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Google also pulls reviews from around the web. I have seem some from Yelp, Facebook, and n49 personally. Although I am in Canada so that may influence it to a degree. If you have reviews around the web and want to see if Google finds them then Login to you My Business account https://www.google.com/business they list reviews from around the we and where they found them.
One alternative you could try is to place a while this is not as ideal as adding the noindex nofollow it could help tell Google that the admin is not the preferred domain.
Hello again Alec,
Could you please screenshot your registration process so we could possibly see where there are areas for improvement. How many steps are in your registration process.
SEO community sources (Moz, DigitalPoint Forum), and LinkedIn. Those are likely your best choices. When you reach out to them make sure you are asking them for their strategies to SEO. Also if they promise quick rankings they are not the one for you.
Hello Zachary,
I would suggest just building out your location pages. Optimize the Title Tag and Meta Description to focus on your keywords and that particular location and then build your content in terms of the location history and information. If the site is strong enough with the products it should rank well for those products and the location should help out with local keywords.
Also make sure that the Google Local Pages are complete verified and are driving reviews and information. If you have multiple physical locations that will also help drive local traffic. In the information section ensure you talk to a degree about your products and services with each location and ensure it is different text.
Hello Alec,
I would say that what EGOL said is right, you are battling against a strong encampment and can't expect to have a strong showing unless you are taking a unique approach. The key is to determine if the 1 month PPC results are good in your mind. Personally that kind of turn around looks very promising based on the numbers but only you would know based on your ROI. If you can justify it then run PPC for now while working on the endgame of the SEO and increasing your site visibility and visitor numbers.
A good strategy that I have found is to do some market research and take your survey data and write some interesting articles that you can use as blog posts and maybe a press release. If you can read the data in unique ways then it is likely to be picked up by a wider user base.
In a case where it is two separate sites you have a few options.
1. You could noindex, nofollow the secondary site if you are not actively trying to rank for it.
2. If you are attempting to rank for it you could run a <rel="canonical">tag to the head and refer back to the original domain.</rel="canonical">
This Google Webmasters article may help https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en
After looking at the data, I can't seem to find any issues organically there was a 2 day period where you lost your organic traffic but it came back and is actually doing quite well. I tried to access the site and there was some slow down with the mobile version. But it appears to have just been a two day blip. This is very natural with the algorithm. It is wise to continue to observe the site but there is no need to panic.
Well typically the bot crawls multiple links on a page and when it hits a 404 or a redirect loop that particular action is stopped. It can prevent additional pages from being crawled.
That is not something to worry about but something to be very proud of. You would be surprised to what a few little tweaks can do for instance if the 24th page Google tried to crawl was broken then they would have stopped there. Your site now have 277 new pages of content that can now help you rank for a variety of keywords you may not have been able to before.
Great job!
I would suggest creating and adding a generalized email that you would be okay providing the login and password to here. The more eyes the better.
Three months is not enough time to get a good sense of any kind of SEO. As EGOL mentioned it is important to look at how much you are paying them. It is also important to question what they promised you.
If any SEO company is promising you rankings of certain positions you may want to step back from them. The key is the strategy you want to use. If you are looking for results in the immediate then running a PPC campaign is the best strategy while optimizing your website. It is also important to clarify your advertising. If you offer something for free but need a credit card for whatever reason you need to express that or people are more likely to not complete your form as they feel slightly lied to.
If you are wondering what to do in terms of .com or .co.nz then the question is where is your traffic coming from and where do you want it to come from. A .com has the ability to rank globally but a .co.nz will be heavily localized to New Zealand. In this instance it is more about your goals as a company.
SEO should be a long term strategy that includes a full mix of SEM techniques to better your results. If you are not in it for the long haul you are wasting your money
Hello Raja,
Typically the "Google Dance" is a term to describe an instance where things change via the constant changes that Google is updating. From my personal history I have found that when you fetch and it returns then dies a few hours later you are subject to some for of Google algorithm update. This is usually attested to the fact that Google should rank the site there based on relevance but the algorithm does not think it matches for some reason. I had this issue with a web design company that was under Penguin.
To help diagnose the issue I would suggest creating an email address and linking it to your Analytics as read-only and letting the Moz Community access to see if we can LINK it to an update.
I agree with both posters before me. I find many times digital agencies use their homepage to grab attention, and to build a strong sense of branding, but typically build strong internal pages loaded with content to help drive organic search results.
The advantage is solely for the local SEO benefits. Google would probably like to weed them out but as Satellite offices are actually used by businesses regularity it can be difficult. However I do not see it being much of a benefit unless you are a service area business like plumbing or general contractors.
I would suggest NOT doing this as even engaging blog comments can be considered spam. I would suggest possibly reaching out to these sites and maybe see if there is another way they can help in linking to you. As was talked about in a recent YouMoz blog even no-follow links can be beneficial. Perhaps useful guest blogging would help. Despite what many people are saying if done properly guest posting can helpful to your site even if they no-follow the link.
What was the message back to you from the team? Typically these requests tend to mean that you need to add no-follow on out going links was the case with Barry Schwartz over at http://www.seroundtable.com/ as he had the same issue.
Hi Alan,
All of your inferences from Oleg are correct. They are also especially hard to hear. We do not know when the next Penguin refresh will take place and that means you will not receive the benefits of this work till then.
This can be difficult to hear but unless it is a vanity domain I would suggest getting a new domain and just focusing a new marketing effort there. I have worked with clients that were affected by Penguin 1 and they have not recovered to this day. It is a long process of recovery and in many cases starting new with an untainted domain is the best possible answer.
The rankings you had previously were due to the links. Once they are removed you will need to get fresh links to replace them to get rankings back.
I apologise for having to say this but a new domain if it is penguin is your best option at this time.
Sean
If you have any further questions or want a second set of eyes sent me a PM and I would be glad to assist. Done A LOT of Penalty analysis so recognizing issues is a fun hobby for me
I have also been experiencing this with a few of my clients. As Spencer said it is Google choosing to re-arrange the tag with business name first.
I agree with Ruben that being only a week it is hard to tell for certain. You had said that you have been checking the rankings also, so what does the first page look like for your terms. Are you the only site seeing this flux?
Again this has been addressed but Panda is content based. Grabbing snippets of your content I only found a slight duplication but that was within your own site. The best indicator of Panda is your organic traffic through Analytics. If your Google only Organic traffic has dropped substantially it is entirely possible that it may be the case.
On the other hand it was only recently announced that the Panda updates were rolling out again and this has been happening for longer. I would watch your rankings for the next two weeks or so, but also the people who are the top 5 organically, since you are already passing them to find you. If after that you still notice you jumping a lot but they aren't maybe its time for a quick competitive analysis to see what they may be doing differently.
I have to ask did you grab a screenshot of Organic traffic only or all traffic?
I am also wondering while looking at your competitor I can't find any indexing of the site or rankings. Is there another competitor
Go Into Analytics
Your Account -> Admin -> Property -> AdWords Linking
It is very important that you have access to the Analytics as a main user and Adwords in the same account
should be easy from there click the button and authorize
Just to be sure
Adwords -> Account -> The Cog Icon -> Account Settings -> Linked Accounts
You should see your Analytics account if not give it 24 hours and retry
If Analytics is set up with AdWords it will show up. But they have to be linked. Once they are linked in the Conversions section of AdWords there will be Import from Analytics which you would have to do but then it would count conversions from PPC
I agree, allow me to rectify with an edit. I too noticed that after the fact and died a little inside
Martijn,
I see what you are trying to do but by giving the Label a changing value you then make tracking it more difficult. You would then have to specify in GA when creating the event that the label contains 'nav buttons' not the default equals to.
Also you do have 4 values to work with
ga('send',{ 'hitType':'event', // Required. 'eventCategory':'button', // Required. 'eventAction':'click', // Required. 'eventLabel':'nav buttons', 'eventValue':4 });
This is the Event Tracking for onclick related events
onclick="ga('send', 'event','button','click','nav buttons',);"
you don't need to specify the javascript you just put the code in the coding for the button
Hi Stacey,
I am not sure if you already have your answer. If not here I go.
For the local you can claim management on the account which would need to be re-verified. This would let you get in there at least an potentially clean up anything that needs it. You would not loose your reviews. Based on your description of old SEO errors I can imagine it may be link based errors which could have developed a algorithmic penalty which in that case a new domain, in the in term only, may be useful. If you are sure it is not algorithmic though I would think that perhaps re-evaluating the on-page and content would be the next step.
Hope this helps if you haven't gotten help already
Thank you David, obviously I was to close to the situation to be able to review it objectively.
Much appreciated. I will do those changes and just post back if there is any change.
I was also thinking it could be penguin but the drop did not coincide with an update, and all the spam links are only found in 3rd party explorers and not found in WMT
1. How long has it been since the site was hacked?It has been about 6 months
2. Have all linked been resubmitted in GWT (fetch as google) and in sitemap?Yes, and a fresh sitemap
3. How long has it been since links were disavowed? Disavow 6 weeks
4. Have you tried uploading the site under a new (dedicated) IP address after all the fixes were put in place? No
5. Have you checked using site search to make sure pages are indexed, just not ranking? Site search shows all pages but blog posts
6. Are there any robots rules in place blocking pages, and are the pages set to index, follow? Everything is clear from a robots aspect
7. Was there a manual action made against the site by Google? If so, was a reconsideration request completed?There is no notification of manual action.
Site is http://www.drkevinfinn.com
Thank you for your response Chris. I have done a fetch and everything is good
Background:
Client was hacked a few months back. Everything was cleaned up, and he maintained rankings for some keywords before completely dropping off. Webmasters Tools was added after the hack, which shows no issues. ahrefs, majestic, and OSE show bad links but not GMT. Disavowed anyway. Not sure what else could be blocking his visibility, main pages have been index but not specific blog posts.
Any suggestions or directions to look?