Hi Tim,

Thanks for your reply. I also disawod the links, hope this will keep us safe. It looks like something automatically, like the xrumer forum spam

We receive links from fake websites, these website are copy's from real websites that link to us, but sometimes the links are changes, as for example one link is called 'tank weapon with hitler', we are a insurance comparison website (a bit of topic).

The real websites that link to us are copied and placed on .ga .tk etc domains:

For example: wahlrsinnsa.ga, loungihngsa.ga, pajapritosa.cf, rgeitsportsa.cf, sospesvoasa.tk

I received spam links on other domains with comments spam etc, this doesnt really work, but in this case we really suffer in our rankings (from position 1 to 5 etc). Not sure if this is negative SEO and if this is really the reason we lost some rankings, but it's a bit of a coincidence the domains come in google webmaster in the same period we suffer a downgrade in our rankings.

My question: Is this negative SEO, or is it something automatic. And do I need to disavow the links/domains? The real versions of the websites (on other domains with .nl) give the website autority.

We want to use some movement in our designs, charts etc. what format is the most SEO friendly?

Hi Tine,

Did you already updated the geo targetting in GWT, and maybe you can try a different IP and update you content and site structure. Maybe you can also try one domain to target both French and Belgium, instead of separate domains.

Hi Chris,
Think you're right. We go for plan B.

Thanks

hi there,

For one of our insurance websites we acquired a domain, this domain is going to be redirected to our domain. After some research we discovered the domain we've bought also includes other domains which 301 redirect to specific 'insurance products'. These domains are also included in the deal. But what is the best technical solution for redirecting these specific redirected product domains? They already redirect to the product pages of the domain we've bought, so after redirect this domain, the sub (product) redirected domains will also link to us. It would be like this:

A) www.sub-carinsurancesite.nl (301) -> www.domain-we-bought.com/car-insurance -> www.ourdomain.com/car-insurance
B) www.sub-carinsurancesite.nl (301) -> www.ourdomain.com/car-insurance

&

www.domain-we-bought.com/car-insurance -> www.ourdomain.com/car-insurance

etc

Hi Miriam,

Thanks, and i understand it's not the right way. But this is how we rank #1 (in maps) on 'plumber amsterdam' (loodgieter amsterdam). When we remove the citation, we loose lots of our traffic, and it is harder to rank organic also for the plumber + city combinations.

Hi Miriam,

We have a general brandname (no EMD/PMD), but we are listed in google my business (local places) as a plumbing company. Does this influences the ranking opportunity for other local services.

Hi Miriam,

Thanks, what is the upside of using a new domain or brand instead of adding new pages to the old brand? Is it hard for the old brand (because listed as local plumber business) to rank on other services?

We had a strange thing happen to our website. We have a website that ranks for top keywords for some years. Last week we lost alle of our rankings for one day. The strange thing was, that the rankings were only lost on the homepage, the homepage didnt rank anymore. Even when i googled for 'homepage.com' google showed 'homepage.com/page' and not the homepage.

After some reading i checked for the following:

• no-index sources in the source code - but no results
• checked for http respons code - 200 ok status
• checked for downtime in pingdom - no downtime

With no rankings on the homepage i was losing 90% of the traffic, i went to GWT and did a fetch as google request, the website looked okay. After that i request a new indexation request. After this the website was back in google with all the old rankings.

But what has happend, is still a question for me. Can this be an hack or a wordpress problem or is this realtime penguin with a hit. I also read things about Google flux, but it didnt happen before and it was just the homepage, with no index at all. What happend?

Hi, thanks,

its a lead generation platform with local pages for local contractors. We are now focussing on plumbing, but we would like to rank for keywords in other contracting services. We now only developed content for plumbing on this domain.

We have a lead generation website in the Netherlands in the plumber business. The last two years we were focussing on local SEO, and gain some rankings on keywords like 'plumber amsterdam'. We also connected google my local business in different city's, so we rank in both the citations as in maps. Now we want to get some rankings with the lead generation brand on other keywords. Keywords for other markets like 'handyman' 'roofer' etc.

Google remembers what kind of business we are, since we are listed as plumbing company. My question is, can we still go for those other markets with the brand? The markets/ keywords are related and all in the home improvement segment. So for example, example.com/plumber example.com/roofer etc.

The other option is to target those specific markets with other brands/ domains.

hi Ria, thanks, guess thats the best strategy,

Hi Moz community,

A quesiton about our dutch travel insurance website. Two weeks ago we had a ranking drop from 17 to position 35. The project is still fresh (we started in may this year). I quess penguin 4.0 didn't like our rapid linkbuilding. But we also receive a message in page optimization tool for keyword stuffing. When we analyze the homepage www.reisverzekering.net for reisverzekering (meaning travel insurance) Moz suggests to avoid keywords stuffing.

But I dont understand, we don't use the keyword that much and Yoast doesnt give this message. How much key

yes could be - but I just don't like errors

hi monica thanks - see the attachments

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We have a domain in the netherlands that shows stars (rich snippets) in adwords and in the organic search results. As we do the the in rich snippets test tool we see some errors as shown in the attachments, the errors are shown in review aggregate - but stars are stil shown in paid and organic search.

Do we need to follow-up these errors? Do they influence ranking - or the stars in the near future?

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thanks erica, so it doesn't matter if you 301 redirect like glaspunt.nl or like fietstassen.eu both redirects give an equal amount of linkpower?

Hi Keszi thanks for you clear explanation and you're correct that 'fietstassen' is not handy-man business But the thing I want to know is the way both domains are redirect in a different way. Fietstassen in redirected in the way that the domain (fietstassen) stays visible. Glaspunt is redirected with a 301 redirect in the root server. Is there any advantage in one of them?

What is the best way to redirect for best SEO benefits? Examples:

glaspunt.nl -> glas.nl

fietstassen.eu -> loodgieter.nl

Any technical information how to (root) redirect for best SEO practices?

One of my clients is a glazing company. We found out that al his local pages (city related pages, with titles like 'glazing new york') had an old post date, for example 1 june - glazing etc. (in google). I understand that the influence of freshness depends on the topic, but isn't it bad when dates are too far in the past?

• sorry for my english - we're an european company

Yes but what do you think about the old date which is visible in the results. Isnt content freshnes a factor?

Ok thanks wel change it and post it without a date

what to do with posts that should be pages. One of our clients is a nation wide company with different local pages, targeting city+business. This week we found out that every page has a publishing date in the search results. So the pages are not pages but posts? the publishing dates are a some time ago and we think they hurt the rankings. We want to make those post/ pages, but does this bring any risk? example:

plumbing.com/chigaco to the same url? and just change code? the website is build in something called "send".

Thanks, Pigeon could really be the problem since the ranking lost happend at the same time.

One of our clients lost rankings on the local map results. Last month we changed the phone number on the G+ page so the number is the same as on the website but it's still a call tracking number. We also changed the url to example.nl/plumber-newyork so it directly links to the local page and we made the local G+ author of the local page in the website. Can these changes have something to do with the ranking loss in google maps results?

Ok Jane clear! thanks

Hi fokes, question; which url structure is best for local rankings. For example: when I want to rank on the keyword: "Plumber Londen". And I dont have plumber in my brand. What is the best url structure:

example.com/plumber/londen

example.com/plumber-londen

Hi Jane, thanks for the input. This site is just a blog/ comparison site, so I guess we can keep it on http for now.

Yesterday we received an email form GWT that our website does not have a valid SSL certificate. So google is now standard scanning on the https domain. Is this the beginning of an algo update on security, as Matt Cuts said on the SMX "At SMX West Matt Cutts gave the attendees a few tidbits, one of those items was that making your site secure, encrypted, i.e. SSL enabled, is an important trend for 2014.

At the end of the session, I asked Matt if this means Google is looking to give sites that enable SSL a ranking boost. Matt Cutts shrugged his shoulders and explained that if it was his choice, he would make it so. But he said, it is far from happening and there are people at Google that do not want this to happen".

So should we switch to https with SSL, what are the potential risks with this changes for websites with very good ranking on competitive keywords.

Email we received:

Site host name, https://www.sum.nl, does not match your SSL certificate Subject Name

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Hi, we have several blogs and comparison sites on specific topics. All the domains rank on top positions in very competitive niche markets. We think that we can get more profit out of the domains when we put them under an umbrella brand. Customers that visit domain A can then also find products easily on domain B.  We see this for example on health.com, with several brands in the top.

To maintain or improve our rankings i'm looking for specific information for the link structure. For example, is it better to have the 'about us'/rel=author on each domain, with contributors on that specific domain or is it better to have them all in the (umbrella) brand domain.

At the moment we have the structure like this:

domainA.com, domainA.com/blog, domainA.com/about-us  and  domainB.com, domainB.com/blog, domainB.com/about-us.

I think to maintain the rankings it is best to keep specific content (like blog/ about us) on the domain. So is it the best to just do side wide links with a logo (like health.com) and what about hosting? We work with wordpress, so all domains will be hosted on one ip? when we use the multiple site option of WP?

All information on this topic is more than welcome

Hi Martijn thanks, hope this will work.

Hi there! A short question from Holland:

My developers made a mistake with a template on a subpage in Wordpress. When Google crawled my site again, Google found an empty page. The same day we loosed our #1 position on the main keyword and now we are on position #6.

We restored the page the same day and asked Google to recrawl the page again (fetch for Google). But 48 hours later nothing changed. When I look in the cache date' the page still has the old date, while my competition has a newer cache date. We send some traffic to the page and did some facebook post on this page. Does anybody knows how to kickstart this page again?

Update: most spamlinks 98% are no follow. Do I still need to disalow them? Im afraid that using the tool influences my rankings.

Hi Karl, thanks, but its about 1000 bad links a day. I need a callcenter to contact all owners.

Since today we had a spamlink attack. Just 150 dirty links in one morning and probably more to follow. Last year we also had an attack and we used the disalow. But this domain had a much stronger histrory and a PR of 6. The new domain has an authority (DA36) and PR1. The domain is very valuable and we rank on page on one of the most competitive words.

Should I use the disalow tool, or just hope that the spam links don't hurt my ranking. I have some (150) valuable incoming links.

Example of bad link:

http://lamevabarcelona.com/una-exposicio-ens-guia-per-barcelona/dscn0756/

I think X Rumer/ pingback is used. I hope somebody can help us with this.

Thanks for the respons. Responsive design is probably the best option with the best usability users.

Because domains with a mobile version have better rankings in Google then domains with only a deskop version we're considering a mobile website. My web developer says that a m.domain.com is duplicated with the domain.com, and he recommends a responsive design.

What is better for SEO positions in mobiles devices. A m.domain mobile website or a responsive design. What are influential factors?

Does somebody know why links from Itunes are not visible in Seomoz/ Majestic. While the content is indexed by Google. (even if no-follow, I dont see the link).

I hoped that building an app for one of my sites, is they ideal linkbait strategy for my EMD domain  Especially when apple is linking to my website from I tunes

haha too bat. A link from home at Seomoz would help

The link is on there partner website: http://www.topmba.com/qs-world-mba-tour/partners but we have over 30 links frome serveral good domains.

Hi Peter thanks again. Its a website in the Netherlands:

www.goedkoopsteautoverzekering.net which means cheapest car insurance in the Neterlands. The main keyword is "goedkoopste autoverzekering". A link would be great!

Thanks for the reply.

its not the Mozrank but the Domain autority which is 7. The PA is 1.  But I have several high quality links. For example from topmba.com. What is the delay of Seomoz/ opensite explorer to get these links crawled? Shall I just use Google cache memory date/time to know when Google last indexed my site?

Hi, my total domain value number on SEOmoz  is 7. In Majestic it is 24 situation and 24 trust flow. My ranking is still bad (page2) and my competitors have a lower trust/ situation flow in Majestic. But in Seomoz the're better.

Is the conclusion that Majestic is more up to date then Google itself and that Seomoz is more inline with the google crawling? Because Majestic doesnt reflect my ranking.

(ps I started with the domain for a month, and I only have some history in registration)