Well, first off, why would you 301 a travel niche domain to a gambling niche domain? That makes no sense and smacks of spammy bait-and-switch.

Second, if the original domain has dropped (I assume you mean dropped in rankings and not dropped from the index altogether) 3 times already, redirecting it to another domain isn't going to help the new domain much, if at all.

As for blasting the 301 with links, it's interesting that some SEO folks say yes while others say no. From what I've seen in my own experience, manual penalties are generally NOT passed through 301 redirects. Think about it from a logical perspective. If penalty WERE passed through a redirect, then a company could set up a domain name, bloat it with spammy SEO tactics, blast it with a metric assload of gibberish backlinks, and once it got penalized, redirect it to their competitor, thus hurting the competitor's ranking and knocking them out of the top SERPs.

Okay...I downloaded the client and installed it. I ran the EXE and plugged in the server info and worker info. Then the window just closed out on me. Where do I go to finish the setup?

Ready to get started as soon as I get it configured.

Richard,

My purpose in posting was to answer specific questions about specific sites. Not to lay out my whole methodology. I'm sure that as an SEO consultant yourself, you can respect that.

I am curious to know in which areas you feel I have left gaping holes

I've answered every 'test' that was put in front of me in this thread - including yours. If people aren't convinced that I know what I'm talking about, they don't have to ask questions. I'm not looking to get new clients from this. I already have a full time SEO job. I'm just looking to help out and maybe earn a little extra on the side.

Cheers,

- Cynthia

Hi there Username: gracesfall and LTC address: LbJ16SYBVYtMRe59XxQ88MAsWRMWmAuJZx

I just downloaded the miner and am installing it as we speak!

You need to make an 'It's all about the Bitcoins' t-shirt (kinda like the 'It's all about the benjamins' shirts).

Thanks Biz - I appreciate the shout-out! Feel free to PM me anytime if you have questions.

BTW, it's her, not him

Welcome aboard I'm new to BTC as well but am learning all that I can. I think folks are in for a wild ride w/ bitcoin. It may not be around forever, but it may well be the 'founding father' of something even greater later on down the road. Either way, I'm in.

Check out EasyBitco.in. It's a great community, lots of PTC (paid to click) links and PTW (paid to watch) videos plus they have a chat room where you can earn 100 satoshis every 10 seconds that you're actively chatting. On Happy Mondays, from 9 - 11 server time (AM / PM alternates week to week) that goes up to 1000+ satoshis every 10 seconds.

When you have enough to buy even *part* of a ghs, head on over to CEX.io and get one. As your earnings on that site increase, re-invest. You'll also be earning devcoin and namecoin while you earn bitcoin.

They are back up. I was just able to log in with no problem.

There you are Glad to see you. I'm already working full time as an SEO consultant. I'm just trying to make a few extra bits and bobs on the side by answering questions, giving advice if asked, etc...

Also, why the keyword stuffing in your reply? At least they weren't anchor text...

Oh come on...that's hardly fair. You ask me questions to 'test' me and then don't even stick around to let me know whether I've passed your test or not? That's hardly sporting

I have 6 PeerBet vouchers (0.000025 each) that I am doing nothing with so I thought I'd see if I could get some minor duckets for them here. Hit me up in IM or e-mail (EIP) if interested.

Thanks!

- Cynthia

I received mine as well Trust & feedback left. Thanks Stunna!

I only have 3 referrals under me  but even with that, probably once every other day or so I'll notice a nice little bump in my earnings as a result. I've considered *renting* referrals like I did over @ easybitco.in, but not sure if that would pay for itself + some within the rental period or not.

I'm a newbie to both BTC and the mining of it. I use the BitMinter client (check out over at BitMinter.com). It doesn't bring me a lot, in fact it's damn slow, but it all adds up in the end. If you want to have a little bit larger growth, look into cloud mining (see the link in my sig). You make use of a much larger pool of resources for a larger return.

You would think that since I work - and practically live - online that I'd have gotten into BTC sooner, but noooo. It first hit my radar about two years ago, but didn't pique my curiosity until about 6 mos ago. I didn't get started with it until about a week and a half ago.

I bought my first ghs (0.02 ghs was all I could afford at the time) on Friday. I've been throwing all the BTC dust I've been accumulating over at Coin Base at it and I am pleased to say that I am up to 1.105 ghs less than 24 hours later. I've got a bank transfer coming into Coin Base on Tuesday so I can buy another 2 ghs.

I'm loving what I am seeing, but I confess I don't completely understand it.

I saw somewhere on the board something about the ghs that I buy only belong to me for a year. Is that true? What will happen to them after that year?

Is there something else I should be working toward to maximize my earnings? My first thought is that most of my profit should get rolled back into ghs. Is this accurate?

Also, as far as the other cryptocurrencies I am accumulating on CEX, what should I do with them? Where is the best place to convert them all to BTC?

Thank you for bearing with my painfully newbie questions

- Cynthia

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Count me in for next month too!

Here goes:

a. Generally speaking, the more backlinks you have, the better BUT not all backlinks are created equal. You don't want a bunch of bullshit gibberish backlinks like you see people doing with blog links. You also don't want backlinks from sites that are totally unrelated to your site. Who you are associated with counts. A drug rehab center, for instance, would not want to cultivate backlinks from sites about cooking. Also, the type of backlink matters. People hype on dofollow links but the fact is that if all (or the large majority) of your backlinks are dofollow, Google is going to question that. A *natural* link profile should be a mix of nofollow and dofollow backlinks.

b. How do you create a backlink? A backlink is any external link back to your website. Directory links, contextual links, etc.. all count as backlinks. Even links in forum posts and blog comments count, to a much lesser degree.

c. This can't be answered in brief, so here are *some* items: The content needs to be relevant to the keyword, the site needs a strong backlink profile that incorporates anchor text that includes the desired keywords, the site also needs a strong internal link structure as well, linking relevant text to other pages that are relevant to the keywords. Title tags and meta descriptions need to include the keywords, which is not to say they should be stuffed. The keyword meta tag is all but obsolete, so I don't bother with it. It doesn't help and it bloats the code. Speaking of code, a website's code needs to be streamlined, with as little bloat code as possible. Social media can also provide a big boost to SEO efforts.

d. Yes keyword order variation matters. I've had clients in the past who ranked okay for one variant (e.g. 'health insurance sc') but whose rankings sucked for 'sc health insurance'. If you optimize for one specific variant, you will almost always rank better for that specific variant than for alternatives.

How'd I do?

- Cynthia

To answer your questions:

1. I think Google Authorship is a great thing, and definitely something you should do on a blog site. There was a study done recently that showed that click thru rates on rich text listings (including Google Authorship) went up by something like 150%. So GA isn't something to sneeze at.

2. For keyword research I still primarily use the keyword tool over at Google Adwords. It gives me a good general overview of how often keywords are searched for, how competitive those keywords are, etc...  The keyword analysis tool over @ Moz.com is cool too because I can check Bing and Yahoo as well. But Moz isn't a freebie, while the Adwords tool is.

I think you underestimate who incorporates SEO into their overall marketing program. Even well known brands utilize organic SEO - not necessarily to *build* market placement, but to *maintain* it. Should a business rely *solely* on organic SEO? Not at all. But still has real and measurable value. In my current job, which started out just being SEO but is quickly growing to encompass content writing, web development, etc..., I was brought on board because the company was hemorrhaging money through PPC. Organic SEO had been ignored altogether. The company depends on getting phone calls so they can fill beds in their facility. In the few weeks that I've been working for them, overall call volume has nearly doubled and call volume resulting specifically from organic SEO has just over tripled. Those are REAL and measurable results - not just being able to say "Oooh loook! You rank #1 for this keyword or that keyword". Rankings are important and are easily quantifiable goals, but if the keywords you're showing up for aren't generating leads, visitors, purchases, etc... then it's wasted effort.

It is possible (and preferred, as far as I am concerned) to implement strong SEO without seeming spammy or over-hyped. Any SEO consultant worth his (or her) salt knows that organic SEO alone won't cut it, either. It's a combination of organic SEO, social media, viral marketing, and yes, PPC.

Saying an SEO consultant has no value is like saying ad agencies have no value or marketing agencies have no value. It's simply not true.

- Cynthia