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Hi Kane,
Thanks for answer. You're partly right about the app launcher ones as well. Its not a Chromebook thing but something you can add to your desktop to launch your Chrome app straight from the desktop. Thanks again for the help.
Cheers,
Nishadha
Hi all,
our website Creately is listed in the Chrome Web Store. Its not an extension or an app, but just a link to app which users can use to quickly log into the app and start drawing their diagrams.
They do provide you a way to add Google Analytics to track some visitor data like user visits. But we want to figure out from which sections of Chrome Web Store is sending us traffic. When looking at the Source/Medium reports I can see the following.
I'm guessing these indicate where we're getting the traffic to the Chrome web store page but I can't seem to find any information about what they mean. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Go to the rankings section and click "Email Rankings History CSV" above the keyword ranking charts. You need to group etc to get some nice looking graphs and this might help http://moz.com/blog/how-to-make-awesome-ranking-charts
Hi,
your competitor has 344 links from 11 RD's while you have 92 from 5 RD's . I feel that is the main reason why they are outperforming your site.
Also even though things like keyword stuffing is bad practice it takes a while for search engines to catch up with them. In some instances its hard to find the balance between keyword stuffing and adding the right keywords.
Other things that might be working for them is publisher markup verified and outgoing links to some authority and relevant websites.
I would suggest doing the following
Hope this helps.
I've noticed this few weeks back. But it returned back to normal for few industries this week.
If all else is equal then the older page with the higher page rank. But it's hardly ever the case.
The older page might have a better page rank/authority etc but if its not getting any traffic at all then it might be a waste. The blogger might have expanded his readership and you might have a better chance of getting actual traffic to your site from that post.
Also the new post might get more links and acquire more authority.
The opinions may vary on the correct thing to do, but in general I only go for a link from an old page if its getting decent traffic via search engines.
It's hard to say without knowing what is the keyword you're trying to rank for. But if its "Nationwide Boiler Hire" they do have it in their title.
A great weekend to you too, Patrick !
Yes, that makes perfect sense. You can even create another G+ page for your current Google+ profile, but since you're creating a new Gmail id for Facebook, Twitter etc I guess it's better to create the page also from that Gmail id.
1. No, Google doesn't mind having another Gmail id with your name, I'm sure there are plenty more with the same name.
2. A G+ page is not associated with one email address. You can add multiple admins to a G+ page. So in your case I think you can create the G+ page under the new Gmail id and add one of your other profiles as an admin.
So I don't think it makes the difference if you create a new Gmail id specifically for your new product.
I did a quick research and both of these are offered as HP products. Are you sure it's the same product renamed?
Also I notice that you have video tutorials. If it's just a name change and the interface and everything remains the same then I think you can keep the video tutorials and mention ALM in the text/title/meta description etc.
If the interface, tools and options all have changed then it's better to create new set of pages and videos because the old pages wont provide any value to the new users.
The QDF is aimed at hot/current topics right ? So while it might be important for a news site or a celebrity gossip site I don't think it will be relevant for every site.
You have mentioned that the client has proposed to build the site with "all the pages you hope to rank for", which means the topic is restrictive and there is a limit to what you can write about the subject. But then to launch the site with this approach you need to get all the content ready and that might take some time.
A much more sensible approach would be to launch the site with a reasonable amount of content and then add the rest of the content when possible. This way you can start with the link building, social sharing process early.
I don't think just because you launch a site with lots of fresh content it will give you a jump start in traffic, but I'm interested to see if anyone had success with this method.
You can try Technorati ( http://technorati.com/blogs/top100/ ). You can even break it down to top 100 for tech, health, politics, entertainment etc.
Go to the campaign and then
Links -> Competitive metrics -> Click on the chart icon next to domain authority
It will show how the domain authority changed by week. I don't think you can get it by month.
The link you have mentioned looks very spammy so I will definitely try to remove it from that page. In general I think what you should look at is quality of the site you're getting the link and the relevance of the link. If the link is relevant then no need to remove them.
Hi Mark,
You need to tell crawlers to not to index those content by modifying the robots.txt file. Below is a good link with some examples and instructions
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17029811/how-to-set-up-robots-txt-file-for-wordpress
You generally add nofollow to tell search engines not to consider that link to rank search results. So I think it's about whether you want some internal page to rank in search results. You probably don't want your contact page to rank in search engines so I guess it's okay to add no follow to that page.
There are few sites that lets you create info-graphics
Also if you want to create info-graphics based on already existing data I highly recommend Google public data explorer. You can do some really cool graphs and animations there.
If you're using WordPress then you can use http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/ .
Also you can use a CDN to improve the load times.
I don't think you should create country specific Facebook pages but there are advantages in creating language specific social accounts. I have seeing two companies doing this
And in both cases I think they are using the language as the criteria for opening a separate social media page.
Another thing to consider is the amount of time/budget you can need to allocate for maintaining these pages.
I think if you're hit by the Penguin update then Google has already deemed you have bad/unnatural links pointing to your site to game rankings. The first step is to identify those links. Then you can start thinking about getting them removed or using the disavow tool to disavow them.
I don't think replacing the anchor text with image will help at all. You might be even harming yourself by removing legit links.
Very interesting question but I think you should be frying bigger fish 
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Even if you add them as bullet points it's still text and I think Google is smart enough to figure out the context. Also since you're adding a description you shouldn't have any worries.
Personally I like bullet points when shopping so as long as you don't overdo it I think it's a good strategy.
Since you started your site few days ago ranking on the 28'th place is a good thing. It takes time for a new website to build authority and move upward in search engines.
I checked out your site and it had some decent content. Although more relevant content is always a good idea. Check out the Moz SEO guide ( http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo ) and implement the things mentioned there and you'll see an improvement in rankings.
Directory links are not the most valuable links and it takes time for them to get indexed anyway. Try to get links from relevant blogs and website for more authoritative links.
I don't think having an exact match domain will be held against you. But it is not as beneficial as it used to be.
Check this article which pretty much covers everything related to micro-formats https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/99170?hl=en
If you're using WordPress then you can use this plugin which has support for pricing and rating but keep in mind that they are not visible to the user. http://simplemediacode.com/wordpress-pugins/itemprop-wp/
I usually add them manually so I can format them and display them nicely to users while still showing micro formats.
If you're using the WordPress SEO by Yoast you can easily do this by adding %%page%% to your title template. It appears as "Page 2 of 5".