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Unfortunately Google created a easy way for competitors or people with bad intention, destroy other people business. If website "Y" is being outrank by website "Z". Website Y instead of improve their link profile, have the option to buy bad links for the competitor.  Also if you offend someone and this person has nothing to do with your industry  the person can still drop your ranks paying less than $100 dollars.

Matt Cuts said that a simple disavow would work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znOqJu3le2g

But from what you  and many others are saying is not working.

When the  upgrade was released  Google knew those problems would happens yet, they didn't do anything to avoid the issue. In my humble opinion Google just want sale more PPC.

I think the only way to build a solid web business is having your traffic coming from  many sources  or  you create a single point of failure. This is complex task if you think how big is Google Market share, but as web Marketers we have to figure out a way to do so.

How about using a CDN solution like Cloud Flare? https://www.cloudflare.com/features-cdn

1 - PA is metric created by Moz and is not used by google to rank your site.

2 - You can include a 301 redirect in your .htaccess file. So the version with www of your site and without is the same on google eyes.

3 - This tool might help you with the 301 http://www.rapidtables.com/web/tools/redirect-generator.htm

Your content can be about things that your target public would like to read about.  For example who reads about "cleaning marble floors" mostly like would like to read about "home improvements".

About outsourcing your blog content creation scripted.com is a good provider.

You are right the numbers are only an estimates but I disagree with you that they are "Worthless", is always good to have an idea of your competitors traffic.  You can see what is the potential of market x or y looking by looking at big players estimate traffic.

Actually there are few "spy" services that can give you  your competitors traffic, a few example are:

http://www.similarweb.com/

http://www.spyfu.com/

https://www.compete.com/

Have you tried http://www.linkstant.com ?

Thank you for your inputs Jeff, I really like your ideas specially the professional photos idea. The client is big car dealership inventory should not be a problem

Hey Mozers...

Would you guys mind help me brainstorm?

My client contact me and he wants to build a car classified kind of website for Utah. He wants to make the website from scratch, he has a pretty good budget and plan on using online marketing together with traditional marketing.

If you were building your own car classifieds sites and budget was not a problem what would you include in your site? (ex: responsive, native ios app, blog, free tool for tell the user the value their car, etc)

How would you do the online marketing?

Which car Classified site do you like? why?

Thanks

• Felipe

You can use the Google Penalty Checker tool from Fruition: http://fruition.net/google-penalty-checker-tool/

I would not believe 100% on the tool results, but you can at least have an initial Analise, you'll need to go deeper to double check if this initial Analise is  100% relevant or not.

• Felipe

Visual.ly is pretty good site with a lot of visitors http://www.similarweb.com/website/visual.lyI dont think is unsafe to link them with your Google Analytics.

About getting "easy-to-undertand" report I recommend you use some ready-made dashboards here is a link with a few samples: http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/62828-10-useful-google-analytics-custom-dashboards

You can find other online and see which one will adapt better for your needs.

I noticed that a few people are using Triond.com to do "guest post".Is that a good way to diversify the link profile and get more traffic? Is anyone here using Triond? What do you guys think about the service?

Hey guys,

Is there any search query or website where I can get a list with all the articles by one author?

Thanks

To learn more about how to increase conversion rate, you might want check the book: Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Tuning for Conversions

Use the On-Page Grader to improve your on page optimization.

HI Tom...

You will have to do 301 redirect, Same thing as Moz did when they stop being Seomoz and became Moz.

The task will get more complex based on how much content you have.

The flow for a small site would be:

1 - Move all the content for the new platform:

2 - Make a spreadsheet with old url and new url.

3 - Create a 301 redirect.

301 do not guarantee you will keep 100% of your traffic, I noticed the most times the sites lost about 15-20% on traffic right after the 301.

Also I think that if you self host your WordPress you will have more freedom than if you just use WordPress.com

Felipe

In the past many of the articles we posted in our blog we post on Ezine articles. After Penguin still make any sense to post on Ezine? Can the post on Ezine make any bad or Good to our ranking? What kind of tactics are guys using to promote articles/post in your blog?

Every Tuesday The first thing I do in the morning is check my updates on my Moz Campaigns...

Today the numbers just don't make sense... How come Moz Analytics and Moz Pro are showing different numbers? Does any one have the same problem? Which one should i trust?

Roger, you are trying to hire above average developer and you are not finding, so you must be doing something wrong. Right?

We are trying to help you, giving you suggestions, we already told you to make the job description shorter removing "having an understanding of", we told you about the importance of the company culture to attract great developers, we told you to check the developer github and blog and many other things...

i do not understand why instead of try some of the suggestions out, you are trying to prove (sometimes even being mean with who tried help you) that all  suggestions are not valid and all that you are doing so far is already great and you dont need to improve anything.

Maybe all that you need to do to find the developer you need is to be a little bit more humble.

I agree with everything Daniel said. I would like to add that a brilliant developer knows that they are great and they know they can pick for who they work for, so when they see a job description like yours; 1 - Sounds super comic. 2 - They will run because sounds like you want to abuse them. (i am not saying you want I am just telling you what a developer will think).

If You want find an amazing developer you need to find a developer that;1 - Blog about his stuff, 2 Have an active github account with great projects, 3 - It's involve with open source.

When you find this developer you have to understand that money is "out of table" for them. They are already making very good money.  Enough to them not worry about money anymore that's why when they leave their work they keep "working" for "free" in open source projects because coding is what they love....    You have to offer them more than high salary, they want a great work environment, they want to feel they will be building something that will "change the world"... they DO NOT want to be micro manage and yes they expect to be very well paid too.

1 - You can Improve the site load time using tools like http://gtmetrix.com (page speed is also a ranking factor)

2 - I noticed you are using Magento you can install a magento extension to fix a few magento SEO Issues and give you a few extra features. I recommend http://mirasvit.com/magento-extensions/advanced-seo-suite.html

3 - Build links I mean "EARN LINKS"

Hi,

To make the integration with QuickBooks you will need a third party  service I recommend Web Gility. Their service is compatible with woo commerce you can check in the link:

http://www.webgility.com/carts/woocommerce.php

About the shopping cart I would chose the one your developer have more experience. If you are the developer and you dont have experience with any shopping cart pick the one you find better documentation and active community. So you can ask questions when you dont find in the documentation.

I am sure that any option out there won't have everything you need done and will require customization.

I personally got everything in your requirements done using Magento.

Did you define in your sitemap daily updates?

Robert,

Have you tried Authentic Jobs?

Felipe

If you check your Robots.txt https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/robots.txt You will see the fallow lines:

## Do not crawl seach pages and not-SEO optimized catalog links
Disallow: /catalogsearch/
Disallow: /catalog/product_compare/
Disallow: /catalog/category/view/
Disallow: /catalog/product/view/

Also if you Google  site:https://www.oakfurnitureking.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/45/s/boston-solid-oak-4-drawer-chest/category/6/

Your site do not show up... So you are GOOD.

http://www.wordstream.com/keywords

How many products does your store have?

Magento have an option call "URL Rewrite Management" (Catalog > URL Rewrite Management)

If you have a few products you can change the URLs manually to match OsCommerce.

If you have  a lot products you should:

1 - Export SKU and URL from OsCommerce to CSV. (ask a PHP developer to make script for you)

2 - Import the spreadsheet to magento  with the columns named: SKU and  url_key

If your site is really big you will need a third part magento extension to import the categories. Magento do not have any native function to import categories.

Hi,

Check if you like the products descriptions at http://www.shirts4geek.com/

I got done at:  https://scripted.com/

All the best...

Hi,

Depending on your client niche  you can host an event.  Events are an easy way to build a lot of links:

"Why are they easy? So long as you have an interesting event that is put on by a legitimate organization, you’re very likely to get accepted by most event listing sites. Many of the event sites require a simple form consisting of an event title, description, when and where the event takes place, and of course, a URL for more information. And as long as your event is valuable to the people that will attend, the outreach portion can be much easier than other link outreach methods."

Check the full article here: http://moz.com/blog/the-complete-guide-to-link-building-with-local-events

Sorry guys when I said "link building" I actually meant "link earning".  A few answers I got proves Rand point on his video in the Moz Academy in the "link building" section.

The reason we like calling this practice "link earning" rather than "link building" is because link building has a bad association from the past. Historically, link building has been associated with spammy and blackhat practices.

In the same video Rand also says:

This does not mean you should just sit back and wait to be discovered. That's not what we’re talking about. Link earning is a proactive process, but it's not just focused on paying for links or spamming links.

This to do list I am creating is the "Proactive Process", I believe that making goals is part of any successful strategy.

Does any one proactive earning links have any kind of weekly or daily to-do list? What do you have in your  list? What do you suggest I should add to mine?

Sure, We will be creating relevant and valuable content to attract, acquire, and engage a clearly defined and understood target audience or  in other words we will create content that people want to read.

My question is how to distribute? Do you post 100% of the content you produce in your site?

I am trying to create a weekly link building task list for my team. We are 3 people.

Does any one have any suggestion?

For example:

1 - Write x blog posts.

2 - Comment on x relevant sites.

3 - Outreach x people.

4 - Publish x guest post.

5 - Produce and Distribute x info graphic.

Does any one have any suggestions? what else should I add to the list? How many of each?

Branden thanks for sharing your personal experience, I will give a try on Marin...

Thanks Dana, always good to hear from some one in similar position.  I just start the trial I really like the interface too... I want to see how the "Bid Management tool" will behave.

hey guys...

I am trying to figure out the best way of doing PPC. I dont want waste money doing it the less effective way.

So far I have been looking at Acquisio and wordstream.. I am not sure which would be best for me or if there is other options that would be even better.

I am in house in charge of 2 ecommerce websites.

I like http://prweb.com/ -> good price decent service.

Hi guys,

I have two websites that are almost the same, I am working to merge them. One domain have authority 44 and other 24... After I merge I will have authority 68?

Should I keep the older domain or the newer? The newer has my keyword in the URL but the older have 10 years.

Thank you

Yes I agree with you, content marketing it's much more complex than seems like, also gets harder depends on your product.

I think the solution for your gardening tools example would be generate "how to" content... In our company we sell tools, recently our copywriter did a post with the title: How it Works and How to Use a Pocket-Hole Jig in the post you can see links to the product page.

Does any one else have real-world application of Content Marketing for E-Commerce Sites?

I think will be very nice if we can get together on this post a few of those examples.

Our company also have two websites, we launch the second website for different reasons than your client, We sell power tools and power tool parts in the second website we want focus more in parts.

The phone number and address it's the same in both sites.   We also have many products that are available in both sites.

When we decided to launch the second website we thought that having the same address and phone number could be a problem for our rank. Now 4 months later I don't think it cause any problem. The first website that we had for years still ranking well and improving the rank, our new website is also doing well and progressing fast.

We tried to avoid duplicate content so the product descriptions, about us page, and blog entries are different for each website. Also we didn't include the new site in the  local directories.

In my humble opinion as long you have different content in each website the phone number and address wont be a problem.