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Peter,

Thank you, Here is the result i was talking about,

https://www.google.com/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=7rJVVef0EMGq8wfmwIGYBw&gws_rd=ssl,cr&fg=1#q=what+are+octave+bands

The search is for 'What are octave bands?' , Basically we are a manufacturer of sound level meters, but blog a lot about general acoustic related topics,

Thanks

James

Mozzers,

Google has recently begun to include some of our blog content within its knowledge graph, Not our company data for the branded searches, but within the results for general FAQ style questions and queries common to our industry. In a couple of cases using our content over Wikipedia which was really pleasing

My thinking is that this is not just general luck but that google likes our technical blog content and even as far as to promote it themselves and sees us as authoritative in this industry/field ? I see this as an opportunity to continue publishing if anything increase the frequency for this style of content to build up authority in this sector in the hope that google will look at our brand and maybe even our search positioning favorably. (Similar to the idea behind author rank possibly?)

Just wanted some general opinions from some knowledgeable Mozzers on this or if maybe i am thinking too far into it? Maybe there is something i should be looking at to further improve how favorably google looks at our content for inclusion in its knowledge graph?

Thanks

James

Thanks again Patrick,

Took a look through the article and subscribed myself to the Moz health, I will let things settle,

James

My Moz analytics campaign says i have lost some links since the last crawl on one of my sites,

Is there an easy way in moz to see which links these are i lost and where from?

James

Apologies not just fortnightly , you can set the frequency of backup yourself.... that just what i have set in the past

James

We use Backupbuddy

https://ithemes.com/purchase/backupbuddy/

Works a treat, fortnightly backups to Amazon S3 automatically, with Database or Complete Backup options,

Stores a backlog in case your most recent is not suitable if you use online storage, which i have restored multiple times,

Highly Recommended!

James

Haven't you just uploaded two variants of the same image/post twice?, and seeing as the default URL was taken Wordpress has just assigned the -2/ to the second upload ?

Maybe just redirect the second one in your htaccess file or just ensuring you have your rel="canonical" setup correctly will ensure googles doesn't penalize you.

Also just an extra note you could can add a sortcode which make any duplicate titles Unique like this... %%page%%  or %%term_title%% more available here https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-page-variable-inserting-extra-sep

Hope this helps a little,

James

Landon,

100% would try playing around with http://ubersuggest.org/

I find it useful for finding some of the high traffic searches around the industry, which can be used for blog article topic research.

For example if its an SEO blog, just a couple of searches like

What is link building? / What is SEO? / What is the best digital marketing software?

You will get lots of ideas that users have been searching for.

Hope this helps

James

Wow... Thank you very much for the replies and time taken to look at my problem.

I will take all advice on board and as Shawn advised carry on following best practice.

I am really happy to get some reassurance and second opinions on some of the spammy techniques they are using and  feel sure Google will catch up eventually

Thank you,

James

Moz Friends,

A very close competitor have always been challenging for similar competitive keywords. We seem to have the advantage for alot of long tail keywords but on one of the higher traffic relevant keywords they seem to do well.

I really struggle to understand why, particularly with the back links they use

Just my thoughts and notes on the two:

Our Page

• Better written text content (Maybe slightly written to for experienced target audience but we are working on simplifying things)
• Good Clear site URL structure and navigation for usability
• Fresh content updates
• Mobile optimized
• Reasonable page speeds
• Good on-page optimization
• Good back links from industry influences

Competitor Page Negatives

• Site structure and URL's are inconsistent and messy
• Lower quality content site wide
• They use tried and tested on page optimization methods like Keyword spamming, Bold Keywords,Underlining Keywords (Sarcasm)
• Terrible back links, all directories and free article submission sites (Seriously take a look)
• Less focused on page optimization
• Not mobile optimized

Most of the rest of the sites carry on the same sort of differences,

Engine: www.google.co.uk

Keyword: Sound level meters

**Our Page: **www.cirrusresearch.co.uk/products/sound-level-meters/

**Competitor Page: **www.pulsarinstruments.com/product-information/Sound-Level-Meter.html

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated please, i am really struggling to get my head around this

Thanks

James

I tend to use all Moz OSE, Webmaster tools and Majestic Crawler simultaneously to get the bigger picture as they all seem to pick up different links sometimes,

Just a thought,

James

Wow that's tough if the new site has different new content,

Yes i would,

But i would ensure the old site is up to the high standard also, I would ensure any significant improvements on the new site IE better quality content, better responsive design, better internal structure and navigation are mirrored across on the old site, I would review and merge the better aspects and content onto the older site as it has the better platform with the link/social profile etc,

I wouldn't want to you redirect which could be a better new site if the old site is not up to scratch, I would hope to get a second opinion from another Moz user on this,

James

I would think the Old depending on its current state,

If you can make any necessary changes to the old site without any technical limitations and maintain the back links and social profile then better than starting a fresh,

I wouldn't of thought the penalty would effect you long term if it has been fully rectified and was not for an overly serious offence,

James

William,

We don't use them after using them incorrectly in the past alongside categories and archives all fully indexed,

We now use categories only for post grouping content and navigation, category feed indexed as normal with tags taxonomies set to no index, follow within Yoast SEO to avoid any duplicate content issues,

Hope my view helps a little,

James

Thanks i strongly agree and much prefer Moz for technical seo tools from what i have seen,

However i am just looking for any feedback on what they offer to advise some co-workers, It is bloody expensive overtime also,

Mozz,

Some co-workers are looking into some of the of tools that Hubspot offer as part of there marketing package, I understand it is part of a bigger picture for the hubspot software and moz is much more focused on technical seo etc,

But i am just wondering if anyone had spent any extensive time using the hubspot software and has any feedback on the tools? Is there anything (Just the seo section) that moz cannot ? there are alot of really great moz tools i use that i haven't seen in the hubspot software, like the crawl test, the onpage grading doesn't look at as many aspects as moz, link information and opportunities looked limited compared to moz/majestic seo , no landing page tool like the one built into moz analytics campaigns and hubspot just generally seemed to provide less information ?

Any advice or feedback would be grealy appreciated ?

Thanks

James

Apologies the formatting is slightly off,

Majestic Says:

TrustFlow: 28  / CitationFlow: 35

Moz,

We are a UK manufacturer and we historically have a link from the site http://www.findtheneedle.co.uk/ which is sort of a UK manufacturer database/directory

I understand directory type links are not what we need nowadays in SEO but i feel with this one being quite well targeted towards UK manufacturing businesses it may be worth keeping the link,

From my research we receive little quality referral traffic from this site,

Moz OSE doesn't seem to be able to see the link at all,

Majestic Says:

<colgroup><col width="115"> <col width="122"></colgroup>
| TrustFlow | CitationFlow |
| 28 | 35 |

Any Advice on this ?

Thanks

James

Any Advice ?

Thank you,

I will look into this article, We have a company wide email signature so this would be useful,

James

A second opinion,

Agreed with SEOVP , this is 100% redirect no need to have both pages if you can avoid this,

301 Redirect ,

James

Exactly what i was looking for,

Thank you,

James

Moz,

To help with our conversion tracking efforts is it possible to track contact Email Href clicks ?

Preferably using Google Analytics so i can filter them into my reporting,

Thank you,

James

Also worth mentioning that if you have connections with some pro players who have influence in this area, it would be 100% worth pushing for a link or at very least a twitter shout-out to get some interaction going,

Even if its a nofollowed link from a topic youtube channel, they are exactly the target audience you will be looking for and once you get some visits if they like your content and guides they may start sharing it with there friends/fellow players interacting and creating some buzz and traffic around your site,

I would think you may get somewhere with your connections especially if they are contributing content to your site,

Hope this helps

James

Moz,

I have managed to climb onto page one for a couple of keywords i am really happy with,

Just looking for any feedback on page titles and different effects on CTR

The page i am working with is product pages

I tried a simple headline which was a branded product keyword, this way when the keyword matches the user search it will stand out as the the majority of the title is bold because of this match,, Example below

<title>Jeffs<strong> Lollipops</strong></title>

and my other option is to look at testing a more descriptive title to fit the limit

<title>A selection of sweet Strawberry and Cherry<strong> Lollipops</strong> from Jeff<//Title></p> <p>has anyone looked into this and tested for results in CTR ? i can see there being a youmoz about it somewhere?</p> <p>Alot of people i assume will just say test test test, but any feedback on how other moz users tackle title tags for CTR would be great,</p> <p>Thanks</p> <p>James</p> <p> </p> <p> </p></title>

Remembered seeing this back in the day,

Matt Cutts Take,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eYJuT0yGrI&list=UUWf2ZlNsCGDS89VBF_awNvA

I should think you will be fine for just 4 days,

James

BJS,

We are a UK company but have different websites for Germany and Spain,

Whilst waiting for translations from our different offices in the past i had tried speed things up and get by with using Google translate for smaller scale text, title tags, descriptions etc, even this has not worked out, once that is fluent in the language reads through the text, they have told me that it usually makes no sense, Google translate doesn't seem to be getting even simple sentences structures right in my experience particularly in German,

I Would highly recommend biting the bullet and paying for translations if it is an important campaign, the quality of your text content would just not be up to scratch,

Just my experience, Hope it helps a little

James

Wow really struggling with this one also,

Worth mentioning that you are very much in favor with Bing still and rank very well,

I am struggling to understand why so well but not with Google,

I will keep digging, hopefully a few other mozzers will pick this up and take a look,

James

I'm a real fan of the bootstrap responsive design, Looks great and will be good for any mobile traffic, you have already worked on improving your page speeds,

Really impressive, great work

James

Can you give a URL ?

Thanks

James

Thanks,

Looks useful,

James

I have included Sitename and Sep also,

Thank you,

That should do the trick, will try that

Thanks

James

Oh and i have always used Yoast,

Why would All in one resolve this ?

Can they be used in conjunction ? i assume not i could see that causing problems ?

Thanks,

Well the blog is setup sort of like an archive of past posts and news,

I have disabled tags index (dont use them anyway), date archive is disabled and only use Categories but only for usability for readers and these category indexes are set to no index anyway to avoid duplication,

So the articles index of pages 2 and upwards are all unique as everything else is no index,

I don't want to have all of my articles indexed listed onto page 1 as that wouldn't be good for my users,

So really i just need to reword the title tags of pages 2 and upwards to make them unique

James

Anyone have any experience in fixing the duplicate Title tag on a Wordpress blog multiple pages

Basically the title tag remains the same on the pages

/Blog/

/Blog/Page/2/

/Blog/Page/3/

My good friend Yoast Plugin doesn't seem to of resolved this (Unless i have missed something?)

I don't really see this to be effecting anything and wouldn't of through it would either, but it would be nice to not see the notification within Moz site crawls and campaigns etc, its more of a cosmetic problem

Any solutions ?

Thanks

James

I think if you have used OSE and Webmaster tools you should be able to find the majority of the links you have,However i do think that Google intentionally doesn't include information on every link you have in its webmaster tools,

If you are sure the links are still in place on the external pages its tough as they are not your sites,

Are these pages providing your links all indexed by google themselves ? you could maybe check the cache pages in the search results,

Are you sure this loss of links is the only reason for your loss of ranking ?

James

Have you tried using any tools to see what links you still have besides the Google Link:www.yoursite.com method ?

Are http://moz.com/researchtools/ose or try http://www.majesticseo.com/ still picking up your links you had, unless they have been physically removed ?

James

I remember seeing this Matt Cutts video back in the day, figured it would be useful,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQcSFsQyct8 , However this is underscores and your situation is a little different

Usually i would say don't think too much into it, But dots are a little different and i agree with Sean that you shouldn't use dots and you should probably change this where possible,

James

Apologies as its a long shot as i assume you may not have one,

But i always find that a local address on the site helps, We include this in the site wide footer,

James

Thanks,

As long as we seem to rank well i don't really see it as a problem, i do track visitors using these links also,

Thank you your answer has reassured me,

James

Thank you both,

I will dig into what the other competitors are doing, cant believe i overlooked this

Thanks Bryan i will work through these key things you have pointed out,

James

I hope you found the answer you were looking for Kate, Good luck!

Any chance any of you reading this would take a look and give some advice on my very similar situation?

http://moz.com/community/q/site-wide-footer-links-exception-any-advice

I was reading the following Q&A on site wide footer links,

http://moz.com/community/q/site-wide-links-from-another-domain-could-these-cause-a-problem

I feel my situation is slightly different however,we have lots of international sites linking to each other through these links like our sites for different counties and languages so our German, French and Spanish sites,

http://www.cirrusresearch.co.uk/

Our main UK site has always ranked very well and has never really had a problem despite always having had these followed sitewide footer links, Because of this we regularly get high amount of visitors performing English language searches from different counties and i don't think it is a bad thing having more country/language specific sites of ours available in the footer for visitors that may prefer a more localized site,

Our main website has to be at least 10+ years old at least, has a lot of strong links compared to our competitors, but the smaller German and Spanish sites are relatively smaller in size and most only 1-2 years old, my big fear is that these smaller sites would not be able to stand on there own without these footer links from our main site,

After reading the community question caused me to question this ?, should i take a leap of faith and no-follow all of these site wide footer links connecting all of our sites ? we never really had a problem ranking so i don't really see the need but would this be the best thing to do ?

Thank you,

James

Moz,

I have a particularly tricky competitive keyword that i have finally climbed our website to the 10th position of page 1, i am particularly pleased about this as all of the website and content is German which i have little understanding of and i have little support on this,

I am pleased with the content and layout of the page and i am monitoring all Google Analytics values very closely, as well as the SERP positions,

So as far as further progression with this page and hopefully climbing further up page 1, where do you think i should focus my efforts ?

Page Speed optimization?, Building links to this page ?, blogging on this topic (with links) , Mobile responsive design (More difficult), further improvements to pages and content linked from this page ? Further improvements to the website in general?,further effort on tracking visitors and user experience monitoring (Like setting up Crazyegg or something?)

Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks all,

James

Thank you both for the feedback,

Yes, I am not looking to have two pages correct,

The theme and topic of the page is currently targeting the plural variant, and i feel this is the best way for it with how our site is laid out,

However i am saying it would be possible for me to change how the content is written to accommodate the singular variant of the word (Where more search traffic is)  however i don't think this would be the right thing to do,

If i stick to my guns and the content and page is targeted towards plural, Google would still look after me for ranking for both variants,

I content and translation support from a colleague in Germany, and have as long as it takes

Thanks

James

Moz,

I was just looking for any insights, advice, personal experiences in optimization for keywords that have Non Plural and Plural variants,

Basically from my keyword and traffic research i have gathered the majority of the search traffic i am looking to gain is coming through the singular spelling of the keyword i am currently optimizing and updating our page for,

From experience with this we have always ranked for the general non plural quantity page and brought traffic from both,

My Example : Our lollipops page which has meta information targeted towards 'Lollipops' rather than the singular 'Lollipop' but links to Singular information pages that are targeting the singular word 'Lollipop'

This way seemed to make sense as it wouldn't be good for user experience to have titles and headers on a page listing multiple products as a single instance, the content of the page would mostly reflect this targeting also,

To make things worse the page language and content is in German where their seems to be many ways of saying the same word from my understanding,

Am i doing the right thing in not sacrificing my user experience to target the singular version of the word ?

Just some advice please? Apologies i struggled to get my question across well,

Thanks

James

Also worth a quick mention,

The new landing page tool in Moz Analytics,

If you build up your campaign keyword list a little with the keywork information you are seeing in Google webmaster (Also worth taking a look at Bing webmaster tools, they seem to be much more generous with information than Google)

Then take a look at this feature, http://analytics.moz.com/search/landing-pages/

It looks to be very accurate in my opinion,

Hope this helps,

James