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Well let's take a look at metrics for this page and also metrics for this domain as a whole. Here's the linking page: http://www.adamfrisby.com/create-home-design-and-interior-decor-in-2d-3d.html Moz Metrics: Page Authority: 16 Domain Authority: 24 No backlinks or linking domains detected, pointing to this individual web-page 5,600+ links pointing to the domain overall, from 100 domains Ahrefs Metrics: URL Rating: 7 Domain Rating: 24 No backlinks or linking domains detected, pointing to this individual web-page 7,690+ links pointing to the domain overall, from 84 domains Majestic SEO Metrics (Fresh Index): Page-level Citation Flow: 10 Page-Level Trust Flow: 0 No backlinks or linking domains detected, pointing to this individual web-page Domain-level Citation Flow: 20 Domain-level Trust Flow: 9 Ahrefs estimate of daily traffic this site gets from SEO: less than 1 user per day (0.074 users per day on average) SEMRush estimate of daily traffic this site gets from SEO: 0 user per day At best these metrics are mediocre, at worst the link could be toxic. How can they have thousands of backlinks from only hundreds of domains, and also be seeing no traffic from SEO combined with low trust scores from Majestic?! It seems like one of those cookie-cutter sites produced to sell links to people, not like a viable link source in 2018. By the way, for me - that page took **years **to load! About 20 seconds. It would obviously score terribly in Pingdom Tools / Google Page-Speed Insights / GTMetrix (three solid page-speed evaluation tools). When people build link-farms to sell crap links to people who don't know SEO very well, they seldom care about users. Seldom spend time optimising the site for those who really matter Design-wise the site looks like pure spam to me. It looks like it has been built just to supply SEO links, like the site and contained links wouldn't exist if it weren't for SEO being an active industry. That's strictly against Google's guidelines! 'Links for the sake of it' are frowned upon, this link looks like it came from the early 2000s and won't do a damn thing for your current SEO (except maybe earn you a penalty). Relevance isn't just semantic wordplay, you get me? You have to be thinking "why would it be relevant for a user to click on and follow this link". That's real link relevance. Just because Site A and Site B are thematically related - that does not make the link relevant (whether it be image, text or whatever). By the way, image links barely ever carry any SEO juice. Google don't want to count links of a paid-for or 'advertorial' nature. Links which carry SEO authority should also carry traffic. They should be editorial in nature, and benefit the users that click on those links. This link fails all of those completely. If a page which has barely any or no SEO authority links to hundreds of pages, each of them get barely anything back. It only takes 2-3 consecutive visits to this site to force a 503, server busy. This means that whoever built the site, sure as hell wasn't planning for anyone to ever, ever look at it. Does Google even care it exists? Look at Google's cache for the specified linking page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adamfrisby.com%2Fcreate-home-design-and-interior-decor-in-2d-3d.html Google doesn't even keep a cached copy. Google has technically indexed the page, for what purpose I cannot say. Probably just to keep an eye on it, because it's shady AF. Overall I give this link an F-

When we find our content on other sites we choose one of a few routes to take. If the infringing content is on the site of a reputable business, it usually appears there as a result of an employee who does not realize that taking the content of others is an action that can result in civil or criminal action, or it is a result of a dirtbag SEO or marketing service who steals content instead of writing their own.  In these cases we write to an officer of the reputable business and inform them of the problem.  They usually thank us for letting them know, take the content down right away and educate the employee or fire the SEO or marketer who did this. More often the infringer is simply a spammer.  In those cases we use the DMCA dashboard of our Google Search Console account to file a complaint with Google.  Google usually acts within 48 hours, often the same day.  If the infringer is using Adsense, we then click the "Ad Choices" button on one of their ads, and follow the route to complain about copyright infringement.  When Adsense receives these complaints they often turn off all ads on the infringing page, and if lots of complaints are filed about the website, the turn off all of the ads to that site or close the  adsense account.  Hitting spammers in the wallet or putting fear into them that their adsense account might be turned off is effective and getting the infringer to say away from your sites. Before you start filing DMCAs or complaining to reputable businesses, it is important to understand fair use and understand the limits of your copyright rights.  A consultation with an intellectual property attorney can help you understand this.  They can also craft complaint letters that you can send, offer to send them for you, and take over if you send an informal complaint and the company does not comply.  I've found that copyright attorneys cost less than I feared and are worth more than I pay them.

Hi there As you are in Wordpress, you could use YOAST plugin. There is a setting that allows you to deindex and/or set next/prev tags. Here some more info: rel=next & rel=prev in pagination - YOAST Pagination and SEO best practices - YOAST Wordpress SEO  complete guide tutorial - YOAST Indicate paginated content - Google Search Console Help Hope it helps. Best luck. GR.

Hey Varunrupal, Great question and something that anyone doing outreach runs into from time to time. This is a bit of a sticky situation. Guest posting is against Google's Guidelines, and paying for a guest post is doubly so. So I would encourage you to reply with a polite reply thanking them for their time. Then move on and continue your outreach with other potential bloggers. That said, I think if a blogger is wanting compensation for a post I would encourage you to change your offer to be a bit more appealing. If you can structure the outreach in a way that creates tangible value for the blogger or their readers, you're more likely to gain some traction without the need for monetary compensation. Make your value add the compensation. Let me know if you have any other questions on this! Regards, Trenton

You could always trial a service like mention.com - It will allow you to track specific content across a variety of locations including FB and Twitter etc. It is a paid solution, but you can get a free trial. So people share a specific link or bit link - hopefully you can track it.

Hi Varun - I'd say it's mildly valuable, not super important. If you can, and it's easy, go for it. If you're struggling to do so, don't worry about it. Neither search engines nor users are too picky about stopword removal in URLs.