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Thanks for the response. I will look into EdgeRank a little bit more. As for the posts, we only post select content (not every single post) that would appeal to our fans on Facebook and yes of course we interact with them.

Hi,

I don't know about you but I have been comparing our Facebook posts in the last three months. Sometimes we use promoted posts and sometime we go with traditional posts.

In the last few weeks, it has come to my attention that Facebook is barely showing regular posts to anyone. If they go like this, I'm afraid regular posts will be almost like private posts for your eyes only.

Examples:

Regular post: 103 views after 3 days

Promoted post ($10] : 10206 views after 3 days

Good to know

Hi,

Thanks for the comprehensive answer. We don't have any vulnerabilities. It was all my fault as I completely forgot that I had given administrative access to one of our former content managers who had temporarily allowed anonymous users to post on this certain section of the site. And once he left, we forgot to update that permission and never really noticed those posts, until today.

Thanks for the quick response. We're just requesting URL removal for all those URL's. I hope this makes it all good. No sign of ranking drop at the moment. We're lucky those pages were automatically filtered out by our sitemap.xml and all those links had auto-nofollow on them. Time to consider buying a service like Mollom I guess.

Hi,

So we had a staff problem last week and we let some spam posts (cheap nike jerseys etc.) that also got indexed by Google. (We just checked and there are lik 105 already indexed)

Of course we have now removed all these spam posts but what is the best practice at this point? Are we supposed to do something else to remove these from Google's index? (maybe through google webmaster tools?)  We have already edited robots.txt to disallow those pages as a quick remedy.

And finally, could this have done any harm? We were quite slow noticing these posts to remove them. They were there for about 12 days.

thanks

** duplicate content doesn't come into play **

**I was referring to the category pages when I said "duplicate content". Because the category pages (for similar tags) are identical (some of them) and they are indexed.  **

Hi, I have been monitoring some of the authority sites and I noticed something with one of them. This high authority site suddenly started using multiple tags for each post.

And I mean, loads of tags, not just three of four. I see that each post comes with at least 10-20 tags. And these tags don't always make sense either. Let's say there is a video for "Bourne Legacy", they list tags like bourne, bourney legacy, bourne series, bourne videos, videos, crime movies, movies, crime etc.

They don't even seem to care about duplicate content issues. Let's say the movie is named The Dragon, they would inclue dragon and the-dragon in tags list and despite those two category pages(/dragon and /the-dragon) being exactly the same now, they still wouldn't mind listing both the tags underneath the article.

And no they don't use canonical tag. (there isn't even a canonical meta on any page of that site)

So I am curious.

Do they just know they have a very high DA, they don't need to worry about duplicate content issues?

or; I am missing something here? Maybe the extra tags are doing more good than harm?

It all makes sense, sir. And I have to admit you are spot on with the way they have distracted me. Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts.

Hi,

I have been doing some keyword research and noticed two domains properly linking back to each other for almost every piece of content. I thought this was not working any longer but it looks like it works for them. For many competitive keywords, they rank in top 10, and even for some keywords, they rank #1 and #2. PA and DA not more than 36-38. With 3-4 linking root domains, these pages manage to rank in top 10.

And the second strategy they have, is to create alternative text to rank for a number of different long-tail-keywords. Seperate pages targeting seperate keywords and the only difference between them is slightly modified text and images.

Third is possibly the best, their second domain is an exact match domain name for most keywords linked to this industry. On some SERP's, they have 8-10 results in top 30.

SEMRUSH shows %500 growth for both of these domains.

So, I guess I should just sit and admire them.

Are they all thin content? If not, then I don't think it's necessary to NOINDEX them. If you think some of them don't have any real value, you could specifically NOINDEX them(and not all together). Google will crawl those pages no matter how deep they are, as long as they are accessible.

As far as I know, Google is pretty good at detecting affiliate links and most affiliate marketers add "nofollow" to those links anyway. So you won't receive any link juice with those affiliate links.

I see some of the affiliate programs prefer to use seperate domains for affiliate links and then some others use their own domain name.

Something that is GREAT to you may not be THAT GREAT to another and it could possibly be bad to another one.

You should try to understand who your visitors are. I would check out the websites they visit. See what they are interested in. See which topics and posts receive more attention. Comments, social media shares etc.

I have been learning this myself in the last two years. Before, I thought GREAT content meant FLAWLESS content and it wasn't true in some cases.

Keep an eye on Google Analytics to see which content receives high bounce rates and which content is really read (look at average time on page). Then start doing some A/B testing for content that is failing in terms of BOUNCE RATE and Avg Time on Page. Create an alternative of the same page but change the layout, places of text and media. Increase the number of visuals, decrease the text and vice versa.

good luck!

No, no, no. You don't add these to calendar pages. You need to place a file called robots.txt in your root folder.

Read more here: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/robotstxt

Hi,

When you change the page, check the URL, you will see parameters. Such as calendar?week=18

Open your robots.txt file and add this line

Disallow: /calendar?

Open Site Explorer is always behind. You can use Google Webmaster Tools to download the sites linking to you.