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Hi Graham

A quick look at your anchor text tells me you have an over optimization issue

--> http://screencast.com/t/lwzNZgEu5X

The very high percentage of commercial keyword anchors linking to the site is why the site used to rank well, and now this is not helping sites anymore or even hurting them.

I have seen this many times now, where sites with less authority but more "natural" anchor text perform better.

There are some options;

• You can request these sites change the anchor text to the brand name or domain name
• You can disavow the links (NOT recommended unless done with a super amount of care).
• You can do step one AND work on building newer more natural links

When Google sees those commercial anchors they know some form of link building has been done, and it gives a negative mark on the site - now sites like that have to work hard to earn Google's trust again.

Hi Rebecca

What are the crawl errors exactly? From that report screenshot it looks like you have a variety of them, so the fixes will all be different.

Let me know, and in the meantime you might want to check out my article on Moz about setting up WordPress

-Dan

Hi There

Federico is right - you don't want to put an

However, I honestly don't think this one thing would be enough to penalize you. It might just be viewed as an error (kind of like a 404). But if you have a site with other issues (on-site or off-site) you don't want to do more things that could tip the scale towards a penalty.

Even if you did "get away with it" - I highly doubt you'd see much SEO benefit.

Hey There

I know this question is a little old but just want to add some things. If we're talking about volume only - and getting accurate numbers from the Keyword Planner there are a few important things to know.

• First of all - the changes are just calculating the numbers in slightly different ways. They are still accurate, so long as you know what's different.

• For one, volume for desktop and mobile is now combined together - there is no separate report at the moment for desktop vs mobile so you're seeing these volumes combined

• Next is they are now averaging volumes across the last 12 months (which before I imagine they may have pulled from the most recent month)

• Now you can also not only get volume by country but also by city, state, region etc.

• Lastly - they are showing you all exact match volume by default - which is what you want. Broad and even phrase match are not very ideal for SEO.

So when you go into keyword planner, it's actually easier in my opinion to get the right data. You don't need to set a match type. You don't need to add up desktop and mobile and they have average the last 12 months for you.

The only thing you need to do really is decide on your location. If you want to know how many people type "french chocolate" in France vs. the whole world or vs. Italy - that's the biggest choice you have to make really.

Full documentation from Google on the changes here.

Hope that helps

Hey Luca

Weird, a similar issue just happened to a friend's site here locally.

To clarify, http pages are still indexed if you search - site:https://www.register.it/ -inurl:https  -- but it's just that both http AND https are indexed now.

Also - I don't see we.register.it loading at all - only www.register.it --- was this recently changed? Although I am seeing both we and www indexed in Google. Did we always redirect to www?

Since the HTTPS is redirecting now to HTTP Google will not be able to see the canonical. Here's what I think you should try;

1. Undo the 301 redirect from https to http
2. In your HTTPS robots.txt file, block crawling
3. Register HTTPS in webmaster tools (if not already) and do a URL removal on all the pages you don't want indexed from HTTPS (probably all of them)
4. I would strongly recommend sorting out your internal linking using absolute URL paths and ONLY link to pages with HTTPS when they actually are really HTTPS pages. Otherwise links to HTTP.
5. Sort out your we vs. www subdomain issue.

This is honestly a slightly involved situation, where we can give cursory advice here, but just want to be transparent that if you're not completely comfortable in what to do, you might want to find someone who can peek behind the curtain (unfortunately as Moz Associates we're not able to log into your accounts or anything).

EDIT: just want to add that you should be sure you have updated and working XML sitemaps for the http and subdomain you want indexed, and they are submitted to WMT

How are these "dynamic" pages being created? You must have a custom page/post type in your WordPress theme? If so, you should in theory be able to check that off under XML Sitemaps in Yoast to add to the XML sitemaps.

I wouldn't base this decision on the idea of "fresh content". I'd make those pages what suites them best, and what's the easiest for you to maintain.

In other words, it doesn't matter HOW the pages are created, Google just sees that there is a page, and it will crawl and index it.

The only thing I'd say, is when you are creating pages dynamically, you want to make sure you're not ending up with too many thin/similar pieces of content. They all really need to add some sort of value.

Hey Robert

What do you mean you "can't touch everything"? Do you mean edit the image title, alt text etc?

Looks like you basically have four places images are ending up at the moment;

1. http://www.drumbeatmarketing.net/wp-content/Cimy_User_Extra_Fields/ look like user avatars - http://www.drumbeatmarketing.net/wp-content/Cimy_User_Extra_Fields/aaron/avatar/Aaron-Cohrs-small.jpg
2. http://www.drumbeatmarketing.net/wp-content/themes/drumbeat2/ looks like as Lynn was saying theme images such as - http://www.drumbeatmarketing.net/wp-content/themes/drumbeat2/blog/img/seo-blog.png
3. http://www.drumbeatmarketing.net/wp-content/uploads/ which is the default image upload location for WordPress, such as - http://www.drumbeatmarketing.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Adobe-001.jpg
4. http://www.drumbeatmarketing.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/ - for "smilies" like http://www.drumbeatmarketing.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif and there's only two of them

As Lynn said there's not much of a ranking issue here. If this was a gigantic site, I might suggest some sort of crawl optimization.

Also, I generally avoid plugins like the plague unless they offer a real super value add - and in the case of media management the built in WordPress media management is pretty solid for most sites. But it does look like this is the theme determining the location of some of these, not plugins (except for maybe those avatars).

-Dan

Hi James

While I fully disclose I'm not intimately familiar with the ins and outs of responsive, I do believe that instead of CSS hiding/showing the same links but having them repeated three times in the HTML, ideally the links would be in the HTML once, and CSS would take care of just restyling them based upon the screen size.

But with that said, Google does not mind so much about the "too many links on a page" situation. They are good enough now to likely figure out what is going on with your menu, and will try to take that into account when assessing the page, and when assigning PageRank through each link.

So while it would be 100% perfect to not repeat every link it's still something that's not going to be detrimental if you had to leave it that way. The only exception to that I think, would be if this is a super large site (like 100,000+ pages) but I don't get the impression this site is quite that big

-Dan

Hey There Buon Giorno from 15ish F in Massachusetts

Thomas has a lot of good stuff in there - I'll just give a consolidated answer to reiterate.

WordPress will do all of that for you. I assume the designer is going to create a custom theme for you? This means they'll do custom HTML and CSS. First off, make sure to verify they are going to do this all as a child theme. Developers will usually do a child theme off of a standard parent theme like TwentyThirteen etc. A child theme will give you seperation between what the designer codes, and what came in the parent theme. This way you can edit the child theme without breaking the parent theme.

As Thomas said you do have full control of all of your code. But how the designer builds it will affect things. There's one of two things you can do here;

1. ask the designer to show you a similar example wp site they've recently developed. You, or have an SEO, look it over for the requirements and HTML markup.
2. you, or have an SEO, look over the site they build for you before it launches to check the code.

But really, there's nothing inherent about WP that you have to look out for, much of the issues come up when people make bad themes or bad custom designs.

Definitely use Yoast SEO!

-Dan

Hey There

Peter really gave you a great answer, but just wanted to add a few things. If you want to see things how a search engine might see theme there's a few options;

• <a>browseo.net</a> is an SEO browser, just plug in the URL of the sample theme for an SEO view
• use the web developer plugin - shut off javascript and CSS and look at the sample site. whatever you can see Google is 100% able to see.
• you can view Google's text only cache of a page by typing cache:http://www.example.com/sample-theme/ and click "text only" - this is very similar to the web developer plugin.
• if you own the site you can use something like "fetch as googlebot" within webmaster tools and examine the code it returns back. look for the text etc you want to be visible to google.

Basically, of those methods fail to show you the content (text mainly) you'd want Google to see, the javascript is being used incorrectly or too heavily.

-Dan

Hi John

Could you clarify what you are looking to mark up? We don't want to be a "hammer chasing a nail" with schema - there are some things which totally make sense to mark up and others not. What are these pages about (products/services?) and what specific content is within them that you're thinking about marking up?

Thanks!

-Dan

Hey There

I would probably focus on "bigger things" - for example

Unless these pages are all super unique/add value aside from just having different town names, it's not the best practice to have thin/overlapping content;

• http://stalbansdentist.com.au/dentist-st-albans
• http://stalbansdentist.com.au/dentist-burnside
• http://stalbansdentist.com.au/dentist-cairnlea
• ...etc

Also, when crawling the site I found example placeholder content like;

• http://stalbansdentist.com.au/a-monk-walks-his-path/
• http://stalbansdentist.com.au/a-stylish-stud/
• http://stalbansdentist.com.au/hip-young-woman/
• ...etc

You may want to delete those

Onto the questions;

• I'm not sure what Moz is seeing wrong with the canonical, it looks good.
• This one seems fine to me as well.
• There are 2 H1's currently - see this --> http://screencast.com/t/qRBG5jbW3EYx

Also, the titles are a little long / keyword stuffed;

Dentist Cairnlea, Dental Care, Braces Fillings, Orthodontist Dentistry | Family Dental Care

Maybe make that something like;

Dental Care in Cairnlea - Family Dental Care

Hey There

I would download all of your link data from;

• webmaster tools
• ose
• majestic
• maybe ahref too

And pull it together and comb through it for bad links. I think you'll really have to look through them to see what's going on. Maybe something was missed? First you need to confirm there actually are no spammy/bad links

In a removal / disavow situation the goal is to remove/disavow ONLY bad links - which there could only be 10 out of 100's - so you should sort through them.

-Dan

Hi There

I believe I recall chiming in on the original question. I would definitely still bring up that I'm not sure this page really targets "reviews" as I don't really see reviews very explicitly anywhere on the page? Definitely need to have a good keyword -> content match to rank.

Echoing Peter's good remarks, I have heard John Muller from Google in his hangouts state many times that they do not want to rank pages that pull content from other sources without offering much unique on top of that. This is part of the Panda algo and to get back ahead, the content needs to be unique and add value on top of other places you can find the same or very similar content on the web.

-Dan

Found it (thank you Screaming Frog custom filters)

It's on this page - http://www.kempruge.com/bankruptcy-common-reasons/

-Dan

I had a client with a similar situation. When I figured it out, they were ranking in the universal results with an image in google.co.uk - so it was a normal serp, but where you see images mixed in, and theirs was one of the images. So I would check out possibilities with perhaps something in images showing up, as well as checking different countries. This client is a US company, but was only ranking for this in the UK.

-Dan

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Hey There

For the most part, it is not a good idea to just use tags as a way to try and gain search traffic from them. They are possibly beneficial to users internal to your site. Users may read an article and want to read other similar articles, so having a few tags at the bottom of the post can be useful. Putting tags in your sidebar for navigation is rarely useful, but if done in a somewhat user friendly way it could work. I generally avoid "tag clouds" or having dozens of tag links in one spot.

In terms of the tag archives themselves (like mysite.com/blog/tag/tag-name/), tag archives rarely look different than posts themselves or other archives. Unless you have a giant site, with so many posts, and tags actually add a beneficial way to scroll through archives on a very specific topic, categories do this fine enough.

And for indexation - if it's a new site or a site that has NOT ever indexed tags I would advise to not index them moving forward either. Unless in a rare .5% of cases this is done in an extremely intentional and strategic way, not for SEO but for users and site architecture. (Think of a site like Smashing Magazine or Search Engine Land with LOTS of content, that's a rare edge case where using tags for navigation and architecture might make sense.)

If you HAVE indexed tags already I wrote an article on how to safely evaluate and noindex them.

In general, I would avoid tagging a post with more than 4-5 tags. Tags should always be different from categories (like more specific things).

-Dan

Hi Fabio

If the content is gone when you visit your old URLs do you get a 404 code? You can plug the old URLs into urivalet.com to see what code is returned. If you do, then you're all set. If you don't, see if you can just upload a robots.txt file to that subdomain and block all search engines. Here's info on how to do that http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

-Dan

Hi There

You should ensure the content either;

• has meta noindex tags
• or is blocked with robots.txt
• or 404's or 410's (is missing)

And then use the URL removal tool again and see if that works.

Hey David

Let us know if you're all set with Martijn's answer. But do you mean;

a) after entering multi-word keywords Moz does not then track them correctly?

or

b) you are having trouble entering multi-word KW's to begin with into the software? I just tried adding a multi-word KW and it seemed to work fine (even without quotes) so maybe there was a bug. If you continue to have trouble you can also email help@moz.com directly for product related support.

-Dan

Hey Fabio

Regarding #2 I'd give it a little bit more time. 301's take a little longer to drop out, so maybe check back in a week or two Technically the URL removal will mainly work if the content now 404's, is noindexed or blocked in robots.txt but with a redirdect you can do none of those, so you just have to wait for them to pick up on the redirects.

-Dan

Hi There

1. For the flash file NoReflectLight.swf - I would do a removal request in WMT and maintain the blocking in robots.txt of /plugins/

2. When you do a URL removal in WMT the files need to either be blocked in robots.txt or have a noindex on them or 404. Doesn't that sort of link redirect to your affiliate product? In other words, if I were to try to visit /go/affiliate-product/ it would redirect to www.affiliateproductwebsite.com ?Or does /go/affiliate-product/ load it's on page on your site?

3. I would maintain the robots.txt bloking on /plugins/ - if no other files from there are indexed, they will not be in the future.

-Dan

Hey There

You want to look for this;

You can just do a cntrl-f (to search text in the source) and type in "noindex" and it should be present on the Tag archives.

-Dan

Hi There

Should have explained better

if you type cache: in front of any web URL for example cache:apple.com you get;

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Aapple.com&oq=cache%3Aapple.com&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.8119j0j7&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=91&ie=UTF-8

And see the "cache" date? This is not the same as the crawl date, but it can give you a rough indication of how often Google might be looking at your pages.

So try that on some of your tag archives and if the cache date is say 4+ weeks ago maybe Google isn't looking at the site very often.

But it's odd they haven't been removed yet, especially with the URL removal tool - that tool usually only takes a day. Noindex tags usually only take a week or two.

Have you examined the source code to make sure it does in fact say "noindex" by the robots tag - or that there is not a conflicting duplicate robots noindex tag? Sometimes wordpress themes and plugins both try adding SEO tags and you can end up with duplicates.

-Dan

Hi There

Karl's answer was fantastic - and I just want to emphasize as well - if this is decently strong brand I would put some more effort into recovering from the manual penalty. As tedious as this can be, if it was just a "churn and burn" site I'd say just axe it and re-build.

But go to Keyword Planner - how much brand search volume does the company receive? Try [brand] [brand.com] [www.brand.com] etc - if this number is at least in the hundreds or thousands of brand searches a month, I'd work to remove that penalty and let the brand signals help you recover. Also, does the main site receive a lot of direct traffic? It just sounds like if you can get the penalty lifted it will be an easier recovery than just some exact match domain that's not really a brand.

-Dan

Hey There

Just to add to Remus's answer (which was very thorough, thanks for that) - to explain a little bit more about Moz's DA. Each time Moz updates there linkscape index (which open site explorer is based on) there index may change slightly.

So you may still have links from sites out there on there net, but every once and a while month Moz will have them in their index and the next month their index might get a little smaller and they may not show, and thus you didn't really lose authority, it just appears that way.

So I'd track something like DA with a long term approach (like 6-12 months) and watch for it to go up year over year - especially if your in a space that's not going to pile on links as quickly as like retail etc.

Hummingbird was the end of August, and didn't throw off people's rankings so much, so this is very unlikely to have anything to do with the ranking change.

I don't see any other major alo changes at that time. (you can check here: http://moz.com/google-algorithm-change) - but it would be worth doing what Remus suggests and digging a little deeper into your analytics, backlinks profile etc and see if you can pinpoint anything more specific. One good approach is to try and pinpoint if it's sitewide or just specific keywords/pages.

-Dan

Hi There

For all these cases above, this may be a situation where you've BOTH blocked these in robots.txt and added noindex tags. You can not block the directories in robots.txt and get them deindexed, because Google can not then crawl the URLs to see the noindex tag.

If this is the case, I would remove any disallows to /tag/ etc in robots.txt, allow Google to crawl the URLs to see the nodinex tags - wait a few weeks and see what happens.

As far as the URL removal not working, make sure you have the correct subdomain registered - www or non-www etc for the URLs you want removed.

If neither one of those is the issue, please write back so I can try to help you more with that. Google should noindex the pages in a week or two under normal situations. The other thing is, check the cache date of the pages. If the cache dates are prior to the date you added the noindex, Google might not have seen the noindex directives yet.

-Dan

Hi Sheldon

I love getting a little creative, but let me make sure I understand. You're talking about basically the name of the product being an "unknown unknown" to customers. They don't know the name even exists, so they don't know to look for it? But there's something else similar which they do know to look for - and your client needs to show up there instead? So essentially we have to find a way to call streaming movies "DVDs"?

Thanks for clarifying first

-Dan

Hey There

As other have mentioned, I would also echo that "low competition" is a little relative depending on the query.

For just "anglian windows" this is a brand search and will be really tough to rank there moving forward. Even if you do, I am not sure it would get tons of clicks, because this is likely more often then not a navigational search where the user knows they want the brand homepage.

For "anglian windows reviews" - maybe I'm missing this, but does your page have reviews on it? As in a collection of 3rd party authentic non-biased reviews? Unless it has something like that - or at least genuine internal reviews written by your site, it's also going to have a hard time ranking there since the query intent / content match is a little off.

-Dan

Can you run those searches in google and get your result to show? I've seen things where images results show in the main SERP but Webmaster Tools is counting as "organic" (not image) but it was an image with a weird/random filename.

I'd try to replicate the result, see what's ranking there (image/webpage etc) and see if there's some weird occurrence of the keywords. But images would be my first guess.

-Dan

Hey Jesse

It gets tricky to say the least. First there's the protocols which are best practice "rules" for any web development - http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html

But then there's Google's sort of own interpretations and treatment of those redirects on top of that. And there's always what Google says vs what they actually might be doing.

Technically a 302 is "found" although everyone uses it for "temporary" and yet a 307 is a temporary. I recall Google saying in their eyes there is no difference.

Yeah I guess you could leave 302s or 307s in forever, and how long is acceptable? I could leave a 302 redirect in place for 20 years and then decide to move it back? Is that what they mean?

As far as what Google does with them there's lots of Google and 3rd party resources about them and like I said we can probably find a few Matt Cutts videos talking about how they treat them - but then there's reality - which brings a lot of variables and moving parts.

So I think the main idea is as cliche as it sounds, all real situations are different. I follow this train of thought;

1. If possible, FIRST choose what to do based upon best web standards and in most cases this should hopefully satisfy SEO.
2. But if you have to do something purely for SEO - basically manipulate a known hole in how these things work vs. how Google supposedly treats them, because that's the only thing that will fix something - then do that. This might be why for example you'd choose a 302 redirect despite knowing it's not really temporary

Hi There

Jesse is right, a 302 doesn't pass PageRank, but it make pass other signals (such as understanding of content, associated penalties - these are just my guesses by the way). Is this something where you are concerned of passing bad link signals? Or other undesired signals?

Also, technically a 302 is for "temporary" redirects, but people do misuse this temporary bit all the time and leave them more or less permanently

-Dan

Hi Steve

We have to get really specific with what happened - few questions;

• can you segment traffic to show more specifically where the loss was? was it from Google only?
• did the loss occur across all pages? just the homepage? try to get really specific with segments to narrow it down
• of the URLs that did change, were they redirected?
• did things like page titles etc all change, or did you maintain those exactly the same?
• was there ranking loss?

TY!

-Dan

Hi Angela

First off - where are you seeing the jump in 404's - Moz Tools? Google Webmaster Tools? Screaming Frog SEO Spider? Somewhere else?

When I visit that link which points here it does not 404, it returns a 200 - which leads me to think the tool you are getting this from is wrong.

You can also use a "Header Checker" like this: http://urivalet.com/?http://www.turnerpr.com/blog/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.turnerpr.com%2Fblog%2F2013%2F10%2Fdays-markus-freitag%2F#Report - and you can see it also returns a 200.

Now, let's assume though the page is returning a 404 and you want to fix it. The link is due to your blog setup, and the site is requesting all users log in before they comment. For example if you go all the way to the bottom on this post: http://www.turnerpr.com/blog/2013/10/days-markus-freitag/ - under Post a Reply, you will see the link.

You can shut off this feature (which is normal to do) by going to Settings->Discussion-> and uncheck "users must be registered and logged in to comment".

Hope that helps!

-Dan

Hi Steve

Direct traffic which 404's should not trigger any sort of hit. They could be coming from a variety of places: old links, bookmarks, browser history, emails, social shares etc. Your best bet if you want to retain any traffic value there is to 301 them to relevant pages if possible.

-Dan

Hi Kevin

Thanks - yes, although I am a Moz Associate, out of full transparency I agree with that you are saying. It is not a tool I specifically use with Moz, and do prefer Screaming Frog for the exact functions you are referring to. Screaming Frog will tell you what pages the bad links are on.

You can definitely pass this on to the product team as a feature request on this page. Personally I love tools like their analytics, keyword difficulty, rank tracker, open site explorer, but I agree from this aspect the crawler is not the strongest, and I would suggest supplementing with Screaming Frog (as I do).

-Dan

Yes when you set up a campaign with Moz Analytics, Moz will crawl your website and return a whole report of suggestions. It will start a sample crawl which gets returned to you pretty quickly, and a full crawl a little bit thereafter. It will report things to you like 400 errors etc.

You can also use the Moz Crawl Test (PRO only as well) which will return to you the HTTP status code of each URL crawled.

Optionally, you can also use Screaming Frog SEO Spider (free up to 500 pages to crawl, paid for bigger sites).

-Dan

Thanks for posting this Shaun! People actually do come back and read these months to come and these Q&A's will return in search results, so you've made this a really valuable page for future readers - thanks!

-Dan

Nakul's got the right idea. You need to basically determine if any old pages are 404'ing. Webmaster tools is your #1 best in this case. Take a look at crawl errors and see if there's a spike.

When you say "referral traffic from Google" do you mean "google organic search" or do you mean actually referrals in the strict sense of "referral traffic"?

You can also check to see if something caused the rankings to drop. It sounds like the migration may not have been done totally perfect. Rather than having the site blocked from Google for a few weeks (not even a good idea) the new site would have been on a test or dev server (blocked) and when ready to switch you'd essentially unblock it, do all the redirects and make the new one live.

Which leads me to ask - what happened to the old site?

Hi Joni

How about these other things;

• does your facebook page have any backlinks in addition to your own site (you can check in open site explorer)
• are you using the open graph tags?
• can you find your facebook pages in other countries? (try google.com google.ca google.co.uk google.com.au)
• for google.com.sa are you viewing in English or Arabic?
• try copying and pasting a snippet of text from your facebook page (like a sentence or two) and search for that in quotes in google.com.sa - does it return your facebook page?
• try also searching for: [brandname -site:yourdomain.com] - a search for your brand excluding your own site

Let me know about those!

-Dan

Hi Anthony

I would not do that As schwabb said, it's hiding text and that's going to raise a flag. Instead, I would first understand the original intent of how/why H1 tags work: http://www.seobythesea.com/2012/01/heading-elements-and-the-folly-of-seo-expert-ranking-lists/ - they should be the main "heading" or on-page title of a document, as Bill explains very well in that post.

Looking at the homepage, the part that says "Esthetic Dentistry - Your Reliable Los Angeles Dentists" would be the best H1 tag - it is the main heading of the content for that page. The same follows for the other pages, for example: http://www.estheticdentistry.net/cerec-dentistry-in-la/ - the H1 would be "Get CERC Dentistry from...."

-Dan

Hi Ruben

I fall along the lines of the other suggestions. Your homepage should get the most links, but the link value will pass through to the inner pages. Definitely optimize (on-site) the homepage for the brand as well as (in my opinion) the most broad keyword - like "Florida Attorneys" - not that you would rank for that per se (or obsess about ranking for it), but it's just good architecture telling Google the topic/category of the entire site, as well as telling the user an all encompassing phrase of what the company is.

Now, the title tag is currently wayyy too long, as I'm sure you know. Something like "Kemp & Ruge Law Group - Florida Attorneys" would work just fine.

-Dan

In addition to some of the other suggestions, I would suggest segmenting your traffic even more. Is there any other common denominator? Mobile vs Desktop? Certain landing pages? Location? etc...

Also, it's not a typical looking glitch, which shoots straight up and stays there, the direct traffic takes some dips etc - what's happening there? Can you segment anything about the direct traffic during those dips etc?

-Dan

Hi There - all superb answers so far - thanks guys! Can you give an example of any of your keywords? I have seen some long tail keywords be ultra high competitive, and others not. I have also seen some "long tail" with very low search volume but are only short 2-3 word phrases. There are transactional and information long tails. A little more specifics would help with some suggestions

Shaun

Great, thanks - happy to help!

-Dan