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Alan, if I would be at your place, I would have moved to a program like link detox instead of the manual labor and here are some reasons why!

1. You are emailing to the real people so no matter what trick you use, there are chances that you may fail, especially if they have decided not to remove the links.
2. The removal ratio can dramatically increase if you offer a small amount to remove a link but again disavow is a better and easy option that will help you save your time and money.
3. Manual Labor to do a work that might or might not work is a bad investment in my opinion, on the other hand manual labor will be much more expensive as compare to a tool like Link Detox.

Link Detox will find bad links, email them and give you the list of bad links that contain your website link. You can get that data and create a disavow file and submit it to Google.

All in all, I understand your point but in my opinion it is not a very good investment.

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Some very powerful resources shared by Patrick as always but while I was reading the question several ideas were popping up in my mind.

You are saying you have several different products that are in different sizes. If this is the case, why not you make it one product and in the product section offer the size in the dropdown? #justwondering

In my opinion the best URL structure for you would be domain.com/category/product-name.php

Once you decide what URL structure you will follow, do go through the instruction given by Patrick so that there should be no technical problem with regards to indexing and ranking.

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Alan, If you are looking for some tool that can check your bad links than, link detox seems to be the best option around but as you said that your link profile isn’t long to doing it manually isn’t really a bad option either.

While back I wrote a post about how to find bad links in your link profile. In that post I discuss the anatomy of a bad links so just keep that in mind while sorting bad links from the good one and you are good to go for creating a disavow file.

Remember DA does not count the quality of domains so expecting a jump in DA because you are increasing the number of quality domains is not ideal.

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I think I have to agree with Patrick. Whenever you have soft 404s on your website the best way to deal with them is to think about users and then about search engines.

Again as Patrick said, if the products are gone forever, redirect the pages to most relevant product and pass the link juice to other pages as well so that right kind of product started to get ranked. If the product are temporarily unavailable my advice is to show the product details, images with a tag about out of stock  and a popup may be that guide to other parts of the website.

Whatever you use, think about your users and if they are comfortable, just go with it and I am sure search engine will follow you accordingly as at the end of the day what search engine want is the happy user.

Will soft 404 hurt? In my opinion few soft 404s on the website should not hurt but again as you said it might grow in thousands, in that case this is can be a problem and can affect your SERP rankings.

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The shortest and the most honest answer to your questions that you are getting it all wrong. You are using blog comments to build links? Bad idea!

Blog Comments is a great way to build connections and relationships that later can convert in to quality links but building links using blog comments (dofollow or not) is a bad idea all together.

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Ok, the language seems Thai to, how do I know it? I am a Castle fan and just watched the recent episode of it J

Anyways, the reason why it is appearing is because someone is searching for these keywords and your website is appearing in the search results at his end. This could be a bot, a machine or may be a real human.

If the search number is one or few, you don’t really have to worry about it but if its in a decent amount like 10 or so in that case you should take preventive measure like check your security, as someone can try to hack your website or some other issues.

Why your website is appearing? Again many reasons, the kind of links pointing back to your website, one or few of them could be shady, the content you just shared went a lil more viral in other part of the world or several other reasons.

My idea is to do a bit more research about where this traffic is coming from, how often and what is the amount of traffic that you are receiving, how much time a people spend on the website when enter using this keyword and more.

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A Directory according to Moz SPAM checker tool looks clean to me but the process you are talking about is known as reciprocal linking!

According to Google guidebook reciprocal linking is not ethical and it’s not a good practice to build quality links back to the website.

So, If a directly ask you to do reciprocal linking, its probably a website you should not get a link from but if they are offering a one way link and the website backlink profile is clean then you probably should go for it!

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Obviously Dirk is right but again you will lose the opportunity to rank in search engines from the related key phrases and if you have played around with real estate industry before, you will have an idea about how difficult it is to rank and what are the advantages of ranking for that particular term.

In my opinion, duplication on page works like when the page is 60 to 70% identical to another page on the website and this is exactly what is happening in your case. I do agree the fact that you cannot change the descriptions but you can actually add the section on the page that explain more about the property. A custom box where you can include your custom written content.

I agree it’s a lot of work at your end but at the end of the day you will get a chance to rank well for those important key phrases that can offer you great amount of conversions.

Just a thought!

Completely agree to Thomas! Including keyword Meta tag in the page will never really help you with SEO or any kind of rankings but on the other hand it will exactly tell your competitors what you are focusing on each page of the website.

This might help them align their strategies against you and kick you out from the better SERP positions in search engine from the targeted key phrases.

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If you are using Joomla duplication will be a gift you will receive with that! Anyways, this is a basic level duplication. All you have to do is to 301 redirect the duplicate URL to the version that is preferred by you!

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As far as my understanding goes, Domain Authority counts the number of link coming to your website and not really the quality of links so if you want to increase your DA you not only have to look in to quality but quantity as well.

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I am not a developer myself but I can say if you have purchased HTTPs for SEO purposes, adding a redirection will help but if you have actually added https because of the visitors and providing security to the website in that case this might not help.

The best is to contact your server and discuss an issue with that and I am sure they will be able to resolve this issue.

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It is best for you to use quicksprout.com as this will quickly give you the SEO suggestion that you should implement from the website. This could be a superb step 1 and then you can move to other part accordingly.

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PA and DA might indicate how many links are pointing back to your website but this is not the only thing that is important to consider when plan ranking better in SERPs from the targeted key phrases.

Again, DA increases when links pointing to your website increases but it does not measure quality of link and how relevant it is to your website. Other things you should consider including is quality of content on the website, internal linking, how powerful the link is and few more.

There are times when you actually deserve better ranking but some websites are outranking you using tactics that are prohibited by Google. In that case you can report them to Google or wait for the update as these things usually cutoff as soon as  the Google launches the algo update.

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I believe when you are talking about 1 to 5 million URLs it is going to take time no matter what tool you use but if you ask me screaming frog is a better tool and if you have a paid version of it you still can crawl websites with few million URLs in it.

Xenu is not a bad choice either but it’s kind of confusing and there is a possibility that it can broke.

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Jason from Philippines is the one person I know who have a great idea and experience with Affiliate websites so if you want to learn more about it the best idea is to reach out to him and get a recommendation.

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I personally believe Moz should have come up with this tool a lot earlier but I am glad that finally Rand Fishkin announced that officially. Now when Moz have the tool it’s easier to understand that how many of links that are pointing to the website are good quality and how many of them are bad.

How to analyze SPAM manually?

Other than just tools you can check manually that what inks that you are planning to target contains quality. All you have to do is look in to the targeted links profile and see the kind of links they are receiving them self. If the links they are receiving are good, chances are the links will be good but if the link profile your target link contains is suspicious you probably should avoid building that link.

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I think the setting of the URL is very much depends upon how you are taking your website and how deep is it. If you ask about my website, my main goal is to offer free education to the readers and then there are service pages so I thought it would be fine to go with the direct approach as my service pages are limited.

My URL structure is: http://www.example.com/direct-page

But if your website is deep then making divisions make sense like services/name or blog/post-post

b) I think the division should be basic and not very deep as this will hurt user experience.

c) I really didn’t understand this part but if you mean a text before read more is bad so the answer is NO!

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Usually when Google updates the title on its own it’s because the title is not optimized or too general against the desired query. The best idea is to redevelop your title and see if it works out for you!

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As far as my experience goes you are looking for a person who can audit your website and pinpoint the areas that are week and more importantly answer the question that why your competitors that haven’t really done any on-page is ranking better than you.

Once done with that, you obviously want them to work on the project accordingly. My idea is to look for the list of service providers that are recommended by Moz: http://moz.com/article/recommended

Another option could be to meet service providers in your local area and have one-to-one conversation about your website. Ask them some tough questions and if they are answering satisfied question my idea is to go with them.

I did a post about how to hire a digital marketing consultant for your business. Check this out and see if tips here can help!

http://www.setalks.com/how-to-find-quality-seo-consultant-for-my-business/

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