I have just had a conversation with a client... the gist was this...

Is it more important to stay under the 55-60 characters OR go over a bit and have the page title make sense and include the clients company name.

The same argument for meta description. I have a client insisting on 55-60 length but the keywords are long and if we use the primary keyword phrase the length is 44 if we use the keyword phrase and add the company name it becomes 64. This is with us trimming it a bit.

Anyone else discussed this before?

Hello,

The search engines have indexed a sub-domain I did not want indexed its on

old.domain.com and dev.domain.com - I was going to password them but is there a best practice way to block them.

My main domain default robots.txt says :-

Sitemap: http://www.domain.com/sitemap.xml

global

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /category//
Disallow: */trackback/
Disallow: */feed/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /?

Hi,

Was speaking to a client today and got asked how damaging two way links are. i.e. domaina.com links to domainb.com and domainb.com links back to domaina.com. I need a nice simple layman's explanation of if/how damaging they are compared to one way links. And please don't answer with you lose link juice as I have a job explaining link juice.... I am explaining things to a non techie!

Thank you!!

Is there away to get a spreadsheet of the pages indexed for a certain domain in google and bing? i.e. I search google for  Site:www.domain.com and I want to export a .csv file of all those domains/pages.

Cheers

Bing webmaster tools?

I'm not sure if it would de-index your site BUT it will definately not help. You need a balanced link profile from good authority sites with both followed and no follow links (obviously more followed). If you just have a link profile with just followed links and they are all from directory sites (which tend to have low authority - not all but most) you will risk google penalising you.

I would recommend creating a balance strategy to link buidling. Posting in Blogs with a high readership and good reputation, joining a popular and well used forum and actively get involved, a hand full of directories with non spammy links, social sites, news or information sites (email them and ask for a link).... These are just a few ideas... Also you want to make sure your links are balanced and use a variety of different anchor text and not overly optimised keyword text.

Google's algorithm is updated 100's of times a year so you never know when they will start penalising a certain type of link or text or tags etc...

EDIT: Found something that shows a great idea for a strategy and I strongly success you read it!

http://pointblankseo.com/link-building-strategies

What sort of penetration testing? Any suggestions for places to do this?

Did you create this.... I am up for this!!!

I have just had a conversation with a client... the gist was this...

Is it more important to stay under the 55-60 characters OR go over a bit and have the page title make sense and include the clients company name.

The same argument for meta description. I have a client insisting on 55-60 length but the keywords are long and if we use the primary keyword phrase the length is 44 if we use the keyword phrase and add the company name it becomes 64. This is with us trimming it a bit.

Anyone else discussed this before?

I'm not sure if it would de-index your site BUT it will definately not help. You need a balanced link profile from good authority sites with both followed and no follow links (obviously more followed). If you just have a link profile with just followed links and they are all from directory sites (which tend to have low authority - not all but most) you will risk google penalising you.

I would recommend creating a balance strategy to link buidling. Posting in Blogs with a high readership and good reputation, joining a popular and well used forum and actively get involved, a hand full of directories with non spammy links, social sites, news or information sites (email them and ask for a link).... These are just a few ideas... Also you want to make sure your links are balanced and use a variety of different anchor text and not overly optimised keyword text.

Google's algorithm is updated 100's of times a year so you never know when they will start penalising a certain type of link or text or tags etc...

EDIT: Found something that shows a great idea for a strategy and I strongly success you read it!

http://pointblankseo.com/link-building-strategies