Comments on: On Page SEO Questions

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:58:37 +0000

Dear Dan, thanks for your book! Great information!

Regarding internal links … my forthcoming website will sell a very specific line of consumer products plus offer free access to a library of original articles, FAQs, and other background information (added to regularly) on topics related to this specific product area. Is there SEO value in linking my primary "keywords" as they appear in the body text of these articles/info to my home-page or product-line page?

Also, is there SEO value in having my primary "keyword" … say "widget" … in the actual urls of all my subpages, as in: http://www.widgets4all.com/wideget-article/top-10-widgetbenefits.html or http://www.widgets4all.com/widgets/bluewidgets.html.

Thanks! Rob B.

By: Dating in London

Dating in London — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:34:51 +0000

Really useful Dan – and thanks for taking the time to answer all these questions. Mine is hopefully simple – I have a number of online dating sites, and dating is a very competitive term. Should I concentrate on long tail phrases ?

By: Dan Thies

Dan Thies — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:50:16 +0000

Cherie, not a problem really, but if the footer links are duplicated higher up in the page, not doing you any good either.

By: Cherie Powell

Cherie Powell — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:20:17 +0000

Hi Dan,

Thanks for all the help you give on this site and with your books. I have a question about links that are used in the footer area on every page of my site because of the fact that my site is built with templates and I have links in the base template. Does this duplication of the same links on every site page create problems for page rankings?

Thank you. Cherie

By: Andy Zain

Andy Zain — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:40:09 +0000

Hello Dan,

All of my iner pages are in following format

Title:keyword phrases url:keyword phrases

Plus all backlinks , lotsa of them , are targetted for that particular keyword phrases too , singular+plural form

Example:

Title: Best Payday Loans URL:http://www.paydayloansinfo.org/best-payday-loans.htm Backlinks : best payday loan and best payday loans

Will Google devalue my inner pages for doing this?. Do you consider this as over optimization?

Thanks!

By: Osvaldo Fonseca

Osvaldo Fonseca — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:09:04 +0000

Hello, we are optimizing our site and need to insert some photos. My question, is it necessary to use original photos? This because we are developing some locations details pages and intend to download some photos from internet. If no, can we still use not original photos and have a way to go around this? Grateful of Soure reply Osvaldo

By: Dan Thies

Dan Thies — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:01:16 +0000

Bruce, not sure what you're looking for. The first link in the HTML code is the most likely to pass anchor text to the target page.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:22:42 +0000

Dan, could you please provide and example for this recommendation you made on page 49 of SEOFS.

Because of the way that search engines handle link reputation (anchor text), I recommend using a format that allows you to include some keywords in every page’s FIRST link to the home page, but also having a “Home” link in your navigation somewhere.

Thanks,

Bruce

By: Dan Thies

Dan Thies — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:47:17 +0000

It doesn't "force" them to use the meta description, it just tells them not to use the Y! or DMOZ description. Currently they would use the meta description, but that behavior could theoretically change in the future.

By: Curtis Stevens

Curtis Stevens — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:44:27 +0000

No doubt, I have done that. I was asking should you put those two items in the robots file so it forces them to use the mega description you have in place & not the directory description or is this something they already do by default?