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Hi Steve,

I think I see your point.  However, if Competitor A buys low quality links to Competitor B, yes, they can use the disavow tool to remove the links and it will still take time for them to do so and effort but what is the point in this.  Why is competitor A spending their time and money trying to harm Competitor B when they can simply protect themself with the Disavow Tool  Why not spend those time and money on building quality links.

Competitor A is simply wasting time and money to buy links where Competitor B is spending time and effot to remove them.  I don't see why anyone would do that.

Hi,

1. What I was trying to say is that it is not easy to contact the webmaster of certain websites to add the canonical tag to prove that you are the original author.  Therefore, if you are planning to do it, make sure you can reach the webmaster and they are willing to add the canonical tag.

2. Since I don't know which industry or niche you are in, it is hard to recommend authority blog sites to guest blog on.  What you can do is either 1) Google "Guest Blog + Industry/niche" or 2) Visit http://myblogguest.com/ and browse the forum to see what blogs are looking for guest authors.  It is free to create an accont and everyone in the community is nice.  If you ask people, I am sure a lot of people will refer you to that site to look for guest blogs.

Hope this helps!

1. If you don't want to share your link juice, then use the nofollow.  You should let your links link natually instead of manually adding nofollows to links.  The following 2 links can provide you with more information on the nofollow internal linking.

http://www.seomoz.org/q/no-follow-internal-links-2

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/questions-answers-with-googles-spam-guru

2. The more popular way to promote your website is to guest blog on other authority sites.  One, you get to spread your name and knowledge and two, you get a nice juicy nautral backlink from them.  I guess you can post on other sites with the same article to gain more visibility; however, you HAVE TO MAKE SURE that they use canonical tag pointing to your article so that Google will know that your article is the original article.  Well, Guest blog is the way to go.

Thank you Dana!

What Google is showing is what I wanted it to show.  However, on the browser, it is showing something else.  Does that matter?

Regarding to the HTML, if I want what is showing in Google to appear in the web browser tab as well, I should include what is in the meta content to be in the title tag?

I guess my question is, does it matter the what is showing in the browser and the SERP is different.

Hi,

1. Yes, definitely have the blog under your domain.  It provides more benefits than not doing so.  You can either create a subdomain or a subfolder for your blog.  Blog.website.com or website.com/blog

2. Whether you have a blog outside or under same domain, you should have a link on the main website to drive taffic to the blog.

3. If you do not rewrite the article and simply post the same article to ezine, it is not beneficial.  Posting on ezine and article directories is an old tactic and doesn't work as well now.  However, these directoies can definitely give you more views but not good for SEO.

Create a blog under your domain and post frequently so your site will get the freshness update overall.  Keyword research before publishing and include them in your article.  Provide informative articles and make sure to share on Social Media sites.  Social Signal is slowly playing a part in SEO.

Hope this helps.  Please let me know if you have more questions.

In regards to the bold tags, I don't recall reading anything about having too many bold tags will lower your ranking or affect your ranking.  However, having too many bold tags might cause bad user experiences though.

Hi SEOmozer,I have a dumb/silly question. Ok, I know Title tags are important for SEO and users and it shows up in the SERP and all that.  My question is that, using a weird CMS, I have the title tag implemented and it appear in the SERP the way I want it.  However, the problem is that when I hover over the tab on the browser, it doesn't appear the same way it is in the SERP. Does that really matter that it appears differently? I checked the HTMl and this what I got<title>Example Keywordtitle><meta name="layout" content="main"/><meta name="description" content="Keyword 1 | Keyword 2 | Company Name"/>So whats within the "content" is showing in the SERP and what is in "title" tag is showing in the browser tab.  Shouldn't they be the same?

I just wanted to add to this, in SEO's presepective, if you have one big site then you will only need to build backlinks for one site.  On the other hand, if you have multiple sites, you will have to build separate links for each site which causes more work and more complicated to manage.

In addition, freshness plays a role in SEO; therefore, if you have a big website, you will have more topics you can create contents for which means you can frequenly update your website.

Of course, there is always some cons.  If the big site falls, all of them falls together.

Hi Tim,

Since Disavow Link Tool is Google's Tool, it wouldn't look strange to them if you used it.  However, are you sure those links casued your ranking to drop or there are other reasons.  Many people always think that their ranks dropped is because of some bad links.  Sometimes there may be other reasons such as competitors doing better SEO, getting more quality backlinks, Google didn't find your contents helpful to search, you don't update frequently and etc.  Those are only examples.

Before using the Disavow Link Tool, you should make sure the links are the cause.  Furthermore, did you or the webmaster receive an unnatural link email from Google?  Did you get any notification from Webmasters Tool?  Note that if you removed the wrong links, it might further affect your ranking.  Disavow tool shouldn't be used lightly.

Hope this give you an idea whether you should use the disavow tool.  Maybe publish more useful contents targeting keywords or update more frequently?  Build more quality links?  These should get you back on the SERP.

Hope this helps.

@Dana, thanks for the confirmation

@Neil, Number of views and amount of the video viewed, both are factors YouTube use to rank your video.  Similar to an optimized article you published, you will have to share it on Soical Media, on your website, communities and subscribers in order to get views.  In addition, if you have other videos, you should refer to other videos too.  Furthermore, like a website/article, it will take time.  Your video won't get ranked the moment you posted it.

Whether it is video SEO or website SEO, it will take time and is an on-going process.

Hope this helps

Hi Neil,

YouTube is owned by Google which mean if you optimize your YouTube video (such as Title, Description, and all the other factors), if someone searches on Google, it is possible that your video will appear.

Optimizing your YouTube video is very similar to Optimizing a website

You will need to optimize your title with keywords and CTA to get more clicks/views.

Optimize your video content so that it is imformative and exactly what your title reflects

Optimize your description with keyword

Optimize the video tag (Don't over do it)

Build back links to your VIDEO like a website!

Share your video on social media platforms like sharing articles.

If your YouTube video is well optimized, it will be found via YouTube search and Google search.

http://www.mktdojo.com/youtube-seo-guide-8-youtube-ranking-factors

Hope this helps!

Hi,

When i participate on forums, i usually use http:// because most of the time when you simply enter example.com, it wouldn't recognize it as a link; thus not making it clickable and it doesn't stand out from the other text.  When you use http:// forums will recognize it as a link and make it clickable.  Furthermore, it stands out.

Regarding to whether Google favor which one more, i believe it is either between www. or non www. rather than http:// or not.  For example using www.examplesite.com or example.com.  I don't think Google has a favoritism on this but rather how you want Google to see your website as.  With www. or non www.  Whenever you link, you should be consistant and always use the same form of link so that Google will recognize that "Ah, you want your site to be show as www. and not non www.

Hi Sarah,

SEOmoz had a mozinar on Advanced Wordpress and they mentioned on how to handle tag pages, category pages and duplicate content.  I've added the attachment to the answer.

Basically can you simply go to the tag.php, archive.php, category.php files and change the the_content to the_excerpt then it should help with duplicate content. Whenever peopel visit the tag pages, instead of viewing the whole duplicate content there, they will only see an except and to read more, they will have to click on the post.

Hope this answers your question.

advanced-wordpress-seo

Hi Brett,

Having more unique content above the fold is very important.  As Irving mentioned, it is important from a content to ad ration.  When visitors visit your site, they want to see the contents right away instead of scrolling down a few ads before seeing the content.  Being able to see the contents right way is good user experience and Google likes that.  Google rolled out an algorithm for content above fold.

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2216227/Google-Updates-Above-the-Fold-Page-Layout-Algorithm

Hope this article from search engine watch will answer your question.

Enjoy!

Hi Jim,

I may be wrong but by simply adding some HTML and CSS code to your website to make it responsive, it wouldn't lose any of the seo benefits.  Actually it has more benefit than not making the websie responsive.

To make it responsive to mobile and ipads, I would simply enter some CSS code to make the page look different based on what they are using, desktop, mobile or tablet.  By making it responsive, you don't lose any of the SEO benefits.

Hi,

I am not sure if there is a guide that can tell you exactly why your ranking went down.  There are many factors as you mentioned that can cause this such as competitor doing better SEO, getting more quality links and etc.  It would be nice to have a guide to learn about what is happening.  I may be wrong about this.  Hope someone can shed light in this.

Having the ccTLD should be good enough to signal Google that your site is targeting that country.  However, the lang tag and currency pre-fix do give Google more information.  If you have a physical address in that location, definitely include it.  If not, I am not sure how much of a factor it will play.  Usually the ccTLD should tell Google about your targeting location.

Hi,

I am not sure how to use the month/day in the link to avoid duplicate content issue.  I should check it out.  As long as you don't have any same contents within your website, then it should be easy to avoid duplicate content.

If I am redesigning the website, I would probably use pages for practice areas, attorney profiles and etc and use posts for the blog.  Since the practice areas and attorney profiles are all static and wouldn't change often, I find pages to be better.

my 2 cents.

Hope it helps!

Hi Flo,

I thought I replied to your comment but I guess it didn't go through.

Like Gianluca said, you can't target Asia/Europe.  Sorry for not making it more clear in my response above.  You can create different website targeting .hk .jp .kr.

The best way to go to either create different subfolders you mentioned in your question for each country or purchase the ccTLD for each country you want to target.