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I keep reading that a steady stream of new blogs from my site is a great way for getting inbound links to my site.

My question is... Does the content of my blogs have to be relevant to my site? My site is www.marblerenovation.com. If the blog should stay relevant, I am finding it pretty hard to create engaging content around cleaning marble floors.

Also, does anyone know of a good place to find bloggers to help create this content?

Thanks in advance everyone

Dave

Hey there,

You will still be seeing some data coming through. It will not be at 100% not provided for a little while I assume.

It will however eventually be 0 data, so we can assume this report will not even be available soon in GA.

Cheers

Dave

No you do not but to get the most from Moz you should link your Google Analytics account to your Moz account.

Hope this helps

Dave

Hi,

Considering the Humingbird update from Google I wouldn't worry too much about which of the two ways you write the product titles, as long as you are consistent in the way you decide to write them.

Danny Sullivan from Search Engine Land Says about Humingbird:

If you type into Google:

“What’s the closest place to buy the iPhone 5s to my home?” A traditional search engine might focus on finding matches for words — finding a page that says “buy” and “iPhone 5s,” for example.

Hummingbird should better focus on the meaning behind the words. It may better understand the actual location of your home, if you’ve shared that with Google. It might understand that “place” means you want a brick-and-mortar store. It might get that “iPhone 5s” is a particular type of electronic device carried by certain stores. Knowing all these meanings may help Google go beyond just finding pages with matching words.

It is always important to have the key terms in the title, just make sure you are consistent. We used to call our products names, so if I was selling a red polka dot dress, I would call it 'LaFrock (our brand) Red Polka Dot Dress - Chloe' eventually we would rank for 'Red POlka Dot dress' but our returning customers would search for 'LaFrock Chloe dress' and we started ranking for those terms as well..

Hope this helps

Dave

Hey Karl,

Once you know what page titles are duplicates you will then need to go into each page and rename them so they no longer come up in the reports as duplicate titles.

Dave

Hey Ruben,

I use our number on the meta description of our site (MarbleRenovation) and it works wonders for us. I noticed a spike in calls once we had included it.

It makes sense... People don't want to think too much nor search too hard to get what they want. If they see a number from a company that is high on page one for a term they have entered then they are likely to call it without even looking at the page. Obviously this wouldn't work for all industries but if it is advice you need, a number sometimes is enough for them.

Hope this helps amigo!

Dave

Thanks Tom.

Much appreciated.

I try to keep up to date with everything SEO to ensure my sites rank well.. marblerenovation.com & Trailersafe.co.uk

I now have a spanish site that I am having trouble ranking well for clima2000egara.es

I have recently found out (by asking our lovely moz community) that googles algorithms are not rolled our world wide. SO I have no idea where I am at with Google.es.

Does anyone know how I can find out at what stage google.es is at? and what the last update was? and whether there is an equilalent community like Moz for Spain? I am fluent spanish so the language won't be a problem..

Thanks in advance for all your help

I can't help but feel this is a silly question! but does Google algorithm work exactly the same throughout all countries?

I run a few sites in the UK and a couple in Spain but can't help but feel that my Spanish sites are harder to rank for.

The sites that rank the best are business directories in Spain... whereas here in the UK you'd be lucky to find one on page one..

if you say it is as serious as your business going under if the removal of the bad links fails... wouldn't it be better to start a fresh with a new site?

Rather then spend all that money in removing those links... spend the money on a new site with a new structure and new content, or redirect the old content to the new site..

Just a thought...

Hope it all goes well for you

Hey Ruben,

I use our number on the meta description of our site (MarbleRenovation) and it works wonders for us. I noticed a spike in calls once we had included it.

It makes sense... People don't want to think too much nor search too hard to get what they want. If they see a number from a company that is high on page one for a term they have entered then they are likely to call it without even looking at the page. Obviously this wouldn't work for all industries but if it is advice you need, a number sometimes is enough for them.

Hope this helps amigo!

Dave

if you say it is as serious as your business going under if the removal of the bad links fails... wouldn't it be better to start a fresh with a new site?

Rather then spend all that money in removing those links... spend the money on a new site with a new structure and new content, or redirect the old content to the new site..

Just a thought...

Hope it all goes well for you

So you have the name in the url... do you have the name in the content, header, image etc? Also are you linking to this product page from other parts of your site? Are you able to share the page socially?

I've found all these things to be useful...

Hope this helps

Dave

Hey Bob,

Although it is good to keep an eye on Authorities in your field, I would suggest you be your own person and not worry too much about them not using images.

At the end of the day. research shows images are a great way of keeping people engaged on your page. I would always use images to illustrate a point if I can.

Hope this helps

Dave

Hey there,

You will still be seeing some data coming through. It will not be at 100% not provided for a little while I assume.

It will however eventually be 0 data, so we can assume this report will not even be available soon in GA.

Cheers

Dave

Have a think about how you might be able to change the keyword to something more descriptive for the alt tag.

I had this same problem. So I ensure all my images had a description and I removed any instances of over optimization for certain keywords.

In answer to your question, I would remove instances of your keywords form content (ensuring that you are not under optimizing) before the alt tags. As you rightly said alt tags are important for screen readers and other W3C complacency issues

Dave

No you do not but to get the most from Moz you should link your Google Analytics account to your Moz account.

Hope this helps

Dave

Hi,

Considering the Humingbird update from Google I wouldn't worry too much about which of the two ways you write the product titles, as long as you are consistent in the way you decide to write them.

Danny Sullivan from Search Engine Land Says about Humingbird:

If you type into Google:

“What’s the closest place to buy the iPhone 5s to my home?” A traditional search engine might focus on finding matches for words — finding a page that says “buy” and “iPhone 5s,” for example.

Hummingbird should better focus on the meaning behind the words. It may better understand the actual location of your home, if you’ve shared that with Google. It might understand that “place” means you want a brick-and-mortar store. It might get that “iPhone 5s” is a particular type of electronic device carried by certain stores. Knowing all these meanings may help Google go beyond just finding pages with matching words.

It is always important to have the key terms in the title, just make sure you are consistent. We used to call our products names, so if I was selling a red polka dot dress, I would call it 'LaFrock (our brand) Red Polka Dot Dress - Chloe' eventually we would rank for 'Red POlka Dot dress' but our returning customers would search for 'LaFrock Chloe dress' and we started ranking for those terms as well..

Hope this helps

Dave

Hey Adam,

Not sure of a specific one but here is a list of all London based conferences http://www.curatist.co.uk/seo-conferences-seo-events-in-london-2013/

Hope this helps

Dave

I have a few websites on my Moz Analytics account but only have data for one of them.

All my other accounts keepy saying come back in 24hrs for more data, although there is no data available.

Do I need to connect each account with Google Analytics before Moz populates its own analytics?