What about using another TLD but exact match and the 'Use Facebook as my website' feature? Depends what you're testing for really.

I'm pretty sure that when I registered a new domain and set up a FB page on the same day the FB page outranked it, but after a few days the site was on top so if there's any links between the site and the social pages (and back again) I presume Google can actually figure it out.

PM me your email and I'll invite you

Definitely host it on the company website, unless you're doing something risqué with the blog.

Your blog is going to be collecting links, you will probably want to be using it as a hub for other social activity and it's much easier to convert people by directing them around the site than it is to get them to go there in the first place.

Using Blogger or WordPress.com limits a lot of what you can do, plus you're then accumulating links into a domain you don't control.

As for using the blog to point links to your main site, well that's not usually the best strategy either - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-the-microsite-mistake

If your set up absolutely prevents you from doing it on the site then go for a self-hosted blog.

Can't you make your own private index in Copyscape and compare content against just that?

If you're comparing a lot of pages 1to1 though, I guess that would be tedious.

Compare and merge feature in Word? Not really going to work how I suspect you want though.

Yeah, private copyscape index if it's only a few pieces.

How long has it been like that? Do you track daily and the trend has been up/down or is this just a spot check?

I've not seen such dramatic swings before, but it does happen. Can you add the opposite phrase in the title somewhere?

"Location keyword - Get keyword in Location"

or something similar (recommended keyword in location, buy keyword in location) without it looking out of place?

That should bring it back more in line.

Has somebody linked to you with "location keyword" anchor text to push that version up?

Or have competitors been working on "keyword location" and not the other way round?

Hard to tell really and I'm not sure how to test it

Ah, the wonderful world of gambling SEO

Unfortunately not going to give you all my secrets on here but I'll give you a few pointers (I'm nice that way).

Get more social. Brand signals and getting people to talk about you is a moderate indicator that you're not completely rogue.

Off the back of that I'd make some more, non-promo led content. Looking at your site (y mi español no es muy buena) all your content seems to be promo driven. Get some content up people want to share and link to.

As an affiliate, you really need to offer 'more' to your user base. Give them tools to track their play or have exclusive offers or set up something like a shop they can earn points for based on their play. Ultimately there are 1000 affiliate sites they could use why are they going to recommend yours (and by recommend I mean talk about and link to).

Gambling SEO requires a creativity based almost entirely on what you can do to get people talking as (as you've discovered) people consider all links you try and acquire or share yourself as spam. You need people's friends or other people they trust (influencers) to be talking about your site.

Do you mean that there is a single page for both these terms?

So Page A was in position 50 for "keyword + location" & "location + keyword".

"keyword + location" now returns Page A in position 80

"location + keyword" now returns Page A in position 20

If the page is not already listed as a multiple entry for your domain then removing it from the sitelinks will not make it appear there.

The page has to be strong enough on it's own to give you a multiple SERP listing and would appear there even if it did appear in your sitelinks.

Blocking it from the sitelinks would not stop it showing up independantly, but removing it will also do nothing.

Theoretically should work; you can quickly try it to see and change it back if it doesn't work

Doing it your way I've had sites fall over a few times (white page of death), but changing it back fixes things in no time.

Probably the simplest way is to put this in your .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.html
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.html$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

For reference the .htaccess file goes in the root of your domain via whatever file transfer program you use and of course replace example.com with your domain

This also makes sure the non-www redirects to the www.

If you get stuck, let me know

Hmm, this seems about the most hassle free way of doing it Thumbs up.

Hmm, might try - http://tutorialzine.com/2009/10/jquery-twitter-ticker/

For something slightly more complex maybe Juitter and - http://interactive.finelight.com/blog/aggregating-twitter-feeds/

And if you really want to get your hands dirty - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/02/twitter-web-designer-and-developer-toolbox-api-and-tutorials/

Having multiple

tags isn't an issue. Sometimes having multiple

tags is normal for a page and here's Matt Cutts weighing in on it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIn5qJKU8VM

Also

tags aren't a strong ranking factor, check out these links for more info - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-vs-bing-correlation-analysis-of-ranking-elements - and - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-the-biggest-seo-mistakes-seomoz-has-ever-made - BONUS LINK - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/bing-vs-google-prominence-of-ranking-elements

Your

and your title should be editable independantly, though often they may be the same anyway.

Your titles should definitely be different across all of your pages as the <title>tag is still a strong ranking factor. Having multiple pages with the same <title> is not advised.</p></title>

While the license agreement for these themes usually stipulates that you cannot remove the links in the footer, I'd say 90% of people who grab the theme would immediately remove them given the chance.

To counter this coders obfuscate the code in the footer making it uneditable. It's also possible to hide nasty code in there at the same time (though that's probably more rare these days).

It's not too difficult to get around though - http://wordpress.org/support/topic/decoding-a-theme-footer?replies=38 - depending how it's done.

I personally would never use a theme that had obfuscated code, even after decoding it to make sure it wasn't dodgy. I just seems scummy from the outset.

I get 73 by putting it into http://www.yellowpipe.com/yis/tools/lynx/lynx_viewer.php

This attempts to replicate what search engines see when they visit your page.

I get 85 on a manual count (add this links etc) and there's probably a few others that are actually duplicated within the same section (titles and image both clicking to the same place for example).

And I get bang on 100 if count the number of href's in your code (include style sheets etc).

So I would assume the SEOmoz tool is pretty much right in what it's telling you.

However, don't worry too much about having a little over 100 as it's not a hard and fast rule. Check this video out from Matt Cutts - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6g5hoBYlf0

Hi krishrun, I would say not really.

a) Your link will be in the footer

b) Your link will be on lots of non-relevant sites

c) Chances are the developer with use base64 encoding to obfuscate the links in the footer and even if you trust them other might not, either removing the obfuscated section (as it's possible to hide malicious code) or otherwise not using it

It did work quite well for a while, but I wouldn't go out of my way to do it now.

302's won't be passing link juice the same way as a 301 does (or really at all).

Links to mydomain .com won't be counted as a link to en.mydomain .com, however, depending on your set up you may still be getting some of the domain authority to it (as in the search engines can see it's obviously the same domain). I wouldn't be relying on this however.

Do you want the English language version to be more popular than the Spanish? I assume it's too late to make the subdomain the es. version?

I would say Hootsuite might be better for that sort of number than Tweetdeck.

I do like Tweetdeck, but not as much as Hootsuite for multiple accounts.

Genius!

That's my weekend sorted getting internet PHDs and becoming a doctor in useless stuff to get links on edus.

I may or may not be joking <- poker face

According to your example, external links drain page rank.

Every link, whether internal or external gets the same juice to it.

Theoretically

EDIT: Better show my working since it didn't save last time

Whiteboard Friday - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-the-juice-is-loose

No Follow advice (but has nice diagrams to help you understand) - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-maybe-changes-how-the-pagerank-algorithm-handles-nofollow

Bonus thoughts - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/pagerank-link-patterns-the-new-flow-of-link-juice