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Twitter helps too! Follow people in similar industries whether they would be potential clients or not and start participating in their postings. Comment on their blogs, develop a relationship and show them that you can actually provide interesting insight.

These guys are absolutely correct. I will add that a few minor details -

I would venture to guess you saw your SERPs and PR drop sometime around mid-March, correct? This is how I know that:

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Look at that spike... about half of your total links were added in a matter of a few days. That's a huge red flag and Penguin will snatch that up like... whatever penguins eat. (?)

That said, you have very few links in the first place coming to your site leaving little to no opportunity to build PR. Start link building! Avoid black hat. Keep reading these forums and the SEO beginners guide here. Optimize your pages. Start a blog. Figure out what penguins eat. Do it up! For whatever reason the links you have all come from just a few select domains. Get more domains with less links from each. When Google sees 600 links coming from the same domain they get all frowny-faced.

These are but a few tips to help you. Good luck, and have fun! SEO is supposed to be fun! (no it isn't, but I think it is.)

HAHA!

"EEEGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLL!!!!!" (yelled like Kirk at Khan)

ugh. One of their pages has two sentences on it. Two.

I know it I've had much higher traffic spikes than anything I've seen recently and still they sent this message. It's bizarre! But definitely not one that worries me. I'm like you, I do not get excited when I see a message in that inbox...

Anyway just thought it fit because it was so strange and seemingly unnecessary.

don't forget image alt and title tags, that might boost your keyword optimization.

Yes definitely get people interacting with your blog. This will get them to share it and ideally build you backlinks organically. Since your blog is (hopefully) tied to your domain, this will only work to improve your SEO efforts!

The best way to do this is via social media. Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus -- develop a presence on there. Find groups and communities that match your niche and get them to remember you and be interested in your postings.

It's all about content! Once you have interesting content, promoting it becomes easy. If you can comment on other people's blogs and have a relevant blog to link back to you will definitely gain readers. Keep in mind those links will most likely be nofollowed so don't just throw a link out there to get a link. Put it out there only if you truly think it adds to the conversation and people will naturally follow it and hopefully link to it themselves.

Good luck!

blogs, social media, comparison charts, infographics, something interesting. show me in a fun way how you are different than those well established brands.

That's some tough competition... Good luck!

It's an early result but I've tried doing this with my main targeted keyword and so far it pushed the offender down and me up.. Not sure if it was that which made the difference or all of my efforts combined but so far so good I'll keep you posted on my experiments..

Hard to say really and I would judge on a case-by-case basis myself.

I would look at several factors, including: what search terms are bringing viewers to these pages, which pages viewers are landing on (from google) more frequently, etc.

My guess would be the latter URL would be bringing in a wider array of keywords due to the "expand your sales" and "going global international markets" portion of the URL, but I'd have to see GA to really know for certain and then check out the keyword tool to figure what terms are being searched more frequently.

Somebody else might have another way of looking at this, but that's how I'd go about it. I didn't actually look at the pages, but if it is feasible the best possible scenario would be to 301 one to the other..

Well my first thought is "who's domain is that and why don't you have your own domain name?"

So I'd start there.

links that don't exist or links to pages that don't exist?

..heck, either way i'd ignore them and focus on phase 2 of your plan. Disavow seems to be a bit overused in my opinion. It's more of a last-ditch effort for penalty recovery IMHO.

and if it's 404 errors you're trying to fix: Google will eventually stop following those after they 404 long enough. Don't even worry about it. (unless they're links you want, then put a relevant redirect in place.)

Hope this was helpful.

it's something to do with their Squared technology data extraction algorithms.. not exactly sure how or why but it only applies to broad matches.

Not sure it matters much as there aren't any links to the source sites and the links listed in references only go to google searches for those keywords.

I know this doesn't answer your question, but searching for information on "Google Squared" might get you closer.

Interesting. No, I haven't had this problem that I've noticed. I'm curious though and I dig the concept. It sounds like a great movie pitch:

"In a world where everything was deemed spam, one woman sets out to find a decent book to read. She quickly finds out the unsettling truth... GOOGLE'S BROKEN"

post-apocalyptic movies are all the rage right now..

Seriously though, can you provide an example of a term you searched and what it gave you that you didn't want?

You are correct. The text of the iFrames will not be crawled. However, if you are using the blog simply to gain backlinks then it MIGHT work... keyword "might." depends what people share, the wordpress link or your website link.

Why can't you put the blog on your site? I don't understand this part, my apologies. IMO there's no better place for a blog than yoursite.com/blog

That is simply untrue, though. In the quote you provided the SEOmoz stance even says "it does appear to provide some slight value." Yet you then said it does not add value... This post is contradictory at best.

Now what IS debatable is HOW relevant the H1 tag is and exactly how powerful it is in terms of optimization. What I know for certain is that it won't hurt to include your target keywords in your H1 tag and this can be done anywhere on your page, not necessarily at the very top in a title format.

Now of course this doesn't mean overusing the tag by any means. Never would I suggest such a thing. I use one H1 tag per page, period. No exceptions. But I always make sure my primary targeted keyword sits in that tag.

While it may not be the most powerful optimization technique, it is a piece of the puzzle and the SEO world is made up of a billion tiny edits that build one giant glorious page-1-search-ranking.

Voila.

I think what Marie is saying is that there is a disparity here somewhere. You say you have thousands of natural links, yet you only are showing 125 referring domains... Same thing on OSE *only 79 referring listed there but that's normal for ahrefs to have a more complete vision. Still not a ton of links.. I'm wondering if you would see improvement just by building some great content and gaining new relevant links..

these keywords might be more competitive than you realize. what's the site, what are the keywords, what seo tactics have you implemented, etc..

Honestly it sounds like you just need to keep on optimizing and building organic links with great content to me.

After glancing through the SERPs I would say it's because there isn't a ton of competition.

Honestly if I were you I'd be excited about this. If the site you're optimizing for is built correctly and the content is fresh and exciting you're going to be ranking high for these terms in no time!

Forget about what they are doing and focus on what you can do. Build a strong SEM campaign and go bury these guys!

Good luck.

right exactly this is what I was trying to say; so essentially the Wordpress page would be indexed and the keyword placement and optimization done by the contents of the blog in the iFrame would not lend credit to the domain but instead to the wordpress site making it less than ideal.

You are correct, sir.

It's because you're gettin' beat. You need to build some links!

You only have 32 linking root domains (according to OSE) and a DA of 26. That's why you're gettin beat, I'd venture to guess.

Time to SEO it up!