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Hi Locksmith_in_London,

Since the Google Penguin Update, you should be really careful about the quality and relevancy of the linking page/domain to your website.  So as you say, if they are unhealthy, you should in fact try to remove them as they might harm. In addition to lowering your domain/page authority, it could earn you a Google Penalty, and you really don't want that.

In order to get quality links, you should:

• Look for websites with higher authority than yours
• In addition, these websites should be relevant to your website, or linking to your website from a high quality page that contains relevant content to your page/website. For example, local business reviewing bloggers, who talk about your business could give you a high quality link.
• Make sure you don't link to your website using industry keywords as anchor links (or link text) as this is considered "Spammy". Always used your domain or your brand name.
• Don't link to your website from web directories or forums, unless the forum is discussing your services.

I see that the best people to get you these kind of links are PR agencies (but not through press release distribution systems).

I hope the above helps

Issa

Hi there,

Seems to me that you should follow the standard process when you have unnatural links. You should:

1. Compile a list of links and domains.
2. Contact Webmasters of these domains, requesting removal of links (include the pages where these links are added in your email)
3. Save all your sent and received emails to/from Webmasters
4. Ones that don't reply to you, email them one more time a couple of weeks later
5. Create a disavow file for domains that you couldn't get links removed from, state the reason and dates of emails.
6. Submit the disavow file to the disavow tools

I know its not straight froward nor fast, but thats how you maintain the public link profile of any website since the Penguin Updates started.

I hope it helps

I'd simply create very unique and exciting content, link baits, things that locksmiths know, life hacks. I would then promote then and try to make people share them.

I would then get my PR team to use the links and the momentum they picked to get your website in the news, or blogs. I may even contact bloggers, invite them to visit my shop and to see how exciting and current my business is.

Not really a strategy, but that's just me entertaining the idea of being your marketing expert.

Hi Radi,

I don't see any issues with this as long as every suburb page will have unique and quality content as opposed to duplicate and thin content that is usually caused by creating unnecessary pages just to include additional keywords.

So say you have "Area A" which includes "Suburb A" and "Suburb B".

If Area A has so many listings, on domain.com/area-a/ then you can split that into

Suburb A domain.com/area-a/plastic-plants-subarb-a
Suburb B domain.com/area-a/plastic-plants-subarb-b

Listing should be unique and of high quality on each of these pages, none should be repeated.

I hope this helps

Issa

Hi,

You should find your answer in this link: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/enhanced-ecommerce#overview

But essentially you will have to use something like:

ga('ec:addImpression',{            // Provide product details in an impressionFieldObject.
  'id':'P12345',                   // Product ID (string).
  'name':'Android Warhol T-Shirt',// Product name (string).
**'category':'Apparel/T-Shirts',   // Product category (string).**
  'brand':'Google',                // Product brand (string).
  'variant':'Black',               // Product variant (string).
  'list':'Search Results',         // Product list (string).
  'position':1,                    // Product position (number).
  'dimension1':'Member'            // Custom dimension (string).});

But you need to specify the Field Object in the top line. Read the link I sent you and should be all self explanatory.

I hope this helps

Issa

Hi,

I personally think you should only allow Google to index tags if you have a big number of posts that use these tags organically, not for keyword stuffing and spammy activities.

In the case you mentioned, I would disallow Search Engines from indexing tag pages. And if you believe that these tags should not be on that website, then you should delete them. Looking at the example URL you sent, its clearly created in the attempt to trick Google.

I would start first with disallowing search engines from indexing them, then I would go head and slowly remove these tags.

If you have posts that are not 100% relevant to the business and are high quality, consider removing those too. This particular page is not doing well really from linking or authority point of view. See the image I attached

I hope this helps.

S0MucPO

Hi Tavneer,

Good question, unfortunately Google will not tell you all duplicates. You need to use a tool for that.

My recommendations is to use the CopyScape tool, its has free service for samples, but I do recommend you get the premium which is incredibly cheap. Should buy credits and then do the following:

1. Get a list of all your website's URLs (you can use any method you like. i usually search for site:mydomain.com in Google and export them with SEO Quake plugin/extension on Chrome)
2. Go to bulk check on CopyScape
3. Add all your URLs in there
4. Process the bulk search
5. Wait few seconds and you will have a list of all duplicates on external websites, with average percentage.

I hope this helps.

Issa

Hi Daniel,

I am trying to think with you here, not to give you a solution (sorry for that).

It sounds like your website was hit by Panda, the manual review (or automated) was initiated by creating the new dev site and allowing Google to index it, then deleting the website that Google has preferred to rank higher than your original website. Too many extreme changes that were not planned correctly.

Like with many Panda penalties, Google rarely tells you anything, nor tells you that your website is affected even. I have seen so many companies going down the route of creating a website on a new domain.

However, I'm wondering, if you 301 redirect your old website (which obviously is having big problems ranking-wise) wouldn't you be transferring the reputation alongside the equity? Wouldn't your website have the same bad ranking?

Also, if you are suffering with the current ranking, why would you want to transfer such equity to a freshly created website, with good usability and ticking many more boxes than the previous one on Google search result pages?

If I was you, and creating a website on a new domain, i would simply start from scratch. And make sure that the website is big on usability and unique high quality content. Then I would make sure that there are high quality, high authority websites linking to relevant pages on your new website.

I hope this helps you in anyway.

Best,

Issa