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I have the simplest way to think about this. If the link is pointing out to the website you trust and you think your audience will find it useful, keep it followed. However, if the links are not trustworthy, atleast put a no-follow the link.

Other then that there are Googe guidelines as you mentioned in your question. I think no following social media and wiki-pages is up to you as it will not make much of a difference in my opinion.

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No, but I agree to the fact that handing over your code to someone who may or may not know about SEO and SEO friendly codes is simply the worst idea ever. I think SEOs and content producer (in your example) have to learn at least that much of a code that they can fix their things by themselves instead of handing over it to someone who might make things worse for you!

Just a thought!

THIs is the common issue with all open cart sites, if you discuss this issue with the developer, he will be able to fix it… no big deal!

Longtime back Wil Reynolds discuss in one of his presentation that .EDU domains are same as any other normal domains. The reason why they become so important is that most people and reputable website easily link to .EDU or .GOV websites, which make themselves reputable with time.

But, at its core, saying that just because one domain s .EDU it will be respectable automatically, is not true.

So no matter if the URL contain .EDU extension or not, you should look into their link profile and see if the link profile is clean and valuable, you should consider getting a link from them like you would have done for .EDU website.

Just a thought!

Not only money making keywords but over emphasize on any keywords will be dangerous for your link profile. Whenever I think of anchor link, I consider one thing and that is the fact that this keyword on anchor will make sense or not.

I mean, when I am getting a link in between of the blog post (within the content) there is good chance that I can get an exact match or atleast partial match anchor text. But, in author bio, donation links, mention links, reverse image search in most cases it will be either naked URL, brand name or some text that may or may not be your targeted keyword.

My advice is to make sure that its making sense to have the kind of anchor text, if not you know what steps you should take from there.

I believe this is what you are looking for:

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If you have a developer inhouse, I am sure they will be able to do that easily.

As far as my info goes, Google can read ajax as well as iframes maybe not as good as normal content so saying that you are going to add content in iframe so that Google can’t read that, I believe Google will still be able to read the content within the iframe to an extent.

Google consider two pages as duplicate when content on the two pages are completely identical or good amount of content on both pages are exactly similar if this is the case, adding more unique content to product pages can help if only the customer reviews are identical, I personally don’t think its an issue.

Just my 2 cents.

Theoretically, if the URL is blocked  by  robots.txt it should not appear in the index results no matter if they are in the sitemap but I have seen URLs indexed that are blocked by robots.txt but are in the sitemap and have good links pointing to it. If you want to block pages that have good links pointing to them, my advice is to remove them from sitemap. #justathought.

About URLs from multiple domains, I personally create separate sitemaps for different subdomains and link to main sitemap and I see better indexing that way.

Again, these are my personal experiences and not rules so please do keep that in mind as things can be different fro them.

totally agree with EGOL.

Also, if you are an ecommerce company where products go out of stock for some time and then comes back, why 301 redirect at the first place. My idea is to add pre-booking option or may be a subscribe button for a user so that they can subscribe to get a notification when the product will be back in stock.

Btw, this will also increase your email marketing list that you can use in multiple ways. #justathought!

Well there is a very old debate and many SEO will recommend you using sub directory instead of sub domain.

Reasons why you should use Sub directory instead of sub-domain:

• Search engine still counts sub domain as another website so if the blog is in sub directory it will be considered as the part of the website
• Your over all SEO efforts will impact on sub directory which is not the case in terms of sub domain.
• Its way easier to rank for long tail keywords with sub directory instead of sub domain.

If SEO is not a problem for you are you are more interested in branding then i think subdomain goes well as its easier to remember and write directly in the URL bar.

The shortest and the most honest answer to your questions that you are getting it all wrong. You are using blog comments to build links? Bad idea!

Blog Comments is a great way to build connections and relationships that later can convert in to quality links but building links using blog comments (dofollow or not) is a bad idea all together.

Hope this helps!

I personally don’t think there is such penalty on duplicate code as it is available on duplicate content...this is mainly because there are billions of people using Wordpress and as it is a CMS so the basic code will be same only JS and CSS is changed from website to website...

Infect, I have seen many people using the same JS and CSS on more than two websites just by changing the design of the website....I personally believe there is no problem from the SEO stand point.. But obviously ethically copying the code of the website is not good!

Eric, If I would be at the place of your consultant, I would have suggest you Wordpress (not drupel though). I don’t think there is a problem with blogger platform but things are really difficult in blogger platform whereas in Wordpress things are really easy.

Let’s say you need to set customer Meta description for a blog post in blogger (not saying it’s impossible) but as compare to this in WP all you need is a Yoast plugin and even a person without acode knowledge will do that.

Another reason I will suggest you is that I have seen very few blogger blogs ranking well in search engines as compare to WP. And another important reason why I will suggest that while back Matt Cutt recommends WP over blogger.

I am sure any SEO with a development background can give you indepth reasons for this.

Hope this helps.

I think this is one of the best ways to get your website kicked hard by penguin... To be really honest i can say NO to your idea!

I guess if a guy can work for you 4 hours a day and you want him to do quality link building for you then you should tell him to find link opportunities for you instead of blogs and forums that offer do follow link...

• Tell him to find the website that allow guest posting and are related to your niche.
• Tell him to find websites that are link to broken links of any of the website
• Tell him to email them and request links from them
• Tell him to search the image that you are using on your website to see who else are using it to ask link from them...

And this way you will be able to build a legitimate link profile instead of spammy link building that usually starts with do follow blog commenting...

I don’t see any big issue with the website that takes you from 1^st page to 100+ in rankings for most of your keywords until I looked n to your link profile. I looked at it and it took me less than 15 seconds or less to figure out where the problem is.

Here are few of the things that you are doing wrong:

-          Link with Brand name as an Anchor

Imagine a scenario where all the links you are getting to your website will be natural and think about the possible anchor texts you can receive. Why would someone link back to your website an exact match keyword instead of some general keyword or brand name?

You have very few links with the brand name as an anchor text in the link profile and general keywords are simply none. This is a clear indication that your link profile is not natural.

-          Quality of Links

I am not sure why you was ranking on the first page but keeping your links in mind I don’t see any quality in it and whatever you are going through completely make sense to me.

In order to get the rankings back my recommendation is to get good quality links (as many as you can) with natural anchor text and brand name so that Google can consider you as a ethical and legit business and give you your rankings back.

If you look in to the description, it says somewhere on the page he have used the brand name (if the description is coming from the page) which may be is one of the reason why he is appearing against the result.

If you really want to kick this result back to 2^nd or different pages, my idea is to create facebook, twitter, slideshare, about.me and different pages for your company (Active pages). As soon as Google will fine more relevant results the ranking for this result will go down and you first page atleast will be clean.

Just a thought!

You are in a danger Chris; my advice is to kill the contract immediately as they are selling the snake oil services and nothing else.

-          One article and submitting on different article submission websites, you soon will e the victim of Google penguin update. This is indeed a duplicate content plus Google don’t really like the links coming from article submission sites.

When buying link building services from any company always keep few things in mind.

-          If someone guarantee certain number of links in a certain time, you probably should question their quality as link building in most cases cannot be time specific.

-          Press Release links? Google don’t like it unless the links are no-follow.

-          Social Bookmarking links :O. I would not even consider them quality links.

-          Web Directories, unless they are highly relevant to your business and contain quality, its again will hurt you.

I would recommend reading this post as this will give you a quick idea of how to hire a digital marketing consultant for your business: http://www.setalks.com/how-to-find-quality-seo-consultant-for-my-business/

Hope this helps!

I have answered this kind of question before as well and I will stand on my point even today! Although they all are your website and may be linking them all on each other seems logical and user friendly to you but search engine will still find it questionable and might hit you by some penguin update.

In my opinion, try to remove links if it is possible for you (no-following is not an option in my opinion) and if not at least link to other website intelligently!

Let’s say you have 11 websites and each is targeting to different location so add a link where you are talking about some other location instead of adding them all in footer or sidebar!

Hope this helps!

If I got your question correct then

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