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Yes, building enough backlinks with the correct anchor text will get the page ranked high but there are 100s of similar pages to that on our website. I can't have backlinks to every one of those pages.

Time could fix this but our website has been better than all those sites in terms of content for many years. Yes, I've looked at what those sites have too, a number of key links mostly paid.

We have a page on our website for our review of the "Voltage" shisha flavor by "Social Smoke" (Social Smoke is the brand). Voltage is one of their hookah tobacco flavors. https://www.hookah.org/social-smoke-voltage-flavored-hookh-tobacco/. When I search for "Social Smoke Voltage Review", our page is at the bottom of the first page result.

We have a video, decent content on the page, and a review function. We've implemented correct Schema code too: https://goo.gl/iwCP7E. When I use the page grade tool on Moz. Our page ranks B for that keyword but the results number 1 and 2 and 3 on Google all rank C or D. Our video and review schemas don't show up on Google search result either.

We have a good community online. Our social media pages are popular. We share the blog posts on the social media accounts fairly regularly too. We have an old and established website. From what I understand we are following all of Google's standards and rules too. What does a website owner gotta do?

Thanks. I'll start using a URL shortener and see what kind of data I can get. The final solution might be a combination of social media management tool and a URL shortener. I'll have to play with something like sproutsocial and see if I can programatically generate social media performance for a sub-group of my posts (separating the reports for each lawyer in our system)

Thanks agian

Hi sym_admin,

That's a really good idea. If I use a branded URL shortener, I can see how I can track link clicks. Can I also track likes and views and other social media metrics?

Hello Moz community,

I have an Analytics question. Is there a way (using the social media APIs or otherwise) to track performance of individual social media posts to generate monthly reports?

We list lawyers on our directories for people to find.  We also share the lawyer's information on our social media posts. I'd like to be able to generate a monthly report letting the lawyers know what we've done for them on social media pages.

I'm thinking....we can identify a social media post by the URL inside the text of the post (IF URL_Inside_Page =Lawyer-Profile-Page_URL Then). I'd like to see numbers like:

• Facebook post clicks (combined)
• Facebook post likes (combined)
• Facebook post views (combined)
• Twitter post views (combined)
• Twitter post clicks (combined)

Thank you

Thanks Andre. Do you know what the [NC] stands for or accomplishes?

In the Moz Site Crawl issue, I was seeing an error that said we were temporarily redirecting our homepage to https URLs. So I changed the code in htaccess to make it 301 redirect but I'm still getting the same error. I implemented it last week and we just had a new crawl yesterday. Here is the new code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^heritagelawmarketing.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.heritagelawmarketing.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]

Does anyone know why I'm still getting 302 redirects?

Thanks

Thank you all very much. Yes, Farsi is Persian.

CleverPhD, I'm definitely going to add the markups you suggested.

Gianluca, I'm not targeting Iran with the Farsi translations - that is definitely a second goal. I'm targeting Iranians around the world who search on Google in Farsi. Or simply Iranians who land on the site because our offline marketing but they prefer a Farsi website because their English is not very good.

The language markup and the hreflang markup seem basic and easy enough to implement. I also found a bunch of wrong URLs in our sitemap that might have caused some duplicate content issues. I've ran the on-page SEO tool here on Moz too. Moz bot doesn't seem to be able read Farsi but it doens't give me any accessibility issues.

Again, thank you for your replies.

Hi,

We've build a lawyer directory website (www.iranianlawyers.com) which already has good Google rankings for related terms (Ex. Iranian lawyers, Iranian lawyers california, etc). About 1.5 months ago we translated the site to Farsi and published it online: www.iranianlawyers.com/farsi

However we have yet to see any new traffic generated from those pages. The website has a decent back-link profile and there are no almost no competitors in our space with translated pages. Would someone please take a look at our translated pages and let me know if there are any major on-site issues that you see that we need to address? I've checked for noindex or nofollow tags but they dont seem to be an issue. Not sure if I'm missing something here.

Thank you very much

What are the conditions under which we should noindex blog categories?

I'm asking because I want to decided whether or not to noindex our categories. here.

Thanks EGOL. Yes, I've realized that I need to  have a strategy and to make a conscious decision to index or noindex. My category pages do pull in some SE traffic but I also have pages that compete directly with those category pages. In terms of content those specific pages (articles) are superior to the category pages too.

One other solution is what you did which is delete the category all together and use "hub" pages that link to all my other content.

I'm definitely going to do some reading and learning about this in the next couple weeks.

Exactly. This is what I did for one such page last week.

So do you think if I create enough of those type pages, it would be wise to no-index our category pages?

On another side note, I asked some of our members whether they would prefer to see "hub" pages or "category" pages linked in the sidebar menu... and they responded Category pages.