Yes James you're referencing HTML that's incorrect

Never...

As James correctly pointed out the & (or ampersand) is not a good idea. However his explanation is a little incorrect.

You see URLs can only be sent over the Internet using the ASCII character-set. URLs often contain characters outside the ASCII set, therefore the URL has to be converted into a valid ASCII format.

When using unsafe ASCII characters you have to replace them with a "%" followed by two hexadecimal digits.

Therefore an "&" is %26 and not & which is the standard HTML character set.

Personally I would look at a way to exclude the & and just have /5-star-hotel-near-beach/ for example

How long does it take to get links indexed?

It depends upon on how often Google crawls the website and web pages concerned and whether or not they determine the content worthwhile adding to their index. You can perform a search in Google to see if the web pages containing your links have been indexed and check the last cache date.

**How long does it take Google Webmaster tools on average to detect links to my website? **

About 6 weeks on average, however Google does not include all your links in WMT

What about OSE?

The way Mozscape crawls and indexes the web means that deep pages are often not added to their OSE reports. If the links were only placed in the last 3-4 weeks it's unlikely Moz will havew found them all yet so I would hold on a couple more weeks.

Scott,

just because a link is not indexed by Google does not mean they don't know that your link exists. I would definitely remove these directory links from your link profile and if you are unsuccessful contacting the webmasters make sure you keep the emails and notes in your spreadsheet.

I have found its good to have this data in a Google Docs Sheet as it makes it easier to share with the Google Spam team once you do submit your reconsideration request

Cheers

Chris

Diane

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That's right wapkilluk.co.uk is the root domain and www.waspkilluk.co.uk is your sub-domain

There is no set hard and fast rules so this is simply my opinion.

Google is pretty lenient if the percentage of content you have copied is low compared to the rest of your page.

Duplication issues can also be overcome if you have other good SEO trust signals i.e. good back links, established domain, unique content etc. I assume this is why Rotten Tomatoes get away with duplication issues as they have an established brand.

As long as you are citing the original source and the duplicated content is not a large percentage of your page then you should be ok.

I recommend that Chrome is part of your link building tool kit and get a broken link checker, you'll also find that visiting web pages with images off in Chrome will speed up your prospecting efforts. I can see you want to search a whole website for a broken link then try a tool like Screaming Frog or Xenu.

Hi Nick,

Broken Link building isn't just about getting a broken link replaced with your link. It's also a tactic to build a relationship with a blogger/webmaster to later pitch them a proposal for a link.

Jon Cooper (@pointblankseo) loves this technique so be sure to hop over to his blog

http://pointblankseo.com/creative-broken-link-building

He also recommends a few broken link tools too

Dave,

Assuming your 301 redirects are technically correct then it will take time for your new page URLs to be indexed by the major search engines.

Be aware that your rankings may not come back 100% as they were before the change.

A 301 redirect does not pass all the PR and linkjuice as many SEO's assume. You can read about it in this interview with Matt Cutts and in this illustrated summary from Rand on SEOMoz

From my personal experience what you are seeing is normal just keep doing the good work you are currently doing a quite Google search with info:yournewdomain will show if your new domain has been added to the index.

There is no set hard and fast rules so this is simply my opinion.

Google is pretty lenient if the percentage of content you have copied is low compared to the rest of your page.

Duplication issues can also be overcome if you have other good SEO trust signals i.e. good back links, established domain, unique content etc. I assume this is why Rotten Tomatoes get away with duplication issues as they have an established brand.

As long as you are citing the original source and the duplicated content is not a large percentage of your page then you should be ok.

Diane

I ping numerous services at all once automatically, simply add this list to your Ping Services in your WordPress installation:

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

http://bblog.com/ping.php

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://topicexchange.com/RPC2

http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates

http://xping.pubsub.com/ping

Hi Nick,

Broken Link building isn't just about getting a broken link replaced with your link. It's also a tactic to build a relationship with a blogger/webmaster to later pitch them a proposal for a link.

Jon Cooper (@pointblankseo) loves this technique so be sure to hop over to his blog

http://pointblankseo.com/creative-broken-link-building

He also recommends a few broken link tools too

Never...

As James correctly pointed out the & (or ampersand) is not a good idea. However his explanation is a little incorrect.

You see URLs can only be sent over the Internet using the ASCII character-set. URLs often contain characters outside the ASCII set, therefore the URL has to be converted into a valid ASCII format.

When using unsafe ASCII characters you have to replace them with a "%" followed by two hexadecimal digits.

Therefore an "&" is %26 and not & which is the standard HTML character set.

Personally I would look at a way to exclude the & and just have /5-star-hotel-near-beach/ for example

That's right wapkilluk.co.uk is the root domain and www.waspkilluk.co.uk is your sub-domain

Dave,

Assuming your 301 redirects are technically correct then it will take time for your new page URLs to be indexed by the major search engines.

Be aware that your rankings may not come back 100% as they were before the change.

A 301 redirect does not pass all the PR and linkjuice as many SEO's assume. You can read about it in this interview with Matt Cutts and in this illustrated summary from Rand on SEOMoz

From my personal experience what you are seeing is normal just keep doing the good work you are currently doing a quite Google search with info:yournewdomain will show if your new domain has been added to the index.

How long does it take to get links indexed?

It depends upon on how often Google crawls the website and web pages concerned and whether or not they determine the content worthwhile adding to their index. You can perform a search in Google to see if the web pages containing your links have been indexed and check the last cache date.

**How long does it take Google Webmaster tools on average to detect links to my website? **

About 6 weeks on average, however Google does not include all your links in WMT

What about OSE?

The way Mozscape crawls and indexes the web means that deep pages are often not added to their OSE reports. If the links were only placed in the last 3-4 weeks it's unlikely Moz will havew found them all yet so I would hold on a couple more weeks.