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Use jQuery- it will basically solve all your to many links on a page.

Chad

Well- I confirmed it when a crawl came back with 12,500 errors ( all from email a friend url ) which is a no crawl page.

Over the last 2 weeks we made sure our site was 100% with a revalidation again with W3C and came back 100% and google now is crawling us 2 to 3 times a week.

So- I think the crawl at Moz went out and drank a bit to many cold ones....

Have a good holiday.  
Chad

Dana-

I was waiting for someone to step up and say something.  It is happening to us.  I was on a consultant call with Jason Dowdell related to another topic with our site and I brought this up.  We then did several different investigations regarding this and discovered there has to be a gilt.  We ran some quick analysis and discovered what I call- Bullshhhhht.

We think reviewed about 200 pages and discovered that not 1 single page had duplicate anything.

He told me to worry about other things- like real content created by humans.

Chad

Mike,

Our company uses Vocus( which owns PRweb) about 2-3 times per week.  In the past we have used other PR release services but have found this has been the best.  Vocus is a annual paid service ( a bit pricey 5K) but considering it allows you to send out 1 press release a day which I would not recommend, the largest benefit is that the service allows you to send your press release directly to new editors emails, magazine etc.  This service has gotten out products in Southern Living and a few other magazines- which is priceless.

Make sure you goal is to create awareness rather than quality backlinks- make sure your press release are something people actually want to know about- then the natural process of high quality backlinks will come.

Good luck.

Chad

Yes- I have a very good friend who happens to be both my competitor and my vendor basically watch a million dollar get rip from his pockets.

All the work that I have done- architecture of the site has made the biggest improvements.

Those search engine spiders are confused teenagers trying to decided where to go- I say- come to my site every hour( that is my goal, I have them coming everyday finally) and I know I will see the money train follow.

Good luck- google Jason Dowdell- super smart guy as a consultant.

Yeah...I get that crap all the time.  I typically tell them that I have a pen and paper which can create anything too...even BS.

Take a deep breath.  Your gonna be fine.  Check the cache date.  cache:your domain.com and see when it was indexed or if it even has been.  Make sure you have all your ducks in order and just relax- it won't happen overnight.

I relaunched on a new platform June 18, 2011 and thought it was the end of the world.  It took a good 60 days for things to normalize again but then we really started working.

Good luck.

Chad

Alex,

Very interesting question.  As a business owner that has had several SEO companies do our work( in my opinion) won't trust my keys to the kingdom.  I have spent a tremendous about of money  using services and outsourcing. I've learned that we do a better job ourselves and we understand our end user better as well as the product.  I do still use 2 services( by the same company) I like how they operate, they are always straight forward and honest.  One of the services is pure consulting- it's been invaluable.  I have learned that I typically am dead on with my thinking, I just need to approach it from a computer mind a bit.

Good luck - might be easier to delegate some of your other responsibilities.

PS- if they start down the road of " Intellectual Property or I can show you a webinar" run....

Chad

James,

I'm with Mat.  I believe in user experience.  There is a way around the too many links, you need a developer that understand Jquery.  Basically, the Too Many Links issue gets resolved that way- I have an insane amount of too many links- we know have less than the 100.

Chad

Wendy,

I had a  very similar situation and we did a one by one relink to the new site.  We found that was the best thing in the long run but it was very time consuming.

Sorry to create more work for you.

Chad

start by using the moz campaign tool.  follow the directions, enter your keywords and keyword phrases that you are trying to rank.  Then let it crawl your site.  Wait for the report, then carefully complete the task one by one.  It's is a very time consuming, daunting task that takes hard work.  In the end, all you are doing is building a better site for the search engines to crawl and rank you.

Just go step by step.  Take the long road, no short cuts.  If someone tells you they can fix it in a day- they are full of crap.

Building a online business is harder than running a brick & mortar any day of the week.

start with the basics- read a lot and listen to people that sound reasonable- don't listen to snake oil salesmen....

Email me anytime charris@thegardengates.com- we are a real business doing this all in-house after going down the consultant road( trying to take short cuts) we spend a lot of time on this- 7 days a week.

Chad

Use the tools in open  site explorer, in the inbound links section( it says no follow)

don't put site wide content on every page that looks or feels the same-  that's what I would recommend.  Why rush and do it wrong or have to redo it.  Take your time and tie your content to quality blogs-to social leveraging etc.

I would have your content writer start at top level pages and work down- it will bring the biggest results that last the longest but they will not be fast.

Joseph,

I am reading that you are looking to create brand awareness ( your name) as an authority?  If that is the case, great thought out content will be what works best for you.  IDK, blog commenting- we delete all of them unless it's someone with real valid interest.  We don't allow back linking because we know that is the only reason they are commenting.

Maybe create a storyline blog that takes a week to explain, day to day.  Link out to other authorities as case studies etc.

Hope that helps.

Chad

LBM-

I think Robert is on point.  Our site which is done by the rules- from day to day our rankings and traffic changes. We do a lot of work to make sure this doesn't happen but I think you need to look the www like the ocean.  Some days the tide rolls in as planned, other days not so much.

Not sure what you are doing ( meaning selling) but look at sales- who cares about traffic- it's about checks in the bank.  I do realize these are tied to traffic but not always.

hope that helps-

Chad

Margaret,

Have you done the simple things yet-

Each of those 5 KWphrases did you make sure to add very concise content to those pages use addition kwphrases?

Did you create a blog series reflecting around those kwphrases that link out to a higher authority

Did you create some social spin ( even though I think this only partly works) cross posting those kwphrases with links to site

As a site owner, we do a lot of thinks to help grow and move kwphrases, we see real results that put checks in the bank with the above- good luck.

Tutu Girl-

I dipped for about 45 days.  During that time, I worked night and day posting, blogging, etc.  I went and found all our old blog post and relinked them to new urls ( that's the day I realized that 301's would be to much to handle( had 6800 of them at one point)

Cleaning the architecture is more important that anything you can do-( in my very educated opinion ( educated by doing and getting results)

Think about the search engine as ADDHD teenagers- if you give them a reason to get distracted- they will go somewhere else.  I also learned a few things for some really smart people.  Namely- Jason Dowdell( seotool).  He taught me about using Jquery to reduce number of links, placement of content ( no lower than code line 40) as well as a ton of other things.

Basically the lesson that I learned- make the switch.  Get the architecture in place, then content, then begin doing seo work then sales will fall into place.  Not focusing on the architecture will lead to lack lust performance down the road.  Aslo, develop a system for adding content, spinning social and blogging which will also help.

Hope the helps- it's a lot of work but work- but so is opening a retail store( which is what an online store really is( just bigger market of customers)

Chad

Hey GreatFence-

I own TheGardenGates.com and did a complete replatform ( leaving volusion too) I timed my relaunch at the slowest time and had a dip.  I did do 301's but later basically just plug the plug on everything.  Then we added an incredible about of content-

the results have been incredible and our sales our up 500% from Volusion.

Good Luck

Chad

Ask yourself this question, if you employed a staff writer that you give assignments to, review, add links and then publish under the another name, does it really matter.  My opinion, if you are paying for a product to be used as yours, then no big deal. If you are not paying for a product and stealing it, then big deal.

Why not the position of educating the client to the importance of creating brand awareness by engaging in social web efforts that build their brand or product. Explain the benefits of true likes where the engage user comments and share relavent content they are interested with their friends. Maybe they will see the value in social marketing. Or why not show them how to run ads on FB to pay for real people interested in their brands product or service. I've been successful at this for our own business with 25,000 fans on out page and tons of interaction/feed back.

We've added both subdomain blogs and   .com/blog & .com/news  to start creating better content.  We have had a blog for years that lived under another name with 100's of post be find it necessary to create better quality content that lives on our site.

hope that helps.

Chad

I agree and disagree in the SEO relation and value.  I'm not a wizard but we have studied our pages that are popular in the " Like, Share, G+, Tweet etc"  and those all rank better.  In addition, it seems that several of of those shared links are populating well.

I do believe that valid "likes" from real consumers are very important to gaining knowledge about customer demographics.

We have " Like, Share, G+, Tweet etc"  on every product page, we've seen results.

Hope it helps,

Chad

David,

Try this https://scripted.com/landing_two/blog-posts?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=hire+bloggers&utm_campaign=Bloggers_Exact&gclid=CIvOoIrdybECFaOMTAodtnAAiw

I found a blogger- hired them and then they passed me around to all their friends.

Chad

Tom, www.thegardengates.com Thanks Chad

I feel a lot better reading this. I've had a few just disappear. We had keywords that rank #2 and just are gone. We don't have any warnings, we have tons of unique content(updated constantly)clean links. Traffic dropped. We do everything by the book and have a very thought out plan including press releases, croos posting on social, blogging, guest blogging ,etc. I noticed hayneedle.com filled page after page of poor quality page links for each of these keywords and amazon pages promoting their site. I'm losing my mind but our domain authority increased etc. hopefully this is just a bump in the road. Love any help for anyone wwww.thegardengates.com

Don't feel bad- we do the same thing and I'm convicted it's not accurate. I can find a link between our PPC and the longptail even though it's reporting under organic. It seems like the real time is very glitchy as well.

I've had an issue with to many links on the site. My drop down menu, secondary footer and footer. The report told me that I had 253 links on each page. I then programmed my secondary footer to dynamic and ran a crawl and my links reduced accordingly to 201. Then turned the footer into dynamic and ran a crawl with my links increasing to 1500. This also happened between each phase but en went away. Oddly enough, my domain authority increased as well as other factors in the crawl report. This too many links thing is driving me crazy. Please provide some guidance.