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Can't see anything wrong at first glance, your meta robots is fine, but I can't see robots.txt, though I doubt you have anything preventing a crawl there.

It would seem that Roger simply hasn't crawled your site or found more than those 2 links, the SEOmoz crawl is not the same as Google's crawl so one would expect differences. The links I can see come from reasonably obscure Yell pages and forums so those pages may have not been crawled by Linkscape and therefore won't show up.

I would take it at face value and assume that there hasn't been enough links found to warrant a crawl yet. I would also guess that by adding it to the campaign manager that it will appear in the next updated index (though still may not show many links).

I've been unable to edit my comments here for about a week

Just me or is it like this for everyone?

Tried FF 4, Chrome, IE 9, Safari and iPhone Safari. Just get the loading icon.

If it's just me I'll submit a bug report.

Hi Paulo,

I can't think of any way to objectively measure whether it would make a difference or not, however, just putting my mind to work on it, there is a small possibility that it could be included in a trust algorithm; spammers are unlikely to be paying the extra to use them.

Anycast DNS may also mean your site has a better uptime rate when parts of the Internet go down or be very slightly faster but I don't think it's worth doing just from a SEO perspective.

The DNS isn't really to do with where something is hosted but how the information flows across the web. Basically name servers are like an address book for the web. In fact read the start of this wiki article.

You are correct though that having a .pt domain and being hosted in Portugal would be beneficial for SEO.

The link limit is 100 suggested by matt cutts.

No it's not The 100 link limit suggestion was removed a while ago, though it's is indeed best not to go wild with it.

But the more pages that you link from your home page and back to your home pge the better the home page will rank.

This isn't really true either. If that were the case I could just make a site with 1,000,000 pages all linking back to the homepage and expect to rank. Whereas actually the only way I'll get value to flow back up to the homepage is to attract links to these 1,000,000 pages from external sites.

To be fair, your site isn't really overly slow.

www.appliance-repair-ny.com loads in an average of 3.9 seconds and is 194kb
www.all-appliance-repair-ny.com loads in an average of 5.6 seconds and is 327kb
www.newyorkappliancerepair.net loads in an average of 1.5 seconds and is 115kb

And I think that's from Sweden. Your server is in Arizona so will be quicker from NY.

You could gzip your css, but it's not going to really give you a big improvement.

Yes, shared hosting will always be slower than a dedicated server but for the cost I don't think it will be worth going for a dedicated server and CDN delivery.

If you really wanted to track it you could add webmaster tools and (do you not have analytics on the page?) _gaq.push(['_trackPageLoadTime']); into your Google Analytics. This would let you see what times Google thought your page was loading in.

Speed is unlikely to be a defining ranking factor for you and you should concentrate your efforts more on acquiring links, reviews, and local optimisation.

The more link on a page the less value each one carries. For a visualisation check out the images here.

So going from 30 to 80 is obviously going to devalue the authority of each link, however it should mean there are less 'clicks' the bots have to go through to get to all your pages so may increase the number of pages indexed.

Navigation links are (apparently) often recognised by Google Bot anyway, and the links from them are treated differently to links within content.

If it's going to be a better user experience by having these links then I'd definitely go for it as I don't think it will have a big negative impact (I have sites with over 100 nav links and it gets crawled fine and ranks well).

As for the footer links, traditionally links in footers haven't carried much value (having been spammed in theme marketing) but again it should be fine to have.

You could also start coding your page with HTML tags using things like nav and footer, as I anticipate that links and content in these new section types will eventually have SEO implications a little down the line.

Multiple 301s to a single page aren't really a problem, often if content consolidation is going on you'll be redirecting several pages to one.

Redirecting them to something has got to be better than just having them as 404s. Ideally though you'd send it to your new about page (or whatever the most closely related content page you still have is).

You don't really get 'penalized' for duplicate content.

If somebody is searching for content that is identical on 2+ different sites, then it may simply be that only one will be included in the SERPs, however you should not receive a penalty for having the same content.

If possible you should have some sort of differentiation between the sites though.

Almost definitely canonicals here. You might want to read this for when Dr. Pete did it for his own site - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/catastrophic-canonicalization and now that Google take into account cross domain canonicals - http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/12/handling-legitimate-cross-domain.html and http://www.seomoz.org/blog/cross-domain-canonical-the-new-301-whiteboard-friday - you're effectively saying that all those other sites ARE your site.

Only option is to take them off and (I assume by legal you simply mean best practise SEO) you don't actually have to do anything. If your site or another site ranks that's up to Google's algorithms. If you're not going to differentiate the content then there's not much else you can do.

Can I do whole dynamic lines?

I'm using this now but not quite what I'm after doesn't seem significantly easier though if it had an auto-fill function it'd be good.

Thanks.

I'm not great with PPC stuff so this might be obvious or impossible but...

Using the standard adwords interface is there anyway to give it X headlines, Y first lines and Z second lines which it will then rotate until it finds the best combination?

Alternatively, if I was to create these ads in Excel or similar, is there an easy way to upload all the different ads?

Did you just copy code from Digital Point or have SEOmoz started putting ads in?

The nofollow should in theory stop bots wandering around the https version once they're on there, so can't hurt.

I think you're best redirecting the https version though if you don't need it at all.

Can you just redirect the https to the http version?

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$ [OR]

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

I can't edit this post at the moment for some reason, but will include Vince when I can. This was definitely a big change, can't believe I forgot!

The problem here is you've not told the robots to noindex the https version, you've simply said they're not allowed to crawl it, but if they see a link go to there they know it exists in some capacity. What you need is the robots noindex tag on all these pages.

If you have some way of differentiating the https pages in your template then you just need to add

to the header.

If you can't then you can try to do it by putting this bit of php in your header

if ($_server['https] == "on") {
echo ";
}

?>

I would guess there's some dangers in that doing bad stuff to your site, so make sure and test it. If it appears on all your pages take it off immediately!

It depends. What's written into the agreement?

If they've built links on other people's sites then it will probably be too much of a hassle to contact all of them and ask them to remove it, so it will either naturally run out (if it's paid and you're not given the contact details) or remain there for the rest of it's natural life.

Alternatively if they run the sites they've been building links on (and it is the easiest way to guarantee clients will get links on sites) then they may remove them to make way for new clients links. I've certainly seen this happen.

It's important to note that Google doesn't overly care how quickly you get links, but it will certainly notice if you lose a lot quickly! Aa it means you've either bought them and they've expired or something has happened to make people lose trust in your site, either way it's going to raise some flags and possibly have someone look a little bit closer into your link profile.

Double check what's been agreed, find out who owns the sites the links have been built on and speak with the agency before you do it. If they're reputable I doubt they'll try and screw you over.