Welcome to the Q&A Forum

Shouldn't hurt, just wont be as effective as a link from a relevant topic.

Just throw your link into your signature and participate in the community. Just posting a thread with the url will probably get you banned from the forum.

Lets put it this way, if you post an unrelated link into a forum and it isn't removed, that is not a link you want.

Un-moderated forums are filled with spam, high pagerank ones even more so. You risk that link hurting your website's rankings.

Considering they offer that service themselves, it would be hypocritical of them to penalize you for doing it. The hreflang tag would also protect you from having those pages marked as spam since you are telling G "Page a the exact same as page å, just in a different language" - avoiding "duplicate" content

Yeah, that's a tough subject but you'll just need to get more creative.

I would go after a more general niche: Hygiene & Health.

For content ideas, pop in "towel" to:

https://adwords.google.com/o/Targeting/Explorer?__c=1000000000&__u=1000000000&__o=te&ideaRequestType=KEYWORD_IDEAS

http://ubersuggest.org/

http://www.soovle.com/

Depends on your current link profile.

If you already have high quality links, you should remove bad links. If you don't have high quality links, get those first and then focus on removing links if your rankings don't improve.

If you don't have high quality links and you remove all low quality links, your website probably won't rank anyways which is why you should focus on "burying" links.

1. Fix any on page SEO issues

2. Write more content

3. Build more links

You can block the SEOmoz spider via robots.txt on the subdomain

<code>User-agent: rogerbot 
Disallow: /</code> 

don't see a problem there. Looks like the sitemap is now being indexed though (according to my spider). Try resubmitting.

Hmm.. maybe you are blocking robots through htaccess?

Go to http://www.moondoggieinc.com/blog/index.php/moondoggies-new-dog-boutique/

Ctrl+F > Check out the Argyle Sweater Vest from Moondoggie.

^ that link points to: http://www.moondoggieinc.com/blog/index.php/moondoggies-new-dog-boutique/”http://www.moondoggieinc.com/argyle_sweater_vest.php”

Best way to find broken links it to run a spider and find 4xx and 5xx header responses. I recommend Screaming Frog SEO Spider tool.

If you don't mind waiting a long time, you can use W3C Link checker tool - here is a report for your page: http://validator.w3.org/checklink?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.moondoggieinc.com%2Fblog%2Findex.php%2Fmoondoggies-new-dog-boutique%2F&hide_type=all&depth=&check=Check

Clear your W3 Total Cache. Your robots.txt looks fine but my spider is picking the sitemap up as "noindex, follow" as well.

Looks like you are linking to 404 pages, just need to fix the links, remove the errors from GWT and you should be golden.

Check out http://www.moondoggieinc.com/blog/index.php/moondoggies-new-dog-boutique/ > Left sidebar links under "It's all gone to the dogs"

What are you searching for? You mean search for a keyword twice and results are different? Not really seeing that.

For the title tags not appearing as set by webmaster, Google is know to do that. Your best bet is to write a title that isn't too long for Google to display and use keywords that describe the page. This gives google almost no reason to rewrite your title for you.

first i use Yoast sitemap feature so this problem happened than i installed xml sitemap

Uninstall the XML sitemap plugin.. Yoast plugin has a built in XML sitemap which is even better.

Yoast sitemap looks like this: http://www.backlinkbuild.com/blog/sitemap_index.xml

Yours returns a 404: http://www.freepapertextures.com/sitemap_index.xml

Make sure you adjust the WP settings: SEO > XML Sitemaps > Check this box to enable XML sitemap functionality.

and submit this url: http://www.freepapertextures.com/sitemap_index.xml

Not sure about SEO report card effect.. try it out and let us know.

However, when it comes to "should I make my content grammatically correct?" the answer is yes. Throwing in the word "to" isn't going to make-or-break your SEO campaign and could go a long way in improving (rather, not reducing) user experience.

Well the social buttons will still keep the link count from the old url (which you set manually when creating the button) and when a user clicks on the link that was shared, they'd be 301ed to the new page.

I don't think there is a way to transfer likes to a new url but this is the cleanest workaround (looks and feels like the social buttons are related to the page they are on but actually reference the old url which redirects to the new one)

Hopefully that's clear haha

The problem with using a software to translate your content is that it will never be perfect. There will be many grammatical and/or vocabulary errors that would decrease the quality of the content. I'm not sure if Google is able to understand content quality in other languages, but a worse user experience usually leads to worse rankings. Ideal situation, you would have those pages manually translated (but I know it will cost a fortune).

In case you decide to auto translate, be sure to use the rel="alternative" hreflang="x" tag in order to tell Google that you have multiple pages with the same content, except in different languages.

I don't think you should worry about a sudden influx of pages. Ideally, you'd drip feed them in to take advantage of the freshness factor, but you shouldn't be penalized for creating a lot of new pages.

How do I go about getting people to read my blog

Write great content, make it easy to share, be active on social networks, find out where your customers hang out online and join them (e.g. become active in related forums, write guest blog posts for other related blogs, target customers via PPC on facebook and adwords)

should I use this to pull in traffic on keywords we cannot through the main site or should i use this to re-enforce and build traction on those keywords we are trying to rank for on the main site?

Both. Writing content will drive more traffic to your site from search engines. In addition, you should link to relevant pages on your website which would drive more traffic, sales and link juice to your main site as well. Your main site should target the high traffic, high converting keywords while your blog should try and capture all the relevant long tail keywords and funnel visitors to the money pages.

Are those two separate plugins? I know Yoast has a sitemap plugin built in so you don't need another sitemap plugin.

I've never had any issues with it. Make sure your blog setting is set to 'Allow search engines to index this site.' (Settings > Privacy). Reset your cache (if you have one).

You can manually set the URL to share when creating a fb like, twitter tweet, g+ button. Then set a meta refresh=0 to the new URL (which should let you keep the title of the page - untested so let me know) so visitors would be taken to the new page while the social share still goes to the old url.

Great question.

I think for powerful sites, you don't need to worry about it. If you are a new site, this could be seen as a reciprocal linking scheme. I'd recommend linking to them with a nofollow to be on the safe side. Once your site is well established, remove the nofollows.

To danatanseo's point, if you visitors would like it, you should definitely do it. But if you are really worried about G's interpretation of the page, you can always noindex the page and/or nofollow the links.

Thought I'd throw in my 2 cents and experience...

My experience: Built a network of about 50 microsites, SEOed them to the max, built some strong links to them and boom, week later was getting some real traffic. Time goes by, new algorithms released and the sites start to lose their rankings. In fact, the only thing they rank for is their EMD terms (which you don't have). Granted, you seem to have a better upkeep of them but the SERPs trend is not in your favor.

I agree with the others, you should focus on building 1 powerful site vs many microsites. Microsites were the shit back in the day several months back, but today its the big dogs that rank. First page results are filled with brands (usually multiple listings per domain) and microsites are trending down. Quality > quantity, for both links and sites.

My suggestion is to combine all those microsites into one super site that is most easily branded + contains all or a portion of your target keyword in the URL. Just copy/paste all the articles from the microsites to the one site and 301 redirect to the new respective pages.

Also, make sure you do a search before you jump to conclusions about keyword traffic. "life quotes" returns results about life related quotations. Trying to rank for insurance with that keyword is an uphill battle.

If you go through with the transferring all content to one site and 301ing the pages, be sure to post your results here!

Cheers,

Oleg

If those directories are the multilingual versions of the same English pages, be sure to use the rel="alternative" hreflang tags.

In addition, obtaining links from more local websites would help you rank better in their respective google.tlds

Can't really comment on GWT but I don't think you need to do anything fancy. Just make sure you don't have a specific region targeted (i.e. if you target just USA, it would worsen your international rankings).

Yeah, stick with either:

/%category%/%postname%/

or

/%postname%/

Personally, I like %postname% but if you don't plan on adding new posts, you might be better off taking some time and choosing the perfect category slugs to give you bonus keywords in the URL.

1. Not auto approve - those are usually spammed, if posts have 7934 comments that read like "great site, thanks! bookmarked!" and link to their own sites with keyword anchors, its a bad site

2. Niche related - content on site is related to your website, don't contain illegal/porn/gambling/pharma related content

3. Switch up anchor text - don't over optimize, make your linking text varied. use real name, brand name, keywords

4. Make sure the blog is indexed & ranking - if its penalized, your time is better spent elsewhere

5. Social signals - the more tweets/shares a blog post gets, the better the website typically is

I'm sure there is more but having these elements is almost guaranteed to be a good blog.

You should be using alt tags, not H1 tags. You should only have one H1 tag per page that describes what the page is about (ideally containing the keyword you are trying to rank for). You probably shouldn't be putting any text behind images as this may be treated as cloaking. If you really want to keep the text behind the images, wrap it in the

<noscript>tags so that it is only visible when javascript is disabled.</p> <p>Other possible solutions is to overlay (caption style) images with your desired text in H2 tags.</p> <p>Cheers</p></noscript>

As the others mentioned, its probably a coding mistake. 5% bounce rate is phenomenal.

In addition, 24 seconds on homepage can be good or bad - depends on what the next action is (do visitors go further into the site, or leave?)

When working with a new template, I like to install something like ClickTale or Inspectlet (user mouse tracking code) so see exactly how users react to the new design. We use that (along with aggregated data from GA) to develop a better visitor flow - improving time on site and getting visitors where you want them to go.

Hey Rob,

I'm not seeing # likes/tweets. Can you post a screenshot?

-Oleg

Try out http://www.semrush.com - gives you competitors and how they do in rankings overall.

Google won't think it's shady... they recently released a video that says they follow multiple redirects (but if you have too many, it will reflect poorly).

Why get rid of a redirect at all? I would set a canonical url as well as keep the 301 redirect.

Yup, you're good. Sending free sample products to bloggers is a great way to gain exposure and build links.

I would develop a strong strategy that incorporate social media, SEO and content creation in order to maximize your campaign. A free giveaway through Facebook/Twitter can get you loads of direct traffic while building you links. Make sure there is a clear call to action at every step of the process and it is all integrated.

Not sure, sorry. From experience though, 500 errors are commonly caused by the wrong permissions. Make sure you CHMOD your feed to 777 and see if it works.

If it does, try 644 (reducing permissions for security).

If not, are you using a CMS? -post in their troubleshooting forums

"Links that link to: any page on subdomain"

The remaining links point to another subdomain. Try selecting: "Any page on this root domain" and see what you get

SEO-wise: have your keyword in the first position in the title

Aside from that you want to encourage a high CTR with a title that describes the page and entices a click. If you have room for a brand name boiler plate, I like to add it. I only remove it if the title is too long and would get cut off in SERPs.

If it link is a direct link to your site (view source and make sure its ), then only the top 3 points are taken into consideration if its nofollow or not.

MozBar takes all 3 into consideration (tested it on a site I have noindex in robots.txt on, assuming it checks for the meta tag and definitely checks for nofollow attribute).

Common consensus: 301 redirects will drop your rankings for ~ 2 weeks but you should bounce back in rankings after then. You do lose a small amount of link juice but if the word "guides" is a common search term for your widget queries, it might be worth the move.

In addition, I would review the backlinks you currently have, sort out the most powerful backlinks, and contact the respective webmasters to change the URL to the new address and avoid the redirect.

http://hashtags.org/ - Give trends for the more popular hashtags. In your case, I just popped both into search (can do it on Twitter too) and just see which has been getting more results (in this case, I'd go with #carpics)

If someone knows of a better service (maybe checks synonyms, related terms, etc) to choose the best hashtags possible, I'd also be interested.

Conversion rate = Conversions / Visitors (you had it flipped around)

Choosing whether to track unique or not depends on the buying cycle - some items (think high cost, high research) are never converted on a unique visit so by tracking unique visitors, your conversion rate is 0%.

The best solution is to track conversion per recurring visitor (e.g. conversions / unique, conv / 1st return, conv / 2nd return, etc). This will give you a better example of how many visits per conversion on average it takes for someone to convert and you can try to improve the rate at each stage.

A lot depends on what the mobile forum is - a separate url or just a css change? Read this

In the end, you need to tell Google what version of the site to serve to regular visitors and which to serve to mobile users.

If it's such a big forum, the crawlers are probably constantly on the site anyways so sitemaps would do you less good than optimizing the actual forum.

However, if you are inclined to create a sitemap, consider making a sitemap index and splitting up the threads/sections/replies into separate sitemaps (at your discretion). The goal being that each sitemap is updated as often as the next the crawler can keep up with it (so if sitemap gets checked 3 times a day, make sure all the links that need to be crawled would probably appear during those 3 checks)

There are many factors involves and I would really need to see the site/categories to give a specific answer. However:

1. Changing urls will result in loss of rankings. If you 301 redirect from old to new, you will be able to recover most of the rankings but there is ~2 week period where you will drop out of serps.

2. For duplicate content, assuming all pages have been crawled by G, compare you actual # of pages to # results returned by site:domain.com. Also see if there are duplicate title tags (usually results in duplicate content)

3. Tough to say. If G is ranking you well and has been for a while - don't fix what ain't broke. There are many examples of people taking a long time to recover from mistaken 301 redirects or improper canonical tags which tanked their rankings - you're looking to do this on purpose.

that being said, you will probably need a either canonical tags and/or 301 redirects to maximize the site's SEO potential.

1. Instead of deleting, you can just noindex + add a link to the original article.

2. Instead of deleting, you can 301 redirect to the original article.

This removes all duplicate content issues.

Can you set a canonical/redirect on the page that was incorrect pointing back to the correct page?

i.e. page1.html had wrong canonical to pgae1.html -> change pgae1.html canonical to page1.html

Overall, I think it's just a matter of time before Google is able to recrawl and fix itself... it's odd that canonical + noindex is slower than just noindex. Do whatever you can to get G to recrawl the pages.

Maybe the spacing is off when you posted it here, but blank lines can affect robots.txt files. Try code:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
#End Robots#

Also, check for robot blocking meta tags on the individual pages.

You can test to see if Google can access specific pages through GWT > Health > Blocked URLs (should see your robots.txt file contents int he top text area, enter the urls to test in the 2nd text area, then press "Test" at the bottom - test results will appear at the bottom of the page)

The whole site is wrapped in a form, styled with tables (probably just coded straight from PSD slices), has tons of inline javascript, lack analytics code, no images have alt tags, the footer text is printed after the closing html tag... pretty much everything haha.

Yup, other sites will link to that post (improving its PA) and it will send more juice to your site via the link (improving your PA).

Your title is too long: Dog Training Silver Spring MD - Puppy Training - Dog School - Dog Training - Academy Dog Training By Haywood

108 characters with spaces.. you should shoot for ~70 (I believe it's pixel based but 70chr is just easy to deal with)

Since Google can't display the full title in the search results, it took the most relevant text from the title "Academy Dog Training" and displayed that instead.

Fyi, the site in general is very poorly coded and looks like its got a keyword stuffed footer too.

Check out this post on Google and long title tag

SEOMofo title tag length experiment - 107px title is the longest allowed length

No. If a high authority site creates a blog post with your link in the article, that is a low PA link from a high DA site (at least when it is first posted). From what I can tell, all links improve your PA/DA - just a matter of how much.

The higher PA and DA linking to you, the more PA and DA your site gets.