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So what is the best solution to fix Bing issues besides their disavow tool?

That is probably the issue.  Bing needs to really make better disavow tool.  Going one at a time is horrible.

I am running keyword reports and I am seeing several sites that have taken big hits in Bing, but still are OK in Google.  Anyone else seeing this?

So I used Outbrain and I liked it, but I think it would be more valuable if you could target the state where your client is.  Outbrain targets the entire county, which might not be valuable for a local client.  I am wondering if there are any other sites like Outbrain that allow you to target locally?

Thanks Cyrus.

I was hoping the community would have a little more experience with link builders on the preferred list, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

So you don't think a single Moz preferred partner is any good at link building?

Does anyone have any experience with some link building companies on the Moz recommended list?  There are a lot of them on there so I would like to hear from you if you have used them and what type of results you got.

Thanks

Thanks for the responses guys.  Sounds like you both think using location pages is still a good way to go as long as you are not trying to fake having a location where you do not.

I have a client that wants to rank for a bunch of locations around his primary location. Say 30 minutes away.  So we created a bunch of pages for cities around his location.  So far it seems to be working pretty well.  That said, I heard from someone else that Google really doesn't like these type of pages anymore and that we are better off with just one location page and list the areas we server on it.

What are your thoughts and experiences?

Because I wasn't very impressed with Moz Local.

I came across. Synup.com while looking for citations. Anyone use the service before?  I have used Whitespark and was happy with them, but synup looks pretty good also.

Yes, that makes sense. It doesn't appear that the google algorithms are penalizing for keyword anchor text on internal links unless you way overdue it and turn your site into a spamfest.

Hi Tommy,

Looking at your links, that pages deals with external links.  If you read the comments, it seems Neil thinks internal links with keyword anchor text is still ok.

I have been doing a little research, but all the articles are really old.  Even the Moz site page is pretty old.

So I am wondering, has the strategy changed? Is it OK to still use internal links with your keywords in them?  Do you have multiple links on a page?  What about a blog post?  Do you no follow?

What are the thoughts out there on this?

The question was about if Link Detox Boost works, not about using Link Detox.

I do think Link Detox is a great program.  Just Boost isn't.

Hi Donna,

Taking your example:

" plugging "water heaters Jacksonville" turned up 0 searches a month. Plugging in "water heaters" and then targeting Jacksonville FL only turned up 40 searches a month."

Would you not still craft your page to be url/water-heaters-jacksonville and also your title tag to be water heaters jacksonville?

Do you guys actually find keyword planner useful?  I find for 99% of the things i look at on a local level the volume is either blank or so low it doesn't really mater.  Like 10 vs 12 a month.

I am working on some landing pages and trying to do well in Local areas.

Is it better to have my landing pages set as mysite.com/keyword+location or mysite.com/Location+keyword.  or does it even matter anymore?

So for a plumber selling water heater services.  is it better to be:

site/hot-water-heaters-jacksonville-fl or site/jacksonville-fl-hot-water-heaters?

I normally do keyword+city.

So i am working on a site that has a really bad link detox score.  It was over 1250.  We have it down to 950, which is still showing deadly risk.  Competitors sites are like 450.

So we are currently done link removal and buildling new links, but I am wondering if there is any point since the link detox score is still so high.

We did disavow like 2000 links, but you all know how much good that does.

What are your thoughts?

I don't think it will harm the site SEO wise since Google will not read what is inside of the frame. To Google it is basically a blank page.

| |
|   | <title></span>nhacaribbean.com<span class="webkit-html-tag"></title> |
|   | name='description' content=''> |
|   | name='keywords' content='studie, opleiding, curacao, antillen'> |
|   | |
|   | cols='100%,*' border='0' frameborder='0' framespacing='0'> |
|   | src='http://www.nha.nl/alles-over-nha/Caribbean.aspx'> <noframes>Dit is een frame-forwarding naar: http://www.nha.nl/alles-over-nha/Caribbean.aspx</noframes> |
|   | Dit is een frame-forwarding naar: http://www.nha.nl/alles-over-nha/Caribbean.aspx |
|   | |

I would agree with you on 301'ing it.  Or if it is being used for marketing purposes I would use it as a landing page and then link off the full site.