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Go to Rankings, and on the top of the the right hand side you will see "Export to" with options PDF and CSV. Choose CSV and open the file in Excel (using the Text to Columns command).

Good question! In my opinion, A/B and multivariate tests are a good way to increase bounce rates. Often, adding a few images, adding bullet points, breaking up your text in smaller paragraphs can help decrease bounce rate.

What you should keep in mind, though, is that different kind of traffic tends to have different bounce rates. So facebook, twitter, digg, stumbleupon ... normally have quite high bounce rates. The same goes for RSS feeds: if people suscribe to your blog, often they will come to your page just to read the one article, without browsing your site. It can therefore help to include links to other parts of your sites, related blog posts, and with a call to action in your blog post.

For reducing bounce rates of Google (or other search engine) organic traffic, you should aim for page titles that relate to the content of the page. When someone clicks on a search result, they will at least have read the title. Now if your h1 is very different from that, chances are, people will leave your site right away, assuming it does not offer what they are looking for.

The same goes for PPC. Make sure your ad copy matches the landing page. In order to achieve this, split your keywords in different ad groups, according to the topic. Then tailor the ads towards the keywords and the landing page. PPC also allows you to run a lot of experiments, so take advantage of this and apply what you learn from it to other areas.

I would definitely go for the contextual link from the most relevant page (I assume that this is a high quality page, and that it is reasonably well linked within the website). I believe not only that google will put more weight on a link like this, but it will also send you targeted visitors which should be easier to convert.

First of all, you seem to have a lot of spammy looking directory links. Is that the kind of linkbuilding you are doing? If so, stop it. This might have given you a penalty.

Are you at least seeing some long tail traffic coming in, or nothing at all?

I would also recommend:

Sign up for Google Webmaster Tools to see if there are any crawling issues with your website.

From a first look at your website, it seems to me that you have very little text in relation to the code. I would try and add some articles related to your topic.

I agree, and if you have the article on your site, your site (rather than blogger) will profit from any links (shares, tweets...) pointing to your article.

I think the reason people normally do not insert fully capitlized words is that if you scream too much into other people's faces, they are likely to be put off and not click your ad. Take Google Adwords as an example: Google does not allow you to use EXCESSIVE CAPITALIZATION. And Google Adwords is really focussed on getting good CTRs (as they make money based on the clicks they get), and Google does a lot of testing, so I am quite sure that they also have tested this. Also, in general style guides, it is normally advised to refrain from excessive capitalization, as it distracts the reader and makes the text less readable.

Hi,

this seems to be a relatively new format that Google is experimenting with that shows information from large lists as bullet points on the SERP. I suppose it is similar to sitelinks, where Google just decides for which pages and which queries they are shown. Maybe trying out different types of lists with important information (as the property listings in the example) can help you to get the listing.

I have had similar problems (although with fewer pages), and did not notice a negative effect. If you can, I would still try to 301 redirect the URLs these pages point to to real pages. This will also help users which might click on one of the links (but does anyone click on the links from these scraper pages? I have never seen anything in my referrals...)

First of all, how do you know that they have dropped? If it is through a keyword tool, you should manually doublecheck. Several people have reported having issues with the SEOmoz Rank Checking tool lately.

Hi,

you should create unique articles, with unique headings. As you will be targeting different keywords, it would not make sense to use the same headline for different articles. Also, try to make the content of each article really unique, do not just substitute a few words.

If you want to rank for Windows Glass Replacement, I would recommend to use this keyword in the h1, you can then use something like How to know if your windows need replacement as h2. When you build links to this page, you should definitely vary the anchor text, including just anchor text with the URL or "click here" (the latter, if you are going to build a lot of links to this page, if you can only get a few, I would go for good variations of "Windows Glass Replacement", e.g. "replace windows glass", "windows replacement"...

Hi Andy,

well, they should know about it: http://www.seomoz.org/q/pro-dashboard-rankings-report-not-accurate-for-the-uk

And though back then I did not have any issues, I am having issues with our German / Austrian / Swiss rankings this week. I would still advise you to open a ticket, so SEOmoz see that many people are affected and it might also help them to sort the issue out, if they get more information.

Hi Atul,

You can do this with advanced segments in GA.

Firstly, if you do not have it already, assemble a list of the job sites that you want to exclude.

The most important thing is to get a list of up to 10 words that together cover all of the URLs to be excluded. Look for similar patterns in their URLs (e.g., some of them might have the word "job" in their URL, others "recruitment"). I believe the limit of different variables for one advanced segment is around 10 (not sure about the number though, but 10 is at least possible), that is why you cannot just add all 40 URLs to the segment. However, the words should be descriptive enough so they are not included in other referrers to your site.

Then go to GA: Create a new advanced segment, from the Dimensions, take source (under Traffic Sources), set it to "Does not contain" and add the first of your words. Then add an Or Statement, and put in the next word. And so on. When you use this Advanced Segment, you will not see the job referrers anymore.

No, if you include (i.e. say "does not contain") " jobs", this will only exclude jobsearch.naukri.com. In this example, you could include "naukri" or "naukri.com". However, this will only work if you do not get traffic from other pages containing naukri, which are not job related.

Hi, I have just read the Seomoz blog article about regular expressions: it contains a very helpful tip for using Advanced Segments:

"You could also use Advanced Segments to create a social media segment - select source and set the condition to matches Regular Expression.  Your value should be something like facebook|twitter|youtube|digg etc."

Just exchange facebook|twitter|youtube|digg for parts of the URL you want to exclude, and that's it.

Here is the URL of the blog: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/an-seos-guide-to-regex