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Mark's suggestion was quite good and yes I would say if the site isn't written properly (putting caps where they should be) google might see it as a sign of poor quality content.

All the best.

Basically, what everyone has said, take a wide angled approach, which will take time.

What was the message?

Just because penguin was rolled out on a specific date does not mean you couldn't get a warning early/later on, They want us to think it was released on the 24th, but was it really.......

You are right too, backlinks certainly need to be cleaned up if they are spammy.

I really don't think there is much of a difference - both the same page, although perhaps a landing page is a direct hit from either a URL typed in or a link, whereas an entrance page could be used when they are specifically reading other pages directed from that page.....if that makes sense.

Best guess of mine simplified, same page, just thought of as slightly different for analytical reasons/metrics.

The tag is usually used to indicate you have duplicate/very similar content on the same site.

So if you have the tag pointing to an offsite site/page it could be the reason you are getting the warning?

The points in the Q & A would be the most up to date.

Not sure why there is a difference bit it's not really a huge deal anyway?

What Klarke said, but also let your client consider a reconsideration request with google after the redesign.

Google can sometimes be forgiving, and I believe that if you are seen to make a genuine effort to change/clean up your site you can get back to where you were.

A lot of the time spammy links when noticed by G are simply devalued and this is what causes the drop in rankings and a lot of the time what seems like a never ending penalty can be lifted the next day.

With the addition of google bringing in the link reporting tool into WMT your client could also have a chance to wash thier hands of the spammy links.

It's a bit tricky, because google could still deem a spammy link even if the DA or DT is relatively ok.

Consider adding nofollow to links you may think google could see as suspect, these will usually be to sites that are heavily optimized, actively advertise/offer link exchanges/highly non relevent sites etc....

Basically Google and other search engines will calculate the total number of words on a page and say for instance 20% of those words are written EXACTLY the same it will be classed as duplicate content.

Basically think of copying a paragraph, and pasting it on another page = duplicate content.

Hope that helps, all the best

Yes bing and yahoo gives almost identical results. Select Arabian countires in Bing and you should be ok.

Hope this helps

"in google webmaster tools we have targeted the shop domain to United States, which may be another factor"

That's your problem right there.

If you tell google that your site is aimed towards the U.S market, you will have to put up with "Unites States" next to your site.

Sorry but there is no way around it, that's google for you.

Yes what you have done is good, although I am not sure about the moz bots capabilities for drop down crawling. I would say wait until your next crawl, and even then if it picks up the links don't worry about it too much, just do what you can do and stick with it if it's good for the user.

It's possibly just our experiance, but we will never hire any SEO companies.

You are putting your site and business into the hands of someone else. And paying them for it.

What may work for SEO now, may not work in the future.

There are basics to creating a good website with easy enough SEO you can do yourself, but it takes time to read, research trial and experiment.

Start learning and don't put your fate into anyone elses hands.

Hello Alan,

I'm from QLD and on a very poor wireless connection, it took about 6 secs for the page to physically load and about another two for the rest of the non physical loading/communication with the server/s.

A very decent load time IMO, and it would really depend on the speed of the connection that the end user has, but there are websites and tools that measure your speed against most of the other sites on the net.

All the best, I hope I was of some assistance

Basically a countries domain ending is always preferred if you are targetting that country. Depending how competitive your domain/keywords are in Brasil it could be fairly easy, or failry hard to rank. Some things to consider. Where you get your links from, if you want it to rank in brasil, get your backlinks form there when possible, also the hosting of your site is a major factor, if you want it to rank in brasil, try and get it hosted there as well. Good luck, and it is possible but you should really go for a local country domain name to make things easy for yourself.

Assuming you have not got any messages from google in WMT, you can go to the specific link page, and see if there is hundred/thousands of links that are obviously all there for the wrong reasons.

Numbers is the main way, PR of 0 or N/A may be an indicator too (why would hunfreds of sites want a link from a 0 PR page) put both together..... a link page with hundreds of outbounds with a 0 page rank (indicating google has stripped it)..... is apretty sure bet.

I would say most likely yes. US sites still show internationally so if your main target audience is in the U.S I would keep that as the target rather than risk anything. All the best.

Go into WMT if you have an account and resubi your sitemap for websitebuildersword.com, or simply google suggest site or something similar and find where you can submit your site to google again.

It should get indexed again anyway, because you should have some links out there somewhere that the bots will detect and go to your site from.

Quite a big stuff up though, on your programmers part.

Good luck

I've see similar concerns from others, it seems "rogerbot" does ignore certain things that other bots consider.

Don't worry about it, if it's not being flagged in WMT it shouldn't be an issue.

Take Roger as a guide rather than an iron fist bot like googlebot.

Hello,

It is generally used when you have two or more pages with very similar or the same content.

It basically tells the bots that you know th othr pag has similar content and it is bing don on purpose.

You use it in the link from the first similar page to the second simliar page, take a look here for a full explanation.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394

Hope this helps, all the best

4000 links from any site would look a bit unatural. Over at the google forums they preach that inbounds links will not hurt you unless you have previously got a boost from them, and if they get discounted you will then lose any benefit they gave. But 4000 links could look intentionally shady.

Not an expert here but redirects are never as good as straight forward links IMO.

In your position I would probably make the landing page more easily accessible from the top of the homepage and direct users to visit the page that way.

It's a very valuable link, so probably best not to test the waters when they are unknown.

Just my opinion of course and one of the ways we learn about seo is of course to experiment, but do consider all aspects before making any redirect changes, pros/cons etc.

All the best!

The seo moz stats for a site is not the exactly same as what google uses to determine authority/trust so just because one seems to have more authority does not mean google thinks it is more relevant.

Hence why even some new sites with minimal back links can outrank some very trusted sites on the same topic.

Welcome to the wonderful world of seo, strap in and get comfortable because it's a never ending journey.

All the best

Hi,

Google does penalize for site downtime, in its eyes it means your site is not stable but you can recover from it, exact time is possibly a few months, just try to make sure you do not have anymore downtime if you can.

Regarding the OSE and links, it is quite slow to update, if it show you no longer have a link that you know you had, simply go and check on the site to see if it's still there, if it is you don't need to worry, OSE will eventually re-crawl it and find it again.

Site links are a sign that google trusts your site, if your site has big downtime like 1.5 days, it is not exactly a trusted sign for google, so the site links may have been removed for that reason.

All the best