http://blog.kissmetrics.com/guide-to-guest-blogging/

http://www.copyblogger.com/successful-guest-blogging/

I do guest blogging to the best I can and what I usually do is:

Find a few of the best blogs in the niche of the client, I look at all elements - check out the social channel numbers, the amount of social sharing on the posts, number of comments, number of posts going up daily/weekly, length of posts etc.

I will then try and make a headline which fits in with the blog but hasn't been done to death.

I will then usually create a list type article (Top 5) because I feel the information is broken down better in this format and allows for skim reading if the user doesn't want to sit there and read 2000 words (I make sure every heading has an image as well).

The client goes in the byline.

That's just me, im not a pro blogger/writer I just try to produce something I would be very proud to put on my own blog.

Hi,

Sitewide footer links, is this bad for SEO?

Basically I see all the time the main navigation repeated in the footer, sometimes as almost something to just fill the footer up.

Is this bad for SEO (im guessing it is) and can you explain why you think it is?

Cheers

Thanks Tom (and everyone else for the replies),

So if someone linked to a page with a querystring Google wouldn't index that page because the canonical tag is pointing to a url which doesn't have that query in?

I like the scraped part as well, that in itself makes it worth while.

Very simple,

Why would a website (and I have seen tons doing this) link the rel canonical tag back to the same page the tag is on?

Example: somepage.htm has a canonical tag linking to somepage.htm

I thought the idea of this tag was to tell google if 2 pages are similar, this page is the original, and it's this page which should be indexed and the page with the tag on should pass all PR to the original.

Maybe im wrong and someone can help me out to understand this.

So in your example, you believe from the homepage would have a slight benefit over an inner page when it comes to ranking?

Cheers,

But what I mean is if you forget about links for a moment, lets just say the website has no links coming in.

Does Google think your target term is more important if it's in the homepage title tag rather then an inner page title tag?

You could think if a website has this term on it's root domain it must be one of, if not the most important term this website wants to rank for.

Question,

Lets say a new domain is launched, the root domain and an inner page target the same term.

Google comes along for the first time and indexes the website.

Does it see the target term on the homepage as more important then the inner page because you are putting it on the root?

I get the feeling terms connected directly with the root domain have a better chance of ranking then the term being on a inner page.

Any thoughts on this?

I thought a .org domain could only be used for non-profit? Or you had to go through extra loops to use it for commercial use? I don't use them so I could well be wrong, just remember something along those lines, sure someone else can clear that up.

Have you ever tired ranking a emd.org domain before?

I have found nothing else works well apart from ccTLD and .com domains.

I myself would go for a branded name or add a word onto the beginning or end of a .nl

Interesting thread though, I will keep watch of what others say.

Thanks for reply Greg.

Glade you mentioned Guest blogging because that's what im talking about really.

Yeah I spoke to Ann Smarty from My Blog Guest and she agreed, DA over relevance (to a certain extent).

What happens though if you guest post 5 articles to say DA60 blogs where your in travel and the blogs are in SEO?

I would have thought 5 guest posts on DA40 blogs where your in travel and so are the blogs your posting on would have worked a lot better.

It's a tough one for me.

Hi,

What does Google look at when assessing a backlink?

How important is it to get a backlink from a website with relevant content?

Ex:

1. Domain/Page Auth 80, website is not relevant. Does not use any of the words in your target term in any area of the website.

2. Domain/Page Auth 40, website is relevant. Uses the words in your target term multiple times across website.

Which website example would benefit your SERP's more if you gained a backlink? (and if you can say, how much more would it benefit - low, medium, high).

If you have built backlinks from websites that have been hit by the update then basically those backlinks which are helping you to rank have gone and therefore your rankings drop.

When you say 'lots of (good) inbound links' what we talking about directory submissions, guest posts, paid links?

I do this a lot (on a daily bases), so first off your not alone.

And your right in the fact it does need to be weighed up.

It's very hard to give an actual answer but in general if I see PA/DA 40+ a lot of work could be involved, if I see PA/DA 20- should be easy, id expect first page rankings in a few weeks to a month if that.

I don't just go off this alone but it's my starting point, I will check out all of page 1 and page 2 and some times page 3. You might find page 1 is 40+ then page 2 is 25+.

But I do look at lots of elements for example how much there content is shared socially, this gives me an idea if I produced the same sort of content and pushed PPC to it what kind of sharing potential is available from this audience (but this is just a method I do, haven't seen anyone else doing it).

See what I would do like I said was put social buttons on it, to try and and gather some social signals to those articles but then anchor text link out of the content to a page with a term that does generate traffic.

Maybe you can use those articles to help the SEO of other pages.

I would stay away from doing that as good chance it could flag as duplicate content.

What would the ratio of reviews to current content be on a page?

I would be inclined to use it to conversion optimise, but only selecting a few of the better ones.

Go into Google Analytic's, check out all the keywords generating traffic organically, export a csv of the data and copy all the keywords into Google keyword Tool.

If Google Analytic's says you have received 50 visits from 'fluffy bunnies' over a monthly period and the keyword tool says the local monthly search volume is 5000 searches, go into google and query 'fluffy bunnies', there is a good chance your result isnt that far into the results as you are picking up clicks off that term.

Thus low hanging fruit, if you work on the already ranking term, which might be on page 2 and push it through to page 1 your see a good increase in traffic for the term without to much effort (depending on the keyword).

You find 5 of these and work them up... well you get the picture.

No worries, im pretty sure my reply is what there on about when they say low hanging fruit, although Seb's reply are good things to check.

I will say paying for the membership on here will be a good thing for the company you work for to pay for.

You wont find a better bunch of SEO pros (who know what there talking about) then on here.

Few places I like to check out and use are: copyblogger, myblogguest, webdesignersforum and viperchill.

I wouldn't be surprised Alan looking at his website that a lot of links were built naturally by people linking to his site as it looks like a good resource.

I've got a website were I built some links to gain a good position and left it, over a few months that exposure built tons of new links without me knowing from all over the web.

Now if those little sites have been hit, lets say a fair amount had been wiped out then I can see how rankings could be lost.

no one has actually said to do anything but wait, I will go against the fold and say strip out all those adsense units down the left and maybe even dump that sharing tool bar at the bottom of the page, you already have a load of social sharing buttons on each page and that bar at the bottom looks like its holding up load times.

Go into webmaster tools and request a crawl.

http://blog.kissmetrics.com/guide-to-guest-blogging/

http://www.copyblogger.com/successful-guest-blogging/

I do guest blogging to the best I can and what I usually do is:

Find a few of the best blogs in the niche of the client, I look at all elements - check out the social channel numbers, the amount of social sharing on the posts, number of comments, number of posts going up daily/weekly, length of posts etc.

I will then try and make a headline which fits in with the blog but hasn't been done to death.

I will then usually create a list type article (Top 5) because I feel the information is broken down better in this format and allows for skim reading if the user doesn't want to sit there and read 2000 words (I make sure every heading has an image as well).

The client goes in the byline.

That's just me, im not a pro blogger/writer I just try to produce something I would be very proud to put on my own blog.