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Hi Ruben,

If we get all technical you could argue that a quantity of sites pointed towards you could be seen as bad but lets look at this another way.

Lets say you had a coffee shop and several completely unrelated blogs post a link to your site because they like your coffee, the sites them selves have nothing to do with coffee but the link is still good because its telling Google that clearly you are a good coffee shop. Hopefully my bad Analogy will shed some light on it.

You could fret over all links pointed and over optimize your site,Don't look at back links as something that will make or break your site

first thing you always put the user first and if it makes sense for the user the rest will fall in to placeShort answer - No

Best of luck and I hope my answer helps.

First thing that came to my mind was "how long is a piece of string"

Agree with Egol is somewhat comes down to the more you put in the more you get out

I would wait, whilst sites like that may shoot up the the top of Google they tend to shoot down just as quickly.  If you are really flustered you can report them to Google - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93713?hl=en

Make sure you are doing it all right (white hat) and you will out last them.

Hi Ben,

First the bad news, Moz Local is not coming to the UK any time soon it is on a road map meaning it may do at some point but it takes time for Moz to get all the tech sorted, get partnerships with local directories etc. etc.

Bummer I know but you can still do a lot of it manually. If you're all lazy there is a paid option similar to Moz here - BrightLocal.com I dont have any experieince with them but at least you've got the option.

If you're all in the Freebies YAY frame of mind why not check out the following blog post -

http://moz.com/blog/free-local-seo-tools

Hope that helps whilst you wait for Moz to get over here to the UK (Roger doesn't swim well so might have to wait for a bit)

I wouldn't worry about them. In theory they track your serp placement but they do a bad job of it. I suspect the get a link and then people pay for a trail to see what its all about and thus they make money.

It shouldn't be affecting your traffic in anyway. Ignore it for now and they will go away.

In short- Semalt tracks serp placement If you're worried you can look here-

http://logorrhoea.net/2014/01/how-to-block-semalt-com-referrer-traffic-using-htaccess/

There is no giant naughty list I'm afraid but the best advice i can give is as follows:

Will a user, find & use the directory?

if you think a user is going to find you through the directory (like yell.com etc.) then its a good link if you're just putting a link there for back link sake it's probably not as safe as you could be.

e.g. So if there is a local directory of all the best named companies called Pixel! and users are regularly using the listto find their favorite pixel company this would be good because the user is finding this link helpful but

if its a directory of all of the company on the internet - It's not so safe. Local directories (or very niche) tend to be a bit safer than most others too.

Hope that helps a bit more.

I think I found your site by accident the other day, small world!

You may find the following helpful if you want to use them for something other than blackhat seo

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=174992

and

https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/faq#whereinresults.

You will also see the second URL has some examples.

Hiya,

You should be able to change it to "we server customers at their address" and thus solve the problem.

https://support.google.com/business/answer/3038163?hl=en

hope that helps.

You may find this helpful -

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-guest-blog-penalty-18278.html

The theory is MyBlogGuest was the one as you can't find them on Google anymore.

Hello,

Simple one but have you tried asking the followers to +1 the page?

You can also post on the business page and get him to share to help slowly migrate it over. The reason its working its because your keeping the effort with that one page make the business page worth +1 and over time it will come.

Like SEO it takes time and you need to connect with people, you can also use the hangout feature which is great for connecting and finding out some stuff from your audience.

Hope that helps a bit.

I don't know any off top of my head I know Google released a neat app but I don't think it tracks robots - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tdevaux.googleurlshortener

and you can track users clicks on goo.gl (same as app) but you would need some sort of analytics other end unless you can set up analytics to see if a bot gets to that page and then you would have to assume it finds the link and goes through it.

Lastly there is also bitly which can also track but again its not build to track bots however I believe it may track bots better than Goo.gl

Good luck.

Hi there,

First off this sounds perfect for what you want to know - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en

Now as for TLD's etc. its preference - the bonus of having it on one site is all link juice accumulated goes to one domain rather then trying to optimize 3-4 different sites. You can always secure the TLD and if you need to move the site across at a later date. Whilst a regional TLD does give a minor boost it wouldn't mean much if you've spread yourself too thin across a few sites to really help the site rank.

My recommendation would be get your main site working with the rel=alternative tag in place for sub folders then you can work on moving one language to a new site (e.g. .de) get that site working really well then move onto another site etc. if you want to do that.

Hope that helps.

Not completely sure I get the question but if a competitor is one first page for black hat site don't worry they may be up there for now but longer term they won't stay up there. You will find that sites like that come and go but never stay long, keep creating good content and working on great link methods that in in Googles guidelines and over time you will stay at the top compared to being there for a week or two.

Type it into the search engine is always a good method (the whole domain e.g http:www.thesite.com)

Ignore them and move on, look at it this way. If your competitors get a penalty for all being in that link exchange they may all go down then your will laughing as you may become the top guy for that term.  So it may pay off down the line to find better results if you feel the blogs are spammy etc.

You may get one in a Moz swag package - http://moz.com/community/mozpoints

or the Moz con - http://moz.com/mozcon

or you could try being super nice to Roger and he may send you one.

Hello,

What you want is rel=canonical tag:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en

http://moz.com/learn/seo/canonicalization

what this will do it tell Google (or other search engines) that the product is a duplicate so what would do is tell Google that the Armani t-shirt is the original and put the tag on the colours pointing back to the Armani t-shirt page. then you won't have duplicates because any value will be passed to the original. The only minor problem is the other won't be indexed but if its just a colour issue this is not normally a problem.

I hope that helps and good luck!

(just edited the links to be links!)

it's because its used by affiliate links. You can try to hide the links behind another one so technically its not in the email (it goes though the link) a link redirect kind of.

Alternatively set up a landing page track users on that landing page combine with the email program tracker you can work out how many were sent, how many bounced and how many landed on the page.

Hope that helps a little.

Hello,

301 redirects are meant to be a permanent redirects, Google may think you are trying to be shady and give you a penalty. I recommend a 302 redirect in future to help avoid this. You could try switching them over slowly to help avoid this if you did want to turn them off.

It will hurt your SEO the question is for how long really.

Good luck!

Okay first off a great rule of thumb for any link detox sites manually go through the list as they are generated via an algorithm and they are not always right, this means it is possible to disavow perfectly good domains so use a bit of your own judgment if you think they are evil or not.

Second: When you disavow domains/ URLs they are no longer counted towards your ranking so you will loose ranking which is why its important to also create new links (white hat of course!) after removing (disavowing) links if you want to maintain SERP placement.

Hope that helps a bit more.

P.S - Don't use Page rank it doesn't mean much, it hasn't been updated in over a year and Google have made an  announcement they are not planning on updating it in the future either.