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Dear William,

my advise. Don't just build a mobile website. Build it for internet and mobile compatible.

Some of our websites were build just for the web and i must say that iPhone's render the pages perfectly but windows phone tend not to. Still most mobile phones nowadays use Android or Apple OS. Since both of them are able to render websites like normal you don't have to adept to mobile devices.

Our websites are even reader compatible. When you open a page in you mobile browser there appear a button that says: reader. Press it and voila the page opens in your favourite reader.

Hope this helps

I just found a link in the competitive link checker that links to a couple of my competitors. The checker says that i do not have  a link on that page, but there is one.. i recently (last week) obtained that link. So that raises the question: how many times is the competitive link checker updated?

kind regards

Hello Cyrus,

thanks for the pointers. I already submitted a in depth keyword Analysis. The report is being printed right now...

i'm currently using the competitive link finder for finden more link with higher MR MT en DA. I also adjusted some link anchors from website I control to my site. Hope it will help some at least

thanks for the pointer.

What is your feel about keyword density? Is it or isn't it a factor, how big a factor is it? Where should you keep the density at?

so that works exactly like PR calculation.

so for my DA to go up i might actually need to "collect" 1,000 links in order to go up to 50?

Okay people,

so far i've actually tried a lot of things and analised a lot of data provided by SEOMoz and i already made a lot of changes.

Still one of my competitors stands on the number 1 position in Google. Their page ranks F for the keyword and my page ranks A.

I can only come to the conclusion that there is another part that plays his part here. So i basicly found this informatie:

• Page Grade:
  • My site: Grade A
  • Competitor: Grade F
• Page Authority (PA):
  • My site: 49/100
  • Competitor: 62/100
• Domain Authority (DA):
  • My Site: 39/100
  • Competitor: 55/100
• Total Links:
  • My Site: 1188
  • Competitor: 8250
• FB Shares:
  • My Site: 15
  • Competitor: 14
• FB Likes:
  • My Site: 2
  • Competitor: 1
• Tweets:
  • My Site:6
  • Competitor: 7
• Google+:
  • My Site: 3
  • Competitor: 0

I already made some adjustments to my facebook fan page so it can recieve more likes then before.

I think the main issue is located in the PA en DA factors. What do you guys think and what could i do to quickly increase my PA en DA factor (PA is the most important one i think).

hope to hear from you soon

My website, www.kamperen-bij-de-boer.com, tells people what campingssites can be found in The Netherlands for recreational purposes. In order for a campingsite to be mentioned on our website we ask them to place a link to our website (either using a text link or image link) and then we make a page for that campsite on our website with in the end a link to ther website, e.g.

http://www.kamperen-bij-de-boer.com/Minicamping-In-t-Oldambt.html -> they in return link back to us.

Since this comes natural will this or won't this be penalized by Google and so on for linkfarming. At this moment we have about 600 camping sites on our website alone linking to us (not all of them) and we are linking to them. Since this can be explained as link trading which is not as good for your ranking as one-way-linking what should be wise? Should i include a nofollow?

I already have many links from other sites linking to mine without having to link back, is there anything else i can do with linking to ensure better ranking?

are those links still active according to the websites and for instance google? In the netherlands we got startpagina.nl which uses a linkpool so that every 3 of 5 months new links will appear on their page. It could be that your very important links are used in a linkpool.

Or the links are still there but the bot maybe missed them. U should definetly check google:

link:wwww.mysite.com / link:http://www.mysite.com / link: www.mysite.com

If it appears in Google and you check it on the page itself if its true you'll have your answer

There are "legit" link builders that can help you with this. They will look up websites relevant to your subject and post links etc to them. Furthermore i would not know what other methods there are then directory submission, in context linking on website, two way linking, three way linking etc.

Brian,

i build websites with webpages that contain 500+ words or even 1250+ words with keyword density's close to 3 % and above and for the appropriate keywords they all rank #1.

I also feel that you should talk about the things most important to you and stay focused on the subject. Another client of mine mostly talks about car specifics in stead of talking about what the tuning will do for the car. When i correct the page by keeping it on subject he immediatly ranks better.

For my private websites i sometimes have webpages with only 100 words and some with over a 1000. They all are able to rank as high as i want them to. I also see competitors with only 100 words and some images ranking higher then i do for important keywords. I asked myself the same question you did.

My advise: stay on subject. keep your patience and above all: don't dispair. Make sure you talk about usefull information, with some keywords in it and you should be doing just fine

For starters i would suggest redirecting those very very very keyword spamming url's to more user friendly urls:

french-translation.html or something.

From you analytics picture-> all out of nothing your visitors dubble and out of nothing they drop? Something you did prehaps?

@serge: does a high keyword density penalise your rankings? I used to make sure i was at 2-5%....

My link profile is updated on regular basis. All the camping sites on my website have to link to me in order to obtain their own page on my website. This way i "naturally" build a great link asset. Unfortunatly Google decided that this way of linking is not always best for your ranking but i can see no other way of doing this for the campingsites.

i also make sure i get non-reciptorial links and article links to my site.

When i look at my competitors i see them having way more links then i do but they always have had that since the start of my site in 2007.

for my searchword: kamperen bij de boer i now rank nr 2 in Google NL but in Google Com i rank number 1 (maybe due to the .nl or .com extention of the site). But the number one in the netherlands for that term does not even include it in it's title, content, header, h1,h2,h3,h4 or even links and alt descriptions. So why i that now ranked 1?? i can only come to the conclusing that it must be because my website was penalised due to something stupid google made up recently.

On the webmasters forum i asked about the recent google update and i got these 2 answers:

• To be honest, looking at your website and just the physical space taken up by adverts is more than the content on the page.This looks bad but its even worse when the adds that appear are just text adds.You use 3 add blocks.Remove the top one and keep the 2nd and 3rd. Remember, you only get a "click" from one advert being hit, so you are not loosing anything, you still have the adds appearing.The big difference is that the user is not now sown a page of adverts that confuses them.
• Combination of ad placement and site design is on the brink of being deceptive. I wouldn't know at first glance which link is an ad and which one not.

What do you think i should do?

my sites adres is: http://www.kamperen-bij-de-boer.com

maybe you don't understand the language written on the site but you sure can see the site. Maybe look into which resolution would be best to test?

hope to hear from you again

1. make sure all of your inbound links redirect to the new pages
2. Tell google with canonical which pages are the originals
3. make sure to have a good .htaccess with 301's and a 404 redirect
4. build a solid 404 page

This way you should not have to worry about loosing visitors or about pages that can't be found..

Google appriciates such effort.

i agree completely..

Rand is also suggesting someone might just build something like this (early in the video) so maybe they keep an open mind on a this job/task...

I'm with Asaf on this one.

Wouldn't this be the same problem as using <frames>?</frames>

What Alan said, as long as you optimize for 1 Keyword you could do fine.

According to Google you don't need to use the meta KW tag.

I would make sure my description tag is limited to about 125 characters. NOT More.

The length of the page should not impact the description tag. As long as it is descriptive of the content of the page your good.

Thanks for the quick reply.

I read the link you seggested and it stated that websites that use a normal amount of ads in comparison to text above the fold will not be affected. I think i use a normal amount of it and changed so accordingly. Normally i use 1

of text, then a table with picture and adsense then more content.

i changed this to 2

of text and then the table with picture and adsenses.

Would this be helpfull?

So you're advising to be patient and wait for the changes to take affect? How long should i wait for something like that to take affect? It's been over 1 week that i made the changes and google visited my site again after the changes.

i'm realllllly unpatient as you can imagine. I make about 21K on adsenses each year. If my positions drop so will me earnings... That's why i am that unpatient...

relevancy is king. If you can get different blogs with each a different IP adres or host for that matter linking to your website/blog about in this case ice cream then these links will be noticed a important. I would optimise my site for ice cream if i were you. Relevant links, like harald stated, are considerd important by Google (and Bing I believe).

Good Luck M8

Ip adresses are only important when you look at the number of websites hosted on the same server.

I used to host at a company with only shared hosting platforms with more than 5000 domains on the same server. When linking one site to another from the same IP adress Google could interpret this as Black Hat and penalyse you for it.

I know use my own virtual server to host my websites. The biggest advantage is the posibility to use more then one IP adress for my server. So websites with similar content can be shared on different ip adresses and thus be interpreted as single websites voting for one another.

You could alway try to find a host that offers the possibility to host a virtual server with an IP adress in the UK for localization optimalisation.

hope this helps