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Very interesting, do you think it's worthwhile?

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Thanks for your quick reply Alan.

I will only strengthen the website I put them on if I delete this page from the website I am taking them from, is that correct?

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Hi Bojan,

Ok, the company I work for has a website example.com (non-commercial) as well as there main website (commercial) where the blog is also hosted, however on example.com they have been producing lots of well written and original articles over the past 3 years or so, however over the past year or so there has been no contribution at all to this website and to be honest there has never been a marketing strategy for this website (I know hard to believe).

So I thought the main website & blog (commercial) where all the effort is and a marketing strategy to support the effort is in place, why not move these articles over to the blog, where is will be seen by thousands and may have an impact on SEO.

Please let me know your thoughts.

Hi there,

I have recently joined a company to look after the e-marketing side of things, anyway the company I work for have been writing articles for a website that they own for over 2 years, probably about 200 or so unique articles on that website, however over the past year or so there has been no contribution to this site and was wondering if it would be worthwhile transferring these article over to our blog?, as this is where all the attention is in terms of marketing etc

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Thanks for the quick reply.

So the fact that comments cannot be seen in the source code is not a factor?

I did read that Google & Bing are supporting schema.org, not exactly sure why our developers have opted to go for data-vocabulary.org, do you think this will be a huge disadvantage in our rich snippets being showin in results?

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Hi Everyone,

Just a few questions on rich snippets please:

We have now integrated microdata (data-vocabulary.org) on all our product pages http://www.avogel.co.uk/herbal-remedies/arnica-gel-atrogel/ which I have tested on the rich snippets testing tool which Google provides and all is working fine.

However I have been told by our developer that it is using hidden markup, will this have an affect on the rich snippets being showing in the organic results?

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Hi Doug,

Yes, higher up in the article is always something I try to do.

I do a lot of guest blogging however as you can imagine it's very time consuming, do you use any other strategies in getting back-links into your clients website manually?

Over the years I have stopped doing things like directories, PR releases , article submissions.

Thanks for the reply.

Have you guys measured this in anyway, as you know there a lot of things out there on what is best practice.

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Thanks for the quick response.

Yes, I think I agree with you on this, I have a similar strategy for internal linking.

Thanks

Hi there,

I have been guest posting on blogs trying to build some back-links into my website, which so far is going not too bad, however I was wondering when writing these guest posts should I limit my post to let's say 2 back-links per guest post? If 2 back-links are going to different pages on my website, does the first back-links in the guest post have more value than the 2nd back-link?

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Hi Doug,

One of it's main purposes is to feed people to the relevant product page, however i'm just concerned of its value with search engines being 60% duplicate with the product page in question.

One of our copywriters has just written a blog to be posted on our own company blog to be reviewed by myself, however I had noticed that the blog post has some duplication issues with one of our own product pages, about 60% duplication, is it still worth posting? Will search engines still index the blog post?

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Hi there,

We have just launched our website in Ireland .ie and was wondering would the .ie website be favoured by Google over a competitor with a .co.uk or .com domain?

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Hi there,

We have just migrated to a new website with a new design etc and I have noticed that we now have this code on our website:

From my understanding this is telling search engines to come back to your website in 10 days time to crawl the website?

I'm sure I have read on serveral occasions that you should not does this and let search engines crawl your site when it see's fit to do so?

Hope someone can help me out on this

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Hi Everyone,

I have written new content for a product page and at the same time put it on a different URL:

example.com/product

The previous URL was something like this:

example.com/brand/type/product (PR4) So all in all this is an easy enough 301, however, we also have a shop page for this product:

example.com/shop/brand/type/product_shoppage.php (PR4) Should I also do a 301 from this page to the new page?:  example.com/product

Can you have two 301 redirects like what I am proposing?

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Thanks for all your feedback, this has helped me a lot on what decision I have to make.

Thanks for your quick replies.

Yes, I totally agree with what both of you are saying.

One thing I did notice is that the are also contacting websites which have /links pages not directories which are actually relevant to the topic and a high PR of 4 and above, these type of page seem to list about 20 - 30 companies all having the keyword which is been focused, is this valuable? somehow I feel they are trying to do something as cheap as they can and charge a fortune for it, when I could get someone internally to do this.

Hi seoroyal/ the back burner,

Yes, my own personal experience with SEO over the years is topical, well-written content as you pointed out in your feedback and from this posting it on blogs has helped my SERPs over the years, so this is always something I stick to.

However I got introduced to this SEO company to help me out with some keywords, it's all a bit political to be honest, the chats I had with them seemed quite strange to start, there first strategy was to put a web page on our website called /links display a companies details on that page, then contact that company, saying "hey we've got a link from our website to yours, how about putting a link on your website to ours?" I just did not feel comfortable with this at all, am I over reacting? They then gave a presentation expressing how good well written content just as you mentioned above was best practice which I agreed, but then came back with a list of these potential directories, I was very confused.

Not sure what to do, as its all a bit political, things might get a little messy.

Sorry for the long winded rant, just wondering if one of you guys have came across something similiar

Hope you can help me out.

We have hired a company to help us gain higher SERPs for a few keywords, the dilemma is they have came back to me with list of websites they are going to contact in getting backlinks, however these websites are directory websites, is this what I should be expecting of an SEO company to come back with, a list of potential directories? somehow I expected the SEO company to comeback with potential backlinks with a bit more quality.

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Hi thanks for the quick reply.

The new pages will have unique content written for these pages for SEO purposes, that's one of the reasons I am doing this, however with the example.com/products page having a high PR, i thought it would be best taking advantage of this and using a 301, however after thinking about it a bit more, I think i actually might keep this page plus add the other product pages to help the keywords SERPs