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Hi Abe

Thanks for coming back to me, looks like ill be busy on Sunday then

Matthew

Hi Abe

Thanks for coming back to me, looks like ill be busy on Sunday then

Matthew

Hi Robert

Thanks for the feedback, and im glad you like the sites

Matthew

Hi Robert

This is what we have just now

http://www.opticalexpress.co.uk/

I want to keep this on every page, as I feel its good for the user experience.

But not sure if I should nofollow all of these as they are sitewide or just keep the home page as follow and apply nofollow to the other pages.

As you can see we are using our laser eye keyword which I think looks spammy..

I would rather we have Optical Express + Country as the anchor text used on all pages.

Hey guys

Is it possible to change the date/time that SEOmoz runs its ranking reports?

I put together ranking reports each Monday which I need to feedback to the business and it would be good if I could schedule these for late Sunday or early Monday mornings for me coming in to the office.

Ok I have a plan for the footer links on our site which interlink and point to our international sites, let me run it by you guys and let me know your thoughts.

First part is that due to these being sitewide links I am going to nofollow all of them apart from the links in the footer of the home page which ill keep as follow.

Second is to use branded terms for these country flags so company name and location instead of being our main keyword...

Is there anything else that I should consider here?

Hi James

I'm a big fan of G+ and have been on there since day 1

However they do have a few issues, this is mainly around having no write API which would allow users to update their profiles using 3rd party apps. Hootsuite has launched the ability to manage and update pages which comes in handy, there is also a few other services that does this,but again these only have access to pages at the moment.

With the recent launch of G+ Local I would expect you business page and places page to merge in the future.

Until then its manually updating each page im afraid..

If these are new sites they will be passing very little authority, these will also be site wide links.

If you are going to do it then id "nofollow" them.

If you dont have control over these links then I wouldnt waste my time trying to remove them.

A better use of your time would be creating higher quality relevant links which will eventually dilute the bad profile that you currently have.

As long as the title is relevant to the image, iPhone 4S would be fine..

Try and keep your titles below 70 characters...

If you have a URL that have multiple pages then you should have a look at this..

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/video-about-pagination-with-relnext-and.html

Thanks guys ill have a look at those tools also.

I agree Marcus a personalized approach is a must...

I will mainly use these for sourcing etc....

Matthew

I am currently working on a few campaigns and initiatives which would be really good for blogger outreach..

Anyone used any of these services?

http://www.grouphigh.com

http://www.blogdash.com/

What's your thoughts?

Make sure your Google Places page is set up correctly and you are targeting the best keywords.

Get people to leave you reviews on your places page and create lots of local citations.

There is a few great tools that can help you do this...

http://www.brightlocal.com/

https://www.whitespark.ca/local-citation-finder/

Hope this helps....

Matthew

This has been going on for a few weeks though... That's why I thought it might not be the good old "dance"

I am seeing some really erratic behaviour in the SERPS just now.

We have 2 domains a .com and .co.uk

The .com is holding fine on page 1 however the .co.uk is jumping from page 1 to page 4 almost on a daily basis. Now, we are aware that our link profile is not the best on this domain and we are working on this just now creating more quality content/links.

If this was a penalty surely it would drop to page 4 and stay there... This bouncing around seems very strange.....

We have updated the on page content etc to make sure that we are following all best practices but nothing seems to be working...

Has anyone else experienced this kind of problem?

Matthew

PR is not the only thing you should be looking it.

Relevance is a very important factor, also DA,PA and the number out outbound links coming from the sites.

IP diversity is important. If you are using a 3rd party be sure to check the links when they are published.

We did consider scrapping the .com site however it does rank really well for a lot of our key terms especially in the UK. So we really just use this as a landing page which seems to work well for now.

Thanks for the feedback guys its much appreciated

Matthew

On the .com site we have all the links going to the international pages as follow.

On the various international sites we have links in the footer going pointing to the other sites in each country is it also ok to have these as follow?

Or could the interlinking of the sites cause a problem?

Would it be better for us to do what IKEA have done http://www.ikea.com/ and just have one way links coming from the .com to the all the sites and remove the footer links on the other sites which link to each other?

We have several international sites and we have them linked in the footer of our main .com site . Should we add "nofollow" to these links? Our concern is that Google could see these sites as a network?