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I would like to start munching on more pay per click content. Does anyone know of any training websites or sites similar to seomoz for pay per click?

We've got a new client who has about 300 pages on their website that are the same except the cities that are being targeted. Thus far the website has not been affected by penguin or panda updates, and the client wants to keep the pages because they are bringing in a lot of traffic for those cities.

We are concerned about duplicate content penalties; do you think we should get rid of these pages or keep them?

Thanks for the thought.

I'm going to give it a try, didn't think about that. Nothing special about our 301's.

Thanks for the reply. We got the clients primary domain (internal pages were always fine) out of penalization by using the disavow tool and still our rankings have not come back.

Furthermore it looks like we found about 4k new links pointing back to pages which were redirected automatically to the home page upon creation of wordpress (wordpress 301 plugins). We changed the landing page for 301's to be a .com/lost page and that page is setup as no follow/index.

When it comes to the on page factors, I think the domain it self has too many pages talking about DWI. Posts that is. My next step is to remove all these Spammy blog posts (real news however) and see if that gives us a return in rankings.

When it comes to the duplicating links, i am definitely not over exchanging links between clients . Occasionally i will link one or two clients because they are beneficial to one another (personal injury links to a divorce lawyer in the same city). But the majority of links are pr's, he directories, web 2.0 and other links from industry sites.

Picking up a client from a horrible SEO company is probably the hardest project i have picked up thus far and i just picked up two more.... FML

From scratch we can pull a new website from zero to top of page one in 6months, but this has me stumped.

Thanks for your help and maybe one day i will do a write up about my solutions.

Amazing i could not get a response on this.

any help on this

Keywords he is ranking for , houston dwi lawyer, houston dwi attorney and etc..

Client was acquired in June and since then we have done nothing but build high quality links to the website. None of our clients were dropped/dinged or impacted by the panda/penguin updates in 2012 or updates previously published via Google. Which proves we do quality SEO work. We went ahead and started duplicating links which worked for other legal clients and 5 months later this client is either dropping or staying in local maps results and we are performing very badly in organic results.

Some more history.....

When he first engaged our company we switched his website from a CMS called plone to word press. During our move I ran some searches to figure out which pages we needed to 301 and we came across many profile pages or member pages created on the clients CMS (PLONE). These pages were very spammy and linked to other plone sites using car model,make,year type keywords (ex:jeep cherokee dealerships). I went through these sites to see if they were linking back and could not find any back links to my clients website. Obviously nobody authorized these pages, they all looked very hackish and it seemed as though there was a vulnerability on his plone CMS installation which nobody caught.

Fast forward 5 months and the newest OSE update is showing me a good 50+ back links with unrelated anchor text back links. These anchor text links are the same color as the background and can only be found if you hover your mouse over certain areas of the site. All of these sites are built on Plone and allot of them are linked to other businesses or community websites. These websites obviously have no clue they have been hacked or are being used for black hat purposes.

There are dozens of unrelated anchor text links being used on external websites which are pointing back to our clients website.

Examples: <a class="clickable title link-pivot" title="See top linking pages that use this anchor text">autex Isuzu, </a><a class="clickable title link-pivot" title="See top linking pages that use this anchor text">Toyota service department ratings, </a><a class="clickable title link-pivot" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;" title="See top linking pages that use this anchor text">die cast BMW and etc..</a>

Obviously the first step is to use the disavow link tool, which will be completed this week.

The second step is to take some feedback from the SEO community. It seems like these pages are automatically created using some type of bot. It will be very tedious if we have to continually remove these links. I hope there is a way to notify Google that these websites are all plone and have a vulnerability, which black hats are using to harm the innocent...

If i cannot get Google to handle this, then the only other option is to start fresh with a new domain name.

What would you do in this situation. Your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you

I had a similar issue and deleted my google plus listing. This brought back our places rankings.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1235687

Yes I would say that you definitely have a problem.  Google doesn't like it when your URL changes constantly or is over-optimized.  You need to see if there is a way for your CMS company to fix this asap before you get penalized or banned.

Stay on top of news my friend. There was a new Google update for exact match domains and allot of innocent by-standards were hit with shrapnel.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-emd-algo-update-early-data

You might want to talk to a developer and ask them the easiest solution. Preferably the one who built the site.

Very limited information my friend. Its obvious you need to add these tags to the header of each page but how are the headers divided, are they snippets, chunks, includes or none of the above. You have a .php site so it should not be too hard to customize.

You need to find a new approach in discussing website usability for the user + search engines. Set realistic expectations (as stated above) and do the best you can. I would continue impressing the need for a better website design which includes more content and functionality. Give them some examples. Pull some competitor data, show them other sites. If these are publicly held companies you might be able to find some great information or press releases on how companies are fairing with internet marketing.

Regardless, you can get that website to rank well for specific keywords by building more high quality links than the competition. Ive seen it work numerous times. Without allot of content you simply are not going to be able to target long tail keywords or less competitive keywords.

You can also build a blog for them and drive traffic there.

Thank you for your feedback : ]

About to do some A/B testing (conversion improvement) for multiple clients. There are so many solutions out there. Does anyone have any suggestions.

A/B testing will be done for both SEO & PPC Campaigns.

What i really need is some really good talented copy writers. Any references? Please message me or email me.

Thanks thus far. Looks like im on the right path!

I have a client who is willing to spend an additional 5k into his SEO campaign.

I was curious if anyone has any other ideas on spending this in terms of link building. Human edited directories work really well and i have seen some huge successes. Unfortunately i have gotten stuck in purchasing these and would like some fresh ideas. Content is a no brainier.