Hello,

I know you can add rel="author" to blog posts but has anyone tried adding them to normal pages?

Does it work?

Does it improve CTR?

Thanks,

Scott

Hello,

One of our sites have been hit by the first penguin update back in April and ever since then we have been removing links and submitting reconsideration requests...

It only seems to have affected our home page as some of our internal landing pages are still ranking OK in the SERPS #1 / #2.

I'm just wondering if we created a landing page for this keyword and drove high quality / relevant links to this landing page could we get it to rank higher than our homepage even though our Homepage is on the 5th page.Hope the above make sense.

Has anybody had any joy with this?

Great reply Don!

The main reason to ask the question really is for general knowledge.

Our main site was hit pretty hard in the penguin update back in April and we have been removing links and completing overhauling our website to try and get out of the penalty.

We / I was just checking this couldn't be effecting the panda update neither.

We are thinking of targeting the models slightly more though like "bwm 3 series warranty"

How do you fully test long tail keywords...

When I say they are the same template, here is an example:

http://goo.gl/PzoHO

http://goo.gl/6z5hJ

Let me know what you think of the above.

Howdy Guys,

We currently have around 19 landing pages that are near enough identical for each make of car.

The content on each page isn't identical but you can tell its a template.

Do you think we should change this and just target models instead of makes.

Thanks,

Scott

Great answer yet again Ryan.

Thanks for your detailed response.

Thanks,

Scott

Hi Guys,

I wonder if any of you can help me out.I'll be shortly submitting another reconsideration request to Google.I've been working on removing bad / spammy links to our site http://goo.gl/j7OpL  over the past 6 months and so far every reconsideration request I have submitted has been knocked back with the following message:----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear site owner or webmaster of http://goo.gl/j7OpL  ,

We received a request from a site owner to reconsider http://goo.gl/j7OpL  for compliance with Google's Webmaster Guidelines.

We've reviewed your site and we still see links to your site that violate our quality guidelines   .

Specifically, look for possibly artificial or unnatural links pointing to your site that could be intended to manipulate PageRank. Examples of unnatural linking could include buying links to pass PageRank    or participating in link schemes   .

We encourage you to make changes to comply with our quality guidelines. Once you've made these changes, please submit your site for reconsideration    in Google's search results.

If you find unnatural links to your site that you are unable to control or remove, please provide the details in your reconsideration request.

If you have additional questions about how to resolve this issue, please see our Webmaster Help Forum   for support.

Sincerely,

Google Search Quality Team

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I've removed over 70% of all our links - we had some large sitewide links on big sites with exact match anchor text to our main money keyword, I've also removed a large link network that our previous SEO company setup.

Today I have completed an overhaul of all our internal links, near enough every blog post that we added to the site had a link back to the home page with an exact match money keyword.

1 thing that I did notice was when we got hit by the penalty it didn't affect every keyword we target just our main / most competitive keyword, yes some of our other keywords took a dip in rankings but not as much as our main keyword.

When I submit our next reconsideration request I'll also attach a spreadsheet of links that I can't remove either because I can't find any contact details / blocked by whois or I'm just not getting a response when I email them.

If anyone can point out anything else that I have missed or might have missed that would be great.

Thanks,

Scott

Thanks for the quick reply.

Yea, I'm keeping all correspondence in an excel spreadsheet which I'll submit with our next reconsideration.

Thanks again.

Howdy Guys,

I'm currently working through our 4th reconsideration request and just have a couple of questions.

Using Link Detox (www.linkresearchtools.com) new tool they have flagged up a 64 links that are Toxic and should be removed.

After analysing them further alot / most of them are link directories that have now been de-indexed by Google.

Do you think we should still ask for them to be removed or is this a pointless exercise as the links has already been removed because its been de-indexed.

Would like your views on this guys.

Hi EGOL,

Thanks for the reply and a really good answer.

Thanks again.

Scott

Mark,

Thanks for taking your time to reply.

Yea I guessed as much - I'll get started on converting it to wordpress!

Thanks,

Scott

Hi Guys,

Hope your all OK.

Apart from our main site we have a static comparison site that's now ranking really high for some of our big keywords.

At the moment the site only has 2 pages and I'm wondering weither or not to setup a blog on the site to not only increase the pages indexed but also increase our longtail keyword rankings...

I'll be able to create a new article aday.

Would like your input guys.

Thanks,

Scott

Hi Guys,

I'm completing a overhawl of our website at the moment have a certain penguin killed our site for our main keyword.

I'm currently working on our internal linking as most of our blog posts have a link back to our home page with the main money keyword.

At present we have 3,331 internal links and our site has only 1,000 pages.

Can you get penalised for having too many internal links with exact match anchors.

Thanks,

Scott

Hi Eyepaq,

Thanks for the reply.

By "knocked back" - I mean we have submitted a reconsideration request and they have said we still have unnatural links...

1 thing I remember is that we never received a message with WMT we actually filed for a reconsideration request and then recieved a message back saying we had bad links, could this be slightly different?

Thanks,

Scott

Howdy Guys,
We have been battling our way the Google penguin penalty and have just received our 3 knocked back reconsideration request.

I posted a find on here the other day about a simple change of page title made our site jump back up...

In the meantime I've built 1 hight quality link back to our site and we have moved again from #50 to #46.Have Google ever removed a penalty without telling you?Should we ask for another reconsideration request?Thanks,
Scott

Howdy Guys,

I noticed a weird thing over the weekend - our main keyword has been hit pretty hard by penguin and we had dropped down to #79.

On Friday I decided to change some on-page optimisation and changed the title tag and some

tags.

When I've ran my rank tracker this morning we have jumped up to #62... Has anyone else noticed just a simple change boosts rankings?

Second Questions We took all our social buttons off the website back in January as no-body was using them but from a few recent reports I've seen having the buttons on the site help organic rankings...

Is this true?

Scott

Thanks for the reply Anthony.

I've just ran 100 of the domains though and they all have the same IP Address - trying to get old of the company in question is proving a little bit more difficult...

I've just been reading this interesting post about 1 of the main domains names tho, what do you think of this? Could this have a big affect on our site?

http://trafficplanet.com/topic/2372-successful-negative-seo-case-study/

Hi Guys,

Just wondering if anyone can help me out...

We have recently been hit by the Google penguin update and I'm currently working though all the bad / spammy backlinks that previous SEO companies have built for us.

I have come across 1 particular domain www.justgoodcars.com they seem to have a lot of different domain names:

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| http://www.justpulsarcars.com/nissan-pulsar-warranties/1/United_Kingdom/all.html |
| http://www.justpumacars.com/ford-puma-warranties/1/United_Kingdom/all.html |
| http://www.justpuntocars.com/dutch-site/fiat-punto-warranties/1/United_Kingdom/all.html?selectcountry1=United_Kingdom |
| http://www.justpuntocars.com/fiat-punto-warranties/1/United_Kingdom/all.html?selectcountry1=United_Kingdom |

Now all of theses domains names have exactly the same IP Address?? Above is just a few I would say there are 100s of them.

Do you think this could have an affect on us?

Thanks,

Scott

Hi Malcolm,

Thanks for the reply mate - i'll get looking for some new links today.

Thanks,

Scott

Hi Guys,

I wonder if you can give me any pointers:

We have an exact match domain name that is ranking #5 for our main keyword and is getting some good traffic through the site.

We have just created a landing page for another keyword with fresh content that will be updated every week.

The question is, I've been building links to my domain name and I'm just wondering if we built another link from 1 of the sites we already have a link on and point it to this new landing page would this help it rank better or not?

Hope the above makes sense.

Thanks,

Scott