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I would have more questions:
1) Is there a reason to use www. before a domain name, for better seo results? I've seen some websites doing it, even though they could use regular Domain-name.com., and I think they may be doing it for a reason, but I am not sure. Would www. websites be better than non-www. websites, in any way? |
I personally think that www. canonicalization because I think it's neater and expected by users. I've also read that you have to fiddle with cookies somewhat with non-www. Doesn't have a direct influence over SEO, though.
I actually
wrote about this a few days ago. Feel free to read for more information.
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2) What is your opinion about list of links in the sidebar of a website like Club Asa Akira. They have links like this on most of their websites, and all of them are showing on sites like MajesticSeo.com, and OpenSiteExplorer.org (along with seo parameters, which are often very good). Does list like this help in achieving good search engine results, or not?
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When building links, I avoid sidebars (and footers - even worse) as much as possible. Fresh posts on a site is the best way to go about this type of thing. There might be some weight to sidebar links, but after so many years of trading and Linkspun 2-minute exchanges, I think they've lost their weight. I'd take one blog post about a website over 5 sidebar links any day of the week. They still have their place, sure; but it's not as powerful as it once was.
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3) What is your opinion about using the same Google Analytics code on a network of, lets say 100, 200, or even 500 blogs. The same code, all the sites. Would you say, that something like that can have negative impact on search engine rankings, because all the websites can be perceived as one network, which may be not very good. Or maybe it is ok to use it, and it does not matter much?
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The Google analytics team is completely separate from the Google search engine team. They do not interact in terms of monitoring what your site does or how many you have. There are conspiracy theories, but I believe Google would see it as being more trouble than it's worth. Matt Cutts has also gone on record as saying that they don't do it.
In short, it doesn't matter.
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4) What is your opinion about Piwik? Does it make sense to use it, in some cases, for better seo results, probably with Google.com. Is there any good use to it maybe, or something like that. It is obviously not as good as Google Analytics, but it is free (second best free analytics)
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I've never used it and stick to analytics because it's easier that way. If you like the product, use it, but it isn't going to improve your SERPs directly.
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5) I know that it is good to use a lot of different themes on networks of Wordpress sites, for better seo results. I would like to use a mobile theme on all these sites, also, and I am wondering whether I should differentiate mobile themes, the same way. I would say, that it is probably the same thing, and that it would be good to use multiple mobile themes, but I am not sure. Maybe one mobile theme, and multiple desktop themes would be ok?
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I'd just pickup wordpress themes that are fully responsive. That way, you have the mobile aspect of it covered. Screens are becoming larger and larger on phones anyway, so the whole unique mobile site thing, for my money, isn't that important. Maybe I'm wrong, but I haven't worked heavily with mobile sites, so I don't know much about those demographics.
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6) Would there be any other places like Linkspun.com, which facilitate the process of getting xxx links? What other websites / applications / sources could be used here?
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I don't know of anything that does the job as well as Linkspun did/does. It was created because Jdoughs saw that there wasn't a good option for what he wanted, so he literally did it himself.