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great advice!

what is the "best practice" for internal linking? what do you recommend?

regards!

Hey Jonathan, i am no expert, but we all struggle trying to rank in good spots. Link Building or Earning in fact is a very important part of the SEO Process. If you already covered the SEO Basic such as the site architecture, on page factors (title, content, text) you should engage on a link worthy content and link marketing campaign complemented by a social media campaign.

Anyways, it all depends on what your ultimate goals are. If rankings are your goal, you should `pursue a link earning campaign, along with a content strategy. We all struggle with rankings, so it should be an ongoing effort in order to master rankings.

If you havent seen this video, i recommended it a lot. It focuses on the types of links out there and which we should pursue. Future Proof Link Building

Hope it helps in some way.

Aleyda,

Thank you very much! I will send my site under this section

Thanks!:)

Hi everyone!

I was wondering if anyone of you know if the Yahoo Directory accepts Spanish websites. My website has its 100% market in Mexico, so i havent seen the need to put an english version of the site.

I dont know if i can accomodate my site under regional or something in order to avoid translating the ecommerce site. Or i must put an english version of the site.

I would deeply thank your comments.

Thanks,

I have done some link building through the years, and achieved a domain authority of 35, and page domain of 40, in those pages. I am aware there is still a lot work to do, but i personally think my page has much more value in content, good link building, and good optimized content.

Anyway, i will pursue a more aggresive link building campaign along with my content creation campaign in order to pass these tactics.

Any recommendations on Link Building campaign?

I hope it will.

Ive seen my rankings, and traffic increase highly with my new content creation campaign. However, i still need to outrank several pages on some keywords.

Thanks for the reply and answer!

Regards,

I agree totally.

The thing is i already researched everyone one of their pages and domains. And in each domain they have at most 11 links, and they are internal. Their domain and page authory is well beyond 11-10 and still they outrank me and other serious websites.

I am pretty sure they are the same company buying many keyword specific domains. Are mix of .net, .com and .org domains.

I guess there is nothing to do excepto to wait them out and see if Google decreases their ranking with time.

Hey everyone, i looked for a similar question but didnt found anything.

Ive been having a lot trouble competing with other websites that use the "exact-keyword" domain (www.keyword.com), then they just stuff some mediocre content and rank 1-3 in Google SERP for that keyword

I wasnt worried before because i thought they were going to be penalized or decreased in ranking. But they bought several keyword domains and outrank everyone in almost every word.

Their conversion rate cant be that good because of the mediocre content, but still i dont like the fact that they rank better just because of the keyword.

Any comment on this? , what would you do?

Regards

Could you comment on what kind of updates did you made?

Did you updated the Home Page, Categories, Products Page? Do you think it makes a difference? I have a B2B Commerce site so i find somewhat difficult to update and change content.

Best Regards,

Thanks!

Hey everybody. I have been reading several resources on SEO, and wanted to know your opinion on these topics. I know they are diverse and should be on a different set of questions, but i wanted to give it a try.

I run a Heavily Specialized Steel B2B eCommerce Site. So my question would be what is the importance of the following topics, taking into mind the nature of my site.

• The importance on how often the page is updated ? Recommendations on updating relatively static pages ?
• How important is to meet HTML and W3C Standards, also its validation.
• The NoFollow and Follow ratio of incoming links.
• Your opinion onthe inclusion of outbound links to other relevant pages. Is there a best practice?

Any comment is welcome, and would be deeply appreciated.

Regards,

Hola!! Bienvenida!

Estoy de acuerdo con la solucion que brinda "smarties". No es problema muy grave, solo es un aviso. La recomendacion es tener 100 enlaces dentro de una pagina. Sin embargo es una recomendacion que en ocasiones es dificil de cumplir en sitios "ecommerce" como el tuyo, con tantos productos. Lo que pasa es que aquellos enlaces superiores a 150-200 no los va a contemplar el robot de google.

Lo mas esencial es que el sitio sea totalmente navigable y sea facil de usar para los internautas.

Tu pagina inicial no tiene tantos enlaces, es en las categorias y productos donde se detectan mayor cantidad de enlaces 200-400. Una solucion es quitar lo que no es esencial para la navegacion y agregar mayor contenido de valor. Veo por ejemplo que quizas algunos enlaces en busqueda avanzada se puedan obviar.

Si es posible tratar de reducir a menos categorias tu sitio. En general el diseño de tu sitio me gusta. Solamente siempre tener en mente la navegacion para el usuario.

Saludos, cualquier duda me avisas! y en lo que podamos ayudarte.

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I agree with overall comments of smartie. The general guideline is to have 100 links per page. This a recommendation made by Google however the limit is flexible. With more links you risk losing the ability to have additional page crawled by Goog.e

The most important thing is that your site is SEO Friendly and has the right user experience!

Your homepage doesnt have that many links. The problem arises in deeper links found in categories, and products where i found 200-300 links per page. A possible solution is to have only the most essential links and add more value content. For example, i see that some links in advance search could be trascended.

If its possible try to reduce the overall categories. I like the overall feel of your site.

Its vital to have always in mind, the mind of the user.

Regards!!!

I dont think there are templates that solve a "homepage issue", you have to integrate your objetives into the whole design. I like the website design. I personally dont like such big images and scroll apps, i prefer a balance of good text and explanative images.

i personally love mailchimp.com or raventools.com, considering call to action theme. They engage with the right set of words, right images, right marketing at the right time.

Thank you!

I am analyzing of noindexing them because they are webpages that only show the price of that particular combination of products.

I cannot change the platform for ecommerce because it would require a heavy investment both in time and capital.

I will try to write some content in order to differentiate them enough. Although i dont exactly know how much of a content is considered a duplicate.

Do you know a guideline for this topic?

Regards,

Thanks!

Hey everyone! How are you doing?

I spent this week trying to solve some technical issues on my website. However i am having trouble with Duplicate Content. I came to the conclusion that canonicalization is a great solution to this problem, however, i am having trouble implementing it.

The duplicate problem arises from the fact that for each product i have several colors or different attributes.

For example. I have the category "Construction Clips" and then links to "Color" in which the user can choose White or Sandstone. The content is almost identical for both of them, the only thing that changes is the color. This scenarios repeats many times throughout my webcommerce site. And is throwing me off many Duplicate Content errors.

I cannot use the canonicalization in the White or Sandstone page, because is a product page, it doesnt let me add or change anything on the header. http://aceromart.com/Clip-Glamet-Blanco.aspx 

I dont intend to rank well on most product pages, my priority is that i dont want duplicate errors on my website. What is the best solution for this conundrum?

Regards!!!

In advance, i thank you for your opinions!

Jo,

Thanks for sharing your experience with Buffer.

Any other platform for posting multiple content on several social media sites?

Thanks for your comments!

Thanks for the excellent response!

Exactly what i wanted to hear!

Regards!

Hello everyone,

I am inclining to use a platform from which to post my social content. I use mainly facebook, twitter, linked in, google +. I used Hoot, but found it difficult to include Linked In, and several other social media sites.

Somebody has experience using BUFFER? Ive read about it, and it seems great!

Would you recommend it?

Thanks for your comments,

Many people understimate the importance of a well structured Sitemap. Its great that you have a XML Sitemap.

I almost always recommend having the sitemap in the homepage, preferably on the footer. I have seen this as a trend in many "well ranked websites". So i am guessing if the sitemap is well structured, it shouldnt hurt to include it on the footer. Its a matter of usability for the webpage visitor.

I am not aware of the "ranking impact" of not including it in the footer. I am guessing that as long as it gets crawled it doesnt matter where you put it.

Hope this helps!!

Thanks for sharing your question

I am relatively new to SEO. But different search engines use different ranking factors into their mix. So what might work for a search engine might not convince the other SE.

Your strategy should be aligned with your Traffic SEO Objetives,

I personally would relocate my SEO Efforts towards Google, because its high volume of traffic, in order to meet your objectives.

I have a similar situation but in the reverse order. I am well ranked in Google, but i am in the dumper for Bing, and mediocre in Yahoo. However, the traffic that i get from Google is very high and meets my SEO Objetives.

Hopefully my comments were of some help!!

Thanks for sharing your situation,

Regards!

Hello everyone!!!

I have question that i know it has been asked so many times. However i am looking for an idea for my specific situation.

I own a website about commercial steel. My main focus has been getting incoming links from important companies and sites, while maintaining a good quality site.

Ive been struggling with ranks and Page Authority. Ive never put attention to technical errors such as Duplicate Content, 4XX Errors and critical warnings such as Redirects. I have around 70 errors and around 400 warnings. Someone told me that as long as the website is "user friendly" i should worry about that.

I have scarce resources to my SEO efforts. Which aspect should i put more effort?. Link Building and Quality Content vs Technical SEO ??? Is there a recommended balance mix towards a better PA, DA and Overall Quality??

I know is difficult, but it would be extremely helpful to hear from you!!

Regards.