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I was wondering, does it help if I publish a link to a new page on my website on my Facebook-, Google + and Twitter-Account - even if noone reposts it?

Thanks

Polyniki

thanks Ryan.

Hello everybody, I used the open site explorer to check where my competitor has links and try to put mine there too. However I am extremely confused with the results. Eg the first link to my competitor coming from a domain with authority 91, is a download file. The other one is a link from ups, the courier service. When I click on it I get an access denied.The other one comes from samsung and when I click on it, I download an swf file. Next one, fcc.gov and it downloads a wp file. If I keep clicking on these links, in the end I am going to get a virus or something and learn nothing about what my competitor does. Any one have a clue how they managed to get linked like that?

thanks, but I am still confused about what the no followed links SEOMOZ talks about are. Are they external backlinks to my site that I submitted to no follow policy directories? Or internal links I put a no follow on? Or both?

Well, I actually searched on the Internet for directory catalogues and submitted my  site on over 100 of them. Now if I type "www.freegamesonline.gr" on Google I find about half of them linking to my site, and Seomoz pro only shows 20 of them, which is rather confusing. Why does this happen?

Also I find my competitors got their links on sites like fcc.gov which seems to contain no links to external sites - i have no idea how on earth they did that - some king of hack? Even more unanswered questions!

Anyway, I will keep exploring seomoz for builgind linking strategies but still I have no clue how to interpret the metrics, I have attached a screenshot again. So what are the no followed links pro reports and how did I manage to do that while my competitors were more clever? It seems so self-explaining but it confuses me. None of the tutorials helped.

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Thanks Ryan, I now understand what a no followed link is, but how does this apply to my site? I mean are the no followed links mentioned in PRO (followed vs no followed) external backlinks to my site not followed by search engines because, for example, I submitted them to directories that put a no follow on the links? All of my competition seems to have followed links and I have a lot no followed, so I am trying to understand which links are these and what I have done wrong.

Hi there,

probably this is so self explaining that I didn't find it described in the tutorial about learning to use PRO or here in Q&Α. But remember, there is no dumb question What are the followed vs no followed links? I understand followed links as backlinks to my site, but what is a no followed link?

Thank you in advance!

Thanks a lot, I think I got it.

OK, so if I understand you correctly instead of stuffing separate pages with the keyword i want the start page to rank with, I should focus on the rankings of each single page and this automatically will help the start page rank better as well?

So for example if I posted an article on my free games website about, say, what is the best oil for your car (which has nothing to do with free games) and this page about the car oil ranked well with the keyword_ car oil_, would it help my start page rank better with the _free games _keyword?

OK, I get your point, thanks!

Hello Ryan,

actually Greeks and I suppose many other people who are not native English speakers use this particular English keyword instead of its translation, so I don't think I need an English version of the website (too much work, too much competition). So to sum up, do you think my approach "game x is a free game" or "if you like free games about x try this game" actually helps? Or only if I make it anchor text? I am not sure I understand completely.

I really appreciate your help!

Thank you so much, I will look into this further!

Thanks a lot for the help. I realised too that the tag cloud is a real pain because it did compete with great pages if my site for a particular keyword so I put a no follow on these results and think will have to do it for each tag.

Thanks, I think I understand what you mean. However, the keyword in this case is zink, and however you use it - either in connection with aging or with the immune system, Google reads zinc on page 2 and on page 3, which is what you want. But I am still not sure how to avoid cannibalization. Do you mean that the keyword can appear on the contents of page 2 and page 3, but with a different context?

How would this apply to my case? My keyword is free games but i dont aim for page 2 or page 3 to be found with that keyword, I just want to use them so that page 1 is found better. Page 2 or page 3 would describe a different game each, so that the contents of page 2 and page 3 are totally differnt, but they contain the keyword free games. Eg page2 would say Skyrama is a free game in which you manage your own airport and would describe skyrama. Page 3 would say If you like free games about farms, then Farmerama is your game! Harvest vegetables... bla bla. Is this how you mean it?

Sure, on every page actually. Eg this is how the mozbar sees the data from my main page

| Page Title | Free Games Online - Browser Games - Δωρεάν παιχνίδια - Το πρώτο ανεξάρτητο ελληνικό portal για free games online. Παίξτε δωρεάν... freegamesonline.gr | 150 |
| Meta Description | Το πρώτο ανεξάρτητο ελληνικό portal για free games online. Παίξτε δωρεάν παιχνίδια στα ελληνικά. |

Do you see that the meta description is part of the page title, although on Joomla these are two seperate fields. I attached a screenshot for you to see how it looks like.

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Hey there, thanks for the tip. But by page do you mean a single page on a website containing over a hundred links (website.com/page1.html), or do you mean a whole website that has many different pages, each of them a seperate link

website.com/link1.html, website.com/link2.html....website.com/link100.html

Just making sure i am not lost in translation here.

Oh, sure, it is www.freegamesonline.gr

OK, I find the courage to ask this because there is not supposed to be a dumb question. Like all of us, I want my website to rank great with a particular keyword. Do I have to use this keyword only on my home page (the start page which I want to appear on top Google results), or does it make a difference if I use the keyword on several articles that I post on my website. These articles all have seperate links. Eg i want the www.website.com to be found by Google, but this website contains www.website.com/link1.html, www.website.com/link2.html.. etc. Will keyword usage on link1.html, link2.html etc be relevant so that www.website.com is found by Google? Or is every single page for itself? Hope I have explained that well and I would really appreciate your feedback.

Another problem SEOMOZ reported is that my title tags are too long. However, when I type in the title and the description for a particular page on Joomla, the description later appears not only as the meta description, but as part of the page title as well, thus the title appears to be too long. I have no idea how to seperate those two. Anyone?

Hi there everybody, I am a total SEO newbie and i am burning with questions. I had my site crawled and found out that it contains too many links. The reason is that it is a site where I constantly write news and articles and each one of them is a new Joomla item, thus a new link. I actually thought lots of content is good for SEO. How am I supposed to reduce the link amount?