I am looking for a lot of insight into my gaming site

hiddentriforce.com

We have been growing a ton on our social networks, but the site is not growing as quickly as we would like. We have a pretty decent back link portolio from being the first to break news, some unique pieces, a scholarship, etc.

But I would love another set of eyes on things.What could I do to drastically improve the site? To most improve its seo?

It seems that the more links I get the lower my DA is. My DA has been dropping for some time now as I gain more backlinks. It also does not seem to pick up anywhere close to the number of domains that is linking to my site. My url is hiddentriforce.com

GWT says I have over 600 domains linking in. The majority of the links are from news or articles that we cover which other sites pick up and link to us as the source. We also have a ton of scholarship links from .edu and education sites from a giveaway that we do every year for students. Why does OSE seem to lower my DA the more I get off-page factors to the site?

I get more than enough to show on their data. I see data for sites that I know with 100% certainty gets far less than me. The support desk does not seem to be any help.  I can also read their generic faq's. But the response is not accurate or fixing the issue.

Is there a tracking code for them? I cannot find a way to get them to track my site data. I know it seems trivial, but it is sadly a big tool in my industry so I need to get my data on their site

I do not see that function in the free version of cloud flare? I am adding the "challenge" rule to hopefully cut back. My client does not have the money for the paid plans.

My next step is to go disavow those links.

It is people that are duplicating our website, hacking other servers, then uploading our modified malware filled site to these servers.

I do not care about fake referral traffic. I just need to totally 100% block traffic from Russia. I do not want them to even see the site.

It is drastic but it's needed/ We do not ship anywhere outside of the continent so there really is no need for traffic from Russia.

I want an easy solution that I an put in the robots.txt file or something

I have a site that is being attacked very hard by bots, malware, etc. Most of it seems to be originating from Asia and Eastern Europe so I want to block off access to the site to everybody but people in North America. We do not ship out of the country anyways so it really does not need to be seen by people around the world.

How can I set this up?

Thanks for the response. I actually see 38 and 45. Not sure why there is that slight difference.

I also am not really sure how to fix many of these issues. It says to minify my JS and to enable compression. I have done both of these things for resources within my control.

It lists urls like

• http://s3.amazonaws.com/…/css/signup-forms/popup/1.0/layout-1.css (expiration not specified)

How do I fix a css file that is from a third party source?

Are there any other things that you see? I know speed is obviously a factor, but I do not believe that can be the only thing holding the site back. In regards to site design, mobile friendliness, etc I actually have one of the more efficient sites out of my biggest competitors.

I got my desktop score up to 73. Mobile for whatever reason refuses to budge..

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Looking for feedback on a client's g+ page

https://plus.google.com/116480272521087321856/about

I just turned off AIO. I prefer it for titles and stuff. But yoast had the rel canonical function that I needed. I wish there was a way to turn off parts of yoast

That is how I want it. I want my H1 to be the name of the page or post. I do not want it to be the title tag though. So that again is going back to something with yoast. Why is it insisting on changing my page title to the title tag

I have modified the auto-generated tags. I want to include my site name at the end of the titles but cannot do so if it will place it in my headers too. And that is what is currently happening.

I am editing the "SEO Title" and that is what is changing my headers too.

This is my header theme code

if(!wp_title("",false)) { echo bloginfo( 'title');} ?>

So yoast is somehow overwriting this code to make it the same as my "seo title"

I was referred to this plugin and have found it to be the most irritating and poorly designed plugin in the world.

I want to be able to set my titles without it changing my page headers as well.

For instance -

If I set my title to be "This is my article name | site name" it will make my H1 tag read the same. I do not want or desire this nonsense. Why would they think this is something wise? Why would I want my site name on every single H1 tag on my site?

How can I fix this? I only want my title to be my title. I want my H1 tag to remain the post/page name that I define in wordpress.

Ill look again. Thanks so much for the help

Already tried that plugin and it did not have this functionality.

I understand that. My problem is trying to implement it within the plugin that I did not develop. Since it is a vastly popular plugin I was more so looking to see if anybody knows of how to do so already. It does not give me access to "page 1 gallery" "page 2 gallery" for me to put a rel canonical in place

I use the Next gen gallery plugin on my wordpress sites.

The moz crawler reports a ton of high importance issues with this plugin because it creates duplicate pages

It will have domain.com/page, domain.com/page/gallery, domain.com/page/gallery/1/, domain.com/page/gallery/2/

This is a pretty popular plugin so I am hoping there is some way of fixing this relatively easy. I can imagine i need to set up a rel canonical but there does not seem to be an easy way to do so.

Thoughts?

They have every one of my competitors included who cover the same content we do. So that should not be an issue. I do have a news sitemap as well

I would have to spend 100-150 per post to reach my entire audience. And that would not lead to a lot of site visits or conversions for me for the money that I am spending.

Google News is always rejecting my application. I feel as if my site strongly fits the requirements yet they reject it all the time.

My url is hiddentriforce.com

Any thoughts?

More so looking for a display network

I was wondering if anybody knew of a good display network group for beauty products/anti-aging/wellness

Adwords is doing okay but we would like to expand to other networks.

That's interesting. Our links and videos are by far the lowest reaching pieces of content. Our links only get shared if we include them in with an image

Well we have already moved our monthly budget to instagram and adwords. We are focusing more on twitter now too as we still maintain our Facebook page. But we can't afford to be throwing away money on a platform that I feel is dying.

What are your thoughts on https://blog.bufferapp.com/anatomy-of-a-perfect-facebook-post

I find this interesting but have found totally different results.

It totally makes Facebook a waste of time for marketing. I used it to build up brand recognition. All of my likes have been organic through contests, giveaways, and paid FB ads. I have spent a good deal of money building up my name on FB just to have my efforts made meaningless by this change in their system.

I do not personally care if 5000 people see a funny image that I post. That does not help me in any way. But sadly 90% of my posts are images as that is the only thing that Facebook sends out. The few times that I do try to push out an actual link to my site dies in  vain as apparently only 300 of 50,000 people are shown the link, and only 20-40 people will like my links.

I saw this Federalist post when it first came out and thought it was interesting. I tested it on a client's site and did not see similar results.

Thanks for the response but I do not really find that helpful. We have tracked our stats to post at optimal times and have found the best content to share. But it is not helpful for us. Unless it is a picture Facebook seems to have no interest in sharing our content. Videos and text gets almost no coverage with their alorithm.

We have tried adjusting and have found ways to get around this, but nothing works. When we have 50,000 REAL facebook fans and they only send our content out to 400 people then there is a real problem.

https://www.facebook.com/TheHiddenTriforce

I have this page which used to get great feedback and interaction. As we have grown the interaction has dropped. Facebook has implemented their ridiculous policy of not sending content out as they should which is part of the issue.

Anyways, I am looking for general feedback as to how I can boost this page's engagement. I am not going to pay to boost my posts to my already existing fans. So please provide other options.

That would be correct if we could rank. But almost every single one of these pages is targeting "geotextile" in some form.

Geotextile fabrics

nonwoven geotextile fabrics

woven geotextile fabrics

slit film woven geotextile fabrics

etc

And Google is not picking the right page to rank. It will show a super inner category to rank for the top-most level keyword search. To me it is just us competing against ourselves for almost every keywords. None of these phrases have any variety in them. It makes more sense to target the upper level on one page and to have headers for these smaller things that have no additional searches or keyword variety

I have a client that sells geotextiles and related products.

None of his keywords gets a lot of traffic  google as it is a very B2B niche specific industry.

For instance, and these numbers are off the top of my head

The phrase geotextiles may get 80 searches a month and we have a domain.com/geotextiles.php page

Then there are woven and nonwoven geotextiles which may get 30 searches a month

We too have a domain.com/nonwoven-geotextiles.php and etc

It then goes even further and has things like slit film series non woven /woven and we have subpages from there.

To me, I feel as if we need to merge all of these pages to just a singular geotextile page with headers for woven and nonwoven and product info for the sub branches of those two. I feel as if we are basically competing for the same phrase again and again and again for very small amounts of traffic.

Thoughts?

We have been building 8-10 citations a month through Whitespark, have been cleaning up links, optimizing our Google +.

I understand what goes into SEO just fine. I am simply looking for another perspective into this exact page. Other pages on the site are all improving except for this page so I am inquiring into that specific matter

http://www.atomicx.com/cincinnati-web-design.php

I am trying to get this page to rank for "cincinnati web design" and related phrases.

I redid the landing page with all new content, images, url, etc about 3 months ago. Since then the site is still not showing up in the top 50 results. I see no reason that the page would not be. Our seo and compute repair phrases have all gone up but our web design phrases are being very stubborn.

Thoughts?

The site is several years old. I do not think the keywords are highly relevant to the discussion. It could be any word in the world and I would want a general idea of why it was happening

I have a site i am working on

link

It was ranking fairly well and then I added content to the homepage to  better optimize it for the keywords it was already ranking for. Ever since I did that the entire site is no longer ranking well.

Thoughts?

That is a good response. Helpful

Am I the only one who finds it irritating that I spend money with Facebook to get likes, and then have to spend more money just to get my stuff to my fans..who I already paid FB to acquire?

1. Will this reset some of the metrics? That is what I am planning on doing if so. Going to leave a message saying we will be gone for a week, but here is a promo code.

2. We find Facebook ads are overprices for boosting posts. They are great for getting likes but the post boosting gets poor results and are much too expensive. Will cost 10 dollars to send our post out to 400 of our fans which is absurd.

I have been managing her page for long enough to know the likes are not fakes. We run Facebook ads to gain new likes. Most of them are from that

I have a client that posts a bunch of really poorly formatted and nonengaging content on her a Facebook business page. This has caused her reach to be very low, despite having 9000 real followers. Due to a history of poor content and therefore low engagement Facebook just does not send her stuff out anymore.

Is there a way to change that? I heard you could reset that notion by staying off the page for a couple of weeks and then beginning to post once more with better stuff. Is that remotely true?

I'm glad that customer concerns are a priority here. Should not take this long to get some kind of solution to a problem

I tried to activate them before creating new ones. So there would have been no limits issue.

Same problem here, among many others.

Yes. As I said, all my campaigns were archived for some reason. They have that link to activate, but it will not work.

There are a lot of links throughout Moz Pro that acts like this.

The only way I can use any of the tools is if I scroll to the bottom and click "research tools"

If I just try to go to the products it acts like I am not signed in and gives me a pitch to signup

Also, when I try to save changes to a new campaign I get the following, "

Oh no! Looks like the page you were trying to access is temporarily down."

A lot of links seem to be broken or glitching with the Moz Campaigns dashboard.

For whatever reason moz decided to archive my campaigns without permission. It then will not let me activate them again, forcing me to recreate them. When I go to the campaigns page, it will not show me my active campaigns, including ones that I have just made and it is impossible to get to them unless I save the campaign id and manually navigate to it in the browser.

This has been tested on every web browser, so it is not some kind of user error or browser thing on my end.

How can I get to my active campaigns since Moz will not show them to me?

That isn't helpful. I pretty much addressed all of that in my original post.

My demographics are fine. The respond well and have a high response rate to everything else that is posted. I am sure the videos would as well, but Facebook simply does not send it out to people. Of my 42,000 fans it only sends my videos out to maybe 200.

I already know what times of the day and days of the week are best for the page. I already have tested other forms of media and they work fine. I want to know why facebook is choosing not to send out my videos.

I have a facebook page with 42,000 Real fans. Images, screenshots, links, questions, etc all perform well.

But videos get 0 interaction. If I get 5 likes that is saying something. Why would facebook not send out my videos to people? Is there a way to increase them? It is very frustrating to post our youtube videos to get no response.

My fans are most 13-30 yr old gamers, so videos should be right up their alley.

Is there a way to do this?

I have a new wiki set up at http://hiddentriforce.com/zelda-wiki/index.php/Main_Page

I want to change the default underscores to hyphens. This is what I have been trying

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule !.(html|php)$ - [S=4]
RewriteRule ^([^]*)([^]*)([^]*)([^]*)(.)$ $1-$2-$3-$4-$5 [E=uscor:Yes]
RewriteRule ^([^_])([^])([^])(.*)$ $1-$2-$3-$4 [E=uscor:Yes]
RewriteRule ^([^])([^])(.*)$ $1-$2-$3 [E=uscor:Yes]
RewriteRule ^([^])_(.)$ $1-$2 [E=uscor:Yes]

RewriteCond %{ENV:uscor} ^Yes$
RewriteRule (.*) http://hiddentriforce.com/zelda-wiki/index.php/$1 [R=301,L]

I keep getting "The Page name you entered does not meet our guidelines. Please review our Page name policies."

My name change is well within policy. The page has about 400 fans. I am literally changing a minor aspect. Getting rid of a plural word.

Any work around since facebook's site is not working for this?

That's interesting as all of my pages see the opposite. Straight text gets minimal results for me.