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You should check if you are ranked within the top 1000 pages on google.com (add &num=100 to the URL to see 100 SERP results at a time).  If you are ranked just not in the top spots, as Irving said you are merely not geotrageted for the US in the eyes of Google.

However, if your site is not in the top 1000 spots it is likely because of a specific google penalty.

Hi,

Just to clarify - my company sells geo-location specific products that can usually only be sold to people living in the local country.  The sites will therefore be something such as:

Widgets in Australia

Widgets in UK

Widgets in South Africa

Do you think having them be hosting on separate IPs be a high priority (currently they are scheduled to all be hosted on the same IP and changing the strategy will be one of those SEO vs R&D discussions)

They are more like satellite sites.  We are starting with 2 sites but it will probably be about 30-40 within the next year.

My company is planning "white label" subsites with unique URLs.

Should these sites be unique IPs in order to use them for link building?

I think my site is being spammed by someone using adf.ly to direct crappy links to my site.

Does anyone have experience with them and how to find out who could possibly be harming my site through them?

How do I change the code in my URL to search in Google by specific location?

Thanks for the tip!

However, the Traffic Estimater seems very geared towards PPC not SEO and that it can only give me the potential of a single not keyword, but comparison of many keywords or assistance expanding my list.

Am I missing something? This seems like something that should be relatively easy....

I want to find out keyword research about a specific US State but Google's tool only gives me data by Country.

Is there something else I can use?

Thanks Alice, but my question is about the page where the article is linked from not the actual article itself ( which 100% is staying indexed )

The news articles themselves are not thin content, but the general pages are relatively thin because they only consist of the link + snippet.

My website published about 3 news articles a day and is set up so that old news articles can be accessed through a "back" button with articles going to page 2 then page 3 then page 4, etc... as new articles push them down.  The pages include a link to the article and a short snippet.

I was thinking I would want Google to index the first 3 pages of articles, but after that the pages are not worthwhile.  Could these pages harm me and should they be noindexed and/or added as a canonical URL to the main news page - or is leaving them as is fine because they are so deep into the site that Google won't see them, but I also won't be penalized for having week content?

Thanks for the help!

When I add an image to a Facebook post (for a FanPage) does it need to be something I own or have credited, or can I use whatever images I like?

Is this something that is at all monitored?

Thanks!

Yes, and it's great for finding blogs in unrelated industries that will publish my articles.

But my question is more if those links are valuable and if not suggestions for how to get more valuable/relevant ones.

But that is exactly my problem...

When I do that all I get is a bunch of junk.

Guest blogging seems to be one of the few legit linking methods left these days.

My problem is that I work for a company in the gaming industry niche.

All of the blogs directly connected are either spam, competitors or affiliates.

I have been doing some guest blogging with connected articles on non-related blogs such as "financial advice if you win big" or a recent news story for a general blog.

However, these sites are not connected and I cannot get the more quality general sites interested in these topics.

Any advice for me?

thanks Chris - was about to answer that as well.

So nothing really that can be done until the disavow tool is developed?

I have affiliate websites that are harming for one of 2 reasons:

1. They are on adult websites (and I don't want to be in a bad neighborhood)

or

2. They are using a Frameset (so their content appears identical to mine and I am getting "credit" for all their junk links)

I cannot get these websites to remove our links so I have blocked their IPs on our production firewall.

Is this an effective method or should I do something else with these links?

I have a very strong affiliate network.

Currently all my affiliate links go to a subdomain with a 301 redirect to my site.

I have somewhat of a linking profile besides affiliates, but it is not as strong as the affiliate site.

Are my affiliates enhancing my linking profile and helping me?

Or

Does it look to Google like I am benefiting from "paid links" and they would prefer I add NOFOLLOW or a 302 to my affiliate links?

Thanks for your help!

I emailed a directory asking to have my link removed and they responded that it costs $20.

Does anyone have experience paying to remove links? I would never do this on a mass scale, but for individual links is it worthwhile or a waste of money?