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I'm not sure what happened there but here are the Mozpoint Guidelines

Some link building campaigns are more difficult than others.

If your blog contains unique content that is useful to people, find your niche market. Hopefully the someone you email agrees that the content is useful and will link to it, also benefiting their users.

If it has to do with products, again find your market. This can be more difficult, hopefully your products have features that similar products don't. Focus on those features when finding your target market.

I would focus on emailing blogs/bloggers & websites personally instead of guest posting. If you get a response there's a far higher chance you'll get a quality link.

If your blog has great content, you'll only need to do this a few times before more and more people find you.

If you try many times with no success, work on your content.

If searches about your content is highly competitive, focus on sub or even sub-sub topics about your content.

Content is king!

I have a few questions regarding Google Search Console.

Google Search Console tells you to add all versions of your website https, http, www, and non-www.

1.) Do I than add ALL the information for ALL versions? Sitemaps, preferred site, etc.?

2.) If yes, when I add sitemaps to each version, do I add the sitemap url of the site version I'm on or my preferred version?

- For instance when adding a sitemap to a non-www version of the site, do I use the non-www version of the sitemap? Or since I prefer a https://www.domain.com/sitemap.xml do I use it there?

3.) When adding my preferred site (www or non-www) do I use my preferred site on all site versions? (https, http, www, and non-www)

Thanks in advance. Answers vary throughout Google!

Thank you both.

These are great idea's and both can actually generate links. There is a lot of work to be done.

Thanks again,

- Mike Bean

Website: www.wheelchairparts.com
Keyword: wheelchair parts

My website is #1 or #2 on almost every search engine besides Google. Google has us bouncing between the bottom of page 2 and top of 3. However we are on page one for "wheelchairparts".

I need to get a link building campaign going for this site. I feel it's more difficult for ecommerce websites and nothing seems to fit in with Rand's Mozcon 2016 Link Building talk except hacks. I need to find a flywheel.

Either way, my question is what can I do other than link building to get on page 1 of Google for the term "wheelchair parts"?

Thanks in advance!

- Mike Bean

https://moz.com/learn/seo/internal-link
https://moz.com/blog/relative-vs-absolute-urls-whiteboard-friday

I have read both articles above, however further reading the comments that followed, it appears that neither provided an answer. Some said Absolute and some were determined that Relative linking is the only way to go. There were heated comments, apologetic comments and mostly comments agreeing to disagree.

But in the end I think what I got out of it was there are two sides to developing a site.

Side A:             Web Developer Standpoint, Relative (easier)

Side B:             SEO Standpoint, Absolute (harder)

To me Side B puts money in the bank, so I will go with B.

Now since we’ve been dealt the recent https algo, there seem to more opinions that are thrown into the question. All I’m asking for is a straight answer so our employees can feel confident that our efforts are not in loss. I also want to ask about how images should be linked internally.

NOTE: Our sites are not all https but have SSL’s in place, and 301 redirects reflect http versions of pages.

So since it appears Absolute linking is the preferred method, I ask which is the best option or an option at all.

Internal Navigation:

Current internal link - /store/pc/Rollators-c379.htm

Absolute Options

http://www.company.com/store/pc/Rollators-c379.htm (what I see for most Absolute links)
www.company.com/store/pc/Rollators-c379.htm (would this work for both http and https?)
//www.company.com/store/pc/Rollators-c379.htm (would this work for both http and https?)

All three links above resolve to www.company.com/store/pc/Rollators-c379.htm with no http:// in front. If I type https://www.company.com/store/pc/Rollators-c379.htm in the url it resolves to https://www.company.com/store/pc/Rollators-c379.htm with the https:// in front.

Internal Images:

If I want my images to be indexed as well as pages should I be using Absolute links for them as well?

Current internal image link - /store/pc/images/rollators.jpg

Absolute Options

http://www.company.com/store/pc/images/rollators.jpg (what I see for most Absolute links)
www.company.com/store/pc/images/rollators.jpg (would this work for both http and https?)
//www.company.com/store/pc/images/rollators.jpg (would this work for both http and https?)

Just once I would like an answer that’s not:
It depends on the site or it doesn’t matter which method you use, they both work lol.

I would like one that says google likes this better.

Thanks for taking the time to help us understand and can’t wait for MOZ Con this September.

What about the CTR of your website? Google says "increased CTR as well as more traffic makes your website increase in authority" - therefore increasing organic ranking of all or most keywords - (Google didn't say that part but it makes sense).

If AdWords provides both of these things to your website wouldn't your organic rankings increase / increase over time?

Say your on a e-commerce category page "Shirts"

every lower level category has "shirts" in it such as: T-shirt, long sleeve shirt, sweat shirt, v-neck shirt, and so on.

Is this page going to be penalized in google for the keyword "shirts" just because it is in the title and on the page a thousand times because i'm targetting words like "long sleeve shirt?

and if it is, will the "long sleeve shirt" keyword be negatively affected as well?

Answer much appreciated,
Thanks in advance.

Hello,

A friend of mine has noticed an increase in organic traffic since they started using AdWords. Has anyone had similar results or could this be coincidence?

Thanks in advance!

Try to get as many links changed to the page you've redirected to. Not all juice is passed threw a 301 redirect. I'm not certain on the social metric issues. I haven't seen them to be 100% accurate for any page.

Hello,

Wayne is right! I also looked at their own links. They only have 6 linking domains to their website and none of them are credible. If they can't build links to their own site, they won't do well with yours.

Thanks,

- Mike

1. Use as many options as possible

2. Think about your product names, name them so they're first word is different on every product. This should be possible.

Red Team Logo

Blue Team Logo

(Options are better but if you must, title it like that.)

3. It seems like a large task, but take the time to write descriptions differently. It gives you a chance to play around with many keywords and will be very worth it in the end.

Again options are going to be a big help to minimize duplicate descriptions, names and titles.

Try to get as many links changed to the page you've redirected to. Not all juice is passed threw a 301 redirect. I'm not certain on the social metric issues. I haven't seen them to be 100% accurate for any page.

Hello,

On top of just keywords I would highly recommend Moz Local.

If you use them you won't need to worry about location keywords. People will find you there.

Thanks,

- Mike Bean

you may want to try using annotations or link to the new version of the video from your old video.

YouTube Replace Videos

Hello,

If the article is sponsored by you and is all about you, I would request no-follow. If it was not sponsored by you (but still by someone) and there is only a brief mention of you and a link I would keep that as a follow. At the bottom of this article from woorank it explains similar circumstances.

Thanks,

- Mike Bean

That should not be an issue. Just incase I would put - Updated - in front of your title. and a blurb about what it's updated with in the beginning of your description.

Brooke,

Having a website with many similar products, I know what you're experiencing. The best move would be to have as many attributes on one page as possible. Colors, Sizes, Slightly different styles. Less products with a higher quality will also improve the shoppers experience and keep them on one page.

Thanks,

- Mike Bean

Bernardo,

Under the standard Moz Pro account, you get 5 campaigns. (Each one able to connect to Google Analytics.)

Thanks,

- Mike

Jamie,

You should update your sitelinks with Google at least once a month. They know when you've re updated it. A date inside the document shouldn't make a difference.

Thanks,

- Mike Bean