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Sure they are no-follow but since I was pushing people to share the different longtail pages I have seen a raise in the longtail rankings so I'm under the impression these share did have part to do with that.

I'm under the impression the Panda update changed quite a bit...

Yeps, you might also want to checkout this Google post: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html

Hi all,

I have noticed that when moving to a new domain your normal links will move along with you when you set proper 301 redirects and use google webmaster tools. But I'm under the impression your twitter mentions, fb likes etc. on the different pages will be lost...

I'm looking forward to your comments and ideas.

Cheers

We did go ahead and it worked out fine. It took some time to gain the positions, but it really was worth it.

Hi all,

I just noticed some extra links in the SERP where a webpage was showing events in the city. Does anyone know how these events can be indexed and placed by google in teh SERP?

I have attached a screenshot, the underlying pages don't seem to be that special. I was wondering if there are special guidelines when optimising for events.

It seems that Google will only show upcoming events for the next few days...

Any help is greatly appriciated!

Cheers!

Yeps, I know this one but the site is adsense only on a parked domain...

My main problem is that the site is not in Google's index currently. It is currently a parked domain with adsense on it....

Would my suggestion in the first post work?

Hello all,

If I wanted to know if a domainname has a google ban on it would the following be a good idea to test it.

Place an article on the domain page with unique content and then link to the page so its gets indexed and then link to the article from a well indexed page.

If it doesn't get indexed there might be a ban on the page, if it does get indexed there is no ban on the page...

Or are there other points I should keep in mind while doing this.

All help is very welcome.

Cheers,

Arnout

@baptiste @andy I fully understand that, currently it is juist adsense without content. I might also be the case that the site has never been indexed because there was no link to the page...I'm going to get a link to the page to check if it gets indexed....let's find out...

Thanks guys...

The price is pretty steep multiple K...

How long do you think it will take?

Hello all,

I've found a exact match keyword domain that I'm able to buy.

Problem is that I'm under the impression it might have been banned by google, currently it is only showing adsense without content.

The site can't be found using the cache: or site: parameters in Google and the PR is 0.

What are your experiences on buying a banned domain and how can I double check if the domain is banned?

This blogpost suggests I should not buy it, any other opinions?

Thanks.

Hellemans

In my opinion it would be best to have some variation in the anchor texts but if the URL is exact. I'm assuming that in this case 'blue widgets' is a highly competative keyword, so you might want to consider the 'long tail' keywords and optimise your URL for those longtail keywords, in this case /shiny-blue-widgets. You will probably get ranked easier this way. But it all depends on the current competition.

Good luck!

You should be ok doing it this way. Make sure you set all the correct 301's. I've done it this way multiple times, sometimes if I had a ranking it would fall but be back a bit stronger over time (depending on the authority of the domain).

Good luck.