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Hi Michael / Chris

In this case, unfortunately I have a harsh experience which makes me differ with Chris´s experience; I would definitely go forward with disavowing if you are really interested on making clear for Google that you do not value those links, even if they point to non-existing urls

A couple of years back we had a client (and still have it) with a huge hack that produced thousands of links pointing to pages of our client´s hacked domain. We even suspected of a “black hat” maneuver to make damage to our client´s SEO through this procedure.

We had a hell of a problem letting Google understand that those links where empty and pointed to a 404, even after we deleted all the content and the urls didn´t exist anymore... strange behavior still happened from time to time and until the appearance of disavow tool….unexpectedly Google re indexed those links, even that they pointed already for YEARS to nonexistent 404 urls

I would take the time and disavow if you are really interested on Google not indexing those links.

I hope you can profit from this experience.

Cheers to you both, form sunny southern Spain!

Hi Chocoheadfred

I would say that results depend strongly on dozens of different circumstances. E.G. the industry you are working with and the particular product you are advertising. Also the commercial process and the delivery. I mean all the commercial cycle should be evaluated to judge if 10x View through conversions is reasonable or not.

10x shows you that they take their time to buy but if you are selling tourism industry I would say it's a bit overrated. If you are selling a new product which needs research, also. But if you are selling a commodity then probably you should check part of the e commerce process looks like people rejects to buy in a first process and needs more time or looks for a second option.

Could you give us an insight about the product and buying process and an idea of the companies profile, I mean if they are market leaders or small new competitors in a mature market for example.

I would guess that 10x View through conversion could reflect the need of the buyer for more info, maybe your product needs lots of research, maybe your brand is new and therefore the supplier needs research. Maybe your e-commerce could be a bit more intricate and buyers want to find a easier supplier. I sense you will not find the answer tweaking the adwords campaign maybe the answer is in another part of the process.

I hope it helps a bit, let me know!

Cheers

Claudio

Hi Ryan

The tool is great and has been updated!

But, you must be logged to adwords, you don´t need to have an active account spending money, nor you will be charged for using this tool. You just open an account and use the tool.

http://adwords.google.com/keywordplanner

Edit: I have re read your question, probably the problem is that you are not using the second option of the keyword planner, in which you are searching for keyword volume. The actual layout is different, but the tool is even better than the previous. Here a link to understand the use of the tool.

https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2999770?hl=en

Good luck, cheers from sunny southern spain!

Hola Jonathan!

If all those visits are real (and you are not being hacked) I would be definitely happy, (as a matter of fact much more than happy) and prepared to jump from this hosting to a much more powerful one, even if you have to invest on doing so. That sort of viral effect is something we marketers are searching as the holy grail in the crusades… you shouldn’t reject it, on the contrary you should make good use of it.

You will profit on SEO, look it this way, you would have to invest a huge amount of money to get this relevant traffic.

Build a strong SEO on your basic set of keywords around this post, and profit on this, it will have a huge impact and payback on SEO positioning. Even though your business is local you will profit on relevant, real and viral traffic into your site, wherever this traffic comes and specially if you could transform your blog in magnet for relevant keywords.

Relevant traffic (wherever they come from) will bring you positioning, and positioning (also in Ecuador) will bring you visits (from Ecuador) & that you can transform into more clients to your local store.

If you do not know how to do this, here in Moz you will find lots of friends that will try to help you doing so…

Hasta la vista!

Cheers from an incredibly nice Saturday winter morning in southern sunny, always sunny, Spain.

To see incoming links,

1. Google Webmaster Tools?

2. Also if 1) you can use www.majesticseo.com (you need to approve via GWMT so that it shows all the necessary data

3. and of course you can use opensiteexplorer.org

But, and this is a great but, Facebook, linkedin and twitter will not show you lower level links, just a general link facebook.com/ or linkedin.com/ this will only help you identify the media not the post...

You will just see in your analytics as Alex said in  "social referrals" so then to know exactly which facebook post was THE ONE which brought you traffic you should have previously, now late for past traffic but still possible for the actual one, introduced tags in your posts so as to know it came from this specific one. There is a nice post about this in Ana´s Kravitz,(like lenny but not her sister... she did an amazing work on this and is very easy to DIY.

Unfortunately if you do not suspect from which post this specific and unusual traffic could have come... then, there is very little to do about the past IMHO, maybe sombody else could give you another hint... but I doubt it. Only to be tidy enough to tag every single new post that you make and track it on analytics as Alex said.

Here the link from Ana´s blog, good luck and if you need any further help do not hesitate to ring my bell.

http://www.akravitz.com/tag-track-social-media-traffic-for-google-analytics/

Cheers from a cloudy (once in a very long while) day in usually sunny Southern Spain.

Definitely agree with Robert, I find no concern on a do follow link and I also would go for a long tail alt text, telling what the tool is useful for.

Good luck and anyway you can make a try and look for your own experience which by the way we would love to hear about when you achieve some conclusions.

Cheers, today no sunny day even in southern spain... :(!

Hi Iris, as Martijn Scheybeler says, moz could be reporting  a NOTICE finding those canonicals.

You should see something as: "Here are some other things we found in our last crawl about this page. These notices might not be affecting your site negatively, but might be interesting for you to know."

It´s a notice not an issue to be solved.

Hope it´s useful and you can continue scaling about using moz which is a terrific tool to optimize, just need to get used to it!

Cheers

Hi Byron

At a first glance at least, I would not agree with your new SEO. I definitely prefer your actual flat pyramid url scheme than this new high piramid url proposed.

Google will never read those deep new urls!

Maybe I would try to change your actual ones, but never hiding them three leves deep beneath earth...After undergoing such penalties I personally would not be so much afraid on making huge changes, and I would take the "risk" of changing them but do not hiding them!

Hope it helps to build a panorama.

Good luck

Cheers from a sunny winter in Spain

Claudio

Hi Marcus,

Have a look to 1778 backlinks coming from asooy.com they look definitely spammy... probably others, also would advise you to move cautiously with new links 100´s links per day could show spammy also with a site that previously had no backlinks except those spammy ones and also about 3000 from bradford-webdesign.co.uk which don´t either look to much of "natural" sort of links...

Maybe disavow those ones and start slowly and naturally with new links, change your anchor, and work them from different domains.

Hope you good luck from southern sunny Spain!

Hi again Wardy,

In my opinion your url and anchor (url BroadbandSpeedTest.co.uk and "speed test tool" as an anchor text) are natural enough not to bring any problems. Do not forget to tell us how it worked!

Cheers

Iris if you do not want your web be found, delete it from your previous post!

As we told you, after examining home of your web we can observe that it has used canonicals adequately.

I wouldn´t get annoyed about misunderstandings and would keep up research about this powerful tool, read, learn, ask questions as you did, you will be definitely rewarded.

Cheers

Buon giorno caro amico David

I am guessing... probably used any twitter tool (or this new and great moz.com twitter tool: https://followerwonk.com/) to follow all you lucky guys living in York...and just included in their profile "Set to open October 22nd! @Andrewpern of @thestaratharome, fantastic new restaurant situated in the historic Lendal Engine House, York Museum Gardens."

Is this what you are wondering or I am really mixed up?

By the way, good and cheap strategy...

Hanno un grande giorno!

Cheers

As Matt-Antonino says and the original post from Miriam Ellis you attached also says: it MUST be part of the Real Company name and consistent with the name you use in your web and off-line material.

"If your business name currently doesn't contain a product or service term, don't take a wrong turn by simply adding keywords to the business title field on your Google+ Local page or other citations. This is not allowed!"

Cheers

Hi there Cocoheadfred!

I am happy to give you some advice, if you think that your question has been answered please mark my answer as good so your question will be displayed as "answered".

Hope to see something further on about you experience with this product.

Cheers from sunny southern Spain.

Claudio

475 results for in followerwonk for  "york yorkshire"

Try this to start and look at results. Would that be a relevant and useful result for you?

For the moment I would try those sort of combinations.

"la vittoria è vicina"

Keep on trying and you will prevail!

Cheers from southern spain.

Hi Jack

Believe it or not, G+ links comments with attached links are do follow...

That means someone from that G+ profile made an enormous amount of posts with links to your site via G+

You can read some more info about this here

http://moz.com/blog/google-plus-correlations

I suggest you disavowing this unnatural link by using GWMT.

Read more about disavowing here.

http://moz.com/blog/google-disavow-tool

Also should take care of other search engines as this disavowing tool will only work with google.

Hope this is useful for your purposes!

Cheers from southern Spain

Hi Dusan

I believe your proposed metrics are the adequate.

Anyway I must tell you that I do not use only moz which I love... I use lots of Google Analytics, and probably you will also love to see how your metrics are changing  day after day, and I´ll tell you why.

It is not only a matter of visits, you also need to know if those visits "convert" as they navigate a certain amount of time, a certain amount of pages... or in the best case, bought, or at least subscribed for a newsletter...

It is a combination of kw search volume, relevance, serp position, number of visits, and returns which bring profitable results on this virtuous equation.

I hope I have given at least a glimpse of how I look for results when selecting kw strategies.

Cheers from southern Spain.

Hi Wilco

Having a quick look I believe you have hit the nail about internal links, I believe you are lacking on those, check if you are linked with do follow links from pages inside your domain that transmits some authority from your root domain and other authoritative sections.

Your competitor has 32 internal links from his own domain, you have none...

In a quick glance I believe that’s your problem and it should quickly solved, maybe you´ll be touching your competitors back in a short time...

Let us know how you manage with this and your results when making a correct internat link building.

Cheers from a very rarely rainy day in southern spain.

Hi again Wilco, as Olleg accurately says you must link from authoritative pages, also doubt about this link which you mention as they are very diluted and behind a tab, actually opensite doesn’t detect it nor majestic Seo. NO LINKS AT ALL....

Start linking as Olleg proposes from your root domain as featured article or promote it, or blog on it, put images with links and alts... construct a strong internal link structure and you should see immediate results. Let us know how this works and good luck!!

Cheers