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I've conducted an experiment with several friends in my 'Friends' Circle within Google+

To start I +1'd a clients site whilst signed in to Google. Then I Signed out and went on to tweet the URL for another clients website and finally facebook shared yet another clients website (within another industry)

I asked my friends to +1, tweet and FB share a URL which I gave them.

Now when signed into Google the +1'd website (normally at 9th in Google) is now ranked 3rd with a note under the SERP telling me my firend +1'd the site. The website which received the Tweets is now 9th on Google, it is normally 12th when not signed in. Also a note appeared under the serp saying my friend had Tweeted the URL.

The page that received the facebook shares didn't change in position!

All the people concerned all follow each other on twitter, belong to the same circle on Google+ and are friends on Facebook.

Not a very well set up or executed experiement, I made it up as I went along and put into practise within 5 minutes of conceiving the idea. But interesting results all the same.

If Google+ takes off and people adopt the trend of staying logged into Google when searching, Social Metrics are going to have a huge impact on traditional SEO.

Now all we need is someone to setup a 'proper' experiement.

oh, you missed off Android and the efforts to takeover the mobile OS market!

Kowtow to Google.

Agreed, the number of personalised searches will increase if Google+ catches on. Is this the beginning of the end for SEO?

Hi all,

With the recent launch of Google+ I've looked into the possible effects of +1'ing sites and whether or not it has a direct effect on other people with whom I'm connected within Google+.

So far I cannot see any direct correlation, however I running a bigger/wider experiement with more people to get a definitive answer.

What does scare me as an SEO, is that Google+ users will (most likely) use Google search whilst they are logged in, which, as we know personalises results based on a myriad of suspected metrics such as previous visits, personal +1, etc...

How is this going to effect the SEO world if/when a Google+ attracts more users.

Experienced this first hand when a client called me to congratulate a jump from position 9 on Google to first position over the weekend, which when I checked, the website hadn't shifted, the client was logged into her Google account due to the fact she had been playing with plus.

Thoughts?

Cheers

Aran

Personally I've always avoided hiding page objects, seems to be a little fruitless to put work into implementing an object on a page only not to show it.

If the graphic is simply text and the aim of the graphic is to provide a good looking heading theres no reason not to use Google fonts (or similar) or Cufon HTML5 tags.

if theres any others going spare, I'd love one. EDIT: Good Point Tompt...PM me Thanks

Thats why I ask on SEOmoz, a sensible answer with sensible advice that can be easily put into action.

This had crossed my mind, however I've been staring at the woods so long, I couldn't see the trees!

Thanks EGOL.

I have a clients site, which we publish fresh news content daily and have done for some time. this has built up a huge archive of news over the past few years. All the news resides in a /news sub folder. The most interesting news articles are syndicated through facebook and twitter.

Note: All the news is original content.

The archive is based around a chronological filing system so /news/2010/December would retrieve news articles published in December 2010.

My first question is this, in the Post Panda seo world, since the news in the archives receives little to no traffic, will these be classed as low quality pages, even though they are generally informative and timely news articles?

My Second Question, It's my understanding that a site can be penalised for harbouring low quality pages, thus would I be better to do away with my news archive of around 600+ articles and impose a rule that news is removed from the site after a set period (say 6 -12 months)?

nice catch!

Maybe I'm missing something, but...

Unzip the file on your computer first, then upload the extracted folder containing the files and sub folders to the themes folder.

PA = Page Authority and DA = Domain Authority. These are values SEOmoz use to "emulate" PageRank (emulate may not be the best choice of words).

you can get access to these metrics via the SEOmoz toolbar or opensiteexplorer

Hi Yannick,

The time can vary hugely depending on the competitiveness of the terms you targeting.

A general rule of thumb I use is wait a month and check opensiteexplorer results, check PA and DA for improvements, if these metrics have improved then you should see some positive SERPs movement.

regards

Aran

Hi, As far as I'm aware, a sitemap is exactly that, A site map, thus they shouldn't be used to map URLs for mulitple domains.

To avoid duplicate content canonical references should be used.

Use a separate site map for each domain.

Hi Damon,

Get the SEOmoz Toolbar, it has a function to highlight NoFollow links. very handy!

http://www.seomoz.org/seo-toolbar

Regards

Aran

Tables are designed to display tabular data, not to be used for site design layout.

Though Google doesn't penalise you for it, Its an ancient way of coding, which may result in a 'Low Quality' signal.

As Marcus and EGOL mention, its best to avoid using table for layout, but they are fine for detailing information which may require a table format.

Regards

Aran

Personally, I wouldn't stop it being indexed.Its not like your being spammy with the onpage links.

P.s. awesome website, really love the photography on the background images.

#1 definitely, one big site is easier to optimise, promote and manage than a series of smaller sites.

with lots of smaller sites link building is a huge job where each link will only benefit the site it links too, where as 1 big site all links to it are going to benefit the domain as a whole.

the possibilities are endless now.

Check out http://bit.ly/m9pmc6 for some inspiration

I assume you have used some kind of rewrite on the server to change URLS to / rather than .aspx. This could be utilising some kind of redirect to move traffic from .aspx to /.

Firstly, I'd check how the URLs are rewritten (if they are), Unfortuntaley my knowledge of windows server configs is limited, however in Linux I'd be checking my HT Access file and the redirect/rewrite rules.

Once you have ascertained how the redirect us happening and solve the issue, then i'd implement the correct 301 redirects.

I'd like to ask why you opted for name-of-page/ rather than name-of-page.aspx?