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It's good to have internal links through-out the body copy (not too many though) as long as they point to relevant pages within the site... just not using the anchor text of the keyword for the page you're on... if that makes sense

If, through your on and off-page SEO your telling Google that page x is relevant for keyword y, then the last thing you want to do is link out of that page with keyword y as the anchor text.

If you think about it, it's confusing for the search engine... everything your telling it is that for keyword y, see page x. Then, on page x, you have a link which says, actually, see page z for keyword y. You're passing it on to a different page for that keyword through using it as anchor text.

Hope that helps

Aside from the Twitter feed factor, as far as I'm aware there is some issue where only some shorteners pass link juice while others don't. I can't remember where I got that from so I did a search to see and found this (not sure of its credibility though): http://www.kensfi.com/how-url-shorteners-pass-link-juice/

There's some links from SE Land here though which seem to be saying all is well  http://searchengineland.com/twitter-gets-its-own-url-shortener-to-stop-scams-37676

http://searchengineland.com/analysis-which-url-shortening-service-should-you-use-17204

That only really half answers the Q, but interesting none the less I think

It's highly unlikely you'd get problems from it but it's not going to get you much in terms of link juice either. It will some, just not loads... if you make sure you've got a whole bunch of links from other places too then it won't matter

Where I work, we provide hosting as well as SEO and there's quite a few sites all on the same C block that have footer links to us. They do pass some link juice, but they'd do better for us if they were hosted in other places.

There is a solution though. Funnily enough I only just found out myself today (from a Distilled Link Love seminar vid). There's hosting sites that can offer you webspace with different IP blocks and whole different locations.

A couple are: http://www.aseohosting.com/ and http://www.biggest-hosting.com/seo_hosting.html among others.

Hiya,

Your best bet to begin with would be to read the following: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/keyword-research

And go to the Google Adwords Keyword Tool https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Then enter a few keywords you think might be about right. The keyword tool will suggest a bunch of others and show how many people (roughly) search using each word or phrase each month (on average).

It's a good idea to check the box for "Exact Match" on the left to get a close as possible figure.

Other than that, try a few of the keywords in Google and go on to the sites that come up (competitors for those keywords), then right click somewhere on the page (in a blank area around the outskirts) and click "View Source" (or something similar, depending on your browser).

A new page will open. Do CTRL+F to find, and type "Keywords" (without the quotes) then you should find a list of META keywords that site is using it their header. It may not be there though (if they have any sense), and it may not necessarily be good keywords either... it should give you a general feel though if you look through a bunch of them

You don't want the content to be the same, it's still dupe even if in different countries (even if in different languages from what I've read on here once) and whatever you do... don't have a pop up that asks people to choose a country when the page/portal first loads up. Lot's of sites seem to be doing that now with some CMS plug-in, not realising that it makes it difficult for the site to be crawled (Googlebot can't choose and click, etc...). Maybe have a call to action for people to choose location, but don't force it on page load.

I would keep them on their current servers, if you move one to be hosted with the other it will likely affect the rankings for that countries serps.

Don't forget to 301 EVERYTHING!!! So when you change any addresses with the new page URL's you don't lose link juice, etc...

Same... I see "True" or "False" in the first bunch of columns as an indicator of an issue, then many columns along I get the actual URL's.

Thanks Donnie, yeah I contacted Cindy... just didn't know if there was mobile SEO only, instead of Mobile UX. But it sounds like she deals with both.

MarketMotive is the best I've done in terms of not being so targeted at beginners. Plus if you do a Master course, you get to do there other courses at practitioner level (if you do them quickly enough)... meaning some great other learning i.e. Web Analytics by Avinash.

I haven't upgraded so I'm not sure I'm afraid. Maybe try to export the report and see if you get an option?

Hiya,

We have a client who uses us for SEO, and a separate company for web development. They have a fairly large site on a bespoke CMS. They're happy with the site, but the user experience on mobile devices is not right.

Can anybody recommend a company specializing in that area? Preferably a UK company but not essential.

Thanks

Ah, sorry... I should learn to read. Then I have no idea. I haven't even looked at the new Facebook thingy, but there's bound to be something (not that that's a very helpful answer).

Haha, Ryan you make us sound as if we are aliens or something

Run the links used in the campaigns through Google's URL builder tool, and use the generated links for on the campaigns: http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55578

You don't need to do anything else, it'll all just work in conjunction with Google Analytics from there

You can if you upgrade... check the memberships that allow branding on here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/new-seomoz-pricing-plans-more-keywords-for-everyone

I can give you tonnes of examples, I have some affiliate sites I test things with, and we've taken over client sites who had previously had that kind of SEO... It definitely works that way.

Also, we've made the mistake on our own clients.

Buy the new Link Love Videos from Distilled and you'll see that Wil Reynolds goes over it being an issue in his "Pitfalls and Mistakes" video: http://www.distilled.net/store/linklove2011-pitfalls/

No it's fine... you can't help who links to you. If you had thousands of them all within a limited space of time, all with similar anchor text, etc... then yes. But I wouldn't worry at all otherwise

Actually no, and I wouldn't turn down a link due to low DA, PA, etc... we still get whatever links we can, especially if they're fast. What I mean though, is that if we were to spend any real time and resources going after a link... it would be either high quality from a trusted domain, or highly relevant... preferably both. But I don't have any fixed limit, just judge it as the opportunity presents itself I guess (i.e. how much time & resources need to be put into acquiring it). Aside from that, like EGOL just said, the best way to get links is make people want to link to you, without you having to try to get it, from having great content and promoting it in the right places. Link Baiting > Link Building

Also it depends on how good the news content is... if the news is great and interesting stuff it will get lots of links, if it's just company announcements and generic industry news then it probably won't. Same for the videos really... it's not so much what the media for the content is, it's more about what the quality of the content is.

i.e. If you have a great news category that puts out original stuff, but are replacing it with videos that aren't as good as your news then that will negatively affect your SEO. Or if you have mediocre news and are replacing it with great video content, that will positively affect your SEO. If both are good, keep both

High quality every time... we took the strategy some of the time for easier, faster links and have been paying for it since Panda. Luckily we were diverse and didn't use that strategy alone, but it's easy to see that the drops that came about, along with the lack of rising up again for some sites and some keywords is due to links that aren't high value. I keep saying it but I'm sure link value has diminished more for links that aren't relevant. Run of the mill blog links and forum links don't seem to be worth diddly squat now, or links from most article sites.