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Hi,

If you want fast indexation, your best bet is to promote it via Google+, as Google obviously has direct access to that database.

Facebook and Twitter certainly doesn't hurt, but Google+ is usually faster.

Yes, Google rolled out this update globally (which is rare for them to do. I think this is the first time they have done it on a big algo update, but I might be wrong on this one).

Source: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/04/another-step-to-reward-high-quality.html

Hi Lisa,

The only site I work with that runs on Wordpress is my personal blog, http://thogenhaven.com. So I don't need a lot of schema data on it. This being said, WP About Author, does a pretty good rel=author job.

I have also played around with GD star rating, which is good for product stars.

What are you using?

Hi Steve,

Avinash' Web Analytics 2.0 is by far the best place to start IMO: http://www.amazon.com/Web-Analytics-2-0-Accountability-Centricity/dp/0470529393

Two honorable mentions go to Bryan Eisenberg's A/B Testing http://www.amazon.com/Always-Be-Testing-Complete-Optimizer/dp/0470290633/ref=pd_sim_b_7 and Brian Clifton's Advanced Web Analytics: http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Metrics-Google-Analytics-Edition/dp/0470562315/ref=pd_sim_b_5

Overseas as in Europe? I have worked with Distilled (www.distilled.net) on several occasions, and can vouch for them. But there are many good SEO companies. Luckily, SEOmoz did the work and compiled a good resource of good SEO companies: http://www.seomoz.org/article/recommended

Breadcrumbs are usually integrated in the site template. You can also add links in product descriptions when relevant. But you might want to A/B test it, to make sure it doesn't hurt your conversion rate.

If you use Wordpress, you can use this breadcrumb plugin by Yoast: http://yoast.com/wordpress/breadcrumbs/

Hi Greg,

Google usually discover pages via links. So if a page does not have any links, it is hard for Google to discover. This being said, you can try submitting XML sitemaps with the pages to Google, and they might crawl and index them.

However, if a page does not receive any links from your own site, it does signal that you do not consider the page to be particularly good/important, making it quite unlikely that it will rank well.

Hope this helps.

Hi Bill,

I have the same experiences as you. I have tried it for a couple Fan pages to build critical mass. But these pages have had a harder time getting started than pages where I didn't do it.

Thomas

Yes, it seems like Google has penalized a bunch of sites with unnatural link profiles.

Patrick Altoft has written a good post on it yesterday: http://www.branded3.com/seo/the-new-google-link-algorithm/

And both Alan and SEOclient12 are right: Do not send reconsideration request before cleaning up.

Best of luck.

Thomas

I think you need to invest time in implementing schema data eventually. When the SERPs you compete in start being filled up with rich snippets, you will have a hard time getting clicks without them.

Some blog posts report a 30 % higher CTR after marking up their snippets with schema / RDF. See for example: http://searchengineland.com/how-to-get-a-30-increase-in-ctr-with-structured-markup-105830

This being said, I really doubt the validity of such posts. It is very hard to measure, and before/after experiments are almost always flawed.

Hi Stevene,

OpenSiteExplorer - which is powered by Linkscape - is only updated around once a month. So there is some delay between getting links and these links being crawled by SEOmoz.

Furthermore, SEOmoz does not cral the web as deep as Google. Low quality pages (and good pages with very few good links) are not necessarily going to show up in OpenSiteExplorer.

You can see the update calender here: http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/25141119/Linkscape Schedule

3 layers isnt too bad.As long as you have decent domain authority, indexation should be okay.

Just make sure you that all category pages are structured nicely, and link to the pages in the subcategory.

I'll go with this post by Rand: White Hat SEO: It F@$#ing Works

Hi Greg,

In my experiences, direct outreach is better long term strategy than guest blogging sites. Not even do you get access to better blogs, you get a network of people who'll help promote you on social media.

It does take some months to build outreach this way, but totally worth it.

LinkedIn groups seems like a very good idea too!

Thomas

Hi Justin,

I am pretty sure the numbers are extracted directly from FB/Twitter/Google+ APIs. You can, for example, get the raw number for SEOmoz.org FB shares here: graph.facebook.com/http://www.seomoz.org

If you want better data about your competitors, you want to go to Topsy. You can see details about SEOmoz here: analytics.topsy.com/?q=seomoz.org

Thomas

I agree with Robert. The ranking difference between .com / .net and no-hyphen / one-hyphen is going to be minimal. So go for the domain that is easier to read. That will probably benefit you in the long run.

Hi Ian,

Is your site brand new and sparkling?

Linkscape (the index powering OSE) is only updated around once a month. So there is always some delay in data. That can be a little frustrating when working with new sites.

Hope this helps

Thomas

This might be of little help to you, but I paid an Odesk developer $100 to create a little tool that can keep track of outreach success and links.

It allows you to enter a page and a link, and it crawls the page upon the request to see if the link is there, the anchor text and other link attributes.

I like to have my own little app for this, but that's a matter of taste.

Thank you, Keri! Will try this at once.

Perfect, thanks Jen!