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active site?Perhaps Google’s plan to wipe outlow quality EMDs worked and it nolonger made money, so they let itexpire? No-one wants it nowbecause of the problems associatedwith this type of EMD and the factthat the domain may have pickedup a penalty (which isn’t alwaysremoved when a domain changeshands).Using Way Back Machine toFind Problem DomainsIf your domain has never rankedproperly, then I’d recommend thatyou check it at the Way Back
Machine website. See if yourdomain was used before you gotyour hands on it. If it was, whatwas the site like that was therebefore? It is possible that a domaincould be penalized in the past, andthat domain penalty carried over tothe new owner. If this is the case,you could file a reconsiderationrequest at Google(http://support.google.com/webmasthl=en&answer=35843). While notguaranteed to work, it might ifGoogle can see the domain changedhands.Keyword Stuffed DomainsAnother potential problem with a
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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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Page 53 and 54: Checklist Point #1 - TheDomain Name
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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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humans.While we are on the topic of
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somewhere. Now press CTRL+A(command
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Google. Therefore, according toGoog
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to see whether:• Links to that pa
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This is always a good check tomake.
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and see which keywords arerelevant
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available in the top 10 of Google?
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Content QualityChecklistLook at eve
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• If you use affiliate links, do
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than around the interests of thevis
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• Is your content driven bykeywor
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schemes”.“Any links intended to
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To put it bluntly, Google don’twa
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deleted/removed.OK, it’s importan
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There is a link at the top of the t
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This page tells me thatgreenscapeme
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In this case, it looks like one“a
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though there is a free version to g
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This site is a popular one, for goo
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how do you evaluate them?Link Schem
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could pay for a backlink in anynumb
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section of their website. Whenpeopl
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See how the anchor texts within the
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services, you won’t be able to ge
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Wordpress site that usually lists
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In terms of critiquing/cleaning upy
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results using the disavow tool:http
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keyword phrases that youwant your s
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This type of backlink is VERYbad fo
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unknowingly perhaps via thecomments
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them.• Are there site-wide links
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Real-World Examplesof Bad SEOModern
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There are 4 sections to thisnavigat
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Does it help the visitor?If this si
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The sitemap only has 9 entries, and
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the pages in the sidebar menu(Pages
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The webmaster was clearly trying to
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Example of FakeCommentsHere are the
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Google found that exact samesentenc
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clearly is not a good idea. As I wa
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An example of how NOTto create a co
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Incidentally, the same website also
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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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