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Anyone know the answer to these?

by inneraction
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I have 3 questions (even if you can answer one that would be great):

1) I have posts on my wordpress blog that each have 3 links to the affiliate clickbank product site I am promoting. The question I have is in regards to RSS feeds. If I understand correctly, RSS submitted to aggregators provide backlinks while at the same time the possibility that others will pick it up and put it on their site (or some of the posts). Am I losing out on backlinks by only having links within the posts that go to my affiliate Clickbank products? My guess is yes and that at least one link should point back to my main site. Is this correct?

2) When I look up my site in Google with the site:mywebsitename function to see what's been indexed, the version of my site with www. only shows one indexed page, whereas the version of my site without the www. shows 12 pages indexed. Do I need to worry about this? Market Samurai shows me the same information, but also indicates that the www(dot)mysite(dot)com and the mysite(dot)com have the same number of backlinks so I am not sure how to interpret this. To be safe, should I just make sure all my articles on directories and submitted backlinks (i.e. Hubpages, Blogger and in posts etc), go to the non www. version instead of the www. version? I hope that makes sense.

3) Why are backlinks from sites such as Blogger and Wordpress.com that I set up pointing to my main site not showing up yet in Google? They have been up for a good 2 weeks and yet don't show up as backlinks in Market Samurai or other backlink checking capable programs/urls. Come to think of it, neither do any of my submitted articles including Ezine and GoArticle to name only 2. What's the dealio?

Thanks for the help!
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  • Profile picture of the author markvsc
    I can give some direction to question #2. You may want to contact your hosting account to see if you (or they) can do a mod rewrite for your domain. I did this recently with my hosting (hostgator) and they actually did it for me (hallelujah).

    What this does is make your domain look like yourdomain.com instead of www.yourdomain.com. When your site is crawled by the SE's it should only see 1 site instead of 2....yourdomain.com and www.yourdomain.com.

    The mod rewrite will change it to only yourdomain.com.

    Hope that makes sense. Like I said, I got them to do it for me so it was no problem.

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  • Profile picture of the author The-English-Webmistress
    Hey Inneraction,

    Might I suggest that you post each of these queries individually...?
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      Originally Posted by The-English-Webmistress View Post

      Hey Inneraction,

      Might I suggest that you post each of these queries individually...?
      Funny you say that cause I thought about it afterwords. I might do that if I don't get too many replies. Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author InternetMarketingIQ
    1. Use Ninja affiliate or some other redirect to mask your links. That way it doesn't matter. Because as long as a real person clicks on the link... from your site or from another site which is using your feed... you win when someone buys.

    2. Yes it does matter, it divides your page rank. Pick one and stick with it. Go to Google Webmaster tools and tell them your choice. SEO advice: url canonicalization

    3. Google doesn't spit back everything you want to know just because you want to know it. It's not in their interest. If you want to know if a page has been crawled search for the URL of the page in their index. If it appears your page is crawled and you are getting some benefit. I have pages with ZERO PR that do not appear either and they still bring in traffic.

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    • Profile picture of the author inneraction
      Originally Posted by InternetMarketingIQ View Post

      1. Use Ninja affiliate or some other redirect to mask your links. That way it doesn't matter. Because as long as a real person clicks on the link... from your site or from another site which is using your feed... you win when someone buys.

      2. Yes it does matter, it divides your page rank. Pick one and stick with it. Go to Google Webmaster tools and tell them your choice. SEO advice: url canonicalization

      3. Google doesn't spit back everything you want to know just because you want to know it. It's not in their interest. If you want to know if a page has been crawled search for the URL of the page in their index. If it appears your page is crawled and you are getting some benefit. I have pages with ZERO PR that do not appear either and they still bring in traffic.

      Focus on what you can do, not what you can not.
      Thanks for your answers. I actually use Pretty Links which cloaks the links already. I was more concerned that I would lose out on the backlinks although I certainly see your point.

      With you answer to point 3 then, does that mean if a site has been crawled that I am getting the benefits of the backlinks even if programs like Market Samurai or Backlink checker don't show the links showing up?
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