Top Notch SEOs on the forum - I have a challenge for you!
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I have been hitting my head again the wall trying to figure out why Google does not move my page up. All the SEOMOZ numbers show that the page has higher authority than the competition, more links, more domain authority, older domain, and higher Page rank. In addition the page is error free and I've gotten a W3C HTML 4.01 approval.
About a month ago We were at #10 , then after the changes I've made to content and the page Google moved the page to #8, Now the Page is back to #9.
I've done plenty of SEO to drive traffic to the page and created some very powerful and quality links. However, it seems like the page is being punished for something. Much weaker competitors are outranking our page and I am not sure why.
On page optimization, title tags, Meta Tags, keyword density, etc - everything is there. In fact I have a check list that I go by and everything is by the book.
Not only that, one competitor now shows up twice. First the domain and then specific page. I've looked into specific page and all they did is create 600 internal links from their own website. So now they are number #2 and #3
If anyone can take a look and give me an idea of what is going on and maybe suggest
Keyword: Laser Marking
Url: http://tinyurl.com/3nt3g2h
Any help would be appreciated..
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Sry I didn't have the time to answer before I went home for the weekend, and I have a strict politic to try not to work during the weekend. I usually fail but try to keep it to really important stuff
Anyhow now that I'm back. What Dan said could help but I also notice that the PR of at least 2 of the above is higher. Apart from that there might be a very important unseen factor that you can't really do competitive research on. I am thinking about bounce rate, if your bounce rate is heigh, the other sites might outrank you even though your site has a better PR and so on. Plus the links the other sites have might have better A tags, have you tried doing some competitive link research?
To be frank your site could use some design work and give the visitors a reason to click on to a new page (to lower your bounce rate).
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I keep getting a 404 error when I try to go there from Google.
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I hope you got my last msg. The keyword - laser marking
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any news?
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Wouldn't that jeopardize my current page ranking?
No, as long as you do a 301 redirect. I've seen some great jumps in rankings just by changing URLs alone. I'd be very surprised if it dropped in ranking.
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_1. Make your url http://www.cmslaser.com/laser-marking/ (be sure to 301 redirect the old URL to the new.) _
Wouldn't that jeopardize my current page ranking?
missing H1 Tag, etc.
I was actually going to work on this today. Thanks
_ Wikipedia ranks 1, so maybe shoot for the #2 spot :-)_
Great point. I am not looking to outrank Wikipedia. #2 will work just fine.
Any other suggestions? Maybe not enough links or some other issues?
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Hi!
I see some things right off the bat.
1. Make your url http://www.cmslaser.com/laser-marking/ (be sure to 301 redirect the old URL to the new.)
2. Shorten the title tag a little. Keep Laser Marking on the front end, but trim some of the rest.
3. I notice this page is 2nd level (not the homepage). Be sure you're linking to it from the homepage with good anchor text and in a way that passes link juice from the homepage the the page you're trying to rank for.
Run the on-page optimization tool on it, you get an A, but there are still some suggestions, like a missing H1 Tag, etc.
Those are the easiest things to fix first, and see what happens.
-Dan
PS - Wikipedia ranks 1, so maybe shoot for the #2 spot
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laser marking
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A bit more info: could you give an example of a key-phrase your trying to target? So I can compare you to your competition?
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does this work?
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The url doesn't seem to be working? I searched your keyword, and with just a quick view the top sites all seem to have a significant edge in page authority scores (Or domain) . Can you give the URL again?
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The url doesn't seem to be working? I searched your keyword, and with just a quick view the top sites all seem to have a significant edge in page authority scores (Or domain) . Can you give the URL again?
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