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Google looks at many different factors when setting rankings. Authority sites that are very close to trusted sites and are related to the topic. The content of the site and the amount of traffic it gets will help Google determine how popular a site is. If the site has a lot of high-quality backlinks that are related to the topic, and if those backlinks come from high authority sites that will help them move up in the rankings.

There is no magic way to rank number one for a particular search term. These factors help though:

• Content directly related to the search term used.
• The Page Authority and Domain Authority of the site are important. Especially a high (DA) Domain Authority score.
• Lots of generic traffic to the page targeting the search term.
• A lot of very high quality backlinks from sites related to the topic and page.

It takes a lot of work to rank number one for a search term. Quality content that is 10 times better than any other page on the topic and you can probably be on the first page.

It looks like you are doing some "Onsite" optimization, but you may need to concentrate on doing some "Offsite" seo. Try to get a few good articles written and posted on "High" value sites and have better "DA" Domain Authority scores than your site does.

High-quality backlinks will really help your rankings as long as they have real value and are not Spammy. The search engines will reward you even though it can take some time and a lot of work. Remember even if you get a few good links from strong sites, there are many other factors to consider.

Here is a link to a good article about "Offsite SEO".

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Hello,

Yes the content should be "canonicalized" and also 301 redirects can help. This is a common problem with sites like you are talking about. It is important to fix the issues of duplicate content as soon as possible so that it does not become a issues in thge search engines.

There is a good article here on MOZ on the subject so I suggest you take a look at it. I hope it helps you with your problem.

Article on "Duplicate Content".

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If you only have outbound links from your internal pages then that should be a major clue as to why you have poor "PA" Page Authority. You need to develop a concerted effort to "Earn" links to your content. Especially from high "PA" pages on high "DA" Domain Authority websites.

There are a lot of ways to earn inbound links but the best way is to create great high-quality content that solves problems or answers questions.

How about giving people a solution to a problem your clients often face. Create your solution pages to get people to go to and stay on your site. People will start to pick up the content and the inbound likes will start coming in.

Well, that seems more like a business strategy question than a technical one. You need to decide if you are still going to operate the companies separately or are going to merge one into the other. If you are going to operate under just one name and domain I would make a big marketing push to let everyone know that you are merging the companies into one and that this is our new business strategy and "Domain Name".

Then after some time has passed I would start redirecting all the content and traffic to the "NEW" site. with the standard 301 procedures. Making sure that everything you are keeping is redirected properly will help keep about 85% of the "Link Juice". There is always a little lost basically from how the algorithms work, but that is out of your control.

Well I do not think there should be much difference as you are talking abut directories in the same website as compared to a Sub-domain like here:

cars.website.com
flowers.website.com
store.website.com

When things are in a different directory buy are technically on the same domain they still share in the Domain Authority of the site. The different sub-domain sites could all have different Domain Authority scores from how Google looks at them as far as I know.

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Hello,

Larger sites tend to rank better than small sites. This is due to many reasons but the larger the site the more information there is for Google to index. Also as long as you are not building pages to deep where they are hard to find and just get lost you should be fine. The quality of the content is what get you traffic. If the content is valuable and relevant to the reader it should generate more traffic and get more inbound links.

It is also a good idea to link to the other pages on your site to help spread the PageRank energy around. That way you can help improve the ranking and traffic for pages that may be on the second or third tier of your menu structure.

I would not worry too much about the pages per say. I would just concentrate on the quality of the content of the pages.

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I would give it about 4 weeks until you panic. I know it is very frustrating, but your local listings can take a little while to update. As long as everything was verified correctly, and all the new information was used you should be ok.

Hi - I would try to think of it in terms of who is your favorite blog reader. Take a piece of paper and draw out who that is. Then you want to think about "Where do they hang out on the Internet.

If you know who you want to attract, and where they are then half the battle is over. Now you need your "Bait". Your "Bait" is what is actually going to get them to click a link and goto the Blog. Figure out something that you can give your target market for free. It could be an article you wrote. A free infographic with information that has value to them or really anything they feel has value.

Remember your "Hook" is your "Bait".

Hello, in WordPress because everything is based on the Database, in my opinion, it is not helpful to have an extraordinary amount of unpublished pages. If the pages are unpublished and are not indexable you should be ok with the search engines, but I think it is not a good practice to get into. Also if the unfinished pages are resource heavy and have a lot of images that take up space it may start to slow the general operation of the site, especially if you are on shared hosting with limited resources.

I feel that the search volume shown in MOZ is generally low compared to other sources. I feel it is more accurate with search terms that have a lot of volume, but in search terms that are under 1000 searches a month, I start to have a lot of problems with the data. Many times there is no search volume data at all for lower volume keywords which get just a few hundred searches per month or less.

Problems with the volume data effect almost everything else in Moz so I hope MOZ sees this and tries very hard to correct these issues.

Hi,

I have some videos on YouTube.com and I notice many of the links show as "Do-Follow" per the Moz Bar.

I have a feeling they are not actually "Dofollow"  links because they never show up in Moz Pro, SemRush or any of my other tools. Can some of you people with greater knowledge of YouTube please clarify why the links look like "Do Follow". I am specifically thinking of my own backlinks on the videos and also the links in the "Comments".

Best Regards,

Bill Dalessi