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Hi everyone,

Anybody have experience when you have some websites which stored in Google Webmaster Tool and they exchange links between sites. So is it good for sites? We are hosted on different server.

Thank you so much

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Can I toggle it from top to side to bottom like the old version (which had idiot-proof arrows for this purpose)? I ask because the default setting for the bar is now top-of-page – which completely stops some pages, eg Hotmail) displaying.

Moz Toolbar not working in either Chrome or Firefox. I've updated both browsers, uninstalled and reinstalled the toolbar, just get nothing (see image link).
Anyone else having this? What's the fix?

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Again, thank you very very much.

Hi Jane
Thank you very, very much for the detailed, informative response.
A handful of follow-up points/questions:

• I've only ever written for sites in my industry – so I get around the "...totally at odds to the topic of the site..." problem.
• "…posts come with a generic author bio that links to a commercial site…" Given that I run a commercial site, do you recommend I completely avoid an author bio and only link (where justified) in the article body?
• "...The harder you work to "hide" the fact that you're guest blogging..." Some site owners have inserted bylines on my articles, eg: "By Jeepster of Jeepster.com" (followed link), making it clear it's written by a guest. Again, is that to be completely avoided?
• Further to your post here, there's a reputable site in my industry that openly asks for guest writers (completely unpaid; and it's not one of those built-for-guest-posts websites). Can I safely contribute to this if my articles contain relevant links?
• Finally, I've been granted approved guest authorship to a couple of heavyweight sites in my industry, ie, I submit articles to them which are vetted at their end before going live. Is that still safe?

Thanks

Thanks for the response. By the way, I'm guessing 2 cents is a Yorkshireman being generous

We're reaching out to companies that we have a business relationship with (past and present) to find out if they would be interested in linking to us. 
All are obviously in the same industry so highly relevant. But some of the sites are low in Domain Authority (with scores of about 15-25). 
Should we also ask these sites -- or avoid them?

Hi Steven
Thanks for the reply. But my question remains:
How can it be possible to "build" links with specific anchors/text around the anchors in an age in which link-building (guest blogging, directories, etc), are all but a busted flush?

Thanks for the response, Marie

I asked the question as I was wondering whether I'd need to add "boilerplate" text to each description to fill it out. I'd rather not as a) it's not very scaleable and b) I'm not sure it would add value to our users per se, as in the main people want to see pictures. Here's an example of one of the shorter descriptions we run.

-Is the content the same MLS description that is on multiple sites?  If so, then I'd noindex it Of the 4,500 pages, 95-98% are content that's unique to our site (the other ~2-5% are managed by individual realtors who I'm guessing probably copy and paste descriptions from their own sites. We're not in the US so aren't part of the MLS network).

-Do users engage with your content? Mos' def.

Thanks for the replies, guys. But I don't think my question has been answered head-on.
In a competitive field, on-page tweaks will get you only so far. Assuming I've done all those, is there anything I can do off-site to influence matters for a specific keyword?
And to Mark, how can it be possible to "build" links with specific anchors in an age in which link-building (guest blogging, directories, etc), are all but a busted flush?
My gut feeling is no on both counts, but I stand to be corrected.

Hi Moosa
Thanks for the response. Two things:

• Guest blogging: The overwhelming majority of the "SEO community" says guest-blogging for links is dead. Even assuming it's not, my question stands: if links in the article are meant to be natural and you can't use targeted anchor text, how do you target a particular keyword?
• Infographics. Same thing: the links you get back are natural. All fine and good. But how do you target a particular keyword given you have no control over the anchor text linking back to you?

If you're a professional SEO and a client wants to target certain keywords, other than on-page tweaks what else is there? Or am I right in presuming there's nothing you can do off-page any more?

"Thin content" question:
I run a real estate website and carry about 4,500 property pages (each page consisting of between 5-13 photos and about 50-300 words of a property description) Might the pages of ~50 words run the risk of being deemed "thin content" even though they have photos on them?
I also have around 200-250 article pages that are far more text-heavy.
FWIW, I don't think I've been hit by Panda 4.0. (I've slid from about #8 to #12 over the past 2 weeks but I suspect that's more to do with sluggish content marketing/link-building).

Rhetorical question: but surely these guys shouldn't be allowing followed guest post links?

Thanks for the reply, Marie.
What does "improve my branding" mean exactly? That you use branded, followed links?
Also, what happens when, as is often the case in my industry, a blogger writing a piece on the wider industry contacts me for a quote and writes in his piece, "...Jeepster of Jeepster.com (followed link) said: "Blah, blah..."

Following Google's nuking of My Blog Guest, is there any way of doing (high-quality, small-scale) guest posting safely?

Specifically, do the tips from Neil Patel here (written Jan 22) still stand up?

• Only post on relevant blogs – ideally these blogs should also be larger than your website. In other words, do it because it will help with branding, traffic, and sales. Posting on bigger blogs that are also relevant will provide you with more good exposure than posting on small, unknown blogs.
• Avoid using rich anchor text – rich anchor text will become a huge red flag and will probably cause your site to get penalized eventually, especially if you are building these links through guest posts.
• Share the love – you won’t be able to link out to your site only. From Wikipedia to your competitors, you’ll have to link out to whichever site benefits the reader the most.
• Build up your author rank – with Google Plus becoming more popular, it will be easier for Google to determine how good of a writer you are. So, you’ll have to focus on publishing only valuable content as you won’t want crap tied to your author account.
• Co-citations are valuable – even if you don’t get a link from a guest post, just having your site mentioned in the article can help with rankings. I think Google will place more emphasis on co-citations in 2014.

Hi Peter, thanks very much for the response.
My gut feeling is that if the links were a serious problem, Google would already have notified me.
In line with your advice, I'll try to gradually approach the worst offenders with link removal requests but I'll stop short of using the Google Disavow tool.
Any of that sound sensible?
Related question: are there any circumstances in which sitewides from a site highly relevant to mine are a good or even acceptable thing?
Thanks

I know this thread's answered but I'd like to pitch a related question.
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Would you delete/disavow links without having received a warning in GWT?
I've an 8-year site; we've some spammy sitewide footer links (created six years ago by some "SEO" were were suckered in by; some on sites with 10,000+ pages) and some article directory links (again about 3+ years old).

Ah I think this answers my question:

....John Mueller of Google did confirm  at Google Webmaster Forum that, if a page is made 404 or 410, links to such a page are not counted by Google.