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That is a tricky one.

I would definitely have pages up for each at the start, but with different content, even if Im forced to invest further to make it more unique.

Once the traffic for that brand name dwindles down, I would redirect it to the latest name.

Depending on the competition level, if it's not too hard, I would just stick with 1 page but make sure to mention the old name on the body (and even on the meta details if possible) It can rank just as well.

These are all assumptions. It's really a tricky position that needs to be analysed further.

Hey Tanveer

There are a lot of guides out there for link building.

This one is a good one http://backlinko.com/link-building

That should be enough to get you ranking

Look at Google Trends, Quora, Yahoo Answers, keyword tools that get from Google Instant are also good.

Find forums. Look at Reddit (add /top/?t=all at the end to check out the most popular posts)

Wordpress based will always be more flexible. I havent used SS for a year though. I've seen all their recent changes and how they've taken the right steps to better SEO but I would still lean on Wordpress/Magento. If you have a few products, then you might want to try out SS. If you have experience with Wordpress in the past, then jump on to that but be sure you have a fast server. If you have a LOT of products, go with magento

Hi Denis

I would definitely go the whitepaper or infographic route here.

Even the most boring of niches can find ways.

Aside from that, I would look at the existing links of your competitors to further drill down other opportunities. You won't really run out of places to put links to. Broken link building has worked wonders for the eng niches Ive worked on.

Share on different times of the month. You'll have a hell of a time with that so either keep track of it or assign/outsource it.

A lot of people are using that on LinkedIN... so try to check the groups first. Groups that only have group members that share their own links arent that ideal in most cases as the members dont even bother to read the content.

You can ask them to change it or just find a way to redirect http://www.mydomain.com/  back to the correct page. Whichever is easier.

That's pretty much the only options I'd have if I were in the situation.

You need to test it and see what happens. Most of the times I've done this, nothing really happened. As long as everything is pretty much intact and the URL didnt change

It does get counted. You might even see the bit.ly link show. Bots can crawl and follow these shorteners.

I haven't successfully outranked it to be honest. I've never seen it done...

If it's for a phrase/questions, and you want to outrank the answer generated by google, try to be the one that is linked in the answer by analysing how the current one got there. That's the fastest (but still hard) way.

I have seen both sides of the coin, some get affected, most don't.

I prefer to clean it up though and make sure those can't get indexed. I do this as part of our onpage SEO standards. We dont proceed until it's dealt with so it's a high priority.

It's cleaner, gets crawled easily and more efficient. Doesn't hurt

Well that is that trend but it's just like back then when they said niche sites are dead and everyone should build "authority sites" - it's the same thing, just with faster and more aggressive marketing/content team.

So yeah, the trend will continue as social gets more popular until it gets really, really overboard and social sites will just launch another algorithm to clear out the lower quality ones. Either way, getting links from them = win. Imagine all the new users you can sign up from the referral traffic alone. The links you will get from being featured again is a bonus.

Good luck!

Hi Mason,

You can use call to actions on your page, even use hellobar.com, etc - then locate all these engagers using circloscope and ask them if it be ok to give you a +1 for the link you will mention in the message.

I'm not sure if that is what you meant but I hope it helps.

Try talkwalker and mention.net if you just want to monitor keywords and brands.

try this one (http://www.microdatagenerator.com/hotel-schema/)

can you load the pages? It might be the server speed (developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ should estimate if you are loading a slow page) which makes MA think they timed out

Or....it might just be a bug at that time. Try it again maybe?

1. It sounds like the site already has the www right now. You don't really need to change it, but since you want to, then go ahead and forward it. I have never experienced any bad coming from this personally. I does take a while to get ALL the urls that are indexed to show the right one but aside from that, none really.

2. Is it going to be an easily spammable, unmoderated platform? Then I'd go with user.domain.com.

But in most cases, use the /folder.

Hi!

I have to be honest and not sugar coat this, I have never seen any direct SEO benefit from using site search...

You can use the data you get from it, but it's probably not the tangible benefit you are looking for.

Hi Robert,

It looks like so. Directories are ranking higher than the actual official sites for many keywords which further forces us to diversify our marketing to different platforms. Let's see what happens this month. They might add a few tweaks.

Noticed that the 7packs are also gone. More 3packs now.

Much like for Facebook, we usually recommend to do so. A main one is probably needed. It's for the general audience, to send out company wide promotions and stuff.