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As far as I remember Rand specifically mentioned they were asked at some point by a Google rep to remove the Page Rank button from the Mozbar.

It's actually a good question. I think there is a good chance that Google has capped the ability of sites like Ezine to rank, but not shut off their ability to pass link juice. They might not have though as much link juice to pass as they had previously.

Submit a sitemap with the proper URL structure to Google. Do also a scan of your current URL structure to check that you aren't having actual 404 errors. An option might be also to 301 the previous test URLs to the current ones, but as long as you don't have any links pointing to the test URLs you should be able to get the site indexed properly without messing around with 301 redirects.

Hope it helps.

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If you want a free link (or link exchange) I've noticed it works better if you're contacting them as if you were the client.

If you're offering money, it doesn't matter. You might as well say you're working for the client and be more genuine that way.

Hi Andre,

Basically you're right - it's still a "best practice" but the main (or even only) advantage of using absolute URLs is when your content gets scraped and published "as is". The problem is that most of the time the scrapers will remove your URLs anyway or at least nofollow them. Even if they don't do that the quality of the links to your site you get from the "transaction" is very poor.

I've had a few situations where I got a couple of good links from authority sites that have quoted parts of my content and have included the links that were there. Even so, I've lately changed to using relative URLs because it makes development for me much easier, and I don't think the few scraper links I would get are really worth the hassle.

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First of all you must have the text of the page you want to rank in the right language. If you've got a spanish page you'll have a hard time ranking in English versions of Google's search engine, etc.

The trick to use after you have the language sorted correctly is to get links to that page from the countries you want that page (or subfolder) to rank in. By getting links from Argentina you'll help the page rank in Google.ar. Get links from Chile and you'll rank in Google.cl. By getting a mix of links from different countries you can get the same page to rank in multiple local versions of Google.

Hope it helps.

Cheers

Sure, I understand where you're coming from. I still think there's no easy solution to this, but maybe someone else will have some interesting suggestions.

What I was suggesting in my first reply above is pretty much in line with what Baptiste is saying below. Google used to be very tough on people trying to index search results pages and that's why personally I would try going a bit different way.

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I don't think that the SEOmoz tool takes into account page/domain authority when reporting the "too many links" issue at the moment. I wouldn't stress over seeing the "too many links" warning though, especially if you know what you're doing.

I'm afraid you might have fallen into the Google Adwords Keyword Tool "broad match" trap. Select "exact match" and then decide.

Technically, the search engines don't want to crawl other "search results". Personally I would try to get individual pages and category pages indexed, while avoid trying to index and "canonicalize" search result pages.

From an SEO perspective it would seem to be a shame to go with Youtube alone and miss out on the SEO opportunity. But then - you probably have a point there about the exposure. Maybe combine Youtube + main website? Have the full video content on your main website, while having a portion on Youtube?

BTW, the Tippex ads were brilliant Best online ad campaign I've seen in a long time.

Yeah, it looks like you got hit with a penalty for back-link quality. A bunch of links is from a group of domains very similar domains (link+word.info) all hosted on one IP. Probably you got slapped for link manipulation.

No, not really. Technically if the number of outgoing links changed drastically you could alter the flow of page rank on the website, but I wouldn't fuss about it.

Rishad, I guess the best way to go is to use the Adwords Keyword Tool if you haven't yet. You can choose Urdu from the language list and also pick the country you want to research. You have to choose one country at a time though.

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Personally I've seen both approaches work well, and I don't think Google favours either type of website.

A more dynamic homepage is harder though to optimize for specific keywords - as your posts change you may end up not having your top target keywords on the home page in some instances. You can solve this by having a portion of the text on the home page static.