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Erica, I appreciate the response but I have another question that maybe you can answer. Lets say my URL is www.houserestoration.com and I have 100 directories with the anchor text "House Restoration" in the body of the article.

It appears that with this consistent anchor text I have dropped in the rankings so I assume this has affected me negatively. So I want to make some changes, so now I go into directories and I insert "house" as an anchor text link to my url and in another article I put the anchor text as "restoration".

In another separate article I will put "house" anchor text in one paragraph and in the same article a few paragraphs down I'll put "restoration" as an anchor text.

In your opinion is this mixing it up enough or does it have to be different anchor texts like "housing repairs" or "household restoring techniques"?

I also tend to think that just putting an anchor text like "old house" or "living quarters" is not specific enough to help the url / term I am trying to boost.

So in your opinion what other anchor text words would you use? Also is there anyone else with extensive knowledge about this topic that can help us figure out the best direction to go with this?

I appreciate the information but I would still like the other question to be answered if possible.

If we go into these articles and change the anchor texts, will the search engines recognize this change and give us credit for the new varied anchor text or will the credit stay with the original anchor text the article was posted with?

- Thankyou.

Hello SEOMOZ,

I have a couple of questions that I am hoping you all can answer for me.

1. We have heard that having anchor text links in article directories that are identical actually hurts our rankings and is considered spam at this point. We have hundreds of articles posted to various article directories throughout the web with this consistent identical anchor text.  If we go into these articles and change the anchor texts, will the search engines recognize this change and give us credit for the new varied anchor text or will the credit stay with the original anchor text the article was posted with?

2. From here on out if we write unique stories with different anchor texts pointing to our website pages is their any gain to it and additionally will this even out our link profile? Or are placing anchor text links in article directories not the way to go?

We have aged domains that have had unique ips for some time. Batch 1 average 2 years old and are in 1st to 5th place in their rankings. Batch 2 are 8 months old and not ranking at all. Will there be any issues associated with moving them all to a reseller account with a single ip address?

In addition batch 1 that has good rankings with unique ips is there ever a possibility they will change our ips without notice or for any reason at all that will change and or fluctuate our rankings?

Because the engines ignore the link juice completely. You won't move up in rankings at all.

MailChimp is whats up. Its free for the first 2500 subscribers. Can't beat there statistics either. They are legit.

So you want to rank for the word OR?

Or.... Vente d'or sur internet

Because thats what your title says.

I think the best way is still to basically CLOAK the url with your own sub.domain forward. If you are using wordpress I know there are plugins that do it very well. If your just using regular website coding then use a service like tinyurl.com. OH and only link to related affiliate offers.

Exactly! Things like cheap wine, cigars etc are all good ways.

Do it! Do it!

I would link to that as well. Its gross but awesome!

I agree. But at the same time because its still on the main domain which has authority i have a hard time believing the engines don't trust the url more as a sub-domain vs a bran new url.

Anything that is OFF internet to get links is usually a good way to go. Send them paint and tell them to make a painting and to tell there users about it and you. People love to get messy with paint

That is strange, especially since there actual meta tag is under the 156 characters, it appears because some info on the rest of there page is relevant Google is pulling that in along with the prominent description. Very interesting.

Well linking out to any site so long as it is relative is no big deal... I would just tell them to nofollow the link (you still get anchor text importance and traffic from the link and they lose nothing).

My personal opinion is yes you will run into duplicate page issues. But then again one of my clients site has over 500 pages just like that and it ranks fine.. However if fixed who knows what could happen but they don't want to invest the time and money into it.

Where are you seeing this as google still shows only 156 Characters (Including Spaces) for Meta Description for me...

In Short... YES.

But its an easy fix. Just use the google webmaster tools http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=44231 preferred domain. That should fix the issue for you

There is not like a set number for anything in SEO. But if you think its too much then it probably is. It depends on your competition and what they are already doing (google obviously likes what they are doing or they wouldn't rank).

Just use the other seomoz tools to find links.

http://www.seomoz.org/labs/link-finder/index.php

http://www.seomoz.org/labs/link-intersect

Its really easy to find links your competitors are already using that are working, once you have the list of links to go after the best ones by using the seomoz toolbar to find out which sites have the best authority.

Hope that helps.

Just ensure your redirects are setup and that you have proper 404 page in case you miss any 301's so that google handles everything properly. It shouldn't be a big deal though.

Hey Mate,

One of my clients has around 20 terms on his site that we created exact match sub-pages for which are basically:

domain.com/key-word/

These rank very well, I can't say they are as good as an actual exact domain match but they def help get us ranking faster because the keywords in the url at all create authority.

I am unsure what DFA stands for?

Resslers tip here about varying the anchor text is one of the most over-looked factors. This is extremely important, as is the entire link profile being given consideration. You never want just one type of link vs another.

Hey man, email me at shannonlilly@rocketmail.com I have a link building technique I would love to share with you privately.

I concur here with Ressler.

You def need LOTS more quality links to gain front page exsposure but before you spend the time and money to do that (time is money) be sure that is the best term you should be going after.

You say you are using awords, I would split test which keywords (like i suggested before) actually convert clicks to customers (split testing will give this data too you).

You will then know which keywords are better for organic rankings. This is when PPC or CPC comes in handy!

Hey Mate,

Ranking in other NON usa search engines is generally easier yes even google because they are not in need of as much spam control (us stupid americans at work).

My suggestion is just build quality links and provide valuable content on the site and your rankings will go up. What term are you trying to rank for if I may ask?

I have not heard that it is necessary to host your site on a server from the country you want to rank better in... But regardless I think a us host is just fine.

Hey Mate,

Well first off your site is really nice (good job).

Your aiming for a very competitive phrase. You would be better off and probably convert more seeing as how your service is not actually for live chat but rather the back-end of allowing people to have live chat on there websites. I would go for terms like live chat software, live chat program etc... You would convert better and rank easier. When I go to google and type in live chat its because I want to chat with someone live. Not find a software to do it myself.

Hey Keri,

I tested article marketing a lot. Submitted over 200 HAND written articles (no dupes at all) to over 100 different directories.

The rankings did not go up or down so I have stopped article marketing because it all seems to be in vain at this point. I wish it wasnt because I was literally hand writing these articles of 500+ words myself with 1 outgoing link on them to my site with the correct anchor text.

Its really sad.

Hey Adam, Thanks for your response.

Well traditionally that is my thinking as well however already having the other term using that plus the .html page in that folder I just didnt want any duplicate url problems?

Hey Friend, I am having sort of a problem.

I currently have a subpage with the url of:

/musclecars/

I also have a subpage at

/muscle-cars/muscle-car-restoration.html

Obviously my main url is not listed here. My problem is I am trying to rank for the term Muscle Cars but the first URL does not have the keywords seperated so I rank no where. If I type MuscleCars into google I rank though (but nobody types the keyword in like that).

So my question is can I create muscle-cars.mydomainname.com and rank well with that? Or is it better to just use mydomainname.com/muscle-cars/ even though that second term I am ranking for already has that in its url?

Oh really? Wow... Thats kind of a bummer. As to tapping out this niche the term we are after there are virtually no blogs created for it (we own about 10 of our own to kind of get the industry going).

No we have done all types of SEO including blog posts as you said but unfortunately we have already tapped out the top sources for our niche which is automotive restoration.

I doubt automobile insurance websites would really feature our content so the actual selection of closely related sites is about 50 good SITES not even blogs.

Ideas?

Hey Guys,

I am currently doing article marketing for one of my terms on my dads site (I will not publicly post the url).

We have been working to rank for this term for several years and are on the second page near the top, we want to be in the top 5 for the term and we are willing to spend any ammount of money it takes to learn this thing!

We were introduced to article marketing not to long ago so we have hired content writers to write articles on our niche and then we are manually (I MYSELF) am going into article sites and listing the articles with a link back to our site with the anchored keyword txt (1 link per article).

We have been doing 10 articles per keyword (there is several keywords we want to rank for) so we are spreading it out slowly building these article links.

Is this the correct process or are we missing something?

These are real UNIQUE articles only being put on 1 article site never being posted anywhere else.

I think the better thing to ask is why do you need non-related links?

There are tons of link opportunities for every niche for free one way links.

I would keep both, I wouldn't stop whats already working.

Of course however if its a badge it probably is on the up an up. That's why I don't believe that would make him drop an certainly not 1 spot.

This is why I suggested the Google webmaster tools.

Bing has a similar tool aswell.