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Hi there,

I have a website that is aimed primarily at the US market. However, I have the option to make some content for people in my niche for people in the UK. Is there anything I can do to help the site rank on google.co.uk for the UK content, baring in mind that most of my content is aimed at the US.

Thanks,

Peter

I don't. I care about my sites too much to risk getting penalized!

Great, thanks Ryan. I wondered if that would be the case, but wasn't sure. I'm curious how did you conduct that test?

Hi there,

My question relates to the robots.txt file. This statement:

/*/trackback

Would this block domain.com/trackback and domain.com/fred/trackback ?

Peter

Hi everyone,

I just want to check something. If you have this entered into your robots.txt file:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /fred/

This wouldn't block /fred-review/ from being crawled would it?

Thanks

buying links is generally blackhat. You can sell advertising, but to keep it whitehat, it's best to use nofollow.

Pete

Thanks everyone!

Hi mozzers,

I've had some great success reaching out to many .edu webmasters. Often they are professors and such. My question is, i'm guessing during the summer holiday period, reaching out to these webmasters won't be so fruitful. I'm not in the US and was wondering when the US Summer holidays are for universities over there? Also, does anyone have experience outreaching to these webmasters over the holidays?

Peter

One possible reason is that weightlosshypnotherapy.co.uk is an exact match domain. The keywords are in the domain name. Google tends to rank these domains much higher, all other things being equal, especially if they are aged exact match domains.

Hope this helps

Hi everyone,

The host I use is OK, but looking for something lightning fast for a new project. Any know which hosts are the fastest and best for SEO?

Hi there,

Dont be alarmed by those numbers. If you added links in the last 60 days or so, they may not be included yet in OSE. Link building is an ongoing process, so you just need to keep at it and the numbers will improve.

I do it inhouse at present, I was just wondering about other options.

I'm wondering if anyone has had good experiences with any of the link building companies out there. I'm really looking to hear about those companies who go beyond the mundane forum links, blog commenting, bulk directory submission, article directories etc. It's all been done to death.

I've used webuildpages.com, they are pricey, but are good at getting high quailty links.

Good link building companies are very expensive. Theres webuildpages.com. $2500 for 10 permenant links. They are good quality. Also, I'd be sure to keep away from judging links by solely by PR. It's not a good metric on its own.

yes I get the same error message. I'm sure they'll fix it soon!

I tend to try to aim for links from pages with a high PA score. I find sites related to mine and contact them to ask them for a link. I sometimes offer to write content for them in return.

I'll definately nofollow the affiliate link right away. I'd not though about absolute position, that sounds like a great work around! Do you think thats the best way to do it?