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Title says it all really... if a site has a normal H1 and a bunch of:

class="h1">...... tags as well, does this count as more than one H1 tag even though it's not really an H1 tag??

Yeah that does clear things up in my head... do you think it's always the case though. I mean with blogs yeah I reckon it is massively, but on normal informational sites you tend to see a lot of links to "useful information" types stuff in sidebars... i.e. A website about planning permission for houses that would link to the local council for regulations, etc...

I'm just wondering if the slurry of poor content blogs with contextual links that ensued the discussions on block level a few years back has resulted in the whole idea being scaled back.

Again I would rule out the footer altogether as it will I'm sure always be considered a place where no decent link would be put. But to me, a sidebar link could be of more importance to the user than one within the content... in a sense like it's more something a site is offering users to see, standing out from the content if that makes sense.

Kind of like what you said with the list of great resources, would you usually find that in the content window? I often see them in the sidebar.

Just to clarify though, I think "When crap links to crap the position of the link does not matter." is totally right but would you say "When quality links to quality the position of the link does not matter." was absolutely the case, or do you think it does matter a bit, just not loads?

I got to thinking earlier... I know obviously footer links are always going to be the bottom of the barrel but does the rest of block level analysis still mean as much... I mean, everybody went nuts with getting in-content links only so there's a billion and one badly written spammy blogs with useless content on just for the sake of getting in-content links instead of blogroll/sidebar links. I just wonder if maybe due to that, things might have levelled out a bit for link location and we hadn't noticed... or at least there's not been much discussion over it lately.

Thoughts anyone?

It's okay... I should have deleted this question. I brought it up in another thread and Rand was like "Wha?" so I checked again and it turns out I was being moronic and must have dreamed the issue up from nowhere lol.

Thank you anyway hehe... see, you guys are that good with support you're even there to fix problems that imagined!!

Yeah they're just not top level TLD's. I don't think it's a huge no-no as I've got those TLD's to rank before but there's certainly some disadvantage due to the amount of spam sites that use them. If your content is good enough though then it shouldn't matter

Hmm, I was going to say it might be a little difficult to get first for that though... especially with a .info

But then I looked at what is first now (in the UK) and it's an ad-heavy awful site: http://teaser-trailer.com/movies-2012.html

So I will eat my words... thought you'd be up against RottenTomatoes, IMDB, Wiki and all the production companies like Warner Bros, MGM, etc... but apparently not lol

Double post... I only clicked one though so... random!

Also, yukky windows servers hehe

Hehe I was going non www to www wasn't I, I should learn to read properly, well spotted!

You've just missed the "on" at the end of the first line and have it at the start of the 2nd I think (not sure if that matters). So,

RewriteEngine On

And then take the www off the second line. So,

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com

You're right of course, they're exactly the same... I could have sworn there were more factors in one than the other a couple of weeks back.

No wonder you weren't sure what I meant, it made no sense lol

Thanks Rand

Yeah I think it's almost difficult to see it anyway as it's so random and isn't affecting the SERP's in general... it just seems to be literally "some" SERPs. I wish I could give an example.

Maybe I'm just becoming more and more paranoid lol

I mean, like the complete opposite of what Panda is supposed to be doing...

We've just had a discussion here and each went through a bunch of examples of sites that have sprung up and are ranking with the worst, spammiest backlink profiles ever, and poor content with little to zero on-page SEO.

It's not accross the board by any means, and certainly there is no obvious pattern but there were a fair few examples we just looked at (I best not provide them for ethical reasons).

It just "feels" like there's something going on...

Could be awesome for Moz... think of all those potential new Pro memberships! People that exclusively used YSE that now need an alternative, testing out OSE, seeing how good it is and checking out the 30 day free trial then staying once they realise what they've been missing

In the theme of Keith's "While I have your attention..." On the campaign on-page report cards, could we have something (at some point) implemented so that we can input upto three keywords instead of just one?

Also, are you aware that there are more results fed back for the on-page reports when using it as an external tool rather than going through the campaign manager?

Hehe you're going to wish you did answer the question in here as more people use the "While I have your attention..."

I was just thinking, now that YSE is finally about to become no-more, that's likely to mean OSE and Majestic get an influx of people who previously used that mostly... I wonder if there will be numbers enough to clog things up and slow things down?

Maybe it just seems like their are millions of us SEO's in giant herds marauding the plains of the web when in-fact there's not that many of us really, and we get a distorted, non-relative view of numbers due to being immersed in it.

There's definitely ten times more than there was three years ago... I know some of you old fogies (just kidding) have been going a lot longer than that but the UK had a tiny fraction of agencies offering SEO of what it does now.

*I reckon there should be a new question topic added for people like me, called random nonsense or something... I didn't know what to select for this question