blog.example.com will not enjoy the link juice as would example.com/blog. By using the subdomain, you are basically starting a new site.
Hopefully that answers your question.
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blog.example.com will not enjoy the link juice as would example.com/blog. By using the subdomain, you are basically starting a new site.
Hopefully that answers your question.
In this case, example.com would get credit for "cat", but not for "dog" nor "bird".
Hi Cecilia, my client's site crashed for a couple days too, but this was about 1 year ago. Actually it was an attack (DDoS). Our rankings disappeared, but once I was able to get the site back up, most of our rankings came back to were they were before immediately. If I remember correctly, I think we were offline for 2 days and completely recovered within 1 week. The reason I think it took one week was it took Google a week to come back to my site and crawl it.
My advice: Don't worry too much about it. Your rankings should come back because it's an algorithm.
I wouldn't think that is too much to worry about. If it did have an affect, it would only affect that particular page. As Remco said, perhaps a plugin would work, but then again I wouldn't worry about it.
A very strong home page will help out wack landing pages. If you have the time to breeze through chapter 7, it may help to grow the popularity: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo.
There are way too many factors in trying to find out why one page ranks over another.
And let me tell you one thing.... always remember this.... OSE is not that accurate, but it's the next best thing to have since you can't get your competitors username/pass to GWT. Compare your GWT inbound links to OSE's inbound links to see if there is a difference.
My recommendation is work on your pages. Jesus Christ! If you were Google, would you rank a page with only 3 sentences? http://www.rainchainsdirect.com/collections/todays-deals/products/contempo-chain Those pages are probably bringing down the rest of your site.
Sorry to sound so blunt, but that's my answer.
Don't do directory submissions if that's what you are talking about, especially if your site is new. Link building is important, but don't get fooled into thinking the more links from link directories is going to get your site ranking. A lot of them are straight out spammy sites anyway. Instead do some manual directory submissions using this: http://www.seomoz.org/directories I would recommend to build one real link and one directory submission at a time.
Focus on writing KICK ASS content and people will link to you. I have Universities link to me and I have nothing to do with education. But these Universities link because they find the information useful for there students.
I suggest reading the Beginners Guide: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links
PS, I, along with everyone in this forum, have been waiting 2 years for DMOZ to index our sites. Submit and move on.
You would point like this:
redirect 301 /AboutUS http://www.NewDomain.com/AboutUs
the /AboutUs is the URL you want to 301. The NewDomain is the domain to want to point to.
Cesar, you are bringing me back to times when I first asked questions like this.hehe
Ok, think about it like this. "IF" that were true, don't you think all of us on SEOMoz would have already done it.
Don't optimize for search engines. Optimize for conversions! Do the best thing for your visitors.
Your answer is... not likely if those pages have no authority.
I don't quite understand the question "**They fix 20 on-page links every month. " **Is your site that broken where you have 20 broken links per page?
It sounds like you are a beginner. Please read http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo
There is a section, Chapter 7, in there about link popularity. It should help answer many questions. In fact I recommend to many people that they should print this out and go to a coffee shop.
I answer a LOT of questions here on SEOmoz. Don't forget that you have access to a lot of tools here like the Beginners guide to SEO http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo.
Piece of advice from me to you... if you are trying to rank higher by doing something that can be easily done (like paid links, directory submissions, article submissions, and even crappy guest blog posts, blog network for backlinks), there is a HIGH likeliness that you will unintentionally hurt your site.
Ask questions here in Q&A before doing something stupid, but 1st read the beginners guide.
I would run a test and create a URL example.com/test. Check to see if it's in the sitemap, then delete it and check to see if it dropped from the site map. It should, but you never know.
3 - Outreach x people.
Here's is where most companies need to focus. I feel that many people do not offer any value to webmasters whe conducting outreach. Every week I get approached with something like "Hi, I have some copy that's original content. " To me the's bs because I didn't ask for it and I know it's probably being re-spun. My link builder gets about 1 new domain that links to my client every day. It's a slow process, but what makes it more scalable is using a software like Buzzstream.
So I would encourage you to learn how to use Buzzstream effectively and to use Advanced search operators to make it easier. If you have any questions regrading buzzstream, PM me.
Also, WRITE SOME SUPER KICK ASS CONTENT PEOPLE WANT TO LINK TO
I trust them. I highly doubt the will be trying to sell my Analytics information to my competitors. Besides, they are gathering the information using the GA API (I think).
Do you trust Google with your Analytics knowing they benchmark your performance and show it anonymously to others? Many large companies don't trust Google and choose Ominture Site Catalyst.
Don't worry, you are fine trusting SEOMoz with your analytics. They don't even have your GA password.
Woot Woot! I don't see eHow above me anymore!
OSE is not perfect, but it is a gauge I use for competitor analysis. My sites have much less links in OSE compared to GWT. Compare the smartness of GoogleBot with RogerBot. When GoogleBot get to an ecommerce website, somehow it grabs the product listed on your HTML sitemap and inserts it into the search box. I heard Matt Cutts say that. Imagine them doing that with WordPress and every other CMS that has a search field? RogerBot isn't as smart.
I answer many questions here in Q&A. Instead of helping one individual, I thought this would help many newbies understand how Google uses human raters for web search. Watch Matt and learn why you should not SPAM or make sorry titles.
http://youtu.be/nmo3z8pHX1E?hd=1
I hope this short video helps you! Leave a comment if you wish.
Rusty! I am glad you are honest about your budget. Here is my honest opinion about why I chose SEOmoz when I did.
Before looking for SEO tool, I didn't know what was working. All I knew at the time was that I was growing my SEO. I really didn't know how to keep track of it. One day I felt that I needed SEO Tools to keep track of my SEO campaigns. I knew Google Analytics was not the answer. So I turned to Aaron Wall's SEObook and I was a subscriber there. After several months I outgrew that community "learning" about SEO. Needless to say, I canceled my monthly subscription there. I had looked at SEOmoz, but I didn't join because I wasn't ready. I thought I was, but my income was too low and I didn't need to add another bill.
There came a point when I really felt that I needed SEO tools, not crappy free ones. I needed a dashboard to tell me what my campaigns were doing AND how I was doing against my competitors. ALSO, I used SEOmoz's ranking reports to land a client. I told them we can "see" if your site is growing or shrinking.
You may be too early in your SEO career to justify the monthly subscription. I would suggest to find someone to split the cost with. You make the payment and have 3 of the 5 campaigns. Also $100/mo can be large for someone. If it was a one-time deal, no biggie. But if a man needs to put food on the table for his wife and children, he shouldn't sign up. If you feel you are redlining your finances, don't sign up. "IF" you do sign up, you better use it as a SOLID excuse to go land some real clients.
LOL no problem! I do outsource to people in USA ESPECIALLY for content writing and some development.
I also like the in-person team environment. Your reply does not sound cheesy. I find that community is stronger in other states vs Southern California. Over here it seems that companies are not loyal to their employees or their families. Oer here it's all about the bottom line and keeping the most money in our pockets. I wish the community here was more like yours like Jacksonville, FL.
I was a subscriber to Guitar World for many years. I don't think I would even do a search for it. I would go directly to the website. Guitar World is a HIGHLY branded company and is carried in Guitar Center, Walmart, Target, Barnes and Noble, etc.
Don't use guitar world as your anchor text. It's like using JC Penny as your anchor text and not having it link to JC Penny.
I would keep people on the page ESPECIALLY if it's paid search. I also want people to go to our Facebook Fan page, but I don't send them there until the Thank You page (conversion page). On my conversion page, I put a video telling them to 1) Give me a Facebook URL Like 2) Visit our Facebook and become a fan 3) sign up for Newsletter.
The less steps between a conversion, the better.
Before you make a decision, check your Google Analytics to see how low your conversion rates are from the Facebook fan page. The reason is say "low" is no matter how I look at it (last click, assisted, 1st click) it still doesn't beat my paid advertising conversion ratio. Get the conversion 1st, then send them to the Facebook Fan Page.
1 company = 1 Brand page
5 locations = 1 page for each location. Each location gets it's own reviews.
"It often takes a full 8 hour day or more to write a top quality article. "
Funny you say that. I spent 10 hours today writing one page of kick ass highly relevant content. But I could have written 8 blog posts today with that time. NOPE, I know better. I have Universities link to my content.
Hotel Perth because adwords is showing the exact match while insights (i think) is showing broad match. My decision is based of exact match. This is only based off the information you have given
EDIT: I meant to say Hotels Perth.
Rel Canonical!
Your CMS may have a solution. If not, then there should be a paid plugin.
I use Addthis on my site:
It shows in their analytics as well as GA. The only problem I had with them was that it was slow at 1st. Then I added a script to my header,and my pages started load FAST FAST FAST. I didn't know that Addthis was making them slow in the beginning. I have ass this on almost every page including the blog and a couple ecommerce sites of mine.
rel=canonical. That's my answer. Also you may want to watch WBF http://www.seomoz.org/blog/cross-domain-canonical-the-new-301-whiteboard-friday. I don't know if that will help though.
I really don't worry about my content being scraped. I get backlinks from it anyway. Also, I make sure "I" rel canonical it just in case some scraper comes by.
Normally it takes about 2 days for he conversions to populate in Google Adwords. I learned that the hard way. So if you are looking at yesterday's Adwords information, you will not see conversions. Your Google Analytics conversions have nothing to do with your Google Adwords conversions.
I don't think you can do anything about that. Sounds like you're saying it a dynamic URL?
I don't see that URL in your source code.
Also, it looks like you're posting a lot of site speed questions.
Look into this AWESOME WP plugin and watch the video:
They have local chapters. I believe you can order over the phone, but here's their online form: http://www.la.bbb.org/Apply.aspx
Make sure to make yourself sound SMALL, okay? Because the larger your company is, the more they charge.
Find an author on oDesk and give them continuous work. I have found really good mom bloggers who will work for $12/hr on an "as needed" basis. Let me know if you want her info. She has a degree in journalism.
Your product category pages should only focus on 1 or 2 keywords. If you come out with a lot of keywords on one page, it may look like you are keyword stuffing. The only way to tell which are going to be your best keywords is by hooking up Google Analytics and setting up conversion goals. This will tell you he value of the keyword. If you are using Google adwords, it'll tell you if a particular keyword is making or losing you money.
I always break things down into categories.
Mens shirt, Womens shirt, Baby Shirt, Dog shirt. You won't run into so much duplication like you would with the two categories you are talking about (baby & shirt). Use the Control F in Excel to find and replace duplicate keywords.
You may want to join this community on Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/104474428845467390263
Google Authorship & Author Rank (All things Google Authorship Related)
I don't think I would trust any free analytics from anyone else besides Google. If I didn't have GA, then I would pay for Adobe's (formerly Omniture) sitecatalyst or IBM's COreMetrics
When people say get to the top of Google, they mean SEO. SEOMOZ is all about that. On here we really don't talk much about Adwords. I love Adwords and I am great at it, but I don't think many people here are as interested in hearing about Adwords.
Yes have good content for SEO. In fact, write some SUPER KICKASS content. Use the keywords in your content, BUT don't overdo it.
"Next I wish to have campaigns setup in google adwords keeping in mind those competitive keywords - here again does content on my website play a role? If I have no content and then have google adwords setup does that help? Please advice"
Answer YES! Your quality Score if affected. Low quality score = Higher CPC. Higher Quality Score = Less CPC.
"How long before I add good content pages and expect them to show up in my analytics etc?"
I don't understand that sentence. If you mean how long your content will take to show up in the SERPS, normally on the next crawl. "IF" someone visits your new content page, then it'll take about 2 hours to report in GA.
Here's how I did mine: http://www.shipoverseas.com/us/more/how-to-ship-a-car-overseas-faq.html
Maybe that can give you an idea.
You should use the highest converting keywords in your Adwords account. That's what you should do. If you haven't run any Adwords, spend $100+ and setup some conversion goals in GA. If you have money, do like I did and get certified by Avinash: http://www.marketmotive.com/internet-marketing-training-and-certification-signup?top=home&topic=WebAnalytics
Avinash is on the home page of SEOMOZ.
Try to put the FB Like button on your conversion page and tell people to click the like button so the Like goes to the home page. Addthis will not work for this so you will need to make a button here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
I recommend taking Avinash's course. He is well known here on SEOmoz. He's on the home page of SEOMOZ.org
Mine always seem to match. But I depersonalize the URL. &pws=0
I use firefox AND I'm logged into my Google Account. I have always received great results from SEO moz. The only time I see messed up results is when there Google triggers local results for words like Laywer, Mechanic, City + keyword. In my neck of the woods, just the KW bail bonds triggers a local search. SEOmoz cannot track local results, only organic SERPS
You better back up your DB before doing that. Anyway, take a look at this MagentoConnect extension http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/MageWorx.com/extension/2852/seo-suite-enterprise#overview
or this one (it's by the same company
http://www.mageworx.com/seo-suite-pro-magento-extension.html
The question sounds a little confusing. I'll give my best shot at answering this. If you want to see how your site performs in Google Analytics, then you would go under ADMIN > Your site > Filters > New Filter > Exclude "Traffic fro the IP Addresses. Once you do that, Google Analytics will block your IP address. I DEFINITELY use this to block my IP and the office IP address because it would mess up all reporting.
Sounds like you're going to need to get a new software for your website. There is no minimum or maximum amount for Facebook likes. This is all going to depend upon your competition which we don't know. Use open site Explorer to see what the competition has. It may take a long time to rack up shares.
Give your Adwords Conversion code about 2 days to really start showing conversions. Also don't forget to sync GA and Adwords within your GA Account.
I learned this from Avinash. Look into MoongeMetrics. It will integrate with GA and you can track your offline conversions. The phone number will change depending on where the source. For instance, if you want you 800 # to show for organic search, the PHP script will populate the 800 # only for organic search. If you want area code 123 to show for local calls, then the PHP script will show the 123 phone number to people ONLY in that city. LEARN about this because it will answer a lot of your questions. Sorry I can't go into more detail. I have to go, but spend a couple hours studying it.
http://www.google.com/analytics/apps/results?category=Phone%20Call%20Tracking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2yndcPXUL8 (this is moongemetrics)
I agree with Alan's reply. Try canonical 1st. If you don't see any change, remove the URLs in GWT.
I normally don't leave long responses and I don't read long comments either. But I wanted to say that your subscription to SEOMOZ includes webinars. Here is one of them: http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/ecommerce-seo-fix-and-avoid-common-issues
If you have the money, buy the MOZCON videos and watch: E-Commerce SEO -- Tips & Tricks (http://www.seomoz.org/videos/e-commerse-seo-tips-and-tricks)
I am one of the smaller guys here (getting bigger though). When I have people call me with an HTML site, I normally prefer to move them to WordPress or Magento, if ecommerce. If all you need is on-site optimization, you're going to get a wide range of quotes. If you want your site to be all on WP and don't mind outsourcing, go to oDesk or PM and I'll put you in touch with one of my developers overseas.
HTML > Wordpress is completely different than an SEO. This all depends on how small/big your site is for both the move and SEO services. I'm just speaking from experience that the HTML sites I have worked with were a pain in the ass because of CSS issues. CMS is the way to go.