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Keywordspy.com and spyefu gives you the best information about your competitor's paid campaign.

Try once, and you'll never try any other tool. Personally I prefer keywordspy.com

In support of my question, please read this post : http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-wpmuorg-recovered-from-the-penguin-update

Out of millions of links Matt is points out to a few websites that WPMU is linked with these thin/low quality websites, so doesn't that mean that if any of my competitor add my website on 20 - 25 such poor quality sites or directory, it'll effect my website's performance.

Thanks Deluxebydesign

I do have quality content and have never been involved in any black/grey SEO techniques

I've been promoting my site via guest posts, quality article marketing, PRs, newsletters, etc.

But my question is bit different, I am concrned about the competitors what if they start developing directory and spun content links for me.

Thoughts!

Specifically in your case, these things appear be genuine so you may use either image or text. Google will not harm your website

But make sure to use meaningful and informative description for all your listing instead of focusing on keywords but that doesn't mean that you can't use keywords if required

I believe the following article can answer all your queries, which you even have not asked.

From my side, as long as the words/keywords are used genuinely, you  really need not to worry about that. There is no such think called Keyword Density, Reciprocal links as long as they are natural and genuine.

Read more: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/10-myths-that-scare-seos-but-shouldnt-whiteboard-friday

Well Guys there are lot of discussions in almost all the communities, blogs, forums about Post Penguin impact.

Google says that if find that you're involved in any link building activities, we may penalize you. People out there have already started their developed links.

But what if our competitors would have developed those links. Initially it was okay to develop one way links, I even developed lot of quality, but deliberately, links. around 95% links are placed manually, if return to some favor or money but all links looks natural.

Most of the links I developed through content only, like articles, blog comments, PR submission, etc now really skeptical about the quality (after hearing lot of talks and reading n number of posts).

Now, can I also submit my competitor's websites in 1000 topic directory (obviously not in any spammy directory), would it effect that website adversely?

What if I spun an existing content and submit it into 500 article directories and give backlink to competitor site from using only one anchor text (which is obviously the main keywords - highest sales generating keyword)

I look forward to some experts comments.

Oh yeah!

Thanks keri, I really din't check the date

As long as you are managing a multilingual site, it is always recommended to use rel="alternative" even if you're redirecting your website.

For next, prev, don't use, unless you feel it is really required, as I could not find the need May be I missed something, could you be please bit more specific?

It would certainly not have any impact on the existing rankings and crawl rate. infact the crawl rate would improve

Short names are easy to remember

quite possible if someone visited you from any source but then forget about that source, so he would not need search for you again. It also gives you a unique identity.

Though short names have nothing to do with branding. Only purpose of short names is that people can memorize the url of your site, like.

• hp.com    (how bout having a domain name www.hewlettpackard.com)
• ge.com
• g.cn          owned by Google China
• x.com       owned by ebay

though these name doesn't add any brand value, but it is really easy to remember these names in those regions/ states / countries, where people don't speak your native language.

Got it!

Either you can simply download a facebook LIKE widget for website integrate on your checkout page, you can do it yourself. just login and download the button or

visit http://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/web/ You can find all the information. Everything is explained beautifully, you can do it yourself

However, there is no doubt that facebook has a great impact and gives nice boost to your website traffic and search engine rankings as well, but using it on checkout page, may be not a good idea, unless the payment is already made as you might lose a customer because of some technical errors, etc.

So do it and manage it properly

Best of luck

Hey Nicola, ~2700 is a huge no.

I would suggest you to talk to you programmer/developer to re-write the dynamic URLs into static, which I am sure they can easily do.

second thing, make sure to delete all the duplicate pages or use rel=unfollow. using 301 for all the duplicate pages is not a bad option but not a permanent solutions. It is better to re-write all the dynamics urls into static one, delete all the dups pages and then 301 redirect all the deleted pages to the originals.

for multilingual you can use the following code:

The tag enables you to say, “This is for Spain. this is for Germany

The rel="alternate" hreflang="es" annotations help Google serve the Spanish language or regional URL to searchers

Well to answer you question. Yes, you should always use xml sitemap also submit it with search engines. It helps search engines to access all the pages of your websites. If fact you can even tell search engines about your most important and less important pages.

It also enables you to tell Search Engines about the content update frequency so that search engine could crawl those again which you update daily/ weekly.

Furthermore, there is no problem if you update the XML file daily as long as you're not removing pages. However, if you need to remove pages, keep them in sitemap for at least one week and redirect old pages to new ones.

Hope I was able to understand your question and answered properly

Yupp, make sure you check the keywords trends with the help of Google Insight. Will really help you find some really good local keywords.

heya

I read the whole post but couldn't find a single point which says that "This strategy died years ago"

Even matt uses nofollow for RSS/Atom to not pass PageRank and showing RSS/Atom in SERPs

I am really interested in knowing if it has really died. please guys provide some more credible and straight posts/information.

1. Absolutely correct. - But make sure to upload new xml sitemap as well

2. Considering latest penguin update, if you re-do your site and make it live with well optimized (white hat only) pages and site structure. load speed, accessibility, content quality, etc. if all these points have been taken care of, there are no chances of rank drop, in fact it should improve.

P.S. don't concentrate to much on keywords, use them naturally/genuinely. Create attractive/meaningful meta tags.

Hope I was able to answer you query properly.

Best of luck

Yes, I did run a content link campaign for one of my PSD to HTML service website, and got good success. We just asked people to write a piece of content for us on their blog/website (genuine website/blog) and share that content with us via Twitter/facebook as a proof that you've wrote something about us and have published as well with a backlink.

In return we had offered them to HTML their design files.

This campaign was beneficial for us in many ways

• first we got some positive reviews from genuine people (Google Just LOVE Positive Reviews)

• Got natural/genuine one way backlinks

• got social media exposure/buzz/mentions as we were accepting entries through FB/Twitter only

• We also got social votes/ links and new followers, as we asked them to stay tuned to next offer

• We got a few new clients who liked our job (most important) and got huge repeat business

All the very best

Yes, martin you're right, it is just an internal report. for external, you may want to use copyscape.com.

Copyscape will tell you whole no of websites with identical content as yours

Searching for duplicate content with Google search is very time consuming  as you would need to check each and every line

Hey!

Yes, it signifies that now you don't have that much of unnatural links, but it really doesn't mean that you now don't need to apply for re-consideration.

Google keeps on checking/ updating your link profile, so that message was flashing till the moment Google could see those links but now, when you have removed those links it has disappeared automatically. You still shall need to request for re-consideration.

You please proceed as per your plan and ignore the rest of the things, you are going just great.