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Comment on Search Engine Optimization Tutorial

Learning SEO is what the search engine optimization tutorial is for?

The idea is read the free SEO tutorial, not expect someone to spoon feed you SEO training!

David Law

SEO Gold Coast Services

Comment on How to Search Engine Optimize a Website

All websites are optimized the same way Bishnu so read the SEO Tutorial. Reality is you used the Tutorial comment area as a way to gain a text link back to your site, don’t have a problem with this IF the comment is substantial, but asking a stupid question like the one above will result in the link being removed.

Gaining Links isn’t Rocket Science

Put some effort into your link building effort, you can’t expect decent results from half arsed attempts like this to gain a text link!

Also read earlier comments, the links from this area are nofollow so no search engine optimization benefit posting your links here.

David

SEO Gold Coast Services

Comment on SEO Training Courses

Please stop posting comments asking to learn SEO or asking about Free SEO training courses, I don’t teach webmasters etc… SEO for free beyond this free SEO tutorial (this is all you get for free).

There are No Degree Level SEO Training Courses

I also don’t run any SEO training courses (paid or otherwise) and have no plans to offer a search engine optimization course in the future.

Read the SEO tutorial and if you have any specific SEO questions feel free to ask. There is little point asking “How does SEO Work?” or “I Want to Learn SEO Can You Help?” etc… because it’s like asking how long is a piece of string.

On the other hand SEO questions like “What’s the Value of nofollow Links” or “Does Google Ban Sites for Too Many AdSense Ads” I might actually write a comment explaining some important SEO information and techniques.

For those looking to hire SEO experts notice how some of the comments are from those working in the SEO industry and are trying to learn SEO. They should already know enough SEO techniques not to be asking these newbie SEO questions, they know less than you do!

David Law

SEO Gold Coast Services

Comment on Manually Remove Links Added to WordPress Comments

LOL, there’s no point adding links to the comments here for several reasons including this WordPress site isn’t here to benefit other sites SEO wise.

1. I manually delete comments with links or at the very least remove the links from the comment. It’s obvious when someone is spamming comments for links, even when the comments are manually added, they tend to be short comments and not well formed.

Quick SEO Tip Nofollow Deletes Link Benefit

2. Currently (February 2014) this is a dofollow WordPress site, that means if you add fully formed links like this one WordPress SEO Anchor Text it will pass full SEO link benefit (passes PageRank/PR). I refer you to point 1, if a commenter adds a clickable link like the one above to a comment I’ll manually delete it.

3. Currently I have this WordPress site running under the Stallion Responsive theme which has an option to disable the addition and showing of comment author URLs. This means commenter’s can’t even add an author URL, and if a comment SPAM tool adds a comment with an author URL the URL isn’t shown here (only my author link works, theme feature).

4. If I turn author URLs back on the Stallion Responsive theme (which BTW I develop) converts the links into form buttons that are styled like links, they pass no SEO benefit (invisible to Google).

So there’s no point adding links on this sites comments even though rel=”nofollow” is disabled (it’s a do follow blog). The only websites that will benefit from links from comments are sites linked to by ME. This website is not here to aid other webmasters gaining links, you want links create some awesome content other webmasters will link to (link bait), don’t waste your time commenting here.

David Law

SEO Gold Coast Services

Comment on 301 Redirecting Duplicate Content

Easy SEO mistake to make.

Good news is Google has probably taken the duplicate content as duplicate and ignored it, but you still should sort it out ASAP just in case.

Last few months I’ve been moving content from other domains to here, so in effect generating the same issue you have. Same content on two or more domains, this SEO tutorial for example used to be on another domain.

I used 301 redirects.

If the content is in exactly the same location using the same filenames can be a couple of lines added to the duplicate sites root .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

This above is the only content of the .htaccess file if the duplicate domain is a verbatim copy of the main site.

“dupeexample.com/my-post-name/”

is also here

“example.com/my-post-name/”

Sounds like your setup is more like

“dupeexample.com/testsite/my-post-name/”

is also here

“example.com/my-post-name/”

For this your .htaccess rule would be

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^testsite/(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

This would 301 redirect everything under the directory structure /testsite/ to domain.com preserving filenames, but not the /testsite/ folder name.

For parts that don’t fit for the above rule add specific rules above so they are run first, had you added a WordPress tag that you deleted on the original domain you could use

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^testsite/tag/deletedtag/(.*)$ http://example.com/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^testsite/(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

That would 301 redirect the deleted tag (including paginated tag pages) to the home page of the original domain.

Duplicate Content SEO Issues

If you miss any specific rules it will generate 404 errors, there’s a Stallion Responsive feature under the Advanced SEO option page for 301 redirecting 404 errors, a soft 301 redirect. A specific 301 redirect like the ones above are preferred because you can aim them at relevant pages on a site, but the soft redirect means no link benefit is wasted via 404 error pages.

Also see the 301 Redirect SEO Tutorial.

David