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Well, if you think you can do it without a penalty, then go ahead. I am just giving you my opinion. As Google's Matt Cutts said, Google will take some time to trust your site again once a penalty is revoked, so probably they are looking at your site closely, sooner or later, they will see those links and do their math, and you won't like the outcome.
Just my 2 cents...
You shouldn't be doing that in the first place. That's a big NO-NO. You may thing Google won't catch you as you are only following some links, but the way they control information and the fact that they have been fighting spam for years... you are just killing your site softly...
Doesn't the building provide you with a suite number? (ask there)
They usually do for correspondence delivery. Try to see if you can get one, but if you can't then you should use what you have, without the suite # as there's none.
There are several businesses that run in a same "office" with just separate "areas" and use the same address, that shouldn't be a problem. In fact, the lack of a suite number isn't your problem, but the building's.
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Hey Chad,
He will definitely loose some value, however, if there's still some juice flowing from the old domain, regaining it will get that "loss" that you were having redirecting to the new domain back.
I agree with your idea, it will be much better if he use the old domain instead and cover all the services he provides.
Remember to follow all the necessary steps when changing the domain, 301 the entire domain to the old one, changing it via GWT, etc. The loss should be minimum, it will be noticeable during the first 1 - 3 month, but in the long run it should be a win.
Hope that helps!
Basically yes. Any form of payment received in return of a back link is considered a paid link and will be penalized.
If you are "over-optimizing" the page just to "get the lead" then I'd suggest using a noindex tag to avoid that page from being indexed, as most likely, if those are landing pages specifically designed for users coming form online advertising, they don't offer any added value to your main site.
Well, you are right, manual are easier to fix, although most likely, sites with manual penalties usually fall into an algorithmic penalty too.
Steps I'd suggest:
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I'm afraid you are wrong Yiannis, my own Website had a manual penalty for over 1 year and as it was a "partial-match" it only affected "some" of its ability to rank, so instead of being in the 1st spot we were on page 2 position 11 - 15 for the whole year. 2 weeks ago the penalty was revoked and the very next day we found ourselves back in the 1st page. It will take some time until reaching a good rank following Google's guidelines from now on, but it is the only way.
Hey Scott,
Have you checked GWT for any manual action notice?
About the keyword meta, it is completely useless, Google doesn't use it at all, you can remove that safely, the ranking drop has nothing to do with it.
Did you run some backlink reports on your competitors? (to see if they have higher authority than yours, more backlinks, etc.).
Hey Jeff, probably if there's a plugin designed to specifically redirect affiliate links I bet it already does a 302 redirect while suggesting to add the disallow in the robots.txt (or even adding itself).
Both will actually have the same effect as long as you nofollow your affiliate links directly or the PHP script that does the redirection is disallowed via the robots.txt + makes a 302 redirect.
The downside of using nofollow is that you can't track the hits on those links from your end, but with PHP you can save that into a DB or any file.
Hope that helps!
Hey Peter,
The Analytics code could have helped to get the site indexed. Or even a G +1/Facebook Like/share/Stumble/etc button clicked by error.
@Rajat
Doing the search Peter suggested should return any indexed page.
You have done the necessary steps (disallowing in robots plus setting a noindex tag). There's shouldn't be anything to worry about. If you want to be entirely sure, you can add some HTTP authentication to the folder so only those knowing the credentials can access (you could find that some robots may not follow the disallow flag or noindex tag).
Not directly. However you could implement an internal tracking method by looking at the referrer "google.com", "bing.com" and "yahoo.com" (+ any other major source you would like to track) and then set a session variable to track the visitor around the site and finally, if he/she converts you can fire an Analytics event based on that session variable.
That happened to me several times too, but not exactly Today, I recommend you open a Q&A in the Product Support forum so a member from Moz can answer you better. You can contact support at help@moz.com.
Thomas, he already said that the HTTP site is being 301 redirected to its HTTPS version. So why adding all that about how to do 301s on Apache on nginx?
What you are doing is completely alright.
Make sure your canonical tags are set properly to point to the HTTPS versions of the pages.
Hope that helps!
