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Rather than creating the same report layout for each of your campaigns in Moz Analytics?

Anyone know?

Yeah any custom of the AIO custom fields you've configured will probably need to be re-entered into Yoast's custom fields. You can just copy and paste these out to a spreadsheet or something and then paste them back into the Yoast custom fields.

So yes, the functionality is retained to have separate search engine titles/descriptions and blog page titles/descriptions

Have you setup custom meta descriptions and titles in All in One SEO?

If so, you'll probably need to manually migrate these from one to the other.

If you've just relied on the default/automatic settings in  All in One then you should be fine to swap over. Obviously each plug-in is different, so you may notice some changes to how it handles meta tags, redirects, etc. so you might see some impact on your search results (not necessarily down), but I would imagine it would be negligible.

Personally I'd go for Yoast's plugin over AIO, as it offers several features that AIO doesn't have. It's also kept more up to date, and Yoast really knows what he's doing. If you're going to make the switch do it now and then stick with it.

Hi Alejandro,

I was wondering how you got on with this?

I'm currently looking at moving a client away from the Magneto AhedWorks blog extension as the SEO functionality seems very lacking.

I'm looking at the wordpress integration.

Did it work out for you?

Thanks!

That's a very good point.

It's always tricky looking for trust indicators in the murky side of SEO I think, however there seem to be plenty of "happy & genuine" punters on blackhatworld, with examples, etc.

To be honest I wouldn't want to put a link or a testimonial on a black hat link building site!

Yes, these links are clearly going to be piles of dog poo - but if it's working for a load of people, then why not!?

Also, listening to the kind of results that people have achieved on Blackhatworld using methods likes this makes me very keen to give it a run.

I guess if it's shite, at least I'll know for future reference.

Could be the badger update, after all they're currently being culled the sh*t out of and that's what google likes to do to sites.

I like your analogy "crap ---> shite ---> balls ---> yourwebsite = win!!" ... haha

Yes, I would rather do that as well. But that's slower and I want it ALL.. .NOW! and fantastic content isn't always as fast as I'd like, especially on a site that's in the google trough at the moment.

True...

One reason I like the tiered links idea is that if it goes wrong, then you can cut the ties on those 10 links or so links relatively easy. You may do a bit of damage, but I've heard some good feedback from this kind of scheme - obviously I wouldn't do it on a client's site, but I am tempted to "give it a whirl" on some of my domains which could do with a bit of a lift.

ha, yeah, I doubt the content is anything near "beautiful", although I have to admire their marketing for actually using that word, especially for what will be undoubtedly spun articles.

It's more the tiered aspect I'm interested in. If I knew their tiered structures and methods were good (obviously in black hat terms) and got results, then it's worth it.

No, just no! Automated software is never really a good idea and although it may result in short term gain, the long term prospects are not very good at all.

Concentrate on creating high quality links that require a human to put effort it. 1 high quality link will out shine 1,000 spammy links

The idea of the link acquisition tool is to simply provide searches that you can use in google to get results that may yield good link opportunites.

If you click on any of the links it will open a google search for the keywords shown.

For example money hoodies + "suggest url" is searching google for sites with the keywords 'money hoodies' but also where there there is an exact match on the site for the text "submit url". This should therefore return sites which are relevant to your keywords but where you can also submit a link.

It's pretty handy tool for finding some quick wins that you may not have thought of, but there are many other search terms you can probably think of yourself that may yield results which are as good if not better.

Quicker than a toilet stop in rattle snake country.

Go to Open Site Explorer > Type in your competitor's URL > from the 'show' drop down select 301. Job done!

If you can't get the perma-link structure of wordpress to match as many of the old pages as possible then, yes, I would personally 301 the old pages to the new ones.

You'll lose a certain amount of "link juice" by doing this, but it's better than losing it all!

Atul,

To start with, I would direct you to the following resource;

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

It contains surprisingly good tips for people beginning SEO and some gems for experts alike.

Looking at your site, I would suggest the following;

1. Reduce the number of links on your home page. The big 'blob' of links of the tops looks incredibly spammy on first glance and you need to categorise these. Perhaps under a 'New Essays' category and then maybe just include a few 'featured' new additions at the top. Adding an image and a short description for each of these may also help with the look and feel of the site.

2. Get rid of the ' in FAQ'S at the bottom and replace it with a small s. Not a big one, but it's bad grammar.

3. Your H1 tag is too long. It should concentrate on a particular keyword or brand you are targeting for your home page. Perhaps 'All Kind Of Essays'

4. The alt text for your images could be better utilised. Put some more appropriate and keyword rich alt text.

5. The page is missing a meta description. Although not a big impact on SEO, it's useful to show in the search engines so that users have an idea of what the site is about

6. You need to start building some quality inbound links to the site. The beginners guide above has a good section on this. Make sure the links are high quality, perhaps guest blogging. You could also submit the site once it's cleaned up to some quality directories such as Yahoo Directory and Best of the Web. Avoid spammy directories.

7. Is there an incentive to donate a paper? I can't see one at the moment. Maybe you want to be creative and award users points or something similar to attract paper submissions.

8. There's no text on the home page describing what your site is about. You need to have an informative and eye catching blurb to describe the page. You can then drop the odd keyword in here and use it to hook people in so they don't just bounce straight back off your site.

9. Create an XML sitemap

10. If you want to restrict Google's bots to access certain sections, create a robots.txt file in the root directory.

I would definitely consult the guide at the top of this response, it should help no end; it also contains useful links to other useful articles on how to optimise a page well and build links effectively.

I hope this helps

Paul,

OSE is no-where near as complex as Google's algorithms and can only rank links in a relatively simplistic manner. Although it's a very good tool for getting an idea of what's going on, there are so many other contributing factors that Google will use that just can't be included in OSE.

For example, the directory links may be ranked highly in OSE because it's algorithm looks at all the links going into the directory and determines that it's probably quite a good source. Google however may have penalised the same directory (something OSE can't determine) and so any links from that directory may in-fact be worthless.

When using OSE, I tend to use my gut instinct as well as the stats to tell whether a link is worth anything or not. If a link looks particularly spammy then it probably looks the same in Google's eyes.

Also - it's worth remembering that OSE's index is much smaller than Google's, therefore although most of the decent links will be in there you may not be able to see some awesome links that your competitor has, simply because they're not in the OSE index yet.

Unfortunately getting links from quality sites, isn't generally an easy process.

If you want an easy process then you could always buy links from some sites with a high mozrank, but I wouldn't generally recommend this as it's a path that may lead to being penalised.

Try using open site explorer to check the bank links of your biggest competitors, you can then check the mozrank of the sites that are linking and make a 'gut' feel on sites where you can submit links with relative ease - e.g. by guest blogging or contacting the site owner and promoting your content.

Just you

As long as the blog is connected to the website in question; I would make the blog part of your current domain, preferably in a sub folder rather than a separate sub domain. This method then allows you to add fresh content onto your blog that will also have a positive effect on the site as a whole.

By putting the blog on a separate domain, you're moving the positive effect of having the blog away from your website, and therefore your website won't benefit. Sure you can create links from the blog to your website, but if it's a new domain this won't carry any authority and if the blog is on the same server/registratio details as the website then Google will be able to pick up on this and possibly devalue them anyway.

So, unless the blog isn't connected to the website or you're looking for long term gain in building the blog up as a separate domain then keep it on the website.

As Zachary says, these results are personalised.

The best way to check is to use incognito in Google and Private browsing in Firefox whilst being logged out of your google account. This should remove any personalisation from your searches.