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Thanks Matthew.

I've seen some organisations implementing keyword phrases per URL with forward slashes in-between the keywords. Would this still work for broad AND exact match keywords when the search engine references the URL?

Here's an example with the keyword being "scuola di lingue tedesco".

http://www.esl.ch/it/adulti/scuola-di-lingue/tedesco/index.htm

Thanks in advance.

I've got my hands tied, and I cannot install a blog like Wordpress on the domain I'm optimising.

My question is, where then, would the next best place be? I've heard stories about subdomains being completely useless for affecting SEO of the root domain, and so anything external would probably have the same effect, correct?

Would love to hear what some of you do in these situations.

Cheers!

Thanks. Nothing wrong with inbound external links as far as I can see. I'll just continue implementing advice from everyone here and hopefully this will amend itself as we pump more traffic through the site!

Cheers.

Hi guys,

My traffic has been dropping pretty hard from just over 3k to around 250 in the last few days. I've ran a few tests using Google webmaster tools and Open Site Explorer, as well as answering a pretty cool quiz that was created by an SEO to determine if I'm the victim of any Google updates etc, and everything is looking okay...

What do you think could be causing this issue? We're only just gearing up to start on a SEO campaign. At the moment no SEO is being done other than just casual blogging.

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You got it Jasmine. Nice one! Thank you.

Thanks a lot for this, Robert. It really helps.

Hi John,

Thanks for your input, but still no joy!

http://www.evernote.com/shard/s19/sh/ded1f64d-9f8f-4aad-9458-b237d789f628/2c2ffafc2c84f41f175c4276c6835961

How weird? What do you think?

Strange... it works when I click it. Nevertheless, here's a different link just to be sure:

http://www.evernote.com/shard/s19/sh/7b86a11c-3a16-4887-b109-1dd6003fcfa6/a977fe628504629523dab8430dc21e2c

Cheers.

Hi guys,

I recently read Rand's article here and tried out the exact match symbols on my keywords. However, these don't appear to be working for me as the results aren't showing up as they do in the above SEOmoz article (attached screenshot).

What am I doing wrong?

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Hi Matt,

Thanks for the response and the information. Here's some answers of mine and more info:

• The domain contains no keywords and is a specialist, relatively unknown brand.
• The robots.txt file is still active—forgive me. It's just that for around 2 weeks after launch it was still disallowing indexing of any files and folders on the domain.
• In the search results for the Google UK search engine, I can't see the site appear anywhere in the first 10 pages when typing the domain.com as a query
• I've just now checked in the search results for the Google Brasil (it's a Brazilian company with a brazilian domain), and I can now see the homepage appear in the #1 position, but I cannot see any other pages ranking for the site until the 5th page of the SERPs.
• This is a new site with unique content

- Why do you think that the UK search engine isn't picking anything up?
 - Is it an issue that only the first position is showing a page for the domain being queried in the Brazilian search engine?

I really appreciate your help in advance.

When I type our domain.com as a query into Google, I only see one of our pages on the homepage, and it's in 4th position.

It seems though, that all pages of the site are indexed by google when I type in the query "site:domain.com".

There was an issue at the site launch, where the robots.txt file was left active for around two weeks. Would this have been responsible for the fact that another domain ranks #1 when we type in our own domain? It has been around a couple of months now since the site was launched.

Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone,

I'm new to keyword analysis, and am in the process of consuming a lot of SEOmoz articles and resources on the subject.

I wanted to see if I'm correct in my analysis of two compared sites, and hope you can shed some light on the matter.

I've been to the Google Keyword Tool and looked for my informational keywords for the project I'm working on, since the user intent is all about information.

A not-so-great keyword phrase I've found with 12,100 local monthly searches is:

"programa de inglês" (english programme)

I'm just using this as a quick example.

I have performed a Google search query for the above phrase from google.com.br (Brazil), and I'm comparing the #2 and #4 results from the 1st page of the SERPs which are: #2) www.programa-ingles.net and #4) http://www.baixaki.com.br/categorias/educacao-e-diversao.htm.

What's confusing me is that in Open Site Explorer, the #4 result gets a much higher page authority compared to the #2 result, and beats #2 on every category except for internal–external link ratio and all the social categories.

Here's an image attached of the comparison.

Is it the fact that the external links of #2 account for 100% of the links pointing to it, or that the #2 position beats (rather pitifully) #5 on social sharing, or is it something that I've not stumbled across yet?

Thanks in advance for helping out a n00b.

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Thanks a lot, Ryan. This response was really helpful.

Hi Ryan,

Apologies for not mentioning the software. The website is built on Wordpress.

Here's a bit extra information for you regarding the issue: upon inspection after seeing that the database was corrupted, comparing file sizes of the recently backed-up database, with a database that was backed-up three days beforehand, we found that the most recently backed-up database was around 5% smaller in file size than the earlier one—if anything it should be larger.

Regarding timestamps, the latest posts are there, and the comments seem to be there, so determining what exactly IS missing is something I'm going to need help with.

I can't restore the earlier version of the database either, because important data has been added since then.

The site works fine, for now. I'm just worried somewhere down the road we're going to find that there are 100 posts missing that are now turning up as 404 pages and lost links.

Does that make sense? Thanks for your help.

Here's the situation:

Downloaded a backup of a full database from CPanel, because we needed to perform some queries on it.

Found out that after restoring it, CPanel had not been able to zip up the full database because the server memory was set so low (some posts weren't showing up after the restore).

SO, how would I go about determining exactly what content is missing from the site? What search engine queries would you perform? Is there a plugin I could use to establish the inconsistencies between the database content and the search results?

Your help is appreciated in advance!