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Check out the Alexa ranks for the top sites you are considering submitting to and see what kind of an effect Penguin had on their rankings & traffic.

In general, if people are using the website (not just bots/spammers), then it is fine to submit to. Bonus points if it is relevant to your website.

Note: This is not meant to be a complete link building strategy. If the only links you are building come from "web design review" sites, you're gonna have a bad time ranking.

False. If Google crawled the website and found the link, it is "activated". Google cannot track link clicks for the majority of websites. It would be unfair and erroneous to only support links that they can analyze to be clicked.

In addition, Matt Cutt's claims that the webspam team does not use Analytics for SERPs - see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZoesvNUPDQ

Yeah, having the same listings across multiple domains isn't doing you any favors. The best set up is to have all the languages on one domain and make use of the multilingual canonical support. Not sure if that can be applied across different domains.

The August 10th update was not related to Panda. It is named the Emanuel Update and it affected the rankings of sites based on the number of valid copyright removal requests.

So unless your site has a lot of copyright infringing material, that wasn't the source of your traffic drop.

1. Check the links of your competitors and see if they increased.

2. Check your own backlinks and see if you received any negative seo.

Can't really tell you much more without knowing the site.

Cheers,

Oleg

I've been having the same problems. Have some clients who had 3 Google local pages, each with different information and it seemed like G just randomly picked and chose what to display. I disabled ones I didn't want and perfected one but the local listing is still different from what I input (even though when I go to edit it, everything looks peachy).

I really hope this fix these issues soon.

The rest are most likely put into the supplemental index (are duplicates). I'd review GWT and analyze crawl stats, crawl errors, and html improvements.

Do you have 165k pages on your site? If not, it's probably some sort of error.

The update is nicknames the Emanuel update and it affects the sites on this list: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/domains/?r=all-time

It's not getting nearly as much attention as Panda/Penguin because it affects a very small subsection of websites.

Pretty comprehensive post about the update (by Danny Sullivan) - http://searchengineland.com/dmca-requests-now-used-in-googles-ranking-algorithm-130118

Personal note: I have analytic access to a HUGE torrent site that has had 6k+ url's (<1% indexed urls) requested to be removed - Aug 10th had no change in organic google traffic. Based on this, I feel like there were close to no changes in serps.

1. Same way you would SEO any other site. Why do you feel it there may be different techniques involved?

2. I highly recommend you read https://developers.google.com/webmasters/smartphone-sites/ - In addition, I would consider the difference in PC v mobile website users - what are they searching for? Mobile users should be given immediate access to the most trafficked pages and phone/contact info.

3. Check out http://searchengineland.com/5-seo-tips-to-get-mobile-apps-ranked-in-serps-104595 for tips on how to have your app page rank higher in serps. If you are referring to having your app higher in Google Play/ iTunes - use your main keyword in your title and within the product description. Test different searches to see where your app appears and adjust the app info until you are satisfied with the results. I believe ratings also play a big part (apps are not my forte).

Search site:yourdomain.com, click on "Search Tools" in the left column and choose "Last week" (or within whatever period you saw the increase in indexed pages).

Or, you can choose "Past Year" and then choose "Sort by Date" - this will give you the latest links indexed in order.

https://support.google.com/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=75569

If you try to verify your business listing by phone and it doesn't work, this could be for one of several reasons:

• You have an automated phone system or phone tree.

If you encountered any of the reasons above, please request the PIN to be sent to you by mail.

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Whats odd is that you don't have postcard verification option. I recommend you post this problem on their local business forums at http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/business

Good luck!

I recommend you consider changing ecommerce platforms as it would benefit you most.

If that's out of the question, you should set a canonical to your most popular color (i.e. if red shirt is the top seller, make blue, white, green, yellow shirts have a canonical link pointing to red shirt). This would scrap the duplicate content issue, but would also get rid of those other pages from the index.

If you do that, the H1 tags wont really matter much. I would even have the H1 tag be more generic (i.e. don't include color) so that it applies to all various of the product.

See "Must the content on a set of pages be similar to the content on the canonical version?" on http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394

In a super helpful mood today

I would either incorporate nofollows to pages that arent as important or moving them lower down the page. Sitewide quick links would give it more juice than the "popular cities & town" box on hp.

This is also a great time to examine your analytics heatmap and see how users interact with the site. Use it to help determine what people are looking for/what they are clicking on and make it easier to them to get there. This will help you remove duds and promote high value pages (like the east long accomodation page)

Good reads on internal linking:

Link placement v power http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2185977/Anatomy-of-an-Internal-Link

Link juice distribution http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2179376/Internal-Linking-to-Promote-Keyword-Clusters

Multi-city specific
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/internal-linking-strategies-for-2012-and-beyond 

Cheers,

Oleg

Changing 1 word / page will result in duplicate content. Instead create 1 page about "Lyle & Scott Polo Shirt" and have color selections on that page.

Not sure what you mean by the last part. Your H1 tag contents should be the headline of the page (closely related to the title of the page). In your case, I would identify the name of the products as the H1.

Congratulations! Honestly, you should be ranking up top. Can't see any problems with it not being indexed. The last cache date was Aug 11, 2012 17:03:18 GMT.

Was it ever ranking? If so, when did it drop?

I'm thinking that Google's freshness algo is bumping all of the newer articles publishing news about your article to the top. When the news dies down, your page should jump back to page 1. Hope I'm right! Pretty curious myself so I'll keep an eye on it.

You should only worry if GWT reports them as duplicates. I believe SEOMoz tool does not take canonical into consideration when they report duplicate pages.

Just don't approve porn, illegal, and spam filled website urls. If a company's website is deemed acceptable to be placed on your website, I see nothing wrong with giving them dofollow links.

Follow links you have to approve. If people can sign up and get followed links without any editorial review, you will be spammed sooner or later.

G recommends you nofollow all user submitted links (to be on the safe side).

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=96569

Yes, rogerbot follows robots exclusion protocol - http://www.seomoz.org/dp/rogerbot

The most powerful links currently come from guest blog posts.

Other ones that work well - ppt sharing (slideshare), document share (scribd), videos, press releases, relevant blog comments, local citations

To a lesser extent - web2.0 properties, article submissions

The key is quality, not quantity. Develop strong profiles (completely filled out, multiple entries, high quality content) on top sites instead of spamming thousands of sites. These give you direct traffic and even rank on their own in serps (if you choose the right keywords).

Couple that with high quality, fresh content on your own site and you're golden.

Yup, you can't control the bad links coming in so your best bet is to develop your brand (buy building high quality links w/ brand anchor text) to reduce the impact of spammy links.