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A highly debated topic. Domains with many key words, plus location key word stuffing have seen many sites penalised.  Much comes down to the keywords used within a domain to see if you have been penalised or not by Google. You would really need to look assess all algorithms to eliminate any doubt.

All specialists will tell you it's best to build a Brand site on a keyword domain so you get both brand mentions and generic intent keywords.

Moz is just one very good tool to use to assess the health of a website. A good marketing company will use various tools to check out any problems. Never stick to one. My advice - have an expert assess everything before coming to with a strategy to improve you website performance.

Hope this helps James.

Good luck

Gary

Hi Ruben

Key word stuffing is a big no no well documented by Google. It would be a wise decision to first shorten the link and to make sure the link is relevant to your page (just be natural). If you are registered on google places, your registered address will get picked up in the Tampa area.

go from this http://www.kempruge.com/location/tampa/tampa-personal-injury-legal-attorneys/

to this

http://www.kempruge.com/personal-injury-legal-attorneys/

If you have had this long link appearing for a while - no love from Google and i would strongly advise your change this.

Hope this helps?

Gary

We have a client who is experiencing much in the way off duplicated content and broken, spammed inbound links. While we are removing and correcting everything using google webmaster, I'm hearing stories of websites not being able to recover from algorithms/penalties applied because of this.

My client had around 250 inbound links to their website and over the space of 3 weeks mounted over 8,000 unethical links.

Any information surrounding this issue would be much apprecited.

Thanks

Gary

Agreed - stick to directory sites that are relevant to your business. Always check out your competitor links (www.opensiteexplorer.org) as a method of searching for good authoritative links. Remember on 10% of you link build strategy should be focussed on link development.

Good luck

Gary

Yes be careful with back links Adrian.

If you employ a company with a good reputation, they'll make sure the building blocks for your company link strategy is authoritative, as well as informative for the targeted audience.

Google algorithms will penalise poor links for sure.

In the last 3 years, Social Media has had a massive impact on link development. Social Media is the future for "authentic" link development.

Regards, Gary

Thanks Keri

As of yesterday we used Copyscape premium. We also ran a few tests on this for obvious duplicates - pleased to say everything seemed to run smoothly and like you said, it's very quick to process.

Your feedback is much appreciated.

Regards

Gary

Hello

You may have some luck using Ubersuggest or Quicksprouts. This can really help you to identify "new" words/phrases associated with your dominate focus key word groups. Great for developing tail end key words.

Best of luck and I hoped this helped.

Gary

Hi

Does anyone know a site where i can paste text to test for duplication? We've used some outstanding freelancer copywriters in the past but need to check the authenticity of the article created before publishing,

Thanks

Gary

Oren

Agreeing with you completely. Thanks for your time. Very much appreciated.

Gary

Hi Nick

Thanks for your response. Yes, creating fresh new content is the stronghold for any digital marketing strategy. However after reading the article you sent me has only increased my desire never to touch a directory. It seems to me directories, however much impact they play right now, may become a thing of the past tomorrow...

We'll stick to developing relevant content for our clients and publishing digitally using authoritative sites, blogs, social media's extra.

Thanks again Nick and a Happy New Year to you.

Gary Victory - Elite Group Marketing, London

We are having more and more "new" customers coming to us who have been hit by various algorithms imposed by google. After we have run a site health check and corrected everything, we plan and come up with a link development plan which suits the clients needs.

Much of out link development work is safe comprising of;

1. Guest Blog Posts  - where we develop creative content with the customer to publish.

2. Industry blog posts - where bloggers write about i.e. "the company"

3. Social media - posting pictures, commenting on forums, etc

4. Paid directories with authority

We don't develop links in any other way and it brings results in the long term. Is anyone out there doing something else? Link building can sometimes be like walking on a tight rope.

Thanks and happy holidays

Gary - Elite Group Marketing London

We are having more and more "new" customers coming to us who have been hit by various algorithms imposed by google. After we have run a site health check and corrected everything, we plan and come up with a link development plan which suits the clients needs.

Much of out link development work is safe comprising of;

1. Guest Blog Posts  - where we develop creative content with the customer to publish.

2. Industry blog posts - where bloggers write about i.e. "the company"

3. Social media - posting pictures, commenting on forums, etc

4. Paid directories with authority

We don't develop links in any other way and it brings results in the long term. Is anyone out there doing something else? Link building can sometimes be like walking on a tight rope.

Thanks and happy holidays

Gary - Elite Group Marketing London

Could anyone out there recommend directory sites containing industry specific bloggers or industry specific guest blogs.

Always seems very difficult to come by. For example we have written a great article collaborating with a "hardwood flooring" company and would love to get this published.

We are in London. Happy holidays to you all