This shouldn’t be your first port of call for looking at indexation issues. Ideally, the site should have logically separated sitemaps to make any indexation problems easier to spot (e.g. is it product pages that are suffering, or the subcategory pages?). The URLs in the sitemap should all return a 200 result, and (nearly always) include only pages you want indexed (nothing blocked in robots, or with restrictive meta directives etc). If we have something more esoteric causing the issues, then this post might help. In webmaster tools we get this familiar report –
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Is Viagra.com a scam?
Check out this review to discover the truth of Viagra.com’s service, and avoid being scammed! See how Viagra.com compares to other services. It’s common knowledge that scams and swindlers abound in this industry, so see below to discover the truth.
It’s probably not a scam. It’s actually the website of the company that makes and sells Viagra to the great unwashed masses. Recently, Pfvizer have decided to sell viagra direct to the public in order to stop people buying not-viagra.
Identifying Widget, Template and Embed Spam
I do quite a lot of link analysis, and I might be a bit late to the party with this one.
My own approach to link analysis is stripping various link data sources down to the lowest common denominator and building up from there. In most cases, since I’m using Webmaster Tools data, so this means I’m starting from the links alone. This is a mistake.
If you’re agency side, or replacing the previous in-house manager you probably won’t have a crystal clear picture of tactics used in the past. The problem (or future problem) in spotting potentially harmful implementations of tactics is that linkbuilders have become more conservative in their approach to anchor text, especially in large scale (widgets, embeds and templates) applications. I have to remind myself to look closely at those innocent looking {brand|www.brand.com} links, as well as the really obviously SEO’d stuff. It’s worth taking 10 minutes to look at this. The good thing about Template, Embed and Widget links is that they use the same surrounding text (as do articles and comments that have forgotten to spin). Ahrefs data gives us the surrounding the pre-anchor and post-anchor text. We can use this to quickly get a grasp on a few of the less immediately obvious parts of a link profile.
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On Not Blogging For Ages
Thankfully my blog doesn’t display post dates, or get much traffic. This happens to most blogs as I understand it, the owner gets bored, or isn’t really invested in a topic, and gives up. I’m not going to say “I’ve been really busy”, partly because I don’t think that’s particuarly true, and partly because I know people who are far more busy who blog far more often. At work it’s been a very busy three months, but not so busy at home.
Things I can remember happening in SEO since I last posted:
Ahrefs.com’s Spammy Link Profile
According to Ahrefs.com, Ahrefs.com is linked to with 93 varieties of anchor text containing “Louis”. This is the “Louis” of “Louis Vuitton”. They’ve also got links with anchor text for:
- Beats by Dr. Dre
- Cialis
- Burberry
- viagra
- Mulberry
- Chanel
- and more […]
I put this list together based on spam this blog gets. If I’ve been spammed with it, Ahrefs probably have anchor text for it. From blog comments. So are these the people spamming our blogs? Don’t Ahrefs know that their on page optimisation is terrible for these keywords?