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Link detox analyzes inbound links, not outbound. Peraps another tool from linkresearchtools, but not link d-tox.

Are you positive that it wasn't anything you bought as a service, right?

Although Google's Matt Cutts claims that Negative SEO exists but it would take a lot of work to achieve and you could actually benefit the target instead, it has been proven over and over that it isn't that hard, see here: http://www.fulltraffic.net/blog/85062/is-negative-seo-becoming-a-mainstream-tactic-infographic/

As it is something you actually can't control, I would just go with trying to contact the owners of those pages where the links are and ask them politely to remove the link, as it will also help them too (usually the most affected side is the one selling the links, as there's no way to know who is buying them). Don't only go with an email, try social networks too, contact forms, etc.

But, considering that your rankings aren't affected, after contacting those Webmasters you shouldn't go as far as disavowing the links, you are not being penalized, you did the job on trying to remove the links (document your efforts!!), etc. IF, and only if you notice a ranking drop, an actual penalty, you should go ahead and disavow those links, and in case of a penalty, send a reconsideration request explaining them everything an showing the efforts you did to get rid of those links.

As Cutts told: it may actually benefit you...

Hope that helps!

1. In internet services manager, right click on the file or folder you wish to redirect.
2. Select "a redirection to a URL".
3. Enter the redirection page.
4. Check "The exact url entered above", and the "A permanent redirection for this resource".
5. Click "Apply".

More info here: http://www.iis.net/configreference/system.webserver/httpredirect

Exactly what Moz is telling you. There are 2 H1 tags in that page.

The first surrounding the logo, which is COMPLETELY USELESS and by the way keyword stuffed as that text does not show to the user as it gets replaced with the Logo Instead, that, if in the case of browsers without images (almost non-existent already) it should only have 1 or to words, exactly as the logo.

The second H1 tag in the page has: "Why Wrapped Car and Vehicles advertising?" in it. That's the one you should keep.

However, seeing your page, it seems that the following text is more important: "Wrapped Cars and Vehicles", which actually uses an H2. I would consider putting that as an H1 and focusing the keywords you need on that phrase instead.

Remember the CSS changes you are going to need too.

PS: Remove that h1 tag from the logo.

Wish everyone could get the same results out of the disavow tool.

We completely cleaned up our backlink profile (and we are still in the process), took like 4 month to contact all of them or add the domain to the disavow file. Sent the disavow file waited for about 4 weeks, NOTHING, even worse.

We had no manual penalty, it was an algorithmic one, and while I think we did our work creating excellent content, earning links the right way, we are still on positions 9 - 30 for our main keywords, outranked by PURE spammers, sape link buyers. Reporting them didn't work, contacting Google with a reconsideration request (even we had no manual penalty (as Cutts suggested)) didn't work. And seeing the rankings still dropping against black hatters (for over 8 month now) I wonder, should we go that route? It seems to be the only way it works, as more and more blackhats manage to outrank us. Even if google takes them down, they are up there the very next day with a new page, same owner (you can tell by the text and language they use). Seems that that's their job, spam a site, get top rankings, google takes it down, "rinse and repeat"...

Yes, subdomains linking to your main domain do flow link juice. However, having the exact same content could be an issue unless you noindex it, which will result in no juice being passed to the root domain.

I would take a different approach tho, as you said, it could take far more coding, but the results would be much better. Make the root domain accept canadians a free customers (don't know how you are going to pull this, ips, sources, etc), but this approach will get the link juice directly in your root domain instead of passing it through the subdomain and probably getting a penalty for duplicate content.

Also, take into consideration that if Canadians get the service for free just from accessing from Canada, other users from other countries may just use a VPN (like HMA) to access the site and look like Canadian visitors...

Hope that helps!

Affiliate links are a kind of "paid links" as the affiliate gets a remuneration for placing the link there (indirect, but still).

They should be nofollow'ed, it could be a little late now as you can't force affiliates to change the links, but if you are placing them using javascript, it should be pretty easy (even injecting them with a js file should use the rel=nofollow attribute.

If the domain expired and there's no content in it, then it will take time. You no longer control the domain, once Google crawls it again it will notice the lack of content and the domain actually expiring. The reason why Google may take some time to remove old content, is because you could be having an issue with the Website and therefore the content is not being served, and that is not a reason to remove/lose rankings.

Hope that helps.

No problem! You are welcome!

FYI, the page you gave me has almost no content unless a few lines and 3 pictures, plus the header with a little animation and the footer. However, it has over 10 scripts and over 5 CSS files. Heck, the first 135 lines are just the header, while the actual content of the page is from line 258 to 274 (16 lines). I would review all those wordpress files and remove as many as possible from the site while trying to merge all the others. You are making over 30 requests for a page that has only 16 lines of actual content.

I don't think messing with your sitemap will work. Google serves what they think is better to the user, even if it is old content.

You have several options here to go for:

• Make a full sitemap automatically that will assign priority automatically like the one provided by xml-sitemaps.com (incredible software in my personal opinion and well worth the money).
• Update the content on those pages you say it's outdated. I think Google prefers serving pages that have huge value instead of "new", therefore, updating the content of those pages may decrease your bounce rate.
• While on the old pages, link to the new posts that include the new info. You can even put something like "This content is outdated, for the up-to-date version, click here" and link to the most appropriate new page, you keep the page, no 301s and pass some juice to the new page.

I think the best would be to use the 1st and 2nd options in conjunction. Or 1st and 3rd if the content of the "old" pages have something that updating them will loose their value.

In any case, I wouldn't leave pages out of the sitemap. The software I mentioned automatically assigns priority as to "how deep the page is in your site" (links it needed to follow to reach that page, older pages will surely need more clicks to reach to them).

Hope that helps.

I haven't heard of any site affected SEO-wise because of the use of CloudFlare. All the cases I read online are actually related to other issues.

Unlike MaxCDN (and I use both) is that CloudFlare automatically minifies and compresses content while other CDNs just cache your content on their servers to serve it faster based on the user location. CloudFlare does exactly the same while minifying and compressing PLUS you get a basic DDoS protection (and best of all, FREE).

Give them a try, all you have to do from your end is changing your Nameservers, and if you see any negative impact, you can always roll back by only switching again your nameservers to their originals.

Alt tags are intended for the purpose of describing the image, while you can include keywords in them, if you use all the same keywords, while not actually describing the images, it will be seen as stuffing, I strongly suggest not to do that. Instead focus on writing a real image description and try to put the keyword in them, not forcing the keywords neither. If the picture can include a keyword in the alt tag great, but if not, just don't.

Hope that helps!

Hi,

Have you considered the social media links you have in each page? 5 in each page. If you have 800 pages there are your 4,000 outbound links.

Hope that helps!

Hi!

The 1st error is given when you are linking somewhere in your site to a 4XX page. Try following the links in hat error report to see which page is linking to that 4XX. Once you find it, simply remove the link or fix it.

The 2nd, if you are just adding the missing tags, it would take at least a week to reflect in the crawl stats in Moz as Mozbot scrapes your site one a week.

Hope that clears it up

You are welcome!

Still get that traffic in the move It's free traffic, try to make the most out of it. Find the best way to point them in the direction you need them to go always keeping an eye in being as friendly and natural as possible.

Thomas, if he is using lots of JS and CSS files, that will be fixed by CloudFlare. Also, if he also uses a cache plugin that cache pages instead of going to the DB every time, CloudFlare will also cache those pages and serve them from the cache, just like the JS and CSS files, plus compressing and minifying everything.

If he uses the appropriate plugins to build the cache, all the stuff you said about bluehost wouldn't change a thing, as CloudFlare will even serve the "dynamic" (now seen as static by CloudFlare) from its cache.

Right? Or am I missing something?

As long as you don't 301 penalized pages / websites to a non-penalized site, you shouldn't have anything to worry about.

However, if you are sure your current site has pages penalized instead of a link penalty (which means that incoming links are not being counted, not that your site is penalized), then you shouldn't 301 anything if you are planning to "start over".

There's been reports from people with penalized sites which moved to another domain and they were able to recover. I would only recommend such a move if you are now working only with your previous customers (existing before the penalty). But if you are still gaining search traffic and customers, then you should consider fixing the issues instead of moving.

Just my 2 cents

Hey,

Why do you want to increase an Alexa ranking in the first place? Alexa is completely manipulated, and there's software and services that can increase the ranking, but just that, just the number, it won't be a traffic based increase, therefore useless.

The only REAL way to increase an Alexa ranking is having more traffic. 1500 daily visitors does not even come close to the amount of traffic you need to reach the position 1500.

In fact, given that the site has 1500 visitors daily, looks weird that it has a 4497 rank, it should be worse for that amount of traffic.

All you mention in the 4th point, will drive you more traffic, which ultimately may increase the rank, however, you will need much more traffic than 1500 to get to the rank you want.

By the way Hugh, if you think the broken link reported by Moz isn't actually there, then you can contact them about a possible glitch here: help@moz.com

No, Google is smart enough to determine which content shouldn't be duplicated and what content is most likely to be the same in all sites (exactly your situation).

As a side note, if you are adding the content in HTML, plus providing an extra value, you will probably rank higher than those that just display the product specs as a downloadable PDF.