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Great answers, Thanks Marcus and Irving

Hi there,

I've found a good domain that is available for a new project. It has been expired for about 4 months or so. It has a couple of links, with the domain name as an anchor, nothing horrible. Will buying a domain like this be safe from an seo perspective? I'm guessing it would be treated the same as buying a new domain that has never been registered before, Would I be right?

Peter

You should be ok using the head term, but I have seen a couple of instances where sites have been penalized for this. To be extra safe, you could use the keyword.com

HI Daniel,

1. It's generally a best practice to not have more than 100 links on a page. In regards to internal and external, I'd say any combination is ok if it's natural.

2. Both are very important for ranking. It's often a good practice to have important pages linked to as closely as possible to the homepage.

3)Yes, that's an issue. How would users navigate round your site if there are no internal links? There may be issues with bots spidering your pages too.

Pete

Hi mozzers,

Quick question. Whats the best thing to do about URL errors in webmaster tools. They are all 404s that point from external sites. Many of them are junk spam sites.

Should I mark them as "fixed" or just leave them. I'm hoping google is aware it's out of my control if spam sites want to link to 404s on my site.

Peter

Thanks for all the responses everyone!

I was wondering in this day and age, do you guys think its worth submitted to these directories anymore?

Hi there,

I'm working on site that has been badly hit by penguin. The reasons are clear, exact match blog network links and tons of spammy exact match links such as comment spam, low quality directories, the usual junk.

The spammy links were mainly to 2 pages, they were targetting keyword 1 and keyword 2.

I'd like to remove these two pages from google, as they dont even rank in google now and create one high quality page that targets both the keywords, as they are similar.

The dilemma I have is these spammy pages still get traffic from bing and yahoo and it's profitable traffic. Is there a safe way to remove the pages from google and leave them for bing and yahoo?

Peter

I wouldn't worry too much...all sites have these kinda links..and google knows it.. As long as the rest of your backlink profile is good, you should be ok.

Thanks guys, seems we are all on the same wavelength

hi there,

It could be penguin.. There was another penguin update a couple of days ago...do you have a lot of exact match anchored links?...  more information on it here..http://searchengineland.com/google-pushes-first-penguin-algorithm-update-122518

Hi mozzers,

I have some external links on a resource page on my established site. I have a new site in the same niche with content that if linked to, would improve the resource page.

If I linked to it using branded anchor text, would it be safe? My thoughts are yes...as long as it adds value and isnt keyword anchored.

The sites are on different C class IPs

Would welcome some thoughts

Peter

Thanks guys...post penguin, I was a little concerned too.

Hey everyone,

A lot of my content gets scraped regular. I'm wondering about using the RSS Footer plugin for wordpress. It allows you to put a link back to the page on your site from the RSS feed. You can use the title of the page as the anchor text or a brand name.

It could result in lots of scraper links...with branded anchor text

How safe do you think this practice is nowadays?

thanks chiaryn, does anyone know where the option is to change cookie settings in Firefox12? I cant seem to find it.

onpage seo is only one of many factors search engines use. Google is getting better all the time at ranking sites for things that are highly relevant but don't have good onpage optimization for a particular keyword, but maybe is well optimized for a synomym..like a page may rank for "autos" when it is not optimized for "autos" but is for "cars".

sorry there seems to be some confusion. I don't mean backlinks, I mean affiliate links... like www.affiliateprogram.com/userid?peterm22

I have a wordpress blog and was wondering the best seo practice for doing affiliate link redirects?

Peter

I think one hyphen in a domain is not too bad, especially if its a .com...it only looks really bad whens its buy-cheap-viagra-online.info. It's very unlikely to affect ranking.