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"If I were to create a website for every baseball team, would it be best to create each site individually and link them together?"

Before Panda.... one website for one team was something that can be considered.

After Panda.... only one website should be better, and teams can be arranged in sub-folders. I don't see any use of keeping several sub-domains. Sub-domains makes sense when it comes to functionality of website. Can keep customer support, forums or blog in sub-domains. But sections of website's one topic looks good with folder.

There are around 30 different teams which you'll need to consider. So sub-domain for each team is definitely, a NO-No.

Hope this helps!

Thanks a million Rand.

What bigger value a beginner member get from SEOMoz than getting personal replies from the CEO of SEO Moz.

Thank you so much. I'll take your all advices.

Best Regards, Vinod

Thanks everybody. Thanks a lot.

I am quite satisfied with Rand's reply. SEOMoz is awesome.

Best Regards, Vinod

Hi Rand,

I never expected to get answer directly from you. This is more than a surprise and kind of awesome feeling. Thanks a million.

Just to let you know.. I got answer to my this question when I was lying in bed. And something you said here. Sometimes we forget small things when we attempt to think something bigger and serious.

Actually I am damn frustrated with failure of my website. Please see my other question at http://www.seomoz.org/q/why-my-website-is-thrown-out-of-ranks-again-and-again

Hope you can figure out something for me. The main problems I have concluded so far about this website are:

(1) domain name... seems an attempt to take advantage in SERPs,

(2) Seems over-optimized

(3) Though i have attempted to write something valuable to users.. but seems failed in that. Just some extra wikipedia & 1-2 more site searches about topic and wrote on my website. I mean... my site is not providing some good amount of extra value to users.

(4) Might be small site, and more affiliate links.

Can you please have a look and show me that right direction. At this moment.. I am planning to get rid of this website and domain, and launch another website with some better mission.

Your little time on my issue will be much appreciated.

Thanks a million once again, Rand. You and your company are awesome. I am your big fan.

Best Regards, Vinod

Hi all,

The Google's webmaster guideline in question reads...

"Don't use unauthorized computer programs to submit pages, check rankings, etc. Such programs consume computing resources and violate our Terms of Service. Google does not recommend the use of products such as WebPosition Gold that send automatic or programmatic queries to Google."

So, when WebPosition Gold is not recommended then how come SEOMoz is acceptable to check ranks for websites belonging to SEOMoz PRO?

Do Google neglects breaking of few guidelines by good boys?

Thanks in advance.

PageRank don't seems to be dead. PageRank is kind of reputation of a page in Google's eye which essentially don't mean that highest PR sites ranks in top positions of SERPs. Ranks in SERPs are searched query specific while PageRank seems more generic weight of page in google's eye.

It is assumed (as well as said by google) that PageRank is only based on backlinks. But I have got PR3 and even PR4 for websites which don't have any link, but have good number of pages having quality content.

In my opinion, PageRank is overall weight of page in Google's eye. And more importantly... two pages having same PR does not mean their value is same of Google. I think internally Google score webpages from 1 to 1,000.000 (or something big), and show the rounded figure in form of PR1 to PR10.

PageRank is the quickest way to guess the worth of any page.

Hi again,

I am looking for other guys to look into this matter. It will be very nice if SEOMoz professionals can figure out the problem.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks again dean.

I was not having better word.. so I used 3 way linking. Actually it was... A--->B and C<---D. So completely one way but made with the help of dealing with other guy, give link and take link.

Blog comments and everything else is 100% manual with my working way. Blogs and forums we picked are good quality in industry.

Yes, I am varying anchor text this way:

Exact keyword --- 50% - 60%

Exact keyword as a part of anchor --- 20% or so

A part of keyword or spitted keyword as a part of anchor --- 15% or so

No keyword (either exact or spitted or a partial) -- 10% or so

---

Do you think that my design is culprit? Referring the white board Friday on Panda Algo http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-googles-panda-update-changed-seo-best-practices-forever-whiteboard-friday

Hi Keith,

Thank you for your reply.

It can be little of comment spamming, but article syndication was not spammy. We wrote articles our own having fantastic idea in it, and submitted to quality article directories only.

I'll definitely start doing guest posting on other blogs. Thanks for the tip.

Hi Dean,

Thank you so much.

Except those 7 paid directory links (which are now already removed before site got ranks back last time)... every link is from free web and article directories, related forums, blog comments, and social bookmarks. And little bit of classified, press release, and three way links exchange, social network.

The links are not made too many. They are just 1,100 according to SEOMoz link analysis tool.

Thanks a lot once again.

"If I were to create a website for every baseball team, would it be best to create each site individually and link them together?"

Before Panda.... one website for one team was something that can be considered.

After Panda.... only one website should be better, and teams can be arranged in sub-folders. I don't see any use of keeping several sub-domains. Sub-domains makes sense when it comes to functionality of website. Can keep customer support, forums or blog in sub-domains. But sections of website's one topic looks good with folder.

There are around 30 different teams which you'll need to consider. So sub-domain for each team is definitely, a NO-No.

Hope this helps!

Thanks a million Rand.

What bigger value a beginner member get from SEOMoz than getting personal replies from the CEO of SEO Moz.

Thank you so much. I'll take your all advices.

Best Regards, Vinod

Hi Rand,

I never expected to get answer directly from you. This is more than a surprise and kind of awesome feeling. Thanks a million.

Just to let you know.. I got answer to my this question when I was lying in bed. And something you said here. Sometimes we forget small things when we attempt to think something bigger and serious.

Actually I am damn frustrated with failure of my website. Please see my other question at http://www.seomoz.org/q/why-my-website-is-thrown-out-of-ranks-again-and-again

Hope you can figure out something for me. The main problems I have concluded so far about this website are:

(1) domain name... seems an attempt to take advantage in SERPs,

(2) Seems over-optimized

(3) Though i have attempted to write something valuable to users.. but seems failed in that. Just some extra wikipedia & 1-2 more site searches about topic and wrote on my website. I mean... my site is not providing some good amount of extra value to users.

(4) Might be small site, and more affiliate links.

Can you please have a look and show me that right direction. At this moment.. I am planning to get rid of this website and domain, and launch another website with some better mission.

Your little time on my issue will be much appreciated.

Thanks a million once again, Rand. You and your company are awesome. I am your big fan.

Best Regards, Vinod

PageRank don't seems to be dead. PageRank is kind of reputation of a page in Google's eye which essentially don't mean that highest PR sites ranks in top positions of SERPs. Ranks in SERPs are searched query specific while PageRank seems more generic weight of page in google's eye.

It is assumed (as well as said by google) that PageRank is only based on backlinks. But I have got PR3 and even PR4 for websites which don't have any link, but have good number of pages having quality content.

In my opinion, PageRank is overall weight of page in Google's eye. And more importantly... two pages having same PR does not mean their value is same of Google. I think internally Google score webpages from 1 to 1,000.000 (or something big), and show the rounded figure in form of PR1 to PR10.

PageRank is the quickest way to guess the worth of any page.