Hi there,

I looked at your site, looks good. I also ran your site through I tool I recently discovered (it might be an old tool but still).

http://nibbler.silktide.com/en_US/reports/www.clickdesk.com

It gives you a report about your site looking at coding, social media accounts and reach, localization features etc. It might not be the best software or not a bible of internet marketing but it does give you quite a interesting view on things. I recently solved a lot of problems with different websites which helped me rank better but internet marketing is not an exact science as you just might know.

Hope it helps some

Regards

Jarno

you should check out this weeks WBF:
http://moz.com/blog/panda-optimization-whiteboard-friday
It's also about the above the fold content.

Regards
Jarno

Perhaps you could try focussing on the exclamation mark (!).

That you use the HTACCESS file to rewrite the url with the exclamation mark to the url without?

Something like:

RewriteRule ^!(.*) http://www.site.com/locations/$1 [R=301,L]

The exact syntaxis for this statement should come close to this one. I'm not sure that this will work but it might work.

Regards
Jarno

Ross,

it depends on the DoubleClick policy which I believe is completely nofollow.

As an additional explanation to Alan's statement:

Normally about 85% of a page's value can flow to another page on another website. If that links points to another page again only 85% of that can pull through, so theoretical:

Lets say website A has a value of 5 and link to website C through DoubleClick (B)

Hop 1: Value a * 85% = 4.25 juice flow

Hop 2: Value B * 85% = 3.61 juice flow

And that is if there is only 1 link on the page. A long long time ago when PR was everything I read an article on how to calculate PR for page x and it goes as follows:

PRx = ((1-0,15) * PRpage)/#links

So in this case is you wanted to calculate the recieved PR for page X that it got from the link on page Y (with a PR of 5 and a total of 25 links on the page) you would get:

PRx = (1-0,15)*5)/25 = 0.17

All these calculations for Page x together give you a number and that number equals a scale which in turns decides what PR wold be given to a specific page.

I personally still calculate a lot of my incoming flow like this only by now I don't focus on PR but more on authority.

Hope this will help you.

regards

Jarno

p.s. always useful for chaning your mindset about a lot of things isn't it.

Llanero,

i'm sticking with MODX. It gives me a lot more space programming wise over Wordpress. Templates can be easily made in HTML and converted to Templates whereas you need a lot of specific knowledge for Wordpress.

As highland also responded: As long as you can manipulate URL's, title's, descriptions, H tags and content you'll be fine.

wordpress has the Yoast plugin (i think it's called that) that is made for SEO purposes but MODX can be easily adapted for SEO purposes.

regards

Jarno

Thanks Highland,

I know exactly what you mean and I totally agree. ModX has a big advantage for me over Wordpress. Coding is much easier. Modx lets you use title, longtitle, meta description and all other kinda stuff if you want to. I really like the interface and usability a lot more then wordpress (and yes I have worked with that too).

So thanks again.

Kind Regards

Jarno

Hello community,

I recently was asked by a client to analyze a website of a competitor. I did was he asked me to do but when I  looked at the source code of the website I found this code:

I changed the exact words into something for privacy reasons, but I never looked at a code like this.
Using a div for an anchor I get but adding a title tag to the div? I never seen that before. Title tags on anchors, yes, using images in divs as background and then adding a title???

Does anyone have any experience with a code like this and if you do how does this impact rankings? Does it impact rankings at all and does anybody know of any correlation between the two?

Looking forward for your responses.

Regards

Jarno

Lately I've been working a lot with Modx to create a new site for our own firm as well for other projects. But so far I haven't seen the advantages for SEO purposes other then the fact that with ModX you can manage almost everything yourself including snippets etc without to much effort.

Wordpress is a known factor for blogging and since the last 2 years or so for websites.

My question is: Which platform is better suited for SEO purposes? Which should I invest my time in? ModX or Wordpress?

Hope to hear your thought on the matter

Alan,

on the subject of Adsense i'm kind of an expert myself by testing everything there is to know.

When you say:

"The press releases (for business readers) have the same two google ads, plus a leaderboard ad (I could remove that, but these were placements advised by google a few years ago)

They also have a single skyscraper ad below the fold and a Chitika ad under the story."

This is your violation if my count is correct:

2 Google ads + leaderboard ad + skyscraper + Chitika ad = 5 ads which is not allowed according to Google policy. I suggest limiting the total amount of ads to 3 on each page. If you use another ad program next to Adsense it still counts as 1. So if you place 2 Google ads and a Chitika ad then you should be fine.

I agree with you that there are a lot of knowledgeable people here. But my experience on this subject is that I found more help on webmasterworld and adsense forum then here. That's just my experience in the matter.

When I look at you site I must admit that I would go for a redesign with less ads and less screaming banana's. Look through you eyelashes and see what jumps out on a page. I would go for a page were less is more. That's just my opinion.

If i interpreted your explanation correctly about the ads then your ad count is too high and lowering that could solve your problem. If not let me know what you meant maybe there is another explanation.

Regards

Jarno

Alan,

My best guess is that your websites violates their policy. I've had this happens once before without even knowing it (was showing ads next to a landmap and added the text above (click on one of the provinces for more posibilities -> resulted in a penalty for endorsing click trough rates). Every normal person would understand that the click would be at the map and not the ads but still it gotten me banned.

If Google truly suggests (as shown in their e-mail) you need to improve the site. If you're site is truly a chat site and that is not allowed then one way to go is open a new site for another purpose -> request a new adsense account on that website -> allowed -> open a channel for your old site and place ads. It's not the way it should go but it could work.

Have you tried webmasterworld about this? I found some help their on the subject of adsenses in the past.

Another great source is the Google Adsense forum for help.

Look for things around this subject:
the sale or distribution of term papers, or any other content that is illegal, promotes illegal activity, or infringes on the legal rights of others is not allowed.

Hope you can sort this out.

Regards

Jarno

p.s. happy holiday (for as far as possible)

Andrew,

If I understand you correctly it's about the on-page factors of your SEOMoz campaign?

I think they just check what page is indexed for that keyword by Google. Adjusting the page manually in the system is a temporary solution. After that they again go for the indexed page. Maybe it would be wiser to adjust your pages for the keywords in stead of altering the URL.

The page that ranks best for your keyword might just be the most logical page for that keyword. So in stead of adjusting URL's you might want to rethink that strategy and adjust the page.

Hope my insight may help you

regards

Jarno

Carolina,

that sounds like a normal way to go, yes. If you used www.domain.com before i would definitely use it again. No only is it known by people perhaps but also for all the link juice (links pointing to your website) that were build to www.domain.com instead of domain.com. And i would urge them to install analytics on it as soon as possible.

Since it is new design site (no new content?) and the site has been redirected to another subdomain (www. is also a subdomain..) Google could possibly see this as a new website which in turn could mean that it could rank more difficult over time. This is not per se the case but it could happen.

I would urge the developer to undo the redirect immediately, and let him install analytics.If you do this you should be in the right direction again.

kind regards

Jarno

the .ec stands for ecuador. You can also register that. But .com.ec is also a possibility but it just uses 2 steps (.com) for international and .ec for geotargeting. Maybe using mysitename.ec works better for geotargeting.

Nathan,

15 repeats is a bit excessive but then again your question about why Google in ranking the terms differently is one I asked myself a couple of times now. I use singular and plural version of a word for one of my websites. The search volume for both is not the same. The plural version is a bit lower then the singular one.

Still if you optimize your page for the plural version the singular one should be taken into consideration because in my case the singular version of the word is part of the plural (minicamping and minicampings). The problem is in the fact that these words match for the biggest part.

I would suggest reducing the number of times the word(s) is/are repeated by at least 5 no matter how big the content is, unless it is completely natural off course. That all depends on the words you are using I guess.

Hope this helps

kind regards

Jarno

Jungles,

I don't have any info about experiments on that but I do have something else. A client of mine updates their own pages using Adobe Contribute. I told him not to repeat the keyword he wanted to rank for to many times due to a penalty by Google that could occur. He didn't listen and added 5 sequences of the keywords (keyword contains 4 words). This brought the percentile of the keyword on that page above 15%. Since then.. he ranks number one for that specific keyword and no penalty what so ever.

So just  assuming that a 10% density wouldn't work for generic keywords is not helpful nor is it true but personally i would no go that far.  When using brand names it is a bit different. It makes it more natural sometimes. Using a brand name in each sentence for one could be considered very natural while other people might think it's spamming behavior.

I feel like it's more a flip of an coin and I wouldn't take the change. It would focus on other aspects to rank for the keyword then density.

Hope my advice might help you along a bit

kind regards

Jarno

I personally lean more towards the reaction of EGOL. If you put enough effort in it, keep it straight white hat and do all the steps suggested in the SEOblog section (like link earning in stead of link building) then over time you can outrank that site for sure. But keep working on it. Be social.. share everything you can on facebook, twitter and off course the BIG G+.

Tricks can help you in the short run but hurt you in the long run so i wouldn't go for that straight away.

You could also try registering the other domain you mentioned, put up some content and everything and build it next to your existing website (without copying text etc.). You could do this as a supporting role for your primary website if you wish. But i would focus on my primary website first and improving that one.

regards

Jarno

Hi Ketan,

first let's see if this is correct:

The name of the company consists of 2 separate words combines to one word? Okay. Let's go from there. The problem is that ranking for the 2 words separate from each other has an hole other meaning then when they are combined. Vacuumcleaner is a machine that uses a vacuum to clean but when you search for vacuum cleaner that does not have to mean that you meant a vacuumcleaner. You are searching for something that cleans using a vacuum. (really hopes this makes sense )

You should definitely use the name of the company (combined) since that is the name of the company. You could employ a couple of the words seperatly but I would focus mainly on the combined version. You are trying to brand them right? So it is important that people begin to know the company by it's right name.

Personally I would use that seperate version of the words maybe 3/4 times depending on the page length but focus mainly on the words together. Hopes this helps you a bit.

kind regards

Jarno

Totally agree with Casey. Otherwise everyone that offers something for free would be penalized and we have an empty Internet. Imagine searching for a free e-book on SEO and Google says: "Sorry, but free is a spammy word so I won't show you any results.". That would be hilarious wouldn't it?

Do what Casey mentioned and you should be fine.

Some free advice..

kind regards

Jarno

Luke,

at this moment a new website is developed for me using Modx CMS. In here I had build a blog because I want to start blogging too. The funny part of it is that in many cases blog software creates duplicate content if you post an article and also have it stored in the archives etc. Modx does not seem to be doing that (so far as I tested it).

Maybe that would be something too look into?

The archives should be linking to the same article as the overview page does. The more tags and the more categories helps the user define what they are looking for and that ought to be a good thing. Here in the SEOmoz community you can also filter out certain blog messages, for instance if you only want to see white-board Friday messages that's possible. And I believe that these do not result in duplicate content issues.

Hope this helps you

Regards

Jarno

Perhaps you could try focussing on the exclamation mark (!).

That you use the HTACCESS file to rewrite the url with the exclamation mark to the url without?

Something like:

RewriteRule ^!(.*) http://www.site.com/locations/$1 [R=301,L]

The exact syntaxis for this statement should come close to this one. I'm not sure that this will work but it might work.

Regards
Jarno