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Basically, you want to keep your pages and their permalink structure.

So, C, D, E, F, G - are excluded.

As for B, could be a viable solution, but it depends on your WP permalinks:

1. If your URLs are like: domain.com/category/post.-name.html - you can assign a new category to your post (like "Sold Machines") but your URL will change:

domain.com/unsold/post.-name.html -> domain.com/sold/post.-name.html

2. If your permalinks are like: domain.com/post.-name.html - B is a good option.

A is ok for your users. When someone searches for some king of machine, it is disappointing to find one that has been sold, so it's nice to offer them alternatives.

So, mixing A with B (if possible) is the way to go.

Moreover, B permits you make use of some nice category based widgets like "Just sold" or "New arrivals" etc.

Maybe it is beneficial to do a PR once a year or so, when you really have some news about your company, but only to your reputation/branding.

Links From Press Releases Won't Help - (Search Engine Roundtable, an article by Barry Schwartz).

If you distribute the same PR to 1 or 20 PR sites, it has the same effect. I mean it won't affect you in any way, Google will show up eventually 1 result out of 20 and 19 will be supplemental (Google handled the last PR I released like that).

Hope that helps,

Nope, you don't have to.

The noindex tag tells spiders not to index a certain page. Why would you add a meta description tag for something that won't show up in search engines ever?

I don't add descriptions to any of my noindexed pages.

Hello,

Here is a plugin that can take care of the job for you:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nofollow/

Just install it, and set it up. You can use it when you add affiliate links, too...  just check the nofollow box and voila, you're done.

Those 301 redirects should look like this:

_redirect 301 /tks-camp/escuela/ http://www.tarifakitesurfcamp.com/gisela-pulido-escuela/_
_redirect 301 /tks-camp/cursos-kite/ http://www.tarifakitesurfcamp.com/gisela-pulido/_
_redirect 301 /tks-camp/curso-idiomas/ http://www.tarifakitesurfcamp.com/campamento-bilingue-para-ninos/_
_redirect 301 /tks-camp/programa-de-actividades/ http://www.tarifakitesurfcamp.com/kitesurf-para-ninos/_
_redirect 301 /tks-camp/alojamiento/ http://www.tarifakitesurfcamp.com/campamento-de-kitesurf/_
_redirect 301 /tks-camp/la-empresa-2/ http://www.tarifakitesurfcamp.com/kitesurf-para-ninos-tarifa/_

So, what is being redirected doesn't need http://www.tarifakitesurfcamp.com

Paste what's italicized in your .htaccess and test again.

Juan, go to your pages section in your WP Dashboard. Edit the page "Contacto".

Somewhere on the page, you'll see that small image named "estrella.jpg". Click on it. From it's settings, delete the link "http://www.tarifakitesurfcamp.com/contacto/estrella/". Update. Save.

Please read this: http://codex.wordpress.org/Inserting_Images_into_Posts_and_Pages

especially the Image Link section.

Cheers.

Philip,

Letting Google to follow the archive pages, helps it to determine the website's hierarchy.

Google can handle duplicate content of a website.

Excluding tag or category archives from Google's index, may lead to loosing some visitors. Here is a nice wrap up regarding this issue.

If you use Yoast's SEO plugin, you can let Google index only the main page of the archive pages and noindex the rest of them (page1, page 2 etc.)

I would place a noindex meta tag for date archives, though.

Hope that helps, cheers.

July,

as long as you consider a page should not be indexed because delivers no real value to your visitors, it is perfectly fine set the meta tag "noindex".

But, be aware, do not block those pages in robots.txt, too, because Googlebot won't be able to read the noindex tag, and your page might still appear as indexed. Happened to me.

I also have in the main menu of a quite popular website pages with noindex tag and it does quite well in SERPs.

Cheers,

I found your bug. You use on those pages a little star, that red one, which is linking to those broken URLs.

You need to edit those pages, like"contacto" and "equipo", and click on that small image, remove the link from it's properties, (click on None) and Update.

Take a look at your source code, see that a href?

Información de contacto

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Juan,

can you give an example of a page or two  SEOMOZ' reported?

July,

NO, don't use invisible links, under no circumstances. There are certain mistakes people do, being driven by good intentions.

Invisible links are subject to Google Webmaster Guidelines violation.

Read this:

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66353

Cheers,

Hi Menno,

when you do a 301 redirect, from domain A to domain B, you tell search engines Domain A moved permanently to domain B and in a few weeks or months search engines will remove from their index all pages of domain A.

Ideally, the pages of domain A should be found on domain B.

If I were you, I'd 301 redirect the old domain to the new one.

Make sure the old domain it's not an expired one (all backlinks value is lost).

You may want to read these resources to find out more about 301 redirect best practices:

1. http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection
2. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/best-practices-when-moving-your-site.html
3. http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=83105
4. http://searchengineland.com/do-links-from-expired-domains-count-with-google-17811

Good luck!

P.S. I'm not a SEO expert so you'd want to read other opinions, too.

Hi July,

I'll start with the rule of thumb: The highest quality link is the one that flows in naturally (The one you don't pay for it, give something in return, etc.)

This morning I smiled a bit, while reading a post written by Jim Boykin back in 2005. This phrase was the reason:

"And in Matt’s perfect world of the web, no one would need SEO’s as everyone would just create great content, and people would link naturally, and Google would sort it all out with the best results on top……yea right."

Now, there are several factors you should consider when judging the quality of a backlink. I'll name a few:

• relevance of the page
• age of the domain (older is better)
• number of backlinks pointing to that page (ideally, should be from the same niche)
• on page link placement (a contextual link it's better than a footer or blogroll link)
• number of outgoing links (the lower the number, the better)
• trustworthiness of the page

It might be a good idea to get a link from your friend, sounds like a good plan. He could write an article about you, mention your website in a post he'll write, cite some awesome information you wrote, etc.

Avoid sitewide, footer, blogroll links.

Juan,

I just checked your feeds, they're valid now:

http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tarifakitesurfcamp.com%2Ffeed%2F

Good job.

Hi Juan,

Those links are in your source code:

Right click: view page source.

However, "Server returned HTTP Error 404: Not Found" when accessing you feeds.

A. To fix the problem, you'd have to make some blog posts or try this plugin or its variant:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rss-includes-pages/

I suppose you created only pages.

B. Or, if you don't want to have feeds at all, you can remove those links from header.php file of your theme.

Another easy way, is to install Yoast WP SEO plugin (yoast.com/wordpress/seo/) and at the Titles and Metas section:

Clean up the head check the Hide RSS Links option.

Hope it helps,

In my opinion there isn't an exact delimiter between what we call "good" and "bad", respectively "white hat" - "black hat".

Almost anything has to do with deliberate manipulation of search engine indexes.

Apart from the few examples you mentioned, these days, as you can see, many "specialists" will promise "guaranteed #1" with:

A. These are design related

Meta-tag stuffingDoorway pages
Phishing pages
Malitious codesScraper sitesArticle spinning
Interlinked Sites
URL Redirects

B. These are offsite techniques

Spam in blogsComment spamWiki spam
Private blog networksReferrer log spammingCookie stuffingPage hijackingLink farmsSybil attack

Hope it helps,

You're welcome

A few years ago I had a website featuring some computer related articles. It was Adsense monetized. Like you, I thought translating the articles in a few languages (French, German, Spanish) is a good idea. It went well for 2 years, really well. But than, all of a sudden, Google removed from it's index all those translated articles.

Automatic translation it isn't accurate. If a native speaker of that particular language reads the translated article will just LOL. So, automatically translated articles are considered to be spam.

Regarding your question, you could use a rel=nofollow on your source citing links.

What I'm using with great success is XLM sitemap generator (xml-sitemaps.com).

It is $19, I think and you'll have to upload it in a separate folder.

You can highly configure it and specify a wide range of parameters (to exclude or include in the sitemap). You can also setup a cron job so you wont have to run it every other day.

I am not affiliated in any way with them, I am just saying that it might be exactly what you need.

Hope it helps,

@Matthew,

It is easy.

Let's say that someone adds a link to your website to their blogroll. That link will be visible on all pages of that website.

Or, maybe they sponsored a theme, and they have a footer link, which, again, is on all pages.

But remember, those links are not natural links and these practices can trigger a Google penalty.

When someone naturally link to you, they mention you in an article, list you as a resource but is not likely to link to you from hundreds of pages.

Nofollow links do not pass link juice. I don't know how they got them, maybe they bought a link, paid for text link advertising, banner ads or so.