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I will second EGOL’s answer!

If I ever get the time, I will interview EGOL for this expert level help! << This sounds bullshit to me! If I think EGOL’s interview can offer value to my users I definitely have to find some time, create question and send them to him so that I can use it to engage targeted audience around me

Similarly, if they really think that writing can help their website grow and bring leads and conversions to them then they probably have to take some time and write something that is worth reading.

You at your end should find the best places where their content can go live (magazines and newspapers) so that their content can cater large audience and natural links.

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I have the simplest way to think about this. If the link is pointing out to the website you trust and you think your audience will find it useful, keep it followed. However, if the links are not trustworthy, atleast put a no-follow the link.

Other then that there are Googe guidelines as you mentioned in your question. I think no following social media and wiki-pages is up to you as it will not make much of a difference in my opinion.

I am going to second the point EGOL made here! These is rear when you read something in papers and then go to internet and see what that website do and more.... I think the budget you have you should invest more on online advertising to generate related traffic back to the website.

If offline marketing is the only choice (almost impossible in the real world!) then try to market your website through attractive and catchy billboards!

No rule here, do as you want but it is always ideal to pick the final list of keywords that you want to target on your website and divide per page. Try not to target more than 2 keywords per page; ideally I only target singular keyword per page (work well for ecommerce type of site).

Again, there is no rule by the book but this is something I have experience over the year and what works for me plus logically if you are going to target less keywords per page you will be able to create content accordingly and people who are naturally linking to you will be able to link to particular page instead of the home page only.

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I doubt the duplicate content penalty from this but yes this is not a healthy practice as you are trying to stuff the keywords by adding one alt tag on all images on that page.

Ideally your system should have the ability to denote Alt tags to all images separately so that you can change the Alt image tag for each image when it is required!

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Google is smart when it comes to title tags and how they will help you target the right kind of audience. If you are targeting two keywords on your page which are “Fish Markets in London” and “Fish Shops in London” then you should not necessarily add the exact match keywords in it.

When crafting your Meta Data, all you have to do is to make it natural and include partial match anchor text in it.

You proposed two titles that are:

-          Fish markets and fish shops in London - The Fish Guide

-          Fish Markets in London - Fish Shops in London - The Fish Guide

If I would be you, I would have craft the title tag of the page somewhat like this:

Fish Markets and shops in London – The Fish Guide

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The situation you have mentioned didn’t really sound much terrifying and I think two pages if naturally targeting the same keyword should not be a problem. By definition this is exactly for Keyword Cannibalization is!

Keyword cannibalization (no matter how awfully terrifying it may sound) is a widely-spread website internal information structure problem that occurs when multiple subpages are (heavily) targeting one and the same key term.

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I believe if you have setup the rel canonical correctly there ideally should be no issue with that but if you really see some of your non preferred versions indexed in Google then you can go with the no index idea.

When no-indexing pages you can go with any approach but in my experience it is better do it by using robots.txt.

I hope this is a direct and to the point opinion J

Here are the few tips that I would like to share with you here with regards to URL creation.

-          Keep the URL short long URLs might create problems with regards to indexing.

-          Try to make your URL simply and easy as a person can guess what he/she will find on the page.

-          Do not use special characters as these are not SEO friendly URL structure.

-          Try not to stuff keywords within your URLs

Just keep these few recommendations in mind when creating URLs for your website. I personally don’t see any problem with your current URL structure and creating new URLs and 3019ng old to the new one will lose some of your link juice that might affect your current rankings.

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When you say short period of time, SEO is not the correct answer is most of the cases but I would highly recommend you looking in to growth strategies, social media and content promotions that help you get tons of subscribers.

Also, running some kind of competition around the game should also help!

Just a thought!

I haven’t personally tried Google shopping but I personally think you should look in to other competitors and see if you can get the estimated data. Increasing your bid is also a good idea. Another reason why you might be getting less clicks is because of the quality of images…. Make sure you are using high quality images and to the point product titles.

I believe the best way to learn this game is to try and test stuff on continuous basis.

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Ok I guess you took it a little differently… let me explain it to you.

In order to rank well you need lot of quality back links pointing to your website but if you have lots of back links coming from different websites pointing the same keyword then this is the problem!

There is no problem in keywords having in title, H1 and body but do not stuff it and use verity of anchor text internally and for link building.

Use of anchor text is good but over using the same anchor text will hurt (this is the case for non branded keyword)

For instance if you have a keyword ‘Oakland widget’ it can be use in verity of ways that includes:

• Oakland widget
• Widget Oakland
• Widgets in Oakland

And more long term phrase…

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If you ask me, I would say Alexa and GA are not slightly different but in many cases you will see major differences… more then you are facing for your websites.

I believe you should relay on your GA data as they give the exact information where as Alexa usually give a guess version of it.

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This happens sometime that your keyword started to get stuffed as you are using that same keyword again and again on the same page. Actually tool is there to tell you that the amount of that particular keyword is more than normal on the page.

When it comes to keyword stuffing, I always believe that its not about how many times you are using one keyword on the page but its more about if the content on the website looks original and helpful to the audience?

In-case you think that the overall feel of the content looks stuffed then you probably should consider changing it but if not then you should carry on with that.

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Ok, I believe there are two ways of doing this.

1. If you want to keep the URLs separate then use rel=canonical on the pages so that Google can find where the original content is located but in that case you might not see all the URLs in the SERP results.
2. Why don’t you include a drop down menu on the product page that asks for a product colors. This way when someone will buy the product, they have to choose the color. In this case you have to have only one URL that asks the person to choose the color of the product before proceed to the next level.

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Have played around a bit with this feature and in my experience Google and Yahoo and most reputable local websites consider this as same... infect if you try adding different format they will convert it in to the one format that they accept.

There are (may be) some websites that do not care of it and find different numbers as separate but most local websites that contain value in terms of conversions and rankings in the local world can sense this and find this as 1 telephone number.

If I would be at your place I would have started interacting on twitter and email and would have tried to go a little personal and discuss stuff and ideas around the targeted piece of content... during the communication I would have directly or indirectly encouraged him to write a detailed post about him so that their users can get more knowledge about it!

My personal advice would be to take your engagement on the next level!

Ok this answer is half so i am not really sure why it is appearing on every page of the website... there must be something wit the comment plug-in he is using... (I may be wrong on this)

But your real concern that Google will find it spamming... I don’t think so... and one of the reason is that your anchor text is similar to your domain name and this is one think that makes it natural...

I would recommend not using Blog Comment as a way to generate links on your site as Google will count as SPAM!

I dint see any problem with that! Using the same hosting company and a template hoster didn’t make much of the difference on rankings. Only thing you should make sure is that the content for both website shouldn’t be that much similar that I come under the thin content area.

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That would be wrong if I say no! Let me define your situation again with some possible solutions to get rid of the Google kill zone.

You have lots of sites and your want to redirect all of them to the main site. Ask yourself an important question, the redirect is for passing the link juice to the main website or to redirect user to the new area?

If it is for users, I would recommend 302 redirections (atleast at the beginning if not all then few that contain low quality links and more.). If it is for passing the link juice, I would advice to sort few websites that have the highest quality of links and redirect those only (2 to 4 sites).

Redirecting all the website atonce to the main website will alert Google and Although you wil be doing this for traffic and links but still Google will find it suspicious as this is what spammers normally do in order to game search engines.

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