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No, as long as none of the links are broken, I don't see how this would have a negative effect on SEO. If the user experience doesn't change, it generally won't affect rankings (minus markup data).

Overall, won't make a huge difference. It you want to be perfect, I think this would be the best setup.

Example page: http://www.in2town.co.uk/health-magazine

• H1= Health magazine - Fitness, Nutrition, News, Weight Loss
• H2 = The health magazine for men's health, women's health, childrens health & healthy living
• H3 = Article titles

On an article page, make the title of the article H1.

If he has little-to-no natural, high authority links, changing to a new domain may be a better move.

Once again, it all comes down to "do you have real, natural, high quality links pointing to your site?" If you only have a couple, it may be easier to move domains and contact those link owners to point to new url. If you have many good links that would improve rankings, it may be easier to remove/disavow the bad links instead of getting all those links changed to point to new location.

Adapt. Find other sources of keywords and rethink our current keyword practices. GWT is the next best bet since they aren't hiding what keywords people used to reach the site.

I wouldn't redirect them all to the homepage as this is a common blackhat technique and G may think something fishy is going on. If you can redirect individual pages to relevant/similar pages on the new domain (and all the general ones redirect to the homepage), then that would be a very good strategy.

Just make sure that the links to the old sites are natural/healthy. If they are bad, the effects will transfer to the new domain as well.

You should attempt to remove them and add them to disavow list. Then in the RR, mention what you've done to fix the penalty.

If your rankings are based mostly on the manipulated links, your rankings will drop hard (which is most often the case). Once the penalty is removed though, start working on obtaining natural links so you can return to ranking. If the page/domain has no natural links, it may be easier to just start fresh.

Your homepage has this meta-tag on it

name="Robots" content="noindex,follow">

Remove it and you're good to go

If you haven't done any link building to those sites, they are pretty much worthless. G knows about this strategy and best case scenario, ignores them. DA is irrelevant to rankings. I can show you many sites with amazing DA but shit rankings because they are penalized/crappy links.

Opportunity cost: 100 domains @ $10/yr + 100 ips @ $20/yr = $3k in yearly savings. You can easily put that money to better use.

#1 - That's probably too many links to have in the sidebar. I would make a link to a "Useful Articles" page and categorize the articles there. This does depend on how you want your visitors to flow through your stie.

Yes to #2. Link with keyword rich anchor text too.

#3 - only if those articles help your website accomplish its goal(s).

1. Go to https://adwords.google.com/ko/KeywordPlanner/Home, click "Enter or upload keywords to see how they perform"

2. Copy/paste list or upload a file, set your targeting preferences. Press "Get Search Volume"

3. Click on the "Keyword Ideas" tab, download

Hope that's what you're looking for!

Cheers,
Oleg

Going to have to use the keywords from GWT. Hopefully they develop out their API more.

This used to work, now its a waste of time that will most likely get you penalized.

You are better off using those time and resources to develop a strong piece of content and link building to it from authoritative sites.

Cheers,
Oleg

If the site is of good quality, I'd approve the trackback and display it on the site. The link is nofollow and it add credibility to your article (people see that it was sourced/mentioned on other popular blogs). It's also nice to share the love and the other blog may be more open to sourcing your stuff in the future.

I wouldn't auto-approve them all because there is a technique called trackback (or pingback) spamming. Its not as effective as it once was but it's still around.

Your options are pretty limited. If over-blog won't work with you to set up 301 redirects, you may need to take down the content, upload it to its new destination, and replace the old pages with blurbs + links to the new articles.

You cannot put a rel=canonical tag anywhere but the header. So if you can't edit that, you're out of luck =/

Just tested it out, seems to be working for me.

Site code looks fine and I see tick marks in the appropriate categories. Maybe they fixed it since posting or you misread the grader.

2 ways

1. Increase the total number of visitors (unique and/or repeat)

2. Increase the number of page views per visitor

To accomplish #1 - Make your site addictive to use. Make sure people who stumble upon the site want to sign up and use it. Give current users a reason to come back and view the site again. Think about why people use social networks and give users an experience they can't get anywhere else.

For #2 - increase site features/options, increase funnel pages (while keeping UX in mind and tracking CR). The more things there are to do on the site, the more views it will receive.

If you want something that will just look good on paper but not change anything on the site, have people's profile auto-refresh every minute or two. That'll increase pageviews without any additional work.

Upon further research, you are correct. A noindexed page is still crawled and indexed, just not in SERPs. So any links will still be followed and the page is still a part of the website. With this in mind, I think you should 404 the page and redirect via meta refresh after some time. Reach out to the webmaster's of the good links and ask them to change the new URL.

I still don't think a 302 is the way to go in this scenario. Ideally, you'd experiment with different options and see which produces the best results.

So his goal is the have users redirect to the new page without having Google pass the link authority to the new URL.

If you noindex the page, G won't be able to access it and it will lose all its authority. But any user that visits the page will still be redirected to the new url. There is no such thing as a 404 redirect.

Meta refresh is another way to redirect users to a new page without passing authority. As long as the time is greater than 0 (meta refresh of time=0 is treated similar to a 301), it shouldn't pass authority. So same deal, noindex the page and set up a redirect for users, not bots.