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Hi Jeremy

Congrats on a great link and a great placement.  I would question your comment that its in an area that is clearly designated for advertisers, even thought the right column has been used many times for ads.  There is nothing that tells google it is in a place for an ad. Also you do have the benefit of attracting young population who are not so familiar with ad tactics and just see it as a great link to great products, that the magazine endorses.

In some ways getting a link that takes so much of website real estate on a nice layout.  Your link is in a great position.  And its a followed link. Plus the link is actually in a sidebar which is used in post of their pages so your link is not just on the homepage it is as good as getting a footer link that applies to all pages

Again congrats, and hope that helps.

Hello Search Guys,

Here is some food for thought taken from: http://www.quora.com/Does-Google-limit-the-number-of-pages-it-indexes-for-a-particular-site

Summary:

"Google says they crawl the web in "roughly decreasing PageRank order" and thus, pages that have not achieved widespread link popularity, particularly on large, deep sites, may not be crawled or indexed."

"Indexation
There is no limit to the number of pages Google may index (meaning available to be served in search results) for a site. But just because your site is crawled doesn't mean it will be indexed.

Crawl
The ability, speed and depth for which Google crawls your site and retrieves pages can be dependent on a number of factors: PageRank, XML sitemaps, robots.txt, site architecture, status codes and speed."

"For a zero-backlink domain with 80.000+ pages, in conjunction with rel=canonical and an xml-sitemap (You do submit a sitemap, don't you?), after submitting the domain to Google for a crawl, a little less than 10k pages remained in index. A few crawls later this was reduced to a mere 250 (very good job on Google's side).

This leads me to believe the indexation cap for a newer site with low to zero pagerank/authority is around 10k."

Another interesting article: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2062851/Google-Upping-101K-Page-Index-Limit

Hope this helps, and easy response is to limit crawling to the most needed pages as aggressive as possible to remove the unneeded links leaving only needed ones

Hi Brett,

• Create awesome content and the links will come?

• Yes thats exactly what Google is implying.

• Create Awesome Content and Outreach a bit?

• Yes on this too, the way I interpret what you said however is, create awesome content and tell people that you have created it, share a link on your twitter, G+, Facebook, etc. this is totally fine. What I am not saying is going out and bluntly asking/persuading/paying people to like share or link to your content.

My thoughts here.

Hi Aoife,

Googles Response:

Q: My site isn't indexed yet!
A: Crawling and indexing are processes which can take some time and which rely on many factors. In general, we cannot make predictions or guarantees about when or if your URLs will be crawled or indexed. When looking at a site's indexing in Webmaster Tools, make sure that you have both the "www" and the "non-www" versions (like "www.example.com" and "example.com") verified and have a set a preferred domain. Keep in mind that while a Sitemap file can help us learn about your site, it does not guarantee indexing or increase your site's ranking.

We have several Help Center articles that explain these processes:

• Google Basics - explains how crawling, indexing and ranking works
• My site isn't doing well in search - explains common questions and issues
• Google-friendly sites - provides some information about how to create a website so that it can easily be crawled and indexed
• Google's Webmaster Guidelines - provide technical, content and quality guidelines for webmasters
• Adding a site to Google - for specific advice and additional tips
• Your site in Google's index - gives some simple ways to check your site's indexing

My response:

Generally few hours to couples of days to a week or so

Hope this helps

Good suggestion/experiance AC Pro, Google Local is not the easiest to get your location listed, and advice like this really goes a long way

Hi Vlad,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x1oSjCTKpw

To export your indexed pages to CSV/Excel to add to a report:

http://www.mathewporter.co.uk/list-a-domains-indexed-pages-in-google-docs/

Hope this helps

Hi James,

This is Google's reply:

Google Places for Business are not available in my country. How do I add my listing?

You can create a local Google+ page for your business and verify it by post. Local pages include a map of the business’s location and feature its address, phone number, and hours of operation. Local pages also share the functionality of other Google+ pages - you can create and manage circles, start and join hangouts, and share content like posts and photos.

Alternatively, you can add information about your company in Map Maker, if it’s available in your country.

Have you tried the above methods?

Notices are exactly what they are. They confused me a bit off the bat too since they are on the same page as warnings and errors. But they are just what they are notices.

For example if you had no idea that your site was rebuilt, you would appreciate the notices for rel can, to let you know whats going on. But again these are not errors or warnings

Hope this helps!

Hi Konstantinos,

This should help: http://moz.com/community/q/google-webmaster-tools-and-open-site-explorer-s-links-not-matching-up

Summary from Keri (from Moz's) response: "SEOmoz and Google use different crawlers. We're not quite the size of Google, and the server farm we have doesn't quite match theirs either. Simply put, we don't crawl as many URLs as Google, so we won't show as many links."

In terms of which to use, use all tools including OSE, GWT, Bing, and others you find at your disposal.

Hope this helps

They exist for Google maps local and so it might be connected now: http://maps.google.com/help/maps/richsnippetslocal/

People have seen it as early as May/June of this year: http://localsearchforum.catalystemarketing.com/google-local-important/6642-more-google-local-changes-location-links-rich.html

You can test it and give it a shot Cloudflare folks support Page Speed and may offer it as an Addon in the future.

Read More: http://blog.cloudflare.com/google-page-speed-and-cloudflare

One commentor John said: " page speed is better for optimizing the scripts and images, cloudflare is better for servicing content and its security features are unparallel.
Also cloudflare dont have such strict timeouts and its more graceful to slow websites, page speed is not the best for my case would be to combine both."

My reviews were real too, but now are gone.

I doubt its dynamic sitemap is the issue. Like I said Google is doing many unpredictable things with this feature and so it might be expected, maybe someone else with a similar issue can post a success story of how he was able to get them back. As mine are off, actually on some pages my reviews have been replaced with the rel=author snippet

Wish I had more experience to help ya

It is just one of the plugins you can research and possibly find more that will have filters etc. Yoast's SEO plugin has powerful features and you can follow no follow by pages, and you might have some other way of doing no-follow maybe based on categories

reciprocal link building is significantly down-valued by Google which means it should not be a long term link building strategy. Some even consider it in the same pool as link farms etc.

Link-building like I said is an art its not a one on formula but different methods of outreach

this might help: http://moz.com/ugc/category/link-building

if you happen to be using wordpress there are plugins such as: http://wordpress.org/plugins/nofollow-for-external-link/

Hi Instabill,

You can also create another landing page, with home being your initial landing page, create the second one at hompage.com/offshore-merchants-accounts and see how it fares

Hello SamuEU,

1. Just creating folders or pages for the sake of keywords is useless thing to do solely for ranking, unless it helps with categorization for example, shop.com/shoes/nike/

2. en.blog.com vs blog.com/en/ work the same way, If you are moving sites, its a bit easier to move a blog/en/ site you dont have to deal with subdomains.

Another thing to consider generally the closer the page is to the domain tends to rank more.  All else equal:

shop.com/nike/ will tend to rank higher than shop/clothes/shoes/nike/ but its a small factor again if categories are needed and make sense go with categories.

Hope this helps

Great, to a great future working with Wordpress it is by far my favorite platform to publish content online. Its definitely worth investing some time into it!

Hi Nicholas,

Most SEO spammers won’t bother posting irrelevant/spammy links to blogs or forum posts if they know they will not get to publish a follow link. So a good questions would be to ask who is asking for these do follow links your loyal followers or spammers or people who just want a free link?

This is on the newer version of WP, see attached. Let me know if this helped or if you have any more questions

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