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The less quality natural links you have the easier it is for a competitor to sabotage you. Brand new sites can definitely be sabotaged, but well established sites are almost impossible to take down because it's a good to bad incoming link ratio. Good SEO's always keep an eye on who is linking to them for this reason and vet their incoming links on a monthly or so basis.

Here is a great interview with Duane Forrester, a Sr. Product Manager with Bing’s Webmaster Program. In his interview, he has some very good tips on how to get great exposure in Bing.

http://www.stonetemple.com/search-algorithms-and-bing-webmaster-tools-with-duane-forrester/

It has been my experience that text ads definitely get more clicks than banner ads, especially if the text links are positioned within content and appear to be more integrated into the site, instead of a banner on the top of the page for example. People have been trained to ignore banners and ads that sit outside of the website.

You need to look at Google Analytics and review the traffic sources, entry pages, pages/visit and time on pages. You should be able to determine by looking at the above stats and contrasting with different time periods if the traffic is authentic and where the source of the traffic is from. Please report back if you see any anomalies.

I am seeing with Webmaster Tools  that Google is trying to follow the text based truncated URL from SuperPages despite the fact that they are not in an anchor tag. The net result for Google is a 404 error as they try to access pages that do not exist. has anyone seen this issue before and any suggestions on how to prevent these errors?

A Superpage listing: The first link works fine, but the text based link shown below is cut off and as a result Google gets to a 404 page.

http://swbd-out.superpages.com/webresults.htm?qkw=dr+hylton+lightman&qcat=web&y=0&x=0&

He should write the article on Monday and then post a tweet and link on Facebook on Friday. If his blog posts are permitted into Google News, he may want to wait until Friday, since freshness matters most in Google News. In any event, the client's content and link building efforts are the tools to get good rankings and it doesn't really matter what day the articles are posted.

The Homepage URL disappeared because you deleted the file so it no longer exists.

Redirect the old index.html URL to the new wordpress homepage URL using modrewrite in HTACCESS. You need to do that to pass the homepage PR2 pagerank juice to the new homepage URL or you're throwing the PR away and most sites homepage is the one with the highest PR.

Yes Trellian keyword discovery, it's not free but it's good.

http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/engines.html

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It should go away on it's own once you removed all the offending malware code from your site.

Call your hosting company and they will scan your site and remove the malware for you. A lof of people don't know that their hosting company will be more than happy in assisting removing hacks or viruses present on your sites at no charge. It's probably still on your site if you're still getting the message days later.

I'm seeing it too - It looks like it's coming from Superpages but the truncated URLs are not actually hyperlinks, so why is Google following them is a good question.

http://swbd-out.superpages.com/webresults.htm?qkw=Find+A+Physician&qcat=web

I'm fixing this on my end with a modrewrite in HTACCESS, all of my sites truncated URL problems either end in ".." or "..." so any URL that ends in those two instances will get 301 redirected to the homepage.

I know there are many opinions on how to handle paginated pages. My opinion is to just use a noindex, follow meta tag on all the paginated pages. The thinking is that these pages don't have any intrinsic value of being in the index themselves, but you still want the engines to be able to crawl to all your products from your internal links. I would only use the next and previous tags on paginated articles or galleries. The canonical tag is meant for duplicate pages and doesn't really make sense to use for paginated pages.

I think you really need to take a strong look at your own site. You are using some known spam techniques on your pages and it wouldn't surprise me that Google is finally penalizing you for trying to game them. Also, you may be trying too hard to fit  your keyphrase on the page and the bot may feel that this is a spam technique. For starters, I would get rid of this entire footer:

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For Google News entry this strategy would simply not work. I also wonder if a single page would make you a subject authority. The bots may sense that you are trying to game them. with all those 301's.

Updating old posts will not allow you the benefit of having your article getting into Google News. Here is what I would suggest.

1. Create a category page with links to all articles on that subject. Add some content and recent photos and videos to the category page.

2. On your related articles that are surfacing on top in the search results, link on top of the article to the newest article

Wow, every single link in your site navigation is nofollowed. You're basically telling Google to get lost.

I'm seeing you rank for specific location searches in google.co.uk so there is no issue except for the fact that you have one page only with little content.

http://www.google.co.uk/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=Interflora+florist+based+in+Bridport&pbx=1&oq=Interflora+florist+based+in+Bridport&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=549l549l0l1094l1l1l0l0l0l0l326l326l3-1l1l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=ec5cc414840dacf0&biw=1920&bih=927

http://www.google.co.uk/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=bridport+Interflora+florist+&pbx=1&oq=bridport+Interflora+florist+&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=32l336l2l485l3l3l0l0l0l3l435l1195l3-2.1l3l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=ec5cc414840dacf0&biw=1920&bih=927

Not sure how much more you will get ranked for with a one page indexed site in Google. You should create tageted pages for different types of flowers and baskets, and allow those pages to get indexed and then they'll have a chance to rank for things like "Flower Baskets in Bridport" for example.

Look at how this site is doing it: http://www.gifttree.com/

Good luck!

Ricky, the .net site appears to be penalized, go to google and type in akinsseptic.net - results show for the .com site.  Also, if you simply type in akinsseptic in google you get neither site. This is an indication of trademark suppression AKA Google penalty. Your first step would be to unwind the penalty, until the sites are cleaned up you won't get rankings unfortunately.

I definitely believe that domain name age plays a large part in rankings out of the gate.  I have heard that it is better to let Google find your site on it's own (from following links on the web) rather then submitting your URL to Google, because if you submit it Google they start the clock from when you submitted it. I have not tested this but since it's possible I never submit new sites to Google URL submit tool.

Totally agree with Ryan Kent. You should write a paragraph of content that is unique to the company featured. The chart is not unique enough and you will get flagged as having a high ratio of duplicate content. You should also look at all the other SEO elements on this page, understand what keyphrases you are targeting and modify the title, meta and H1 tags.

Absolutely not an issue, hyphens are just a little bit more SEO friendly. A lot of sites choose to leave legacy URLs when there is a chance at losing revenue by changing them. 301 redirects do lose a little bit of PR, so it makes sense to be apprehensive. It just looks less uniform.

I would suggest moving a small handful of them over and run a specific ranking report on just those URLs to monitor any loss of rank instead of moving them all in one shot and risking loss of revenue.

Another issue with excessive linking on every page is that you are diluting your page uniqueness and you may get flagged due to having a large ratio of duplicate pages. I would strongly recommend you limit the number of links on your primary landing pages to the links that people are most interested in and/or mostly related to the page content. In the same vein, any mass of content (author bios, disclaimer, etc..) that is on every page of the website needs to be examined and optimized.

I am attending SMXEast and one of the speakers is strongly encouraging to use the markup from schema.org. Does anyone have experience with the markup from schema.org and were you able to track any outcome in the search rankings based on adding this markup?