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Cant get no satisfaction: Backlink tools leave me frustrated
The quickest way to do this is using the "Top Pages" report in Open Site Explorer. Simply enter the root domain of the site you want to research, hit "search" then navigate to the Top Pages tab. This will show you the number of lining root domains to each internal page. Here's a screenshot: https://skitch.com/cyrusshepard/8baj7/open-site-explorer +1 For Doug's answer. You can download the standard Inbound Link report from OSE. Make sure to filter for "external" links to "all links on the root domain" (or subdomain) Open your report in a spreadsheet, The "Target URL" column will show all the URLs on the domain with an external link pointing to them. Here's another screenshot: https://skitch.com/cyrusshepard/8bakm/microsoft-excel Hope this helps. Best of luck with your SEO!
Link Building | | Cyrus-Shepard0 -
On page audit throws a rel="canonical" curve ball :-(
Even a capital letter means a different url To fix the default.aspx issue http://thatsit.com.au/seo/tutorials/how-to-fix-canonical-issues-involving-the-default-page Also make sure you dont have internal links to the default.aspx page
Technical SEO Issues | | AlanMosley0 -
How "Optimised" is my home page content
I should have been more specific. While the social icon buttons should be present, you should also include the open graph protocol on the site.
Technical SEO Issues | | RankSurge0 -
Link exchanges no longer a big mistake?
While I like Simon's answer, it's also important to note that linking strategies are a natural part of SEO. While it's preferable that you pretend Google doesn't exist, Google DOES exist and they DO like links. As such, you have to have a linking strategy. When you go to build your links, you have 3 basic concepts of linking (from an SEO view). These concepts have very different ROI. One-way links (they link to you only). These are universally accepted as the best kind of link and it's well known that Google likes these best. Most common SEO tactics to get these are called "link bait", where you write a high quality content page and draw interest to it. Incidentally, social media links (including blog comments) don't fall into this category because they typically employ nofollow, which passes no PR (doesn't mean they have no value, only that you won't gain the "link juice" from a normal link). Three-way links. "A" links to you and you link to "B", where "A" and "B" are run by the same person or someone with a vested interest. Harder to track but also riskier because a common tactic employed is that "A" is a worthless link farm and "B" is a high quality site, meaning you're not getting any real PR value. Reciprocal links typically have the least value of any strategy. As Simon pointed out, a common mistake here is to build solely for SEO purposes. Back in the day these were all the rage, but they had a hidden pitfall: they can waste your time. Say you sell tires. Along comes a florist and you reciprocate links. But what relationship do you have to them? If you don't pay attention and do this right, you might not lose "link juice" (and this is a bad way to look at outbound links) but you might waste your time that you could have been spending doing something productive (like writing a blog entry). Anytime you put a link on your site for reciprocal purposes, ask yourself what the value of it is. Because this does take a fair amount of time to properly vet links, it's not something that people advocate as a primary link strategy.
Link Building | | Highland0 -
How can you manually diagnose the canonical problem
A suggestion that all major search engines obey. We used it massively and it is 100% listened to by search engines.
Technical SEO Issues | | ASOS1 -
Whats the point of Google Places
Hi Nightwing, Thanks for coming to Q&A with your question. I'm the Local SEO Associate here in the forum. Members are giving good suggestions here, and here is one that, while unfortunately based on alarming the client, is absolutely true and almost sure to wake them up: Whether you choose to participate in Google Places or not, Google can create a listing for your business. Google began their Local effort by creating listings culled from 3rd party sources without notifying business owners. So this is not an opt-in program. Your business may be profiled by Google without any knowledge on your part. Thus, the only way for you to have ANY control over the data Google publishes about your business is to take control of it via claiming and verifying it. Failure to do so increases the chances that a) Google may publish incorrect data about your business, misrepresenting you to the public, b) competitors may take control of your listing and do all kinds of fun things with it. If the client doesn't get the value of actively participating in Places after this, they aren't a client you really want to work with. We are in the role of educator as Local SEOs, but if clients ignore the opportunities of this education, we just can't help them. Hope this point helps you to get the right message across to business owners who come to you! Good luck!
Online Marketing Tools | | MiriamEllis0 -
Whats the point of Geo Tagging?
David nailed it, from what I have researched. Long of the short, it carries little to no value on national campaigns, and a little value on local campaigns. Since it is so easy to do, and if your campaign is local, might as well use it.
On-Page / Site Optimization | | Boogily0 -
Smart phone shows both mobile & desktop version of www.innoviafilms.com
Well it does the same thing on Android. I'd have to point to a software flaw somewhere not detecting the user agent correctly and feeding up the wrong version. Have you considered using a subdomain (like m.innoviafilms.com)?
Technical SEO Issues | | Highland0 -
Search snippet ignors title tag :-(
Thank you for all your replies.. The code is getting cleaned up as I type
Technical SEO Issues | | Nightwing0 -
Can URL re writes fix the problem of critical content too deep in a sites structure?
Your second URL got cut off, so I can't see the exact length. You'll definitely want to keep the URL shorter, but when I think of Site Structure in terms of site indexation, I'm thinking more in terms of # of clicks from the homepage than I am about URL structure (not to say URL isn't important). Matt Cutts has indicated that Google places less priority on keywords towards the end of a long URL (source), so keep that in mind when considering the value that will be placed on the page name itself (which will often be more important than the subfolder keywords used). I'd personally change them for user experience and because it looks cleaner and less spammy.
Technical SEO Issues | | KaneJamison0