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Thanks for the response Jesse!

Ok damn, there goes my Friday morning

I didn't see any article submissions, just comments, and a lot of them were not even followed. I haven't looked into it too much though.

This is a real shame, I hope I don't keep asking loads of companies to do it, could start getting quite boring.

Thanks again for the information, I'll start digging around tomorrow.

P.S. Any tips on getting these guys to respond to me? Legal letters perhaps?

I am having issues trying to remove the video snippet, I think it could all be related as I just read this http://searchengineland.com/google-authorship-bug-affects-very-few-sites-actively-working-on-a-fix-167167

Also, it's not guaranteed to show anyway. But if it was showing before I'm not sure why it would just disappear.

I reckon it's something to do with Google in my opinion.

Hey,

Hope everyone is well.

Just a quick question. I hope to get an answer from Google officially (I've asked in their webmaster forums area) but any experience or opinions from the community here would be great.

I noticed recently that our site started to get thousands of links from comments in random blogs from all across the web. This is nothing to do with us as we don't "build links".

I can only assume it is a competitor trying to get our site hit by the algorithm for a particular search term, as all the anchor text (I estimate about 1,800 links with this anchor text) point to one page on our site that is ranking for that term.

I recently removed the website from webmaster tools and re added, due to an unrelated issue about the a video rich snippet not updating, and all the links have just popped up today on there.

Is this something I need to worry about? and should I start collecting all these domains and using the disavow tool to block the whole domain of these sites with the comments (some of them seem like genuine sites).

There seem to be new ones everyday and it looks to be an ongoing attack as well.

Thanks in advance!

Thanks, this helped me

Yup Paddy is right.

I would read this blog post about PageRank Sculpting that Matt Cutts wrote http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/

And I also found this video useful http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4IE4WLPLZQ&feature=share&list=PL841CB8F9F31BF5D5

In your example the links that do not have the nofollow attribute would get 20 each.

Well actually it would be something like 19.5 each because they take a tiny bit off everytime it's passed on (otherwise the system wouldnt work mathematically).

Paddys Displays is correct, ignore what I'm saying if I'm confusing you - apologies.

That's why I'm probably not getting listed then! Haha

Link Juice or PankRank is shared between all the links on your page equally that don't have nofollow on them.

I found this video which still seems relevant http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-matt-cutts-on-nofollow

I hope that helps you.

I thought google changes the meta discriptions depending on what the user is searching for.

Is this not true in all cases then?

That's interesting. I checked out my webmasters account and it's similer for me. We're UK based as well.

Perhaps we just need to take these numbers with a pinch of salt.

There are a few good ones. Check out the link profile of www.housebuyfast.co.uk (my website) for an idea of the ones I have used.

Bump on this!

Trying to contact journalists on Twitter. Quite hard actually, I'm going to try and call some on Tuesday (bank holiday weekend) and perhaps try some direct marketing techniques.

Got some free samples off www.popupmailers.co.uk. If it works out I'm going purchase.

Yup, that's all added thanks

We're on all the social media websties, with markup and on page SEO all done.

I'm just looking for some tips to push through, we get regular visits, do some great content, it's just not pulling in the traffic and leads

Hey,

After months of working hard we have some great content on our website, and now seem to be getting into a flow of releasing content consistently.

I think it's now time to shift a bit of focus onto getting more eyes lookng at it, and importantly the right eyes.

Has anyone got any tips or advice?

Kind Regards

Thanks Takeshi,

Had a look on fiverr for half and hour or so and found some good ones. Got a final list and going to pick one.

Heres the list if anyones interested:

http://fiverr.com/aevidrev/make-a-logo-reveal-video-on-the-blue-sky-very-proffesional-and-neat
http://fiverr.com/nugzdesignz/create-this-particle-logo-animation-for-your-company
http://fiverr.com/bestintrovideo/make-a-logo-reveal-intro-video-with-micro-particles-effect-hd-professional--2
http://fiverr.com/lolzaar/create-a-simple-yet-effective-video-introduction
http://fiverr.com/aetricks/create-logo-streaklet-after-effects-intro-video-for-you-in
http://fiverr.com/georgekelly/create-a-fantastic-podcast-stinger-style-intro
http://fiverr.com/ul3m8_/make-your-own-customized-youtube-video-intro
http://fiverr.com/redfoxmedia/do-a-speed-sketch-animation-of-your-logo-or-text
http://fiverr.com/samolxis/create-a-nice-and-clean-logo-reaveal
http://fiverr.com/tatangatronic/create-a-elegant-clean-and-high-quality-video-intro-for-your-logo-or-text

Hello,

I am looking for recommendations of a company or individual that can create a quick intro and outro clip for our company videos.

I'm not totaly sure on how much something like this should cost, and we don't have millions to spend (unfortunately), but your suggestions and recommendations will be much appreciated!

Thanks

I used http://uk.prweb.com/ last Friday and got a link from Yahoo news. It was ok I guess, was a bit disappointed though, barely any traffic.

It was around a big piece of news as well, not just a "we've re-designed our website" or something.

I wouldn't do it again. Your experience could be different though.

Thanks for the detailed answer Paul!

Do you think there is anything I should block for a wordpress website? I blocked /admin.

Hey,

I was wondering if someone could give me some advice on whether I should block the robots.txt file from the average user (not from googlebot, yandex, etc)?

If so, how would I go about doing this? With .htaccess I'm guessing - but not an expert.

What can people do with the information in the file? Maybe someone can give me some "best practices"? (I have a wordpress based website)

Thanks in advance!