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It is hard to give an accurate percentage, in my eyes if you want to be in the clear just make unique content on pages if it is not unique content then place a canonical tag to the right page.
I mean Google is coming down harder and harder on sites for poor quality content/duplicant content if you play by the rules and do things right tit will be a long term strategy.
Hi,
this specific page is blocked in robots.txt
http://www.familyservices.govt.nz/robots.txt
User-agent: *
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /media/
Disallow: /webadmin/
Disallow: /directory/
So I would not waste any time trying to get it ranked.
Kind Regards,
James.
To be honest I would focus my efforts into making one or two really good websites rather than making 15 different websites.
Using exact match domains on a larger scale is a lot different in today's market in comparison to say 2 years ago where you could make a 5 pages site and get the EMD ranking.
If you do go with a 15 site strategy, you need to make 15 x sites, 15 x content pieces to make sure its unique, 15x splitting up hosting I would not even use any tracking that can link up the sites imo.
To be honest it will work better if you buy the exact match domain and then build a small site on it and have it rank for the keyword.
Just buying an exact match domain will not mean you will get it ranked if it is a 301 re direct, the only traffic it will yield will be direct type in traffic for the domain and this is only small.
Hi,
Here are some ideas to get you started
1. Look for related directories online where you can submit your business.
2. Type in your related business keywords, then look at which competitors are ranking for these terms then go to OSE and research the links the competitors have built, you can pull a report.
3. Possibly start a blog and get fresh content related to the business on the blog each week, then syndicate the content via social media.
4. If you have social media channels for the business, start link building via them you can build links via Twitter, Stumble upon, Delicious and a host of other social website.
5. Think to yourself do you have any suppliers who you currently use, ask if they want to link to you or want to add a badge to their website which is for your business for example a partner of your website.
For further ideas here is a fantastic post:
Hi,
If your website is very new and suddenly you add 20,000 pages of links it can have a impact on search engines, I have seen this on new websites in the past, hence why I do not try and gather a huge amount of links in a very short period of time.
But the thing is if you have a website which already has a huge amount of links 500,000 for example and you have 20k pages added then it will not really have a impact.
Kind Regards,
James.
I had a quick look some things which pop up:
The competitors have more links then you.
The competitors have a lot more internal linking going on, even though the website is poor.
Your website seems to have some duplicate content issues, I have pulled a few pages on copy scape API and saw some issues.
Things I would work on:
Make a company blog to add great content.
Use more internal linking
Use social more effectively.
Do more relevant link building.
Fix all the on site basis, many issues with your website.
Hope this helps.
To be honest I would put a fixed description on the page even if it changes 5 times a day.
You can have a description which is targeted to the news page and also a title which is targeted to the news page, rather than a random news story from that day.
In my eyes having a fixed description is a better strategy.
Another thing you can look at doing is if your site is added via Google news you can obtain Google news site links for the latest news, this is more of an advanced strategy, more information here:
http://jamesnorquay.com/google-news-additional-site-links-feed/
(only a limited number of sites have this)
if the blogs are on different blogspot domains and they have seprate information than it will be fine.
Try and aim to acquire links from locations rather then just blogs 
If you you purchase a domain which has been indexed for 11 years and it has quality links and quality content it will work far better then a brand new domain. I have tested this many many times and it is true to the story as it has trust and age with search engines.
Furthermore watch out on buying domains on the basis of PR it is easy to fake PR, people can get burnt very easily, do a historical PR check from the SEOmoz pr history check, view Moz domain authority and page authority.
As said above Archive.org is a good tool to use, but some sites block it.
You need to place a 301 re direct from the www to the non www (or vice versa)
Ideally you need to pick the most authority version URL for the website,
In my eyes the non WWW is a strong choice in today's market.
My advice is to not target directory links too much, becuase they yield little benefit only if it is highly relevant.
Target links from:
Guest posts on related sites
Articles writing on online PR websites
Related site comment marketing, sharing advice.
Social media websites promtions ect.
Ideally only target the home page to 10%, focus more on the category level pages.
You have two versions of your website www and non www.
What you need to do is pick your most linked to version, and then use that as the main URL.
Personally a lot of websites are dropping the www these days.
Then do a domain level 301 redirect from the www to the non www for example.
You can do it in .htaccess here is some further information:
http://www.scriptalicious.com/blog/2009/04/redirecting-www-to-non-www-using-htaccess/
Google is pretty good at picking up a network on sites within the same c-class sever.
That been said think of the following methodology, if you acquire 4 links on newspaper websites on the same sever and all those links are very high authority then it will provide 4 different links all with good value.
so that been said if you can acquire 4 different site links on 4 high quality sites on the same sever it is worth it for sure.
But be wary if some one goes to you i will sell you 50 site links on 1 sever all with low authority sites I would steer clear as it is a link network.
To be honest if I was going to roll out a theme and it was used by 10,000 people I would worry if the anchor text is the same on 10,000 sites. I know when Penguin 1.0 rolled out many many websites which footer links on a massive scale were hit VERY hard. Their were even case studies from wordpress theme owners on Moz.
The key element here is you are worried is to make the footer link no follow.
Where to distribute it, depends if you want to push it for free or to make money from it, Theme Forest is a good start, their are 100s of free theme sites in the market.
Hi turning off personalized search is hard because even logged in or logged out Google can still hold search results.
Some ways you can do it are:
1. Add &pws=0 to the end of your search terms.
2. View the keyword in your selected market via AD Preview Tool - https://adwords.google.com/select/AdTargetingPreviewTool
The problem is even if you own a trademark for a term, people can still bid on the term using broad match and also variations of your brand terms.
I have seen this numerous times, I have worked on a big telco client, and daily we have affiliates and competitors bidding for brand terms, you have to put in the complaints via email to Google on a daily basis to stop it from happening, but affiliates always find loop holes.
But looking into your specific site what is the trademark term "hamilton island" is a generic term, so I am curious to what other term you are referring to.
To be honest some of the best results I have have had in the past are not going direct to a design house or creative agency. Some times they will just charge alot and not provide the best info graphics.
A niche technique you can try is find a design school, design forum then run a competition with a cash prize (make it decent/worth peoples time) for the winner. You then get a few entries and you can pick the winner, some of the quality I have received in the past is great, some times not the best.
Really it is also up to time you need to gather the info graphic too.
Overall this technique has saved me a lot of money over the years.
Kind Regards,
James Norquay
I don't think you can out smart Google by putting websites on various sub nets for hosting, you really need to think about all levels how Google can track for example who is data, GA tracking codes, Adsense ID codes and thing that can link up the dots to show it is a mini net.
If you have a blog and the same site my advice is to host it all on one domain, sure enough you can host the site on 2 separate websites if you are using different TLD's and want to GEO target your website.
Hi here is some advice for your info graphics page:
Build the page on your website and have good internal link structure within the website.
You must use a dedicated page for the infographic.
Have share buttons on the info graphic page for example Tweet, Stumble, FB Share, Google+
Have a section below the info graphic where users can copy and paste the info graphic on their own website/blog make sure you have a link back to your site in this code.
In regards to ads I wouldn't reccomend it, yet if you really want put some CPM ads on the side of the info graphic or below it, I wouldn't use ads on a commercial website for info graphics.