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I would say on every page after watching this:

http://moz.com/blog/panda-optimization-whiteboard-friday

and reading this:

http://themoralconcept.net/pandalist.html

Hope this helps.

Justin

I'm looking at a site that has implemented trailing slashes inconsistently across multiple pages.

For instance:
http://www.examplesite.co.uk/ (WITH)
http://www.examplesite.co.uk/product-range (WITHOUT)
http://www.examplesite.co.uk/product (WITHOUT)
http://www.examplesite.co.uk/blog/ (WITH)
http://www.examplesite.co.uk/blog/blog-article/ (WITH)

The blog was created later in Wordpress which is one of the reasons why this issue exists.

Looking at the inbound links unsurprisingly the lions share go to the home page but lots of other pages have links as well, particularly the product pages, no to many to the blog pages.

This pattern is similar in terms of which pages rank, the home page ranks well for a variety of phrases, the product pages also do quite well.

I know that ideally the URL's should be identical to the existing site, or if you have to you should 301 redirect old to new.

The client wants to switch the whole site over to Wordpress which will be default implement a consistent URL structure across the board, thereby changing at least some of the URL's no matter what I do.

I remember a Matt Cutts video that stated that even a 301 redirect will loose a clicks worth of link juice see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Filv4pP-1nw

The existing site has a poor UX compared to the new proposed design so this should help us.

Has anyone got any experience with a similar issue or any advice about how best to proceed?

I have been working with a UK based printing company for a while now.

We have had some good success, ranking well for most of our target phrases.

One thing we do is to offer select Graphic Designers and Illustrators free business cards.

Last year we approached a load of Designers and Illustrators (sourced via followerwonk) and printed cards for them, but we have run out of suitable candidates.

One particular problem is that if the designers don’t need cards at that moment in time, the offer is forgotten about.

Any Ideas how we can give the offer a lift?

Let me know your thoughts.

Justin

Hi Keri,

Yes FollowerWonk is great but it doesn't seem to allow for that...

Justin

Hi Grace,

Thanks for the help, was looking for an automated solution for a list of twitter usernames who I am not yet following.

Justin

Hi Ben,

Thanks for responding.

Its an offer to help fundraisers with drinkimg water for their events.

I have PM'd you the link.

Justin

What about adding to all of the other pages i.e not to /calendar/ the links will be followed but not indexed by Google.

Don't forget country tld's like .co.uk if your marketing in these countries they are also fine.

Sounds a bit like your thinking of running multiple domains, the normal advice is that you should stick with 1.

Working with an idea for link building...

The company I work for is offering help to charities and fundraisers within the UK.

Looking at Twitter to connect with movers and shakers but has anyone got any specific advice / experience to offer?

Justin

Anyone know of a service where I can insert a list of URLs (or twitter user names) and get twitter stats for each account?

Thanks in advance.

Justin

Have Google sent you a message indicating that they thik they are spammy?  If not then they may not be as bad as your assuming.

Also check out http://www.seomoz.org/blog/identifying-link-penalties-in-2012

Hi Simon,

Noindex Follow meta tag sounds like the way to go.

Best to read this first... http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-in-a-post-panda-world

Hope this helps.

Justin

Hi Guy,

Does this help...

Although the canonical URL tag is generally thought of as a way to solve duplicate content problems, it can be extremely wise to use it on every (unique) page of a site to help prevent any query strings, session IDs, scraped versions, licensing deals or future developments to potentially create a secondary version and pull link juice or other metrics away from the original. We believe the canonical URL tag is a best practice to help prevent future problems, even if nothing is specifically duplicate/problematic today.

Source:http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization/new

As far as I have read up on the subject Google will know what your doing.

Good reciprication would be something like the following senario:

1. I create Top 10 list of Widget Manufacturers.
2. Some of these Manufacturers see the list and link through to it.

For 2 to work the info on 1 has to be wizz bang.

What you seem to want to do is to circumvent the system, you have to ask yourself why are you trying to do this.

If you think about links as votes for the other sites and ask, are these really freely given votes for the sites in question you won't go far wrong.

Hope this helps

Justin

Thanks for replying..

Started as a Graphic Designer so no faking involved.

In fact thats exactly what I don't want.

I do want to approach people from a social perspective first and foremost, not a link building perspective, which is why I feel my existing account may not be wholly appropriate.

Anyone have any experience of this?

Perhaps I'm wrong and I should use my own account, what do you think?

Don't be too quick to think the worst.

Recently one of my clients changed their geo settings they ranked but not in the UK.

Send me the URL and the target keyword and I will take a quick look.

Justin

Just to update in case anyone wants to know a method would be... http://findpeopleonplus.com/