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I always recommend people to open your eye while buying links for your website because of the fact that sometimes it’s cool! But sometimes when you buy links with eyes closed you came under the spot light of search engine.

Links from famous directories are fine BBB and Business.com are the great websites to get a link but if you want to get a link from a niche related website with a desired anchor text then do check that websites reparation in search engine and try to get natural links instead of side bar or footer links.

#myopinion

The URL you displayed as an example looks like in-page bookmarking and as far as my knowledge goes this does not make the content duplicated.

But as far as the canonicals are concern, adding a canonical URL on the website is better as it can save you from any unforeseen problems but as far as the problem you are mentioning is concern, I don’t think this will create a duplicate content within your website.

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Hey, expecting Google to settle down against low quality content and links in my opinion is a lousy thought! I think it’s great to check your profile and remove the links that looks SPAM!

In all honesty, guest posting links are usually fine unless they are on blogs that contain solid SPAM back link profile.

I would recommend removing the links from the websites that are no more available in Google index!

Other these the above advice I would highly recommend to remove the site wide links and add some good textual links from the profile… Rankings may fluctuate a bit but its way better then getting hit by any black and while Animal!

If there are relevant products available in the market or people are searching for keywords that are somehow relevant to your product. My idea is to include them in the bucket see what possibly will convert, shorten your list and try to run the PPC test to see which one of them are actually going to convert and work on it accordingly.

If it’s a really new product and you see that there is no related keywords that actually allow people to come to the page and convert in that case (IMHO) you should try awareness campaign. This might be a little lengthy process but if your product hit off you will be able to sale your product on awareness campaign and if people really like your product the organic ripple effect can take you to the next level.

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Kevin, while analyzing your competitors and also while building your own strategy, the most important thing that you have to consider is quality.

Usually good amount of links from fewer domains is not really helpful and it is always advisable to earn links from different domains….

I think your first step must be to figure out the quality of domains from where your competitors are getting a link, are they relevant websites? News websites? High authority? And other important factors…

Step two is to design you strategy in which you have to think that can you acquire link from the websites where your competitor’s link is present (if they are credible website this is a good strategy to start.)

You also have to design strategies that allow you to get links from different domains like guest posting, info-graphics, interviews and more…

Spot on!

"If you see them giving great advice for free, imagine what you will get when you pay them"

Hurting? NO!

Not Helping?  This is not the case either.

Actually you are missing the opportunity to be smarter on links... If you are getting quality links with www then you should use the same URL as upon redirection (301) some of the link juice will be left.

As you said you made most of the links with-www then you should try redirecting all versions of URL to www-version so that you can earn the most out of it...

Bounce Rate for Google Analytics is that a visitor hits the page and gets out without shifting to another page, it will be considered as bounce rate.

In your case, I agree with EGOL to add a thank you page so that technically it should visit another page and your bounce rate will come to natural again!

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I believe you are talking about Author Page like “About the Author” page and not about Author Tag... if this is the case then there are verity of things you can add on your author page...

I have a author page on my own website that tells a bit about me and then endorsements i got from influencers www.setalks.com/author/mmhemani/

You are not limited to try anything new but you have to keep in mind that author tag should attract people and encourage them to perform some action instead of bouncing back from the website.

A landing page without the form is very much dependent upon the industry you are working with. In my experience deals that contain big dollars convert better on the phone.

I know form can provide you phone numbers as well but when person check the website their enthusiasm is different which might or might not be after some time (hours of days) when you call them back! My opinion would be to take a look at the industry and see if this is a website where phone is better than a form.

I guess link should be provided as this allow user to better understand the company and product/service you are trying to sell but obviously your call to action should be powerful and eye catchy (use eye tracking here) that users stick to it and call.

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I believe that SEOmoz beginners guide is one of the best places to start especially if you are interested in SEO as a career but if there is anything that is outdated (as you have mentioned) i guess this is less a problem from SEOmoz and more the problem from Google who continue to change its algorithm from time to time.

Obviously changing/updating the guide book regularly will not be ideal but I think if SEOmoz can add when it got updated last time so people can easily understand the reason of the outdated stuff available on within the guide.

Just my 2 cents!

There could be like tons of ideas here but I will try and list the few that I commonly use from time to time.

-          Instead of writing description to include keyword in it. Try to write the description that talk more to audience and encourages them to click. This will literally increase your CTR level to greater extent.

-          Get in to the mind of the people and come up with titles that attract them and encourage them to share with others in their circle.

-          Make sure all your technical parameters and SEO is in place as this can lead to better CTR level as well as actual clicks.

-          URL optimization. If your URL will be optimized properly, this will have an impact on your click as well as CTR ratio.

There could be much more ideas but above are the one that are easy to optimize and have a great impact on Your CTR level.

Above ideas are all based on SEO perspective. If you want to increase your CTR level using PPC, then this article sounds like a perfect fit for you. http://www.searchenginejournal.com/50-strategies-increase-click-rate-via-ppc-advertising/85019/

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Same post on multiple PR sites is duplicate content so you can imagine what will be the value of a link. In the world of digital marketing after Panda and Penguin I don’t find this as an ideal practice to follow.

I believe on using few but powerful PR sites like RP News, News wire and others but if you are using multiple FREE PR websites then in that case try to submit unique press releases  instead of the same content on every website.

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My advice would be to research your industry, plan few titles and test accordingly.

We are out from the era where our task sheet contains numbers... now it’s all about what quality you can produce!

For Instance, if you have a client related to SEO and Online Marketing and you are planning 5 blogs per month, I would rather prefer to create 1 kickass post that Moz can approve and it can go live on Youmoz (ideally promoted to Main Blog).

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This is a different question to me! Honestly it’s not about how long or short the post is it’s about the quality that it posses within it!

For me! Reading 1000+words that contain a case study or research is not at all boring but 700+ words of theory actually striking my mind.. woo! There is still lot more to go!

But still there are some tricks to entertain readers throughout the post, especially when its long and theory…

Add Images!

Images can help reader to go through the complete article without thinking of switching or moving to some other article. #ithinkitworks!

Humour:

It isn't possible all the time but if you can add punch lines and one line humour that fits with the post, most readers will love to read till the end!

Articles that are too long should reveal some of its awesomeness in the beginning and this will help reader to move till the end!

I think we are totally done with this debate… everyone want their name to be out there and no one want to speak out loud J

I believe the link Danna shared contain what it takes.

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I guess there are two parts in the question so let me go one by one!

Why other websites are ranking above mine? Exactly, when they use your RSS feed, they probably might get crawled quicker than the original content and that is why the problem starts!

My advice would be to get quick links, whoever is syndicating your content ask them to link to the main source plus try playing around with cross domain canonicals and that might really help if the people who syndicate your content can add it on their website.

You lost good amount of ranking positions in June 2013, I checked Moz Google Penalty calendar and finds out that there are 3 Google updates in June 2013 that are:

-          Payday Loan on 11^th June

-          Panda dance on the same day

-          Multi Week update on June 27, 2013

See if the traffic drop is around these days and in case of yes you know what the problem on your website is, consider fixing it!

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I am not sure who advised you this but if you ask me this is not something I will ever recommend. This activity that you mentioned is known as link exchanging or link trading and this is not the tactics that Google like the most (if not considered this as SPAM).

If you are ranking well locally for one area and you want to rank for surrounding areas, why not create different pages for those surrounding areas and let audience and Google know that you offer services on surrounded locations.

When each surrounded location will have one dedicated page, it will be easy for Google to consider those pages for that particular area.

If the area is competitive, you might have to build some quality links back to those pages but link exchange is not one of those tactics I would recommend. I write this post about link building tactics one should use a while ago, but I guess it’s relevant here, if you want to know how you should be building links.

I love how Keri starts… J

She is right! If you are using guest blogging or links, you probably were doing it wrong from the starting. If I get the opportunity to write on Moz.com without a link, I would love to do that and this is because they have tons and literally tons of traffic that I can drive to my blog through my social profiles, blogs posts and more.

If your client is a Bankruptcy Lawyer, you should probably target good blogs in the finance and law industry where people actually read and write something meaningful. If your content will be powerful and worth reading you will get links naturally.

In my opinion, Guest Blogging was never a way to get links directly. Target good blogs where people actually read and see how business and links find a way to your website.

This kind of strategy usually takes time but reputation building always takes time.

Hope this helps!