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Thanks for the tip. Let me see what @Streko thinks about this

Look: spokeo.com does this for you but one email at a time. So if you have a large number it's not a good idea

Knowem also does not help: how do you BULK search? No can do.

Hello Everyone!

We're trying to launch a Social Media campaign for our website and in order to reach more people and follow/invite them to our social profiles we thought of finding them by their email addresses (i read a post somewhere - maybe seomoz, maybe not can't remember).

Can anyone suggest a tool or best way of researching ~20.000 email addresses to find out / filter what social networks have this email registered?

Much appreciated!

Alex

What you're suggesting:  "The problem is not the 301, it's the 404. Get rid of it." does not make sense to me.

404 pages happen for lots of reasons and this is normal. It would be nuts to try to "patch" every single one. If the page does not exist, it should return a 404 and that's it.

What if a bunch of people link (mistakingly or not) to a bunch of non-existent pages? You're going to waste your time finding them and creating content for them? ...

Hello Everybody,

I've got a technical question about server responses. Imagine this scenario:

www.domain.com/not-existing-page/ --> 404 &

domain.com/not-existing-page/ --> www.domain.com/not-existing-page/ --> 404

I use Wordpress for my websites and I can't seem to be able to configure it (or the server where I have total control) to stop it doing this. Ideally, a non-existent url should return 404 instantly, not first redirect to the "corect" url and then return 404.

Anyone experiencing this and can help? Here's a neat tool that allows you to quickly check server response codes - for those of you who are new to this: http://responsetester.appspot.com/

Much appreciated!

Alex

Thank you Vladimir,

So this means that my query "link inside iframe counts for backlinking" is relative popular and they created content specifically for this querry, it was indexed by Google and because it has lots of internal links pointing towards this page it ranks?

Then another question is WHY freelancer.com would need such irrelevant traffic? They don't sell any ads, the bounce rate must be high because if people dont find what they need they'll leave fast...where are the google metrics people are talking about like time on site, bounce rate etc?

Then all we know about the white hat, user relevance is kids play?

Today is Friday the 13th and I might be in a bad mood but...this to me is such a BS I cant stop thinking about it.

Alex

Hello everyone.

Here's my problem: I just searched for "link inside iframe counts for backlinking?" and on #5 there's a site that caught my attention because of it's Description Snippet.

http://www.freelancer.com/job-search/iframe-links-count-backlinks/

This page is totally irrelevant to my query if you take time and read what's on it, however it ranks well.

It's clever because the page contains all the required elements: one h1 with keyword in it, some short paragraph under it, similar links (totally irrelevant though), a selection of people who are supposed to be relevant to my question but they are not, all the good stuff.

I looked in the source code and i found this:

link href="[http://www.freelancer.com/rss/search.xml?keyword=iframe+links+count+backlinks](view-source:http://www.freelancer.com/rss/search.xml?keyword=iframe+links+count+backlinks)" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Latest projects"

Please take the time and look at this feed and you'll see something totally wrong here.

Could someone please explain how this works? I'ts a total spam however they managed to trick the system...

Looking forward to hearing your answers.
Alex

The problem with rank tracking is that it depends very much on where you are, what data-center you are actually accessing, cache, social interactions, etc.

I have a similar problem with SEOmoz rank tracker it tells me I'm on #19 when searching google with personalization OFF shows me #36.

I think you should look at this tracker as an Average as well.

Thank you Ryan!

Thanks Ryan,

Yes the domain is ours and I was hoping to see those links disappearing from our webmasters tools - I guess I need to be more patient.

It appears that in the past, this domain was a paid directory - I wonder if there's a penalization on it as well - kind of strange not to rank for it's own name...

Hello everybody,

We bought this domain a few months back and we're trying to figure out how to get rid of indexed pages that (i assume) existed before we bought this domain - the domain was registered in 2001 and had a few owners.

I attached 3 files from my webmasters tools, can anyone tell me how to get rid of those "pages" and more important: aren't this kind of "pages" result of some kind of "sabotage"?

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on this.

Thank you,

Alex

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It's not really competitors. My client is the big factory let's say, and they provide windows to many little companies that sell the windows.

One of that little company happens to have the exact address (only the phone number differs) with my client's office in a particular city.

Thanks Sebes and sorry for the late reply I just came back from the SearchLove conference in London.

I have a client that has a national business and the issue I have is that some other companies that offer his services (they make windows) have the same postal address with them.

What to do in this case?

Thanks,

Alex

Hello Everyone,

What is the best strategy when it comes to optimizing a website that services more than one city.

So, say I'm in computer fixing business and I have offices in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Miami & Dallas. (took me a while to come up with some US cities) - how should I structure my website so that I look relevant for every city?

Is it possible to display specific information for users coming from specific cities, say someone browsing from San Francisco will see my main page optimized for San Francisco (containing a real address, phone number all the necessary stuff).

I'd really appreciate your thoughts on this.

Thank you in advance,

Alex

Hi Everyone,

I wonder what do you think about the HUB technique:

#1. You make one post/page with most info about your targeted key-phrase and link to it from all other posts related to that key-phrase OR

#2. In Wp for example you make a Category called Your-Key-Phrase and use the Category Description to add some useful content key-phrase related, and post all articles related to that key-phrase under that category so that when viewed the category at say: domain.com/category-key-phrase/ you see the category description followed by all the articles (excerpts) in that category.

So, what do you think works best?

Thank you,

Alex

#1 Make sure you don't have a cannibalization issue

#2. If the pages you DO want to rank for contain relevant content for your selected keyword (ideally one keyword/key-phrase per page) and the content is on-page optimized as it should be then

#3. It's all about the links - both internal and external. So

a. Make sure your site architecture is created in such way that your want-to-rank-for content gets a lot of links from your other underpages

b. Try to get as many links from outside as possible towards your want-to-rank-content. Don't worry about follow and no-follow - you need both and ideally from sources with related content.

c. Don't spam the web with zillions of blog comments, forum spam and other nasty stuff.

Good luck!

Alex

Thanks Anthony!

So is it safe to assume that the warriorforum.com is a bad choice?

Kind of crazy to see all those people talking about various "strategies" out there and believing in them...

Thanks Nicholas,

Yes the domain has no content at the moment - we'll be working on that soon.

I know it's impossible to get an exact quote, I'm more interested in your estimations so I can compare with my estimations

Thanks again!

I see lots of ads like "Boost Your Trust Rank with pure .EDU Anchor Text Backlinks"

Is this for real? And if it is what's the real value of such links? I assume they would be from some spam comments on some .edu blogs...right?

Is it worth going this route?

Thank you!

Correction: my question should be this:

How long do you estimate it'll take to rank for the key words: "stock tips" with the domain stocktips.com?

Thank you!