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Howdy.
Here is my question - if you rank that well, why would you chance it?
If you do have to change it though, here is my advise. Find a longer tail page with lower traffic share, which is ranking at the bottom of first page or so. Change the title only on that page, request manual recrawl through Google Search Console. See how the rankings change. If position do not change, or improve, do another test, but on a larger scale - 10-20 pages. Monitor their ranking. And then go full speed 
Howdy.
As far as I understand, there is no such thing as duplicate content just for images. Duplicate content is more for the page as a whole. Especially, since you guys redirected all the links, you shouldn't have any problems, since google will simply "realize" the change.
Now, it's better to make sure that images (and all the other resources) available only through one protocol - http or https.
Hope this helps
Howdy.
As you said, it will depend on the industry. But not only. It will depend on type of service/product you offer. Example: direct purchase of simple thing like a tshirt or mug or whatever, when people wouldn't have any questions, phone conversion will be really low, since the only people calling will be somewhat unqualified buyers.
Here is how we do it. So, on a landing page we have landing page specific phone number with tracking (use Twilio). And all sales are tracked in the admin. So, if someone calls, using this phone number, and makes a purchase, we have a logged time of that call and time of the purchase, placed by representative. All we have to do is match it. You can do it manually or with some script.
In terms of ballpark of conversion rate, it's typically 30% from landing page. Depending on the industry of course. So, that's average rate. Therefore if you know rate for the form, you'll be able to calculate avg conversion rate for calls.
Hope this makes sense
Howdy.
So, here are my thoughts and findings.
The discrepancy starts in Google Search itself. So it's either algorithmical/calculational bug or there are other metrics used. And i'm inclined to believe the second version.
Here is my idea - they use sessions or clicks as a metric together with avg position. As far as I know they use this system in other metrics as well. So, here is data for our website, which checks out with all the reports:
I got a page https://www.regexseo.com/luxury-websites-houston.php and the avg position reported is 22. If i look at the breakdown, it's got 96% of traffic going to desktop and 22 avg position, 2% to mobile with 15 avg position and 0.05% tablet with 14 avg position.
So, the report checks out, if you think about it like this:
If to 96% of users your page is ranking #22, and to 2% of users it ranks in #15, wouldn't it make sense to say that on average your page is ranked #22.
I guess it's more like a weighed avg position then pure avg position.
Hope it makes sense
I believe they do get indexed, don't have any physical proof as of the moment. The easy way is to simply set it up on a test landing page, then request manual recrawl through Google Search Console of that page. and see if it gets indexed.
I see.
Now, as far as i know, the event tracking could be used for goal tracking, but not for ecommerce tracking, or am i wrong?
Howdy, fellow mozzers.
So, here is the situation:
Let's say someone comes to the website through Organic Google Search, and first thing they see is the banner on the website, on a click of which it takes you to a promotional landing page. I have this banner being tracked with GA campaigns. Now, here are my questions:
Thanks
Howdy.
Knowledge graph is heavily affected by schema. Here is a help guide from Google - https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/enhance-site
Also, of course, it's affected by time and popularity of your websites/companies. If lots of people are driven to those pages, google will update it faster.
Hope this helps
Howdy.
Not really. Answer box is different from snippets and knowledge graph (which is what schema is used for). There is an awesome Whiteboard Friday Episode about the answer boxes, check it out:
https://moz.com/blog/how-to-appear-in-googles-answer-boxes-whiteboard-friday
Howdy, folks.
So, Everyone knows that we can create custom Facebook audience with all the filters, interests and behaviors and see what audience "consist of" in FB audience insights. That's all nice and dandy, but here is my situation:
So, I "build" the audience the best way I can, run the ad, have, let's say average results. Theoretically (especially if audience is broad), I would be able to get better results if I was able to see which segment (by interests or behaviors) of targeted audience performed best. And then run another ad to narrowed down audience. But, as far as I understand and know, there is no way to do that. FB reporting only provides breakdowns on age, gender, location, devices and couple more things.
So, is there way to get that data?
P.S. If I'm still confusing, here are couple examples:
I run ad for audience who have interest in football OR meat OR potatoes (let's say because I sell meat and potatoes dish for football players :D). So, is there way for me to find out which interest group performed best without running three separate a/b/c test campaigns (imagine if i have 20 "OR" interests)?
I run ad for audience of male, between 22-44 age. Is there way to find out which interests group in this audience performed best?
sub-domain vs folder - here is a whiteboard friday about the differences: https://moz.com/blog/subdomains-vs-subfolders-rel-canonical-vs-301-how-to-structure-links-optimally-for-seo-whiteboard-friday
In your case i'd put it in subfolder
Yeah, that's what i thought. Basically, it would be splitting campaigns into two/several.
Well, thanks for the advise!
Howdy.
Well, your question is a bit confusing, but let me explain how it should be done
So, Local SEO is only possible when you have a locally registered business with physical address in a given city. Also, you need to have a different phone number. You can have the same website, but you should have at least location specific pages.
So, if you don't have physical address (or don't want to show it to users), you can have it hidden (service area based business).
Here is a link to another q&a about this: https://moz.com/community/q/google-my-business-multiple-locations-one-account
Howdy.
It depends on what you mean by optimizing. Exact keyphrase match? Then no, it's not necessary at all. You need to have topical "optimization", meaning having synonyms, partial matches etc. There are seceral good Whiteboard Fridays about this.
Here, first 6 results are all videos about it:
Howdy.
Is the website accessible through a browser? All DNS propagated? How about robots.txt blocking? If none of these is the issue, and website has been live for couple days, then there is something wrong somewhere. Email at help@moz.com - they'll help you out
Cheers:)
Howdy.
Is this affiliate program spammy or tricky in any way? if not, meaning that everything is straight forward, no link exchange or any black hat seo, there won't be any repercussions. Many companies have affiliate programs which are true part of their business model, and there is nothing wrong with that.
But can i have a bid modifier per keyword though?
Howdy.
The question is pretty much in the subject. I know I can exclude the campaign or ad group from shwoing on mobile devices. How can i do that per keyword though?
Thanks
Well, yeah, to the extent. But your whole page is about two different services, so, this will not make or brake it
Hi there.
Well, I recommend braking that pages into two different pages. If that is completely out of the question, I recommend version #2 to tell people that you offer both of the services.
P.S. I hope these are not actual titles, but examples, otherwise you need to expand on them
Hope this helps, Cheers!
Hi there.
Since GA is currently catching those purchases (read traffic) as referral, then after excluding that traffic there won't be any data registered in GA from that source. So, yes, it will delete your values completely.
P.S. Here is an idea for you - create an extra view with exclusion of that source and see after a day if it's being kept or not - simple and effective
Cheers!
So, Couple things I noticed.
In conclusion, have some backlinks improvements (including internal linking and anchor text usage), considering you are only #13 for given keyword, you gonna on the first page in no time
P.S. This is just what i saw in a glance, SEO audit might be of a good help to you guys.
Your link is broken. And I'd say do not use URL shorteners?
As I said use robots.txt or htaccess rules for bots, where you would be able to allow access to specific bots like seofrog (at least temporary). Or, maybe they can allow seofrog to crawl it temporarily or something.
As for Google bot - try to "fetch as google" within Google Search console. See what response there is.
Hi there.
Well, your website is indexed - site:www.iranianlawyers.com/farsi bunch of pages come up. However, there is no way to tell that no traffic correlates to translation. It's a lot of branding, rankings, demand and so on. I would say that you need to have a technical SEO audit done, probably with full SEO audit.
Howdy.
Well, neither sessions nor pageviews are superior metric, if you look at it with no context. Here is an example - home page always would have way more sessions and pageviews than other pages. And, at the same time, a landing page can have 100-200 sessions/pageviews. But, the value of proper landing page is usually way-way-way higher than home page, since that would be your direct conversion traffic.
So, why MOZ uses sessions - because it's one of the common metrics to use, which you can go off of. It's easy to compare in reports etc.
Hope this helps
Hi there.
Well, google can't know that those are "just tags" So, unless you "hide" it from Google (which can result in even worst outcome), it would be considered some type of keyword stuffing (especially if there are tons of them like a tag cloud or something).
What you might wanna do is just not to display it on your pages (i assume there should be a way to do that through code or settings).
Hops this helps
Hi there.
I wouldn't say that those links HAVE to be nofollow. It depends on how client handles it. If basically they'd like to give you credit for that badge than i don't see no reason for using nofollow link.
Here is an idea for you. Talk to winners, see if they would like to write (or post pre-written) blog post or an article about how they got that badge, how proud they are etc, and mention you in that post (with a follow (or nofollow) link). That way the badge doesn't even have to have a link. And everything is very organic and natural.
Hope this helps
Howdy.
This is very strange. So, does your dev team block all bots? How about search engine bots? 0.o
Anyway, the 302 redirect is not the way to go. If you'd like to manage bot access, use robots.txt, htaccess rules or simply filter it out afterwords in reporting tools.
Hope this helps
Yeah, these articles pretty good and have all you'd need. Still, I wonder why you want to go necessarily with cdn, rather than a hosting, which provides CDN by default. From the top of my head - Google App Engine, Liquid Web and others.
"The en and en-GB sites are duplicates of each other" - not true at all. "en" is for all english speaking users, "en-GB" is for english speaking users in Britain.
Here is Google's Article: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en
Howdy.
I might be very much mistaken, but as far as I understand, when you use "find my nearest" tool you do not "track, collect or upload any data that...", since everything is happening on a client's side of interaction. If you are, indeed, tempering with data when users are doing something on your website (eg.: if you use sniffers or other recording techniques), then yes, that would be against their policy.
Hi there.
Good backlinks, social media engagement, interlinking and more traffic to those pages (with good engagement metrics of course) are your friends here
Hi there.
Why do you want to setup cdn on your own server? Can you handle the load?
Howdy!
Question - Are you just searching in google.co.uk or you are indeed in UK when searching? Because, as far as I know, hreflang is tailored towards your browser settings and location, rather than what google you are searching in. Example: if I'm in Germany with my laptop and searching for a local branch in Google.com, i want results in Germany, but in English. And vice versa - if I'm in US and searching in google.de - I'm most likely to be searching for business in US, but in German language.
Hope this makes sense
Hi there.
As far as I know (99% sure), GSC won't let you do the address change for the same domain name. Also, they recommend having all versions - http and https.
So, I'd say just add another version
Yes, I would link. Yes, it would change breadcrumbs.
Yes, I'm suggesting to have it in two places, but in different formats/content forms. Kinda like preview vs full content.
Interesting. I wonder under what circumstances it happens. Because i went to google image search, found my images, clicked on them to get to website, in real time analytics it shows as "organic".
Martijn is correct. Unless your images are setup to have their own pages, there is no way to track traffic, coming from image search. Unfortunately, traffic source of "images.google" doesn't exist , so that part is of the table as well.
Hi there.
Google won't penalize you for that, it simply won't display it, if it's against their rules.
Hi there.
If you google your query - http://bfy.tw/7rNu, you'll see there is quite a bit of advise on MOZ forum.
Overall it comes down to expanding content for national arena, at the same time making sure that you do not remove much content, which makes website rank locally.
Hi there.
If you google "clash of clans", you'll see that exactly that happening. However, if you google "supercell" (developer of clash of clans), you'll see that there are links to company website, social media and products.
So, depending on what you're trying to represent, different solutions are possible.
Hope this helps.
Hi there.
It's known that comment section is not awesome at all in the eyes of google, typically due to spamminess, so attention paid to such sections is way lower than to other content on the page. Also, as far as I remember, Disqus is being loaded through deferred JS, into an Iframe, meaning that it would not be even considered as part of your website. Also, plugins like that are usually loaded with deferred JS, which means your loading times shouldn't be affected. Therefore, it shouldn't really matter what you do to it to do impact (if any at all) on your SEO.
Concentrate on your own content, my friend.
Hi there.
Well, it's not just Facebook. It's any website. There can be as many slashes after domain name as you wish, it'll be working no problem. Eg.:
https://m1machining.com/////m1-80-ar15-lower-receiver-billet-7075.html - works
https://m1machining.com////ar10-ar15-products/m1-80-ar15-lower-receiver-billet-7075.html - works
But https://m1machining.com////ar10-ar15-products////m1-80-ar15-lower-receiver-billet-7075.html - doesn't work
I am not sure if it's server configurations, browser configurations or all that together plus extra stuff, but it makes sense that it works due to typo, which is obviously a typo.