Welcome to the Q&A Forum

OK my question for today is...

If you currently have 300 articles on your current site but are building a new site would you transfer all of the articles over to the new site or focus on quality and rewrite the articles that had traffic? For example we have about 300 articles currently on our website 60 of which actually get traffic, We rewrote those articles to make sure they were written well. Someone thought that it would be best to simply transfer the other 240 articles over and rewrite them at another time to avoid 404 redirects. I would like your feedback on how you would approach this. Please be as detailed as possible explaining your thought process.

Thanks!

I am seeking feedback on the best way to proceed with regards to a project I am working on. Say for example the domain was  domain.com and this site wanted to target specific markets such as realtors, attorneys, churches, and restaurants. Which URL structure would be better?

domain.com/industries/attorneys

or

domain.com/attorneys

Can I get your feedback along with any supporting articles.

This is for a large ecommerce site but these particular pages are solely going to be used for marketing purposes to bring those site visitors to the website to let them know we understand their needs.

Thanks for your help>

Malcom

Since you have brought up the question I would say that as you are looking for what would be the best for your site always think about how this benefits your site visitors. The focus should always be on content. Is the backlink in question relevant at all to what you are doing as a business? If the answer is yes ask yourself if the site that you are linking to is of any value. How is the trust flow and page rank to that site. I hope this helps.

Malcom

I would update the date if the article has had a substantial change in content or the way it was written. It may help it get crawled sooner.

Malcom

I know that it is hard at times to not have phone support but I know that it is very costly to have a call center with phone support. I think that you will find that if you place some of your questions here that members of the community will answer them and you will be able to clear the phone hurdle to get you started. Hope this helps.

Malcom

I would suggest you certainly take the steps to have the link removed. Disavowing links would be my next immediate step in this process. I have seen sites recover within 4-6 months and others take up to 12 months.

Malcom

1. How long will it take to recover from this?  This is truly an unknown as it is really hard to say.

2. Is there anything we can do to speed up the recovery process?

Since it is a sign up page there is not a lot of content for google to crawl. So if the bulk of your seo in the past revolved around the content of your blog page it will be hard to give that credit to what is now a sign up page.

3. Why are some of our best performing posts seeing less search traffic even though the URL hasn't changed?

This is due to the overall shift that your domain is going through at the moment. Within a few weeks you should know if this is a long term impact or not. I would check your google webmaster tools section to make sure there are no warnings in there.

Large site.. 19K + pages on this site. It appears that there are about 4,000 302 redirects. and 100+ 301 redirects. I would suggest doing a 302 on anything that is not working correctly till you figure it out.

I did find an internal server error on this page
www.e-cocinasplus.com/en/wusthof-gourmet-cooks-knife-26cm-1500.html

It really comes down to how often google crawls your website. Matt Cutts said that it could take up to 90 days for google webmaster tools to find the links.

I do not believe that this is possible at this time.

what is the URL I would be happy to take a look and see what I can find?

My thought was that if we had it on the initial sign up as an option/not mandatory that maybe they would fill it out as opposed to if it is in their account they may never fill it out and just forget it all together.

when you do come across this filed {Industry} do you fill it out or select the industry via drop down or would you skip it?

MC

I would go with a higher amount of " exact match" keywords. As long as the content on the page that it leads to is highly relevant. Google is all about serving the best content for the search query. So be sure to make the content that the person is clicking through to extremely relevant to the topic. This now becomes a quality of content and by serving highly relevant content as opposed to working on back links google is going to go where the content is all the time. Also the time that the user spends on the site is taken into consideration.

Hope this helps.

as long as the data is pulling correctly from your google analytics everything should be updating according to plan. I would verify that everything is connected correctly and if you still have questions I would suggest opening a ticket with the help desk here https://moz.com/help/contact

Hope this helps!

If your account has been cancelled you will not be charged. However if you would like to, you are free to contact the help desk team at https://moz.com/help/contact

Hope this helps..

Malcom

I work for an online print company and recently we were considering adding a field titled "industry" so that we could figure out what industry our customers are coming from. Has anyone seen anything either in favor or against adding this field during the customers account registration process. We understand that less is best however feel that it is important to better serve our customers. Any information on this subject would be very useful.

I can't think of a better solution than basecamp. hands down it does everything a company could ask it to do and more. I have used it for years and have also set it up for many clients to use for their companies. I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Malcom Chakery

We are also looking for ways to weed out extra expenses but at the end of the day we want quality tools. So we have decided that the following three tools was the best way to go for our company.

Moz
Keyword Spy
SEM Rush

Malcom Chakery