Good stuff, and good tip about the cached test only version. I hadn't heard that one before, and it looks like I might use it plenty. Thanks!

I would like to use the website logo on our site as the H1 for the homepage (see top 'Covers' logo http://www.covers.com/index.aspx ). I have found one of our sister sites with code like this

Gracenote

with CSS that sets the text to 'transparent' and the background image to the logo.

My question is would the text be consumed or ignored by the robot? Unfortunately, wedging an H1 in anywhere else is not possible at this time, so this is my best option. Is this change worthwhile?

THanks in advance.

Thank you. We did try to have a .uk version of our site, which failed, but there was less of a focus on making that change for SEO reasons. I will keep the country TLD in mind going forward. We are on the verge of some language-specific content so that might be a good time to consider this.

Thanks!

Some more context: we get a large and disproportionate quantity of traffic from Canada, which generally indicates we are being treated as 'Canadian content'.

I would classify our site as large (www.covers.com), with our primary target being traffic within the US (about 70%) but I have a feeling we are limited by our IP being located within Canada. I have changed all the targeting to the US in WMT, but could undertake a project to virtually 'move' the site to a US IP, if there would be benefit. I have found articles coming down on both sides of the issue.

Thoughts?

Addendum to this story: it turns out that this was likely a malicious activity with an extremely similar IP address to ours so we might not notice. We have disavowed.

Was going to disavow them but have reached out and asked for a nofollow on the menu because they do have some legitimate mentions in their forums that are worth preserving.

We actually have no manual actions against us, but we do have some links that are very dodgy ( like the 6.4 million links from these paragons of virtue: http://ebetsports.com/). I am trying to stay on top of it before we get the call. We also have what I would consider a low DA versus our competitors, since we are a 20+ year old domain, so I am stripping the low hanging fruit while trying to get back to basic 'average' SEO.

Hello,

I am digging in to our in-links in WMT and notice that we have a number of sites that link to us in their menu or every page on their site, making for hundreds of thousands of links to our site. Here is an example: 
http://www.askthebookie.com/ (in the topmost  right menu there is a link to our forums) http://www.covers.com/postingforum/

There are about a dozen or so sites that link to our homepage tens-of-thousands of times. Should I disavow them, or is this be viewed as a legitimate link?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Good stuff. I will round up the nerds. It has been tough to troubleshoot since SEO has been neglected and I am worried I am seeing cascading problems.

I have been going through, disavowing spam links in WMT and one of my biggest referral sources is our own IP address.

Site: Covers.com
IP: 208.68.0.72

We have recently fixed a number of 302 redirects, but the number of links actually seems to be increasing. Is this something I should ignore / disavow / fix using a redirect?