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I know most people typically use Yoast, we use it on our sites, but we have one site where Yoast is causing a conflict.  I wanted to investigate some other options and see what the best solution may be.

Anyone else have an effective plugin they like?

What location is it coming from?  Sometimes you'll get a ton of traffic all from the same spot, and it winds up being some kind of bot or spam that's getting picked up.  I'd check the network too.

-Adam

Could you just help me understand a little bit more how this is set up?  Are they just linking to your site?  I'm not sure how they're using a canonical link to your site...I may just be misunderstanding.

If they link to you, it should show up as a referral.

If you can control where the link goes, use custom parameters on the link, and you can set it to appear how you want (I suggest using a campaign).  Here's a builder from Google that will do it for you: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033867?hl=en

If you have any other info, I'm glad to provide whatever input I can.

I know the answers vary greatly, and I don't want anyone to have to give away numbers.  I guess the question is more, how do you charge?

• Percentage of ad spend (if so, what percent if you don't mind)
• Percentage plus hourly rate
• Flat Fee
• Hourly Rate
• Results Based
• Some other model?

I'm just curious how other people are doing it and if I'm in the minority.  Thanks.

-Adam

I agree, but this is actually a service that submits to over 1400 different URL's, that's why I was concerned...

A client had a very grateful customer, who submitted their sites to www.pingmyurl.com

Do you think that this is going to wind up hurting us in the long run as far as webspam, or is this a pretty legit service?  Anyone have an opinion or any experience with this site?

A client website dropped drastically on April 12.  Outside of some branded keywords, search results dropped off of the first page and are buried on page 3+ at best.  Nothing has changed on the site, and there were no problems with the link profile.  GWT has no manual actions.  Kind of at a loss.

Does anyone know if there was an algorithm update or anything external that may be causing some problems here?  Site is www.averybiomedical.com if you want to take a look, but I'm just curious if there was anything I should be aware of.  Thanks for the help!

I know this has been answered before, but I don't think it has been in about a year (and we all know how quickly the SEO landscape can change).  We're having a little debate on it right now and I'd be curious to get some feedback from the community.

What is the minimum number of words you would use on a page?  Does it matter to you if it's a second tier (website.com/x) or third tier (website.com/x/y) page?

It's always a tough sell on design between trying to keep it clean and trying to provide a lot of useful information.  I'd be curious what your thoughts are.   Thanks!

-Adam

Wow Gary.  That sucks and I'm so sorry that happened.  What are you doing now?  Are you watching new links like a hawk?

I wouldn't worry about it at all.  First, if there's just a couple of links like that which Google doesn't like, Google's not going to care because it's such a low percentage of your profile.

Second, Google knows it's an aggregator site and probably just devalues it if it doesn't like the content.

If it was me, I honestly wouldn't give it a second thought and would just ignore it.

The first thing I would do is download the crawl report as an excel sheet.  You can do this from your crawl report page.

From there, sort by the 404 error column, bringing "True" to the top.  The top of the list is now the broken URL's.  One of the very last columns on the right is the "referrer" column.  This will show you the page where Roger is getting the bad link from.

Make Sense?

Could you just help me understand a little bit more how this is set up?  Are they just linking to your site?  I'm not sure how they're using a canonical link to your site...I may just be misunderstanding.

If they link to you, it should show up as a referral.

If you can control where the link goes, use custom parameters on the link, and you can set it to appear how you want (I suggest using a campaign).  Here's a builder from Google that will do it for you: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033867?hl=en

If you have any other info, I'm glad to provide whatever input I can.

Double check your redirects again.  When I tried to check your backlinks, I was showing redirects between tasteinc.com, www.tasteinc.com, and www.tasteinc.com/   Every time I tried to find the profile using one of those links, it would tell me that it redirects to another one of those.

I didn't have a problem going to your site, but the way that software was trying to crawl things, I would double check that again.  That's the only issue that I saw.  Has the site been up long?

Earlier today, Google announced an algorithm change that should affect about 90% of search queries.  They said this has rolled out over the past month.  When more details come out and some people do some more testing, this may have something to do with it.

I know this has been answered before, but I don't think it has been in about a year (and we all know how quickly the SEO landscape can change).  We're having a little debate on it right now and I'd be curious to get some feedback from the community.

What is the minimum number of words you would use on a page?  Does it matter to you if it's a second tier (website.com/x) or third tier (website.com/x/y) page?

It's always a tough sell on design between trying to keep it clean and trying to provide a lot of useful information.  I'd be curious what your thoughts are.   Thanks!

-Adam

Just as a heads up - it is likely that if this was the issue, these keywords were being tracked as organic searches.  Check to see if your organic traffic suddenly drops.  If so, it's likely that your traffic isn't really dropping, it's just being measured separately (properly) now.

I've had that happen, and it's frustrating.