Thank you Andy. This was a week long foray into backlink audit and its finally coming to an end. Now its content content and content.
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RE: Backlinks or content? What is the problem here?
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RE: Backlinks or content? What is the problem here?
Dear Andy,
I hope you answer this. Yes, i checked ahrefs and Moz.com backlinks thoroughly. I could find 57 backlinks which included "Payday loans" or from link farms or in general bad backlinks. They might have a Domain rating of 40 in Ahrefs, but they were bad back links.
I cannot remove them because these sites just dont have a contact us button. They are purely for links. So do i directly disavow them?
Secondly, my answer to content is that i am rewriting all content which was top of the serps again. I am a problogger now and i have more time in my hands. This solves the plagiarism problem and also ensures that i get the google "answer box" which is repeatedly a pain in the A. I am losing to competition because of some poorly written articles by other authors. So content will be overhauled.
The question in my mind is, even if the loss looks because of content, should i go ahead and disavow the bad links? Or let it be?
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RE: Backlinks or content? What is the problem here?
On an average, in AHREFS, my competitors have a Domain rank of 53 and i have of 49.
In moz, they have a rank of 50 again. But i have around 29. So yes, the competitors are ahead of me. But till date i was ranking well with the same backlinks. At least for my keywords?
So any insight with this data? Major question, do i rectify my backlinks, build more content, or the more exhausting and expensive one, do both?
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Backlinks or content? What is the problem here?
My Moz ranking is 29, Ahrefs Domain rank is 49 and Majestic Citation flow is 44 whereas trust flow is 17.
This is a plain question - If the above are the rankings for backlink problem, then where is the problem more likely to be found? Backlink or content?
In more detail - My site has been dropping in search since the last few weeks. With these rankings, is it likely that a backlink related problem is there? I myself agree that some content is poor and thin and there is a problem of plagiarism also. But overall, do i keep focusing on content? I do not know how good are these rankings as shown above.
My URL is www.marketing91.com
Please let me know whether the backlink profile looks good or not? So that at least i am not worried that there is a backlink problem as well. (i will surely work on toxic links soon) I can worry only on content.
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RE: Would a lot of images on one post be categorized as thin content?
Thank you for the guidance. Yes i will add text. But then, in front of the creativity of BMW print ads, these words will be futile. But for the sake of SEO i will have to add a bit of it.
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Would a lot of images on one post be categorized as thin content?
As an example, if i write an article on 12 best print ads by BMW, it will have 12 images and possible 12 single liners and a paragraph.
The images will have the necessary alt tags. But overall, will this post be counted as low content and is there changes of being penalized by google for it?
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RE: Do people recover from an unnatural outbound links penalty?
Thank you so much. I am doing the same right now. Please let me know whether the thinking is right
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I had 3 ads on site and i am dividing it all so that the top is not heavy. it wasnt previously heavy too, but i have modified it nonetheless.
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I am rewriting at least 150 articles out of the 950 articles on site. I think those articles are poor in quality. And they need a boost. I am also tackling duplicate content issues and have removed multiple tags from a single post and kept 1 tag on 1 post limit.
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If after all this, the site does not come up, then it is a backlinks problem and then i need to dig into ahrefs and check out what to do. But i am hoping to god it recovers after the content modification.
These things might take 2 months but i think they will make a slow but sure difference. My livelihood depends on this blog so the return of traffic is very essential for me.
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Do people recover from an unnatural outbound links penalty?
Dear Friends
I received an unnatural outbound links penalty on 4th of June 2016. I immediately acted on it, and analysed a lot of outbound links and removed most of them. I had to file reconsideration 2 times, but on 26th of June my penalty was revoked.However, traffic drop was even worse 27th June onwards and it is still dropping. Now, i dont know why the traffic is dropping. Any idea how much time it takes to come back from an unnatural outbound link penalty? PHd8BzX.png
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Google panda, penguin or Patience needed?
Dear friends,
On 3rd of May, i suffered a Manual google unnatural outbound link penalty. I recovered from the said penalty on 27th of June.
However, i have noticed that my traffic has been dropping since 23rd April. I am confused where to target my work. Should i work on thin content and is it an algorithmic Panda problem (but my keywords are still ranking good) or is it a Penguin problem (I had 6 domains with payday loans backlinks and i have dosavowed 32 backlinks recently)
What should be my plan of action here and what would you recommend? An image is attached herewith for your reference,
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RE: Payday loan backlinks
Thank you for your quick reply.
I have one more question but am opening a new topic for it as it is more of a discussion,
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Payday loan backlinks
Dear Friends,
I just checked my backlinks in Ahrefs because my traffic has been dropping since the last 4 weeks. I have 2 questions
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is google penguin a part of Google core algorithm yet like Google panda is?
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I have backlinks of Payday loans which many webmasters claimed were the problem. The anchor text was payday loans. The sites hardly have any pagerank or anything.
What is the way forward for me? So i contact the webmasters, and they dont reply then disavow the links or disavow them directly knowing that google hates pay day loans backlinks
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UTM source errors in google search console
Dear Friends,
I need help with UTM source and UTM medium errors. There are 300 such errors on my site which is affecting the site i think,
The URL appended at the end is utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=
How do i resolve this? Please help me with it.Thanks
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Traffic drops when showing post dates?
Hello. My blog is 9 years old and i just got serious with regards to earnings. I have observed that whenever i showed published date traffic drops immediately.
For years i stopped showing dates. But now, i feel dates are an important factor in Rich snippets because most of competitors who are shown in rich snippets are also showing dates. So i started showing "UPDATED ON" in the Genesis theme framework.
Traffic drop is the same as before. Why is traffic dropping whenever i show dates? Even when i show updated dates, wherein all articles show dates of just 1-2 years and none of them are showing how old the site is.
And yes, quality is high, content is high. URL is www.marketing91.com
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Installing sub folder with the same wordpress installation
Dear Friends,
My main wordpress install is at www.marketing91.com However, i want to expand the topic to include advertising as well. I was considering installing a sub domain but instead i have decided to install a sub folder.
So, now the URL should read www.marketing91.com/advertising/ for the advertising blog. I have one question though. In the sub folder, can we use the same installation of wordpress as applicable on marketing91.com??
I have a wordpress installed at marketing91.com. I dont want another wordpress to be installed in marketing91.com/advertising/. Instead, i would like to manage both url from the same wordpress installation. So how do i do that?
Help is appreciated in advance
Regards
Hitesh Bhasin