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Heck, even scrapebox can do a bit of the analysis

i cant really answer that because i do not see the purpose of other sites. Reciprocal links arent really needed but you might just be thinking of maybe the 3 will pass link juice back to the main site. Honestly, you can just do it. It's just a few and it doesnt really matter at this moment. Just focus on other link building work instead of worrying about it

Good luck Gagan

it depends heavily on your niche. If everyone is doing it then it means that it is lucrative and these guys will just make churn and burn domains just to cash in so it will never go away permanently.

You'll see sites come and go but eventually, you will win if you keep up the work.

It's kind of hard to understand this situation but Ill take a crack.

Dont worry about Panda as long as you aren't one of those that squeeze the same grammatically wrong keyword phrases, over and over and over. Optimize the new content for the weaker words -> include those target key phrases -> internally link to the main page you want those to be optimized.

Hi Stephane

I would take a look at hreflang and learn that.

To help you speed it up a little:

http://www.stateofdigital.com/hreflang-canonical-test/

Look for other posts by Aleyda as well.

LRT can identify if it's a blog or directory but not like that. You can edit them though. You could check their trial out, see if it fits your needs.

I would ignore that problem since its a pretty small niche. Google wont even think of doing anything in a very small niche since it wont be able to show much relevant links so its forced to show your site no matter what. But like Chris said, it generally, youll need to do it for building relationships and citing authoritative websites.

If  you are already with MozPro then just grab all their anchor texts, then plug that in a rank tracker

Aside from that, SEMrush.

You can deal with this in a practical manner. You can think of it from the point of view of the searcher.

Practical thinking would tell me that the person would either look for on Google (a separate page about it) OR if he can't find it, then he'll go to the page where he bought and look there, maybe there's an FAQ section on that specific product page or a link to the resource area.

As a 1st time buyer, I would not know immediately that there's a resource page so Google is my first choice.

So I would go with a separate page, specifically for that item, then link back to the product page

The product page should also link to that page.

Hello Umer

I would suggest that you not rely on other people to analyse your site and come up with a link plan for you.

You are here on moz for a reason and that is to learn. There are blog posts daily about it, you can go to blogs that focus on link building to learn strategies.

Fellow mozzers could only help you so much.

Keri mentioned a great link to start with. Search for Paddy Moogan posts. Jon Cooper, Jason Acidre and others have their own blogs that talk about link acquisition strategies and stuff like that.

You can search in http://inbound.org and find gems in there, as well as in Twitter.

You can create your own plan, just remember to not over use your anchors.

I could see that you really want to rank for those words but resist the temptation of just hammering the same keywords over and over. Use your brand as part of your anchor texts.

Continue to build each month without just thinking about the next directory you can submit to.

Like Andy said, it's hard to really say without seeing it.

From my experience, it's usually just one of these:

1. The sub page is more relevant since your internal linking structure dictates that it is relevant to that keyword (plus your brand authority helps that page, even without links)

2. Something went wrong somewhere, in HTML problems, redirects and of course, overoptimised links (like a lot of domains with blogrolls pointing to the homepage) innocent looking links but they sometimes cause problems.

Hmm, usually, it's a map or something big that pushes worthy sites down. Im assuming you are at Page 2 ATM. I will ignore the fact of links for the mean time.

Im also assuming that you are working on a local business? So do you have local citations built and are the competing sites mostly inner pages of strong domains? Is your domain new? Or newly redesigned?

Hyphens have worked for me in the past in terms of rankings so I dont doubt the "ranking potential" but i stopped using them as much as possible for my users sakes mainly.

It does affect the SEO, like it gets broken links since people misplace the hyphen or the link is without a hyphen so another site benefits.

That URL length of yours is ok already. Obviously, I would again prefer an easy-to-remember URL so the shorter and more targeted, the better for me. It's a preference thing.

look at this site. They blog, a lot. It's probably getting them the most leads/sales since the content gets passed and linked to alot. So yes, I would highly suggest that you start your own site and do it there. Then start promoting it

Kevin is spot on. Google can change your title tags.

Try changing your existing one to a better one, improve the length and the relevance of the content. Plus the signals pointing to that page so they would stop changing automatically

Moz has a million different scraped content and links and it's still ok.

The current Google is kinda good at detecting this but obviously, there will be times that your scraped content will rank better than you.

Try to get the basics in like authorship to at least notify Google earlier about the content. Not much you can do to scraper sites

As for Panda, it shouldn't. You should be ok.

Google has stated that it's going to impact a large significant amount of results but it's definitely going to be for mobile only so you should check your traffic sources to see if you get a good chunk of mobile traffic.

Dirk is right so you should look at your pages that have good mobile traffic and push out a temporary solution for that until you get a good mobile end for your website.

Good luck!

Both are good. You cant go wrong with them. It's more of a preference. Ive made both rank so it's not really a problem.

If I was starting from scratch though with no capital (back then free site platforms were very bad) I would go with Google+ and blog there directly lol focusing on G+ now and create the brand there would be what I'd do   Then I would host some content on a personal blog or wordpress/blogspot.

Hi Jason,

That's completely normal based on my own experiences. Things will settle down soon. I didn't resubmit mine and it's working perfectly now.

Actually, they have such a great domain that they can get away with anything.

Normally, I would say if Zappos is doing it then just do it but internal linking too much hurts the UX in my opinion.

For my ecom sites, I also do this but I limit it to a certain number. I dont get it to link the word boots 10 times in one page to 1 category. It hasnt lost a beat so it's good.

I've actually gotten google to recognize scenarios like that for pages like that so it's possible.

I've experimented on doing some internal linking (if possible) and get a few links to come in with the $ sign.

Mention the $ sign in the body and eventually, I've gotten it to work.

Sometimes, location does affect that kind of search term though so that's another variable.

is the code showing on the source of the homepage ONLY? or for both?

Take a look at that. You could check the plugin as it also has the ability to assign an author profile to the homepage, like yoast SEO.

Like they said, compile/export everything, combine then remove duplicates and insert to the tool of your choice, like link risk, link detox or even rmoov if you want to contact these webmasters

Be sure to still check the list since it's never 100% right. Some good, natural links can be classified within their calculations of bad urls.

Hi

I would start with keyword research. Those keywords will always be competitive, but it's what you will have to aim for.

Start going through other words related to it(or longer tail keywords so it's easier) - make a list on a spreadsheet and start working on those to build your relevance and trust. Targeted to your inner pages. Yes, the Jules Verne example you mentioned is also something you can do at this point.

Eventually, with a properly optimised ecom site, you will start ranking for different words you werent even considering and you will have to do more for those to increase traffic even more. Never forget to build your brand and to actually getting the word out using other mediums, that will speed things up.

Tip: Be sure all your products have unique content, as well as on the category pages.

Try to read more about keyword research and ecommerce. Places like inbound.org has a good compilation

Share it to both. Get as much eyeballs to see it, basically get enough followers. Force them to +1 it lol. Don't bother yourself with tracking them if each has their own audience

Definitely possible. It used to be much easier. You can rank for 5 pages, all your stuff LOL. good old days

Anyway, try to look at the social pages/forums, etc already ranking there where you can put your content. Those are great signals that tell you that you can create content on those and rank those pages (link to them to make the % higher)

If high trust domains like what you mentioned aren't ranking there, you need to test it. And if you said that the keywords are easy enough, then your chances for those to show up is really good.

Hi Wendy

It's because those pages are there. You can have those deleted if you dont need them. They are possibly separate HTML files so if you are using a CMS, they won't show there.

Just to be sure, you could show us an example page and we can let you know.

Hi!

I would look at the source of the traffic first (they have to be coming from somewhere) or IF the site has injected codes.

I've seen this happen before. Injected codes (invisible or not) then they spam you with links and traffic from different countries. Some country specific traffic gets more visibility hence more traffic from there.

I hope it's not but it's better to be safe and check if you were hacked.

I wont point at the competitor yet as that's a very minimal thing in terms of SEO. It just messes up your stats though.

it's indexed for me. As for the FB page ranking, backlinks. Backlinks in mass works well to rank fb pages. Just dont forget to continue to engage your market.

It's not a problem, just fix those as soon as you can. And yes, it does affect crawl rate from what I've seen.

Honestly, i would just hire someone. There are a lot of great designers that could make it for you as long as you provide the outline. Sometimes, you'll get someone as low as $80 for one and it looks great. I would focus on the content of the graphic and pour my suggestions over to a designer.

If you really want to, then Adobe illustrator does the best output for me. It has templates scattered around the internet as well.

it's 5 years using their historical data

Hi Joni

I would definitely recommend to optimise for better CTR. My lazy way is to just Buffer(app) the posts, see how the reaction is and the CTR, and republish it with a tweaked social media title and image. Image is king on social so I do tests for that.

I saw an article here on moz some days back, which is one of the better ones ive seen recently about Facebook http://moz.com/blog/forget-googles-games-make-social-a-primary-traffic-source you might want to take a look.

Hi,

If you have already checked those (i would assume you have already checked everything, from internal linking, navigation, speed, structure, codes etc) then it might just be a temporary shuffle. It's also possible that those that are linking to you might have been affected negatively hence weakening your position.

Yes, it's possible to be penalised for a single page or single keyword.

Your page has mostly  san diego domestic violence lawyer as the anchor text. You might want to stop doing that altogether.

I didnt take a look at your competitors though so they might be more SEO, but there's a possibility that you got a minor penalty for that keyword phrase.

I really don't see any problems with it based on experience but I would suggest sticking with acquiring eyeballs, engaging and getting them to share if for you instead of having each post getting shared on the same accounts. That "might" be a potential problem down the road, especially if you have a lot of them, including the pliggs..ughh.

Yoast has an ecommerce plugin so use that.

It has a bit more functions specifically for ecommerce sites.

To answer the 2 questions:

Should i noindex the media and also the custom post type archives for product and gift cards and if so why?

• noindex is fine

What about the taxonomies for ecommerce? What's best practise? Noindex?

- noindex is also fine

On the sites I've worked with using that setup, those worked out fine.

Actually, this is pretty hard to answer. I've experienced different timeframes. Some in as short as a week but most took a couple months. It could be dependent on the country or the search term or even the site. That's based on my experience though.

Id make sure your site can load fast, promote engagement with social media, other posts you have or whatever, so you lower your bounce rate and improve your inbound signals. You should be ranking better than ever after that. Just keep them on the site and make good use of your traffic

Did you mean G+ communities or Pages? Moz can track G+ pages, not communities though.

I think Moz analytics is more interested in your actual engagement on your page and leaves the stuff outside it, to you. I would advice the use of Circloscope to manage circles for communities but In terms of tracking each move you make in communities then http://www.circlecount.com/communities/ might help a little. Not much, but you might find it useful

Thanks

You mentioned SS is your platform. Then it's probably an image/CDN problem.

The image will be given a page, since it will return a 302, it wont get indexed even if it's on the sitemap.

If you have a lot of images on your site, then a good chunk of page wont show as indexed in webmaster tools

Something like that

Hi BB

I have tried this before (on different boxes though) and it didn't cause any issues.

I would still advice to at least change bits of the content if possible. The design and everything could be the same.

is this a local ecom site? You will definitely face local classified ads, spammy competitors etc and most of the time, they will outrank you. It's just the way local is for those outside the USA side.

The good thing is, most of these competitors just stop spamming and the real clients that eventually find you will be loyal to you. Just continue what you are doing, if possible build a social community as well. Try to get some more local coverage (if you are indeed targeting local) and look at your webmaster tools. See where you need to improve.

Finally, test a PPC campaign. You'll see a whole lot more data vs just waiting for WMT data. You can get ahead earlier and improve your converts.

Good luck Shabbir

that's a pretty cool tool Daniel

Those you mentioned have worked for me along with adding schema to show the description.

Yeah, practically every site out there gets those so I would look at the other reasons for the traffic drop.

If it's really bothering you then just domain:askives.com each of those and submit them.

Wordpress based will always be more flexible. I havent used SS for a year though. I've seen all their recent changes and how they've taken the right steps to better SEO but I would still lean on Wordpress/Magento. If you have a few products, then you might want to try out SS. If you have experience with Wordpress in the past, then jump on to that but be sure you have a fast server. If you have a LOT of products, go with magento

Technically, it is a paid link, but how would they know it is? Not really something you need to worry about as long as the "link" is done differently, so they dont leave obvious footprints.

Pretty sure lots of people will disagree with this, but it's the truth.

keep it simple. The work and how much your rankings will change (usually just temporary) will be dependent on what you focus to work on and how big the site is

Just do things one at a time.

• Make sure you fix all errors ASAP (images, internal links etc)
• Redirect the old urls to the new urls
• Make sure the speed of loading is the same of faster.
• Basically, just do things quickly and optimise.

Run screaming frog after and fix all the remaining errors. Youll probably see more errors in webmaster tools once your site gets recrawled but those will probably be easy fixes.

Remember, just focus and get it done ASAP and youll be fine.