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From other blog posts and my also from own experience, you are losing approx 15% linkjuice for each 301 hop. Too many hops and Google will give up ...Matt Cutts recommended not having more than 2 or at the most 3 redirect hops for googebot to crawl.

+1 to Jesse's reply. This is usually a case of having blocked Google's crawlers from your site. Under such circumstances, Google webmaster tools will report this as an 'issue'.

Google weights most of its SEO 'strength' to the actual domain name iteself - and even then, from left to right i.e the further right your main keyword is, the less juice it will get.

However, if you have relevant content on the page and name the page accordingly then you are making what is called an 'seo friendly' URL. Many people who use Wordpress for example, change their permalinks to change the url from something like mysite.com/p1 to mysite.com/keyword - which WILL make a difference, albeit not a huge one.
So if it's straightforward for you to do so, then by all means do it. Outside of SEO it will help your visitors better understand what the page is about, and will look a lot prettier in the SERPs too.

Also, rather than 301'ing each page, you may be able to change the structure of your permalinks within your .htaccess file so that it will happen automatically e.g by naming the file with the title of your page or postname.

Hope this helps...

Unfortunately I doubt anyone will point you to a resource that can do this.

First off, there are very few services that can give you an accurate representation of the links pointing to your site (you are however look at one site that can). Secondly, a link can be very hard to categorise because the site itself may not be in any particular category.

For example, I could have a webpage on my own site that I place links on as part of a link exchange. Then after 5 years, I've got so many that it becomes effectivley a directory.

A category for a type of link site is only a term given to it by humans in order to describe it. There is no semantic markup (none thats adhered to anyway) to describe the purpose of a site, be it directory, blog or otherwise.

Here's hoping that another mozzer proves me wrong, at which point I'll go and write an SEO tool that even Moz can't touch!

Indeed, that holding page left me salivating!

I agree, it only has loose ties to SEO, just wanted some thoughts on it. +1 for the idea of PR Web though.

My largest client, a financial services outfit are about to launch a major new service. As part of this, their PR agency is about to issue a press release that will go to financial journalists and the whole stock exchange.

Is there some way, as their SEO advisor, that I can increase the impact of this and help them to further benefit?

Thanks in advance...

I'd recommend you steer clear of sitewide links from B to A. The majority of your duplicate links will be disregarded by search engines and they look like spam. Far better to put one link on the homepage of B and have 1 authority link instead of 400,000 discounted ones from PR0 pages (which I will assume most of them are?). Its always better to have links from diverse sources than many links from one source - even if its a notable one.

Good luck.

You'll be just fine with that until a competitor or disgruntled customer reports you to Google and they look into it. At which point you'll be hit hard for offering paid links, as will anyone who you link to as a result.

I'd want to be making a FAT wad of cash before I allowed the above to happen. Certainly not something I'd consider for a site that made any sort of income for me anyway...

I've help a couple of my clients to set this up. It's a double edged sword because if they dont stay on top of it and keep it up to date, the Facebook page looks like old news and will give a negatove slant towards reputation management for them. If they do work at it though, they can benefit assuming that anyone on Facebook cares a damn about their products or services. I have a client who repairs boilers. He's #1 in Google for all his terms but nobody cares about boiler repair on Facebook.

If you can:

• tell a funny story related to your business
• share a related video that will amuse people (perhaps even go vial) - say something relevant to what people are doing (at xmass for easter etc)

then it can help. People who read something amusing or captivating on Facebook are far more likely to check out a link to the site owners web page. It just needs some real effort and proper thought. The odd post saying something uninteresting just wont help. In which case, its a waste of energy IMHO.

Saw this and thought of you.

http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/content-for-local-sites-and-local-search

Yup, these guys are excellent:

http://www.yourprivateproxy.com/

I've used them for search requests, map requests and even Scrapebox. Always available, low ping, not shared and reasonably priced for the 10 pack. Their user interface is simple and they get you up and running quick.

I'm starting to sound like an affiliate so I'll leave it at that.

Here's 20 (with PR listed) to get you started.

http://www.web-directories.ws/Regional/North_America/Quebec/

Enjoy!

Assuming each site is different, I'd say that Trip Advisor has more mentions of the hotel name and 'relevant content' than your own website. It's a PITA but I've seen this happen. In some ways, I suppose it's a good thing. If of course you have good review on TA. In my experience, where I've seen this before (twice) the original hotel site eventually outranks TA.

I'd suggest you dont lose any real sleep over it. If TA reviews are good and your website has plenty of relevant content, you'll get there and visitors to both sites wont care much anyway

Rackspace are also very pro. Not used them myself but heard good things about them too...

I actually went to Dreamhost who are a smaller company but serving some BIG customers. Many including myself migrated my 100+ domains to them having had enough of Hostgator. They don't use cPanel but have their own friendly but powerful interface which works well. Tech support is also much better than Hostgator (who I actually didnt find too bad).

From memory they offer a 30 day trial membership where you could check it out. And no Im not a rep or I'd have my affiliate link here. (you checked if that was a link didn't you?).

Hope this helps,

GZ

Hey! I Cant believe that nobody has answered this...

Yes I would say that any site with a mobile version should have a seperate sitemap for it, it does count and Google likes it as it makes it easier to crawl and index for them. Just make sure that:

• Your mobile sitemap ONLY contains URLs that serve mobile content (otherwise they get ignored).

• Make sure all URLs have the  mobile:mobiletag.</mobile:mobile>

Have fun!

Dan

I agree with the post above, you're going to have to cut down on the info. Some great tips and answers to your questions can be found in this webinar from Moz that is well worth a look!

http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/everything-you-didn't-know-about-infographics

Google definitely do split testing. Like Kane said, I've also had differing results from the same account, plus they also bring in changes then withdraw them again a few days later!

I'd say that if its there 2 weeks later, it's probably there to stay and SEOs are going to be talking about it at SEO roundtable / SEL etc.

See how it pans out before jumping to any conclusions.

Hey Brant!

I'd go with the sub-domain route like es.yoursits.com and have the Spanish pages right there. In my experience, I've created multi-language sites and not run into duplicate content issues.

Secondly, Google translate does a kind of dictionary translation that may not read so well by your target audience. If at all possible, find someone who can translate the pages for you. Spanish is a common language so you may know someone who can do that for you. If this isn't the case, you could try the url below, I've used this provider before and had good results. May not be viable if you have a lot of text to translate though.

http://fiverr.com/newwealth/do-small-english-to-spanish-translations

Hope this helps,

Dan