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hey Rogerio, I'm glad for you I hope this may lead you to great success!

hope that helped you! you're welcome Josh!

The robots file will avoid google to show further information on the disallowed pages but it doesn't prevent indexation.

They're still indexed (that's why you're seeing them) but with no meta desc nor text taken from the page because google wasn't allowed to retrieve more information.

If you want them to start showing info, you'll jsut need to remove that rule from the robots.txt and soon you'll start seeing those pages information showing, but if you want them out of the index you can use GWT to remove them from the index after you've included in each page the noindex meta tag which is the only command which will prevent indexation.

I understand that you got some parameters in the url since you need them to recognize the product.

Just put a canonical to the generic contact us page and you're done.

Be sure that those parameters will be not carried over in other pages. In that sennse you'll better set up a self referring canonical on all pages so you'll avoid any dupe issue in the future.

Hey Josh, the title you've put in those page is the same. The structure is good but you're repeating the same in every page. Maybe you can use that title here: http://www.farnorthkennel.com/german-shepherd-puppies-the-girls

and then in each page you may consider adding the dog's name at the beginning/en of the title like:

Hazel Index Card | German Sheperd Puppies in Alaska

Sorry for the bad translation however I think you got the point. In the titl eyou should specify what do you want to achieve with that page. If you're lloking for external visits try to fit there a good DIFFERENT keyword. If not just try to be descriptive like: Hazel profile | Meet the Kennel mother

Yes the last one is the way I'm actually doing this. In that way if someone republish the image you'll be sure that your links will be maintained if those links are useful for the fruition of your work.

What I didn't understand is that if the links are useful to use the infographic or if you want to be sure that people republishing your infographic will be giving you the links you want.

In that last case you want be able to achieve that easily because people may save the image and republish it however they want. But normally if someone finds your infographic useful they will put a link to the site where they found it (it's quite ethical) and that's what you want because links hidden in the infographic won't have this "editorial" value which google is looking for, said in other words is better to have a link editorially done than have plenty of them embedded in the infographic. At least IMO.

Well if you have an high pr link which you don't trust to poitn to your site only because it's not related it's a good idea to boost the power of your backlinks.

Just be sure that you don't automatize it in a way which may get you in troubles, because you won't be able to submit disavow requests for your backlinks

Be sure that you'll judge the high pr link not only by its pr but also for their adomain age, freshness, content quality, traffic and all this qulity rates which are not just pr juice.

The startegy of boost the power of your backlinks is a good one but you need to choose wisely which links are going there. You should choose them as if they were pointing to your site, they need to be different and avoid patterns, so google won't catch you.

However this is really hard to scale. If you need to make such an hard work to boost the value of other sites pointing to yours, why not use this efforts to power up your site directly?

Well Google can index the iframe but not as Rogerio would like to.

Google can see the src link pointing to the infographic page sowhen following that google will index the content contained in the iframe but don't count with such kind of links as being valuable for you.

What I don't understand is that you want to use the iframe instead of the image because you got links in it. Why not brake the image and build it as a table and link each portion of it to the url you want? Use flash and embed the links? Or map the image to indicate zones where the links should be? I think there are more frendlier ways to put links without recurring to the iframe to have links in your infographic.

Or simply you can put a tinier version of that infographic and if someone wants to see full image they need to reach your site where they'll find all the links. Hope this may help!

So the best choice IMO depends on what you want to achieve:

1. you want to spread the word about your brand? So, be sure that the links in that article are nofollowed and then distribute it wherever you prefer using any kind of service which may give you exposure, both the free ones and the paid ones.

2. you want SEO benefits? In that case the solution is completely different. First of all use an orgiinal article. The article you send may be easily improved by someone working in that niche and add some images, data, real valuable information, and then you nedd to submit that to blogs you find really interesting: which are topic related and well ranked for your desired keywords. If they also have good social profiles it's a signal that the site may be worth some job writing an article for them.

Don't try to use the same article more than once, it is dupe content, and it is easily spotted by google. Don't use any link text. Give the article to the webmaster and ask them to put a link back a reference for the writer they'll put any kind of anchor they want so you'll be possibly sure that they won't follow any pattern different from your url or brand name which always helps. Find blogs is easier with google blog search or technorati if your category is there. Or make a search for your top keywords and ask to someone which is in top50

Hi Gianluca that's really interesting, I didn't know about the possibility of differently configure folders inside the same domain in GWT. I always thought it was possible to set up only the main level, how can you achieve that? do you create different profiles for each folder?

yes ALeyda answer was more concrete for sure Glad to have been of help however

I've always been of the opinion that is preferrable to write more focused articles which may deliver less traffic but extra sales than broad article which only gets you traffic with high bounces just because after reading the article the users don't find anything related to continue on your site. You'll need to write always content which will attract your customer they may buy today or in a month buth you need to attract them.

If you're on shoes market maybe you may find interesting writing an article about Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and city who loves have many shoes and write a fun article about how to build your shoe inventory with less than 1k dollars. Or maybe something about link your shoes to your personality or your daily mood.

I think that when it comes to write new content you don't have to focus only on what is actually been searched but you should try also to create new trends of search. Users are bombed with lots of similar contents about top keywords, so you may consider write really different and original and cool articles on those ones or if you don't have ideas is better to write a cool different article and spread it thrgough fashion blogs, this guys loves about speaking about new ideas and trends so try to anticipate them or give them the original thing they can poston their site.

Always focus on best content, then your traffic will arrive both on keywords and your branded/direct traffic.

Hi Jens, first of all welcome to the wonderful world of SEO were nothing is 100% sure but everything is changing and worth testing, you'll be learning by making mistakes, if you don't make mistakes you're not doing anything. Many times is better to make mistakes because the road to the right path is to know where you shouldn't go avoiding bad practices.

Having said this I think you should start on organizing your inventory. Start by creating categories around your best products. Try to create new categories around trafficked keyphrases and try to achieve traffic to your listings. After having organized it create a really usable website with filters and microdata which will help users find reviews on your products making for them easy to choose which one is the best and in whatever moment be able to buy it in the shortest funnel possible, every click they need to do will make them think about giving up the buying cycle.

On the prodcut pages try to build easy and clear title the same product name wills tart delivering traffic by itsefl if it's clear what you're selling.

Also try to use a secure payment to make users feel safe when buying on your site.

Nowadays it helps a lot morehaving a really good onsite seo than build a lot of links to improve your visibility to achieve traffic. After you build a good site, improve your contents, descriptions, photos, reviews, filters, and you'll start achieving some links, you may start consider building some quality links and social media mentions as you may have read in the seo guide seomoz provides. TRy to avoid paid links and use only highly themed pages related to your website.

Adwords may also help you delivering traffic faster but try to optimize a lot your spent to make your first sales and help your site survive until your seo improves!

Hope this may help you starting!

Hi Nevil, first of all Google WAS ignoring the low value links pointing to your site. In the past having a link was always worthwhile. The least value they may pass was 0. Actually links may pass negative value to your site and the general consensus is if the ratio of those links pointing to your site is superior to a certain threshold (about 70% although portent says it would be 50% in the future) your entire site will be considered low value and "penalized".

Also there may be the case you were buying links. Google doesn't like people trying to game their algo so you want to get away from leaving patterns which may lead google to think you may have done this. If so you'll be probably negatively flagged.

About the reconsideration request it only have effect if your site received a manual penalty from google which normally confirm that with a message in your webmaster tools of unnatural links pointing to your website. In this case you want to send google a proof that you're really trying to change the way you build your links and tried to clean every sign of bad behaviour using all the tools you have, both contacting those sites to remove low value links and if not possible to disavow them.

This is to simplify a lot a widely more complicated scenario where many factors can act. Also you may be affected by Panda (as you said a number of low value pages are dragging your site down in rankings) in this case you want to get rid or improve those pages, but when this comes to links is a Penguin matter. People tries to get rid of bad links just becasue if Penguin hits you you'll need to wait until the next release (and they update very few times by now) until your site will see the light again.

Hope this helps clarify your doubts.

Sorry Fabrizio I got mad with my old answer

that canonical doesn't make sense with a noindex, with noindex follow.you're completely fine.

Summing up I think that you have many parameters so you should try to write them down and define the role of each one.

Then add them in GWT and choose there which are the ones which doesn't add any value and which you want to "block" (instead of putting a noindex).

The valuable ones (the one which adds value and changes content) should contain the self canonical and paginated next/prev. If you can get rid of unesful parameters it could be better so to have cleaner and shorter urls.

Just be sure that you're mainly using the most important parameters so you're consistent with your strategy.

Hope this will clear your doubts, it was a nice chat!

Hi Janc, I not recommend you to get insight from the site parameter in google. Try instead of augmenting the number of results shown and with a ctrl+f find your domain the first page which appears will be the one which google consider the most important for that term.

If it's not the one you were thinking about you can always go deeper and see which is the second one and so on.

There are many factor which influences a site's ranking in one region or another.

Google is heading toward personalized results based on user location, but that's no panda or penguin issue.

Some things to consider are:

• the location of your hosting server
• the tld of your site
• the location and tld of your linking sites
• the location you set up in your gwtools or in your buiness page
• the content of your site, if it's english it may be more british focused or american
• and other ranking factors which only google knows

If you find high quality guest bloggers this will be helping your website for sure.

Having an external writing about something in which is considered an expert may lead his followers to read your site, you may also use the rel=author to show his g+ thumbnail under you listing so you'll achieve a good ctr boost.

However this depends on how strict are you in choosing who's writing in your website.

Hi Marcus, your approach is very solid, the hreflang and the language information in sitemaps solidifies the /en/ and /es/ folders. Google is smart enough to recognize such different languages but you'll do a well job if you add those tags too.

You can also consider to add a parameter instead of a folder and then specify in GWT what is the functionality of that parameter.