In addition to Phil's great post, I wanted to let you know that Wistia (3rd party video platform used by SEOmoz and others) just released a Free Version that might be a great fit.
Posts made by anthonydnelson
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RE: Youtube or Own Server
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RE: Hi guys.. post-penguin my website coming in and out of serps every other day... what reason for that? ie. #11 --> #300+
I agree with EGOL here and think duplicate content may be an issue. I'm guessing that your site and another similar site are switching places with the other being kicked to the supplemental index.
Try adding some more, new unique content to your pages. See if that helps.
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RE: What has SEOMOZ inspired you to do?
Fantastic pre-launch product. Beautiful.
My one recommendation: You almost can't tell how awesome it's going to be by the first page. The 'Start Now' button is going to be your biggest hurdle. Users don't know if it is worth starting.
I think if you started it on the second part Male/Female, Height/Weight you will get greater participation. It is more inviting because you immediately want to answer those questions to see the result.
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RE: Does TrafficEstimate.com provide accurate traffic statistics?
I just spot checked a few domains I work on with TrafficEstimate.com and I would say that the website is not very accurate with their estimates.
I have not used Google AdPlanner.
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RE: Are creative widgets still a good strategy in the Penguin world?
Is this a sidebar (sitewide) widget or a single page/post style widget?
Here are a few of my thoughts:
The sitewide style widget would be safest for a site with an established natural backlink profile already built up. If the site is relatively new, consider adjusting the widget (making it bigger?) so it is something that is featured on a single page instead of every page.
If it is sitewide, make sure your anchor text is simply the company or website name. If it is single page, consider using anchor text that reads natural.
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RE: When is link building an SEO priority? (vs. something else)
I think link building can become a priority after these other important factors are in place.
Easily Crawlable
Good architecture and UX
Nice design
Great content
Acceptable conversion rate
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RE: Relocating Real Estate Agent - Redirect?
You are correct, you should 301 redirect your old site to your new one. I wouldn't worry about ranking for TN keywords. If your new site is optimized for FL keywords and devoid of TN keywords it would be really hard to rank for the previous FL keywords.
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RE: How do you put together a link building strategy?
Hi,
If your site is crawlable and the on-page optimization is spot-on, link building might be the answer.
First, make sure your content is fantastic. When you look at the other pages in the top 10, can you honestly justify why your page deserves to rank there? Once you get your content to this level, link building becomes a whole lot easier because you have created a linkable asset.
As for link building strategies or plans, I recommend taking a link at these two links.
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RE: URL parameters causing duplicate content errors
You always have to remember that it is more important how the search engines view your site than your SEO reporting tools.
If you see the search engines having any problems with duplicate pages being indexed, do these steps.
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Use Google Webmaster Tools to Ignore the Parameters (?wr=1)
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Use the canonical tag on the pages with this parameter added to reflect the regular URL
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Make sure you link internally/externally to the canonical version of your page
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RE: Facebook Page not in Search
That seems strange. Is your Facebook page named exactly the same as your company/website? Do you link to your official page from your own website?
If you want to get it to the first page of the SERPs for your brand, try to build a few easy links to your fan page. It shouldn't be that hard to move it up quickly on a domain that powerful.
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RE: Removed Site-wide links
Are you doing this as a preventative measure or had you already seen a significant drop in rankings before making this decision?
I would only remove them if they are on spammy sites. Then, focus on getting some more good, branded links to even out your backlink profile.
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RE: How can you get accurate search traffic volumes?
Broad refers to the search volume for a non-exact match of your query. Essentially, 5 million people per month search for something with 'dance' in it.
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RE: Do pages that are in Googles supplemental index pass link juice?
I don't know if there is a way to test that. I would guess no. Or it would be a miniscule amount.
Good question and I look forward to other people chiming in.
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RE: What's the best way to sculpt links on a page?
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I wouldn't worry about dilution. They may look spammy if the anchor text is highly optimized and they are really only there for SEO purposes. Or if there are a ton.
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Don't worry about dilution/sculpting. Put links on your site for usability. Use descriptive anchors. Make the site easy to use and navigate.
That being said, I agree with you that removing them is probably a good idea. If they are all present in the top nav, I see no reason to duplicate it all again in the footer. Instead, use the footer to highlight some other important pages on your site that are important but not header worthy. Help, About, FAQ, Popular Pages and others.
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RE: Negative Youtube Review - Reputation Management
Adwords will help a bit. Many people don't click on Ads that often, and a video thumbnail is very enticing for a click-through. Especially one that appears negative.
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RE: Negative Youtube Review - Reputation Management
Adwords is definitely an option and may help a bit.
Some other things I would try is to create a Facebook Page, Twitter Profile, G+ Page, Wikipedia Entry, YouTube Channel and Linked-In Company Profile. Official company pages on a strong domain like these, often has the ability to rank quite high and push down the other profiles.
Create these profiles and do a really good job filling them out. Full of information about your company. Then, link to them from your actual website. Build a few other easy links (comments, forums, whatever) to these social profiles. Get some link equity flowing their way.
Also, create your own YouTube video. Perhaps a newer video with a good title will push it out of that spot. Put the video on your website.
Good luck!
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RE: Best way to rank an E-commerce site fast? [GOOGLE]
Same thing you do for every site. Make sure it's easily crawlable. Implement a good design. Make sure your page titles lead with your KWs. Create useful content on each page, that is better than the pages you are trying to beat (Amazon).
Trying to "rank fast" isn't always a great option. It may lead you down some paths that will cause your site harm in the future.
After your site is set-up nicely, build some links from the top down (Homepage and Top Level Categories). If the KW difficulty is low, you should be able to rank fairly quick by having a strong domain and an optimized title tag for a page with good content.
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RE: How do the engines look at pages populated using content from an affiliate site?
Hi Jason,
You need to make sure that your page goes above and beyond the content provided from your affiliate partner. What can you add to this page that will be unique and valuable to your visitors? What can you put on this page that will make it worthy of sharing socially or attracting links.
It's OK to have some duplicate content on your site in a case like this, but you also need to add as much value as possible to this page.
Since it's a travel site, get your hands on some unique photos, write your own mini-travel guide, and simply be creative. What would you want to see as a user on this page?
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RE: Great Article - Where do i publish it
I agree with EGOL's advice.
Another thing to consider is, do you interact with other influencers in your niche? If you post a good piece on content on your site, are there influential people in mind who might reasonably tweet it and help you attract additional shares and links? If not, perhaps you should share the article on a more popular site and use it to start building some relationships which will result in future links coming your way. Start building a relationship with everyone who comments on your post or tweets the link.
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RE: Duplicate titles Question
Do not use the canonical tag unless the pages are 100% duplicates.
If you are talking about duplicate content from your blog posts showing up on category pages, perhaps you can edit your blog settings to only show snippets of each post instead of the entire thing.
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RE: Duplicate titles Question
Yes. Google will stop indexing most of the duplicate pages since you added the canonical tag.
Figure out why there are so many duplicate pages and try to eliminate that problem. I'm guessing your comment about 'click more, it takes them to the category page' addressed this issue. It's best to stop a problem before it starts.
These pages may fall slowly out of Google's index. They will likely leave Webmaster Tools at an even slower rate. If this doesn't seem to work out for you, another option would be to 301 every page ending with growth/N* back to the canonical version.
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RE: What to do with extremely high number of URLs on your site?
Does everything need to be indexed? If not, perhaps the personal profiles could be noindexed. Let the search engines crawl all of your content, but only have them index pages that provide value to the SERPs.\
Only use rel=canonical if the content on different URLs is the exact same. Using it incorrectly will cause content to not be indexed.
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RE: Guest Blogging Question!
No. You don't need to have the same anchor text occur in the post and the author bio. Just write your best stuff, and include natural supporting links in the copy and in your bio.
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RE: Seo affordable company
Personally, I think your traffic expectations are a bit unrealistic. You're looking for a 800% increase in traffic in one years time. I'm not saying it's impossible, but as the other commenters noted you are better off trying to bring in more qualified traffic that converts.
The companies that sell you on the 100k/month number are the same ones who will likely put you in danger of penalty.
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RE: Title Tag Over Optimization
I think the middle option is the way to go. Both people and search engines love brands, and option number three doesn't give your brand much exposure.
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RE: Client needs a basic page analysis tool
If they use Wordpress, Yoast's SEO plug-in gives you a basic checklist for your page's target KW to make sure you use it in the different parts of the page. Very simple and basic.
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RE: SEO value to Reddit backlinks?
Is your content something that the Reddit audience would be interested in? If so, put effort into being a part of the community and help push some of your better pieces of content.
If you are only spending time on Reddit to attempt to get some link juice, I think you could put your time to better use to participating on other sites closer to your niche.
Use Reddit for the traffic and potential new customers/subscribers, not the link juice.
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RE: Do alt tags count towards on page keyword density?
I think you are looking at your on-page optimization at too much of a granular level. Make the content as good as you can. Make it useful and make it a joy to read. If it is both of those, it won't matter if your KW density is 1% or 15%. If your post has a focused topic, it will naturally be optimized for the right words.
I'm not trying to say that KW research isn't important or that you shouldn't pick a few targeted KWs to work into the post. Just don't worry so much about ratios.
As for alt text, I would say that it is a positive ranking factor to have an image with alt text similar to the targeted KWs. I don't know how they would affect your tool's density percentage.
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RE: Domain Name search in google not appearing
Likely unrelated, but another member posted problems with his site ranking just a few moments ago.
http://www.seomoz.org/q/google-sand-boxed
I only share this because his site also features a lot of posts on The HCG diet, which is a topic that Google doesn't like to cover, as evidenced by them not allowing PPC ads for the products.
Judging from these two threads, it sounds like it might be a difficult niche to operate in and perhaps Google just recently changed the way it handles these queries. Best of luck.
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RE: How Does SEO Help Local Businesses
When there isn't a lot of KW volume for the local terms, you need to look beyond doing on-page optimization for one or two major KWs. It's not simply a 'target these words and watch the business flow-in' type of optimization.
Instead, your SEO efforts should be based around creating a content strategy. Content that will be interesting, useful and naturally contain a ton of relevant local long-tail phrases that have a tiny search volume of their own. You might not have a keyword that brings in 100 visitors in a month, but you might have 500 keywords that are bringing in 2 or 3 visitors per month. 1500 monthly visits!
Content FTW!
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RE: External links in a global footer
I agree with EGOL. That is a lot of external links to include sitewide. The presence of the word 'Sponsors' may also make it look like they are paid links.
Consider simply creating one 'Sponsors' page on your site, and including a nice link to that page in your footer.
It's hard to decide if you are contributing to their problem. I'd definitely advise them to discontinue their use of the junk network and remove as many of those links as possible.
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RE: Google Query Contamination.... Are you seeing this??
I am not currently seeing this. I don't think you're crazy though, as I can definitely see google testing things like this out.
I failed to reproduce your results, but I tried a combination of searches like this:
Q1) Oregon Q2) Guitars
Q1) Portland Oregon Q2) Guitars
Q1) Portland Oregon Q2) Guitar stores
Q1) Georgia Q2) Guitars
All gave me national results. I was using Firefox. Location set to United States.
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RE: Link Builder Freelance/Agency in Italy_
Best of luck to you both. Sounds like a great opportunity for some US link builders to relocate and familiarize themselves with a new market.
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RE: Link Builder Freelance/Agency in Italy_
SEOmoz associate Gianluca would be a great person to talk to. If he personally can't help you out, I'm sure he could recommend a few other options.
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RE: How to remove backlinks?
I wouldn't worry about removing these backlinks, unless you know they are paid or part of a network.
Instead, focus on building some good strong natural links through creating amazing content. The stronger your overall backlink profile is, the less likely you will ever find yourself in trouble over a few bad links.
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RE: No follow link
Hi Rob-
This doesn't answer your question, but it goes along with the topic. Google recommends that all paid links are nofollowed. If the link wasn't nofollowed, you would be going against their best practices and perhaps put your site at risk of penalty. (unlikely to happen unless you have multiple bad/paid links)
Perhaps it is best to leave it as a nofollow, and just use the link on the popular site for branding and referral traffic.
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RE: High level of 404 client errors
Hi Charlene-
It sounds like the pages that are delivering the 404 errors are not something you want to be crawled or indexed. Consider placing these pages in your robots.txt file or using rel noindex on them.
Be careful listening to my advice at the moment. I haven't seen your content on the discussed pages, so you need to be 100% sure about what you are doing before changing anything.
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RE: Do you use a different tactic to optimize for Bing?
I don't use any different tactics to optimize for Bing. Great targeted content that is easily accessible and has good quality signals (links and social) will rank well on both engines. Bing appears to be a bit more picky on use of the canonical tag and with how clean your sitemap is. Google appears to be a bit more lenient on these fronts, probably due to having a more sophisticated engine.
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RE: The use of subdomains to improve SEO?
This is a technique I would only consider if your clients site is already highly authoritative (high PR, DA). Essentially, your splitting up one domain into a handful different subdomained websites.
When you have a very strong site and you split it into subdomains, you increase your chance of getting multiple spots in the SERPs. When you split a weak site into subdomains, you water down your authority and it will take extra link building to get each subdomain to rank really well.
Perhaps a better strategy would be to do a bit more keyword research and figure out what keywords to really go after with the current URL structure. Instead of going after something like 'bathroom remodeling' maybe you would be better served going after 'bristol custom bathroom remodeling' or something more specific. Sometimes you have to carve out a niche and get some links before tackling a more difficult keyword.
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RE: Manta inbound link in OSE - competitor site yes, my site no, why?
Alan is right on. OSE is a great and amazing tool, but it can't be relied upon for 100% accurate link counts. If you know you have the link, you have the link.
Check to see if your Manta listing is in Google's index. If it is, Google knows you have the link. That is what is really important.
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RE: How to Handel Fashion Jewelry Stores's Listings?
Hi Vinku,
There are three basic ways to handle this.
- 301 redirect all expired or old pages to the category or subcategory they belong to. This is a great method if the pages get some tweet, shares and external links pointed at them.
This method was endorsed a speaker at SES from CareerBuilder, who has a similar issue where job postings always expire.
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Let all the pages 404 and remove them from your site.
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Let most pages 404 and 301 selected pages that you know where popular to the category or subcategory page.
It depends a lot on the popularity of your site and on the technical capabilities you have. Good luck.
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RE: Asking Sites to Remove Links.. What should I say?
Sounds like you got a penalty. In that case, you definitely want to make an effort to remove as many as possible. Document the effort you put into it. How many sites you contact for removal and how many links you have successfully removed.
This data will likely help when you file a reconsideration request.
The main problem is, spammy links are a lot harder to remove than they are to acquire. Best of luck.
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RE: Blog Comments
Commenting on blogs is a great tactic for gaining credibility in your industry. The key is your comment has to be so awesome that people read it and decide to click-through on your name, only to find more content on your site that is so awesome they are become genuinely interested.
If you are commenting to get a link, you are wasting your time. If you are commenting because you have something interesting to say about the topic of the post, by all means do it. Being the only person to comment on a blog that no one reads isn't going to get you very far. Find out where the conversations are taking place and contribute to them.
I do not think it is something you should outsource.
Also, I do not think you should be phishing for Thumbs up on your questions. People may think you are not being sincere in asking your question and instead trying to game the thumbing system.
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RE: Should I invite people to guest post?
Hi Samuel-
There are a lot of benefits to allowing guest posting on your site. The key is to have a high standard for contributors. Doing so will result in great content on your site. Some benefits as follows:
• Great content made for your site. This will likely result in some organic traffic, social sharing and some links pointed at your great content. The great content on your site will help your site be recognized as a thought leader in your niche. Best of all, you didn't have to spend much time working on it.
• The guest author will likely promote their post on your site by linking to it, tweeting it and sharing it on other social profiles. This will expose their fans to your site and work. Increasing your brand's presence.
• The guest author will owe you a solid and very likely allow you to guest post on their site. This will allow you to promote a selected piece of content/keyword from your site.
There is nothing wrong with reciprocal linking if it is done in a way that is beneficial to both sites. The only problem with reciprocal linking is that it is often abused in a spammy way that is nothing more then a link exchange attempting to manipulate page rank. If you are doing a reciprocal exchange only for the link, you should probably avoid it.
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RE: Is there a tool to automatically gather website SEO data?
One more tool to share.
http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/seo-tools/google-sitemap-generator/
This is just an online version. Punch in your URL and hit submit.
I wouldn't hesitate to download Screaming Frog though, as I mentioned earlier. It is a fantastic tool that you will use a ton.
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RE: Open Site Explorer and comparing links of competitors , then export the differences?
No need to be ashamed at all. There are so many tools with so many overlapping features it can be very hard to keep them straight.
Best of luck with your link building.
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RE: Open Site Explorer and comparing links of competitors , then export the differences?
Hi Dennis-
SEOmoz's Competitive Link Finder tool will do this for you.
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RE: Is there a tool to automatically gather website SEO data?
Use Screaming Frog for this. It's a free tool and is very easy to use. Simply enter the URL to spider and hit start.
It will go through the site and create a spreadsheet listing of the pages, status code, Title, Title length, meta description and more.
The tool works on both PC and Mac. Download it here: http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
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RE: How Many Backlinks Per Day
Nathan- There is no right answer for this. All I can do is repeat the usual advice. It's quality, not quantity. Vary your anchor text.
Attempt to build some links that also benefit users. Instead of commenting, contact the niche blogs and ask if you can write a guest post. This will result in a followed link that adds value to the web instead of a nofollowed link buried in the comment section. Also, this will result in your product/brand being the focus of the site's readers.
Best of luck.
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RE: How do I avoid cannibalization and point search engines to the correct page?
Try a stronger internal linking strategy. Make sure that category page is receives a link from your home page or from pages higher up than the item detail level. According to OSE, your site links to the individual product 10 times, while only linking to the category page 8 times. This may be sending google a message that the item is more important than the category.
Of course, a surefire way to make sure it ranks better is to build a few external links to that category page. See if 'Keep Calm and Carry' links to distributors of their products. Do some google searches for 'where to buy keep calm and carry' and other similar queries to find possible link targets. Find other distributors who sell those products and use OSE to see if there are any sites that point external links to them. Perhaps those sites would be willing to link to you as well.
In short. #1 Make sure the category is well linked internally with links near the home page. #2 Build Links to the higher pages.