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First things first, I did check all web addresses. They all exist. You probably need to provide more detail whether or not you are using a CMS for your web pages.

All 3 pages have different page authority. That is, one of the version is ranking higher than the other versions. I did a quick check of that via Moz toolbar. Looks like the index.html has the highest authority.

Note that all 3 versions you listed, has 2 other versions. The one with the www, and the one without the www. Judging from the moz toolbar, looks like you rank better for the one without the 'www' . Rel canonical is is good option, but in this case I would try to do a 301 redirect from the server side first. Again, not sure how much access you have to the server side. You might need to contact your web admin.host company etc.

You can read about redirects more over here. --> http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection. If you don't have access to the server you can try doing the rel canonical. Read more here --> http://moz.com/learn/seo/duplicate-content

Example. you have www.example.com/page1.htm, /page2.htm, page3.htm. They all have same exact content. Lets say that pag1.htm is your main version. You can do the following in the header section of page2, and page 3.htm

"This tag tells Bing and Google that the given page should be treated as though it were a copy of the URL www.example.com/pag1.htm/ and that all of the links and content metrics the engines apply should actually be credited toward the provided URL."

I would recommend not to delete all the other version, but instead do a 301 redirect, or a rel canonical, as they all of some kind of page authority, except index.html has the highest. (the non www version). But you need to make that decision. But looks like that's what you want to be the main one anyway.

ALSO,

You can tell google which version you prefer to google in GWT. This informs google which version you prefer. You can read more here.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/44231?hl=en

"Once you tell us your preferred domain name, we use that information for all future crawls of your site and indexing refreshes. For instance, if you specify your preferred domain as http://www.example.com and we find a link to your site that is formatted as http://example.com, we follow that link as http://www.example.com instead. In addition, we'll take your preference into account when displaying the URLs. If you don't specify a preferred domain, we may treat the www and non-www versions of the domain as separate references to separate pages."

"Note: Once you've set your preferred domain, you may want to use a 301 redirect to redirect traffic from your non-preferred domain, so that other search engines and visitors know which version you prefer."

You cannot control the www and non www versons of your website, but you can control, making duplicate pages, especially of your home page. I am guessing that that is something that was done by your CMS. Index.html was probably done by you. FURTHERMORE, I think .com/ & .com is the one and the same thing. and you probably had to decide, when you were making a new campaign in moz. They probably asked you to put down your web address for your domain, and your probably put something like, "balloonsutah.com"Not exactly sure, why it showed you .com & .com/, but it makes sense that they would show you, .com, and /index.html, as they are two different pages, even though it has the same content. It still is two different URL's.

I probably wouldn't worry too much about it. But I'll let one of the moz members answer about .com &.com/. I would perhaps concern myself more about 301 redirects, and rel canonicals.

Hope I helped.

Hi, Hope you're doing well.

I am sure, you guys must be aware that Google has updated their webmaster technical guidelines saying that users should allow access to their css files and java-scripts file if it's possible. Used to be that Google would render the web pages only text based. Now it claims that it can read the css and java-scripts. According to their own terms, not allowing access to the css files can result in sub-optimal rankings. "Disallowing crawling of Javascript or CSS files in your site’s robots.txt directly harms how well our algorithms render and index your content and can result in suboptimal rankings."http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2014/10/updating-our-technical-webmaster.htmlWe have allowed access to our CSS files. and Google bot, is seeing our webapges more like a normal user would do. (tested it in GWT)Anyhow, this is my dilemma. I am sure lot of other users might be facing the same situation. Like any other e commerce companies/websites.. we have lot of images. Used to be that our css files were inside our images folder, so I have allowed access to that. Here's the robots.txt --> http://www.modbargains.com/robots.txtRight now we are blocking images folder, as it is very huge, very heavy, and some of the images are very high res. The reason we are blocking that is because we feel that Google bot might spend almost all of its time trying to crawl that "images" folder only, that it might not have enough time to crawl other important pages. Not to mention, a very heavy server load on Google's and ours. we do have good high quality original pictures. We feel that we are losing potential rankings since we are blocking images. I was thinking to allow ONLY google-image bot, access to it. But I still feel that google might spend lot of time doing that. **I was wondering if Google makes a decision saying, hey let me spend 10 minutes for google image bot, and let me spend 20 minutes for google-mobile bot etc.. or something like that.. , or does it have separate "time spending" allocations for all of it's bot types. I want to unblock the images folder, for now only the google image bot, but at the same time, I fear that it might drastically hamper indexing of our important pages, as I mentioned before, because of having tons & tons of images, and Google spending enough time already just to crawl that folder.**Any advice? recommendations? suggestions? technical guidance? Plan of action? Pretty sure I answered my own question, but I need a confirmation from an Expert, if I am right, saying that allow only Google image access to my images folder. Sincerely,Shaleen Shah

Hope my answer helps you. I am still kind of a beginner. Other professionals, feel free to correct my answer.

Here's what I think. There is no exact definition on number of times you should use a keyword. But if you look at the language, lot of times you can tell it is keyword stuffing. Think about it this way. With semantic search, knowledge graph, contextual meanings, schema markups, Search engines have become really smart to know what content relates to what. By over using the keyword, you are actually failing to provide meaning to your content. There are other details that go with it, such as what do people usually click on when they search for "office space in NY" etc, what do other people link to etc.

The language should be conversational. Using the word office space multiple times is actually taking away the opportunity to mention other things. It could be something like square feet details, paint colors, lease time etc.

Google has clearly said that Google is for users, not webmasters, or websites. Why do you think they made the whole meta keywords irrelevant?

I am probably trying to confirm your doubt that yes you are most likely keyword stuffing. Also, you are making it more obvious by making the texts bold. Google would more likely find something else that provides more value.

It is definitely able to read the alt tags, as you know, and other tags. Alt tags is usually for crawlers, and other screen reader software to decipher what the image is about. I would probably stick to alt texts not more than a sentence.

It is also able to read href's, and the anchor text it contains. Nobody exactly knows how exactly Google functions, but from experience, I want to say, href is definitely a part of their ranking algorithm. The URL structure matters too. For example, www.example.com/ny-office-space.htm will make more sense then a randomly generated url that is something like, www.example.com/123456-space.htm

I would probably try to think differently about content. Having a diverse language is probably more beneficial, as far as it is relevant, and it is even more beneficial if you go above and beyond. For example if your topic focus is "apples", it is good to talk about apples, but it would be better if you talk about history of apples, different kinds of apples etc.

I would think about having a diverse language in terms of how it would benefit users, or people who search on the web. I would probably not think about having a diverse language just because you can rank. Obviously that is the goal, but Having that thought process might actually hinder your ability to provide good valuable content. If your content is good, Google will definitely rank. Not sure if everyone will agree to this.

Also, I would probably do something like how hard it is to rank for "Office space", and that in NY. sometimes also because of high competition, you might need to up your game even more. Moz, has a "Keyword difficulty tool" which can help you determine that.

You can also in your webmaster tools see how Googlbot reads, or fetches your content for the home page. Lot of times, things could be inadvertently be blocked in robots.txt. For example if you are blocking the whole images folder, and your CSS, javascripts etc, are in the same folder, Google will not be able to read your content the way a normal user sees your content. Making google read your content as close to as a user does, will probably help you more!

The question probably needs more detailed answers. All other professionals can feel free to add/correct. I personally feel that your page is not spammy, but it is, if not more, slightly keyword stuffed.

Hope I helped you clear some of your concerns. Good luck with everything!

first of all dont panic. don't make any crazy adjustments.

step one: breathe.

step two: edit your meta description that sounds natural to someone in maysville will want to click on.

step three: edit the h1 and h2 as per instructed in my first post

step 4: add your website to any maysville directories or whatever county or state that it's in, specifying Maysville.

step 5: join a Maysville community forum and be involved. Let them know what services are available to the residents.

step 6: repeat for the other keywords you want.

step 7: realize if you have 100s of keywords, narrow that down and cater to those keywords or make them broad enough to where you can at least land on the first page for all of them.

step 8: create a google plus page for your website. Just one, and create the content stating you cater to said areas ie..maysville,smallsville,gotham,metropolis, etc..

step 9: wait a few weeks to be re-indexed.

step 10: relax and enjoy the seomoz community.

Edit your content to not have Maysville as the main word in a seoquake tag cloud. if you dont know or use seoquake check it out. google it.

I understand you are being outranked by others with little or zero content, but what are they also doing that you're not? If they are not back linking, could they be on directories?

| Meta Description | maysville plumber, maysville plumbing, plumber in maysville ga, maysville septic, maysville septic pumping, maysville leak detection, maysville ga plumb | 152 |
| Meta Keywords | plumbing, plumber, plumbers, atlanta plumber, atlanta plumbing, septic tank service, leak detection, akins, plumbing service, plumber service, metro atlanta plumber, metro atlanta plumbing | 188 |
| H1 | Akins Plumbing | 20 |
| H2 | Maysville Plumber & Septic Tank |

Your meta description is too robot like. you need to fix your description to read to someone who actually wants your service.

Your h1 tag should be more than two words: Akins Plumbing has been servicing Maysville for past 25 years<that's decent.="" replace="" that="" where="" your="" h2="" is.<="" p=""></that's>

H2 should be Our Services Include:

You bold Maysville way too much, in a sense overkill. I'd recommend removing those big bold words, since people do get the point that you provide plumbing services to Maysville.

Other things I've noticed:

No Googles Place Page

No Google + page

Do you have twitter? i saw facebook.

Your content looks great!

Except for the fact that Maysville seems to be in every sentence. People get the point it's for Maysville from the first paragraph, guess what, so does google. Cut back on that.

just a few sugguestions: you will need to back link, you don't any on OSE. I've noticed alot of your competition are just directory websites. You may want to look into that as a resource.

Run SeoMoz Reports on your keywords and your website. And pay close attention to the results.

For Maysville Plumber your grade was an A. However there are some fixes you might want to look at.

http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization

there's the link.

well there's me spending 10 mins or lessof my time helping you out.:)

yep. you're right. I think i was very tired at the point that i read it(I do a lot researching and reading on seo).

In theory the Google Penguin Update should look at that site and say "that's not right, what does vacation rental, and computers have to do with hotels?"

One reason that Google hasn't done anything about it is because it probably has not re-crawled the page, or it by-passed with enough content before the links at the bottom of the page.

301 directs coming from

www.topusagoldbuyers.com/

page 15 on Open Site Explorer with Domain Authority of 14.

As far as why the sudden drop in Domain Authority, it is due to Open Site Explorer getting around to indexing all of your backlinks from the internet. I know they hit a bump in the road recently, which stalled indexing the web for a month (or so).

What I can conclude is the backlinks to your site are causing a negative effect with so many low domain authority scores (along with Moz Trust).

One thing I do like about SEOMOZ/OSE is that their algo. method of determining authority is pretty damn close to google's.

So if you see your authority drop on open site explorer it's just as bad in google's eyes or worse.

If you don't mind me asking, what are you link building plans? I highly recommend to not outsource them to agencies..either way. PM me if you would like, private messages can be found under the "my account" and we can discuss strategies if it's something you dont want to discuss on a forum.

On Open Site Explorer

it specifically states NO FOLLOW before the title of the URL

it reads (nofollow) Twitter as an example

Well spending 1 minute of my time i see three issues

1. Too many No follow backlinks

2. Your keywords are primarily "WEBSITE" or "View WEBSITE" on quality sites with "no follow" links

and www.goldmaxusa.com on low quality sites with "follow" links

3. whats with the garbage 301 directs? Come on.

I amlooking at OSE with Domain Authority ranked highest to lowest.

Fix:

Get better back links ( i dont care how) and use variations of keywords you want to rank on.

"WEBSITE" is not one of them

"Gold buyer" is a somewhat ok keyword. you can do better than me

"Highest cash for gold" would be an example of a better phrased keyword variant to use.

First things first, I did check all web addresses. They all exist. You probably need to provide more detail whether or not you are using a CMS for your web pages.

All 3 pages have different page authority. That is, one of the version is ranking higher than the other versions. I did a quick check of that via Moz toolbar. Looks like the index.html has the highest authority.

Note that all 3 versions you listed, has 2 other versions. The one with the www, and the one without the www. Judging from the moz toolbar, looks like you rank better for the one without the 'www' . Rel canonical is is good option, but in this case I would try to do a 301 redirect from the server side first. Again, not sure how much access you have to the server side. You might need to contact your web admin.host company etc.

You can read about redirects more over here. --> http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection. If you don't have access to the server you can try doing the rel canonical. Read more here --> http://moz.com/learn/seo/duplicate-content

Example. you have www.example.com/page1.htm, /page2.htm, page3.htm. They all have same exact content. Lets say that pag1.htm is your main version. You can do the following in the header section of page2, and page 3.htm

"This tag tells Bing and Google that the given page should be treated as though it were a copy of the URL www.example.com/pag1.htm/ and that all of the links and content metrics the engines apply should actually be credited toward the provided URL."

I would recommend not to delete all the other version, but instead do a 301 redirect, or a rel canonical, as they all of some kind of page authority, except index.html has the highest. (the non www version). But you need to make that decision. But looks like that's what you want to be the main one anyway.

ALSO,

You can tell google which version you prefer to google in GWT. This informs google which version you prefer. You can read more here.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/44231?hl=en

"Once you tell us your preferred domain name, we use that information for all future crawls of your site and indexing refreshes. For instance, if you specify your preferred domain as http://www.example.com and we find a link to your site that is formatted as http://example.com, we follow that link as http://www.example.com instead. In addition, we'll take your preference into account when displaying the URLs. If you don't specify a preferred domain, we may treat the www and non-www versions of the domain as separate references to separate pages."

"Note: Once you've set your preferred domain, you may want to use a 301 redirect to redirect traffic from your non-preferred domain, so that other search engines and visitors know which version you prefer."

You cannot control the www and non www versons of your website, but you can control, making duplicate pages, especially of your home page. I am guessing that that is something that was done by your CMS. Index.html was probably done by you. FURTHERMORE, I think .com/ & .com is the one and the same thing. and you probably had to decide, when you were making a new campaign in moz. They probably asked you to put down your web address for your domain, and your probably put something like, "balloonsutah.com"Not exactly sure, why it showed you .com & .com/, but it makes sense that they would show you, .com, and /index.html, as they are two different pages, even though it has the same content. It still is two different URL's.

I probably wouldn't worry too much about it. But I'll let one of the moz members answer about .com &.com/. I would perhaps concern myself more about 301 redirects, and rel canonicals.

Hope I helped.

To answer your question: Yes. You can use backlink software.

Should you use them? No.

generally most backlink software will backlink to non-relevant sites with low domain scores, which usually have been spammed to death.

If you want your site(s) to rank poorly or even de-index, this is a great way of doing it.

Other ways of getting in trouble:

commenting on forums

posting on blogs

using exact keywords in anchor texts

So what works:

being an active member in forums or blogs related to your niche topic

look for high domain authority sites in your niche and ask to be a contributor..just don't let it go against google's policies.

Create content that engages users to want to share, whether it's informative or interesting.

| Meta Description | maysville plumber, maysville plumbing, plumber in maysville ga, maysville septic, maysville septic pumping, maysville leak detection, maysville ga plumb | 152 |
| Meta Keywords | plumbing, plumber, plumbers, atlanta plumber, atlanta plumbing, septic tank service, leak detection, akins, plumbing service, plumber service, metro atlanta plumber, metro atlanta plumbing | 188 |
| H1 | Akins Plumbing | 20 |
| H2 | Maysville Plumber & Septic Tank |

Your meta description is too robot like. you need to fix your description to read to someone who actually wants your service.

Your h1 tag should be more than two words: Akins Plumbing has been servicing Maysville for past 25 years<that's decent.="" replace="" that="" where="" your="" h2="" is.<="" p=""></that's>

H2 should be Our Services Include:

You bold Maysville way too much, in a sense overkill. I'd recommend removing those big bold words, since people do get the point that you provide plumbing services to Maysville.

Other things I've noticed:

No Googles Place Page

No Google + page

Do you have twitter? i saw facebook.

Your content looks great!

Except for the fact that Maysville seems to be in every sentence. People get the point it's for Maysville from the first paragraph, guess what, so does google. Cut back on that.

just a few sugguestions: you will need to back link, you don't any on OSE. I've noticed alot of your competition are just directory websites. You may want to look into that as a resource.

Run SeoMoz Reports on your keywords and your website. And pay close attention to the results.

For Maysville Plumber your grade was an A. However there are some fixes you might want to look at.

http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization

there's the link.

well there's me spending 10 mins or lessof my time helping you out.:)

Allan,

My short answer is no.

They outsource their clients keywords to text brokers and bloggers, and use alot of back linking to sites with low domain scores, for the main part, as well as linking on international domains.

SEO isn't always easy, fun, and exciting, but as long as you want to learn how to do it, you can achieve first page. I promise with hard work, you can save a lot of money and see results.

Their client www.xoticdreamcars.com who are chasing the keyword "exotic car rental" as advertised on their site isnt on the TOP 5 on google ranking.

I do understand it's a very highly competitive keyword :

| <a class="aw-ti-resultsPanel-details">exotic car rental</a> | High | 201,000 | 135,000 (from Google's keyword tool) |

However, in my opinion it's best if you learned how to SEO for your niche market. Like you have said SEOmoz is a great resource and it's time you take a crack at it.

I'll give you a few tips too.

There's a starter guide for SEO on here, I don't have a direct link for it so please look it up.

Get Google Chrome Browser and get the SEOmoz toolbar plugin, it checks homepage Domain Authorities and Page Authorities. In my opinion, your best bet is find sites in your relevant area and back link from their site to yours.

Another tip, see those sites that micrositez use for their Google results? Good. Now open up http://www.opensiteexplorer.org

and type in those sites they list, and check their inbound links and anchor texts. You will see where they link to, the domain scores, and what kind of links they give to their customers.

Now ask yourself, is this something I want to do?

SEOmoz as well as the internet also offer FREE advice how to fix your homepage.. ie..H1 tags, no duplicate content, proper title pages, no 404s, original content(the most important factor)

So please, save yourself that money and enjoy happy hour somewhere.

Using OSE, check the DOMAIN AUTHORITY of the sites that the back links are on. What I believe is that website B has better quality and thus higher domain authoritative back links than site A.

and/or

Website B has more back links than website A.

Also,

how well optimized are the websites for the keywords you are targeting? That's important.

You're welcome!

Hope my answer helps you. I am still kind of a beginner. Other professionals, feel free to correct my answer.

Here's what I think. There is no exact definition on number of times you should use a keyword. But if you look at the language, lot of times you can tell it is keyword stuffing. Think about it this way. With semantic search, knowledge graph, contextual meanings, schema markups, Search engines have become really smart to know what content relates to what. By over using the keyword, you are actually failing to provide meaning to your content. There are other details that go with it, such as what do people usually click on when they search for "office space in NY" etc, what do other people link to etc.

The language should be conversational. Using the word office space multiple times is actually taking away the opportunity to mention other things. It could be something like square feet details, paint colors, lease time etc.

Google has clearly said that Google is for users, not webmasters, or websites. Why do you think they made the whole meta keywords irrelevant?

I am probably trying to confirm your doubt that yes you are most likely keyword stuffing. Also, you are making it more obvious by making the texts bold. Google would more likely find something else that provides more value.

It is definitely able to read the alt tags, as you know, and other tags. Alt tags is usually for crawlers, and other screen reader software to decipher what the image is about. I would probably stick to alt texts not more than a sentence.

It is also able to read href's, and the anchor text it contains. Nobody exactly knows how exactly Google functions, but from experience, I want to say, href is definitely a part of their ranking algorithm. The URL structure matters too. For example, www.example.com/ny-office-space.htm will make more sense then a randomly generated url that is something like, www.example.com/123456-space.htm

I would probably try to think differently about content. Having a diverse language is probably more beneficial, as far as it is relevant, and it is even more beneficial if you go above and beyond. For example if your topic focus is "apples", it is good to talk about apples, but it would be better if you talk about history of apples, different kinds of apples etc.

I would think about having a diverse language in terms of how it would benefit users, or people who search on the web. I would probably not think about having a diverse language just because you can rank. Obviously that is the goal, but Having that thought process might actually hinder your ability to provide good valuable content. If your content is good, Google will definitely rank. Not sure if everyone will agree to this.

Also, I would probably do something like how hard it is to rank for "Office space", and that in NY. sometimes also because of high competition, you might need to up your game even more. Moz, has a "Keyword difficulty tool" which can help you determine that.

You can also in your webmaster tools see how Googlbot reads, or fetches your content for the home page. Lot of times, things could be inadvertently be blocked in robots.txt. For example if you are blocking the whole images folder, and your CSS, javascripts etc, are in the same folder, Google will not be able to read your content the way a normal user sees your content. Making google read your content as close to as a user does, will probably help you more!

The question probably needs more detailed answers. All other professionals can feel free to add/correct. I personally feel that your page is not spammy, but it is, if not more, slightly keyword stuffed.

Hope I helped you clear some of your concerns. Good luck with everything!

Allan,

I also used Opensiteexplorer.org to look at your back links. They are all from directories, it would help to diversify your link structure to include high domain blogs and post on forums related to your industry, DJ equipment.

Hi, Hope you're doing well.

I am sure, you guys must be aware that Google has updated their webmaster technical guidelines saying that users should allow access to their css files and java-scripts file if it's possible. Used to be that Google would render the web pages only text based. Now it claims that it can read the css and java-scripts. According to their own terms, not allowing access to the css files can result in sub-optimal rankings. "Disallowing crawling of Javascript or CSS files in your site’s robots.txt directly harms how well our algorithms render and index your content and can result in suboptimal rankings."http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2014/10/updating-our-technical-webmaster.htmlWe have allowed access to our CSS files. and Google bot, is seeing our webapges more like a normal user would do. (tested it in GWT)Anyhow, this is my dilemma. I am sure lot of other users might be facing the same situation. Like any other e commerce companies/websites.. we have lot of images. Used to be that our css files were inside our images folder, so I have allowed access to that. Here's the robots.txt --> http://www.modbargains.com/robots.txtRight now we are blocking images folder, as it is very huge, very heavy, and some of the images are very high res. The reason we are blocking that is because we feel that Google bot might spend almost all of its time trying to crawl that "images" folder only, that it might not have enough time to crawl other important pages. Not to mention, a very heavy server load on Google's and ours. we do have good high quality original pictures. We feel that we are losing potential rankings since we are blocking images. I was thinking to allow ONLY google-image bot, access to it. But I still feel that google might spend lot of time doing that. **I was wondering if Google makes a decision saying, hey let me spend 10 minutes for google image bot, and let me spend 20 minutes for google-mobile bot etc.. or something like that.. , or does it have separate "time spending" allocations for all of it's bot types. I want to unblock the images folder, for now only the google image bot, but at the same time, I fear that it might drastically hamper indexing of our important pages, as I mentioned before, because of having tons & tons of images, and Google spending enough time already just to crawl that folder.**Any advice? recommendations? suggestions? technical guidance? Plan of action? Pretty sure I answered my own question, but I need a confirmation from an Expert, if I am right, saying that allow only Google image access to my images folder. Sincerely,Shaleen Shah

Well spending 1 minute of my time i see three issues

1. Too many No follow backlinks

2. Your keywords are primarily "WEBSITE" or "View WEBSITE" on quality sites with "no follow" links

and www.goldmaxusa.com on low quality sites with "follow" links

3. whats with the garbage 301 directs? Come on.

I amlooking at OSE with Domain Authority ranked highest to lowest.

Fix:

Get better back links ( i dont care how) and use variations of keywords you want to rank on.

"WEBSITE" is not one of them

"Gold buyer" is a somewhat ok keyword. you can do better than me

"Highest cash for gold" would be an example of a better phrased keyword variant to use.