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1 part, should be that it grabs you visually straight away - like a glue value, keeps you glued to that page to actually engage with the content - that can be a good headline, or image or typography or any combo

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I would try both and see what happens

The problem with rel canonical though, is that your not using it as intended and could get caught out or have the link devalued

I dont see any problem with a plain text link. personally i would KISS and use the text link

As to whether its worth it, it depends how good the linkbait is and how many links/power it gathers. The only way you can know is to try and then see the effect on your rankings.

You could certainly get more value than one link out of it though; link out to other articles that link back to your ecom site.

When you have this type of  powerful 3rd party site, you can then start swapping links from your site in return for links from theirs to your ecommerce site

no need for that ^^

I assume you no longer link to those 404 pages from your website? So on the next crawl SEOmoz wont pick up those 404s

Just delete them if you don't want them. Delete any links to them on your site and you should be fine.

If they have a lot of links pointing to them from other sites, you may want to think about 301 redirecting them to resolve to the homepage or anywhere else that makes sense. If its a small personal blog, I would not bother with this step and would just let the page 404 naturally

If you are already penalised, I wouldn't touch paid links of any kind, especially directory ones

looks good

make a /brisbane too and once it ranks, then turn the homepage into driving school Australia

S

have a german language page on the .co.uk?

You could also use IP redirection

S

Make sure you get Neils Bosma's tool Excel for SEO and load it into excel

http://nielsbosma.se/projects/seotools/download/

All the Excel for SEO posts on SEOgadget

https://www.google.com/cse?cx=012713398324922076469%3Alv_vicybyh8&i.e.=utf-8&hl=&q=excel&sa=#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=excel&gsc.page=1

At some point  you will probably want to use the SEOomz api  to pull MOz data into excel

http://www.seomoz.org/api

Good lucki!

S

Why do you care about bounce rate?

You are trying to sell cruises to people who are looking for recipes, of course your bounce rate will be high. Adding quizzes or whatever isnt going to help you sell cruises.

Stop worrying about bounce rates on recipe pages and get selling cruises to people who want to go on a cruise

OK in 2 seconds - your redirects are incorrect

http://www.kerryblu.co.uk redirects to http://www.kerryblu.co.uk/

but

http://kerryblu.co.uk/ redirects to http://www.kerryblu.co.uk/index.asp

Aslo change the redirect on kerryblu.com to point to correct url

Where else might you have got this wrong? are you running Xenu or IIS crawls?

You also have too little content on your pages

http://www.kerryblu.co.uk/bridal-earrings-2-c.asp

http://www.kerryblu.co.uk/crystal-allure-bridal-jewellery-set-869-p.asp

I see you have been linkbuilding with the term "Kerry Blu - wedding accessories"  make sure your link text diversity is natural

S

Google adwords have banned my adwords because my personal blog post is a "bridge" page

http://firstconversion.com/the-pasty-shop-is-not-a-fast-food-chain/

Can anyone explain how this vanilla wordpress blog is a spam bridge page?

They give me 3 options to rectify this, none of which make any sense

To comply with our policies, the options below are available:

Option 1: Refine your web page so that it contains a substantial amount of
original content. This content should be related to your ad text and
should stand independently of the links on your page that redirect users
to other sites. This includes any affiliate links on your site. In
addition, the site should have an overall unique look and feel.

Examples of original content include, but are not limited to:

• Tips and information for consumers considering the product or service
• Competitor pricing and feature comparisons
• Unique and informative reviews and customer feedback
• Links to relevant articles

This content shouldn't be derived directly from other sites or a parent
site. - the content is 100% unique, written by me

Option 2: Redesign your web page to offer multiple, competing offers from
different companies for related services. For example, a web page
promoting a specific marketing strategy book could have links to four
online bookstores from which one could purchase the book. - theres nothign to do with services offfers, or competitions, or any type of monetization

Option 3: Link directly to the end site, using the appropriate Display
URL.  - there are no end sites

Cheers

Stephen

Give us an idea of the industry and what the monetisation is and we can be more specific

I second that the website language is not much of an issue, but spelling is! Also, set your html language to UK English

We do a lot of international content development and have a style guide for each so that anyone who works on a foreign site has a quick reference to turn to

Geo text and UK based linkbuidling should be standard concepts. You could try a few paid press releases via http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/

obviously, everyone in images should be wearing a bowler hat and all men should have a pipe

My resources http://seobestpractice.org/Linkbuilding

But to be honest, since panda, I havent bothered with this stuff, it just doesnt work for me now

Hm, cant tell if this is spam or joke

Its not all that bad Thomas! Charles maybe re evaluate what you want here. Ive seen linkbuilding work but in many cases provide no value.

You can make external linkbuilders give a shit by incentivising them based on sales, but you often end up in a more complicated system than you wanted in the first place!

If I had the money for outsourced linkbuilding, I would be putting it directly into scalable linkbuilding like widgets and badges, or on Viral content.

That means your money goes to developers and designers, not spam and it means your money works for you 24-7

1 of these on your website http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-biggest-lies-in-online-dating/ will do more for you than years of outsourced linkbuilding ever will

S

Never give up! More than a month later and having worked my way through most of the Google PPC team, I have an answer. Kind of. No explanation was offered by any Google rep, but they have ok'd the ads again now.

I understand it has been a while and I apologize that this whole process
took so long. I just got notified that your page is now enabled and you
will soon be notified by our system about this. If your Ads still appear
disapproved for Site Policy, I would kindly ask you to resubmit your ads
for review and they should be approved now. If anything is wrong please do
not hesitate contact me again.

Once again I thank you for your understanding and overall patience. I do
hope your campaign will perform well from now on.

Test with one.

I would redirect as a much stronger signal than canonical. Theres not much difference in the workload of either one for your devs

I would definitely recommend it. Its pretty cheap and will quickly highlight where you need to go and learn more.

http://followerwonk.com/bio?q=.com&p=1 Seems to work for me & data is all in the page html for you to strip out if you need

DA does count, but its not worth the effort if you just post it and leave it - you still need to do the work to give that page PA, its not going to happen magically

Have a look at this suggestion from ViperChill - link to your other articles in each article you write to raise the PA of your distributed writings

Have a plan that has maybe 10 posts in it, pick 10 decent article directories and link between each. Then use open site explorer after a month to see if its picked any of the articles up

(or just write one really great post for a popular blog in your industry and get a ton more links, reads etc)