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Do you mean that you are copying your competition and putting links to your site on forums and on blog sites?If this is the case then I think the links are of little value and can actually lead to penalties in the SERPs.

Please see this response to a similar question regarding these types of link: http://www.seomoz.org/q/blog-comments-good-for-seo

Also see this Q&A for sensible link building advice:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/drowning-in-a-sea-of-link-building-advice

Have a look at this Alex - http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress

You will then need to create 301 redirects from your old domain to your new one - linking your old pages to the their new locations to pass 90-99% of link juice you have gained previously and helping build your new sites authority.

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

No problem - well I would definitely look at removing the keyword cloud for a start as this just looks so spammy in my opinion and is likely to stick out like a sore thumb to Google. The other issue you have is that some of your pages with videos on are very thin on content and so all this repeating text in the footer across the site isn't likely to help in terms of duplicate content.

I don't see an issue with the pictures and they do look good apart from why do you have them on Flickr and not hosted on your site maybe I am missing something? I would consider adding another link to your top menu for the whats new links and have them on sub-menu as your other items currently do rather than repeating them on every pages footer as they look like targeted keywords to me. Adding them to the main navigation won't complicate things and at worst gives these pages more weight. I would also have one page that talks about who you are but I also think that repeating it across your site devalues your homepage content as the majority of it is basically your footer. In short I think the current layout will be devaluing your SEO, but the choice is yours...

Hi Zach,

Whether it is local or international the process for gaining quality links is the same you need to create great quality content and then you need to make sure that it gains the right exposure. This will bring you the quality links you desire to increase your sites rankings. There are lots of methods for creating decent content, such as product/service reviews, blogs including promoting guest blogging from authorities in your niche, examples of work you have carried out (case studies), content curation (see SEOMoz Blog)  and more.

To gain exposure it is important to interact with as many potential customers and also others involved in your niche as possible, this is where social networking comes in. Building up your social following and then interacting and building relationships with authority figures that are related to your niche will allow you to expose them to your content through passing on links through tweets etc. If you have built a good relationship this will cause your social followers to share it to their own network and then you will gain increased exposure which will lead to likes, G+'s, tweets and links from other sites. It is important to make sure you include social bookmarking on your websites to help facilitate this. If you are blogging and you have built relationships with authority figures you can then ask them to create a guest post on your blog - you might need to offer an incentive. They will bring the attention of their followers with them which will lead to more exposure and links - improving the authority of your site.

For local SEO it is so important to network online and identify local influencers as this will bring you business - I have found that social networking allows the online word of mouth about decent local business to happen an a much quicker rate - this is flourishing!

I hope this helps - one suggestion is you look into the link building discussions on here for more ideas.

I personally would stay away from such directories that require a reciprocal link.

I definitely wouldn't have a page for links, as you want to keep your link profile as natural as possible, whereas a page for links looks spammy and it will be easy for Google to indentify low quality reciprocal links to directories.

I would have a look at what Google says regarding such links schemes -

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356

Hi Robert,

I definitely wouldn't start creating multiple title tags as that is just going to cause the search engines confusion. For the pages that you want to rank have you considered moving them up the hierarchy/internal link structure. It would be great to have an example of the pages you mentioned in a previous question and your site address to get a better feel for exactly where you are and what you could do...

I would look at ways that you can create some great content that will enrich your current site, from what you have put there appears to be a lot of scope. You need to think about how you can gain links in order to be able to increase your ranking for targeted keywords. I would definitely think about your idea of a blog and invite guest posts/ reviews from current users of your free football game or even better industry authorities (well known gamers/reviewers). This will help increase interaction on your website and this will lead to increased traffic and more links. Think about incorporating how-to guides which can be both written and video based recording actions from game play etc. I would also concentrate on building up your social presence and make sure you look at building relationships with social influencers such as well- known game reviewers/gaming sites and publications. Building these relationships will help increase your exposure as you can make them aware of any new content on the site you are now doing SEO for and this in turn will lead to them pushing it to their followers which will again increase traffic and links will come. As we all know these links will increase your sites authority in the eyes of the search engines and you will gain ranking and search visits from none branded keywords. Hope this helps!!

I saw the duplicate and posted in the original as I thought the other might end up being got rid of, but maybe I should have posted in both as you have Chris. Anyway I hope both our answers are of use to Pedro..

Hi Matthew - just a couple of thoughts on potential issues - looking at ricecookerreviewz site you have dozens of links pointing back to amazon in relation to full descriptions, reviews and parts - of the few I checked several don't go to a specific page (did not match any products). There doesn't appear to be much in the way of user comments on your site and you are the only one that appears to have reviewed any of the products with 5 stars and a single line comment. Your page is very optimized for the specific keyword you are targeting - rice cooker reviews. The anchor text of the majority of links is your keyword - run your sites through www.opensiteexplorer.org and it will give you an insight into your sites authority and likely perception by Google.

**after having a quick look at your previous post on this question that Egol pointed out existed i agree with ABK's points - all your sites are registered to you under the same hosting company godaddy.

I would create a 301 redirect from your new short URL to your original product page as you are essentially just creating a new path to it and not new content.

Here is a post about canonicalisation from Matt Cutts - http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization/

And another useful insight from SEOMoz on how to deal with duplicate content - http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/duplicate-content

Hope this helps

Blurbpoint is also correct using his method will also work - blocking the page in a robots.txt file or using the meta-tags no index, no follow will also stop duplicate content issues! The down side is that any links that your short URL acquires will not pass any link juice unlike with 301s or canonicalization.

Hi

I wouldn't worry about this being an issue as the SEOMoz crawl doesn't currently take into account rel=canonical tags and will still report duplicate content and titles. This is something they are looking at adding - here is some more information from the SEOMoz staff for peace of mind -

 http://www.seomoz.org/q/canonical-tag-and-duplicate-content-report

Hi Doug,

I have never seen this done before and as both you and Andy say I can't imagine that it has been done on purpose - more automated link building.

Did you by any chance send your link to this website in an email? I have seen this before when a site has copied a piece of code from outlook - it is a security feature in outlook to add this blocked::. It shouldn't have any impact on your link juice from this link, it is not the same as nofollow. Though for piece of mind I would email them and ask them to remove that piece of the code if you are not happy...

Hi - I would definitely not place a no follow on the drop down menu. I have a similar issue when a site I work on was redesigned and this caused an increase in the on-page links, however the sites search engine rankings and traffic actually increased after the re-design which incorporated this. The site was doing well before the redesign as well.

For further peace of mind have a look at this previous Q&A -

http://www.seomoz.org/q/should-i-nofollow-the-links-in-the-drop-down-nav-menu

Hi

You are obviously going to need to change around the 301 redirect and do it on a page by page basis, so that any links gained on those pages will pass the authority gained to the corresponding pages.

If you don't do it at this level you will end up with an increased bounce rate and this is likely to impact your rankings as visitors that find a current page in the search engine results aren't likely to search your site again if they are just taken straight to your homepage - they are likely to just assume that this content no longer exists.

You will also need to set the change of address in Google Webmaster Tools to help Google figure out your change.

I would recommend you read this great article in relation to minimising the impact of a change on your rankings -

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/achieving-an-seo-friendly-domain-migration-the-infographic

Also have a look at the other articles mentioned in this one.

Hope this helps!

This might be a much simpler solution for you -

http://www.mcanerin.com/EN/articles/301-redirect-IIS.asp

This might also be helpful as installing a form of ISAPI rewrite module would also make the solution quicker and more simple than what it sounds above.

http://forums.iis.net/t/1176085.aspx

Hope this might help..

Hi Chris

You need to setup a 301 redirect from your none www.domain to your www.domain or vice versa depending on your preference. You should also make sure you have set your preferred version in Google Webmaster Tools.

Take a look here for SEOMoz's guide on redirection -

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

Hi Jac -

take a look at this http://wistia.com/learning/advanced-seo-with-distilled and this http://moz.com/blog/video-seo-post-rich-snippets

These will tell you everything you need to know about video SEO and help you develop a strategy that works - they are by Phil Nottingham who is an expert when it comes to Video SEO

Hope this helps

Yes you want to make each page title and content unique with the keywords that best describe the content of that page. If you can't create a unique page title then you need to ask yourself this -

why do I need two pages that are titled the same, could I just have them as one strong page?

I always include the brand name at the end of my title -

keyword/description | brand name

is the format I use successfully -  brand name at the end of the title for branding/recognition purposes.

For a decent guide on title tags see SeoMoz's guide here - http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/title-tag

This should do the trick

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^sub1 http://example.com/sub1/sub2/sub3 [R=301,NC,L]