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They are pulling that information from Dmoz.org. (http://www.dmoz.org/search?q=rick+case+honda)
To fix this you will want to add the meta robots that Marie suggested, but I would also include the Yahoo Directory code as well.
name="robots" content="noodp,noydir">
After taking a quick look I would just utilize Cloud Flare (http://www.cloudflare.com). It is a free tool where they not only optimize your site with an increase of speed around 60%, but they also provide a CDN.
I tested this out a few weeks ago with a blog of mine and it took it down from 8 - 10 seconds to load, down to 1.8 seconds. Very impressive.
They also provide a Wordpress plugin.
No need to change hosting companies.
Two tools to help you as well.
Here is the schedule, but it is more of an estimate.
http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/25141119/Linkscape%20Schedule
Depending on the size of your site, I would probably break your sitemap up into categories for better monitoring.
When you have them all complete and tested, then submit them to both Google and Bing via Webmaster Tools.
Sitemap Protocol Information: http://www.sitemaps.org
Google's XML Sitemap information: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156184
I would be very careful on how you manage this right now. It all depends on the old and new urls. If this is something in Dev staging, like http://dev.examplesite.com, then it is alright to do everything possible to clean them up. But if the new urls are going to be the new final urls, then you have to be careful.
The best thing you could do right now would be to password protect the new site. That way there isn't a chance of anything getting to it.
All it takes is Google finding one link to the site then it will crawl from there.
So we have a rough idea when to expect the next Linkscape Update. This isn't an exact date, but more of an estimate or goal.
Link Building is difficult, but the reward for SEO is the best.
Here are a few good Local Link Building Articles:
I would use SEOmoz's Competitive Link Finder Tool - http://www.seomoz.org/labs/link-intersect
I wouldn't put those extra keywords in the url structure. I also wouldn't create individual contact pages for each location, unless all of the content on the page is unique.
A rule of thumb when creating pages is that each new page should be so unique or informative that people will want to link to it.
Since you have a small site, instead of focusing on the url structures, focus on your local link building. Link building is going to provide you so much more then spreading information out with new pages.
Focus building the site for your users' experience.
Here is my recommendation for your site structure.
Take some time and look at your competitors and see what different pages they have. Keep your site simple and professional, and focus on building quality relevant links to it.
On that page they actually went through the list of SEOmoz's directories. (I think SEOmoz will be removing that directory list soon)
This type of marketing works better with larger sites. When you have a simple website with just a home, about, contact, and pricing page, it is really hard to optimize a Contact page for something else then contact. (it may be done, but I wouldn't focus on this).
Remember that you already have greenscreen in your url. So if you really want to focus on different phrases, you may have to break apart or build more pages about what you do. Or even have a section that is "what-is-greenscreen/"
With this site and only having 4 pages, I would focus on link building towards the home page.
Also, with taking a quick look you have a few other issues you should take care of. The first is with Canonicalization. As of right now you can access your home page with two different urls (seen as duplicate content).
How to fix that here: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization
I hope that helps.
It will all depend on how you setup your blog, a subdomain or a subfolder.
subdomain: http://blog.example.com
subfolder: http://www.example.com/blog/
If you are setting the blog up as a subfolder, then yes, the blog will help the site, and vise versa. (It will also hurt the site as well). For optimal SEO, I would do it this way. http://www.example.com/blog/
Rand wrote a great post about this topic here:
Root Domains, Subdomains vs. Subfolders and The Microsite Debate
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/understanding-root-domains-subdomains-vs-subfolders-microsites
I just want to remind everyone that since the Penguin update, we need to be very careful about directories. Here is a great article about Directories and with an analysis of SEOmoz's directory list.
Web Directory Submission Danger: Analysis of 2,678 Directories Shows 20% Penalized/Banned by Google
Since we truly don't know Google's secret recipe, we can't say if PR is split.
I don't believe you will loose any Link Juice with duplicate links. You can have 10 links to the same url, but Google only sees this as 1 url.
Interesting article on SEOmoz:
http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/an-internal-link-juice-tool-14969
Interesting PR tool from that article: (PageRank Link Juice Calculator)
http://www.ecreativeim.com/pagerank-link-juice-calculator.php
I read a comment from SEOmoz's Dr. Pete:
"Google sometimes views navigation differently, but it's a bit hard to say. My general assumption with Google ignoring 2nd (3rd, etc.) links to the same Page B from any Page A, is that they ignore those links completely. Since they don't pass PR and their anchor text doesn't count, I'd tend to treat that page as if it had 10 links. If anyone has evidence to the contrary, I'd certainly love to hear it."
View Post: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many#jtc131211
What is the reason they don't want to use images. I believe to have a professional looking site, you do need images. I don't believe it's a SEO issue, but more of a UX issue.
"An image is worth a 1000 words"
I would find two websites. One designed beautifully, and the other minimal. Ask him which company he would call. 46% of people will judge the company based by the appearance of their website.
GA does still provide keywords, so you must be talking about the (not provided) list of keywords, correct?
If this is the case, then No, there isn't an easy way to track this information. But if you want to spend some time you can get a rough idea of keywords based on the landing page they are hitting.
For any page on your site, you can see a complete list of keywords that landed on the page (with percentages). So now you can take these percentages and use them with the Not provided numbers from Google.
For example:
page1.html - 100 landed visits from the keyword "example", which accounted for 10% for that page.
page1.html - 1000 visits from the keyword "(not provided)", so with a little math you can estimate that 10% of the 1000 visits came from the term "example"
**I should note the term used from GA is "Entrances". This is the number you need to use.
But as Google +1 is to Google's serps, Facebook is to Bing's serps.
I believe Social is going to be a huge factor in serps for the future, logged in or not, and I'm sure it has a little weight right now. Or at least it is a signal to Google to pay a little more attention to a site or a page.
Google +1 is something we can't ignore. Google, the largest and most used search engine controls +1 and integrates this into their serps. Even if it isn't a huge factor in SEO, it is a huge factor in serps.
But I wouldn't select just one Social site to focus on. I would focus on the top ones. Google +1, Facebook, Twitter, and maybe LinkedIn or Pinterest. (It all depends on who your target audience is). Even if you aren't interacting with everyone on all of these sites, it is still important to allow people to Like, Follow, or +1 your site.
Canonicalization - Very simple way to clean up a lot of duplicate issues.
Here is a great article on how to take care of these:
When you are ready to start, you should run a report with www.opensiteexplorer.org and export all of your inbound links to an excel spreadsheet. That way you can sort them by the PA and DA and start figuring out how to contact the website to get the link removed.
Or if that isn't an option, it may be best to let a lot of those bad links 404 on your site so Google knows that those pages don't exist.
But cleanup your internal structure, setup XMl sitemaps, and make sure there are no errors (internally).
The first thing I would focus on would be the url restructure of the site.
- www.mydomain.com/folder/page-name/
Then 301 all old urls to the new urls
Then start the cleanup of inbound links.
It doesn't appear to be validating correctly.
http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/validate-xml-sitemap.html
Change this:
to this:
Cloudflare cuts out the spam, so that may be the reason you saw a drop in traffic.
Taking a quick look you have a ton of spammy bad links coming in and they are going to internal existing, and non existing pages.
57 - Linking domains to home page
3,766 - Linking domains to all pages
You have a lot of cleanup to do. I would start by setting up your account with Google Webmaster Tools and running an internal scan to start cleaning up everything.
If you want to email me your domain I will take a quick look. copstead@gmail.com
The 17 is based on the url and OSE is only updated about every 4 weeks so you will see differences in numbers. OSE is suppose to update in a few days, so check the numbers again and see if they are closer.
Run a detailed Linkdetective scan and start contacting each blog.
Those are the types of links Penguin is going after.
If this is the case, then I would just focus on building higher quality links,and focus on the local markets.
Ahrefs.com has some good insights http://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/overview/subdomains/www.autorepairauroratilden.com
And I would use http://www.linkdetective.com/ to really analyze your links.
Need a little more info. Browser, system, website...
Keep only 1 page both for UX and SEO. If you start to build different pages and the only differences are size or something, then you will start running into duplicate content issues.
The goal with any page, is to have it so unique and valuable, that people will want to link to it.
I stumbled across this page the other day for Google Analytics Social Interaction, but i'm not sure if this is outdated by the recent GA Social Reporting.
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/gaTrackingSocial
Does anyone know if this still works?
In what I can see with GA, I can view most social interactions except Twitter and Facebook. So if this code works then we should have all sources.
Just thought I would put this out there.
and Google's Working Example: http://analytics-api-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/tracking/javascript/v5/social/facebook_js_async.html
Did you receive a message or a warning from Google in Google Webmaster Tools?
Looks like you have a lot of bad inbound links from irrelevant websites.
I would start by examining all of your inbound links and the PA/DA and relevance of these sites.
Basically a "Natural Link" is when someone links to your site for any reason without you having to ask them or pay them to link to you. They found value in your site and wanted to share with others.
It's not a type of link, but how the link was acquired.
The first thing I would do is install the **WordPress SEO by Yoast. **
Then start focusing on local seo. Google Places, +1, and any local link you can get. (Quality Local Link Buidling)
And you should integrate Social. (Not just links to your social sites, but actual interaction.) There's an easy to use plugin for that: Really simple Facebook Twitter share buttons
Google doesn't support meta keywords. Bing looks at meta keywords as a spam signal and not a ranking signal.
So there really isn't any reason to use them.
Read the full article about Bing and Meta Keywords here: http://searchengineland.com/the-meta-keywords-tag-lives-at-bing-why-only-spammers-should-use-it-96874
As far as excluding traffic from the United States, you would need to exclude "Visitor Country" and then type "United States". Knowing what to type for the Country is based on what Google displays to us in the Demographics, Location section.
Instead of filters, I would probably setup Advanced Segments. Filters actually remove the information, where Advanced Segments allows you to look at certain areas without losing any information.