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a page blocked in robots.txt wont be seen at all when a crawler visits your site directly

• Partly true not all robots respect the robots.txt file but Google and Bing do, even if they follow a link from elsewhere.

at times a robots.txt file is mistakenly deleted or moved

• the same can be said about meta data.

That being said the part about "link juice" is a very good and valid argument and reason enough to not block using robots.txt unless you wan't to block an intire directory of images, like the images you use in the design.

In short robots.txt is best used to block non HTML elements like flash, image files, PDF files ex. Where meta blogs are best used to block HTML elements

A link passes link juice internally and externally. Since the link helps the Authority and Trust of the entire domain. If you have a link to a page and that page links to another page, then some of that link juice will flow from page one to page two.

They have a "learning machine algorithm" so the servers do a best guess. When searching for apples it just looks at what most users where searching for and displays that result.

Have you considered loading the landing page in a div when they click on it (as a pop-up)?

The pros of opening things in a new window is that when you link off site,the user won't leave your page and can return later. The cons well.. to many pop ups can be annoying for the user. If the page is something they might use as a reference then opening it in a new window can be a good thing, think size guides for a shoe-store. You can browse the products but still have the size guide as a reference.

The example you mention is a perfect example where it might serve you better to think "what is best for our users". And since you don't link off site (at least it doesn't sound like it) I see no problem with linking to it in the same window.

2: completely up to you and what you think serves you users best

For SEO I would recommend HTML, with the option to download a PDF. That being said you should also consider how much time is wasted on doing it HTML. Can the company earn more money by spending their time on something else? I mean how often do people actually search for a certain dish when they are about to go out for dinner. My bet is that they are more likely to do a search like: "Italian restaurant in downtown Berlin" rather then "Broccoli slightly roasted in white-wine". Do you see what I mean?

ohh yeah do us all a favour and keep it whitehat or at least grey.. don't join the dark side

Getting links from that site is a good thing but I would advice you to work at getting links from other sites as well. remember to focus on your niche so you get top quality links from your niche. And always try to get the right anchor text but remember to vary the anchor text or Google will get suspicious. It's not often that one site gets 100 links to a single page with the same key phrase as anchor text and the SE's know this.

You might a bit. But more links are (almost) always better. You should try to get both high quality links and some low quality (easy) links. The easy links (yes link catalogues) can work quite well if done in conjunction with the heigh quality links. Sure they won't be as effective as the high quality ones but allot easier to get. But try to keep a reasonable spread, for each heigh quality link try to get 5 or so low. Keep a natural link acquisition rate.

depending on the competion one link won't have a huge effect. But more will help allot. But more links even from only one site is always better then none. But try to get links from other sites as well and try to vary the anchor texts and the pages you get links for. Not all links should be to your frontpage. But a PR4-5 link will work but don't expect a miracle from only one linking root domain.

Our company blog started out with a completely new domain. 3 months later, with almost no link building and roughly 10 domains pointing to it (1 PR 5) it has a PR of 3 closing in on 4.) ok we have done allot of tweeting and social activities. But building PR is hard work, and we don't have the time.

Quality links from quality articles (guest blogging ex.)  and quality content + social activity will get you up there quickly. But 1 link from a PR 4-5 site won't help allot.

The best advice I can give is look through the quality blog posts on seomoz about link building (and check out the whiteboard friday as well) and you will be well on your way to the top

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• now that we are mentioning other languages.. It would be equally sweet if it would see the correlation between Ø and OE, Å and AA and so on.. (scandinavian chars for those of you who don't know) again the SE's do

Update with images: as you can see, what OnPage O sees and what Google shows me.. 2 very different results

even when logged out or tried from a completely different town at the opposite end of the country

it would be helpful if I could change and force it to look for the right page

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I've been using your on-page optimization tool allot lately, I must say it simply is a great checklist to run a page through and it forces you to think about it a bit more and you notice stuff that you might otherwise have overlooked (read forgot) . But! ('cause there's always a but..) I have noticed a few issues:

• it could be optimized to recognize plural endings, given this is a hard one since there's allot of languages.. but It would be awesome if it did.. right? (just like the SE's do) I would be more then willing to help with the Danish. Since you already specify what version of google you wanna target eg: ".DK" it might not be all that hard to implement plural?

• now that we are mentioning other languages.. It would be equally sweet if it would see the correlation between Ø and OE, Å and ÅÅ and so on.. (scandinavian chars for those of you who don't know) again the SE's do

For German letters I expect (not sure though, I'm not German, I speak it a bit though, so if your German feel free to correct me that the SE's would see the letter Ö as an OE.. Ü as UE, Ä as an AE and so on.

Why is the above important? well because that many still use those versions of the letters in URL's. Even though all browsers/mail clients now a'days are able to understand punycode.

or you might be experiencing some panda effect or it might just be that your in close competition with your competitors. It could be many things, no need to be alarmed yet, if it persists however you should probably take action

Yes you have understood it right, it seems. I would recommend googles own shortner though, since it will help google understand your tweet.

I just dusted off my memory banks (the hardware ones in my brain) and if I am not mistaken (don't know if it still there) there were a paragraph in the Google terms of use that stated that explicit content has to be at least 3 clicks away from the front-page. But on the other hand I just did a quick search on porn and none of them live up to that condition so it doesn't seem like that rule is being enforced if it was ever there. It is interesting but I must admit I have never had a reason to research the subject since I have never had a client that had explicit content.

I doubt it but have no real proof.. except porn sites and so on tend to rank very high

Both the urls u posted seem identical to me

1. nope

2)since they are both just the original url, yes

3)both the parameters I wrote were examples. you could call the BigBearBunga or whatever you like. Call them whatever makes sence to you

If what you say is true they have made some horrible SEO since Google will index their product pages and search pages there are some serious duplicate content issues to worry about.

you should always tell Google not to index the search result page to avoid this problem. you don't want your search results indexed, you do however want your product category pages indexed.

sry m8 I have been busy with work, and am going to be for greater parts of today.. I will however do my best to find time to answer you l8er today.. so fear not I have not forgotten about you

The easy way for you to do it is like this:

The url you wan't to tweet: www.youdomain.com/yourart.html

Now you need to add some parameters to the end of the URL f.ex:

medium=twitter and date=08043011

so the url will look like this:

www.youdomain.com/yourart.html**?medium=twitter&date=08043011**

pass it through an URL shortener like bitLy or googles own. and tweet it.

In GA you should now be able to filter your search so you can check the traffick the tweet generated. Because you can track the URL and see how many came to your artcle by that URL. Next time you tweet someting just change the date and you can track that specific URL. same thing goes for facebook, email ex.

actualy theres a WAY easier way to do it:

grab your link pass it through biutLy. bitly will generate an URL for you. use this for the tweet. You can now track trafick (in bitly) from twitter, facebook exc.

Clearly the easiest way.. you don't even have to think

yup