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Thank you. I'll give this a shot.

Thanks Chris

Yes it's a shame they've not rolled it out over here yet.

Is there anything similar to Moz Local in London, UK? I need to run citations for 2 local businesses 'but' and want to use 'trusted' platforms.

Please share you experiences and how this has helped your clients.

Thank you

Gary Victory

A few which are considered "natural" are perfectly fine if there is "relevance." However excessive link exchanges "you link to me, and I'll link to you" or partner pages for the sake of cross linking in not good and will get you in trouble with the Google Police.

My advice, keep it natural.

Hi Mark

Glad I could help!

Regards, Gary

Hi Joost

Yes now reads 'unnatural links.' Sorry for my error!

Gary

Search engines read this type of link juice as a single vote for a site. My question would be, "are your domains carrying unnatural links?" This would of course have a negative impact, but if not great.

I have heard site wide links becoming 'devalued.' This is not factual but through conversations I've had with large corporations.

Unfortunately you can be penalised which stinks! I'd suggest  a Copyscape url run on your site just to to make sure no one is ripping out the great content you've created. Or you can set up Google Alerts.

**What happens if your find anyone copying your content? **

Google Authorship is of course great to establish who and when the material was published (evidence is key).

1. Contact the site owner who had copied your material asking 'politely' to remove.

2. Contact http://www.dmca.com/FAQ/What-is-a-DMCA-Takedown and ask them to act.

Hope this helps?

Gary

Ok, I hope this is going to be helpful, but I have created two options for you...

• Option 1: Create unique descriptions for each page if you can? 
  This will take some time and probably a lot of investment. I've experienced this before with clients who always seem to write something very similar for each description, so be very careful with this.
• Option 2: OR, Canonicalize all the variations your ' race event' product  - what is the best marketable page?
  I highly recommend you use the canonical tag to tell search engines that you are fully aware that these 'similar' products are using the same info descriptions, as well as heading etc (if they are). This will help you to keep everything the same for your users, and the bonus is, you do not have to rewrite any new product copy, and... of course this will help avoid getting 'dropped' by search engines. Do this by looking at Google Analytics, what page is working for you, what needs improving? Your analysis will help to create a canonical tag that uses that URL. You should then drop this same tag into allthe products in the set, including the your best page after working out which is working for you (canonical tags can be self referential causing zero problems).

You may not know that that if you take your website and move it to a completely 'new domain' but you have not redirected the old domain to the new, that Google may also pass along the penalty without redirecting the URLs.

If you have a website site with a 'penalty' I strongly advise you to find out exactly what it is first.  If you are going to take the site and simply move it to a new domain, like you say, even without using site migration tools or setting up essential redirects, Google may or probably will in most cases figure out it was you and pass along the unwanted penalty juice.

Hi

Before you do anything, you need to specifically find out why you have been penalised?

Down-time is never good for reputation management, especially during working hours!

Yes it was down around 9am PST today. There server is probably overloaded.

Hey

It sounds like your talking about 'Schema Markup?' This post on KISSmetrics tells your exactly how to achieve schema mark up for your site.

I hope this helps you?

http://blog.kissmetrics.com/get-started-using-schema/

Thanks for sharing Matt - we did a similar test and found improved SERP results with a full address/G map on the contact page above the fold.

The strategy you employ should be geared towards "your" business goals.

Generic strategies don't always allow you to achieve the best possible results based on your efforts. So before devising a strategy ask yourself, what exactly are you looking to achieve? Are your looking to enhance brand awareness? Looking to build a community to share ideas?

Webinars can be used in a whole host of ways.

I'm hoping my YouMoz blog gets posted pretty soon. It's called "How to Use Webinars to Skyrocket Your Inbound Reputation".

Keep one eye open for this. I think this will help you Sarah.

Snap! So many of our new clients have been penalised through paid link building.

I was asking if you have any "new"clients who have been hit by penguin as a result of acquiring poor paid links.

Thanks for sharing Jane.

Both 1 & 2 are nice but 2 would probably be more responsive for your client base.

What industry are your focussing on Alexander?