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Good rule of thumb: if a human would see this link and said "well that makes perfectly sense" you are on a good way.

@ Link exchange: I disagree..if you are both in an industry and the links make sense i'd say go for it.

ensosplastics.com
www.ensosplastics.com
www.ensosplastics.com/index.html

all bring the same pages. My suggestion would be:

• redirect all URLs to either www.ensosplastic.com or just ensosplastic.com.
• Google is pretty smart about discovering and judging index.html and / , but better make sure and put a rel="canonical" to either / OR index.html. I would suggest to **use **
• Another suggestion: only use smallcaps and not CamelCase in URLs and folders (i.e. (/aboutus/aboutus.html NOT /AboutUs/AboutUs.html). You might even want to drop the folder altogether and just use /pagename.html

To my current knowledge Google treats internal nofollow links as followed for linkjuice purposes. Beeing a bit over 100 links is not too much of a problem. You might want to consider to consolidate a few pages into one. Another solution could be to noindex really unimportant pages (legal/disclaimer etc.)

I have a question myself: does Google crawl pages that are internally nofollowed?

Google is pretty good at discovering affiliate links (esp. to the well known networks). But to be sure use rel=nofollow.

Be aware that google is able to render pages with javascript and thus able to see the links and I would never dare to cloak anything

If the correct spelling is "one two" then one-two is the clear winner. If the correct spelling  is "onetwo" i would consider both domains equal, but as Robert pointed out "one-two" is a lot easier to read and therefore "better".

BTW: Get both names and also every combination of "one-two" onetwo and .net .com .org  You might even consider plurals and the like.

The number doesn't matter as much as the quality of the pages you link to. Linking to relevant content your visitor probably wants to know about helps you:

first by showing google that you know what the authorities in your business are.Secondly by increasing users time on site and reducing your bounce rate, both of wich are (or will be) ranking signals. Lastly by giving your visitors a good experience on your page, thus building your brand.

The best pages to link to would be non-competing, supplemental information or "cool" stuff.

Don't overdo on keywords in anchor tags...use broad match and a lot of branded:

DO: If you need soothing massage in Chicago, check out XYZ at www.XYZ.com
DONT: If you need soothing massage in Chicago, check out XYZ at www.XYZ.com.

Isn't that rather good, so Google knows there is a business at all. I wouldn't worry, think of all the big office towers where tens of companies have the same physical adress. So don't worry.

Just make a cute little profil with a picture of their office (office-windows-anytown.jpg use microtagging etc put outgoing links to regional pages - preferably about windows or complimentary products in anytown - get some local links, get listet in the phonebook with that office adress and you will be fine. If you need s/o to have a look at your page just PM me. If this helped you, I really appreciate it if you mark the answer as answered/helpfull

What exactly do you mean with "have the same postal adress with them". Does your client and his competitors share an office or the like?

if you mark a payed review as paid for and put a nofollow on all links it is perfectly legit and white hat. Any changes to that make it "darker".

So you have links to search results on your page and those links are followed and indexed by google. LInking to a search result is not a bad thing per se. Just make sure, that the indexed pages are not to similar (i.e. duplicate content).

An example:

if the indexed page for "widget" (domain.tld/search/widget) and the indexed page for "widgets" (domain.tld/search/widgets) are similar or nearly similar they might be considered duplicate content, resulting in none of them ranking. One way to test this is to use d/c checker or the seomoz campaign. You want at least 20% difference in any combination of pages.

If you manually set these links you might want to check whether the results are different enough. If you don't want these pages to be indexed at all just "follow, noindex" them.

Besides that it's not a problem.

Go for the subfolder version. You could link back and forth "more technical details in our tech blog" etc.

Also you might want to consider combining them. Isn't that what categories are for? Or is the targeted audience to different? Lets assume the user perspective: will a normal reader feel comfortable (and not confused) by two blogs? Is the audience overlapping? Some companies have two blogs: one for their partners/supliers B2B and one for their customers B2C focused.

Hi michelleh,

to what pages specifically are you linking? Google results like http://www.google.com/search?q=query ? Pages on other domains? could you please give some more information?

I would also consider whether you are only in for a link or if you are in for reputation. If all you are interested in is a link i would just do enough to get the link, 500 words and good enough.

If you think the blog-owner or his audience is a valuable multiplier, then I would go for the best I can do. Opens the chance for more guest blogs on the same or other related blogs, improves your reputation and after a realy good guestblog you might also get free coverage following. Build a relationship with your niches authorities, help them and they will help you.

Going for a subdomain (blog2.domain.tld) is the safe bet, especially if your second blog is totally offtopic to your main sites content.

Using a folder (www.domain.td/blog2/) gets the new blog the benefits of existing links and new incoming links boost your main sites ranking.

If I understand you correctly you are running a tech-related company with a semi-personal blog on a subfolder. You want to promote a new, more technically focused/business related blog. If so, I would go for the subfolder und the same domain (i.e. domain.tld/new-blog/ ).

Adding to Ryans post:
The amount of links is one thing to consider, but also consider the depth of your site, that is: how many clicks does it take to reach any given page. Use a crawler like Xenus link sleuth and crawl your site. You should look into anything over 4 or 5, depending on the amount of pages.

For an ecommerce site i wouldn't worry about the 100 links per page warning, but 200 visible links are too much. Best thing to do is too look at every object of a page (links, images, buttons, badeges etc.) and ask yourself whether it is really necessary or dead weight. Reduce as much as possible.

Nearly forgot to ask you: are you using some sort of social media widget? These little buggers sometimes contain links to tons of sites, thus increasing link count. There used to be an addon for firefox called link grab! which printed out a list of all links on a page.

You are welcome. Appreciate it if you mark it as answered

Either get the Yoast SEO Plugin, which does a <meta name='robots' content='noindex,follow'/> on search pages automatically or if you want to code it for yourself something like:

'; } ?> in the header.php file.

Hope this helps.

Sebastian

Another approach is to guesstimate the traffic. There are tools out there calculating a visibilty ranking by pulling ranks for large sets of keywords and giving domains a point value by combining their rankings with the search volume. The result is a somewhat standardized measurement for all the keywords a domain is rnaking for. Being no.1 for iphone brings more points than being no.10 for oven etc.

One tool is sichtbarkeitsindex.de . AFAIK recall 1 point is roughly 10.000 organic visits per month (not absolutelly  sure about the number though...)

Yes, do it. It helps twofold.

First: pages linked to in twitter were almost instantly crawled and indexed. Secondly: Twitter / FB Shares and G+ all create links, thus generating a little buzz signaling google that your site is still active.

Just ask a few friends to share the links / retweet now and then. Especially FB shares are more valuable then likes. I am pretty sure, that these signals will help a lot in the near future. Esp. Bing uses FB data already.