I'm going to answer your question with another question. What kind of value does a referral for 'donate' give you? Is such a broad keyword one that is going to bring you in the right type of person, or are you better off building content regarding the terms that convert better or target more qualified searchers?
Posts made by KeriMorgret
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RE: Optimized Page Not Ranking for Head Term
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RE: Local SEO citations
Also, Google doesn't show SEOs or web designers in the local results, and hasn't for several years.
http://searchengineland.com/google-hides-seos-web-designers-32671
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RE: Should You Link Back from Client's Website?
People who come to Moz are in the same niche as the recommended companies. It'd be way different if I had the same link at the bottom of my site that's about model battleships.
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RE: Should You Link Back from Client's Website?
I'd love to see a case study from a firm talking about the amount of traffic they get from these links, and if it turns into any leads or sales for them.
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RE: Should i not use hyphens in web page titles? Google Penalty for hyphens?
In that example, there is not a hyphen in the domain name, only in the page name. A hyphen in the domain name would look like:
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RE: Should You Link Back from Client's Website?
CNN, Tribune, and other big companies often have both in-house people and agencies. I know people who are at (or were at) both CNN and the Tribune who are in-house SEOs who work with contracted agencies.
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RE: Website Migration
Modestos wrote a great guide at http://moz.com/blog/web-site-migration-guide-tips-for-seos that can help you with a few things to look for.
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RE: External Followed Links
We don't have the same crawl capabilities as Google, so it could be we're just not crawling those pages with the links. What types of pages are you getting links?
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RE: Favorite SEO firm you would recommend
EGOL does have a good point. You can learn a lot from our blogs, Q&A, and our Beginner's Guide to SEO at http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo.
You may still need to hire a firm, but if you have started educating yourself, you will have a much better feel for if someone is giving you what they think you want to hear, or giving you something closer to the truth.
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RE: Favorite SEO firm you would recommend
Moz has a list of recommended companies (based on our own personal experience) at http://moz.com/community/recommended.
If you search, you will find some companies (there is one prominent one in particular) that state they rate SEO firms. You may want to look on the Q&A forum for opinions of those companies, as they often require payment to even be considered in their listings.
Also, what works for one person, may not work for another. Do you have a 25 page site that serves a local area spanning two counties and sell nothing online? Or do you only sell your products online and never meet face-to-face, and need to be present in searches in Asia, Europe, and the Americas? Two very different firms would meet those needs.
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RE: Measuring reach and engagement on all social media platforms
Jen wrote a good post about that at http://moz.com/blog/social-engagement-metrics-that-matter that may help you get started.
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RE: Tips for a tough market: Gambling
Have you read this YouMoz about white-hat link building in the gambling industry?
http://moz.com/blog/case-study-whitehat-link-building-in-the-gambling-industry
Edit: Just realized the original question is from 2011, so I don't imagine the OP had a time machine to see that post.
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RE: Dude Phishing on Moz
Hi Chenzo,
We've actually just back a report as spam button in the PM system that you can use for this. This account also triggered some other systems we have, so I've already banned it. Thanks for letting us know! I've gone and removed some of the information, but will leave the question up so people know what to do if they do get spammed.
Keri
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RE: I am launching a new site, what I need to know about backlinks
Also look at "what can I offer that the other phone review sites don't currently offer? What can be unique about my site so that people will come to my site instead of one of the others already set up talking about the same thing?"
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RE: Cleaning Up Bad 301 External Links From Old Site
401 is unauthorized. Do you mean a 301 redirect? If not, could you expand a little bit so we can better understand the situation? Thanks!
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RE: Autoposting to Twitter
Did you get the incapsula error message when you tried to click Post Response in Q&A, or when doing something else?
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RE: Dev Subdomain Pages Indexed - How to Remove
The root of the dev subdomain. There's a blog post at http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/url-removal-explained-part-i-urls.html, and you'll want to look at the section for removing an entire site. The interface has likely changed since this post, but the concept is the same.
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RE: Dev Subdomain Pages Indexed - How to Remove
Nope! You can request removal of the entire site (meaning dev subdomain). For future reference, you could also request removal of a certain directory on a site, too.
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RE: Dev Subdomain Pages Indexed - How to Remove
You'll want to keep the robots.txt on the dev subdomain, then verify the subdomain in Google Webmaster Tools. Once you do this, you can request removal of the dev subdomain from Google's index (same goes for Bing).
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RE: URL Help
Those URLs will be seen as different, but the real question is will the content on those URLs be viewed as different, or do you need a canonical tag.
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RE: Can wordpress actually be bad for sites if it static?
I use Wordpress for my site (strikemodels . com), yet only post a blog once in a blue moon. It's mainly pages that are fairly static. We've been getting enough orders and traffic to keep my husband busy and off the streets.
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RE: Keyword and SERP Help Please
Today's search engines are fairly smart, and use a variety of signals to determine what a website is about. Just the other day, I was searching on Bing for Angry Birds Space JPL, as I was curious to see if Pasadena's Jet Propulsion laboratory had anything to say about the accuracy of the orbits in Angry Birds. Bing returned results that had JPL, but also highlighted (in the snippets in the SERPs) results with NASA.
Write naturally, and write for your reader. Would it sound really weird if you said out loud what you want to write on your page? The search engines can figure out related things fairly well and don't need it in quite such an exact order.
The sections of the Beginner's Guide http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo on How Search Engines Operate and Keyword Research should also be helpful to you.
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RE: Could posting on YouMoz get you penalized for "Guest Blogging?"
As I mentioned in my Inside YouMoz post, there are even some posts that I would have turned down if they didn't have links. I try to treat links as scholarly citations rather than votes. There's a post right now in the queue that I need to respond to and tell the author that they need to back up some of their statements with links to the source of what they are claiming.
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RE: Could posting on YouMoz get you penalized for "Guest Blogging?"
I've actually approved a YouMoz that did link out to a gambling site. The post was about how to do white hat marketing for shadier industries, and linked out to a legitimate example of what the author was doing. It was a relevant link in the context of the post.
I've only made a couple of guest posts myself, but I do have a lot of links from Moz, Search Engine Roundtable, and other SEO-related sites to our business about model battleships. These have usually been attribution for liveblogging (on Search Engine Roundtable), or just mentions of my name in some other form, with a link to the site. If you look at my link profile for that site, it is not solely from sites about model warships or electronics, but I have yet to have any type of notice from Google, and some of those links have been there for years. That said, I didn't get any of them through blog comments, and most of them are just my name or business name for anchor text. This is my personal experience, and yours might vary.
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RE: Could posting on YouMoz get you penalized for "Guest Blogging?"
To the best of my knowledge, no one at Google has replied to our questions.
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RE: Could posting on YouMoz get you penalized for "Guest Blogging?"
We're certainly not afraid to decline posts. In the past several weeks, we've been averaging about 50 spam posts a week (pure spam, such as horoscope predictions), declining 20-30 posts a week, returning 5-10 back to the user for edits, and publishing 1-4 posts a week.
I've been doing this for about two and a half years now. We've never let pure spam through, but we were more lenient on anchor text in the past than we are now -- today, you're not going to get away with Springfield SEO company as the anchor text for a link back to your company in a post.
Last year, I wrote more details about the YouMoz process at http://moz.com/blog/inside-youmoz-how-to-guest-blog-for-moz. This is still what we do, though a couple of the people have changed.
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RE: Could posting on YouMoz get you penalized for "Guest Blogging?"
I will! Had a few other things come up, but I do plan on responding, should be later today.
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RE: My site has dropped, I'm a little lost - help
Was the warning that you had unnatural external links pointing to your site? In that case, adding a nofollow to the links going from your site to other sites won't do any good. Instead, you need to look at the links pointing to your site.
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RE: I'm starting an internet marketing company along with a newspaper company
This may be a situation where it is worth your money to hire a consultant and use an NDA and get some professional advice. We have a list of recommended companies in the footer that can be a place to start looking.
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RE: Repeated mysterious 404's from ancient site structure killing my rankings
I edited the post so the URLs didn't run together. Still not perfect, but a little easier to read.
I'm not exactly sure where those links are coming from. You might run a tool like Xenu Link Sleuth or Screaming Frog on your site to see if there is an internal linking widget gone awry. The other thought I have is to look at Open Site Explorer to see what sites are linking to you and if they're linking to any of those pages.
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RE: Could posting on YouMoz get you penalized for "Guest Blogging?"
We're just about to go into a quarterly all-hands meeting, so I can't write a long reply to this. I'll add my comments tomorrow morning. Looking forward to the discussion!
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RE: Does building multiple websites hurt you seo wise? Good or bad strategy?
Also, be sure to read Craigslist's terms and conditions for frequency of posting, and where you can post pets. If people think you are a puppy mill, you're likely to have your ads quickly flagged.
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RE: Competitor sites vs mine - No links, lower DA, and still beating me.
Keep in mind that Moz tools use their own resources. We don't have access to Google's index or tools, and we don't have their resources, so we're not going to be able to show you data that's based on every link in existence for every site out there. So, when you look at your competitors and see they don't have strong metrics, it could be just because our tools haven't picked them up.
As far as companies go, if you want someone to take an in-depth look at your site and competitors and figure out a plan of action, we have a list of recommended companies in the footer that could be a good place to start.
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RE: Does building multiple websites hurt you seo wise? Good or bad strategy?
I'd focus all of your efforts on one site, and make that site be the authority for your particular field. You'll have only one site to maintain, one site that gets authority from people linking to your content, one business name to maintain, etc.
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RE: Robots.txt help
The robots.txt would allow the OP to go back into GWT and request removal of the dev site from the index. Password protecting a dev site is usually a pretty good idea, too.
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RE: Robots.txt help
You'll want a separate account for that subdomain, and also put the robots.txt excluding that subdomain in that subdomain itself.
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RE: Changing my title tags
They even change the title tags for companies like Apple, so it's not related to links.
You can use Open Site Explorer, Google Webmaster Tools, and several other tools to look at links to your site and see what kind of links you do have.
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RE: My site's articles seem to never show up in Google.
Your other question said that you get zero organic visits from Google. You'd want to look in AWstats and GWT to see if they show any evidence of Google sending you traffic.
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RE: Error 4XX showing by SEOmoz tool
Hi! If you download your crawl report as a CSV, there will be a column there showing you the referring site that linked to the 404.
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RE: My site's articles seem to never show up in Google.
When I search "Multitasking is Bad for You, Mkay" in Google, I do get your site, though as the last out of four results (in incognito search).
Have you checked to make sure your Analytics code is properly installed? Do you have access to server logs, such as awstats, where you could look for a "second opinion" to see if GA is misconfigured and you are getting organic traffic from Google?
When you went into Google Webmaster tools to fetch as googlebot (from the answer in the previous question), did you have any messages in GWT? Also, look at the information given to you there about the impressions and clicks you're getting to also help see if Google is actually sending you traffic.
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RE: Page Title & Meta Description Getting Cut Off In The SERPs
Title tag guidelines have changed. Check out this post by Dr. Pete at http://moz.com/blog/new-title-tag-guidelines-preview-tool
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RE: Changing my title tags
Do you mean your title tags in the SERPs? Google is known for changing title tags, especially based on the search used.
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RE: Google Analytics - Sessions vs Views?
Here's another post from SERoundtable with info:
http://www.seroundtable.com/google-analytics-sessions-users-18424.html
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RE: Re Posting Reviews
I'd check the terms of service on the site, and see if you're allowed to use the reviews on your own site, too.
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RE: Remove Directory In Webmaster Tools
Are the URLs gone? Or you just don't want them to be indexed? It's better to set things up in Wordpress (if that's your CMS) to not index tags and categories than to go and tell GWT to remove them.
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RE: Error found. not really a question
Thanks! We'll fix that as fast as we can.
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RE: Facebook "likes" not showing up in Open Site Explorer
When you put your own URL into Open Site Explorer, we're looking at that URL (such as mycompany.com) and the FB likes that URL has.
What you've given me here is the URL for your Facebook page itself, which is actually a completely different site.
Hope that explains things!