Andrew Dale said
SEO parrots will always follow along with each other.  Most that say you need original content, have no clue which end is up.  Spun content, if done correctly is an unique as it gets.  You go to iwriter, or any where else, and they do just that.  They grab an article and rewrite it.  Unique is how much original?  90%, 97%, what…

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Jake Blank said

Mark20 said
Basically what I meant is fcsnetworker is a good tool to automate your web 2.0 efforts but personally I am not sure its worth the effort. Sorry should of been a bit clearer in my reply :p

lol, late night ?

I use FCS Networker for building web 2.0 networks.  In my experience, its the best tool on the market for…[Read more]

Hi Matt,

What sort of linking strategies do you apply to new domains? Do you wait to get the content on the site indexed before you start linking?

I create a very minimal site.  5 pages of content, 500 words per ranking page, authority link and youtube video on each page.  Silo the pages, then index them.  Then I start building links ri…[Read more]

Keep us informed on how this pans out for you.  I have 22 local SEO clients under my belt, and the only guy that got hit had a lack of word count on his ranking page.  He increased the amount of content and the site came back.  Not sure if “word count” is an actual Pigeon factor as SEMezpz says he’s seen a rollback, which might have accounted fo…[Read more]

Hey Scott,

Scenario A:

PBN site links to yourpage.com twice.

Each link gets the same amount of link juice, but only the first anchor is considered.  

By same amount of link juice, lets say the PBN site has 10 links and you’ve sent 2 to yourpage.com, then it will get 20% of the PBN site’s link juice.

Scenario B:

PBN site links to…[Read more]

This might not be your case, but…

I have a colleague that recently complained about multiples sites/pages getting de-indexed recently.  Cross-referencing the commonalities between his sites with the issues, he had found that the only thing they had in common is they’re all residing on the same IP from the same host.  There’s nothing wrong wi…[Read more]

Garrat hit the nail on the head.

Just to add, one of the biggest points to look at when it comes to local SEO is comparing yourself with the other sites in the top 10, especially when it comes to the # of links to the homepage.

With local, it usually takes only a handful of links to rank.  I’ve gotten to #1 in New York for multiple sites…[Read more]