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• Theme & Widget backlinks.In recent years, another linkbuilding“loophole” was to create atemplate, or maybe a Wordpresswidget/plugin, that would be givenaway for free. Anyone using thetheme or plugin would have a linkinserted into their homepage(usually in the footer), back to theauthor’s website. Google clampeddown on this during 2012 andpenalized a lot of websites.• Site-wide links. We’ve talkedabout this earlier in the book. Anylinks that appears on all pages ofyour site are called site-wide links.An example would be a blogroll on a
Wordpress site that usually lists“favorite blogs” in the sidebar.However, site-wide links have beenabused by people buying them onother sites, so Google have hit themhard.I know we all have navigation onour sites and some items do getplaced on every page of the site.However, pay particular attention toany site-wide links that use akeyword phrase as the anchor text.These are the ones that are morelikely to get you into trouble. Youknow the ones – a “make moneyonline” or “buy cheap contactlenses” link in the footer of all
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An SEO ChecklistA step-by-step plan
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What People are Sayingabout this bo
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"Extremely useful informationfor an
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tested himself. This book is inline
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fitness for any particular purpose.
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ContentsWhat People are Saying abou
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Internal Linking of contentSite Str
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Checklist Point #9 - ContentQuality
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estateCheckpoint 3 - Site Structure
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Why this Book?I’ve already writte
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yourself and try to view yourwebsit
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hundreds or thousands of lowquality
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building) that were previouslytoler
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How to Use this BookI’ve divided
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If you like, you can work your wayt
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Guidelines," which outlinesome of t
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“illicit practices”?Here is a l
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extensively in backlinkingcampaigns
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backlinks. Google don’t even like
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pages”. These are poor qualitypag
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interlink your content if it helps
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We’ll look at some of the otherth
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Checklist Point #1 - TheDomain Name
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Google had finally decided to takea
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• Is the site specifically target
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Any of those phrases turned into an
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However, if I search the Way BackMa
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Notice the main header on the pageu
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Machine website. See if yourdomain
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video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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The Domain NameChecklist• EMD? If
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Checklist Point #2 -Web Page Real E
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of the poor user experience onthese
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would the remaining content beseen
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like Twitter, Facebook, Contact,Pri
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in the footer, especially keywordri
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A good test here is to ask a friend
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What if you could use Google’ssea
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rank for.NOTE: Site-wide links can
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the main navigation menu usuallylin
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navigation menu, but certainlysecti
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think in terms of how yournavigatio
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from a search engine perspective,li
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on your server for each of thesecon
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content related to those folders. S
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big clues about the content. Forexa
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1. Never use a word or phraseas bot
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Each of these links goes to another
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I’d make with internal linking is
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3. For any particular anchortext, m
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• If you have a large site, do yo
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Checklist Point #4 -CommentsVisitor
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so.If you already have a commentfor
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go through every singlecomment on y
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sole intention of getting a valuabl
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disguised.For example, a spammer mi
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favorite web hosting company(which
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Comments Checklist• Does your web
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Checklist Point #5 -Social Presence
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You can see how I have this setupon
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• Current special offers from you
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“Wow, this site must be good”.N
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displays how many Twitterfollowers
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Google knows that YOU arethe origin
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Let’s see how you can give yourvi
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essential list. It could be in thef
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You’ll see at the end of the Twee
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Google obviously monitor Googleplus
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• Setup Google Authorship for you
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a photo of a real person increasesc
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Do you see how Shane looks like are
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is in a resource box at the end ofe
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your site. It also gives you anoppo
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intermediary in the sales process,r
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as you only share qualityinformatio
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If your site is related to health o
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posted.• Bad reviews.• Poorly t
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• Is your business address displa
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Checklist Point #7 -Bounce Rates &
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on-site-bounce-rate-get-the-realnum
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rate, I am happy with this pagebeca
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content is good, maybe it’s just
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• Are visitors spending a long or
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might include things like cookiepol
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Legal Pages ChecklistNot all of the
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Checklist Point #9 -Content Quality
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content that people will wantto boo
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two from your web page and searchfo
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http://ezseonews.com/general/intern
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• Affiliate link disclaimer?If yo
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As you read your content, askyourse
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Fluff rating is a term I use with m
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websites that outsource theirconten
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A sitemap is a great way to checkyo
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This website has an article on“ro
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What about these two pages foundon
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similar reasons. Google hastraditio
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There are links fromPR1, PR2 andPR3
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Example of bad internallinkingInter
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your site using contextual links, t
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One final example on this site isth
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and not automated tools to do yourS
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have largely been removed, and that
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(like it still makes good income or
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in the footer, especially keywordri
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most potentially damaging.• If yo
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Checkpoint 4 -Comments• Does your
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Checkpoint 5 - Socialpresence• Do
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Checkpoint 6 - Wouldyou Trust this
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grammatical errors. Check yournavig
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• Are visitors spending a long or
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• Do you have an email policy pag
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websites. If it has, you need toimp
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to remove a lot of fluff, perhaps t
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use them. These should not bekeywor
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Checkpoint 10 -Inbound link profile
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URL or title/headline of the articl
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reason to cross-link the sites,remo
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Andy Williams
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the Panda update. Panda wasdesigned
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October).Whereas Panda seems to pen
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Amazon UK(https://www.amazon.co.uk/
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in our history, an opportunity iskn
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book, I published my first Kindlebo
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specifically need to know.I see eno
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Building a website was once thedoma
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step of your journey in great detai
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CSS for BeginnersLearn CSSwithdetai
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* The Float property* Units of Leng
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A basic knowledge of HTML isrecomme
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CreatingFatContent.com, where Ibuil
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