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You have to create content that people will link to.  There is no such thing as boring either.  I manage social media and SEO for nuts and bolts companies, so i understand what you mean but you have to find your market and build the links there.

Also, why would a guest post be any less boring than posting on your own blog (re your advice on this post)?

edit.. added this link about borings companies creating great content.  

Also check out what Ladders online are doing on Google plus.

You need to be a Pro Plus member to get your own branded reporting.

If you go to your account and then go to billing and subscriptions it't in the pricing list, second form the bottom.

Jo

You can see all links to your site using open site explorer

When you have typed in your domain name you can filter what is shows you on the inbound tab.  The Third dropdown allows you to see which pages have been linked to and by whom (and you can set to external, internal, dofollow etc).

Hope that helps.

SEO companies still focussing on this stuff are either scamming people, or just so out of date and it will catch up with them.

Backlinks are still very worthwhile, but they must be earned naturally.  Any backlink that can be bought is not natural.

SEO post penguin is actually REALLY straightforward!  Implementing it is blody hard, but the theory is straightforward.

Really, all you have to do is create good quality content, relevant to your business on a regular basis.  You also need to socialise this, be social on your social networks, publicise your content through your social means, earn backlinks by people coming across your content and deciding to link to it

Ultimately Google wants to know that your site is good quality (and it measures that by deemed good quality sites naturally linking to it because they think it is good).  Social signals, tweet, number of facebook likes, google plus ones, other kinds of shares, people talking about your site etc.

Don't focus on 'SEO'. Focus on building a great website, a great brand and getting the word out and the links should come naturally.

Obviously all the on page and technical seo, ste speed etc best practises still apply.

Bing webmaster tools is pretty helpful when it comes to this sort of thing.  Verify your site with Bing WT and in Diagnostic tools you can run SEO tests for your URLs and it will give you an outcome.  If there are any biggies on your site it will highlight in red and amber and so on.

Bing WMT is a great tool and I think it's widely underused.

Sorry, I didn't actually look at the site, but yes agreed,  I would certainly ensure St. Charles, MO was in the title tag for that page and any additional pages that they are looking to rank for!

If it makes sense to your website to add a page about that particular keyword, then yes I would definitely do that and look to rank that page for that keyword.

Creating new and unique content on your website is a positive SEO move.

I have done something similar on client sites and created a page for each service offering and written a lot of content about each service and that puts me up top for organic listings as well as the local.

As long as you aren't duplicating content, working on optimising a new page for a specific keyword is a good way to go.

Thanks Tom.

For one site in particular I have some very good reasons to link back and forth with another related and trusted site - I just wanted to be sure that I wasn't endangering myself by linking back.

Does it 'water down' the link juice if the link is reciprocal?

Are they worth anything, if they are from relevant sites?  I'm I better off avoiding linking back wherever possible?

You need to identify all the pages that are producing the 404 error, i.e. the pages that no longer exist.

After that you need to put a 301 redirect to that of a customer clicks on that link you have redirected the page to something similar (if that product no longer exists).  So you are linking

example.com/oldpage

to

example.com/neworappropriatepage

I'm not sure if there's a nice easy way to do in Magento, but if you google 301 redirect magento you should find some good information.

Hope that helps.

I'm going to thumb you up because I think you deserve a Tshirt!

Hi Dusty

That is correct that a 301 does pass link juice and a 302 does not.

I would go into detail, but SEOmoz has a very detailed description here!

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection

Hope that helps

Jo

I'm recently inspired by Red Bull.  The opportunities there are endless.

A national networking company charges its members, say, a few of hundred pounds to become part of their network, which involves offline networking events and online in forums and a directory.

All the links of the directory and forum sigs etc are all do-follow.

While it's not just a directory, how beneficial a link is this likely to be?  The site itself has a DA of 60 and a PR rank of 4. 1k likes on their cnnected FB page and 21 likes on the G+.

At the networking meetings they tell new recruits that being a member gives them a very valuable backlink and everytime they participate in the forums they get another do follow backlink.  Ive checked and they are dofollow.

Is this likely to be a great value link?

Hi David

Without knowing what your errors are, it's hard to say but, I notice you have a wordpress site, so I'll offer another add-on suggestion to the other excellent suggestions above.

Some of your errors might be 404 errors - there is a great plugin called redirection.  If you have 404 errors, work through each one and redirect it to an appropriate page.

404s usually happen when you change the url, or remove a page.  Google has indexed those pages/urls and if they are no longer available Google will return a 404 error page.  With redirection you can point the old page to a new, appropriate page with a 301 redirect.

Hope that helps.

Hi Gina

I just googled your site and I can't immediately see anything to do with Google+ on there.  I can see your FB and LinkedIn icons in the footer.  Would be a good idea to put a Google+ on in there that links to your page.

I also googled your google plus page and found it I also noticed it doesn't have a lot of attention and 4 plus ones.

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To grow that I would definitely add a plus one button to your site and when anyone clicks the plus one button on your site it will tally with the page.

I can see you post regularly on your plus page, you have only circled 5 people (from your page, not from you).  You can treat your page like a personal profile, use it to circle people, follow, engage with them, circle your clients (business pages and their personal pages) with your page profile.  It's not really possible for your page to start engaging when its only following 5 other.

Hope that helps, but feel free to ask if it doesn't make sense.

i tried to log on early this morning and it was down for quite a while.  Now it's back up it's definitely quicker!  Oh Joy!

Thank you, very much appreciate you responses.

I need to migrate a wordpress site from domainname.com to domainname.co.uk.

If I just put a 301 on every page on the .com will that cover it?

Would it make sense to go and change all the backlinks/profile links to the new .co.uk site or doesn't it matter if you have a 301 redirect on it?

Thanks

Yes I believe they do - I've changed a name once and it changed nothing except the name.  I do recall the 'you can only do this once so get it right' warning.