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Well said Sean

Iain - Reload Media

Hi Bromtec,

You're not alone in this situation, lots of site owners have had to go through this process.

Firstly it can take several months for Google Webmasters to update the links it knows about. The time period depends on when the pages with the links removed get indexed. If they are back pages, that only get indexed every 6 months or so, it will take a while. Unfortunately you'll just need to be patient.

Google employees will be looking at live links, not what's reported in GWT. They have much more detailed tools to analysis your links. If they are rejecting your reconsideration requests, you have more links to clean up.

Have you been using the disavow tool?

Thanks

Iain - Reload Media

Hey Diane,

Good question. It looks like you've been working hard on the site as you're getting an A using the SEOMOZ on page factors tool...
http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization

There are a few small tweaks you could do, running the tool above will show you these. Nothing major.

You mentioned before the upgrade you ranked no.1. I'd start by making sure all links pointing to your previous site are being handled correctly on the new one. For example are there any links to none existent pages which need to be 301'd to the home page?

You also need to diversify your backlink anchor text, as the largest amount of anchor text is "Lifestyle magazine". Pre Penguin this would of worked, but now your brand should be the most frequent anchor text used.

Hope that helps

Iain - Reload Media

Hey Dean,

It's good to see you're doing link building for your site. However as Vikas points out, you'll need to be careful not to stumble into the duplicate content area. Also unless the article directory is an authority in your niche, you'll get limited results with this tactic.

Try reaching out to blogs in your niche and write specific posts for them, that targets their readers. That should help you get better results.

Just another word of warning, don't solely rely on guest posting, article directories etc for link building. Make sure you get a diversified back link profile, so when the next update comes it won' t affect your rankings.

Thanks & good luck

Iain - Reload Media

Hi Joseph,

Streamline has made some great suggestions for rank checking software. In addition you can use the rank tracking within SEOMOZ or use Rank Tracker (http://www.link-assistant.com/rank-tracker/). It will save you a lot of time.

Bare in mind though with the ever increasing personalisation of results in Google, just use ranking reports as an indicator of performance. Not the ultimate metric.

Hope that helps

Iain - Reload

Hi Raphael,

Well done on getting an editor account. Remember with great power comes great responsibility 

Yes they do get indexed. The way to check this is to Google the url in "" i.e. "http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?site=www.dmoz.org%2Fpublic%2Fprofile%3Feditor%3Dthehelper"

Some of those editor pages have great Authority. http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?site=www.dmoz.org%2Fpublic%2Fprofile%3Feditor%3Dthehelper

If it's related to your niche, then would be worth pursuing.

Hope that helps

Iain - Reload Media

Hi Kristopher,

Good question on link indexing.

For the sake of helping you out and the sanity of the SEOMOZ community, I'll pretend I didn't read you removed the links because of the change in relationship

Open Site Explorer updates about every month. However it's not a full update, as it can't recrawl every page on the Internet each time. So when these stop showing will depend on how important Open Site Explorer thinks to page is. If it was less important it won't get crawled for a while.

RE: The rankings. Google will most likely find the links have been removed first. The only way to confirm this is with having access to Google Webmasters for that domain. However I wouldn't sweat it, if no SEO work is being done it won't continue to rank for long.

Hope that helps you understand the link indexing process.

Thanks

Iain - Reload Media

Hi Monster99,

It's a great question. As with anything is SEO/Life it depends on a few factors. Here are the main pros & cons of both..

Hosted

Pros

*** Others sites will link directly to your domain, when linking to a video* You have greater control over the videos, i.e. no ads, recommend videos etc **

Cons

*** Cost * Technical Setup **

Embedded

Pros

*** If you're a less well known brand, can help your video get shared* Can help build your You Tube Channel * It's free!* Very quick to setup**

Cons

*** Websites tend to link to You Tube* You can have ads shown* Shows other peoples related video **

If you're just starting out and you're not making very unique linkable content, I'd go with the embed option.

Hope that helps

Iain - Reload Media

Are you getting any crawl errors in Google Webmaster tools?

Hi Andreas,

Welcome to SEOMOZ, we'd love to help you. What specifically do you need help with?

Thanks

Iain - Reload Media

I agree with Edward here.

However for bonus SEO points if you 301 redirect the page where the external link is pointing to, to a relevant page, you'll take full advantage of that links power.

Iain - Reload Media

Hi Nadav,

Start with checking if they are a member of the local Chamber of Commerce. Are they part of a Lock Smith association, if so there is a great link to get.

Does your client partner with local carpenters or other tradies in the off line world. If so that will be a great online referral/link.

If you search for Locksmiths {location} are there any none competitor sites that come up you could get your client listed on?

Hope that helps

Iain - Reload Media

Hi Sarah,

I wasn't able to find errors on that page. Just to confirm the CSV of the crawl, is that coming from Google Webmasters?

Iain

I see. To get the city-state pages indexed then they must have their own URL. If you can only access it via posting a form (assumed for using the search feature), the a search engine can't see it.

To get round this, you could put a links underneath the search box to popular searches. This will get them indexed.

Does that answer the questions?

Thanks

Iain - Reload

Hi Zach,

Rank Tracker is great for tracking Local results.

Thanks

Iain - Reload Media

Hi Editable Text,

In short if you show Google a crawlable link to the content with the dynamic header/content, and the content is driven by the unique URL, yes it will index it.

As with any SEO/life question, there are a few t&c's with this.

1. The pages need to be unique enough not to be classed as duplicate content
2. Make sure it's intelligently linked internally
3. You have external links pointing deep into the site
4. You have a decent site architecture

To answer you second question, you'll need unique pages for each location, unless your content would be so thin, you'd need to group them. The URL doesn't have to include the keyword, but it's damn helpful if it does.

Hope that helps

Iain - Reload Media

Hi Fdep,

The server move could be impacting your rankings. However the ideal set-up is your site is hosted in the main country you want to rank (assumed Australia). However you have moved from the US to Asia Pacific Region, therefore the location shouldn't be an issue in this case, as you haven't moved from Australia to Asia.

Check Google Webmasters Go to Google webmasters and check the the error logs. If you're getting lots of issues in there because your host isn't handling the site/traffic correctly it could be affecting your rankings.

Algo Updates Check the algo updates here on the mighty SEOMOZ http://www.seomoz.org/google-algorithm-change If the ranking drop happend on the same date as one of these, then it's more likely this is the cause of the problem.

Thanks

Iain - Reload Media

When was the CSV download of the crawl taken? Have any changes been made to that page since?

Did the same 404 show up when you used Screaming Frog?

Thanks

Iain - Reload Media

Hi Chris,

As your keywords all include "lose pounds", go with the url "how to lose pounds".

As long as your keywords are in the key places like H1, H2 in your title along the lines of...

"How to loose 10, 30 or 100 pounds"

and your content is related, you'll be sending search engines the right signals that you want to join the race for those keywords.

By the way Google knows 10 & ten are the same thing, so no need to go spammy and include both.

To tweak every last on page element use the SEOMOZ on page test tool http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization/new

Then focus your efforts on links from other weight lose related page, and don't spam the anchor texts, otherwise you'll get a visit from our Penguin friend.

Hope that help

Iain - Reload Media

100% agree with Sparkplug on the Pros & Cons here.

However I'd go with brandname.co.uk for the long term win. The reason being, you'll need to develop product related content on the site, which will attract links. A commercial aspect to your domain will put some people off linking to you.

Iain - Reload Media