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What is the best kinds of things to share on Facebook pages? I read conflicting results on the matter.
In my experience memes and funny pictures get the best results. Next is creative art or user generated things.
Videos and links to my site, even when they are funny or high quality pieces, get almost no interaction. Videos will basically get ignored and sent out to very few people.
If I have a mold removal client who has domain1.com, which is several years old, and he creates a new domain2.com with the same info (reworded), but changes over the citations to domain2 will it
1. lower domain1.com's rankings?
2. make ranking either site harder since there are now 2 sites for the same thing?
3. reduce the ability for either site to gain a higher domain authority since links can now go to either
Moz shows many of my other clients with local keywords like that. I see vonderhaar in the map listings but not organic results
Moz rank tracker shows both not being in the top 50
The blog was hacked yesterday. All of those blog posts were up for less than an hour and promptly deleted. So I highly doubt they had any impact on the rank.
I 100% agree that this site is ugly and not well formatted. But the client is unwilling to change that or pay for a design. So we have to try to build a house on a bad foundation to begin.
Most pages have header tags
And while I see all of these things as issues, I am more concerned with why the site would rank and then suddenly disappear entirely. Backlinks are obviously a big thing, but it is a small local niche site where I can say that a large portion of the companies also do not have backlinks or even an seo company helping.
The site gets "A" grades on their moz on page reports for keyword targeting so I feel they should at least be somewhere to be found.
The site is years old. It used to rank alright but has been dropping a lot
The blog just launched too. I will have to look into how they got hacked.
I just took over for a site and noticed they have no presence for any keywords...not even low ranks.
Their backlink profile is not the best, but webmaster tools says they have no manual actions.
Thoughts on the matter?
What are your ads like? They play a role in QS as well
Directly no...but indirectly yes. The links going to your site will boost your domain authority. While it will not boost your homepages page authority, it will boost the domain authority which can help with your ranks
If you pay for it, it should be no-follow. I would imagine the same for a paid directory.
I have a client where google is ranking the homepage for a term that I want a specific landing page to rank for. The landing page is filled with great keyword focused content, gets a perfect score on the moz keyword target grader. And the home page is not even about the keyword it is ranking for.
Any advice on how to get google to stop ranking the wrong page?
I have a client that uses a third party rental agency to book their cabins. The client has that 3rd party company's number on the site and I have been tasked with building citations.
I feel this will create a problem by using another company's number instead of a custom one just for this business.
Thoughts on this matter?
I said the links from press releases were nofollow.
I have this business and am not sure if I should have a separate page for all of the different roofing subservices or if i should put them all on one page.
Even though they are separate, but related services, I feel they could end up competing against one another
If I merge them I will also have more related and keyword rich content on one page that I could focus my efforts on.
I am trying to rank for the phrase "a link between worlds walkthrough"
I am on page 1 but there are several results that just outranks me and I cannot see any reason that they would be doing so.
My site is hiddentriforce.com/a-link-between-worlds/walkthrough/
For that page I have 5 linking domains, varied anchor text that spans from things like "here" to a variety of related phrases. All of the links come from really good sites
My page has 1400 likes, 90 shares, and about 20 each in tweets and +'s
DA of 44 PA of 37
The 4 and 5 ranked sites both have WAY less social interactions, lower PA and DA, less links, etc
Yet they outrank me why?
One of my clients is using a scholarship to build links. We have a nofollow PR campaign getting ready to start and are doing some social marketing for the scholarship page on the site.
We are also trying to get backlinks from highschools and colleges that link to scholarship opportunities. So far this has been a slow process. Does anybody have any advice for speeding any of this up? Has somebody ever done a campaign like this before? Is there some kind of database with financial aid contact info for a lot of schools?
I contact a lot of schools and always tend to get put on the backburner.
I had a listing up for a couple of years now. I made a minor adjustment and it asked me to reverify. So I waited for the pin number to come in the mail and then reverified it. Ive had that message ever since
What does this message from google places mean?
I would lean towards no. Yes you can probably get by doing it lightly, but the benefit would be minimal and not worth the risk. It is considered an unnatural link building tactic.
I see so many varied methods and a lot of them look to be done incorrectly yet they out rank me at times.
Would I set up 1 page for each city, with info on all of the services? Or 1 page for each city and service. So Columbus would have 2 pages, one for construction, one for mold
Can I get a site that is well optimized and has a good landing page for a business that serves multiple regions with multiple services.
For example they may have construction and mold removal services and serve Indianapolis, Columbus Ohio, Louisville Ky.
Make it nofollow. They are pretty clear with their explanation
When I started working on this page he had multiple incorrect listings. I removed the incorrect ones and created this page. It has been confirmed via postcard and up for several months now.
I have the profile filled out to 100% completion.
Yet it does not show up very high in local map results. A ton of the business that do show up higher have profiles that are incomplete. Many of them show their address when they do not serve customers at their location. So it is a bit aggravating.
Any suggestions to make this profile rank higher? I have been creating more citations through whitespark and working on the actual site itself.
They have local pages for their major services and the other pages are just a general company overview.
http://environmentaldisasterservices.com/mold-removal-cincinnati/
Can't really target cincinnati or something on that sump pump page as they serve so many different cities and states. Would probably be adding a paragraph or so to the water damage page for each city for things like sump pump and other smaller services.
Can I get some feedback on this site's seo efforts? I would like to know what they are doing right and what can be improved, especially the ones under the Locations menu.
Somebody listed me on their site with this link code
A Link Between Worlds Walkthrough
It does this weird redirect tracking thing to my site. Would that count as a link back to me?
What kind of sites are you getting the links from? OSE generally runs a few months behind, but not that much.
I have a client whose Google Places listing is not showing correctly.
We have control of the page, and have the address verified by postcard. Yet when we view the listing it shows a totally different address that is miles away and on a totally different street.
We have relogged into manage the business listing and all of the info is correct. We dragged the marker and submitted it to them that they had things wrong and left a note with the right address.
Why would this happen and how can we fix it? Right now they rank highly but with a blatantly wrong address.
I have made a content placeholder for a keyword that will gain significant search volume in the future.
Until then I am trying to optimize the page to rank when the game launches and the keyword gains volume.
http://hiddentriforce.com/a-link-between-worlds/walkthrough/
Is there anything I can do to improve the optimization for the phrase 'a link between worlds walkthrough'
A lot of my competitors are already setting up similar placeholder pages and doing the same thing. I have 2 fairly large gaming sites that will place a banner for my walkthrough on their site. I did not pay for the links. I do free writing/ other services in exchange for this.
I have been sharing the link socially. It has almost 200 likes and a handful of shares, tweets, g+ votes
I would say to use Google's disavow tool for a large portion of your backlinks.
For instance you have 42 links with the anchor text "<a class="clickable title link-pivot expanded" title="See top linking pages that use this anchor text." data-text="exhaust systems investigation" data-id="41149175134">exhaust systems investigation"</a>
What does that even mean in regards to your site? And they are all on spammy irrelevant pages.
Good luck cleaning things up
Delete the meta keywords for starters. Your page title is a bit long so try to shorten it if you can. You also have too many H1 tags on your page.
But the biggest thing is your spammy link profile. You have some really poor quality links going to your page
I find it interesting still, that they do not even remotely rank for some of this. Several of these keywords are not that competitive and they do not show up anywhere in the top 5-10 pages.
They have been doing some better link building lately in terms of guest blogging but still getting nothing that they actually target
http://www.petstoreunlimited.com
They get good grades from the on-page tool. The links are not amazing, but are not super spammy.
Yet it ranks for nothing they target
Any reason why?
I just changed the domains on one of my largest and oldest sites for branding reasons. I have the 301 set to keep the page structures and all.
My question is will the "likes" and shares and etc be kept via the 301 or will they have to be reacquired?
And that will redirect
domain.com/page1/ to domain2.com/page1/
and domain.com/morefolder/evenmore/ to domain2.com/morefolder/evenmore/
and do this for every page across the site?
Is there a good 301 code snippet to change just the root domain but keep the ending extensions?
I just bid on a domain that I think would be much better for me moving forward, but do not want to have to try going through thousands of pages to do their 301 individually
My site is almost 4 yrs old. Well established and has a large fanbase. Several of our social networks are under the name of the new branded domain, hence part of the desire to switch.
Easy fix, remove the meta keywords tag. Figured I would throw that in there for you. I would give it a bit more time. 3 months is not enough to tell anything.
Your on-page is not horrible, but there is certainly room for improvement. Have you ran any of the pages in Moz's on page term grader tool? If not I would suggest doing so.
Try building links to your inner pages and not just your homepage. I think that would do wonders. Also try increasing your social interactions
Footer links like that can end up hurting you. I have a web design and client site like you, but I do not put my link on all client sites. Nor do I use anchor text heavy links. Try building out some more links through guest blogging or promotional opportunities. This can help to balance out your link profile to seem less spammy
I do not think you would get much benefit from this. Your link profile would probably get all kinds of messy. And what if a bunch of poor quality sites start using that plugin and you end up having links on malicious, porn, poker, or other bad sites?
Plugin links and template footer links should be avoided now in my opinion
If you are wanting those pages to rank and not seem keyword stuffed then I would not have it listed again and again with the same keyword. Is there another way for you to edit the template or something to add the keyword and content in a more standard way?
I would fix those. Here is a good guide
http://www.ilmigo.com/fix-hfeed-warning-field-set-hatomentry.html
Fixing it will make sure Google is getting all of the data about your site that it needs which can help you
On top of what Blake said, after updating your page with some fresh content, you should do another push throughout social sites and whatnot. Refresh the page and get some new backlinks and shares. That will help out a lot.
It would probably be duplicate content. The page would be useful for people who stumble upon your site, but why would Google want to rank that page over the actual sources themselves? So your best bet is to add plenty of your own content to that page, or rank the rest of your site and link to this useful resource (not expecting it to rank on its own).
I would be willing to bet that they just not have their poor backlinks penalized or removed from ranking them. Give it time and keep doing things the right way
Thanks
On a quick look, they obviously have more links and a higher PA and DA. But as you pointed out a lot of their links are low quality. If Google has not disallowed those links, I am sure it will happen at some point and it will no longer help them rank.
Your on-page is much better but I would remove the keyword a few times. You have it on-page way too much. Neither of you are doing a lot with social stuff.
I bet if you were to do some legit backlinking and social marketing you would outrank them quickly
Well it is in their page title and within their site internal links a little. Also in meta keywords which is odd that they still use that.
What is your client's url?
We have not gotten any warnings from webmaster tools. All of these links were on the site before we started. And the number of poor links like that are fairly minimal. They do not have a ton of links to begin with and I do not imagine directory links, which were valid in the past, would harm them like this.
The links are not in the form of blogroll, paid links, irrelevant sites, link lists, or anything like that.
We have been building them links through guest blogging and local university discount programs.
I have a site that got messed over pretty hard by a BigCommerce issue. They used to rank but then Big Commerce had a glitch that set every page on the site to a https which was auto set, by their system, to not be indexed. This caused the entire site to go missing. It was then fixed by me, only to have the same glitch happen again. I again fixed it, and BigCommerce released a patch to resolve the issue. They admitted blame to my client and said it can take a while to resolve.
It has been a few months now, and google is slowly recrawling the site. It has about half the pages indexed. The pages that are indexed do not rank at all. I was wondering if you guys see any major flags that would cause this or if it is still related to the big commerce glitch.