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Uhm.. I'm very confused. How is your goal setup?

Actually, have you looked into reverse goal path? if it takes a user less than three pages to visit to complete that goal, then you gonna see it there.

If you do use campaign tracking parameters, then you'd need to add parameter to main index link only. About destination goal - is the type of goal destination type? Otherwise it won't be accurate at all.

Thanks for response.

Well, my stumbling block is budget for tools At the moment I use MOZ a lot and free version of ahrefs. The execs won't expand budget for tools, so I have to compromise somehow.

I personally focus on organics, but we have another person for PPC. Plus I also do full internet marketing analysis for clients, including all channels, so I need to know everything. Just trying to ease my life a bit and save some money before buying tools by listening to people who have used them already.

You said "Increasing conversion rates by understanding customer behavior/flow? PPC analysis to understand how to maximize your budget to see a larger ROI for your campaigns?" - what's your recommendations? I assume for PPC is SEMrush? what about conversions? I use GA heavily + inspectlet(free version).

Thanks for responding. Well, I work for an Internet Marketing company and we do every type of digital marketing.

I understand that different tools are for different needs, however, nowadays most tools have their "strong" part, but the do have most services, at least on basic level. Example: MOZ is strong on analytical part, KW tracking etc, but backlink part is not the best, because MOZscape index is monthly thing. However, Ahrefs, for instance, is kinda of an opposite. They are all about backlinks, but, at the same time, they do have somewhat basic analytical part and KW tracking.

What I'm trying to achieve here is to see what tool is best for what, preferably in one review article, with pricing, cons, pros etc. I have worked with some tools, but far not every one, at the same time we can't spend resources just on trying tools for couple months.

P.S. I'm a big MOZ fan, but execs are demanding to look into other tools.

Hi there.

So, you want to see how many people converted by clicking on "ad" on home page?

If so, use campaign tracking. https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033867?hl=en

Add parameters to url from index page, then you would be able to go to GA campaigns section and see all the data you need.

P.S. if you have your goals setup as destination types, then you can use goal funnels.

Hello, fellas.

I've been trying to find some type of comparison analysis for online SEO related tools and I couldn't find any, which are fresh and overview more than three.

I'm interested to see if anybody saw good comparison reviews of such tools, as well as your own thoughts (back your thoughts up with more than just "I like it", please

The tools I'm interested in comparing are:

• MOZ
• Ahrefs
• Majestic
• Spyfu
• SEMRush
• Raven
• Wordstream
• whatever else you use or have in mind

Hi.

Not really. As I was explaining here, apple.com ranks for "apple" not because they have better on page optimization than others. It's a lot about branding, anchor texts of inbound links and much more.

Hi there.

Also look at optimizing loading times. It tells me about 4 seconds with no throttling to onload event and more than 14 seconds(!) till full page load. I assume that on mobile devices that time will be at least double. No bueno for users.

Well, what you're saying is not true.

Example: if I search for "tree" the first result is not tree.com, because tree is a very generic phrase and tree.com doesn't have huge brand. However, if I look for "apple" apple.com comes up number 1,  due to brand associativity.

So, taobao is pretty generic word and, apparently, your brand is not big enough to overtake it. This is proved by category pages ranking high. Therefore invest in brand awareness and exposure.

As for Google "punishing" - i don't think so, because if you had some kinda penalty, it would be for domain, not for certain query. Basically, you wouldn't be rankings anywhere for anything.

Cheers.

Hi there.

The problem would be misconfigured SSL.

There was same q&a here: https://moz.com/community/q/804-https-ssl-error

Read that, see if it answers your question

Hi there.

Bing, Yahoo and Google have completely different algorithms. It's quite easy to rank in first two, comparing to Google. Now, since the algorithms are so different, it's very hard to optimize for all engines at ones. I have many clients who rank in top 3-5 on yahoo, but nowhere in Google. The thing is that traffic share brought from non-google engines is so little, even when the rankings are great, that we pay very little attention to optimizing for those engines. Usually, if you can get good rankings on Google, good/fair rankings in other engines will follow.

So, you shouldn't really compare Bing and Google. "Forget" about Bing and start working on optimizations in Google without comparing to anything, because, most likely when Google rankings start growing, Bing rankings will go down, especially in the beginning of optimization journey. Of course, if most of your organic traffic brought from non-google engines and you don't think that it would change, even after good rankings in Google, then maybe you shouldn't be optimizing for Google (very strange feeling when I was typing it).

Hope this helps

No problem.

Consider .nl as main domain as well.

I say go with your main language on main domain. So, in your case it'd be Dutch.

Personally, since you really want Dutch to be main one, I'd have yourdomain.nl as main domain and then put different language versions in subfolders. Of course, it'll depend on current rankings, links and so on.

Well, I would have an international version (usually english) on main domain and then put other languages into subdirectories.

There are lots of good content about international SEO in MOZ community - https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=moz%20international%20seo

You might wanna check those out, see what people say. You'll most likely find useful info

Why is it an issue? That would do exactly what you're asking for (as far as i understand). It would let crawlers to see that domain is indeed existent, they can touch it, taste it and so on. But it won't be in google SERPs. At the same time you still can have JS, htaccess rules or whatever to redirect to proper subdirectory based on locale.

Sorry, i meant noindex follow.

Hello, my friend.

Well, even though the way you want to do it is a bit strange, the answer is to use meta robots. noindex follow. It needs to be in head tag like so:

<title>...</title>

Hello, my friend.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6216428#content_mismatch

Read the "To Fix" part

Hi there.

Google reserves the right to use whatever they think is best description the page/company in a title. Yes, they most often use title tag, but not always. If, for whatever reason, they think that title tag is not matching enough what the page is about, they can show something different.

Also, as you said, since you removed "Limited", it might take some time for Google to "realize" that.

Hello, my friend.

Here is a video from Matt Cutts exactly on this question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pnpg00FWJY

uhmmm.. I would disagree. There is always a problem with duplicate anything. At least from user perspective. Would you hate to "have choice", but there is actually no choice?

Also, google goes use G+ pages for creating knowledge graphs. So, if there is a duplicate, it might not know which one to use for grabbing that data.

As far as I know, there is no way to do that.

Here is my understanding: if you guys expect a lot of views and subscribers to each channel and they are so much different in terms of content - then it would make sense to have separate G+ pages, since they would represent separate entities. Otherwise (if content is about the same,or expected amount of visitors is low), merge them together - this way you'll save pain of managing and marketing two different channels.

Hope this helps

Hi there.

Are those blogs ranking anywhat for any related keyphrases? At the same time, how about bounce rate and time on page for those 2 visits a day? Are you sure those visits are not bots/crawlers?

We have done similar reduction about 6 months ago and we haven't seen any drop in rankings. The share of traffic to thin pages was pretty small and bounce rate was high, as well as time on page was very short. So, why to have anything which doesn't do any good?

Hi there.

Yes, I'd recommend to create new domain with new website, new brand name and content. Since you guys want to market it on it's own, it's going to be separate entity, so separate website/domain is needed. Yes, it's going to be more work in the beginning, but much less work than moving and rebranding (or "disonnecting" brands) in future. Additionally, there won't be any user-related confusion, which can happen if you put new brand on existing brand's website.

Cheers.

Hi there.

Well, there is no unified answer to your question, since the industries, marketing budgets and the way those budgets are distributed is vary from case to case.

Here is an article on benchmarks by industry, but I wouldn't really pay much attention to this benchmarks (read previous sentence): http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/social-media-engagement-industry-benchmarks

Now, what I'd recommend is to set your own benchmark and go from there. Just use, let's say, the number of new (or not) visits, brought to your website per social media share. If you have enough data and engagement to play with, you can go step farther and track how many of those visits become conversions and so on.

This way you can set up your average or minimum benchmark on how many shares you need to get and at the same time you can see which type of content is working better for you.

Cheers.

Trying hard

Hi there. Read this google documentation: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1009612?hl=en

Or any article from first two page here: http://bfy.tw/267R

Cheers

Hi there, my impatient friend

You started created those backlinks on Aug 10. I assume that's when website went live. https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/overview/v2/subdomains/fresh?target=http%3A%2F%2Fdramasapps.com%2F as you can see your backlink are being crawled.

Mozscape updates are monthly thing, but last month there was a problem, so it's going to be updated on october 8th. the last one was on august 3. https://moz.com/products/api/updates so you couldn't have been in index yet.

Patience, my friend, patience.

Good question, isn't it? I wish somebody knows exact answer, but I'm not friends with Matt Cutts

From what I heard, read etc, my understanding is that Google knows websites, who are selling links, by simply reading the content and links on that website. Example: if website has a page with prices for articles with links or press releases, Google bots can read that content and understand what the page is about. Then they look at how many of outgoing links on website are do-follow, how often they appear, diversity of those links etc. Basically, if 99% of outgoing links are do-follow and they are all to different domains, the picture is pretty clear. If picture is not clear enough, bots would send a request to manual action team.

Hi.

Yes and no. Look more at DA, rather than PA. PA is awesome, but it's much more valuable to get a link from low PA page on high DA site, rather than don't get link at all. At the same time it rarely happens that there is a really high PA page on very low DA domain, there is a correlation between those. Yes, sometimes PA can be higher than DA of a given domain, but not by much. Basically, you won't be able to have 99 PA on domain with 20 DA.

Now, you're talking about paid do-follow link. You're just asking for trouble, aren't you? Google has been talking for long time that they penalize for paid links. Watch these videos: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=matt+cutts+paid+links&tbm=vid

So, if you do decide to do it - yes, it's gonna be valuable if you don't get penalized

Hi.

I had pretty excruciating experience with Schema. I've been working with it for some time, but i rarely seen it work. I have seen it work for ecommerce websites, but that's pretty much it. I know it's all correct, at least according to structured data checker tool and common sense, but it's still painfully rare when it actually displays rich snippets. Also, usually it does take looong time to see results. You said it's been three months, usually it should be enough, but who knows how Google works.

Also there is a clear explanation that Google uses schema as a referrer, as a helper, but it doesn't necessarily mean that if you have schema, you gonna have snippet. I even had a phone-talk with Google engineers about our "perfectly" proper schema for Knowledge Graph, which isn't working. For about 4 months. Nobody could give me any make-sense answer.

If you do figure it out, please, let community now

Hi there.

First, your question is very confusing, so, I'm reading my crystal ball here. Correct me, if it tells me wrong things.

So, you have a load of exact-matching follow backlinks and it's hurting you (you're afraid that you can get penalized in future). So, you wanna spam a load of blogs, which use user name as anchor text and these backlinks are no-follow, and you're hoping that Google says "Oh, since this guy has bunch of dofollow exact match anchors, but a the same time he spammed whole bunch of blogs with nofollow links, I gonna let it be"?!?!

Come on! Take a better look at what's happening and how Google "decides" who to ban. Quite frankly, Google doesn't care about any links which are nofollow, you can have exact match or not. What they do pay attention is the links which are do-follow to determine the "spamminess" of your website.

So, if you have used some spammy/shady techniques (and it sounds like that) to get exact matching do-follow backlinks, get ready to be hit by Google, no matter how many (and what type) of no-follow links you got additionally.

Cheers.

Hi.

First of all - horrible-horrible UX on that website. It eats so much resources, i can't browse whatsoever. It almost crash my browser, and I have pretty tuned up compuper.

As to your dilemma - you have lots of weird scripts and css, and that's what makes MOZ bar invisible.

you have nav element, class cd-nav-container, it has css rule backface-visibility:hidden. Delete this rule and voila!

P.S. I plead you to make UI and UX better.

Guten morgen, mein freund.

Well, I have questions about your website's structure, which, indeed, can answer your questions. So, what I see is that there is a page with a link to the gallery without any content. Each of the gallery's images is separate page without any content. Of course it's going to be thin content! Is there a reason the website has been structured this way?

What I recommend is either add content, not just caption, to every image of gallery if you wanna keep the way it's structured now, or rebuild website architecture. I'd do it this way:

Page with slider/gallery with description of the gallery, images are not separate pages, but kinda like a carousel or something. Make sure that all images in the same carousel are united by the same subject/event and each image has it's own unique caption. This way you'll combine the same gallery related pages into one, and this page will be not thin, that's for sure.

Hope this helps.

Howdy, neighbor.

If their server is indeed hosted with google - dont worry about speed and loading times, that's for sure. All my tests prove that there is no better place to host than Google (in terms of speed). Host provider office location doesn't matter, since their actual servers are located in,  most likely Provo, Utah. Additionally, nowadays the time to servers and back doesn't vary much with distance. Example - we got several servers - one in dallas and one in utah. the difference in response times is 30-60 ms.

Now, there is no connection between SERPS and IPs, unless that IP is blacklisted. In terms of subdomain being on different server - there is no difference either, since as you say, it's for orders and quotes only. Many-many websites have their shopping carts on servers, different from main content servers. Also since you're not gonna have any content on that subdomain, or backlinks to that subdomain (since it's quotes and payments), it won't bring any rankings changes. You can even robot-noindex the subdomain if you're afraid of changes after it's being indexed.

The only legitimate concern is UX, based on longer loading times. So, make sure that software server are fast enough and you'll have no problems. Additionally, the small lag is accepted (even expected), when you're being redirected to shopping cart/payment pages.

Cheers.

Now, what's about rel="me"?

Anybody has any insight?

Good article, but as you said, statements sometimes conflicting and self-contradicting. I guess the best way is to test and see what works and what doesn't.

Thanks! I'll look into it tomorrow.

Thanks.

What about too many follow links from the same website?

Example: as a webdesign company we have a backlink from every client's footer. So, we used to have them all follow, therefore from large ecommerce websites we were getting 10k+ follow links. We decided to try to do all those links nofollow. Pretty much next week we saw significant enough jump in rankings.

There are lots of articles/discussions about topical relevance of follow interlinked websites as well.

What's your take on this?

Hi.

I say the content and "worthiness" of review is much-much more important than the date. Unless your products are freshness/time dependent. If you've been selling the same shoes for years, then reviews from 4 years ago will be as relevant as from yesterday.

Now, if your shoes had some major issues and you've improved since then, which would affect the reviews, then sure, remove the old ones, as long as they are irrelevant.

Also, it depends on how many reviews you're getting. If you have 5 reviews and 4 of them are from four years ago, then, I think you should pay more attention to actually getting reviews, rather than filtering them. Another thing I'd like to point out is that it's better to have old reviews than no reviews whatsoever.

In terms of SEO effect - as far as I know, the ratings is more important than the freshness. Which does make sense - if you have 1/5 stars with 10k review from last month - it won't be better than 100 5/5 star reviews from couple years ago.

Hope this make sense.

Cheers.

Hi guys,

I just saw this rel="me" attribute and I can't find any reputable recent (within last year) information. I never heard of this and wonder if it's any beneficial in any way.

At the same time, should I use nofollow or follow on links from website to social accounts? I've heard different opinions but, again, no recent relevant and trustworthy information.

Please, kick me into right direction. However, when kicking, please give me some proof, rather than thoughts

Thanks!

Hello, my friend.

I can't recommend you a solution on a market, since I haven't used any, but what you can use is a automated reporting, built-in in GA.

Or, and this is what I use, Google Analytics API. Gives you all data you want, you can style it however you want and customize it whichever way you want. Takes initial effort, but pays off later. Especially, since you said you gotta do it every year.

Hi there.

You surely can, but it wouldn't be called optimization then It's like if you ask if you can have the same text on all pages.

Usually, image optimization includes unique descriptive alt and title tags, as well as file name. Size optimization is probably the most important part, especially on mobiles.

There are lots of guides on the internet about image optimization, but they all go back to UX and looking good + what i said above.