You'll want to make sure that you're using the Canonical Tag so Google and others know that your site owns & is the originator of the content.
Posts made by EricaMcGillivray
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RE: Syndicated posts extracts on wordpress and impact on SERPS
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RE: Is it just me or is there an increase in call tracking?
Yes, you are correct that certain kinds of call tracking and having different numbers out there online do dilute your NAP and you don't want it for your local rankings. That said, there are definitely services out there which do different types of tracking without giving different numbers. One I can across was m.Call. (Note: I know nothing about them except that they say their service avoids this.)
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RE: Articles / Balanced Profile
Google says they want a "natural" looking anchor text pattern as they don't want anyone buying links. Thus, you are correct in that they are penalizing you for having the same anchor text in your links.
You need to focus on words that people would actually be searching for to find your site and like what they find. If I was running www.houserestoration.com and drove people via the anchor text "kittens," people would not like my site as it wasn't relevant to their needs/interests as they are looking for information about "house restoration," not "kittens."
Likewise, even words closer to your category might not be the best. People searching for "house" can be looking for a lot of things, but I' d say given a Google search for "house" that more people looking for House (the TV show), Government branches, or Real Estate which have nothing to very little to do with "house restoration."
You know what your customers are looking for. Use those words.
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RE: Articles / Balanced Profile
Yes, the search engines will eventually recognize the varied anchor text. It will be a slow recognition.
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RE: Mitigating duplicate page content on dynamic sites such as social networks and blogs.
You can disallow these sections in your robots.txt to cut out all these. However, they can still show are URL only in search results. In order to completely remove them, you need to add noindex tags to the header of each pages. I'm assuming that these are created dynamically with a template that you should be able to add the nofollow. But be careful that you only add them to the pages you want!
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RE: We changed servers
Hello,
First, moving servers should not affect your site rankings at all. Unless something in the move went wrong and lost some of your files in the transfer. Or you moved to an inferior server from your old one, but since most people move to better ones, I highly doubt that's the case.
The first thing I noticed when I visited your site is that you had no robots.txt file (www.transfers-in-europe.com/robots.txt). And since you have a log-in area, I'm assuming that you want it so some of your site is not crawlable by search engines. If you don't put your robots.txt at http://www.transfers-in-europe.com/robots.txt, the search engines won't find it.
After you get your robots.txt up and going, the second thing I'd recommend is making sure you have an xml sitemap. You can use Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tools to expedite the process of their crawlers crawling it.
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RE: Redirect between domains: any real number on how much link juice is lost?
301 is the best solution possible for moving your site to pass along your linkjuice. And you want to move all of it, not just pages with backlinks.
Many people have asserted that you can see up to a 10% dip initially. (Most people only see dips from a week to a month at most.) However, over the long-term, with a better site & URL structure, you should see a rise in traffic. I have no seen anyone doing a predictive modle on this.
Seer Interactive did this test 301 Redirect Test: How Much Link Juice are YOU Losing? which saw no rankings lost, but favorable outcomes in the long-term for the better site.
While I'd never put words in Cutts' mouth, I believe he was saying that if you can, getting your backlinks changed to your new site's URL is optimal. But obviously, this is not always possible. Instead, I'd concentrate on link building new links to your website on its new URL. (One should always be working on getting back links as part of your on-going SEO anyway.)
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RE: Re-platform effects on Page Rank
301 is the best solution possible. Many people have asserted that you can see up to a 10% dip initially. (Most people only see dips from a week to a month at most.) However, over the long-term, with a better site & URL structure, you should see a rise in traffic. I have no seen anyone doing a predictive modle on this.
Seer Interactive did this test 301 Redirect Test: How Much Link Juice are YOU Losing? which saw no rankings lost, but favorable outcomes in the long-term for the better site.
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RE: Too Many On-Page Links: Crawl Diag vs On-Page
To answer #1, yes, no-follow is the valid strategy to reduce link count for a page.
For #2, I'm not sure, but we'll get an answer for you.

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RE: Best way to implement a "Latest Videos" list on partner sites
I think RSS feeds or iFrames would be the easiest to implement for your sites, if your main goal is driving traffic from site to site. They are pretty easy to implement and maintain.
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RE: Title tag discrepancy - is this a Yoast or SEOMoz thing?
The ones saying it's long are including the site name. So in the WP plug-in, you're only typing in your title -- Best Blog Post Ever -- but how it's displayed is -- Best Blog Post Ever | Example.com -- and that's what the SEOmoz tool is picking up as your entire title tag.
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RE: Is the number at the top of google wrong
Sadly, yes. Perhaps that's something to ask a Google Engineer about an SEO conference.

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RE: Social Media Link Building Strategy Feedback
I'd be really cautious about making yourself look spammy by putting too much of your duplicate content out there. Instead, I'd focus on doing great in the social places where your customers are based. You said you're going to registar 150 (this seems excessive), but not use them. In order to get good social signals, you actually have to build content and groom your accounts. Who wants to follow someone on social media who basically has a dead account?
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RE: Change in link structure due to Joomla
301s will not pass all the link juice. But they will pass most of it.
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RE: Is the number at the top of google wrong
Google says "about" this means that they probably won't match and are somehow rounding it.
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RE: How to add a simple page to a campaing.
Hi,
Our crawler will pick up all your pages inside your domain in it's tracking. Your "campaign" consists of any page under your domain. So if you set up, www.example.com, it will also crawl www.example.com/pandas or www.example.com/kittens or any other page that you have created.
For tracking your keyword, you want to set up "Rafeal Navarro" as a keyword in your campaign. This will show up how your keyword changes in ranking week to week in "Rankings." For each keyword, you can look at keyword analysis, which shows you which one of your pages is ranking for that term. (I've attached screenshots of both where the drop-down is and what the info looks like to help.)
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