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Not necessarily, unless you already have something built and with enough authority on henryjewelers.com

apple computer - apple.com
abercrombie & fitch - abercrombie.com

Tiffany & Company - tiffany.com

etc.

Or it could be like Bender's and be completely useless and just messing up with TV reception? By the way, is Roger Bender's brother?

http://static.betazeta.com/www.belelu.com/up/2011/05/futurama-bender.jpg

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-evolution-of-roger

You can redirect the site safely as long as site B doesn't have any algorithm or manual penalty applied, if it does, redirecting the site will actually redirect the penalty too.

If you are sure you don't have any penalty, then you can apply a 301 to site A and also notify Google of the URL change.

As for the first question, if the content is exactly the same then any of the two could be suffering an algo penalty, in that case, a 301 should "remove" the penalty as the content is no longer duplicate on 2 different sites, but published only in 1.

Hey,

Let's go step by step:

1. If you haven't received any manual penalty notification then it could be a algorithmic penalty, those are softer but harder to recognize (as there isn't any notification about what just happened: penguin? panda?) If you or your customer have engaged in bad link building (purchasing) then it's probably a penguin hit. It seems from the question title that you were already expecting that was the issue. To clean up your backlink profile, you have a lot of work to do. But don't outsource it, it just won't help. Use Google WT and download all the links, get all others from other sources like OSE, etc., merge all those links and use another tool (to avoid doing it manually) like link detox (paid) to analyze all your links. Then go over the ones that have any kind of risk and (yes, a PAIN) manually ask webmasters to remove the link or set it as nofollow, keep track of their responses and actions on the links (you can outsource that part). Once done, you will end up with a list of links that were not removed as per your requests, use the disavow tool on them. DONE on this part.
2. Couldn't understand it completely. Did you move the content to another domain? Was the old domain the hit one or the new one? If is was the new one, then set up all canonicals following Google's advice: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en . If the hit was on the old domain, just avoid passing any harm to the new domain and don't use any canonical or redirect (that's at least what I would do). There were however, some people claiming that a domain change and redirect everything solved their penguin penalty, but those are just personal allegations no one can confirm: http://www.seroundtable.com/redirect-google-penalty-17113.html
3. That's not good. You are redirecting search results clicks to the homepage? Not a good idea. Consider throwing a 404 on those pages if they are no longer there, or in the case you have another version of the page that actually shows the info the user was searching, then redirect the user there.

Wow, this one was my longest answer!

Hope it helps! (tell me it did lol)

Andrew,

The site in question has low authority compared to the ones showing up in the first page. Google is somehow associating your brand with a software called "Free Studio" and sites with almost impossible to beat authority are ranking above.

Google, compared to Bing (and Yahoo! that serves results from Bing), uses different ranking mechanisms.

In order to "claim" your brand's name, I'd suggest you establish several business listings pointing to the site, such as:

• Facebook Page
• Twitter Profile
• G+ Page
• G+ Local
• LinkedIn Page
• Crunchbase
• Yelp
• etc.

Try to put your company out there, expose its name as much as you can without purchasing any "featured listing." Once you have all those steps completed, compare results and see if the brand name starts to show up.

Another approach would be to "extend" the brand name, removing the FS and using the actual significance of those 2 letters ("FS" means?). It should be easier to compete with other sites instead of the ones that are currently returned by your brand query: "FS Studio". Softonic, CNET, afterdawn are not easy targets.

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Exactly, those 73k likes are liking your facebook page, not your site (URL). Test using your facebook page in OSE, how many facebook likes does it show? I am guessing about 73k

It has nothing to do with "where" the like took place, visiting your site, the user can click the LIKE button within your facebook page plugin and they are liking your facebook page, not your Website.

No one knows how or even IF social interactions help rankings, we are all guessing they do, but no one is certainly sure or knows how much they help. That said, a like to your URL is more valuable SEOwise, however, people liking your URL just liked your URL, while if they like your facebook page, you can have constant contact to those users.

You decide whether to have the like button or the like box, both, or a like button with your facebook page as the href. I would actually go with the like box or the like button using my facebook page, that way I can earn users that I can actually reach later.

Apparently there's a workaround for Canadian businesses:

http://www.stepforth.com/blog/2013/get-listed-on-bing-local-canada/

Hope that helps!

If your ads are disapproved and others (which you KNOW they are not authorized to use the trademarked names and still do, report those ads to Adwords. They will remove the ads braking TOS).

Link to report adwords violations: https://support.google.com/adwords/contact/feedback

But, if you are allowed by the trademark holder to use their names in the ads, just ask for a written authorization and send it back to Google, hopefully they will look into it.

I would definitely go with www.example.com/cityname. It isn't just easier to maintain, but it will be much easier to rank as any link juice received in www.example.com/cityname1 will also affect www.example.com and www.example.com/cityname2, which in the end, will make even easier for new cities that you add later.

Having domains including the city and linking to each other will probably be seen as an EMD which will affect all domains.

Couldn't that be considered as doorway pages? There's a penalty on doorway pages.

Hi James,

Each field is actually intended for something different:

• Title: should be what is the image. In this case: orange campervan
• Caption: Is what shows up under the image describing it to users visiting the page. In this case: orange campervan in cornwall, UK blah blah.
• Alt Text: Should be an image description that appears when the browser can't (for some reason) display the image. In this case can be either "orange campervan", "Image of orange campervan" or whatever you think describes best the image when somebody can't see it.
• Description: Is just that, a short, brief description of the image contents.

Hope that helps.

Actually it would be worse. As Doorway pages are pages that link to your domain from other domains. And subdomains are considered separate domains, therefore a page that its only purpose is to drive traffic to the main page is a doorway page, which is against google TOS.

Believe me when I say, Google has enough experience to deal with this kind of "attacks". They automatically monitor click fraud and even using proxies won't circumvent Google's techniques to detect click-fraud.

Anyway, you can contact Google explaining the issue right from your AdWords dashboard.

Well, just took a look at your subdomain links and there's nothing bad there. You can go ahead and remove the subdomain placing a 301 to your homepage.

Wordpress can be a great advantage on a SEO standpoint if it used well and not filled with plugins that can slow it down. Plus, if you have a large DB, it is recommended to tweak the code according to your needs.

As for your Website, I run it through Speed Test and it got a 65/100 score.

The main issues are:

• Compression: You are not compressing the content you output.
• Minification: Your JS and CSS files are not minified.
• Scaled images, you are serving images that are far larger than the space you are showing them, therefore you are transferring more data than needed.
• A few more.

To start solving the speed, I'd suggest you sign up for the free version of CloudFlare. They will automatically compress, minify and act as a CDN for any static content (in the configuration, put aggressive catching).

Once you have that set (it takes 10 minutes tops, plus the DNS propagation) try running the test again and it should give you a score around 80+.

It isn't a bad idea at all. That page actually links to your site and even adds the "continue reading" text. That's a link earned! And that's how we all should "build" links.

Eugenio,

I don't think there's a way to tell Google what to show. However, if you are building your site in such a way that it has content markup (such as schema, microformats or using the highligh tool in WMT), you are basically telling Google that that is the best way to display the search results.

If you actually prefer to show the meta description (although it is impossible to force Google to do it), you should remove whatever markup you have in your site, then let Google just display what it wants (hopefully your meta description).

PS: the keywords tag isn't used by Google anymore, that's a useless tag you can safely removed. However, Bing said that they still use the keywords meta but it is just one of over 2000 ranking signals they use. So it's basically up to you use it /don't use it (you won't find a big site making use of the keywords meta anymore).

Hope that helped!

Seems that your structured data is well implemented. I would give it a break and hopefully, within 2 more weeks, Google data will start to show up. It actually takes same time for Google to re-crawl your site.

Suggestion: Use G+ publisher markup.

Workaround: Use Google's Data Highlighter and it will actually crawl and index your markup faster.

Hope that helps!

Does your friend have FTP access? If he/she does, then put a 301 redirect from the one you want to rank to the other. Having a site with "www" and without is actually having 2 pages with the same content, something you can easily fix by redirecting the entire domain to the other with a 301 response.

If he/she does have FTP access, look for the .htaccess file and put the following:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !=businessname.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://businessname.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Remember to change "businessname.com" with the actual domain name.

Hope that helps!

100 bad links is not bad at all. Unless those are ALL the links you have. If you sent the disavow file and submitted a reconsideration request, wait for their respond. They claim the respond to 100% percent of the requests, but it can take over 2 weeks (on my own experience).

Did you get a manual penalty warning? Or you just doing the disavow and reconsideration just a percussion? Because if there was no manual penalty, you shouldn't be using the reconsideration request, instead, after disavowing those bad links you should focus on creating content for the purpose of link earning (valuable links).

Hope that helps.