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Hi Adam,

There are a lot more factors than simply going and disavowing all of these. You really need to determine what you are thinking when you say "these are all crappy links". You can use metrics such as DA/PA/PR/MR/MT and have conditional formatting set for the excel columns. You can export all back links from Google WMT, Ahrefs, OSE and even then you won't have all of your backlinks. Then use the Moz Toolbar to go and test the parameters you have set and paste them into the respective URL fields on the excel.

The process is manual, but the process of disavowing should be, it would have been automated crappy SEO that got you into this, so unfortunately automated crappy SEO, won't get you out of it. Time and effort is required or you will end up disavowing all of the value with the rubbish and you may as well just start from scratch.

Hope this helps!

Have you tried sending a resend email to the backup email, the client may have access to that?

Hi there,

Top place "/" will be your homepage.

"Not mentioned" or "not provided" or "not set" are increasingly prevalent and based on users being logged in to a Google account when searching.

Hi Paul,

Moz can run campaigns on multiple subdomains or sites, you get up to 5 separate campaigns for $99/mt, then up to 12 for $199/mth.

Each campaign will allow you to track the relevant pages within each for rankings via rank tracker i.e. if a sub-page ranks it will tell you that.

Hope this helps out!

We use LinkedIn predominantly in the B2B space and find it is a great way to engage i industry discussions and also personal and company branding. For B2B social marketing my personal vote is LinkedIn #1!

Hi Heather,

Rand had an article on just this topic for a Whiteboard Friday, well worth a read:

http://moz.com/blog/how-to-move-rankings-up-on-older-existing-content-whiteboard-friday

Yes WMT is going to have the most detailed list of all domains pointing. OSE and others could show anywhere between 5-20 or 30% of a link profile. I believe that WMT may show 50%+. Bear in mind these numbers are just indicative of what I have seen on our numerous websites and also what I have read. You are never going to have 100% of all links reported anywhere, it is all about getting the best possible picture you can and working from there.

Hi Joni,

Your question is a little vague? By preventing reputation issues are you talking about reputation management? I imagine you wouldn't need that immediately if you are a new company as one would hope you don't have any negative reviews prior to opening?

In regards to starting to brand your new company it is less about tools and more about assets i.e. where can your clients go to find out about you and engage with you? Most businesses generally build websites and social media properties.

I hope this steers you on the right direction, but if you can clarify what you actually need I can give you some clearer advice.

Hi,

If they are domain specific then you aren't going to run into too many problems. I've seen companies in your situation in the past use nofollow on a portion of their clients websites though just to have some diversity. It is my understanding though that if you aren't keyword stuffing them then the risk is significantly negated.

Hi Jonathon,

WMT is always going to show a far larger index of links compared to OSE or Ahrefs or any other backlink database. OSE and any other tools like that are only every going to give you a picture of your link profile, never the whole picture. We use these tools mainly for competitor research and to support WMT for our own sites.

Hi Jan,

I would imagine the Pinterest links are all "nofollow" and not passing authority, also the link from Polyvore is also "nofollow".

The reality is there pages have more authority, the title is the same and at present that is why you are being outranked.

I guess the most important question is; "does it matter very much?" - I haven't searched the keyword tool for an estimation on search traffic, but I'd hazard a guess it is slim to nil. The fact that they outrank you due to SEO factors is unimportant if there is no organic traffic. You outrank them on the social factors, hence the larger following and that is where the traffic is, so if I could pick more Pinterest traffic or more Google traffic for this instance, I know where I'd be putting my money.

Hope this is of some assistance.

Hi Shawn,

It is most likely going to be one of two things:

1. The On-Page optimisation for the Category pages is not direct enough to rank for all product pages and therefore you would need to re-focus the on page optimization and messaging to the products you are directly aiming to rank for.
2. You have built backlinks or internal links to the product pages so they hold more authority (you can check the PR and PA/DA of your pages vs. category pages for an idea)

Possible solutions are:

1. Re-optimise the category pages to be relevant for the products you want to rank
2. Build more powerful backlinks and authority to the category pages
3. Make category pages canonical page for product pages (probably not the ideal solution but just a thought).

I guess the real question is why wouldn't you want clients seeing the exact product they are trying to search for? If they are searching XL Blue Widgets and you would prefer they go to the Widgets page, then it doesn't make too much sense?

Hope this offers some insight.

Hi Adam,

There are a lot more factors than simply going and disavowing all of these. You really need to determine what you are thinking when you say "these are all crappy links". You can use metrics such as DA/PA/PR/MR/MT and have conditional formatting set for the excel columns. You can export all back links from Google WMT, Ahrefs, OSE and even then you won't have all of your backlinks. Then use the Moz Toolbar to go and test the parameters you have set and paste them into the respective URL fields on the excel.

The process is manual, but the process of disavowing should be, it would have been automated crappy SEO that got you into this, so unfortunately automated crappy SEO, won't get you out of it. Time and effort is required or you will end up disavowing all of the value with the rubbish and you may as well just start from scratch.

Hope this helps!

Redirect is the best option for you I believe, you will pass the majority of link juice if anybody has backlinked to the https version.

You will need to contact the host where your server is in order to get this implemented. Alternatively you can just resubmit your http site for index in Google via GWT and see how that goes.

As long as you outweigh them with great natural links then you will be fine. These spammy links are part and parcel of building great sites. It is when they are viewed in isolation or as a large proportion of a site's backlink profile that it is clear they were built for the purpose of ranking.

I think his hugs are "nofollow" so they aren't worth much anymore

Hi John,

You might have numerous pages displaying 404 errors if they are broken links. 301 redirect them all to the right page, then run the report again and see if it is displaying and information on meta descriptions missing.

Hi,

We have experienced similar and in my experience if the 7 locals slot in between say 3 and 4, these effectively become 3-{4,5,6,7,8,9,10}-11 so the natural rank 4 is really 11th.

The reason I say this is I have noticed results moving up out of the local listings, into the top few and then back down into the local. This has been across several companies in the past 6 months, mind you just for one industry.

In my experience the only additional pages which you can rank in addition to having a local listing, is a sub-page. Although we have seen a local listing and also organic homepage listing ranking as high as middle of the second page.

I hope this has been of some assistance, just my observations from our listings.

Not especially for link authority as they will be "nofollow" attributed links. I would recommend doing it from a social link traffic perspective as any specific SEO benefit would be negligible, traffic is traffic though

Hi Heather,

Rand had an article on just this topic for a Whiteboard Friday, well worth a read:

http://moz.com/blog/how-to-move-rankings-up-on-older-existing-content-whiteboard-friday