Site Ranks Better than Comp...but why?
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My site is ranking better than some of the competition sites even though the Moz Rank and Moz Trust are lower, anyone know why?
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The Bing SEO Toolkit
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-interview-the-bing-teamlast guy to speak, tells about it
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Thanks for your help, I will make it a priority to fix as many as I can each and every day. What tool were you using to find the errors?
You are right that I don't rank well for Calgary condos but the other sites are only marginally better.
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you are correct, for most errors it would be worse if they were on the more impoartant pages.but the 3,000 leaks is just as imporant no matter where they are, as link juice flows though a site. if you get a link to page B it also helps Page A, You have a leak in B it also affect A.
blogs are most likly place to find errors as they are dynaicly produced, just like a CMS, and they usealy produce messy code
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I am happy to start working on the issues as well. Now it will take time - a lot of time. But bit by bit, I should make headway. I think most of the issues are blog posts, do you think they have the same weight at the rest of the site?
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There are more then a few technical issues. over 3,000 link juice leaks i found.
you are doing well as Real Estate is very competitive, but you could do better.
I use this analogy, if a fisherman has holes in his net, he needs to do more fishing then the man who does not. If you have violations in your site you need to do more link building. -
Ok thanks. Yes a few technical errors that I need to work on, other than the scan that is here, would there be more I can do to find more errors? If so where can I find out that info so I can work on those things.
My concern is that this site as well as a couple others that are currently below are working hard to get to the top and I don't want to find myself at the bottom of the page in the next while.
I wasn't overly concerned with Bing, maybe I need to look at it closer. I have been doing a slow clib there, so hope it continues to improve.
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What are there keywords?
How do you do for calgary condos?
But you do well for calgary realestate, which is obviously a compeditive keyword
i did a scan on your site and it has a lot of technical problems, so i would not say you have an advantage there.
You do have a keyword domain name, i looked at a few others that have keyword domain and you beat all in rank and trust exept for calgaryrealestate.ca and they dont beat you by much. and they come just behind you.You may have other factors correct that google likes, i also notice you dont do well in Bing
i dont see a lot of suprise here. -
I actually beat them on all keywords so not sure how that goes with the theory. ?
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Anthony is correct, they may not be optimized for the same keywords, they may beat you on others.
Also Page Rank and Trust are only one factor. No use pointing links at a site that is technicaly flawed, and many if not most sites on the web in my opinion are -
Maybe your link quality is better for the "keyword" you are using...My rookie guess...But, I would look at that including your anchor text from Higher Quality sites..
Just a thought...
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