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Hi there,

I think is a lot more serious than using the Disavow tool. They have an exact duplicate copy of your website. This is a major concern.

You need to file a DMCA takedown request.

It's also worth reading this - http://support.google.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1386831

You can contact Google - dmca-agent@google.com

I would suggest you make this a priority.

Hope this helps,

Mark

Hi Debal,

Maybe I'm interpreting you wrong but there is no quick answer to this.

You appear to be ignoring the advice already given to you by Brad. You need to spend more time reading about link building, and more time reading about on-page optimization.

There isn't one thing you can do to achieve the rankings you desire.

Cheers,

Mark

Hi Mohammad,

I'm not sure what level your SEO knowledge is at but judging by your questions, I'd guess you're just starting out?

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

Take a read through SEOmoz's guide above and you can begin to identify the key areas of your website which need to be addressed.

Typically, I would recommend starting with a full site audit for an already established website. Identify the on-page and off-page factors, prioritize them in terms of important and place a time scale next to them.

You don't need a tool to develop a strategy. You need to know the underlying factors affected your website.

Best of luck,

Mark

I think you need to look at it from two perspectives.

Is it really needed? Does every page of the site really need this content displayed on it? I would be hesitant about recommending you putting all these things into the footer of every page.

Secondly, Twitter feeds can slow page load time. This will impact on the bounce rate of your site and since site speed can impact ranking, you really gotta ask yourself again about the need for this on every page.

A couple of footer navigational links are fine. Just avoid stuffing the footer with Twitter, newsletter, navigational and blog post links.

One of the real questions would be - Why are you paying for a link?

Why not approach them with great content and work on building a relationship with them so you earn the link from them? You could save yourself money and it could lead to future links.

A one off payment for links isn't a good link building strategy.

Hi there,

It might be worth sending your request directly to the Moz team so it doesn't get missed -

https://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-seomoz-PRO-feature-requests

Annotations would be a pretty cool addition,

Mark

Meta-Keywords have no impact on ranking though.

Kathy, you will need to add more content to the pages that are public. Focus on the specific keywords you wish to rank for and improve the on-page SEO for these terms.

Also, from what I can see, there are no backlinks pointing to the site. You should focus on attracting links from high authority websites within the sector.

Hi Barnabas,

In the help section it states -

How do I add my logo or get white labeled reports?
If you have our PRO Plus or PRO Elite, you can upload a logo from your campaign settings page. This will add your logo to the top of PDF reports downloaded from the web app. This is a great way to show off our excellent data with your awesome branding. Enjoy!

Standard PRO accounts don't have this feature.

I hope this helps,

Mark

Hi Barnabas,

I respect your opinion but what I've found with many SEO tools in the industry is that you could pay $99 for just one tool per months. SEOmoz has a vast toolset at your disposal, along with this community forum and the ability to ask a private question directly to the staff here.

The cheaper PRO package (which I'm also on) is for people to utilize the tools for a small/medium site or just smaller projects in general.

What you're asking for with logos is more of a bespoke service so the cost would typically be higher.

That's not just for Moz but for the industry in general.

Agree with Screaming Frog. It's more comprehensive than **Xenu's Link Sleuth. **

It costs £99 for a year but totally worth it.

I had a few issues with Xenu taking too long to compile a report or simply crashing.

Hi Nadejda,

Do you mean your content has been stolen? Sorry, I may be misunderstanding you.

My post from another thread -

If you wish to remove poor quality backlinks -

Use tools such as Ahrefs, OpenSiteExplorer, MajesticSEO and Google Webmaster Tools to identify the poor quality backlinks.

• Contact the relevant website with a suitable email and request the link be removed
• If no response after a week or two, try them again with another email, or via Twitter, Facebook etc
• If every attempt has failed to contact them, still note it down in a spreadsheet for future reference.
• Then, consider using the Disavow tool from Google but **only **if all other methods of contacting these sites fail.
• Unless you have a warning within Webmaster Tools about unnatural links, you won't need to do a re-consideration request. And even then, be cautious. A reconsideration request puts Google's target directly on you.

Hope this helps,

Mark

No problem Neil - Just focus on the end user and the decisions should be easy to make in regards the footer etc.

I mentioned page load time issues with Twitter because of experience I've had. It's always been 3rd party content which has resulted in site speed issues.

Social media feeds/widgets are just sometimes not worth the issues they can cause.

I think Francisco covered these points very well.

You need to speak to management about the business objectives. Only then can you identify a suitable SEO strategy to help the company meet these objectives.

Are there specific money keywords they want you to focus on?

Does the site itself get large traffic but few conversions? Could CRO help to improve this?

I think you really need to ask management what it is they want you to focus on. Developing an SEO strategy is too broad of a request to expect from you.

They need to provide guidance so you can focus on specific areas. If you need any further help, we'll gladfully help you.

Best of luck,

Mark

Hi guys,

To be honest, it's a little bit embarrassing to throw out this question but it's one of the weakest points of knowledge at the moment for me.

I've tried to get a grasp of canonical URLs and what it all means. From my understanding, it's informing Google which page to take into consideration when there's the possibility for duplicate content. Right?

However, with the site I'm working on I'm not sure if it would be worth putting site-wide and the impact it would have.

Site I'm working on - http://bit.ly/N7eew7

With the nature of the site, there would be a lot of duplicated content as there's the possibility that several properties listed could have a similar address due to being in the same building etc.

From what I can see, no canonical URL was setup on the homepage.

The other variations of the homepage URL are 301 redirecting to thee http:/www. version.

Can someone explain it all to me in simple terms? Honestly believe that I'm getting more confused by the minute.

Thanks guys for your patience

What a waste of money. Avoid.

A lifetime link? You'll maybe soon have to pay extra money to get the link back off of that site.

This type of directory is no longer effective at all. I would highly suggest keeping your money.

Hi Jason,

This topic has been covered before with some great view points on this

http://www.seomoz.org/q/can-pdf-be-seen-as-duplicate-content-if-so-how-to-prevent-it

I hope you don't mind me directing you to this topic!

Hope it helps,

Mark

Hi Jonathan,

If it's simply Excel displaying the content incorrectly, you can follow these steps -

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/split-names-by-using-the-convert-text-to-columns-wizard-HA010102340.asp

If not, I can see if I can offer any other advice then.

Cheers,

Mark

Hi Angie,

From GA, what date did you notice the drop in keyword rankings and traffic? I ask because it could be attributed to an algorithm update from Google.

From looking at OSE, the domain and page metrics of your site are basically non existent. How long has it been operational?

Up until now, what have you been doing in terms of on-page and off-page SEO to achieve the rankings you had before? The more information you can provide, the easier it will be for us to offer advice

It's not surprising really. Yahoo uses Bing to pull in organic search results and has been doing so for quite a long time now.

http://searchengineland.com/yahoos-transition-to-bing-organic-results-complete-49228

It makes sense that you would be seeing the same results across both platforms.

My instant reaction to looking at that website is that it's a very poor quality directory site.

It looks like a paid directory and a low quality one.

I struggle to understand why people chose to pay for these. They hold no weight anymore.

If you don't mind Jonathan, you could drop me a PM with a link to the spreadsheet so I could take a quick go at fixing it up for you?

Hi Debal,

The first problem I encountered with that site is that it's very slow. The images in the slideshow are around 150KB each.

I really think you need to focus on a lot of on-page optimization before off-page is even considered.

As Brad suggested, them guides are a great first step to finding the best practice. You really can't use 10 keywords in a URL and also, you can't target 10 keywords per page. You should be focusing on a keyword or at most two keywords per page. If you go beyond this, you might have keyword cannibalization problems.

Please read the guides Brad linked to. It will answer the questions you have.

After reading them, we would be more than happy to help you.

Cheers,

Mark

Hi John,

I think you're worrying too much here. Google's algorithms are not harsh enough to penalize little blips like this in a persons back link profile.

If worried, you could do as Fredrik suggested and setup a WMT account for your site but I honestly feel like you've nothing to worry about.

I've been victim of an unnatural link warning from Google but it was justified due to 1000's of unnatural links built by a previous agency. In your case, you had 1500 links live for 24 hours. I'd be surprised if Google crawled and acknowledged them all as backlinks to your site. And even if they did, that many links means very little since they all come from one domain.

Hi there,

You can use SEO Tools for excel -

http://nielsbosma.se/projects/seotools/

It will then pull in the social share data for each URL.

Hope this helps!

Sorry, what do you mean specifically?

How long will it take for specific keywords to achieve high rankings?

This really depends on the level of competition for these keywords, the amount of on-page and off-page work you do and so many other factors. No one can guess a time frame for this.

If your client is being quite forceful about this, you really should pass that 'Beginners guide to SEO' onto them as well. Achieving rankings takes time. And even then, there are no guarantees.

To be fair, Google will not send him an email to say he should use this tool.

If there was an issue, he would have received a message via WMT indicating there was quite a lot of unnatural links pointing at his site.

Ian, you can contact this site via Twitter -

https://twitter.com/Ourlipsarsealed

They last tweeted 15 hours ago so they are active.

Send message via Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/miguel.vg.399

Hi Brian,

I'm pretty sure this can't be done. It would be worth deciding on which account has the greatest amount of influence and then messaging everyone on the other account to inform them that it will no longer be used.

Can I merge or combine two or more Twitter accounts into one?

• There is currently no way to manage multiple Twitter profiles from a single account or merge multiple accounts into one.
• We are unable to migrate data (Tweets, following, or followers) from one account to another.
• If you no longer want one of your accounts, we recommend that you leave one account inactive (or deactivate it, if you want) and tell your followers to find you at your preferred account.

https://support.twitter.com/groups/31-twitter-basics/topics/107-my-profile-account-settings/articles/20169956-how-to-manage-multiple-twitter-accounts

Hope this helps,

Mark

Hi Mark,

Just to clarify, the complete number of backlinks to their site is 13500? I would be quite cautious about deleting 90% of them. I'm sure some of them stand out as more toxic than others. It would be worth focusing on them first.

I know a lot of people have mixed opinions about link cleanup (whether it should be done or not) but if you managed to delete even half of the poor quality links to the site, it should be a clear enough message to Google that you're taking the warning seriously.

If a re-inclusion request fails, you could go deeper then.

Seems to be working fine now Josh. I still would check issues with your host.

I was able to crawl 193 pages with ScreamingFrog. I don't see reason why you're encountering problems  with it setup in your Moz account unless it's setup incorrectly.

To be honest, the homepage is a bit of a mess. I know you rather not hear it but, your site needs a lot of work.

Visually it's quite off-putting and the very large section of text you have on the homepage is stuffed full of keywords.

This is how Google sees this page -

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TOKOKtpzdCgJ:monsterbins.com/&hl=en&gl=ie&prmd=imvns&strip=1

'Monster Bins' is bolded and used over 10 times.

It's not clear what payment method your website accepts and to be quite honest, I would be very hesitant to make a sale on there.

Hi Hiren,

Without going too much into depth with analysis, it's easy to see your title tag for that page is keyword stuffed.

Also the page hasn't got any great content on it.

In terms of the overall domain, a quick look at your backlinks reveals that you haven't done much off-page link building.

You just need to do a lot more work unfortunately.

Mark

Agreed - A full audit covering SEO related issues and usability is required.

I do feel that focusing on SEO when there are much more glaring issues would be a pointless exercise.

Generating traffic to a website is not an effective use of time when the landing page isn't optimized for conversions.

I would suggest hiring a graphic designer for some freelance work and working with someone on a full audit to prioritize the biggest issues.

I'd be surprised if the site is generating quite a large volume of sales as it stands. It just doesn't convey trust and reliability from my perspective.

Hi Dominic,

Maybe I'm mis-understanding.

You want the title tag to be 'A Place To Rent' ?

Or do you mean on category pages you will have 'Dublin | A Place To Rent ' ?

Sorry, you didn't explain fully what you meant.

Hi Diane,

I thought I wold jump in as no one else has so far. My suggestions are noted below -

• Apply Google + authorship markup to all of the articles on your site.

If we take the article you just linked to as an example, you can see that markup has no been applied to it.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.in2town.co.uk%2Ftrip-advisor%2Ftop-american-ski-resorts-for-over-50s&html=

If you can't find a suitable Joomla SEO plugin (apologies, my Joomla knowledge is poor so I can't recommend one), you need to add the below HTML to each article and tailor it.

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• I would also suggest improving the content a little bit. The title of the article is 'Top American ski resorts for over 50s, but the content of the article doesn't make it clear what the top resorts actually are. The body of the article would benefit greatly from more information about the resorts in a clear format, and possibly with added images.

• The alt text for the image seems a little spammy - 'skiing holiday ideas'. The alt text of an image should reflect what the image is about.

• Random suggestion, I find it strange that your logo doesn't link to the homepage

• The title tag of your site doesn't contain your brand name. Worth putting at the end of the title tag.

I could go a lot deeper but hopefully that's a starting point for you Diane.

Any more questions then just shout!

Best wishes,

Mark