http://www.kozelben.hu/login?r=%2Fceg%2Fdrink-island-bufe-whisky-bar-alkotas-utca-17-1123-budapest-126126%23addComment  or http://www.kozelben.hu/supplier/nearby/supplierid/127493/type/geo are returning 200 Ok server side response code whereas they should be returning 404 server side response. The problem would have stopped here for once and all.

However assuming the fact that the CMS of your website does not offer you any such option [in that case, this is a bad CMS], you need to apply Meta noindex tag against them and wait patiently for search engine to catch them.

_Can’t you fix the 404 thing? Let us know. _

I don't think a couple of links from the same domain is going to hurt you. If it becomes too many then it loses it natural value.

Sorry I have to disagree. If I am a contributing author of SEOmoz.org and I am getting 120 links for contributing 120 great posts in its blog, Google is not going to penalize me for sure. So, as long as the articles are great, and you are doing guest posts for traffic, you are safe. Rather I would go against the idea of guest posting just for the sake of link building.

Find low quality content -

Compare the data of one month before the Panda update and after the panda update in Google analytics. Create advanced segment to get data only from Google. Then find the pages that are worse affected - remove the content completely;  and the pages that are not that affected, just leave them as it is.

Duplicate content - Try copyscape to find out duplicate content and fresh content in them.

_Hi, _

_Can you please show us the URLs.. They are not opening .. You can use bit.ly if you wish to mask the URL. Though I believe that this problem can be solved by blocking certain parameters via robots.txt file or by adding canonical tags in some pages. _