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Google says "Server Location Mostly Irrelevant For SEO".

I'm quoting Google's John Mueller in response to the question of SEO and server location:

"For search, specifically for geotargeting, the server's location plays a very small role, in many cases it's irrelevant. If you use a ccTLD or a gTLD together with Webmaster Tools, then we'll mainly use the geotargeting from there, regardless of where your server is located. You definitely don't need to host your website in any specific geographic location -- use what works best for you, and give us that information via a ccTLD or Webmaster Tools."

Q: Is the server location important for geotargeting?

If you can use one of the other means to set geotargeting (ccTLD or Webmaster Tools’ geotargeting tool), you don’t need worry about the server’s location. We do, however, recommend making sure that your website is hosted in a way that will give your users fast access to it (which is often done by choosing hosting near your users).

Original thread @ https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/k6po9mnpI8c/discussion

Hope this helps.

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Hi Rich,

Patrick already recommended few articles and give you suggestion that which link to disavow. I would like to add one more article in which you will find step by step method to find which link to disavow @The Ultimate Guide To Cleaning Up Your Link Profile Step By Step

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Hi,

Please check this moz article on this @  SEO Guide to Google Webmaster Recommendations for Pagination

Hope this helps you.

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Hi,

As you have mentioned that you would like to implement a variety of tracking goals/events so Google tag manger would be best for you.

As far as implementation is concern there is an exclusive youtube channel for this that will help you to implement various tracking goals.

Please check this @ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClgihdkPzNDtuoQy4xDw5mA/feed

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Hi,

Please check this @ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-best-e-commerce-platforms-your-online-business-rohit-uttamchandani

Here you will find top 10 e commerce with pros and cons,hope this helps you.

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No problem! Glad to help!

Hi,

Yes implementing both will double your conversion so you have to set up  either analytics goal and import them into Adwords or use Adwords conversion tracking.

If you want any traffic going through AdWords to be classed as an AdWords conversion, AdWords conversion tracking would be the preference.

If you want only last-click AdWords conversions to be tracked, import from Google Analytics.

To know more on this please check @ https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2679221?hl=en

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Hi Danny,

IMO in such case we need to educate the client that by limited budget campaign loosing Impression Share, loosing clicks, loosing conversion.

Having enough budget will allow us to always be shown throughout the day or time we need to be shown. A very strong reason why most campaigns fail is due to the ads not being shown throughout the day since they are limited by budget. This results in lost impression share which means lost clicks, which means lost potential leads or sales.

In short Lost Impression Share, Lost Clicks, Lost Conversions = Campaign Failure

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Hi Marina,

Please watch this video and you will know how to verify website in your case @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrpgQDLjGwc

You can also watch this @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LTbN15gti0

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Hi,

In above case you must use 301 redirects to point all HTTP URLs to HTTPS to pass link juice from http to https or the link juice isn’t going to pass over.

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Hi,

Check this article @ https://moz.com/learn/seo/meta-description

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Hi Kevin,

As you mentioned that link is nofollow so if link is nofollow there is no need to disavow them because "When a link is disavowed, the next time that Google crawls that link they essentially add an invisible nofollow tag to the link."

To know more on this please read Marie Haynes article @ http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2330944/7-things-you-may-not-know-about-googles-disavow-tool

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Hi,

Yo can also check @ The Top 10 Online Resources That Will Help You Become a Local SEO Expert

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Hi,

You can have either http or https but not both because that would be considered as duplicate content. I am insisting to keep https version because Google considered HTTPS as a ranking signal .

Please also read this @ https://moz.com/ugc/solving-duplicate-content-issues-with-http-and-https

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Hi,

Your website is opening on both with http & https . You must keep one version only & in your case https. Redirect (301) http version to https.

As you intended to keep https version take link on https version not on http version.

If you are talking about old links that pointed to http version those links will pass link juice only if you redirect http version to https using 301 redirect  otherwise all links won't have any value.

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Hi Nathan,

This site http://www.hayesandhurst.com/ is not loading, giving error "Site temporarily unavailable" .

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Hi,

No. As you have mentioned that you are going to use 301 redirects from http to https and a 301 redirect is a permanent redirect which passes between 90-99% of link juice (ranking power) to the redirected page.

If you disavow any link through Google search console Google makes that link nofollow**

If links are already disavowed for http that means no link value passing to http domain and same will happen to https domain because you are going to use 301 redirection( which passes between 90-99% of link juice (ranking power) to the redirected page)

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Hi,

Google cleared yesterday about how it deals with domain extensions, and confirmed that they’re all weighted equally.

To know more read @ http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ca/2015/07/googles-handling-of-new-top-level.html

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Hi,

To calculate the percentage increase/decrease:

First: work out the difference (increase) between the two numbers you are comparing.

Increase = New Number - Original Number

Then:  divide the increase by the original number and multiply the answer by 100.

% increase = Increase ÷ Original Number × 100.

If your answer is a negative number then this is a percentage decrease.

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Hi John,

If I understand your question correctly then answer is an increase of 40.72%.

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Hi,

Optimal format for any page title tag is **Primary Keyword - Secondary Keyword | Brand Name. **

You can use it same for homepage also. If a brand is well-known enough to make a difference in click-through rates in search results, the brand name should be first. If the brand is less known or relevant than the keyword, the keyword should be first.

If you keep your titles under 55 characters, you can expect at least 95% of your titles to display properly

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Hi Ryan,

5 Tools to Help You Identify a Google Slap @ http://www.iacquire.com/blog/5-tools-to-help-you-identify-a-google-slap

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Hi,

You can set Goals for Events (instead of Pages). The only thing you need to do is send an event after success.

An event can be:

1. Downloading a file
2. Loading of Ajax, JavaScript or flash contents
3. Loading of a dynamically generated webpage
4. Loading of pop-ups, light boxes
5. Loading of a flash video on a webpage
6. Scrolling down the page
7. Viewing of a flash video
8. Viewing video footage of certain length
9. Clicking on a video’s play/pause/stop button
10. Interaction with a gadget
11. Clicking on an image or a link
12. Abandonment of a form
13. Log-ins
14. Sharing/printing a blog post, article, video or image

Read more: http://www.optimizesmart.com/event-tracking-guide-google-analytics-simplified-version/#ixzz3g3R0zV6V

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Hi Russell,

I use '&' and 'and' both but in different scenario. e.g

If keyword is 'artificial plants & trees' (having significant search volume) then I will use 'artificial plants & trees' not 'artificial plants and trees' and If keyword is 'artificial plants and trees' then I will use 'artificial plants and trees' not 'artificial plants & trees'.

So first you should check keyword is with 'and' or '&' and use in title according to that. If you are using 'and' or '&' like separator then it would be better to use pipe(|) or dash (-).

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Cheers Andy.

It's not really for the benefit of SEO, more for the relevant referral traffic it may bring.

I guess my concern was around the sheer number of links that one site in particular was pointing in our direction and the potential for these to be seen as spam/ unnatural links.

Alick

Hi All,

I post coupons on coupon sites a month ago and when I checked backlinks of my website I saw approx 1000 links coming from coupon sites on my Brand Name.

IMO it is quite natural please share your views.

*All the big brands listed on that coupon sites e.g amazon, dell etc

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Hi,

As I said that there is no such data available in public domain. I would like to suggest you to start with search campaign only and to get high CTR use keyword in Ad headline, use call to action and don't forget to use Ad extensions.

***Initially use only restricted match type (Exact match Type) with few similar keywords in every Ad group . e.g 5-10 keywords.

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Hi Li,

I'm completely agree with Umar's suggestion.

To know more how to use Heading tag in SEO perspective please read this @ http://blog.woorank.com/2013/04/how-to-use-heading-tags-for-seo/

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

As you mentioned that you have eCommerce website then you should start with Search campaign & Google shopping campaign.

I don't understand this part "do I work on PLA + Organic or Text + Organic?"

"What percentages do each position get approximately?"

No body can tell you exact or even approx numerical CTR value because that varies for each websites and CTR depends on several other things e.g location setting, daily budget etc. You can only get idea by running Adwords campaign for your website.

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

I have seen 'near me' and such other keywords giving great conversion in AdWords because in Adwords we can target specific city or even zip code level .

In case of SEO please check below thread that will helpful to know how to optimize such keywords.

http://moz.com/community/q/local-seo-landing-pages-and-proper-keywords-to-optimize-and-showing-up-for-generic-keyword-localized-results

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Hi,

Google Page Rank has not been updated over 1 year and most probably it will never update so If PA, DA is fine you shouldn't worry about Page Rank.

To know more @ https://www.seroundtable.com/google-next-pagerank-update-19902.html

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Hi,

Have you heard about Google Ad Grants? You should check once whether your website eligible for Ad grants or not.

$10,000 per month.

"Google Ad Grants is the nonprofit edition of AdWords, Google's online advertising tool. Google Ad Grants empowers nonprofit organisations, through $10,000 per month in in-kind AdWords advertising, to promote their missions and initiatives on Google search result pages."

To know more @ http://www.google.co.in/grants/

Or if not eligible you can start PPC campaign with low budget and if you need any help on running campaign please ask your question here. You will get all the answers.

Hope this helps.

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Hi Tanveer,

First of all website shouldn't open on with & without trailing slash(/). If you want to keep trailing slash URL for your website redirect without trailing slash url to URL with / or if you want to keep without / , you have to redirect http://abc.com/ to http://abc.com

You can get link on whichever version you are keeping for your website.

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

I'm not Andy but answer is you can use either of them both are absolutely fine. There is no disadvantage from an SEO perspective.

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Hi,

IMO if you are a one person team or don’t have the dedicated resources to help you build, maintain or troubleshoot a website, I would recommend trying Squarespace.

You can also check comparison between WP & Squarespace @ http://www.websitebuilderexpert.com/squarespace-vs-wordpress/

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

If you  don't want to use screaming frog you can try Xenu Link Sleuth it  is also a good option.

Hope this helps.

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Hi David,

There is no guideline from Google on this, I would like to quote Rand here from his very old blog post but it is still very relevant.

He says "There's no hard and fast answer. The number can be as low as 1 and as high as 15 (maybe 20). You can target As many as makes sense for a visitor, a potential buyer, and those who will link."

I would like to suggest you to use for at least 2000-words when targeting competitive keywords and various long tail keywords.

To know how you can perfectly optimize your webpage check below articles .

https://moz.com/blog/visual-guide-to-keyword-targeting-onpage-optimization

http://backlinko.com/on-page-seo

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

I will share all in one article to remove low quality links from your website. Please follow all the steps mentioned in below article.

http://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/tutorials/how-to-find-remove-bad-backlinks/

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

To know latest update on SEO you should regularly visit following blogs.

1>https://moz.com/blog

2>https://moz.com/ugc

3>http://seroundtable.com/ (specially this one for latest news/update)

4>http://searchengineland.com/

Hope this helps.

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Hi Hitesh,

You can remove by demoting that links from Google search console (Google webmaster tools) by steps mentioned in below links.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/47334?hl=en

I'm also including a video link on this @ http://www.shoutmeloud.com/how-to-block-unwanted-sitelinks-in-google.html

Hope this helps.

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Hi ,

I have found only two Universal analytics tags on your website but haven't found any event tracking code on your website. Can you tell me where did you implemented event tracking ? I mean for which link/button click event tracking code implemented.

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Hi Shawn,

It can take months for Google to start deindexing old URLs.There are several post on this issue I'm sharing two post that will help you to resolve your issue.

http://moz.com/community/q/my-old-url-s-are-still-indexing-when-i-have-redirected-all-of-them-why-is-this-happening

http://moz.com/community/q/proper-301-in-place-but-old-site-still-indexed-in-google

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Hi Danielle,

I have checked from my end but I'm not seeing URL with utm_source, after clicking on search result it is going to http://employment.govt.nz/er/holidaysandleave/parentalleave/

If you are still seeing the same it means your page is indexed with utm_source you can use rel=canonical on http://employment.govt.nz/er/holidaysandleave/parentalleave/ or you can also use 301 redirect.

You are not getting correct source because you are searching in Google and showing the page http://employment.govt.nz/er/holidaysandleave/parentalleave/?utm_source=newzealandnow.govt.nz but logically source should be Google not newzealandnow.govt.nz

Hope this helps.

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Hi Vadim,

I am not providing you exact 301 redirect code for above URL but I have found a detailed article posted on this post that might be helpful for you but not very sure.

http://www.goinflow.com/setting-up-301-redirects-for-dynamic-urls/

Hope this helps.

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Hi Leo,

Try Ahrefs.com. It is one of the best backlink checker tool and they show some fantastic data and break it down in pretty much every way imaginable.

How many links you have, from how many IPs, linking to which pages with which anchor text.

They breakdown the links by types and provide all sorts of graphs and visualisation options

Hope this helps.

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Hi Nima,

First of all Adwords metrics doesn't effect Organic metrics/results or ranking, in your case that is bounce rate.

Such question asked several times and each time Google says no Adwords doesn't affect organic result.

Where are you seeing combined bounce rate (Adwords +Organic) in analytics dashboard?  As far as I know both data shows separately in GA.

Hope this helps.

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Hi,

I'm replying you point by point.

1>You must take backlink point to https domain because currently you are using SSL.

2>Yes as you mentioned that you have used 301 redirect so link equity pass to https domain with very negligible loss in link juice but you should take link on https domain because you are using SSL now.

3>Yes of course that is why people use 301 redirect so link equity can pass from old URL to new URL.

Hope this helps.

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Hi Justin,

If those pages are refresh to button on our site that means that won't useful for users so you should deindexed those pages.

You can remove URL from Google search console and also place meta robots noindex on those pages.

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Hi Will Swales,

That is called Google answer Box. I'm sharing a detailed article published on this yesterday on SEW.

http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/opinion/2414342/google-answer-boxes-the-what-why-and-how

Hope that helps.

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Hi Brett,

If your company name is Rainy Day Umbrellas then you should register with rainydayumbrellas.com but as you mentioned that you want to register another domain newyorkumbrellas.com just to rank for few keywords like new york umbrellas,  umbrellas new york is not good idea.

I know there are still thousands of website rank for the keyword just due to keywords in domain name despite EMD update by Google.

IMO you don't need to register another domain (newyorkumbrellas.com) you can create separate landing page to target keywords or you can use city name in title and other places on webpage.

Hope this helps.

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