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This has happened with us too a few times, usually we bounce right back if not higher in the listings a week or so later.

Hes got 77 Linking Root Domains mostly seems to be coming from his linking network or article sites, while I have only 31.  Also he is only ahead of us in one variant of the keyword (the biggest traffic wise).  It seems that he pretty much focusing on just that keyword 58/77 of the links, while I only have 16/31 using the same keyword.

But you think that because the junk links he has, hes not that far ahead of me  ie I don't need to get 30+  good anchor text links to reclaim the top spot?

his site is a niche furniture site and the links on the bottom of his homepage are:

weight training for women - silk sheets - ladies perfume - quilts for sale - fireplace screen - bed quilts - chess sets - buy dvd

But there are not reciprocal, those sites link to a completely different set of sites, which then some of them link back to him, quite complex.  Then on every page of his he has a completely different set of links (and the same with the sites he links too).  Other than that he got a load olds of articles posts (some years old).

I have had a good look at all of his links and really he only has a few what you could call relevant links at a stretch, but not as many as us.

But back on topic, you don't think the no follow links from Dailymotion are any good? (they have high PA, 50s

We have been ranking No.1 for a nice term for over a year, but in the last few months a competitor has taken 1 and 2 (we are 3rd now).  It seems hes using a linking web i.e each of his pages has about 20 text links at the bottom of his page to irrelevant sites which in turn do the same thing giving them a nice PA thats about 5-4 more than mine now.

But the interesting thing is that his top 3 links are from videos he has put up on to Dailymotion which has linked back to himself with (no follow links).

We use youtube for our embedded videos, but are we missing a trick? should we be using daily motion too?

on a side note it looks like he has made some articles from junk submit article sites, that link to his site, his facebook fan page and the dailymotion video.

Same thing has happened to me a few times, the next update then put us back  down to where we were seeing it.  But a few weeks later (still working on the linking building) we actually did move up.  So I think google does fluctuate its results, but It means your getting close.

Having said that I had the rank checker come up with some questionable reports for the odd keyword, but 99% it seems to be right.

I would also add that the Google Keyword Tool can be way off the mark at times, giving you much higher numbers that the exact word gets, so giving good keyword terms low figures.  That has been my experience when doing research with for keywords in niche (google.ie), but I have heard other say the same.

Still its good way to get a few ideas for keywords and there numbers.

Also I agree exact is way more usefully (broad can be useful at times)

We can't access you personal campaigns.

No need to "fix " Canonicals, they are a good thing.  Basicly if you have dupe pages the dupe pages all link back to the original article so google knows which article is the original.

Basicly the blue parts of the report are notes,  yellow is warning (may or may not be a bad thing),  Red is critical (bad)

I used AceSEF for a few joomla sites I have built, does the job but can't really comment how good it is compared to the others.  The free version puts backlinks/ads on your page, but since it GPL you can go in and remove the links from the code.... if you know where to look

edit: the real problem is finding if its compatible with the other extensions you are using, or if the seo mod you use has an add on for that extensions, and how much that cost.

We rank well across many online furniture keywords within google.ie here in Ireland, this is our core business and it is successful. Now we want to branch out into the related field of "kitchens". So the question is do we setup a new domain (a sister site) or keep it on the same domain with a new sub category. So the main categories off the home page would be:

• Sofas

• Bedroom Furniture

• Dining Furniture

• Kitchens

I know all the benefits of keeping to the one domain (the domain has age, and already has DA of 30 with many landing pages with PA from 30 to 49), so for the short term SEO angle keep it on the same domain. But from a Branding perspective this is not a great approach. Is it better to have a dedicated domain/site for kitchens (and the bonus of having a keyword match in the domain)? We are always thinking longer term so we see this as a 3 year plan outwards rather than a get rich quick.

There is an additional overhead of course with managment of the domain, templates SSL, PCI etc etc and we are conscious that a new domain is not a easy route to success.

Looking at the top 10 for the main keywords within the "kitchen" keyword cloud most if not all are dedicated kitchen sites, or kitchens are the main business so their homepage is there kitchens landing page. The competition in the google.ie space have 20-30 DA and PAs roughly 30 being the highest DA, we are thinking that this has not a huge challenge to overcome?

Thanks for any help, assistance or comments really appreciated. Ware regards, Eunan @ Love Furniture

I asked a similar question a while ago

http://www.seomoz.org/q/monitor-site-loading-speeds

yottaa.com met my needs  (but was not the only option)

Going back to the original question, based on this webinar

http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/future-of-link-building

FB share are more "powerful" than likes, but is it better to target "likes" as we could get more of them.

Has anyone any experience doing something like this?

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Reading though the guidelines it doesn't actually say you can't use shares, just not "likes, checking in or connecting to an app".

But the more I think about it, i'm sure I have seen big companies using likes to enter contest etc

The aim of this contest is not too get more likes for our facebook page but to get actual share/likes for our site (or pages on our site), which is is becoming more important  googles eyes (or so i have read)

I didn't know it was against facebooks rules since like based contests are so common on facebook, but good to know.

Don't know much about contest app's will look into it.

Thanks

Taking some advice/ideas from this seomoz blog post

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/99-ways-to-build-links-by-giving-stuff-away-and-improve-your-brand-too-14029

I decided to launch a facebook competition were you like/share the product you want to win.

The question is should I be looking for share or likes?  From what I have read Share are more valuable than likes, but Likes would be easier to get I think (ie we could get a lot more of them).  Here is an example of one of our product pages:

http://www.lovefurniture.ie/sofas-furniture/corner-sofas-l-shaped-sofas/rihanna-corner-suite-with-sofabed

We already have a like, tweet +1 buttons, but not a facebook share, should it be there?

Any feedback or advice would be appreciated

We all know that site loading speed is important for google ( and getting more important), and currently we are considering moving to a dedicated server.  But I would like to measure pur current loading times and compare them to our competitors.  I know that webmaster tools shows you your loading times, but its seems a bit random with its results, and I know analytics also now records speed, but the sample sizes seems to be too low.

When I googled website load times, I got a load of different free tools but they seem to give conflicting results  e.g one said that our avg kb load time was 0.02sec and our competitor was 0.01, but a different site says our sites loads in 1.7 secs and our competitor loads in 11sec (our home pages have similar total file size for our homepage. )

Also what would be useful would be a way to monitor of website loading speed to see when it slows down, so we can figure out why.

Does anyone know of any good reliable  programs or sites that does this?

You have to submit to googles Merchant Center a txt file with all your products. It has to be formatted in a certain way, but zen-cart (which is a spin-off of osCommerce) has a module for it that exports you product in the correct format for google:

http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=473

you need to install wordpress on to you domain like any other CMS.  Wordpress offer blogs on their own domain, but its much better to have it hosted locally as EGOL has said.

what if you can't place noindex into the html head (limitation of the cms) would a exclude in the robots be enough on its own? (or at least better than nofollow links to the page)

"They changed this (I think in 2009) to : If you had 10 links on a page and 5 were nofollowed each link would still only pass on 1 PR point. The remaining 5 points essentially disappear into thin air."

R u 100% sure about this? any sources to back this up?

Thanks

I'm definitely ranked no:1 as I use IBP for checking ranks and then I have checked from different computers (different providers, not logged in)

So Google Keyword tool is not any good, then the question is what is a good way to find good related keywords that I'm not currently targeting?

e.g. we sell "High Sleepers" on the site, but according to the Google Keyword tool, people search "loft beds" far more (which is the same thing).  Now I don't know if this is true