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I figured it out, its in demographics - will try out later and see what difference in results I get.

Image below, but basically click on Demographics before you post

But you do need a certain number of Facebook likes it does seem as some of the smaller pages I manage I get do this.

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Yeah agree with Chris the first option is the best way to go and the way we went after loads of research.

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Andy

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I am fully aware of how to do facebook paid advertising but I follow a page called:

https://www.facebook.com/GiveMeSport/

They know that I am a Liverpool fan (might a filled out a survey once or some other way, but they know I support the greatest football team on the planet) however they only ever show me Liverpool articles in my feed and they are organic. They post a lot more but i never see any of it.

Does anyone know how they are able to do this as I would love to segment people on my site and target them accordingly.

Thanks in Advance

Andy

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I still only have version 8 so I can't test it, but my GA is showing data for version 9 with sales.

I have also checked that these aren't Paypal orders.

Once I get version 9 I will test, but our visitors are currently able to checkout.

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Andy

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When did the link go live, it could be just that Moz hasn't crawled the page with your link on yet.

Moz crawlers are great but they have their limits and can't crawl every page on the web every day. Don't worry once Rogerbot crawls the page it will appear in the moz report.

Its just a timing issue - I would be checking Search Console to see if Google has found it, this is more important. Also I would check to see does it appear in Ahrefs or Majestic. Majestic usually finds links quicker and go deeper into the web than Moz crawlers. But realistically it should just be Google that you care has found the link.

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Andy

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Sorry can you explain a bit more, I from a UK based ecommerce site, and I am still seeing data in GA from Safari for yesterday and previous days.

Customers are able to checkout as well.

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Andy

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It looks like you have done everything correct, but you might have to wait for the next big Panda update before you start seeing any movements.

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Andy

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I have got to agree with Tim - get rid of them if you believe they are doing harm to your site.

I would try and make contact with the site owners but at the same time upload your disavow file and get this sorted.

Not sure how familiar you are with disavow files, but make sure you update your most recent file and upload and don't just upload a list of the new urls.

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Andy

Thanks for both your answers. i actually didnt spot it in the category text which is what got me digging deeper.

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Andy

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So Ive done a crawl of the site using screaming frog.

There are a few old category and sub category pages which don't exist any more but somehow the crawler is finding them. An example is below:

http://www.ebuyer.com/store/Home-Appliances/cat/Health-&-Beauty/subcat/Male-Grooming

Just wondering if anybody had any ideas about how I could go and find these urls and remove them off the site.

Any ideas would be really appreciated.

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Andy

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I agree with the above, you run the risk of getting hit by Panda. If these pages are important to have live to help customers, then surely your priority should be to get good content on their to help your customers / potential customers. If they land on a low quality page with very little content, are they likely to stick around.

I wouldn't put any live until you have the content sorted. I would work out the priority and start there and once the content is good then put live.

There is probably a Panda update around the corner and you don't want to get hit with hit and then you are waiting for Google to release the next version to get out of it.

I wouldnt even run the risk of putting them live with noindex.

Unless of course as said above you have 100,000+ pages of amazing quality content then it probably wont affect you.

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Andy

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I think it was at BrightonSEO where PI DataMetrics were talking about similar pages on a website can cause rankings to drop for your main page. This has got me thinking.

if we have a category about jumpers so: example.com/jumpers but then our blog has a category about jumpers, where we write all about jumpers etc which creates a category page example.com/blog/category/jumpers, so these blog category pages have no index put on them to stop them ranking in Google?

Thanks in Advance for any tips.

Andy

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This is to spark a debate, rather than an answer which has a specific answer.

While Google may claim that being on the certified programme doesn't increase your ranking, but part of their algorithm looks into whether a website is trustworthy.

To get accepted onto the certified shops you have to prove your a trust worthy reliable business that constantly gets audited. So surely this must be directly / indirectly be a ranking factor?

Just thought I would throw it out there for a debate.

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I have a site www.example.com and finally have got the developers to add Google webmaster verification codes for:

example.com

m.example.com

As I was advised this is best practice - however I was wondering does this mean I now need to add the disavow file.

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Andy

Hi Patrick

I thought that but just wanted to triple check before writing a nice list for my developers tomorrow.

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Andy

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We have a robots.txt file, but do I need to create a separate file for the m.site or can I just add the line into my normal robots file.

Ive just read the Google Guidelines (what a great read it was) and couldn't find my answer.

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Andy

Experts don’t do outreach they do traditional PR and know the journalists and have the contacts that they have built up over the years – while most of us don’t have these direct relations we can rely upon to get links and mentions a great tool I use is Gorkana – a bit pricey but worth every bit of money.

Plus with Gorkana you can get PR requests from journos.

Simple trick search Twitter for hastags PRRequest and JournoRequest to try and get in contact with the PR guys when they need content (great free way of getting additional relevant exposure)

If your trying to outreach infographic and content try something like Buzzstream if you don’t know the journalists all ready.

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Gary illyes from Google confirmed today at BrightonSEO that its just mobile that will be affected - tablet rankings WILL not be affected.

He also confirmed this wont in the April 21st update it wont affect Google Business listings.

Thought I would let you all know.

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Andy

What tools do you use, and maybe I could recommend some others that way

in short - yes, this used to be a free channel until about 18 months ago and drove a lot of traffic however that traffic is still there and more (now its in the SERPs) you just got to pay for it and its quite expensive for certain keywords.

Unfortunately there isn't a 1 amazing tool like everyone has said, its all about using multiple tools and using the best tool to meet the specific task you are trying to complete.

It also depends on what budget you have for SEO software, I am quite fortunate in that I have quite a lot of the software agreed by my MD, but I know some who really struggle.

I use:

• Moz
• Rankwatch - for rank tracking
• Ahrefs
• Searchmetrics
• SEMRush
• Majestic
• Screaming frog

And those are the ones i use frequently there a couple more i have that I cant remember of top of my head that I use for certain tasks and projects.

I wish there was a one best solution, all the above solutions are good, but not great in isolation and need to be used together.

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Andy

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What is the url you are wanting to improve - without looking at the page its a bit hard to give some advice. if you don't want to share it - you can send me a private message and I will take a look.

Without looking at the page, does the page actually contain the phrase '1886 $10 bill'.

Also when you are checking your rankings, what area (state, town etc) are you looking from so that I can try replicate the same conditions as you and see the same competitors. So that I can identify what is making them rank above you.

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Andy

Well done on getting some content published - its seems to be getting harder.

I am a big fan of Guest blogging, but not done for SEO purposes but for brand building.

If you are writing content where your potential customers are and they see your brand in a place they trust they are more likely to come and visit, or if they see you in the SERPs more likely to click on your link.

The link (if you get one), is just a second benefit - before the days of Google to get traffic to your site was to get links and mentions on other websites that was relevant to drive awareness of your site - I don't think anything has changed, just some people in the industry saw it as a way to cheat Google and was punished so its now seen as bad tatic - but if done correctly can drive some wonderful traffic to your site.

We do accept Guest post onto our blog, but this is down to the editors discretion but sometimes they can add some real value to our visitors - so it helps both parties.

So basically we are unsure and will have to wait until 21st April to find out.

Thanks for everyones input, been very useful and informative

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Thanks for everyones responses - however we have a m. site, but on certain tablets we force people onto the desktop version for a better user experience.

However when I do a search on the ipad I don't see 'Mobile-friendly' labels.

Can anyone confirm if mobile rankings on tablets are part of the mobile index or desktop index.

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Andy

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We all know that the mobile update is coming on the 21st April and if your site isnt mobile friendly in Googles eye you will be removed from the mobile index.

Will this affect tablets.

Most of our pages are mobile friendly but there are a few which arent. However these are tablet friendly.

I havent heard Google mention about tablet rankings.

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Andy

I have a few sites showing the same - I am guessing its a timing thing

Great additional to Moz.

I run an in house team for a large ecommorce company in the UK. We all work from the same office. I love having the team around me to bounce ideas of and debate new ways of solving problems.

I can fully understand how you feel, yes they are not yours and the site I work for I don't own - but I have put it a lot of long hours making the site as good as an experience as possible - I would hate for someone to come in and take control.

I can confirm in Incognito mode you are ranked at the bottom of page 1, but only us SEOs use Incognito mode - not your average Google user.

We had a similar problem and no matter what I did I couldn't get the ranking to change constantly.

The strategy I took, was to look at keywords people we're searching for before the 'money' term and get content to meet the searches needs. Less competition usually so rank higher.

Google will rank sites higher where users have visited before and had a good experience, so if you can get people to your site before they know they are looking for wholesale jewellery, when they come to search the terms as well as you ranking higher, you will also have some brand loyalty so more likely to get clicked.

If we still had keyword data in GA we could prove this theory but I get more organic traffic to the page I was trying to improve.

Hope this helps. While you might not improve in Incognito mode - you will get more organic traffic and more sales.

Hope this is useful.

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Andy

If your talking about DA and PA not updating, this updates on average around once a month, link to find out about the next update and previous update stats: moz.com/products/api/updates

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I watched WBF all the time and at different times and never have an issue. What browser are you watching them in and what version - I am guessing this is what the Moz staff are going to ask, so at least they will have this info when they see the question.

You probably all ready do, but I would make sure you have the latest version of the browser you are using - but thats more of a general tip.

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Andy

No tool is perfect and will find all your back links straight away, even Google doesn't find them immediately, so I use a combination of Moz, Ahrefs, Majestic and Webmaster tools to monitor new links.

It will just be a case of when Moz crawlers, crawl the website you have got a link from.

As Moz is relatively small compared to Google, it cant and probably never will crawl the entire web, so it tends to crawl the more larger sites first and crawls the sites which changes frequently more often.

It all depends what you want from the software.

I use:

Moz, ahrefs, majestic, searchmetrics, rankwatch, SEMRush - I use them all frequently and depending what info / research I am doing use the specific software.

Moz is great and has some wonderful features (including this forum - arguably one of the best on the web), but it does have its flaws - its crawl database is relatively small (but its growing 366 million urls was crawled on its last count).

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Andy

Thanks, I tried all the tips on the screaming frog site, but I have just tried to 2 pages a second and lets hope that work.

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I am trying to crawl my site and it keeps crashing.

My sys admins keeps upgrading the virtual box it sits on and it now currently has 8GB of memory, but still crashes.

It gets to around 200k pages crawl and dies.

Any tips on how I can crawl my whole site, can u use screaming frog to crawl part of a site.

Thanks in advance for any tips.

Andy

You could use Search metrics to determine how much the visibility of the site has dropped - it wont to tell you which keywords they were ranking for, but will give a benchmark of where you need to get back to in terms of visibility

Ryan is right, you will have to do some 301s and it will confuse Google for a while so you might see rankings drop even further for a while.

Shame they don't have analytics at least then you could find out the pages which was getting the most traffic.

yeah basically, but I have to convince my MD and he doesn't want to do it.

I need to show evidence of companies that have done it right and recovered and improved rankings

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Impact of Search visibility, rankings, how long it took after change for rankings to recover.

I can see that apple is https but its look like they may have been for some time

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Andy

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Can anyone help me. I need some help with some example of large e-commerce sites going to https. Ideally these need to be e-commerce sites but any large site will be great, so that I can show the impact.

The site can be based anywhere in the world, its more the impact I am after.

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Andy

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I assume you meant the DA and PA etc - these we're all updated yesterday: http://moz.com/products/api/updates

Next Update is in April.

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Andy

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I don't know if the below can be done, and I can't seem to find an answer anywhere.

Ideally I want to capture the event of registering for an account. Ultimately I want to know which products, pages etc drive customer registrations but which do not lead to a purchase (Registered Not Bought).

Does anyone know if this is possible?

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Andy

From an SEO point of view you just want the one page, with all the great content on with clear call to actions. You just want the one page to rank as highly as possible in the SERPs.

However if you are planning on doing an PPC, then I would suggest having your 'Dog Training Tips' page that then leads to a sales page - which is more sales focused. Big call to action, no wastage in terms of distracting information, if your paying for the traffic you want it to convert.

Just Organic: have the one page, but with clear call to action

If you plan on doing PPC: SEO landing page, but then when you click "get more info' (or something similar), it takes you to a second more sales page - which has clear call to actions.

Buy adding in the extra step, you may see a slight decline in Organic C/R, but your PPC C/R will be far higher.

That is what I would do, hope its useful.

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Andy

I know its been coming for a while, but now there is a fixed date - but he did say it might take a few weeks to fully roll out. Google not giving a straight answer like in most of these hangouts

John Mueller from Google has just confirmed:

Google has just confirmed that mobile friendliness is now a ranking factor for people on smartphones. The date it goes live is 24th April 2015.

There is a great presentation on the hangout - which will be available later to watch and once its available I will update with a link - but I would make sure your checking webmaster tools for any alerts / messages if you care about smartphone users.

What do people recommend, regarding responsive vs mobile site vs dynamic serving.

Is your site ready? What are you planning on doing since the update has been announced.

I was going to try and write about which each one means, but I would just be duplicating this whole section of Moz:

http://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority

Down the right hand side there is a link to each of the sections, with videos and far more information than I could post in the answer box here.

Hope this is useful

Andy

As DA has a limit of 100, drops aren't always a bad indication and should really be compared against competition. Lets say the competition has dropped from 76 to 61, then in theory you have gained by 7.

Richard is also correct, but you can only really measure DA in comparison as their is a ceiling of 100 - so you can't always keep on improving.

I would start to the DA against the competitors and report that way - rather than just showing how they have dropped.

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There is a number of factors including relevancy, but also Page Authority. If sites that are relevant about bananas are linking to your home page, Google might assumed that the home page is the most appropriate page for queries relating to bananas.

Also does your 'bananas' page have many links pointing to it, is it included in your sitemap, do you link to the page from your home page.

Without your actual url its quite hard to be specific for the actual reason.

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Andy

Very good question and this has been covered in this great moz article: http://moz.com/blog/after-penalty-removed-will-traffic-increase

Will it help, maybe not in the short term - but if you do nothing you are running the risks of being penalised further down the line and losing all your rankings. Thats the worse case, the best case is by removing the old links your rankings increase. I would never really leave bad links, as you will always be looking over your shoulder waiting for Google to strike.

Remove them and then concentrate on getting some quality links to your site to help boost rankings.

With Google you can never really predict anything any more and you won't really know the outcome till you have removed the bad links.

Worse case: you remove the bad links and your rankings don't improve - but your no longer looking over your shoulder waiting to see if you have been hit by the next update.

Best case: You suddenly jump up in the rankings and you no longer care about the next update, you actually look forward to them, to see which off your competition has been hit.

You will probably get neither of these by removing them, you will probably see a little improvement but nothing massive and you won't have to look over your shoulder.

I know I haven't really answered your question - but even if Google was to answer this question, they would only be guessing as they can't 100% accurately say what will happen as its all machine learnt.

Andy

Hi Tim

How are you measuring the success of the blog, simply using Analytics last click model - if this is the case it won't work, but I am currently writing something on how to set up Analytics to track once a user has visited the blog, then how do they go on to convert, which channels do they come from.

Once you start looking at this, you might actually realise the blog does better than you think. I am almost complete and should have it done by Monday to share with you if you are interested.

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Andy

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With our blog we don't use it as a product focus - more industry news focus, general category focus, relevant content - since changing to this strategy the conversion rate has improved.

So might be worth doing some less product specific articles and more generic articles - this is also good for long tail SEO keywords.

I don't know what resources you have available, and I am not going to say do infographics as this is wrong (too many people churning out infographics when they are not needed), but if you do have some design resources, either make your articles a bit more unique with images, illustrations - but if you do have some good information that works well as an infographic - then create one. These are usually very good for getting links. Don't just create these for the sake of it though.

But as Don said, more relevant content. Other idea's

How to guides

Unboxing articles / videos

Latest news articles

Explanation articles - help your customers to understand the products you sell, this will lead to more conversions as they can see the benefits.

Hope this is useful

Andy

I got the same warning for one off our brand sites, but I don't really monitor the rankings at the moment as these are only really holding sites.