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I guess you have a narrow image of how Google look in to the websites when rankings in SERPs against different key phrases. The images should some good measurements but there is nothing that allows me to come up with the answer of domain 1 or domain 2…

We even have no clue how many things Google consider but we at least know that they are 200+ signals.

My advice for whoever domain is losing to analyze every area that may be on-page optimization, content, back links, social, press links or others and if anything is bad or at least not up to the mark then try to fix it and work accordingly.

Hope this helps!

Hello Sangeeta,

SEOmoz index might not be able to crawl all the links that are pointing to your site but all major quality links does appear in the index. If you want to track all your links I would highly recommend you to use Majestic SEO as it almost crawl all your links that you build or all the links that points to your website.

There are some other tools like ahref are also there so it’s mostly depends upon you that which tool works best for you!

Christian,

I guess the best place to report this kind of thing is to contact help team.

help@seomoz.org

They are good in responding to emails so i guess you will be able to get the solution of your problem one you will email them!

hope this helps!

I think Dana did a perfect justice to that answers, All I wanted to add here is that when finalizing the list of directories always consider niche instead of the general directories.

It’s possible that you website got a limited penalty in that case only few part of the website get out of the search engine but rest of the website will still be in the index.

I would advise you to check your Google webmaster tool and see if you received any notification plus analyze your back link profile and optimize to make it as less spammy as possible.

Hope this helps

There can be many ideas… I guess you should focus on some press links.. as they are always high quality and some links from magazine sites as they contain lot of traffic. Infographic to your researches can be a great idea!

You can also try guest blogging in your niche and some related niches… also if you have budget try some videos as this will get your links, traffic and business leads at the same time!

Hope this helps!

I guess you need to focus more on is your link profile… I am not saying its bad but in terms of quantity its less… you need to have more links in order to outrank your competitors…

The strategy is fine but you need to accelerate it a bit more so that things can walk in your favor!

Hope this helps!

To be honest with you, your question is not really clear but if you are asking about no-follow links… link analysis tool will show you the link with a no follow tag. This tag indicates Google that the link is not going to pass any juice value. In this way you can say that link will direct people from that website to your website but in terms of SEO there will be no credit of that link which help you in improving your SERP and all…

Kyle, you are going through a bit better situation then I was previous year... actually someone either from our team mistakenly did that or some competitor did this awesome work for us but we were receiving at most 40% of our total traffic from some similar kind of website and it was a pretty fishy pattern.

1. I would advise you to be very transparent to the client and tell them this is not you or else when after few month this traffic level will decrease it will be way too much difficult to handle client.
2. If the traffic is of good percentage and give you the bounce rate of 90+ % then you should somehow contact the company to stop this.

In my case I was helpless as there was no way the website people were replying me... so I was helpless, I wait for it and it goes automatically after few months... but it was very difficult to justify this on a business level.

I would love to hear from other people if they know how to block that traffic... because it’s difficult to block by blocking the IPs as there is no defined pattern of it (at least in my case).

Highly agree with Matt! Creating many other websites will divide your efforts and you might not be able to achieve what you can within a single website.

When all the linking will be under one domain the domain authority as a whole will increase, which will help the sub pages to come up from the desired key phrases.

When you will be working on the promotion and branding side, it will help you get tons of words out and which help you get natural links from verity of websites to single domain and branding will go high (online and offline)

Talking from my experience, Insurance in not at all an easy industry so even making separate websites will require lots and lots of work so my idea is to have sub pages under one domain so that all your efforts points to one domain and sub pages can win the business accordingly.

I like how to explain the question by mentioning “if guest posting on quality sites should be avoided” I guess it’s more like article submission… you write a post and you submit it to some shitty blog which you can only mention in your link file that you can show to your client but in real there is no or very low value of links… and after some time you will see Google will start marking as negative so you will get hurt instead of getting advantage from guest posting links if quality sites should be avoided.

hope this helps~

If budget is not at all a problem for you then it is highly suggested to heir a quality digital marketer or consultant to help you with a good link bait that can help you pull tons of links instead of buying links because that way you might never be able to find the quality you are looking for!

Link Bait will help you get quality links plus at the same time help you build your authority as a brand and possibly offer you leads that you can convert to grow your business from online channels.

One can have a different opinion from me so I am advising you something I would do if I would be at your place.

I would list down all the keywords I want to target on the website and divide them in to 2 parts Primary keywords and Secondary keywords keeping their importance ad competition in mind. I will then target the secondary keywords to sub pages and try to target primary keywords on the home page.

Also, I will create sub pages for exact match keyword (for primary keywords) to give support to the home page!

Wordpress is awesome but obviously there are tons of shitty plug-in that can kill your website big time like you said... from the explanation you have provided in your questions... It clearly seems like the plugin is not working for you...

Personally, I always check links if they are no follow or do follow from SEOmoz toolbar and don’t really use any plugin for no following any link... I would prefer to manually add a single line of code in the page/post instead of using any plugin... this will kill any problem and give me the 100% result.

The single line code for no following any link is 

Link text

I think in a way you are asking what is best from the SEO prospective... to use a logo as an image or to use it as a text?

If this is the question that technically there is no problem either ways... if you are using it as text it will be counted as a text and if you are going to use it as an image you can always add alt tag to let Google know about its value in terms of text...

But, from the user perspective it is better to have an image as it can give more attractiveness as compare to a text with CSS.

The idea itself is very creative and profitable if you can really come up with a tool that actually help with content and not just promises...

As far as the resources for tool is concern i don’t really see any detailed resource for it but personally I think it should start with drafting an idea on the paper in detail which discusses the plan, target marketing, technical details, costing, marketing plan and time duration this whole process will take...

There are tons of thing you have to bring on the paper like a complete business plan and then move towards creating a team and prototype of the product to convince investors to invest in your idea...

Technically may be this resource can help you a bit... but not much! http://www.go2web20.net/#tag:create

Technically a perfect page... nothing so Thin about it!... in HTML version Google can find all the information that is available under each tab so technically there is no problem with the page and you can go ahead the way it is at the moment...

Hello Jayneel,

Oh! So now your identified the problems yourself... these are all the activities that Google hate at least to an extent...and yes there was a #24 Panda Update as well and these updates are going to come and kill the lower quality websites from time to time

I think you should seriously consult some SEO auditor who audit your website and design you a strategy that will allow you to build some highest quality links and get your rankings back in Google.

Hello Oliver,

I tried this with one of my company and results are not something i was expecting....it may also depends upon nice to niche...so i think if you have a bust to try you should but if you are tight then you should not consider this idea!

MY thoughts!

Ok, so you are facing something that i faced for a year in my job at a real estate company where they complete website was in ASP.net and they sucked when it comes SEO friendliness.

I looked in to your website and see that your website is quite better than the one i faced. As far as your questions are concern, here are the answers

Question 1: Content is a great strategy but alone strategy is not going to work in the Real Estate industry, you have to build some good links in order to make it rank in search engines from the desired key phrases.

Question 2: WP and blog section is fine... it is pretty much depends upon how you are going to play with it...Wordpress do allow design customization so if you can heir someone to do similar kind of design for blog as it is for the website it will be great as far as the user experience is concern.

Question3: I cannot call myself an expert in this but by looking in to your website initially see some problems with URL and redirections... I think you should use SEOmoz tool to get updates of how your website is performing technically.