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It looks like you have an old CMS or and old PHP test script somewhere within your server files which is causing this issue. If you delete the .php files that are creating that page at http://www.neocartimplant.com/anatmal/knee-anatomy-maladies/anatomy/articular-cartilage.php - then it should become a 404, redirect it via 301 redirect, and you should be good to go. I am assuming it has seo value since it is ranking, and perhaps backlinks, so that is why I suggested the 301.

First off, I assume you understand that quantity of links, a.k.a a higher Total Link, is not necessarily a recommended practice in SEO any longer. It is now more importantly about the quality of the links. I outrank competitors who have many more links than my client, but it is due to our quality of link profile, website speed, technical seo, onpage seo, and certainly not the Total Link. If you do want to quickly increase your total links, maybe an infographic, viral social, buy them, or pbn it and create your own, all of which are questionable, except for maybe the infographic.

1. I personally would concentrate on your Title tags, modifying the title tags to reflect your researched keywords will have a relatively quick turnaround if optimized correctly. If your CMS allows, change the whole structure to stay within Moz/Google suggested limits. Add unique content to your category pages, and optimize those titles as well.

2. Compress images, caching, server optimizations, etc to increase website speed as much as possible, an increase usability.

3. Gain low hanging fruit quality relative links, for example, any links to industry brand lists, any brand mentions without links, charity sponsorships without links etc.

I have a client that I used Moz Local services for, and I'm seeing lots of urls such as https://www.omegalab.neustarlocaleze.biz/directory/us/?after=2020-09-05T01:52:28.343352Z&count=50 being shown as follow backlinks in other software. Anyone else seeing this and think it might be an issue?

I actually looked into this a little further before developing conditionals, and I noticed it is possible in Yoast.  You have to go to Products - Attributes, then the Gear icon, then select noindex.

Make sure you have a version of Webmaster Tools setup for the http://www.yourdomain.com and http://yourdomain.com, as well as any https://www.yourdomain.com etc.  Make sure these Webmaster Tools also do not show the links. I have seen Webmaster Tools missing follow links before for some of my clients, I wouldn't worry about it, as long as you know they are there and the link is correct.  Maybe verify with another backlink crawler, but in reality, you're looking at different indexes by different data sources, so you'll see some variation in results (different numbers and links for different backlink reports)

I have a friend's website, ShowBizJunkies, that they work very had at improving and providing great content. I put the website in a more modern theme, increased speed (wpengine, but maxed out with cdn, caching, image optimization, etc)  But now I'm struggling how to suggest further improving the seo structure or building backlinks. I know trying to come up for those terms like "movie reviews" and many similar are ridiculously difficult, and requires tons of high quality backlinks.

What is my lowest hanging fruit here, any suggestions?

My current plan is:

1. Fix technical errors

2. Create more evergreen content

3. Work on timing of article release for better Google News coverage

4. More social sharing, sharing on Tumblr, Reddit, Facebook Groups, G+ Communities, etc

5. Build backlinks via outreach to tv show specific sites, movie fan sites, actor fan sites (interviews)

Thanks for the input.

We just started capturing emails and will look into formatting content in emails to drive comments. I agree user generated content is a big opportunity for this website.

We are working on in-context linking, although it's already pretty heavy.

Yes, I was going to change the focus keywords to longer tail for less competitive searches.

We do leverage youtube, but i'm not sure what you mean by embeddable tool?