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Dear friend,

1. Panda = "Pour quality content" usually duplicate content with other sites or pages with small amount of content.

2. Penguin= "Unnatural Links "

If you suspect about 1 and 2 try to work hard to resolve these issues first.

... And later check other things, I have some sites with very pour html and great content and natural links and they are ranking great.

Remember the Google recommendation "useful content for visitors= more external links (votes)" which means high quality site.

Hope it help

As usual you're very clear

Thank you

Claudio

Dear all,

I was removing tons of old pages from my directory (about 400 pages), I was setingup a 404 custom page, all is fine, so when I go to an existing page I get a 404 and redirected to my 404 page.

The problem is Google Webmaster tools list all these pages as 404, and never clean my list (1 year til now), so I assume something is wrong.

Question what is the best way or natural to remove old pages from one directory?

Note: previously I tryed add on these pages the NOINDEX/NOFOLLOW meta tag and I got from google Soft-404.

Thank you

Yes, 100% agree Irving comment about the IP's (same network), also google looks the domain registration owner to determine if both sites comming from the same person or company.

Hope it help

You're looking as a link schema from google point of view, you should remove all links between A and B, google nows both sites (domains) are owned by the same person.

Hope it help

Dear Pedro,

I agree 100% about one link is better than zero, but they are paid links and you know what google say about paying for links.

Claudio

The site to be improved after Google Penguin is freesharewaredepot.com actually it has SEOMOz domain authority only 56 and I know it is very low compared with other similar directories.

We need to get quality links from reputable directories, so I was thinking paid for inclusion in yahoo and other reputable directories and for us $300 by/Yr is not expensive at this time.

So I should paid for inclusion and it can help to extend our link profile and SERP ?

Thank you

I tryed in the past several submissions to DMOZ with no success, Now I'll paid $300 for inclusion on yahoo directory (yearly) this could help our site to get more domain authority?

What do you think, Im paying for inclusion and google say "natural links will be taken into account" ?

Claudio

Dear all,

One of my sites currently is not listed on yahoo directory, my question is from the natural linking perspective is really fine for SERP improvement to be listed there supposing this is a paid inclusion?

My doubt is google say "Natural links" and to be included in yahoo I'll paying for.

Really is a good choice or not ?

Thank you for your valuable opinions

Claudio

Dear Irving,

Im very interested in your concept could you explain in depth or give me any source or link where to learn about.

Because canonical from my point of view is a controversial thing.

I'll appreciate your help

Claudio

Dear Nakul,

About the image sitemap, what do you recommend :

1. use the attribute on the current sitemap withing the prop or build a separate sitemap for images.

To be honest Im not sure what is the best way and Im worry about sitemap related issues

Waiting your response

Claudio

Dear Collin,

I agree 100% with my mates, but I want to add some of my experience, for years I was doing this :

1. the exactly content of your title tag (I assume you're using your most important keywords) should be in the H! tag and this H1 tag should be as close to tag as is possible (prominence) you can use only one H1 tag on the page.

2. The use the H2 tag is optional and you can use it two or more times (no bother), usually I use two H2 tags with keywords related to my H1 (main keyword).

In the past months I was feeling the H2 is not important as in the past, and google now disagree with "over optimization" thats mean "pages with perfect keywords distribution, prominence and density".....

So you should use your primary keyword in the title tag and H1 tag and optionally H2 tags, the key is original and useful content for visitors.

Hope this help

Claudio

Dear Friend,

You can do this by browsing on your WEB log files and looking for the string "http://www.google.com/bot.html"

How often your site is crawled by google depends on many factors ie.:

1. How often you add or modify content.

2. How many links are pointing to your site.

3. and more.

In my experience this crawler freq. is a good signal of active and quality site.

Hope it help

Claudio

Dear George,

In the past I was dealing with the same issue, to solve it I implement these 2 fix :

1. Canonical tag ie.:

rel="canonical" href="http://www.yourdomain.com/your-page.asp">

This tell the Search engines specially google the page is the referred as canonical

http://www.yourdomain.com/your-page.asp

http://www.yourdomain.com/your-page.asp?page=1

http://www.yourdomain.com/your-page.asp?page=2

from google perspective these pages are http://www.yourdomain.com/your-page.asp (canonical)

2. On each page I add (dynamically) Page # on both title and description meta tags

<title></span><span>Your page title - Page: 1</span><span></title>

name="description" content="Your page Description meta tag etc etc - Page: 1">

This resolve the problem on both, HTML issues in Google WMT and the rank flow because you're joining all pages into the root page.

Hope this hepl

Claudio

My Friend,

I was having the exactly same problem, and finally my solution was add at operating system level the "Read-Only" attribute for this file.

Hope it help

Claudio