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I would have to agree with Whiteboard creations here. Create two seperate pages and ensure all the content is unique. This would be a lot better that targeting two keywords on one page in my opinion.

My Blog Guest is still a good source in my opinion. However, you need to be careful of websites that are just content farming. They are bound to be part of some sneaky network. Before you accept any website to publish your blog, make sure you do an opensite explorer check on them to see if their inbound links look legitimate. You don't want your website to be associated with poor websites.

Hi Ron,

I believe that slideshare links are 'nofollow' and when analyised with search engine spider they aren't recognised as 'proper' links. However, the content is readable to the spiders. Therefore, for building local citations, including company NAP's can only give you benefit in my opinion.

HI Eric,

I belive it was an update that effected partial match domains. Link the analytics to this tool and it will tell you.

Hi Bob,

There could be many factors as to why the website is not ranking for that keyword. However, I can give you a few pointers that may help:

• Remove capitalisation of meta title (far too spammy)
• Create more engaging onpage content, with keyword variations mentioned throughout.
• Meta description is far too long (Currently 211 characters, should be a max of 155)
• Many of your backlinks are from non relevant poor quality websites.
• Page load speeds are poor due to amount of images
• You have two H1 tags (The images is being counted)

I would look to get some of these issues ironed out to see if this would make any improvement.

It depends if you are looking to increase the overall authority of your website. If you are happy with the level at the moment, then yes put 'nofollow' attribute on. I would not say there was a big risk in having it 'followed' as it is an image and not keyword rich anchor text. I would also give the logo, img title/alts that are branded rather than keyword.

E.g.

commercepundit

Hope this helps

Personally I would go with image or brand name anchor text. I read an article a while back about a UK Web company getting a manual spam penalty for having 'web design location' on all the websites they had developed. They change the anchor text to brand and filed for reconsideration and the penalty was lifted.

Hi,

It is my understanding that having followed internal links will pass on domain authority to specific areas of the website and increase the individual pages authority. If you have them no followed, no/little authority will be passed on to those pages. Obviously, the higher the PA the better the chance of you ranking for specific keywords on those pages.

Cheers Guys,Thanks for clearing that up!

Hi Chris,Thats great!

So If I keep them followed, the link juice will still pass on. Do you think it will have a negative impact on the site as a whole, by decreasing the amount of pages being indexed by Google. i.e. Reducing the site size?

Thanks for the articles aswell, very useful!

Hi Ruchi,

If you look at this website for an example:

http://www.campusexplorer.com/colleges/alphabet/j/

Now obviously, Google doesn't react well to pages that have thin or weak content, therefore what I am asking is would the value of deindexing the page outweigh the benefit these pages are receiving in internal link authority?

If I have pages that rank product categories by alphabetical order should I deindex those pages? Keeping in mind the pages do not have any content apart from product titles?

For example:

www.url.com/albums/a/

www.url.com/albums/b/

If I deindexed these pages would I lose any authority passed through internal linking?

Hi Social Engaged,

I believe this has been covered a while back, here is the link!

I also believe it shouldn't be much of an issue as Google will be able to distinguish that they are social profiles and are supposed to be kept consistent.

It looks like they are still followed Lawrence. But if they do decide to no-follow the links its probably because ezine has been spammed to death. Haven't used it for years because of this.

Hi Marcus,

Looking at majestic SEO, it is showing that they have received links in May from Yell.com which are sponsored listings. These links are followed and hold a pagerank of 4. This could potentially be why they are doing so well with only a few domains.

There could also be other factors, but just my two cents!

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Hi Heather, Can you explain further?

On page grader only gives one score per keyword, I don't see how you can receive two grades :S

I take it this is the tool you are using https://moz.com/researchtools/on-page-grader

Hi GP Helmets,

A similar thing happened to one of our clients, we noticed they had around 6-7 spammy links in their profile. We requested they got removed and we only saw a very slight movement in rankings.

Next, we looked at the landing pages from an on page perspective. We realised that the pages affected were heavily over optimised for 1-2 specific keywords. We have re-written (de-optimised) the content on these pages and we are starting to see rankings dramatically increase.

Looking at your homepage content you have around 390 words of content on there. Within these 390 words you have 40 keyword mentions of 'Arai'. Please see attached image.

Note

I am aware that the May update mainly targeted backlinks, however this is just something I have noticed and it worked quite well.

Cheers

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Hi Karl,

Yes it has happened with 2-3 of my clients. I believe the only way to reverse the effect is by either deleting your places listing or creating a subpage as mentioned above.

The only other mention I have found online regarding something similar, is on this forum!

There doesn't seem to be any case studies on this that I can find.

One thing I would add to what Karl has just said; If you are thinking of creating a places listing and your primary keyword 'Electricians Grimsby' is on your homepage, make sure you create a separate subpage targeting that keyword. If you target that keyword on your homepage and then create a places listing which is then placed on page 1, Google might merge the listing. This means you will loose your organic rank. Obviously make sure  you are not duplicating content and meta on the new page.

Just something to consider!

Personally, I think that the recent updates have targeted non-relevant linking heavily; I read an article somewhere written by the owner of a UK based web design agency. His company website was effected by the updates because they placed footer links on all of the websites he they had designed. When they changed the anchor text to brand their rankings started to increase again.

In my experience, a client of mine had dropped considerably in the rankings. I looked into their linking profile and realised they had blog roll links from several non-related websites (built by an old agency). I had them removed by contacting the website owners directly and we are now starting to see rankings return.

If you want to keep the links on your blogs, I would recommend linking with brand anchor text rather than keywords. I know this may be difficult given the URLs of the websites you have given haha.