Dear all,

I was dealing with a penalized domain (Penguin, Panda), hundred of spamy links (Disavoved with no success), tiny content resolved in part and so on ....

I think the best way is to start a new fresh domain but we want to use some of the well written content from the old (penalized site).

To do this task I will mark as NOINDEX the source (penalized) page and move this content to the new fresh domain.

Question: do you think this is a non-dangerous aprouch or do you know other strategy?

I'll appreciate your point of view

Thank you

I'm deciding to open a new fresh site, so I'm looking for history of different domains (which are available), I was testing some of them in OpenSiteExp and no one link is pointing, also http://web.archive.org/ report pages (few) on Apr/2009 and from this point the domain is unregistered, I'm worry about register a penalized domain.

PS.: I check these domains in WOT and seems to be clear (no reputation at this time).

Do you recommends any tool to check it?

Thank you

Claudio

Dear mates,

I'm looking for register a new domain, and I'm looking for its history on http://web.archive.org/, my question is how to know if this domain has been penalized by Google, banned etc?.

Please let me know your ideas.

Thank you

Claudio

Dear Armin,

I see your page, which has an error you has two H1 tags, the first is:

class="blog-title">Blog

(it should be an error of the plug-in and the second is fine:

class="entry-title">How Persian Girls Can Attract Men They Like

, the image Persian-girls-12-300x200.jpg (your image post, includes the ALT value correct, I suggest to include the TITLE tag with the same value of the ALT tag (the ALT tag is for search engines and the TITLE is for visitors) and both should see the same.

Please make the changes and let me know

Claudio

The first H1 is fine, (only one H1 on the body is allowed), when I refer to the title I was talking about the <title>tag, make sure your <title> tag on the <header> of the page is identical to your H1.</p> <p>Also I recommend to add as H2 subtitles with variants of the H1.</p> <p>When you finish, you can show me one page to let me test it.</p> <p>Hope it help</p> <p>Claudio</p></title>

Dear Jim,

The ALT and TITLE on images are essential, but your page also needs text, text is the most important SEO tool at this time, so you should be describe in deep these homes, also you can add text such as "this home is ideal for ... ", etc. but think in "Good Text is the king for SEO"

Hope it helps

Claudio

Hello,

You should include your sitemap.xml on the root of the site, it should include all pages crawleable from the root.

Also I recommend on your robots.txt file include the line: Sitemap: http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml

This xml file is one of your most important files to rank well.

Hope it help

Claudio

Hello Patrick,

NEVER reuse content from one site on other site and in your particular case take care about a few things.

1. NO content sharing between your sites.

2. REMOVE any link between them.

3. MOVE the penalized site to another IP very different to the your prosun.com.

4. Finally abandon the welproma.com if you can.

Hope it helps

Claudio

Hello Armin,

You should use only one H1 tag on your page, the recommendation is include on it the page title (title tag).

Also you can use other H2 and H3 etc, no limitations but you should care about keyword dilusion and care about not sound as keyword spammer.

Actually I'm using one H1 identical to my title tag, and two or three H2's

Hope it help

Claudio

Hello Jim,

You can do these simple steps:

1. Fill the ALT elements of your images be descriptive NO SPAM, usually short sentences with important keywords.

2. You can describe the images (200 words), also you can invite others to review these images, etc.

Hope it helps.

Claudio

It is my point of view, on 2011 I bought an expensive  PR package on a reputable PR site and the traffic comming from the PR's was very low and also the value of these links was low too, so I recommend again put this money and effort in a social channels campain it will be more valuable in terms of traffic (targeted traffic) and also link value, authority etc.

PR sites has been absolutelly deprecated by Google and also the traffic comming from them is always less than espected.

This is my personal point of view

PS.: In the 90's we were buying PR packages and our rank was increased in a few weeks, today the rank is not affected by PR sites.

Hope it helps

Hello,

You can change your keywords at any time you want, taking these steps:

1. Modify the page title tag.

2. Modify the page description tag.

3. modify the content according the new keywords.

Take special care about perform this task in several weeks, because your traffic will drop, and will be increased in the time ranking for the new keywords.

Hope it helps

Hello,

The canonical looks fine, also you should be ensure your internal links which should point to the canonical version of your page, also the external links count (they should link to your canonical version).

Also you can include the robots clause on your short version as NOINDEX,FOLLOW.

It will resolve your problem

Hope it helps

Claudio

Recovery from Link Penalty (manual or algorithm) procedure:

1. Collect inboud links from Google Webmaster Tools + Moz link explorer + Link Majestic.

2. Include all domains in a Excel worksheet.

3. Contact site owners asking for link removal (usually 5% of sucess, but the effort counts for Google).

4. Wait several weeks for the removal of the links.

5. Fill a disavow file and upload it to Google https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main?pli=1

6. Wait for 3 or 6 weeks and start a link building campain starting with a few links per week and increase it if you can (only natural links comming from authority sites related to your niche).

Recovers from Content problems.

1. Look for repetitive title and descriptions, use Google Webmaster Tools and Moz.

2. Look for pages with similar or identical content and fix it.

3. Look for pages with less than 200 words of convent and add content or simply remove them (404).

4. Add new fresh and original content.

Google will consider your effort and it will be increasing your rank step by step.

I hope it helps

Claudio

Hello,

I'm working on the same niche (software), the best practice from my point of view is ALWAYS use the same page, and update it according the new release of the product, never remove (you're losing inbound links, Authority and even other important trust factors.

Only is recommended "remove" the discontinued products as by including a 301 to the most similar product page on your site and also take care about never redirect all your discontinued pages to the home page (a very common error).

I hope it helps

Claudio

Hello,

The Google PR has been deprecated, the time in time it is updated by Google, when I'm looking for good links, I prefer to see other indicators in this order:

1. Google PR (only if it is PR=0) - site potentially penalized.

2. Domain Authority / Page authority.

3. Alexa Rank (give an idea about the site traffic and its authority).

I hope it helps

Dear Morris,

After the Google Panda and Penguin updates, the value of the links has varied, Google has deprecated 100% the links comming from PR sites, (They are no natural links) at this time from Google point of view you're buying these links, even some reputable paid directories don't add any value (you pay and you get listed).

Google now is looking for other signals such as Google+, Facebook likes etc. the link building has changed.

I recommends to put you effort on social channels especially Google+ and second on Facebook.

I hope it helps

Claudio

Hello Ryan,

You can try Alexa, it gives you an estimate of the site traffic and it is free-cost

Thank you for your response, I have a few questions:

1. heatmapping tool (you refer to sitemap.xml and it submitted to Google) ?

2. Remove options withing template layout, do you thing we can remove on the category pages the links included into the head (starting with Home ... Promo Codes) and the other starting with MAC OS ... Flash ?

3. Also use less pagination actually we are using 14 pagination links (remove them to 5)?

Waiting for your ideas

Thank you

Claudio

Dear Takeshi,

This is the Home Page http://tinyurl.com/5v9hrql (PR=5) which links to the first category Audio and Multimedia (PR=4) http://tinyurl.com/m8c8zzz and it links to the related subcategories all PR=0 for example Rippers and Converters http://tinyurl.com/la9cjcl the same occurs with all subcategory pages across the site, any idea or suggestion, I feel something is wrong and I can't figure what.

Claudio