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Hey Paul. Good to see you here at SEOMoz.
Are you see drop in rankings for your primary head keywords or long tail keywords or both ?
You definitely do need to work on the link building as a continous process. Think of it more as Brand Building.
I also don't see any structural issues with either of your website that would cause any major indexing issues.
Juan
A lot of factors influence rankings in different countries. For example between US and UK, the domain name extension matters. So if you were a .co.uk website, it would rank better in the UK then US. Similarly if this .co.uk site was also hosted in UK, then it would rank even better in UK. Further, if the site was targeting UK english, instead of US english (which it should), it would again get counted towards a positive strength to rank in UK, but not in US.
I hope this helps understand the reasoning behind it... atleast from a 10,000 foot view.
Ud, I strongly suggest you look into the latest Search Engine algorithm updates and read more about the Penguin and Panda updates. Thin, unrelated links can and will hurt you. I would instead suggest spending that money and other budgets in building and strengthening your content.
You might also want to read this article at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/web-directory-submission-danger
It might be just me, but if these are brand new videos, it makes sense to just add them as new videos and do nothing to the old ones. Your #2. "Add the new videos, and leave the old videos untouched". I'd do that.
Thanks Chris, I just used that tool. Looks great. And now allows 2500 domain checks.
Chad
It can't be added in the template file, hard-coded for it to be the same tag on every page. Looks like this piece of code was added in the header template file.
For homepage, default.aspx this code is fine:
However, on other pages, like http://www.tisbest.org/buy-charity-gift-cards.aspx, the canonical should be rel="canonical" href="http://www.tisbest.org/buy-charity-gift-cards.aspx" />
I hope this helps.
As Keri recommended below, it would be much more productive in the long run to build this using unique content on your own website instead of 50 thin Squidoo lens pages. They used to work 5 years ago...not any more.
I would not worry about it that much if it's just a short number. However, if it's a larger string of numbers, I'd recommend moving it towards the end of the URL if possible or completely getting rid of it.
If it's something like:
www.example.com/red-widgets-c1.php or www.example.com/c1-red-widgets.php both are fine, but I'd prefer the 1st one. I hope this helps.
Chad
I just checked your website and no, it's incorrect. All pages of your website have the canonical set to the homepage, which is like telling Google to 301 redirect all your pages to the homepage. I would recommend to remove it/fix it right away.
I agree 100% with you Steve. Thanks. Justin, I hope all this helps.
Saeed I'd suggest you scale it down to maybe 5 lenses about specific niches or maybe just 1-2. Too many links of one type, is manipulative link building. If there was no SEO benefit, would you still do it ? I would consider spending the same time in strengthening the content, internal links and or trying to acquire 2-5 high authority links or maybe just 1 high authority link, the kind of link that money can't buy....a pure natural link. The impact of that kind of link would be much more then the benefit of the 50 squidoo lenses and the possible risk.
There's no way for you to force the affiliates to do a canonical tag from their website to yours. For you it makes sense, for them it doesn't. Because once they do a canonical tag to your website, their pages won't be indexed any more which means if their traffic source is SEO, they won't get any of that. There's no reason for them to do it. The best way to think is if you can do the datafeed without descriptions or maybe much shorter version of the meta description, like a lot of merchants do Short Descriptions. It helps both the affiliates as well as the merchants. Less duplicate content. I hope that helps.
Great question and yes, now that's a story. When you do such a press release, it could also be picked up by traditional media, featured on news sites etc. And that;s what you need. What that would do is drive domain authority to your website which is what you need to drive power to this domain to compete. So it could be something like:
XYZ Family Hired Local NY Bankruptcy Law Firm ABC Lawyers.
Bold is the name of the firm, hyper-linked/anchor text. The surrounding text helps.
I would also consider getting listed in industry / legal directories, participate in community law/legal websites etc.
I would not suggest doing a Press Release for SEO Only reason. Think about this from a user's perspective:
1. Is the reader going to feel he is reading a news or a advertorial ?* 2. Do you have something worthwhile to report via a press release ?* 3. If you were the reader, would you be interested in reading that PR ? And if yes, would you be satisfied after reading it ?
Next and the most important. DO NOT do anchor text links. After the several rounds of algorithm updates, those kinds of links don't help. If you really get a decent reason to do the PR, do it. But then, just link to the relevant page or your homepage with the name of the business / law firm. Don't do anchor text.
I know this kind of leads you into a total opposite direction, but with thinking about how many anchor text links, I can see where you were headed. I hope this helps.
Gavin Since you have added the noindex in the pages, the best way is to let Google crawl those pages, see the noindex and remove them. The other option is to keep everything as is and request these parameter pages via your Google Webmaster Console. Option 1: You never know how long it takes Option 2: This should happen relatively fast I would therefore suggest keeping everything as is and doing a removal request.
Matt, You might want to use a spider/crawling tool on your website and find the broken links.* Find broken links on your site with Xenu's Link Sleuth* Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Both of these tools will be able to crawl your website and find any 404's and the origin/linking pages. I hope this helps.
Well, as long as it's building your brand and your facebook/twitter brand pages are getting the credit, without actually seeing the media assets, it would not be possible to say if there are any other opportunities. If you'd like, you can share it here or send it via a private message and I'd take a look.
James, after reading all the responses you have at the time of writing this answer, I strongly suggest trying to find another .com / .org and do the 301 redirect. That way you "might" have a minor short term loss, but you can regain the affiliation and be better off long term. I agree with Crimson and others, I would not go with the .io domain name. If you are targeting global, why not use a global domain. I hope this helps.
Rodgers, did this show up in SEOMoz crawl report or Google Webmaster Console ? I am guessing it's SEOMoz's crawl report. If that's the one, this might be a bug. Just send an email to help@seomoz.org