When Google talks about GeoTargeting they mean countries, not cities. You cannot get target cities in GWT, only countries.
I have NEVER seen a company that had a website with subdomains for every city.
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When Google talks about GeoTargeting they mean countries, not cities. You cannot get target cities in GWT, only countries.
I have NEVER seen a company that had a website with subdomains for every city.
301 redirects within .htaccess. I don't have a step by step because you can google it and get the code.
This is an .htaccess issue. You want to point the non-www to the www. This is not a canonical issue.
There is not enough information to answer this question. if this is geo targeted to cities, then why not just do example.com/city-1, example.com/city-2, etc.
Sounds like the buyer is leaving the website to make a payment then coming back, which would be a direct visit. You said " shopping cart vendor". When someone goes to make a payment, do they leave the site?
I say you keep your current clients. Hire somebody on a part time basis and have the checks sent to your parents house or your best friend. Have them deposit the checks and pay them a fee. OR hire a book keeper to do it for you.
I am hiring someone locally so that I can invoice my clients even when I am on vacation. It's not about "me" working; it's about my company working. Hire someone part time so they can represent your company while you go travel.
Matt Cutts says those are symbols and that they are looked at as spaces.
Google Plus has now replaced Google Places. Do BOTH! Start getting reviews for your Google Plus BRAND page. Get at least 10 real reviews and then you might start showing.
I market on Craigslist. Shhhhh don't tell anyone....
Yes, it's a Nofollow.
Try Vimeo for Business http://vimeo.com/business
SEOMOZ uses Wistia.
BOTTOM LINE: Adwords has NO effect on Ranking.
You can use Adwords to find better converting keywords and THEN target those keywords in SEO.
I don't agree with this response. Sorry Dana.
BigBlaze is going to lose rankings very easily. Also, listen to Matt Cutts here talk about duplicate content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z07IfCtYbLw
Also watch this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFNK8gSDxHA
If you can't do 150 product pages with a unique TITLE nor DESCRIPTION, then you don't deserve to rank. Do 10 per day. Your problem will be over in 15 days. After that, start writing a couple paragraphs of original content of why your service is better than the competitors (even if you don't have competitors).
You are in this for the long haul.
Your TITLE - 10x20x1 furnace filters - shop at furnace filters canada
My example TITLE - 10x20x1 Furnace Filters - Breathe Clean Healthy Air & Avoid Allergies.
Why not just put up the link you are talking about so we can see for ourselves?
That used to happen to me. I changed my title tags to see if Google would display them differently on the next crawl. It didn't work. THen I rewrote them again using completely different keywords and then Google displayed it the way I had written it.
My suspicion as to why this happened to me was I used the words car & auto in the title. I also used rates & cost. Maybe Google thought I was over optimizing my titles. Try it out and see if something changes on your title tags.
I don't know what you mean by startpage. Do you mean home page?
I have many competitors that have exact match domains (EMD). I out rank them because I wrote better content for that particular keyword. Write great content and you will be rewarded by Google.
I use labels to track keywords for different Adwords campaigns within SEO MOZ. For instance, I have a label for "container shipping", "motorcycle shipping", and a "car shipping".
I would do full URLs. If your site gets scraped, you'll get a link pointing back.
I used to cell sell phones through my old site, ebay and Amazon. If you are looking for a link builder, get a link building strategy first. Pay someone a couple hundred dollars to help build that for you, then go shopping around.
Also, I recommend that your link builder use software like Buzzstream for outreach. You can find a couple of agencies in the top 30 users of SeoMoz. (disclaimer: I'm one of the agencies). Some focus only on link penalty removal, some on conversions, some on link building.
EITHER JEREMYPARKER.NET OR 4) JEREMYPARKER.NAME. I DON'T THINK I HAVE SEEN A .NAME THOUGH.
I say to try to get the maximum amount of characters in there 1st. I would probably drop the .com. As for ranking factors, symbols are considered spaces (except for the underscore _)
I'll; be the 1st to admit, I'm not answering anymore Q&As for a couple more weeks until they fix their "everything is fine on our end" server.
Laters!!!
Try putting your company name in the First and Last name and see what happens. Mine didn't work, so I just made up a first and last name and pretty much left it as is. It controls my youtube channel and a couple other things that I don't want an employee to have access to.
All I know is if my clients' websites were as slow as SEOmoz's Q&A, they would all be out of business.
This has been happening for days. So not just regular molasses, but cold molasses. LOL. That's pretty darn slow.
I try and answer many questions here on SEOMoz Q&A, but the page load speed seems so slow I think my browser is going to time out.
I don't remember it being this slow. Anybody else noticing slow loading (especially when asking, answering, or replying to questions)?
I wouldn't worry about being scraped. My sites get scraped. SEOmoz gets scraped all the time. I your case, I would do two things. 1) Build the table and immediately resubmit that page in GWT. 2) Insert a row at the bottom of the table and put anchor text so if anyone does scrape your site, they point a link back to you. Or another approach is to insert a top row in the table and make an image saying something generic like "Singapore Dry Cleaning Services". Have the image on "your" server and/or make it link to your home page with the alt tags like alt="Singapore Dry Cleaning".
If you want to set up a Google Plus Company page, it is just like setting up a Facebook Fan Page.
Here is how mine is setup:
francisco@AcmeCorp.com (Francisco's Google Plus Page)
joe@AcmeCorp.com (Joe's Google Plus page)
Acme Corp (Acme Corp's Google Plus Company Page)
The acme corp company page can have BOTH francisco and joe as administrators.
Whoa, there are way too many images above the content. This image should be a table http://www.drycleaning.com.sg/images/Laundry-Dry-Cleaning-Rates.jpg. If I remember correctly, Google looks at the l x w of images of ads and
s and may think there is not enough content above the fold. Your content is way too far down the page.
Just a question, why Copyright 2004-2014 in the footer and not Copyright 2004-2013?
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.
That's the video I was looking to post but I couldn't find it. Thanks!
Hi Charles, I have to disagree if the phrase "direct impact" means higher rankings.
Here's why.... I buy Facebook Likes through Facebook ads. Matt Cutts wouldn't allow people to "buy" their way to #1 based off social signals. Same thing with Tweets.
However, if you mean "direct impact" as being getting more referral traffic to a site, then yes it can help pushing people from Facebook to a site.
I made a blog post with guest-blog-post in the URL and in the title.
Here is an example: http://www.shipoverseas.com/blog/2012/10/guest-blog-posts-for-auto-industry-now-accepted/
I get contacted a few times a week.
Hi JA,
you can TOTALLY damage your site. Rand talks about this in one of his WBF. It sounds like you are very new to internet marketing. you may want to read this: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo
Anytime you are trying to game the Google algorithm, you risk damaging your site's ranking abilities. OBVIOUSLY 5000 directory submissions is something to game the algorithm. I wouldn't do it.
It's okay to reciprocal link with a quality website. I "reciprocal" link to my BBB page: http://www.bbb.org/san-diego/business-reviews/freight-forwarding/ship-overseas-inc-in-san-diego-ca-25001132/.
I recommend that you read: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo
I don't know if you'll find any listing here specifically for NZ, but we mozzers use this list: http://www.seomoz.org/directories
I hope that helps.
BTW, as for paid directories, maybe you can get join a professional organization like a chamber of commerce (we have that here in the US).
I think the most effective way is making a list of all your locations in Google Plus so that your locations come out in the local SERPs. Google Plus has now replaced Google Places for local search.
I don't think that putting the domain is going to hurt. Just make sure it's not spammy. Also, make sure you are submitting to quality directories.
What you should do is contact Ryan Kent. He's one of us mozzers. I recommend his services.
http://www.seomoz.org/users/profile/312503
I have sent him a client.
You're going to have to use advanced segments to drill further down. Try finding the source of the traffic. If you still can't figure it out, take the Google Analytics course. I think it's called Conversion University.
There isn't enough information to give you a solution to your problem (no screen shots?)
Just make sure your URLs are good. You shouldn't have any problem with SEO. Also, make sure that your website is not down for long periods of time because if Google Bot sees that the site is down, it may affect rankings. G bot won't do anything the 1st time around, but if it comes back again and the site is still down, you might be removed from the SERPs.
If that happens, your site will be algorithmically back to where it was before once the site is back up.
I didn't have any problem in rankings going from one host to another. Talk to Host Gator and to Dreamhost. They can help you transfer your site from one host to another.
I heard Matt Cutts say the same thing.
Remember that when doing 301s, not all the link juice is passed. Matt Cutts also says that.
1st make sure that "if" you're using Bing/Yahoo paid search that you are using the Google URL builder because if you're not using Google's URL builder, you'll see Bingads record as Organic.
Next, it's okay to have one Google tracking code for the entire domain. If you want to treat the subdomain as a separate website, then all you have to do is create another "profile" for the sub-domain. Do NOT have 2 different Google Analytics code on the same website. Either have one for both sites OR one each.
Once you do that, give it a few days (I recommend MINIMUM 2 days) to see if things record the right way.
It may be faster to get a response if you ask help@seomoz.org or call them.
- corporate website pages - I would probably focus on these if they are providing conversions.
- landing pages for specific content offers that are gated behind a form - Do these landing pages even rank since they can only be accessed by filling out a form? If so, then this would be last.
- blog posts - Check you Google Analytics for the blog posts that are bringing in conversions (Time on Site, Sales, Leads, etc).
I personally would let Google Analytics "show" me what to focus on 1st. I would make the pages that are already doing good become better.
I get enough search traffic from it to support 10 people. I guess the phrase "lot of traffic" is a matter of perspective.
Yes I agree. But a little clarification here. Google can tell when a searcher goes from Google SERP > Landing Page > Hits Back Button > Back to Google SERP. They will use that info as their bounce rate, but not GA info.
What you are hearing is garbage. Don't listen to those people. GA has no effect on rankings. Even Matt Cutts said it. If GA did have an effect on rankings, the SERPS would be biased. Also many large companies use Ominture, Web Trends, Site Catalyst for the analytics.
My advice: Install GA.
No index No Follow in the header.
The only time I would expect that is if a marketer is using the Google URL builder and put "Scrabble dictionary" as the keyword.
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.