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Hi Moz

I cannot get the onpage grader to work , I have been trying for a few weeks now

Can you advise, I see - Sorry, but that URL is inaccessible.

I have tried many Websites and all return the same Message

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Adam

Thank you Everybody for taking the time to Answer our Question

Hi All

We have over 10000 Products and a while ago we spent some time adding Product Descriptions to the Product Pages, For Example we have

Product - Black Snazaroo Face Paint

Product Description - Great for Childrens parties, fundraising events, Halloween or other festive faces. An easy makeup to apply and remove. All Snazaroo face paints are Non toxic, Fragrance free and Skin friendly. Snazaroo is suitable for all skin types, however it is always recommended you do a skin patch test on a small area before full application.

Unfortuantly our Meta Descriptions really need some work, for example this same page contains the following meta descriptions

We realise this could be holding our site back.

Is it ok to use the same Product Description inside the Meta Description Tags also, for example can we use the Meta Description for this Page -

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Hi

Don't worry. We have seen the same issue.

We disavowed at the start of 2014 and the links still show in Webmaster Tools

I'm sure eventually they will update the Links to show an Accurate list

I would say the most important message you are looking to see , is the one from Google Acknowledging the Disavow or if you have received a penalty , the message from Google saying the Penalty has been uplifted.

Thank you. We add Content to the Blog Weekly and have about 6 Years of Content, but the Blog never seems to rank anywhere either. Can you recommend any tips for finding relevant DA 70+ links

Hi Monica

Thank you for your reply

On the 03/06/14 - Manual Penalty was Finally Lifted

Hope this helps

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Adam

Hi Moz Friends

I wonder if you can help me , a while ago we had a Penguin Penalty and lost our Rankings. After Months of work Disavow and Reconsiderations , Google sent me a message in Webmaster Tools to confirm the Penalty had been uplifted.

Since then we havent recovered. I have been working with Bloggers to build relevant safe links, each having a DA of between 10-30. We have developed a Mobile Friendly Website and ios and Android Apps. We have improved Site Speed and moved to a Server within the same Country. We add lots of content and believe we have ticked all the boxes for onpage optimisation.

However our DA and PA seems to have dropped slightly after Moz update today. We seem to be jumping in the serps, one day page 4 for "fancy dress" the next day nowhere to be found.

I'm not sure what to do next.

I'm not expecting to jump back to page 1 for the main keywords but some positive movement would be nice, especially as there are Lower DA Website, not mobile friendly or as fast above us in the serps.

What I am looking for I guess is any ideas from you and also what you think about this idea

A few people have mentioned that we might stand more of a chance using our domain name example.com instead of example.co.uk. example.com has never been used and is totaly clean (no penaltys ect..)

Do we use example.com and move the website and content away from example.co.uk ? if so do we use redirects or would that just pass any hold thats on example.co.uk to the .com version

Ideas Welcome

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Adam

Thank you

Hi Everybody

If you have 2 Google Place Listings (Local Listings) 1 with 1 Location and 1 with another Location, is there anyway to merge the 2 Accounts.

1 of them has lots of Reviews and the other contains some Reviews so Ideally there would be 1 Account which merges all Reviews into 1 Account

Multiple Locations can then be added into the 1 Account.

Any Ideas

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Adam

Good Point , thanks for your help

Thats ok I appriciate your reply

Thats the Certified Shops this is Google Trusted Stores , Google Trusted Stores will be easier to implement for us as our Platform has a module for it

Hi All

Does anybody know when the Google Trusted Stores Program will be available in the UK ?

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Adam

Using that tool I have identified the drop is from the last Penguin update, I think if I start a campaign to improve the DA and PA for the Website by obtaining highly relevant links this should help. I dont really want to disavow anymore, we disavowed 1000s before and had the message in webmaster tools to say we had recovered.

I disavowed any that looked spammy and were not relevant and contains anchor text containing keywords not brand name.

Maybe its time now to start growing the DA and PA

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Adam

Thank you everybody , very helpful I have lots to go on there

Matt - I think we are just down the road from you if you are the same company

Thanks Monica

The Problem I have is the links that are shown in webmaster tools are links I have already disavowed but they are still showing as links to our site, so I am unsure if there are any new ones.

I can see websites on page 1 do have a higher DA and PA, but there are sites above us that have a lower DA and PA that us when running them through open site explorer

we are DA - 43/100 PA - 49/100

One above us is DA - 17/100 PA - 22/100

The Content on the site isnt too bad, we have content on most pages and we have 1000s of blogs on the blog page on the same site

Hi

We was hit by the Penguin update a long time ago and we lost a lot of traffic/positions because of this. For a long time we worked really hard to identify all off our links that may have caused us to recieve this penalty. After Months of work we submitted the disavow file and reconsideration request and in June 2014 we recieved confirmation from google in webmaster tools that the manual spam action had been revoked.

over time we then started to recieve more traffic and better positions in the serps, however since penguin 3.0 we have dropped again for a range of keywords. many going from page 1 to 2 or page 2 to 3/4

Any ideas what we should do here , any help will be really appriciated as I'm totally confused

We havent done any link building at all since the penalty / recovery

Hi Matt

It was the only change we made , I have since optimised more meta descriptions across main landing pages so I will let you know what happens.

Thank you very much everybody, we made that change on friday. The changes can be seen today when searching for the relevant keyword "fancy dress costumes" and we have increased our position from 13th to 7th !

Hi Friends

We have Meta Descriptions on our Pages but when certain keywords are typed into google search , different meta descriptions are created , for example when searching for "fancy dress" we see our meta description which is correct -

Shop with Party Domain for all your Fancy Dress. 1000s of Fancy Dress Ideas at CHEAP Prices. Halloween Fancy Dress. Next Day Delivery and Same Day ...

However when searching for "fancy dress costumes" the same page is ranked but the meta description is

Fancy Dress. Female Pirate Fancy Dress Costume. £ 13.80. Female Pirate Fancy ... SKU: G11034. Pirate Captain Fancy Dress Costume. £ 12.22. RRP: £ 15.02 ...

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Adam

Thank you

Hi

About 2 Months ago I submitted a Disavow File using the Disavow Tool

I have collected more links and I am ready to upload a 2nd File, However should I download the previous file in Webmaster Tools (Disavow Tool) and add these new links to that File or if I just upload and override the existing file with this file containing new links only will that be ok.

What I dont want to do is do something that removes all the previous findings from the list so that google cannot see them anymore. I guess what I am trying to say is does Google just refer to the live file I am updating / overriding or once I have submitted a file weather i remove it or not will google still have a record of it and be referring to it ?

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Adam

Thank you so much Tom

Very Helpful and I really Appriciate it

Exciting news about the algorithm refresh. I will keep a check on the MOZ Algorithm Change History for that then

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Adam

About 4 Months ago I submitted a Disavow file to Google for www.partybox.co.uk which seemed to have improved the position across many terms. However the main term "party supplies" I cannot get to rank any higher than page 6 in the UK.

I have no penalties in webmaster tools. Should I see if I can collect anymore links that could be holding the website back for ranking for party supplies or what should i be looking to do ?

The website ranks well for other terms that the home page is optimised for such as party stuff but not for party supplies

any advice would be great

thanks

Adam

Thanks Andy , I would really appriciate that

Thanks Andy

Totally Agree

No so far I have been working to recover the site from a Manual Action which I have now done and recieved confirmation from Google in Webmaster Tools, after this the site went o page 1 for "Fancy Dress" previously not in the top 100 pages.

I havent looked at link building as such yet as our DA and PA suggests we should be higher than our competitors in the serps

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Adam

Hi

Today I entered www.partydomain.co.uk through the Moz Page Grader and found that the Home Page is Ranked B.

I noticed that an Area we could improve on is the amount of times we are using our main keyword "Fancy Dress" on the home page.

Please can you take a look at www.partydomain.co.uk and scroll to the bottom of the page were the tabs are containing losts of content. I am thinking about removing all of thoose Tabs. Our Competitors dont have any content as such on the home page and are ranking higher than Party Domain for "fancy dress"

What do you think ? remove all the tabs to be like the others that rank better? Or cut the text right down ?

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Adam

I have been with moz about 5 weeks and had campaigns running about 5 weeks and this is all i see

Timeframe:

weekly (Apr 3 - 9 , 2014)

Weekly (Apr 3 -9, 2014)

I have read that moz have now added the feature to select monthly timeframes when running reports.

In my Account, I can only choose Weekly (the previous week)

How do i go about selecting Monthly Timeframes?

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Adam

Hi Keri

How do I change the Reports to Monthly , I'm sure mine are set to Weekly still

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Adam

Hey Craig

Thanks for the reply

This is the Website www.maskheaven.co.uk , I plan to make the Home Page display good content about Masks with 1 link pointing to a landing page on another website.

The content will be taken from this page http://www.maskheaven.co.uk/history.html and http://www.maskheaven.co.uk/artmasquerade.html

No site B will not contain any of the content as seen on Mask Heaven (site A) Site B (undicided currently) will be a landing page to an ecommerce store with Products only / Product Descriptions

I hope that helps

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Adam

Hi

I am looking to close Website A which has many pages. I would like to keep the home page and add some great content to it with a link pointing to Website B. As for all the other pages excluding the home page , how is it best to approach them on Website A. Should I redirect them all to the home page of Website A which will tell Google thoose Pages are no longer needed and to prevent the visitors from seeing a 404?

My Main aim here is to not lose any visitors to Website A by sending them to Website B but also to hopefully pass any Page strength from Website A to Website B

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Adam

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Hi GuysI

am quite new to this so please bare with me.

I am looking at attending an SEO Conference in the UK but I want to attend the one that all the Big Players go too. The one that is known in the SEO World as the main Conference during the Year in the UK. Does anybody have an Ideas which one that is ?

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Adam

Perhaps a can sneak a cheeky 2nd question in here, do you know any good firefox add ons to display page rank

Thanks Philipp

Tom , You are a Legend!

Hi

I use to have a handy tool in Firefox (Google Toolbar) that was very handy for checking page ranks and what date a page had been cached.

For a while with the newer versions of Firefox I cannot seem to locate this useful tool, Can anybody recommend any useful tools for checking the above.

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Adam

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Hi

I hope you can help me

A Website I manage has been hit hard by the Panda Update. I am really struggling to understand what is seen as a Spammy link. The Website use to be on page 1 for "fancy dress" now it isnt visable for that term at all and most other terms the site has dropped for.

I have looked into what might have gone wrong and have removed several links , used the disavow tool 2-3 times and submitted re-consideration requests, but each time google informs me that they are still detecting unnatural links.

Could somebody please take a look at our link profile www.partydomain.co.uk for "fancy dress" as an example and show examples of links you would consider that google might not like.

It would also be good if anybody had any contacts in the UK that could help

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Adam

Hi

Has anybody else ever recieved this message from Google in Google Webmaster Tools and what action did you take to overcome the problem and get your position back -

Dear site owner or webmaster of...............

We've detected that some of your site's pages may be using techniques that are outside Google's Webmaster Guidelines.

Specifically, look for possibly artificial or unnatural links pointing to your site that could be intended to manipulate PageRank. Examples of unnatural linking could include buying links to pass PageRank or participating in link schemes.

We encourage you to make changes to your site so that it meets our quality guidelines. Once you've made these changes, please submit your site for reconsideration in Google's search results.

If you find unnatural links to your site that you are unable to control or remove, please provide the details in your reconsideration request.

If you have any questions about how to resolve this issue, please see our Webmaster Help Forum for support.

Sincerely,

Google Search Quality Team

WOW Thank you so much Phil - Very Kind of you

Any of the above really Phil, Thank you