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Great explanation.  Thank you for further clarification!

Hey Mike,

'Thank you for responding to our question.  For further clarification, if we talked about plumbing on our home page and repeatedly spoke about "plumbing" and we offer these services in "San Antonio, Dallas, Austin, and Houston"  Each region would be linked to their respective pages which would be targeted "Region Plumber" or "Plumber in Region". This way the home page is aimed at nationally ranking and sub pages ranked for region based keywords.

Reason I ask about only linking the regions site wide is becasue typically the full region keywords wouldn't show up naturally within content that would be on lets say the home page because then it would be spammy. For example: "We offer, san antonio plumbing, houston plumbing, and austin plumbing."

Right? Or would it be more beneficial to be spammy as the link's anchor text would be the region based keyword pointing to the region based keyword page?

Thanks again for all the clarification.  We just want to make sure that our content and internal linking strategies are the right way to get the most bang for you buck on getting the sub region based keyword pages ranked.

Greetings Mozzers,

I am wanting to get the most "bang for my buck" in regards to region based keyword pages.  If I am going after the keyword "Plumber" and the region "San Antonio", would it be best to:

1- Create a San Antonio Plumber page where we can target all critical factors for the region based keyword "San Antonio Plumber"
2- Link every instance of the term "San Antonio" and "San Antonio Plumber" throughout the site to the newly created "San Antonio Plumber" page.

Thank you for any advice/clarification on this matter.

Hey Tom,

Thanks for tipping us off on this post.  We'll take a look at it!

Greetings Mozzers,

When ever I check my home page on OSE it says I have a total of 5 internal links. Obviously this is WAY off.

I've used all relative links, if I were to removed all relative and make them absolute, would there be a better chance of OSE identifying them instead of losing that juice?

I think this is huge to resolve as when I compare my site to competitors, almost all factors are in our favor except this huge gap of only 5 internal links.

I'm using Drupal CMS. For example, Drupal normally outputs internal links as "/about" and "/about/team" in the menus. If we changed it to "https://monsterweb.net/about", and "https://monsterweb.net/about/team", would that make a difference?

Thanks for all the advice and clarification on this matter.

Greetings Mark,

I have read on several different articles that a multi-step process is something that is liked by visitors.

http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/28/12-tips-for-designing-an-excellent-checkout-process/

In the above article it talks about a multi-step checkout process (#7) which is navigated by several different pages. It explains that visitors going through a multi-step process provides control for someone surfing the web which is helpful to keep visitors happy.

So all-in-all it seems doing this helps make visitors happy and in control which should in theory push visitors to keep clicking until they get to the end of the road. Which if so, would be good for SEO.

Hey James,

Thanks for your advice, I will definitely play with this tool.  Seems like it is a good way to start.

Greetings Mozzers,

I have read that interacting on blogs in a natural way is good for building relationships as well as earning links.  This is what I'd like to do, however what is the best way to find blogs to start doing this for different industries?

Google [industry blogs]? Go to competitors and look at their link profiles to see if there are blogs they are on?

Whats a good way to start this method?

All the advice/clarification would be outstanding!

Interesting, I like this.

I see how this could be beneficial because the content would be similar just changes gears a bit. I'm interested in if this would be better for my overall domain authority or having just one link on each site (home page more likely then not) in the footer with different anchor text and title tags to our home page.

Hey Pincart,

Basically we are using https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/staticmaps/ currently.  With this in mind do you feel the embed is still the best option because of the possible interaction metrics?

The reason we like the above is because it is mobile/responsive friendly, however, if it holds more benefit for actual embed then we would consider the change.

Thanks again

Fantastic response, thank you.

Greetings Mozzers,

When doing a website, we generally link a Google Map image of the company to the Google Maps in a new tab.  Reading other questions made us wonder.

Is it better to do the above or is it more beneficial to SEO to have a Google Map embedded on the website.  Which I guess means it links Google to the Business in one way?

Thanks for any/all responses.

Greetings Mozzers,

I wanted to see how I can get the most bang for my buck in regards to footer links back to my site.  I understand that the footer is one of the weakest areas for links, however, I have many sites that I have done and want to get the most benefit from the footer area where I say created by etc.

First Question: Is there a chance to get some value at of this area?

Second Question: What is the best structure to use to get the most benefit from this opportunity?

If there is zero value within this region and I can't get any benefit, would the following penalize me?

Current Structure Used: Powered by MonsterWeb (On hover the title tag reveals a small 10 word sentence about us.)

Additional clarification would be greatly apprecaited.

Hey Tom,

Thanks for answering our question.  Basically our sites are a parent company/ministry, a kids mentoring/tutoring ministry, a medical center ministry, and a food pantry ministry.

They all have their own domain and website currently but need to be updated.  We are looking at combining the sites administrative functionality to allow for authors of each individual site as well as super authors for all sites.

So, the question is, should each site continue to have its own domain as they each will have unique content or should they be setup with subdomains becasue they are all apart of the same network.

Here is an example of a website setup very similar --> http://www.interlochen.org/

Thank you for further clarification/time on this matter.

Hey Mozzers,

I'm working with a client who wants to redo their web presence.  They have a a main website for the umbrella and then 3 divisions which have their own website as well.

My question is:  Is it better to have the main site on the main domain and then have the 3 separate sites be subdomains? Or 4 different domains with a linking structure to tie them all together?

To my understanding option 1 would include high traffic for 1 domain and option 2 would be building Page Authority by having 4 different sites linking to each other?

My guess would be option 2, only if all 4 sites start getting relevant authority to make the links of value.  But right out of the gates option 1 might be more beneficial.

A little advice/clarification would be great!

Irving,

When you refer to "filenames", are you talking about .jpg .png .pdf or could it be the last /whatever of the url?

Thanks for the information!

Hey CsmBill,

I would say the 2nd option is better because it is easier for visitors.  Even if your keyword was "hr outsourcing solutions" the SEO impact of your url have been decreasing, to my knowledge. Especially when the url starts getting longer and longer because of it.

Remember, Google wants things easier for searchers and if the url structure is something easy and makes sense structure-wise, then it will look favorable.

Hey JABcchetta,

I'm not to sure exactly how much link juice could be leaked through the method, however I have see 2 articles that you might want to read.  One about SEO through the use of Squidoo and another about links with a section on link juice being transferred.

Here is an article about SEO through the use of Squidoo --> http://www.awebguy.com/2010/06/is-squidoo-good-for-seo/

Here is an article about links with a section about building link authority based on link juice transfer --> http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links

Hey Moz'ers,

I have created several blogs on different domains for the purpose of writing good content articles that contain 2-3 links per article that go back to my website.  It has been up for about 3-4 weeks.  I am not seeing my results/links showing up in OSE, is this because it still needs more time or is there something else I could be advised to look into?

In theory these blogs will only contain 2-3 links from each domain to the site.  I was also going to make sure the anchor text per link is different (keyword, brand name, random anchor like click here).

Side note:  How does this system sound as part of one small aspect to link building? red flags?

Thanks for all the responses and advice.

For example, if I have a sub page dedicated to the keyword "Houston Leather Furniture" is it best practice to bold ONLY the exact match keyword? Or should ONLY the words from the keyword (so 'Houston' 'Leather' and 'Furniture')

Is there a rule to how many times it should be done before its over-optimization?

I appreciate any information as I want to do the BEST possible practice when it comes to this topic.

Thanks!