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The best and really only way is to engage with the community. Create quality and engaging content (easier said than done) while interacting with the community. Ask questions, answer questions, chat to your fans etc.. Nobody wants to be 'sold' to on FB or Twitter. True engagement comes from quality content and interacting with the community. Need an example? Look at Innocent on Facebook, I think they are the finest example of this and no wonder they got voted #1 for social media brands.

I put a project up on a well known freelance website for a completely unrelated task to link building. I got a response which just made me laugh and i must share it!

Hi,
Sir i am providing a good services always,I have a serious person,so our Bid is not only to win a chance work with you but also maintain a long Term relationship with the bridge of this project.And if you have find Any error and any thing out of your criteria so you have full authority To ask us about that,i will correct that always.here i am attach our Link sample,please check.

Budget £50 GBP:-

1.Social bookmarks Links 100 Links ALL PR1 AND PR1+

2.Forum posting Do-FOLLOW 250 Links ALL PR1

3.web2.0 links 50 Approved Submission every Article contain
5
links
your site so total 50*5=250 links,

4.1 article writing for web2.0 submission.

5.Link wheel :- 100 link wheel links.

TOTAL 500 LINKS IN £50 GBP

ALL work done in manually Sir.

I hope you like this.

I am waiting your positive response Sir, do not waste my time.

He actually sent me an excel sheet with all of his link wheel domains... all PR 1/2. Is anyone really stupid enough to go for something like this? I hoped post-penguin would wipe out this kind of activity!

I would ignore the m.domain ranking. You've done it right by re-directing based on user agents, although you should be able to see the overlap of the two sites. If they have both similar content then there's your first problem. Your second is that there isn't really a mobile specific or desktop specific index (my opinion!) that is why your mobile domain is ranking in desktop version.

You ideally want to block your mobile site from being crawled. When a user clicks on your normal desktop site listing on a mobile they will be redirected automatically to your mobile site anyway.

You could use IP re-directs, but they are notoriously innacurate especially if people are using proxies.

Obviously showing a .co.uk in Australia is not the best, but it is ranking high. One idea if the domains are the same and have the same content is to only target UK in webmaster tools with the uk domain and .com.au for Australia. This may not solve it though and may impact rankings.

Your best bet would be to do the Geo redirects. I wouldn't think there would be that many issues as you don't have hundreds of different countries.

Sign up for Bing Webmaster Tools and submit it in the same way as Google Webmaster Tools, although I have never found a real need to do this as if you are ranking in Google you usually find that your ranking in Bing unless something is seriously wrong and you've blocked Bing bot!

I found that majesticSEO picked up most of the links from these sources, although you may not find all of them. Export all the data you can if you have majesticSEO, I think aHrefs will also pick this data up.

I've noticed a drop in external links for some clients too. I wouldn't worry about it, it is the fallout from Penguin/Panda where Google has devalued certain links. Those 30k links or so that came from 5 domains could have been sitewide blogroll links or footer links of low quality that Google has removed from their index.

I would assume your right about DA, but I wouldn't worry about it that much unless your rankings are seeing a massive shift.

Your probably only going to get around 37% of the total traffic for that term in the #1 spot, there could be many factors that are affecting the traffic though such as meta descriptions and title. Your call to actions may not be enticing people to click. Have a look what the competitors are doing around the listings and try and test them and see if it results in an increase.

If you've changed a significant amount of content then Google has obviously re crawled your site and to it may look like a different page.

You may have over-optimised your page with too many keywords.

You may have put in too many internal links.

You may have fundamentally altered the html code to become less seo friendly.

You may have built links to your pages from low quality sources that harmed your site.

You may have altered the meta titles/descriptions that were ideal in the first place.

Your competitors could have been enhancing their seo activity at the same time.

I could list hundreds more but that's for you to work out as you've not given much information other than your site has dropped one place.

Although keywords in domain name do have relevance in ranking it should not be the sole focus of a business. I would rather have a solid brand name with no keywords in the domain than some long domain with brand+KW for the sole purpose of ranking. I work in highly competitive verticals where none of the top 5 have KW's in the domain, and the ones that do tend to rank at the bottom. It's all about branding and authority.

Setup a subdomain blog. on your site and a /blog directory and then use SEOmoz competitive link analysis. You will see it shows different DA, Google sees these as completely separate entities.

I do believe there is some value passed on, but from my own experience /blog ALWAYS wins over blog. and I've done numerous tests on this.

I have never seen an example of a .co.uk ranking well in the US market. The logical approach is to use a .com TLD and use Google WMT to set the target to US. You can't set a .co.uk as far as I believe because it's main purpose is to serve the UK market anyway. I have been in situations where a .com and .co.uk have both targeted at the UK and they basically end up cannibalising each other until one wins and one disappears.

Your best bet is to create a US-separate site (with different content!).

In my personal opinion you will never reach #1 with a .co.uk on google.com, I could be mistaken though and having a US IP address, US links pointing in may help.

You need to have a look at your rankings and find out which keywords were driving that traffic. Once you find the keyword(s) that have fallen then you can make the assumption that it could be Penguin.

Although looking at your domain, it is an obvious keyword based domain which was cracked down on as well. Look into Analytics though before assuming Penguin.

These sites are generally just cover ups for paid link directories.

Yes, sorry did not see the second link, and yes some web servers notably windows iis shared servers are pretty tricky at setting up .htaccess. Both are valid solutions though, just depends on circumstances.

Matt is right, but you may also want to use a .htaccess solution. Add this or get your devs to add this to your .htaccess file

<code class="htaccess" title="in your .htaccess file">RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]</code>

If you use this method plus Matt's then you may find you end up with a redirect loop. I personally use the .htaccess rule, but each to their own.

Google obviously sees your homepage as a more relevant page for that particular keyword. The steps I would take to rank a sub-page are to de-optimise the homepage for that specific term:

1. remove all mentions of keyword from homepage including meta title/desc and h1-h3 etc.

2. create product or keyword specific page you want to rank

3. make sure keyword is in the page url/title/desc/h1

4. create contextual or nav link on homepage using keyword to product/keyword page

There is no guarantee Google will see the sub-page as more relevant and rank it for your keyword, but taking these steps has worked for me in the past. Also there is no guarantee you will swap out the two in the same position!

One Word: No

Google see the text anyway as it is hard coded into the html, the JS is only used on the front end to show the user so they can hide/show the text.

In general terms there is no significant benefit to hosting in country, it was thought that it mattered more ages ago.

You should though host on different IP's, if you have a hosting package hosting all of your multiple .tld domains on the same IP there will be little or no benefit to link building. So in essence it would be good practice to host on different servers and why not in country if you are hosting that domain?