ok, so if google still indexes it then they DO NOT consider it duplicate?

Lol. Good point. You are right !

If you add a no index on those pages they won't show in the search results and lose the entire purpose - the effect will be the same with removing the pages.

People are getting on those pages for sure - probably a lot of people overall.

I've seen stats form a similar website - I've never thought that so many people are looking for phone numbers - it's incredible.

Now getting to the point, in my personal opinion you should do nothing.  Especially don't remove those pages as that's suicide.

Even if the SeoMoz tool is showing duplicate content issues on the site - duplicate content within your site is NEVER a penalty situation. You will never get in trouble for having the same content or similar content on more pages within your site.

The only down side is that duplicate pages will compete to each other in search results but in your case they won't as you are looking for a single keyword for each page (with or without comments on it - the exact phone number that is).

The main goal is to get to a page after looking for that particular phone number so in your case multiple pages from your site with similar content won't compete - you are safe from all points of view.

You should never remove the pages with no comments from the site as it will drop your organic # by a lot - I've seen stats from a similar website and, like in your case, only a few pages had comments/names and 90% were blank pages with the number in h1 on the top only and those pages received a lot of organic direct hits.

The bounce rate however was high - so you might want to give some extra options within that page beside the number and the form as this can even increase your adsense ctr if done with extra care. If you already have a lot of traffic I would suggest A/B testing for the empty pages.

As far as I know link sculpting is obsolete.

Personally I've stop using it since Matt C anounce the no follow new count back in the days.

Using iframes and javascripts or even flash is not, in my opinion, a viable solution.

In my personal opinion I think you should do what's best for your users.

Once on your site will a user be more confortable with less options as far as clicks and pages or they need to browse and read as much information as posssibile ?

If you know your industry well you understand your users too so you will probabably know the answer.

Based on your answer you can get the best out of it from a SEO perspective - anyway, both options have both positive and negative aspects.

Baisicly in my opinion is not just about what's best from the SEO side - is what's best for the users and then improve it from the SEO side.

To make the long story short you should go with the 100 pages version

Can you share the list with the credible article directories ?

Actually the speed is better - at least in my case as I believe few can compete with Amazon cloud resources but I am wondering if those outgoing links can count more in a negative way vs an internal link structure for images and resources (psd , videos etc).

Hello,

Dose anyone has experience with Amazon s3 ?

Hosting images, site elements and static files (pdf etc) on Amazon S3 bucket can influence the link structure / juice ? (by having external links to the amazon s3 bucket / account).

If you host all the site images and site resources with Amazon S3 will all those "links" count as outgoing external links ? Is it worst then having everything linking internally ?

Dose anyone knows if that can hurt you ?

Personally I was not able to test it and I am sure I can't test it in the near future. Hope someone has and I can skip some steps with this.

Thanks !

the meta description, as far as I know, is not a ranking Factor. It's about how it will look into the search result list and if the user will click your entry or not.

I always write the description for the users and never based on keywords only.

personally I always use aliases and always say "we" as being part of the company I represent when doing outreach. It's much more personal.

However that's just me - I've never try any other apporach so I can't compare.

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You should repost the link or post the url of your site.

I don't agree with David but he might know better.

In my opinion you should use the less relevant real estate of the site/pages - footer will be just great for both users and Google (to spot it on every page).

However this is just an opinion but I am sure the placement of the address within the site or a particular page is not "more relevant" for google depending on the position. It just needs to be present.

Hope it helps.

When I'm linking out from a page to resourceful information regarding that particular page I always let the link free (without a no follow attribute) so google will follow it and see that the content is somehow valuable for the user. I think if you det the no follow attribute it won't help you as far as SEO, it will only help the user that sees and uses the link.

As for dilution, even if the link is no follow the link juice is still split and counts both do follow and no follow links within that particular page.

Anyway, that's just me.

SEO Moz should do a poll feature within Q and A - I think it will be a great idea.

Your post is great - I was wandering the same thing but i didn't think to post it here

Unfortunately I think not to many SeoMoz users are watching Q and A.

To be part of the stats: my % is: 30% internal seo, 70% client side seo work.

here is a great cover for this; http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-bing-confirm-twitter-facebook-influence-seo

you should also check:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/five-ways-to-use-your-social-profiles-for-seo-whiteboard-friday

Well if you're site is about casinos and gambling that can even be useful for you - it can help as google said that linking out to similar content can even help your ranking by showing users quality similar content.
If not for sure it won't help and more then that it can even harm you.
if you post the link in the footer of the page for example it won't even help them and more then that it can hurt you as they can smell a paid links in many ways.

As for the other links of the page, a new link will dilute the link juice. (10 links out -> link juice / 10 for each one, adding a new one will mean link juice / 11 - even if y ou use no follow for one or more links)

Do you, from experience, when the organic site links will popup out based on the SEOMoz root domain Authority rank ?

(more or less - from x to y)

I'm having some issues with the directories from http://www.webdisney.com/suggest/default.asp

A lot of the sumbit links are 404.

If that's just on my side sorry .. if not it will be great if someone can review them : add new ones if needed and remove the expired ones.

Thanks.

I am doing it but with extra care - you need to dilute the anchor text.

More then 50% of the links won't count but the rest will. You will see rapid increase in ranking but if you don't keep the links flowing the ranking will get down fast since the links are not high quality links.

Whatever people are saying I didn't see any of my sites were I am using this or people complain about any delisting or penalization since its something you can do for your competition so no one will penalize you.

Building manual links is the same so no one can say manual link building is white hat  and bulk link building is black hat.

However if you are doing it for a client you should explain it in detail - and expose the risks (risks that until now are only on paper as I am pretty sure no one got a penalization from google doing bulk link building). if that was true someone can bring down his competitor by doing this.

Agree.

We did a link building campaign for a german website (dot de) and most of the links were from .com websites. They started to rank very well on google.com and google.de had only minor impacts. Is clear that the links should be from the same country zone if you want to rank in that particular area.

You should focus on links from .com domain - but that should be easier then building links from .ca.

You should also get a google maps account with your US location - if you have one. That alone should bring up your results in the US.