Dont bother with it. It's not really important. You can rank fine without them
You will find it confusing since most sites that are old and ranking will probably have them lol.
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Dont bother with it. It's not really important. You can rank fine without them
You will find it confusing since most sites that are old and ranking will probably have them lol.
ouch that's going to be hard unless the client is really open to talking to you and actually wants to trust you.
They usually are guaranteed something when it comes to "services" like that vs traditional seo where you offer audits, "long term", "outreach" and words that tell them that it's going to **"take time" **
What I would do is just tell them that it is their decision if they want to go with them and you as a friend, would like to ask him to check out these (then name articles about it penguin or penalties)
Ask them if they are willing to change their domain in the future once they get dropped by google.
And if their site gets destroyed by google, then they will have to pay you 4 times the amount to help them recover which isn't always guaranteed.
Worked for me, should work for you.
I see what Federico is seeing. So you should be ok.
I have experienced yoast's plugin conflicting with some themes though, when it came to title and description tags. Sometimes, Google indexes the theme's built in SEO title tag together with Yoast's plugin. It's weird, but I've seen it happen before.
from all my years, there's really no difference for me. I would suggest using the "-" for your internal content url structures since it would make it easier for readers to understand but i would advice against the dash on the main domain name.
Fix both since these are still returning 404's
I suggest that:
1. Start with GWT and clean out those links. If these are broken backlinks and are WORTH it, then fix it. If these are worthless links, ignore them.
2. Mark as fixed.
3. run screaming frog. Make sure you are getting 404's and not dns or maybe the site went down because you crawled it too much
4. Export the 404's and check them one by one
5. If it's fixed, then you are done with those.
I would just pay for it myself instead of losing the whole account. If it's not that important of an account (low points and not much branding for you personally) then I would just create my own one
ah, no follows... according to Google, it doesnt pass anything but from experiments, it does pass and influence rankings. Some would say other wise.
truthfully, nobody really knows the definite answer to the question you are asking
You disavow it, you dip, then who's fault is it?
You dont disavow it, you dip, then who's fault is it?
Nobody would even really give you a concrete answer to this so people won't reply.
Personally, I would look at your competitors. See the % of spam they have (which is probably a lot since you are in that niche) vs their overall link portfolio then weigh your options if you want to disavow them. Whichever you choose, all the while building strong links. Those spam links are usually just non-anchored links so it does lower the chances of them becoming a problem. If you have time, you might also want to look at competitors that are receiving the same domain links, you might find the root of the problem or see how their sites react to the negative spam.
Hi
It's true that there is nothing really wrong with it and that it will be hard to remember but she can always use other emails and forward to another email address.
I think using another domain is somewhat of a waste if it's "just" for email.
If she has the time, then she can use that extra domain as a separate lead generator, maybe as a blog/landing page (and can also be used for links to the main site) - At least it's not just for emails.
If you meant to ask about which domain to use primarily, nowadays, keyword domains like BikramYogaSantaClarita.com are usually "frowned" upon due to one of Google's recent updates so they normally recommend using the brand name... but it actually still works great.
Slap on some good content, send it some good links and it'll rank easily.
definitely go with long tail branding on the front page. I would create a specialty page for the specific service to "further elaborate" on what we do and what they get or something like that. You homepage will give those pages a boost and you can even get 2 pages to show up.
you dont have to force yourself. If it's relevant why not? Just make it open in a new window
Hi Peter
It's possible that they got a link on your site pointing to one of their satellite sites. They hacked those sites/inserted their links and pointed it to you. It's possible that it's an invisible link
Try using your url (the exact page they are pointing to) on google. Look at the cache. You could see it there most of the time.
If not, then it's possible that it has been removed already, through an update of your site or something.
it depends on the niche and the specific keyword. It's actually pretty normal on many niches. Some are monitored more closely by Google. Some get away with it for the next 3-6 (sometimes more) months
Those tactics still work, with just a few tweaks this time around and not just 1 anchor blasts. Plus there are a lot of non-mainstream tactics being applied today so it is harder to find out. You can see them with majestic, and your other link checkers, but most of the best SEO's, you won't see their links at all.
Oh wait, you might be using a local business page, have you asked for your verification postcard? After you verify that then that should be it. But still put the publisher code on your site
Like Takeshi said, it does affect with long tails, especially if you got a good deal of traffic from that before.
Aside from that, I wouldn't really mind too much. If it's a good site, it'll get some good comments again.
But yeah, disqus is a pretty good alternative but you probably have your reasons for going with Facebook only.
Good luck!
There's no need to have them in the sitemap. If you have them there then its not really a big deal but just try to remove it when you can. If you have a page sitemap, then you can add them in if you wanted to.
Im completely with Lesley here. That's exactly how I would do it. Give him a beer!
Keri just nailed it.
You will actually hear a lot of crap in places like that. Actually, ive been to events where speakers just talk crap. Stuff they don't even test, just "heard" or made up.
Is their Google+ My Business page verified? Just to clarify it.
Gather all the pages/urls. Send them to a blog post/news post why it's not there anymore then make it easy for them to get to your other pages. OR you can just redirect them to the home page, which Richard also mentioned.
Personally, I dont really mind! Ive done experiments with worse keyword "stuffing" in the URL and they have performed well.
As long as the content is legit and the backlinks are good then I wouldn't really mind that.
I've had equally good results with just something like /suits - when the page is properly optimized for that, it basically does the same thing. Good luck!
Use scrapebox. Run your list of links and check if it's indexed. )
Go for exact match domains, web 2.0 blogs and profiles, and social profiles. Make them legitimate and link to them (or interlink them)
Some should get traction and push the article down. It sucks, but people like that exist in this world, but karma is a b*tch and they will pay for it
Hi Dan
Not quite sure what you meant.
Just remove them from the category that you'll be removing. 301 their old URL if it changes but if it doesn't then there's no need to.
Ive had experienced that multiple times with clients lol
Those are the basic things that id do first, assuming, like what you said, that everything on-page related and technical side are ok.
I dont think that is available at the moment John.
That would be really handy though
I suggest making sure if that is really your problem.
Fix the minor details, alt tags, remove your meta keywords, fix your sitemap
Dropping to Top 20 doesn't really look like a penalty, more like there are other pages that are better than you.
Take a look at your webmaster tools first for problems and fix those.
Check your keyword average rankings in there and look at your impressions on when you dropped
I also suggest looking your links...its a mix of Russian and sape links
I would suggest keyword research and planning out how you want them to flow. You will also need to look at your permalinks since you are using wordpress as you might prefer to show the category in the URL
Easiest path would be to just let the post name be the permalink, excluding categories in the url, then you just move them to their respective categories.
Take your time and carefully plan everything out first, you will also need to fix the old URLs to point to the new ones so don't forget that.
I would personally just move the actual html over (yes, can be done) and redesign the page to look like the wordpress one if the page is really important. If it's just semi important, not ranking number 1 for thousands of searches, then ill just 301 it over to the new page on wordpress. Either way, I'll make sure internal linking is optimised.
Hi Graeme
No need to worry about it. Either way, youll get the extra traffic which is a bonus
Im not sure what you mean about preference. If you mean that if your "geo targeted country" has an effect on improving your chances for terms like "SEO Services in India" then my answer is not so much. You'll just have an improved visibility in the local engines but geo keywords will still take the same amount of work. I've played with this for my site recently. My geo targeting doesnt really affect my global geo related keyword rankings.
Ill just give a practical response based from my own ecom projects
Category optimisation DOES wonders for impressions and SEO. You've seen it work.
In my case, increasing the content length DID help get more impressions but not conversions (directly)
If it helps people to make choices for products, go for it. If you are just increasing the length just for the sake of SEO, that's where you will need to make a judgement call.
Consider your traffic data and conversion funnels that you have right now and make the decision based on that.
Hell, if I was asked this personally, Id just say go for it, test it and see what happens, but like Doug mentioned, it might make you lose money if you are already converting well and that's the last thing we want to happen
Try to get more brand mentions/brand related links.
Be sure the navigation and html is optimised.
That usually solves the sitelinks part.
As for the internal page showing, from my experience, it would usually show the homepage (right below it) if it's showing the innerpage already. Since it's not, then I would look at the html, maybe there are some errors. Maybe take a look at the backlinks, too, if you have gotten a lot of links only recently. I've seen this happen before when a client got a lot of links pointing to their homepage within a short span of time. It's rare but it does happen.
There are other reasons but those are the more common ones.
1. Should i stop worrying about backlinks that i once had and now the websites is down or page is 404
2. The link is nofollow
3. Also i have 60% of my site links few root link and many articles/blogs links pasted in sites without any anchor text, should i worry about them?
Hi
That's a lot of indexed pages. What were the bulk of those pages? Categories? Products? Random tags or thin pages?
Did you switch to https recently? Are all versions included in webmaster tools? With a preferred version? How about their sitemaps?
It's possible that it's panda. It's also possible that it's a technical side like a switch to https, improper redirects, etc.
I just find it weird to see a big site like that lose that much indexed content (assuming they were good pages) without incurring an algorithmic penalty or a technical problem.
i would start with your canonical issues
decide also if you want to keep your pagination pages indexed
your meta details need tweaking
you have some www and non www redirect problems
no meta robots
fix your sitemap
image alt tags
and few more
hope that helps
Look at Google Trends, Quora, Yahoo Answers, keyword tools that get from Google Instant are also good.
Find forums. Look at Reddit (add /top/?t=all at the end to check out the most popular posts)
Definitely.
I've seen better results for both readership and google if proper formatting is used.
I think Google would prefer it like that as well if you think about it.
I'm betting that you'd hate reading big chunks of text without any breaks, subs, media or bullets.
if you think you think you can add more to the topic, then just update it. If the content is very good and has been driving consistent traffic for a long time, i would make it to a static page (same permalinks) then make sure it's very visible throughout the site.
Try checking it out with bing/yahoo and yandex. See what type of pages they were then go to archive.org to check them.
If it's indeed thin pages or pages caused by parameters/searches/sorting then that is usually an automatic algorithmic penalty, usually, panda.
You might also have some good pages with good links, so be sure to check for 404s. 301 good pages as needed. It's a really tricky situation.
You also have to see if there's trouble with internal links and inbound links (just in case there's a mix with penguin. I've seen sites with manual and algorithmic penalties for both wtf)
Try out tools like
http://www.barracuda-digital.co.uk/panguin-tool/
http://fruition.net/google-penalty-checker-tool/
to see when your drops really started. You should be able to identify your algo penalty at least and go from there.
i also run a hundred hotel sites that has that, it doesnt really matter SEO wise. I would test it and look into conversions instead. Good luck!
can you load the pages? It might be the server speed (developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ should estimate if you are loading a slow page) which makes MA think they timed out
Or....it might just be a bug at that time. Try it again maybe?
Co-authorship is definitely possible.
If you are on wordpress you can use this https://wordpress.org/plugins/co-authors-plus/
It's pretty much the same concept for other platforms.
Definitely not something Id be worried about, as long as you set the proper rules and restrictions on what they can post/how long it is/how they link
Main thing I'd worry about is anchor text so just set proper choices for them.
there has been some signals that it's about to happen, so it should be around the next 2 months.
You have a lot of options actually
1. Start with your most basic ones, which are social platforms. Advertise, promote, SEO, reach out. This gets the ball rolling quick for new sites with a competitive niche like this
2. Content creation and marketing - create an infographic, start an epic storyline post or whatever that your target market would like. Segment them first. For example, there's a good chance someone looking for the service is dating someone. Why not create a content piece about the best ways to impress a girl he's dating with things he can do along with a "surprise" flower delivery.
3. Promotion and contests - maybe you can do a weekly special, like customising certain products for the receiver.
4. the usual SEO - this is probably the longest in terms of ROI but it's the most important long term.
There a lot more you can do which is limited to your imagination and budget. I know other mozers here have other creative or traditional things in their mind that will also help a lot.
if you see no fault then its probably the "new page ranking high and dropping all of the sudden" phenomenon lol which was explained
1. Check your drop, when it happened, if it's around may 21-22 and onwards, then look at your link profile (which is full of directory links) so Im not saying that it caused it, but it could've.
2. moz page grader is not your answer to onpage seo and actual rankings, it's just a way to quickly analyse the basics. You need to do more, especially on sites like yours.
your site looks cool though
1. It says URL because you entered the exact page of where your link is on. If you want to disavow the whole domain since it is bad anyway, then just use
domain:thatbaddomain.com instead of the full url
2. use the domain code above.
If you want an easier way to cut to root domains, then use scrapebox, SEO Tools for excel or http://www.seoweather.com/trim-urls-to-root-domain-standardise-urls-prefixes/
Hope that helps!
Most likely a breach to your wordpress. If it's an old, outdated version, had vulnerable plugins or the server security was brute forced.
http://web.archive.org/web//http://www.batesmillstore.com/
filter with Buy or Cigar
You'll see that it has been there for a while.
Secure your website, server. Check your backlinks for cigarette links and don't worry about those 404's too much.