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Is that something you would feel comfortable explaining to a Google engineer? Also, if search engines did not exist, would you still want to do it?
The search engines want to see content created for users, not for trying to get rankings. Spinning articles doesn't do anyone any good, and they can make the brand look very silly.
A couple of things I notice right off:
The code for that site seems full of junk (like a ton of extra spaces, markup for every other word, tons of YouTube links that I don't see on the page itself). Cleaning this up might help the search engines and people with disabilities using screen readers better understand the site.
The content seems to be duplicated on other sites, which won't be helping you much.
What kinds of changes have been made to the site lately?
It could also be related to the size of our index. Since everything has dropped, I'd say it's likely. We're working on pushing out OSE updates faster, but to do so, we need to crawl fewer pages. The last couple of crawls have been smaller than what we had in late spring.
Hi Kristy,
Be sure to check your SEOmoz PMs, I sent you some additional information there.
Keri
Hi Eric,
You might consider starting with our list of Recommended Companies at http://www.seomoz.org/article/recommended.
Google and Bing don't talk to each other, so Bing wouldn't know about the parameters you set in Google.
My gut says that maybe Bing chose the wrong things to ignore? I'd look at what they suggested and see if it needs adjusting and if they are ignoring too many things.
In that case, I'd verify my site in Bing's Webmaster Center and see if you have any notifications, if it's just Yahoo/Bing (since Bing powers Yahoo's index). I am seeing your site and that page in particular in Bing, including when I do a search for dog harness.
Well, do you want to get included in these search engines? http://media.entireweb.com/images/pages/express_inclusion/ewpartners.png If not, I wouldn't worry about it. Those are not exactly major search engines they're talking about (the previous link was found at http://entireweb.com/express_inclusion/features/). Google and Bing both have ways to submit your site to them for free, if they haven't already picked up on it. Bing's index powers Yahoo these days, so by submitting to just those two you have over 92% of the US search market taken care of (per August Hitwise numbers at http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/08/10/searchenginesjuly2012/)
So, I'd save your money and time on that one.
Hi Kristy,
I'd look at a couple of things. First, have you verified your site in Google Webmaster Tools? If not, do so now. If you have, log into your account and see if you have any messages saying an action was taken with regards to your site.
Second, you haven't made major changes, but even a minor change in the right part of the code could have caused your analytics to stop working.
Before we get into full-fledged panic mode, let's do a little diagnosis. Take a deep breath, and go back to your analytics and get a little more information.
If we figure out more exactly what the problem is, we can help you get things fixed back up.
Hi Diane,
I'd make sure all of your articles are timely and not expired. I looked at the Featured Lifestyle Stories (are these paid somehow? They seem more spammy than some of the other articles, and are featuring insurance, bingo, weight loss, etc) have articles that talk about deals that expire in July, or of events that happened in July.
Actually, Google can recognize identical images. Go to Google Image Search, and you can do a reverse image search by putting in a URL of an image. Google can then show you all the other places that have this same image. Take a look at how it knows where else the SEOmoz image is used, despite lots of different ALT tags for it.
Do keep in mind that it is against Google's guidelines to buy links for the purposes of passing page rank.
Hi Sanket,
Did you actually do this, or was it another user who posted on http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/webmasters/mu2AD_wS69w/K1iY6_zYqIgJ with this answer? It's helpful if you let us know if you actually did this, and if not, where you found the information.
HI Sanket,
The poster is not talking about international content, but three locations within the same state.
If you quote from another source, it's helpful to let the community know the source of the post so they can find more information (and is a courtesy to the blog author as well). For more information about the first main paragraph, http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-in-a-post-panda-world is the source article from Dr. Pete.
As for spinning content, I would not advise spun content.
I received an unsolicited email that told me things that were wrong on the SEO of my site, from a supposed SEO. They included:
7) Website is devoid of Meta keywords which are required for Page 1 rankings. We will add Meta keywords for your website.
Good for you to get a second opinion!
Have you tried using our Crawl Test, which allows you to crawl 3000 URLs on demand? http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test
Hi Ray,
Have you attended one of our Weekly Webinars on Fridays? It's an introduction to SEOmoz Pro, with a person from the help team leading the webinar and answering your questions. There are details at http://www.seomoz.org/dp/welcome-webinars
For future reference you can crawl up to 3,000 pages on demand with our Crawl Test tool at http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test, which can help you out between regularly scheduled crawls.
Here's a thread from people asking if SEOmoz Pro is worth the money. It may give you some insight as to what other people find useful. http://www.seomoz.org/q/do-you-think-seomoz-work-the-monthly-fee-if-you-re-not-a-professional-seo
I hope this helps, and let me know if I can offer any other advice.
Hi Sam,
We're sorry to hear that OSE isn't working for you. Could you go to our help hub at http://www.seomoz.org/help and use the red Contact our Help Team button? Open a ticket, and let us know what is or is not happening. Are you getting an error about too many redirects? If you can give us a few details, we'll be able to help you figure it out and improve our software.
Thanks!
Keri
Hi Neil,
I'm not at the office to verify with the team right now, but it's a fairly safe bet to guess that we don't crawl all of the pages of Yahoo's directory, so if this is down several directory layers deep and not popular, we may not crawl it.
Here are a couple of other Q&A posts with alternatives:
http://www.seomoz.org/q/juicy-link-finder-working
http://www.seomoz.org/q/what-can-i-use-instead-the-juicy-link-finder
Hi Diane,
We're not aware of problems with the site being slow, but we have had some problems with Rank Tracker. When you're having problems with a tool not working properly, visit our Help Hub at http://www.seomoz.org/help and use the "Contact our Help Team" button and our help desk will be sure to get back to you. The Q&A is more for how to use our tools, and SEO in general, and while I try to look at every question here, it can sometimes take a couple of days before I see everything (especially on a weekend).
Dr. Pete has a good post about this warning at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-many-links-is-too-many that may help you out.
Our Crawl Diagnostics at http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test will do that for you, up to 3000 URLs.
Remember, it's the search engines seeing the link that counts (unless you're getting compensation tied to our metrics). They will likely see the link even if we don't, just because they can crawl so much more.
Roger should obey wildcards. It sounds like he's not, so could you tattle on him to the help team and they'll see why he's not following directions? http://www.seomoz.org/help Thanks!
If we could have a couple of examples it'd be helpful. I'm going to guess that it's something like a blog on a wordpress.com or blogger.com domain, so it has a high domain authority yet the page authority is low. It could be a really long tail query that there's not much competition for, it could be that it's a real new page that's getting a temporary boost in Google, or it could be that there's been a lot more page authority gained since our last crawl and the PA will be higher with the next release.
It was likely just not crawled by OSE. If OSE crawled all of Twitter, it wouldn't be able to crawl anything else. Twitter's fairly big, so it's likely that that Twitter account just isn't big enough to be on our radar yet.
Hi! You can do this, but may need multiple campaigns. You can track three country/search engines per campaign. To do this, go to the Campaign settings and the Engines option. You can select the Engine and the Country, up three combinations. So you could do Google/Yahoo/Bing for India in one campaign, or you could go Google for India, Hong Kong, and US in one campaign.
Hope this helps!
We don't have a way to clear old reports, but the most recent reports should show at the the top of the screen. If this isn't the case for you, could you contact the help team at http://www.seomoz.org/help and they'll help figure out what's going on. Thanks!
If you export the crawl diagnostics to a CSV, we do have this information in the last column.
Not sure if it can go together with a category like that, but try
browse?sort=6
in the URL. If I didn't want to limit it to a particular category, I'd use http://www.seomoz.org/q/browse?sort=6.
Using &sort=6 in the parameters will sort by newest post, which may help. We don't have an RSS feed for questions at this time.
Hi! These domains that no longer have links to a site should drop off the report in a couple of crawl cycles. Our data isn't live, but can take a few weeks to crawl, process, and display. I suggest re-running your report, since we just pushed out a new index yesterday, and seeing if anything looks better. You can also look to see what Google and Bing report in their webmaster tools for your website.
Thanks Roberto, you beat me to that answer. The one limitation with that is it's a max of 3000 URLs per crawl, but it is the best way to crawl you site outside of the regular cycle.
In GA, look at the ISPs of the visits to see if one dropped off. We had a monitoring service that was actually triggering javascript that tweaked our direct numbers at a company once. Another thing that would affect it is doing email marketing and doing a tracking code so that suddenly the people who were direct (clicking on the link from the email) are now showing up as email referrals.
Warrior Forum has some interesting discussions, and you'll certainly get a different point of view than you will at SEOmoz. Many of the tactics and offers you see there are frowned on in these forums. As with all advice, use your own common sense and do a little research on your own.
How long ago did you do the 301 redirect? It can take a couple of crawls for OSE to pick up and calculate the new data. Take a look tomorrow at the numbers and see if they've changed -- we're ahead of schedule on rolling out a new index and that may have some improved numbers for you.
I agree with Mat. I'm not finding many links that are actually valuable -- certainly being one of 18000 trackbacks on the about page for a cheap cruises site isn't helping you. As an aside, the site is a little confusing to users. It is on reputationmanagements.com yet says to email reputationrhino.com and is branded reputation rhino.
Do check out Google Webmaster Tools and see if you have any messages there.
Have you looked at our blog section on Link Building? We have a lot of posts there that talk about many different ways to earn valuable links.
Hi Tailor4Less,
We have had some hiccups in reporting keyword rankings when new keywords are added. Could you submit a ticket from our help hub at http://www.seomoz.org/help (click Contact our Help Team)? The help crew will keep you updated on the status of this and let you know of any workarounds.
Thanks, and sorry for the problems!
