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www.clinickv.com  - Competitor www.versaillesdentalclinic.com - My website

Recently I did a research of one of mine competitors and to my surprise his major backlinks located on seo directories like:

• http://alistdirectory.com/
• http://www.ggfb.org/
• http://www.bitterskank.com/
• http://www.directorypage.net/

And .... he is showing on first page of Google by particular keyword "Dentist Dubai". Frankly speaking I am confused a little bit, because I believe that this SEO strategy has stopped working a long time ago. Could someone share with me his thought about this?

Furthermore all of those websites are asking about a Reciprocal link, which I did find on his website. How he did it?

Thanks,

Russel

Yes, you can do it from time to time. I once did a study of one of my major competitors and to my surprise I found a few good links it in the comments!

But if page has been created a long time ago then it might take a long time (aprox. 1 month) for Google to index it again!

Cheers,

Russel

Hi Mihaly,

The life live in Dubai is great It is a perfect place for me since I don't like winter time at all.
It is a beautiful city with a great culture and places to see and enjoy! If you get a chance in future to visit Dubai, don't lose it! Business here growth very fast, only during one year there are around 20 SEO companies appear on the market And all of them pretend that they are Professionals.

Cheers,

Russel

Hi there,

First of all make sure that you use particular keywords in anchor text, in order to increase their placing in SERP.

For example if your keyword is "Donuts in Dubai" then make sure that you use this words in your anchor text. 
In case if you will simply put the website link, then it will make an impact only on your Domain Authority but not on keyword ranking!

For the forum you can do it in same manner. The link can be at the beginning of the text, middle or end.

You can't do anything in terms of  increasing the possibility of indexing this page by Google. It depends on Page Authority, quality of the website, popularity of the text on this page and even on qty of backlinks to this page.

Cheers,

Russel

Hi Mihaly,

First of all congratulate you with the start Hope you will get a lot of fans and followers. Let me try to answer your question, actually there is a lot of ways, and different opinions.

• You can post at least one article per day or even more, depend on how fast you can get an interesting information and convert it into unique article!

• Actually if you have a new blog and fresh domain, which doesn't have history in front of Google, than I recommend you to build not more than 50 links per week!

• Of course to get better positions in Google, make sure that you are following simple steps:

1. Make sure that On-page optimization and keywords density are fine, for this you can use SEOmoz tools on any other additional software!

http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization/new

2. Install the Google Webmaster tools and make sure that you doesn't have any problems with HTML, duplicate titles and etc. That your blog can be indexed well.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/

3. Try to make sharing easy and add social plugins like AddThis and etc. Nowadays Google likes to see social plugins installed on the blogs.

http://www.addthis.com/

4. Of course no need to mention that content should be unique! And don't forget about cross linking, it gives you an extra point for SEO.

5. Read some interesting articles from SEOmoz oracles like Rand Fishkin Here is his recently added one:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/21-tactics-to-increase-blog-traffic-2012

6. Don't forget about account on Twitter, Facebook and add a feed to your website.

I am sure there are some more good things you can do, but this is a bunch from me, the rest you will get from others

Cheers,

Russel

Yes you are right Of course on PDF file the link will be more secured, but it is not comfortable to adjust the text there. So the best option still will be MS word, the when the editing will be finished, you can convert the doc into PDF.

I am sure you know that you can't simply copy the text from PDF on website because text in MS word has hidden coding and it might mess your HTML!

Cheers, Russel

Dear Saurabh,

There is a very low chance that those links might leave a negative impact on your website, because the anchor text doesn't match with your website subject at all. So I think that Google will simply ignore these links. Of course there is always a way to send an email asking to remove the link from the website but not in your case, where you have 9000 links

The best what you can do in this case is to get some valuable links from trusted websites with relevant information, thereby you will get some credibility in front of the Google!

Hope it will make sense to you,

Cheers ,

Russel

Dear Edward,

I will suggest you to keep the docs in Word format, because this is the easiest format for adjusting the text and adding the hyperlinks!

Also make sure that your article doesn't have more than 3 links, because then your article might not bring any value for SEO. Meanwhile the recent research shows that the highest value will bring the link located in the first paragraph! So if you have for ex. the keyword "Roller skates", try to locate this anchor text with the link in the first paragraph.

Hope it will make sense to you,

Cheers,

Russel

If search engine robot can't read this information then it means that it is useless for search engine optimization. It will only help to increase your brand name population !

The best way to check is to place an image with your details on your website. Then open Google Webmaster tools open it as a Google bot. I am pretty sure that it can't read this hidden information.

Cheers,

Russel

Actually any image which has a URL (without "No-follow tag") pointing to your website brings SEO value, specially if it has ALT text with your particular keyword, which you want to rank well in SERP!

But from another side if website with this image is not relevant to yours then the value will be very low, may be even zero.

Cheers,

Russel

Hi there,

Actually links from Facebook don't carry any value for Search Engine Optimization! Because all of them closed with "No-follow" tag and images as well! So don't spend your time on it and try to find some relevant websites for your industry and place your links there, and you'll see the result.

However strong Facebook page for your company may bring you some extra inquiries and make a good impact for your brand !

Cheers,

Russel

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Also which hosting to choose it might be a very delicate problem and each user solve it randomly! Because each of us have different vision of ideal web hosting!

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It has a big variety of sharing and dedicated web hosting with detailed review and features for each one.

Hope it will make sense for you.

Russel

Hi Patrick,

You might be interested in this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Winning-Results-Google-AdWords-Goodman/dp/0072257024

I've read it recently and found quite interesting and educated.

If you are new to Google Adwords you might be interested in this:

http://support.google.com/adwords/?hl=en

If you are not running SEO agency and want to learn how to create and configure Adwords campaign without lose of money, then the beginner guide will be more then enough.

Hope it will make some sense to you.

Hi everyone,

I've heard many times that keyword prominence in url have a good impact for on-page optimization, even in SEOmoz it is one of the on-page factors.  But what if i put keyword in URL then some of the page weight will be targeted to the page in the URL. Which in my vision makes only a negative impact.

For ex. Targeted page <a>with keyword "buy car in NY" has a link with anchor text "buy car in NY" pointing on page **, so some weight from A will be transferred to B.

Also I think this subject  cover a cross linking, so I would like to know, what is the right way of doing cross linking and does it still brings any impact on keyword rankings in SERP.**</a>

<a>**Good answer will be appreciated.

Cheers,

Russel**</a>

If you have access to your .htaccess file then there are plenty of methods how you can do this.

Write this in your .htaccess file:

redirect 301 /index.html/ http://www.yoursite.com

Dear Brian,

Unfortunately there are no ways to get such a report using any free tools in INTERNET. One of those software who are able to display Google Rankings with Google Analytics together is Advanced Webranking Report. Their new version 8.6 is able to pull out nice graphic reports from Google analytics.

Also you can check this staff, it might help you to find what you are looking for:

http://www.authoritylabs.com/
http://www.link-assistant.com/rank-tracker/
http://raventools.com/internet-marketing-tools/serp-tracker/
http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/rank-checker/

Cheers,

Russel

You can try to check here:

http://ginva.com/2011/04/108-free-css-menu-designs/

or here:

http://www.noupe.com/css/100-great-css-menu-tutorials.html

Hope it help.

Cheers,

Russel

Dear Lee,

According to the link farm I can't really agree with you that they became useless and doesn't drive any result. Of course you need to know which link farms to use and how to use. Following this we can't exclude the presence of any penalties on the domain name which effect on growth of the particular keywords. Usual it takes from 6 month to 2 years for penalties to be removed in some case you need to contact with Google Support regarding this.

About domain authority, you can measure it only if you remember which number it has before changes (according for ex. to SEOmoz bar) and which number is now.

Also I need to say that if you are using link farms still you should do really stupid things there to get a penalty from Google. My feelings that it might be some problems with on-page optimization or the keyword competitions are high and links which you got for them are not enough. Try to measure competition and develop a strategy and be tolerant because after adjustments you can't see immediate effect.

Thanks,

Russel

If Google robot can crawl this page and index it then of course it will be treated like any other page and the content will be count as duplicated. Let him at least to rewrite it.