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Elchanan-
It might be that you're seeing a test. As you probably know, Google tests out a lot of different variables each day.
It could be that we're in the post-www world, and Google is trying to minimize the amount of text on a screen to make it easier for users to find what they're looking for -- especially on a mobile device or tablet.
On my Google SERP, I'm seeing a few items with the non-www, but also a few with www, too. (See screenshot.)
Anyone else seeing the non-www results?
FYI, I would take a look at the Way Back Machine to see cached versions of the site, and make sure that the content on the site is not something that was spammy or objectionable to future search results. If the site was penalized, or your gut says it's not good, it might hurt your efforts.
On the other hand, if the age of the domain name is really old, it might help out with the new site's relative rankings...
Vadim -
There was a thread yesterday about Wistia vs. You Tube here: http://moz.com/community/q/wbf-videos-and-transcripts
… and they linked to this page about how video with Wistia vs. YouTube affects SEO: http://wistia.com/learning/advanced-seo-with-distilled
That said, you're correct that there's nothing stopping someone from using a video capture system to grab the images.
Perhaps a watermark on the video could help prevent this temptation?
I'm not a huge Vimeo expert, but I know that Wistia is what Moz uses...
Saif -
What you are talking about are what are known as "sitelinks" in Google.
They are automated by Google, and while you can't tell Google what site links you want, you can tell Google not to display specific pages by demoting the link. You can take care of this in Google's Webmaster Tools, as described here:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/47334?hl=en
When Google displays site links under your site, it usually means that those pages are also highly relevant for the end user. Sometimes that means that those pages listed as site links also have top rankings, too.
I hope this helps!
-- Jeff
Neenor-
Google does quite a bit of work to keep pages that show "explicit" content from appearing, unless the end user is searching for adult content. Lingerie images walk a fine line between safe content and one that won't show up during a normal search. Based on what you've written, sounds like their site is more on the risque side of things...
The best way to see if your clients' site is affected is to turn Safe Search ON, and then see if their site will appear in search results.
Safe Search, according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SafeSearch), is a feature that acts as an automated filter of pornography and potentially offensive content.
In a statement given to The Verge, a Google spokesperson said:
"We are not censoring any adult content, and want to show users exactly what they are looking for -- but we aim not to show sexually-explicit results unless a user is specifically searching for them. We use algorithms to select the most relevant results for a given query. If you're looking for adult content, you can find it without having to change the default setting -- you just may need to be more explicit in your query if your search terms are potentially ambiguous. The image search settings now work the same way as in web search."
Edmond - No, I didn't use their service, as it was quite expensive and I figured I'd be able to fix it myself in 2-3 hours of cleaning (which I was able to do). Let us know how the process goes...
-- Jeff
The site URL looks fine, and here is a link to a previous page:
I don't see anything really bad with a quick look, but it might be good to do a bit more deep diving to make sure...
Brandon-
I'm a big fan of optimizing images to use descriptive names; it seems to have worked quite a bit in the past. Search engines often will look for contextual clues about the content of an image, and this includes ALT tags, photo captions, and the image name.
In a Moz blog posting by Kasy Allen in 2011:
http://moz.com/blog/is-optimizing-photos-more-important-than-you-think
"The Google image bot definitely seems to be looking at filename and the alt tag, but it also looks at a lot of the same factors that the Google search bot looks at - title tag, meta description, heading tags, links and anchor text. If we are already focused on optimizing our individual pages, maybe it's time to remember that image optimization is just as important. Oh, and it also seems to be important that you host your own images, but you already knew that, right?"
I've found that it's best to name each image during the product creation process. It's nice to have the product name and SKU in the image, and I also like to use directories, too.
So if a product named Canon 50 mm f/1.4 lens in category Canon Camera Lenses, you might want to name it here with this directory structure:
http://www.domain.com/images/canon/DSLR/lens/canon-50mm-f-1.4-lens.jpg
But if you need to do this in a bulk fashion, you can create the category and directory structure using a spreadsheet and the concatenate feature. You can also do a find-replace on spaces in a product name to insert dashes, etc.
See the screenshot here: http://www.customerparadigm.com/images/moz-screenshots/concatenation-bulk-renaming.gif
You could also use LightRoom or Photoshop to help automate photo names as well.
I hope this helps!
-- Jeff
Nadir-
I'd always recommend putting in an Alt tag on images, to describe what the image shows.
The Alt tag was developed originally for text-only browsers or visually impaired visitors to a website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_attribute
According to the W3C's accessibility site:
http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/accessibility
"The power of the Web is in its universality.
Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect."
Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web
According to the w3Schools.com site, the Alt tag (attribute) is one of two required attributes for the tag:
The tag has two required attributes: src and alt.
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_img.asp
The Mozilla Develper forum says that setting the Alt tag "attribute to the empty string indicates that this image is not a key part of the content"
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/Img
The latest version of Dreamweaver won't allow you to add an image onto a static HTML page, without using an Alt tag either.
So, yes, you should try to always use the Alt tag, in my opinion.
That said, Alt tags shouldn't be stuffed with keywords. If you do that, it will hurt you in the long run.
Best practice is to describe the image.
Hope this helps,
-- Jeff
In my opinion, you'll need to work on both. But I'd start with whomever has the highest amount of domain authority and/or traffic first.
But the most likely case is that people will find out about your B2B app from the Shopify / Bigcommerce / 3dcart sites. The fact that your app is listed there creates a lot of trust and confidence, and is likely the first place that people who have that type of shopping cart system will start to look. I'd make sure that you upload as many screenshots, content, etc, and try to get great rating on these sites first.
Your corporate site, though, is the place that people who really want to know more about your company, before they purchase the app, will then go. Your corporate site, though, is less likely to have as a high a domain authority... but you can help reinforce the app listed on the shopify / big commerce / 3d cart sites with strong content and links directly to those pages.
I hope this helps!
-- Jeff
Jen - My huge apologies. I meant to respond to another question, and I just typed in the wrong tab. Darn multi-tasking! Let me take a look at this in a moment... Again...oops!
I'd agree with Max.
My initial thought is that somehow, the conversion to purchase tracking code is being triggered (properly) when the end user places an order and gets to the order success / confirmation page.
It's possible that when you are processing the order for shipment, or something like that, you are inadvertently triggering the same code? It could also be possible that the end user, going into their account to check on shipping status, etc, is re-invoking the trigger for the conversion to purchase / eCommerce order.
I hope that helps...
-- Jeff
Bob-
I've answered a similar question in the past here: http://moz.com/community/q/blog-on-subdomain
But the gist of it is:
store.mydomain.com --> content on the store. is treated as a different site, and SEO efforts (content, inbound links, social media) only help the subdomain.
mydomain.com/store --> subdirectories are usually the way to go. All of the content, inbound links and social media shares will help build the overall domain authority for you.
My recommendation is to go with the sub directory (mydomain.com/store/, and there are a whole lot of articles that back this up:
http://moz.com/community/q/blog-on-subdomain-vs-subdirectory-best-practices
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/
http://moz.com/community/q/best-place-for-a-blog-blog-mydomain-com-or-mydomain-com-blog
Hope this helps...
-- Jeff
This happens a lot more than you might imagine. We've even seen times where end users are placing orders on test sites because they're able to find out-of-stock items from an out-of-date demo site.
If you need to have the demo. store up and running so people can test it, I don't think you need to tell Google about the change of address. I think that the no-index / no-follow status of the site and the robots.txt should prevent Google from indexing it.
That said, there are a few more ways to protect the demo site:
1. You can password protect it, using an .htaccess file. This might not be ideal, because testing might prevent you from being able to see the whole site properly on different devices.
2. You could IP restrict the site to a small number if IP addresses, using your .htaccess file. In this way, only people who are whitelisted are able to do this. You could even get fancier, and have a form that allows testers to be able to add their IP address to the "allowed" list from a browser. Anyone else would / could be redirected to the normal site.
3. I'd also recommend putting a banner at the top of the demo site, letting people know that any orders placed there are just for testing and won't be fulfilled.
I hope this helps!
-- Jeff
Ruben -
It sounds like the consensus of the coverage on Matt Cutt's statements show that:
I still think domain name age is a factor for how pages rank, as Google still does like pages that "have withstood the test of time." (Google also likes fresh new content, too.)
My hunch is that your friend would take a short-term hit on traffic, and in order to get the site to rank well, the site will need to focus on a high-quality user experience, great content, etc.
I could perhaps see an interesting section on the site devoted to the best (or worst) garages and carports.
I don't want to steer you down the path to the Dark Side, but this article on Search Engine Journal, "Using Black Hat Tools for White Hat Purposes" might be a good place to take a look and see if the other guy is doing anything shady:
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/using-black-hat-tools-white-hat-purposes/
Other things I might check:
Saif -
Yes, Google will add in site links if they determine that your sub-pages are also important for the search results. It's all done auto-magically, so it's not something you can set.
You can tell Google if you don't want certain pages to show up as sitelinks. But beyond that, the best advice I have is to create compelling content that engages with the end user... and strong rankings will likely result 
Hope this helps!
The great guru Seth Godin wrote about this on Saturday:
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2013/11/tenacity-is-not-the-same-as-persistence.html
Seth wrote:
"Persistence is doing something again and again until it works. It sounds like 'pestering' for a reason.
"Tenacity is using new data to make new decisions to find new pathways to find new ways to achieve a goal when the old ways didn't work.
"Telemarketers are persistent, Nike is tenacious."
My $0.02 is that if someone doesn't respond to the first 3-4 phone calls, it's unlikely that you're going to "wear them down" by trying to be persistent. You're probably just bugging them.
Instead, try to find a new way to get their attention and link to your site.
If it's a really valuable note, send a package with cookies, and a message tying in your pitch. Send flowers. Do something out of the box to get through the clutter...
Hope this helps...
-- Jeff
I think it might be a good idea to have a "coming soon... location at xyz address, starting April 1, 2014".
My worry about publishing the new address live:
That's my $0.02. I think you might have trouble if you promote it as a "valid" address prior to being able to occupy it.
I hope this helps!
-- Jeff
Yes, if you do a View Source on the page for the Gray Shadow Financial, you'll see under the
Andie -
We work on a lot of eCommerce sites with similar left-hand navigation filters.
I think that the thing to keep in mind is that these pages are often like search results pages, and require a human to choose options to create those URLs. As a result, they shouldn't be pages that a typical crawl bot would find.
That said, each eCommerce system acts differently, and it's possible that permanent links are created that are added to a site map. Or, it's possible that Google's bots are starting to check boxes on eCommerce filters to better mimic human behavior. After all, Google has created self-driving cars.
The data driven approach: I would check to see if any of these pages are showing up in Google Webmaster tools to see if it is, indeed, an issue, before trying to go crazy about duplicate content.
Hope this helps,
-- Jeff
Your web developers are hiding behind a content management system that is poorly designed, and their ignorance of ALT tags for images.
I am also a professional photographer (as well as a Google-certified photographer for panoramic business photos, too).
ALT tags were developed for the visually impaired, so that a text reader could read a description of the image to someone who couldn't see it.
In some cases, sites are required by their brand standards or internal guidelines to comply with ADA requirements and have ALT tags in place for images.
I would tell the web developers that the interface needs to have ALT tags available, and if not, I'd try to move to a different platform that supports this.
The meta information is nice, but ALT tags are critical. Dreamweaver (current versions) for example, won't let you add an image to a Web page, without putting in an ALT tag for the image.
Microsites can either be a separate domain name (i.e. www.domain-light-tablet-laptops.com) or a subdirectory off of your existing domain (i.e. www.domain.com/light-tablet/)
It sounds like you're going with the subdirectory option for the microsite. I think that this will be helpful, and add more SEO value to the microsite. Here's a link to a post on subdomains vs. subdirectories:
http://moz.com/community/q/revisited-the-subdomain-vs-subdirectory-question
My recommendation, if you are to use a sub-directory, would be to have one top level, such as:
www.domain.com/light-tablets-laptops/
If you don't need to have the home.asp, that might be better... but that's going to depend on your site and page system settings.
For your categories, you might go with:
www.domain.com/light-tablets-laptops/manufacturer/
And for your product, you might go with:
www.domain.com/light-tablets-laptops/manufacturer/tablet-XYZ/
For the contact page, I'd go with:
www.domain.com/light-tablets-laptops/contact/
Hope this helps!
Thanks,
-- Jeff
In the past, the disavow tool was the "tool of last resort." You weren't supposed to use it unless you'd had a manual action.
But Google's Matt Cutts has broken from the previously stated mantra on the disavow tool, and now is encouraging Webmasters to use it if they are worried if a link is from a bad domain, due to poor SEO (or someone else trying to hurt your site by creating bad links):
Hope this helps!
I agree with Chris and would like to add that if you have quick and easy answers, then an FAQ would be sufficient. However, if the answers are more lengthy or could be expanded on into a blog, it would be worth taking the time to create a high-quality piece of content explaining to your audience, which could then be shared with others.
Thanks, Peter! I knew when taking this image, it would come in handy for SEO purposes
So, if this is a huge brand name with a high domain authority... it honestly won't matter as much how their category and URL structure is set up.
However, if they are using two different directories with specific information about each product, this would be fine as well. I think that having a site with two big / strong categories, but no general categories should be okay, especially if their DA is really strong.
Hope this helps!
There may be many technical things going on with your robot.txt file, no-index tags, etc.
But where I would start first is with your website hosting company.
My guess - not having seen your site - is that you may be hosted on a site with a low-cost hosting provider. And you are experiencing downtime at random times that are affecting Google's ability to crawl your site.
The other clue that points me to your web hosting service is that Google tried to crawl 500 pages, but it was only able to handle 250.
What I would do is first look and see if your site is timing out under heavy loads / lots of visitors.
That's most likely the culprit.
I'd subscribe to a free site monitoring service that will ping the site every 5 minutes or so, and email you if it goes down.
Hope this helps!
-- Jeff
No worries. On that page, I did find two there:
It does look like the site is running Magento Community 1.7. You'll probably need to dig a bit to find this, but you could looking the design files for the theme, as well as perhaps in the static CMS blocks for the site.
If you'd like to run a Magento Code Audit on your site, we developed one that we offer for free; it might tell you if you have core file modifications or base file changes that might help you find the appropriate files. Here's the link:
http://www.customerparadigm.com/magento-development/free-magento-code-audit-report/
Hope this helps!
-- Jeff
I second what Michael is saying. More content is better. Your page has 346 words of content. The top #1 result has 1,399 words of content.
So, taking a look at your site vs. other sites...
The other sites that rank ahead of you all have the keywords you are trying to rank at the beginning of the title tag. Yours starts four words in.
(see screenshot)
The 1st ranked result has the keywords in the title tag, and in the page name (not directory)
www.zeldadungeon.net/Zelda15-a-link-between-worlds-walkthrough.php
Same thing for the 4th ranked result:
www.linkshideaway.com/a-link-between-worlds-walkthrough/
Your page has 346 words of content; the top #1 ranked page has more than four times that amount of content at 1399.
Sometimes Google will rank pages well that have short content.
In this case, I think that Google's algorithm is determining that a site that has lots of content, graphics and information is somehow more useful to the end user.
My recommendation... agreeing with Michael, above, is to beef up the amount of content on your page, and include a few more screenshots.
I know that this is tricky for something that you are selling, when what you are selling is the content. It's a balancing act.
I have a page that I wrote for an extremely competitive term that ranks very well. It has more than 12,000 words of content and 80+ screenshots. Does everyone who lands on the page read all 12,000 words, or watch the 48 minute video? No... But it outranks other pages that are just a few words of content.
Pablo -
Yes, it would be better to have all of your domain authority under one main domain name, instead of spreading it thinly using subdomains.
Thanks,
-- Jeff
Danny - We use Nginx on our WordPress site, and it's pretty quick and easy. We're able to use the same .htaccess rules to handle rewrites, and for the most part, there's very little downside. You do want to make sure that your site isn't going to break before you launch it on Nginx, so I'd test it with a test URL first before you push it live.
We're also running Varnish as a caching system, and our page load speed takes the page from a slowwww load time to a really fast 1.5 second load time.
Hope this helps...
I can think of three things that might be happening.
1. In the WordPress template, your designer might have hard-coded your business name at the end of the title, within the template file.
Normally in WordPress, your Title tag displays like this:
<title><?php wp_title(''); ?></title>
But it's possible that instead, they modified it to:
<title><?php wp_title(''); ?> - Oursite.com</title>
That's where I'd check first.
2. If that's not the case, I'd check in your admin area, under admin --> Settings --> General --> Site Title
You might have something in there.
3. Check to see if you have a WordPress plugin that is overriding the title tag information.
We use the All in One SEO one for our site, and this is where we can set the Home page title tag, and the other title tags for pages, posts, search pages, 404s and more...
I hope this helps!
-- Jeff
Dan-
As the business is not based on the physical location, but serves a greater area, you need to set up your Google+ account as a Service-area business on Google.
This is perfect for a local plumber, tree trimmer or construction crew that works at customer's locations (either homes or businesses).
My recommendation would be to go here:
https://support.google.com/business/answer/3038163?hl=en
... and set up your service areas based on the zip codes or cities that the business serves.
You also have the option to check or uncheck, "I serve customers at my business address."
You might need to go through another round of verification to make this change, however.
I hope this helps!
Thanks,
Ron -
I took a look at the site and at the PDF, and I agree, there's not a ton of SEO value in writing a guest post for them. While Google can index PDF documents, and even discover links in them, if it's no-followed… not going to help much.
PDFs are not really amazing for reading on a computer. They are great for printing out. Print designers use them quite a bit, because they never quite figured out this "Web" thing where the page looks different to different users based on their computer and browser.
If there's a different reason to guest blog, it would be that your target audience (who wants to hire you) might be reading it and find you online. Or, you might want to do it to prevent a competitor from taking that top spot.
If you're on the fence, I'd check to see their readership, and if there's a way to have your information online and visible to their 1.2 million registered brides.
The US Wedding industry is a bit crazy -- people spend more than $25,000 on weddings.
Hope this helps...
-- Jeff
Jeff-
The slider is certainly a bit nicer from a design perspective, but the client does have quite a few images that have been indexed by Google images (see screenshot below).
That said, I ran both pages through a spider simulator, and the non-slider (thumbnails) does index / link to an image in each case.
The slider version shows the image name as plain text, but doesn't recognize the images as links. So the slider, in my opinion, isn't as helpful for SEO as the thumbnail version. It might be a more engaging consumer experience though.
One option: on the slider, allow someone to click on the image to view on a larger scale. That link would likely display...
Hope this helps...
1st-impressions-non-slider-spider-simulator.jpg 1st-impressions-slider-spider-simulator.jpg 1st-impressions-google-images-results.jpg
Adam -
This question has been a big topic in the past.
The general thought is that:
blog.mydomain.com --> content on the blog. is treated as a different site, and SEO efforts (content, inbound links, social media) only help the subdomain.
mydomain.com/blog --> subdirectories are usually the way to go. All of the content, inbound links and social media shares will help build the overall domain authority for you.
My recommendation is to go with the subdomain, and there are a whole lot of articles that back this up:
http://moz.com/community/q/blog-on-subdomain-vs-subdirectory-best-practices
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/
http://moz.com/community/q/best-place-for-a-blog-blog-mydomain-com-or-mydomain-com-blog
For the static vs. dynamic content: I would recommend the subdirectory structure, even if you have to have the pages published statically. Although it's more of a pain, static pages will load much faster for your end users than dynamic ones, so you're essentially putting in a full page caching mechanism.
Hope this helps...
-- Jeff
I grew up in St. Louis, so I might have a little bit of insight... It is possible that St. Louis is spelled differently by different people, but most normal users who live in the area are not spelling out "Saint." Google's ability to show synonyms and close words should obviate this issue, too.
While St. Louis - the city - has had a bit of a resurgence in recent years, become more urban and hip, most of the population of the St. Louis metro area doesn't actually live in St. Louis, and probably doesn't use "St. Louis" in broad search terms. The population of St. Louis is actually quite small. Instead, the city is surrounded by many smaller cities that people might identify more specifically with.
For example, people might use Chesterfield, Creve Coeur, Ladue, etc, as a much more detailed way to search.
I hope this helps!
-- Jeff
Sanaa - Yes, if you move the content over, a 301 redirect would be a good way to go.
However, rather than do a blanket 301 redirect, I'd recommend creating a 301 redirect for all of the pages on the older site to go back to the newer location.
This might take a moment to do, but you should be able to generate a sitemap or list of all of the postings, and then use Excel to create the redirect structure for the blog.mydomain.com and redirect it properly:
Redirect 301 best-post-ever/ http://www.mydomain.com/blog/best-post-ever/
(this would be what you'd put in the .htaccess file.)
If you're a power user in Excel, you can use the concatenate function and the Left and Right functions to build this semi-automatically from a list... especially if you have a lot of fields...
Hope this helps,
Daniel - No worries…
If there hasn't been a manual action (just a big drop in rankings), disavow is a great tool to use.
I think on the darker side of SEO, there has certainly been competitors in highly competitive spaces who have tried to create spammy links pointing to competitors as a means to win at this often zero-sum game. So my hunch is that is why Google realizes that sometimes links show up beyond your control.
Best practice, though, is to contact the other website and ask for links to be removed. But sometimes this can fall on deaf ears… Thus, Google's disavow tool…
If it was my site, I'd try to get some of the bad links removed.
And then really focus on a high-quality end user experience… including site load time, engaging content, etc...
Hope this helps guide the decision…
Yes... I typed a bit to quickly.
Thanks, Alex... my recommendation is the sub-directory, http://www.domain.com/blog/ as the best practice.
Thanks!
Ryan -
There are a lot of different ways to fix this, but I think that my first, initial suggestion would be to take control over the Google + pages for both locations, so that you can verify these addresses, and fill them out with more information.
For LTI Inc, the Google + page seems to say, "Is this your business?" (See screenshots.)
This is where I'd start. Once these pages are verified, it will be a lot easier to tie everything everything together.
I hope this helps!
-- Jeff
If there are just two locations, I'd probably list them both on the footer, and indicate if one is the headquarters.
That said, I would probably also designate the main location using RDFa / microtagging technology, so that's machine readable.
Here's how we use this on our site:
Customer Paradigm
5353 Manhattan Circle
Suite 103
Boulder CO, 80303
303.473.4400
888.772.0777
Hope this helps!
-- Jeff
Karen - Are you still seeing issues with the site not performing well? If you'd like to post the URL, I'm happy to take a look and see what might be stopping the site from being indexed.
Thanks!
My hunch is that if you use the method you just outlined, where:
mydomain.com/affiliatesitename1 -> redirects to the affiliate link1
... you are essentially creating the equivalent of a followed, 301 redirect from your site to their site, and passing along link value as a result. It would appear to me that this would be a followed link. Depending on the number of redirects, a percentage of the link value may be lost as a result. But if that is what you would like to do, then go ahead and do so.
But a better practice would be to no-follow those links, as they are outbound affiliate links.
Hope this makes sense?
Thanks,
Jeff
Steve -
I just received one from Google yesterday that I think I deleted, but we are Google Partners. Message me and I'm happy to send it over to you...
Thanks,
-- Jeff
Carl -
Yes, in order to avoid duplicate content, you can use the Rel=canonical tag.
Usually the tag comes first, and then the href after it like this:
<link rel="<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank">canonical" href="<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.ditalia.com.au/designer-fabrics-designer-fabric-italian-material-and-french-lace</a>" /></link rel="<a>
It should work the way you did it too, although some systems might throw an error if the positions are reversed. I saw this previously with an SEO tool and the img src ALT tag was in a non-usual spot.
Here are more resources on the canonical tag, here on SEO Moz:
Confused about Rel Canonical? http://moz.com/blog/rel-confused-answers-to-your-rel-canonical-questions
Moz How To Guide, http://moz.com/learn/seo/canonicalization
Finally, if you want to delve in to an article by Google's Matt Cutts, here's a link where he discusses it in detail:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/canonical-link-tag/
Hope this helps!
-- Jeff
Karen -
So, I've taken a look at the site, and it looks like:
1. The site loads quickly - 1.29 seconds, according to a Pingdom Website speed test.
To me, this means that your hosting is fine, and that you don't have any problems with the user experience, or how long the images or other assets take to download.
2. The home page has about 825 words of content. This might be an area to increase the content, perhaps. You do seem to have seven images on the home page that don't have ALT tags on them. This is best practice, and while you shouldn't try to stuff keywords in them, you're raising a red flag and missing an opportunity.
3. Your site has a 33 domain authority, and the home page has a page authority of 43. You have 5,061 inbound links from 92 root domains.
Your site has 1 facebook share, and zero likes, and 0 tweets and 0 Google +1s. I think from a social media signaling perspective, your profile needs more inbound social media love to rank better.
4. Here's more technical information on what a search spider simulator found:
Access and Status
search spiders are not blocked by robots.txt
Status code after all redirects: 200
0 Redirect(s)
Title
Outdoor Blinds Perth | Patio Blinds | Cafe Blinds | Bozzy Shade Blinds
Title length is about right
Meta Description:
Bozzy Shade Blinds - a leading provider of outdoor blinds, patio blinds, cafÃ
blinds and shade sails in Perth and WA.
The description length is about right, but watch out for the illegal characters.
Key words
The words shown below should be words that make sense for your webpage content:
blinds - used 45 times on page
outdoor - used 18 times on page
shade - used 12 times on page
bozzy - used 11 times on page
Links
The tool found 104 total links on the home page of your site:
48 unique links
38 unique internal links
6 unique external links
3 links not counted (href='#' or 'mailto:' etc.)
24 image links
0 nofollow links - (listed below if present)
My $0.02:
There may be too many links on the home page. According to the "Feed the Bot" site, this might be normal for well linked to major media/news sites and online retailers. [But] if you aren't famous and you don't have a lot of links to your pages this is probably too many links. You are likely confusing users with too many choices and may appear to search engines as spammy. If you have legitimate reason for so many links, you may want to organize your site better so that there aren't so many links.
You also need to work on better social media sharing to increase your presence.
Also, it looks like the domain was last modified today (12/30/2013). I'd recommend renewing it out a couple of years...
I would test this, and it might work differently according to your server setup, but you could try the RedirectMatch command like this if your site uses mod_alias:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/dummy.php/.*$ http://www.domain.com/
Or with mod_rewrite, this might be the way to go:
RewriteRule ^dummy.php/ http://www.domain.com/ [R=301,L]
I hope this helps!
-- Jeff
Sam -
Quick question: have you changed your Google+ listing to a Service-area business?
If not, you'll want to set up the business so it not based on the physical location / address (i.e. your business address in Sufolk), but serves a greater area (i.e. London). In order to do this, you will need to set up your Google+ account as a Service-area business on Google.
This is perfect for a trainer, local plumber, tree trimmer or construction crew that works at customer's locations (either homes or businesses) vs. your home address.
My recommendation would be to go here:
https://support.google.com/business/answer/3038163?hl=en
... and set up your service areas based on the zip codes or cities that the business serves.
You also have the option to check or uncheck, "I serve customers at my business address."
You might need to go through another round of verification to make this change, however.
I hope this helps!
Thanks,
