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Hey guys,

We did reputation management back in March 2017.

We basically built high quality links to online assets such as linkedin, twitter, facebook, positive PR articles and other web properties in order to rank them higher then negative PR.

However there was 0 change (the link building was solid). And the negative PR remains in the top 10 with also positive new articles about the site.

At this point, i believe that Google is keeping the negative PR in the top 10 to keep balanced SERP results.

Does anyone know if this is something Google does to balance positive and negative results?

Cheers.

Hi we recently did a migration and a lot of content changed locations see:

https://d.pr/i/RvqI81

Basically, the 301 goes to the correct location but its a relative URL (as you can see from the screenshot) rather than absolute URL.

Do you think this is a high priority issue from an SEO standpoint, should we get the developer to change the redirects to absolute?

Cheers.

Hi we currently have a site on Wordpress which has two version of each URL trailing slash on URLs and one without it.

Example:

www.domain.com/page (preferred version - based on link data)

www.domain.com/page**/**

The non-slash version of the URL has most of the external links pointing to them, so we are going to pick that as the preferred version.

However, currently, each version of every URL has rel canonical tag pointing to the non-preferred version.

E.g. www.domain.com/page the rel canonical tag is: www.domain.com/page/

What would be the best way to clean up this setup?

Cheers.

Hi Guys,

When reviewing competitors what would be a better metric - Referring domain count OR domain authority.

From my understanding DA is a indication of the quality of the link profile.

So if a site has a high DA this is a better metric for comparison then referring domain count.

What are your thoughts on this?

Cheers/

Hey guys,

We did reputation management back in March 2017.

We basically built high quality links to online assets such as linkedin, twitter, facebook, positive PR articles and other web properties in order to rank them higher then negative PR.

However there was 0 change (the link building was solid). And the negative PR remains in the top 10 with also positive new articles about the site.

At this point, i believe that Google is keeping the negative PR in the top 10 to keep balanced SERP results.

Does anyone know if this is something Google does to balance positive and negative results?

Cheers,

Chris

Hi guys is the new meta description limit something temporary - Google just testing or can we assume it will remain moving forward?

Just wondering if i should increase my meta description limit to 300 characters for all my sites.

Cheers.