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Hi,

If the "Author" in question is the owner or operator, or even the "Face" of the brand then - Yes, it is fine as this person most likely wrote this content anyway, or is the "owner" of the content.

I wish i had a source, but I remember this exact question somewhere to Matt Cutts, and he referenced his own website that he does use it, and I believe gave a similar explanation as above.

Also as a note (of course this is not air tight evidence)

But I actually do use it on a homepage on one of my sites, and actually saw a bump a few weeks after it implemented in my "niche" - cause the author only writes about that specific niche (but of course as I said this is only off the cuff evidence, not reviewed)

Shane

by hit, do you mean de-indexed or just bumped down aggressively?

Cause the ones you gave seem to be affiliate sites, with thin content, and light design elements, so I can definitely see how these could have been devalued.

Here is the reason I am pretty sure it is not a "Hack Penalty"

First, I am not sure that exists - Google cannot interpret if you have been hacked or not, only if their is malicious intent on your site due to or after the hack.

And as to your password being readily available.. anyone could create a site like this, with passwords, and without google going through each page on the web like this, they would not know if it was real or not. (it is also very easy to brute-force or rainbow a commercial host)

This creates a whole new realm for Google as web avenger, as well as SERP integrity protector.

I am just not sure the password release could be involved.

UNLESS!

A penalty was leveraged against justhosts ENTIRE commercial subnet, due to a issue that was caused due to this password release.

But I do not think you or the sites would be singled out due to the password release, only if something bad enough happened that got Google's attention..

BUT then i believe you would be de-indexed, not de-valued.... (blacklisted)

hopefully this opinion was clear as mud

It does not understand mod_rewrite R=301

[RP]

is the equilvalent

on the actual base syntax, I am not completely sure, but I believe it would stay the same

That is currently a pretty loaded question - and I think most everyone has a different take in the current climate.

To make a truly informed recommendation; Quality of content, Linking Practices and amount of posts to be made per week, month ect.. would be needed.

The fact that you used quotations on "network" was correct in my opinion, as it appears this "network" serves a legitimate purpose, as it was explained - so not sure it would be considered a 'Blog Network" which can hurt you and has gotten so much heat from Google over the past month or so.

As if we started classifying everything that links to eachother as a "network" then pretty much the entire web could be considered a network! As in one way or another we all link to eachother in a six degrees of kevin bacon way....

(LOL has anyone every tried to produce a "6 degrees of Kevin Bacon" of linking!

That would be a funny blog post!

As a side note, personally - If you content is really good! I would not put it on another persons site, put it on yours!!!!

Specifically for the link given above -

I would not....

There appears to be 2 options

1. Impression based ad service (which is cool, if you think you will see ROI from the people who would be on this site, but I have no idea what you are promoting/selling)

2. Linkroll or "Friends"  which again, if you think you will see ROI from being in a 20+ list of varying services... Sure go for it.

But from an SEO perspective, a cautious approach would be NO - On the other hand, if you are a risk taker ----- who knows what Google does or does not penalize these days.... (I am not sure they even know anymore)

Shane

PS Option 3 is your links embedded in text or others articles, which sounds like a blog network to me... Which would change to NOOOOOOO

Hi,

If needed - this is the .htaccess code to help fix this issue; (Make sure and back up .htaccess before making any chages)

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomainhere.com [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomainhere.com/$1 [L,R=301]

The above code would redirect all traffic from non www to www version of your site fixing dup content issues in that regard

Source ;http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php

PS Spaces between lines not needed (funky formatting here)

Hope this helps

"Basically what I'm asking is, this will be a terrible outdated badly SEO'd shop, but if a high volume of people are clicking on it and staying on it from their lingering ranking will Google just let it stay at the top?"

Maybe for a few days, until the index changes but it is tough to say for certain what would happen without knowing or seeing a before and after shot of sites code.

My main point to them would be -

What is the ROI in switching, and does it counteract the negative you might see from current ranking drop? (and how much traffic will you really get from this keyword)

It would all come down to end strategy, but if it is as you say "a terrible outdated badly SEO'd shop" I am not sure I see a great reason for switching, but of course I do not even know what your company does.

But to the question in your title

"Can I swap a website yet keep it's high ranking for a competitive keyword?"

I would first say what do you mean specifically by "swap" but it appears you are only talking about the Server and Architecture.

If this is the case it is VERY possible to keep rankings, but not sure as I have never worked with Amazon shop. So I am not sure how much control you have, but a very short broad answer would be yes, it is very feasible to even change domains and keep rankings.

It all just depends on if it is done correctly. (but of course I cannot answer the question as it pertains to Amazon shop, as I have never used it)

Yeah...

Sorry,

Just cause it has a high moz auth, and is in Google does not make it a "High Quality Link"

I am still with Egol on this, it sounds like manipulation, in theory so subject to risk - So if the ROI of traffic justifies.. go for it, but if this is solely for a "Link" on a "Network"

Still gonna say, it is a... low maybe - probably not at this time. I would personally wait out penguin aftermath to get a little more data on that first.

Shane

PS. Also no matter which way you slice it a 300 word post with 3 links ( 1 link per 100 words) is most definitely a common blog network footprint. Just an FYI

Fix it as quick as possible

Find any exploits you may have missed (keep WP Up to date, disable admin account, if on shared hosting check all file permissions, make sure you are using SFTP (port 22) ect...)

Monitor your traffic for drops and check web cache of Google to see if it was even indexed

If you do take a knock (which I doubt unless it was there for a while) I am not sure a reconsideration would do anything, so you will probably just have to do some damage control

(ie... get lots of social mentions on a good piece of industry relevant content)

Hope this helps

PS this can help you with hardening WP install http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

It seems your are trying to connect a Brand Page as an Author - Which is not accepted yet

(I am assuming this, due to Brand Pages only have the link sections you have described)

Make sure your are using personal profile for author - then your brand page would use publisher

It depends on how similar the content is - I am not sure the threshold of content needed for canonical to be taken as a directive (cause I know Matt Cutts says a few differences are ago, but that is not really an answer)

It also depends on if you want your category page to rank for different terms.

I am not sure overall this is something I would do, cause the purpose of canonical is a more efficient way to deal with user necessitated duplicate content, or a precaution against duplicate content, and it seems you are trying to use it to change SERPS.

Although nothing I have said, nor do I have any proof this would bring negative or positive effects, I just personally would not do it.

A 301 is really the only way to safely change rankings, or just take a really hard look at your onpage SEO, as there must be a reason Google is placing that page above your Homepage, so in the longrun that tells me there is something not "optimized" for that keyword on homepage, so if you switch you could loose the ranking all together.

I'm not quite at a "$2500/mo deal" so there has to be something between $2500 and nothing for building links around my content...

So I am in a much more competitive niche, and without giving to much away I do not spend a dime on link building, and compete neck and neck as a local business against national brands... With that said, my point above is you do not necessarily want to "Build Links" in the old school way, you want to create a content strategy that defeats you competitors crappy content strategy.

Copier Leasing

Copier Technical Whitepapers

A Funny MeMe Campaign about funny copier "offfice stories" or using the Office tv show

an infographic about the history of copying but maybe a funny take that goes WAY back to even Egyptian times

These may suck, but I am not in your niche Just be creative as your competition obviously is not

There are of course other white hat tactics you should be doing, that once again you have a plethora of resource material as a pro member that are not associated with content strategies (but many are)

If you cannot write these find a SEO copywriter or agency that can help but with even a 1,500 a month budget you could do wonders (in my opinion against a competitor like that)

and PS if you need a great copywriter I have a name I could pass you privately that she does great work PM me

Hi,

Here is a link to the SEOMOZ Jobs Board where you can create a company profile and post Jobs/Search for contractors/companies within the spheres of SEO/SEM/SMM Design ect...

http://www.seomoz.org/marketplace/jobs

Hope this Helps

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Look Here -

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1408986

This goes over the exact methods of getting rel=author to work -

Yes, would suggest canonical as the easiest resolution -

And Irving is right PDF's are most definitely indexed, I am not sure how they are interpreted and if they would specifically count a dup content, but not sure this idea would EVER be something i would suggest as it it seems to have lots of negative repercussions.

I would most definitely agree that relative links is probably your issue, and if you canonical and remove inline relative links and make them http absolute this should resolve itself in a month or so.

Please let me stress though if your onpage and social strategy are not there link building is not gonna do it by itself.....

That is why I recommend really delving into SEOMOZ resources, as they give a well rounded idea of the intricacies needed for an "Internet Marketing Strategy"

LOL,

I like the last line

"Good luck convincing the good doctor to change his/her opinion."

I can relate!!!!!!!

Is this traffic that is actually expected to convert?

Then if so IMHO the risk could possibly pay off, as (not sure) but this might be a bad Idea post penguin....

Even though you are not trying to manipulate for rankings - just off the top of my head this seems like a bad idea and possibly a red flag to the algo - especially if done all at once.

I am not fully sure on this, so look forward to others responses.

Getting G+'s on fresh QUALITY content is one of the best ways to quick index with Google in my opinion these days.

Just a suggestion, I would NEVER noindex an indexed site just because of content changes.

make a clone, point the domain using vhost, temporarily to a subdirectory make your changes then re-point domain in vhost (or if cpanel just use a pointer) - This way no one is the wiser to the changes INCLUDING Google.

Or just make the changes, the ramificatrions of noindex are much more long lasting than a content change (unless it was left in shambles for weeks)

I would personally not look at this at how much "link juice" is passed, but the exposure, traffic and connections you create from such a powerful publication.

Personally, since it is already a subpage and a blog I am not sure that the amount of "Juice" is relevant as the difference between the two since it is already a byline and below the break is very small - So in my personal opinion they would be treated very similarly in the eyes of the algorithm with of course page 1 possibly getting more "juice" because it is linked to more. (so to technically answer your question page 1 would inherently get more "juice")

But I am just not sure, for now and in the future that what used to be referred to as "Link Juice" is really all that important on the grand scale of Internet Marketing. (but things do change rapidly) and this is just my opinion

Hope this helps