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Hi Rick

Thanks for your response!

According to WMT and Moz I have added the CcTLDs and Hreflang tags correctly and set up geo targeting seems to be fine.

Just can't seem to find out why the .com and com.au isn't ranking or showing any sign of being in the top 50 for a long tail keyword yet?  I launched in Nov 2014 and we rank reasonably well for the NZ search, but it seems the .com doesn't appear to show anything.

I'm mindful I had submitted the same sitemap for the co.nz to thecom.au and also the com and wondering if that had any effect.

We are in the middle of a site re-design so I wasn't going to submit the new sitemaps until the new design had been updated to the live environment.

Thanks heaps Patrick! I will definitely send you a private message!

Cheers for the help again!

Hey Patrick

Thanks so much for your help! Sorry for the vague explanation.

Here is my website www.zenory.co.nz

The tool I'm using is https://agencyanalytics.com/ who gather their backlink data directly from ahrefs.com

Thanks Patrick I would appreciate your advise!

Hi Everyone

So I had over 1500 backlinks in under month, and i found out it was coming from a directory.  I asked them to delist me from the directory, but it still shows i have these links pointing to me.  How do I get completely take them down?  Also I contacted myseotools who I use and they said

"It is most likely because you have some dynamic pages that can create thousands of various URLs. Maybe a directory? This is not an issue with our software as it comes directly from ahrefs. Try going to ahrefs.com and enter your domain to see where all the links are coming from."

I proceeded to do this and its definely coming from that 1 directory.  They said they have removed me from they directory, but my question is I can still see I have 1500 backlinks coming from their domain?  Does this take time to clear? Or have I missed something in the process?

Thanks Dirk for the information!!!! I'm in the middle of a redesign it is mobile friendly but won't be launching for a few weeks!

Hi Dirk

Thanks for your response! Actually I have been having issues with this! I generated the sitemap through an auto generator in google and the sitemap for com.au keeps send the com sitemap, i then proceeded to try screaming frog sitemap generator, but I'm not sure if I need to fix any canonicalised issues firstly.... Sorry I'm extremely new at all this and finding a little over my head with all the technical jargon.

Hi there

Thanks for the update! I'm in the middle of a design overhaul but won't be ready in for two weeks! Whats the significance for next Tuesday?

Thanks Christina!!! Appreciate your feedback!

Hi Rick

We have the same exact site on 3 top level domains.

zenory.com, zenory.co.nz, and zenory.com.au - **I know a competitor of ours does really well with all 3 domains and is based in NZ.  **

Hi Guys

I'm a bit confused, I have 3 top level domains com, com.au and co.nz I have set up the right CcLTD's and also the correct Hreflang tags - but for some reason, I'm only been found for my co.nz site and not for the com.au and the com

My site is zenory com and zenory.co.nz, zenory.com.au the co.nz is doing well in the nz search but how come I can't find anything for the other two?

Is there something I'm doing wrong here?

Thanks so much Patrick! Interesting points you make as well! I'm looking to bring out the quality in the industry and grow it from there.

Can you tell me I had a question from a potential "contributor" who wanted to know interms of copywriting if usually a contributor creates an article for the blog who owns the copy right? I'm not so big around this side of things, but it wasn't something I was actually aware of until she mentioned it.

Thank you again Alick300!!!!

Hi Patrick,

Thank you for your follow up!

Yes all domains are the same content, aka duplicate on all domains - however we added all of the Hreflang tags and also the CcTLDs for all domains, and I know a competitor does the same as well, and have been running for around 7 years etc and seems to be working ok.

I haven't looked into canonical tags yet, but am looking into it currently?  Can you tell me what you mean by "original source" meta tags?

Hi Christina,

Yes we ran PPC and alot of them were coming from our .com domain not our co.nz obviously its a bigger country.  But it seems strange we are ranking page 1 for online psychic readings but the ctr is pretty low in nz, this is what it told me when we ran the PPC as well.  It was alot faster to get to that position for NZ obviously, but what concerns me is that we are not ranking anywhere in google for our .com site.

I have set up the right tags etc for CcTLDs and Hreflang tags etc we try to make content as relevant to those areas as possible but in most cases it is near impossible.

But for the .com it seems quiet strange, do you have any thought around this?

Thanks Tom for the heads up, I will read into more of the cannibalization link you sent me!

Thanks Rick, you are so helpful! I have responded to Christina as per what you suggested as well - let me know what your thoughts are around my new title tag if that is okay?

Many thanks for your contributions as well!

Thank you so much Christina!!! The more the better

I'm currently using in my home page title tag:

Psychic Advice Online - Phone and Chat - Zenory, but my clients don't search for "psychic advice online" its rare, they search for "online psychic readings, or psychic readings, chat psychic readings and phone psychic readings" so I was wanting to change my title tag to

"Online Psychic Readings via Phone and Chat - Zenory" My competitors also have something like

(Free Psychic Readings Online - Live Psychic Chat - Phone Readings - Company Name)

or (Company Name - Online Psychic Readings, Tarot, Astrology, love Advice)

What are you thought around this? I see a few of my competitors tend to write longer title tags as well

Hi Rick

Thanks for your comments and feedback!

Just a quick question, how would you go about finding or coming up with well optimized titles? What should I be looking for?

I have looked into title tags my competitors are currently using, and they seem to put alot of keywords in there.

Cheers

Hi Guys

QUESTION: I'm currently going through a re-design for my new website that was published in November 2014 - since launching we found there were many things we needed to change, our pages were content thin being one of the biggest. I had industry experts that came in and made comments on the title tags lacking relevance for eg: our title tag for our home page is currently "Psychic Advice" most ideal customers don't search "Psychic Advice" they search more like "Online Psychic Reading" or Psychic Readings" I noticed alot of my competitors also were using title tags such as Online Psychic Readings, Free Psychic Readings etc so it brings me to my question of "changing the title tags around.  The issue is, im ranking for two keywords in my industry, online psychics and online psychic readings in NZ.

1. Our home page and category pages are content thin.... so hoping that adding the changes will create perhaps some consistency also with the added unique and quality content.

Here is the current website: zenory. co.nz and the new one is www.ew-zenory.herokuapp.com which is currently in development

I have 3 top level domains com,com.au, and co.nz

Is there anyone that can give me an idea if I were to change my home page title tag to

**ZENORY | Online Psychic Readings | Live Psychic Phone and Chat **

If this will push my rankings down though this page will have alot more valuable content etc?  For obvious reasons im going to guess it will make drop, I'm wondering though if it is worth changing the title tags and meta descriptions around or leaving it as is if its already doing well?

How much of a difference do title tags and meta descriptions really make?

Any insight into this would be great!

Thanks

Hi Guys

I have a question, I was told the more pages I have the better for SEO, Is this true?

Hi MindlessWizard,

Thanks so much for your help! Yes, I contact the company myseotools who i use, and they said the results they feed from come via ahrefs, who are displaying these results incorrectly, in the meantime I had already contacted the web master to remove my link, so its good to know that I went ahead and did the right thing.

My question would be how long does it usually take for a company to refresh the results?

Hi Guys,

I have just established my new site, and I'm wondering if anyone might know how to go about establishing a blogging community for my industry on my site? I'm trying to establish one by asking other bloggers if they would be willing to contribute but Im left asking myself, well "what is the benefits" of a contributor participating in a newly established blog that perhaps doesn't have any exposure at this point in time?

The idea would be to grow it. But my industry lacks this and the quality of information.  Any ideas or tips on how to go about establishing something around this?

All advice, tips would be appreciated!

Thanks

Hi Lewis

Thanks for that! This was also confusing as I checked moz and it was saying I only had 2 backlinks, which I couldn't make any sense of, so I sent the web master at the directory that were sending me all the links, works out it was because I was categorised in all regional categories which ended up in being over 900 categories, to which were all linking back to me... This is in the same industry as well, so when i checked the site pointing to me had good authority as well.

Thanks Alick, seriously you have been so helpful!

Any idea on how I can go about using this disavow tool? I have heard about it but not sure how I go about applying it in the real SEO world lol

Hi Alick300

I tried using ahrefs but I don't have an account with them.  It does look like there are alot, would you recommend that I contact the owner to delist from the directory?

Hi Alick300

Yes I checked GWT i don't see anything thats come through from them yet?

When I check the myseotools for where the links where coming from, it looks like they are from a directory that i submitted my listing to under each region category that seems to be returning a link per region.

Thats such a great idea Jonathan, yes I will to the re-tweaking mine to make it even more unique and better then the last one to keep the link, the site that wrote the content have great authority!

thanks again!

Hi Guys

I'm a newbie and just started my website, im wondering if im reading this correctly, i use a tool called my seo tools and its telling me my website zenory.co.nz has over 1600 backlinks, this is scary since the site is only 5months old and i didn't see this till at least today and i check my sites backlinks on a regular basis.  However when I check with moz it says I only have 2? I'm a little confused.  Any advice here?

Much appreciated

Thanks

Hi there,

I noticed a competitor had re-created a couple of articles I wrote, but they made reference back to me in the article, can in anyway possible myself or their site be penalised for duplicate content?  The article isn't completely copied word for word, however it is definitely shows some similarity.

Any advice around this?

Thank you in advance

Hi Jonathan,

Thanks very much for your feedback! I noticed you mentioned "you have someone decides to provide a link back because they write their own version or a related article" I heard this from another source I have been speaking to, someone  I noticed re-created my article but put a link to my site from the article they re-created, is this something that is done quiet often? Or do we have the right to ask them to take the article down ? Although I don't see the article was completed a copy of mine, it was re-written of there own version.  Any thoughts around that?

Cheers

Hi ALL,

Just wondering if it is worth setting up a stumble upon account and sharing our articles or blog posts? I noticed a few companies in my industry who write alot of blog posts who share their articles to stumble upon.  Anyone have any insight into the benefits of doing this for SEO?

Cheers

wow, thanks so much guys! I definitely needed a step by step guide to give my developer! Once these have been done, how would I go about checking and making sure that its all been done correctly by my developer?

Perfect! Thanks so much Vic Marcus!

Hi GUYS

I want to avoid getting myself into a bad situation with google, so I'm just wanting to know if there are any steps I would need to take whilst I'm redesigning and developing my site as I'm currently deploying our new designs.

One thing I noticed, i have my new designs and content on our development server to run through any checks before deploying it to the live environment, however while our live site is up, I have duplicate content on the live site that exactly matches the dev site for obvious reasons but do I need to tell google that the dev site is for development purposes only so google knows I'm not duplicating content?

I have searched around to find some more info about this, if anyone has some insight i would be glad to know your thoughts.

Thank you in advance

I had a couple of people who worked on our SEO a few times but we never really got much good advice.  The best advice I have had so far comes from MOZ and our most recent SEO guy, and people such as yourself.  Asking these questions on moz helps reduce it.

Thanks Shiv, much appreciate the feedback

Great thanks so much! Looks like a test dummy and screaming frog is the answer

Thanks so much for your help Dirk, Great idea, I'll definitely look into that.

Thank you Donna, will check it out

Hi EGOL

Thanks for your feedback.  Yes there is an element of fear in there, I'm new to SEO so still trying to get my head around it all, hence why I'm here getting the assistance required to take these next steps.  I have already re-designed the site, now it is ready to implement so I'm looking to see what needs to be considered before implementing the designs from an SEO point.

Hi guys,

I have had to re-design my site although we are only 4 months into the seo game we have seen some good progress with our rankings. My question is there anything I need to consider before implementing the new designs so it doesn't effect my current rankings or any of our SEO work.

Our current designs are content thing and so we have had to create more content to better optimize our site, however if doing so will this loose our current ranking position?

Apperciate any advice around this

Thanks

Hi all

My category pages will showcase the same products how do I go about optimizing these pages so they don't show up as duplicate content?

Would appreciate your all feedaback!

Thanks

Hi Alick300

Thanks for your feedback.  Is there a restriction using a "celebrity" name to rank for a keyword...

I know you mentioned trademark and I don't think her name is a registered trademark?

Thanks

Lol hey Richard,

Thanks for your response Great feedback and good to know the legality behind this kind of situation.  I have been doing some extensive keyword searching for long tail keywords and noticed there is a low search volume in NZ for the keyword Psychic Readings, Online Psychics, or even online psychic readings and I'm wondering why the search volume is so low.

I know NZ is a small place, but I know there is a particular psychic medium in NZ that has a huge following, on fb her fan base is 100k most of those people are based in NZ so surely the search volume for google can't be that low?

I go over and search terms in Australia for that same keyword, only to find they have alot more search volume.  My only guess is the population is alot more then NZ, but I find it hard to believe that only 10 people on average search for the keyword Online Psychic Readings in NZ each month with the competition being HIGH according to google keyword tool...

So this boggles my mind....

Your advice would be much appreciated.

Cheers

Hi guys,

Are there any restrictions around targeting for keywords? For eg: a competitors name can we target for that keyword?

Would appreciate some advice around this

Thanks

Thank you Christy

Thank you Dirk

Hi I'm trying to get my head around google analytics as a first time user.

Can any suggest the best place to start after I have taken a look through the whole thing, how do I go about managing and tracking performances on my website?

eg: Registrations/sign ups, conversions all that sort of thing

Some advice will be much appreciated

Thanks

Great Kevin, will take that on board, thanks for the heads up!

Thanks Oliver, again more great tips! Awesome thanks again