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I have an affiliate subdomain on a larger company's domain. (For example I have: www.victor.company.com on www.company.com). Would working to attain backlinks to the subdomain help it rank or will I just be putting forth my effort and helping the domain rank?
Thanks. Someone else told me it is a good sign of a trustworthy site. I was thinking of doing a link to a Wikipedia article or such of relevant reference material on topic.
Will outbound links to a related topic on an authority site help, hurt or be irrelevanent for SEO purposes. And if beneficially, should it be Nofollow?
I've always had better luck and an easier time ranking with less trailing slashes.
If you listen to Matt Cutts, the advice would be to think about the user experience. If those links on that page make it easier for the user and makes your page better, than that is how Google would tell you to go. You said that kewyword optimization is a no-no, but Google says OVER optimization is a no-no. In my opinion, I think they are referring to linking over-optimization for a particular keyword and lack of link diversity, creating an unnatural-looking linking pattern.
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Based on this post, I just tried Screaming Frog and it is an awesome tool/resource! Thanks Seiomoz crew!
It's possible that a lot of the sites that linked to you were devalued, thus bringing down your page's value with it.
Why not 301 the 404s to similar pages? Fix your problem AND transfer some of the link juice.
You should always worry about ANY duplcate content, whether it is tags, tilte, description or actual on-page content.
I think Elias is right about the query. I have a page that still ranks but my "primary" keyword is nowhere to be found anymore. It may have been deemed "over-optimized".
It depends. Are the people that are finding your site for the other terms converting into sales?
I wouldn't do anything to cut down any traffic regardless of where it comes from. At least your traffic stats and Alexa ranking will improve, which in turn should help your sites ranking and thus increase US traffic along with it.
There are a few reasons. If you look at the rest of the pages from my site, the company I sell for also sells lots of other products that have "celebrity" trainers, plus there are some fun pics of TV placement spots. Lots of "fun stuff" that I'd like to add that just didn't happen to work on a product page. Plus, it would give me more material to Pin on Pinterest to help drive traffic.
I guess my real question is... From a strictly SEO aspect, would it be detrimental to my site to have a Gallery page with links back to some of my other pages?
Incorporating them into the blog is a good idea. The blog subdomain was sort of an after thought attachment to the static site that I really need to utilize better. I was really just think like a gallery page on the site.
I have a lot of cool pics that just did not quite make it on one of my pages. Not necessarily because I did not want to, but space reasons they just happened to lose out to another photo. What I was thinking was, maybe I can add like a gallery page? Possibly with links back to the pages that each photo was considered for? Would this be a decent idea or just a page deemed as having low quality/value and end up hurting my site. Or maybe you can add an idea that may make it work for me!