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Kristine,

Thank you for your post.  I do appreciate the time

• You mentioned that you want to rank for xxxx  - that's going to be tough. Think about what makes you unique and go for those keywords.

ANS:  For the alternative key words and productions - films etc.  We do well in Google.  Our own site brand xxxx or xxxx we rank either 1 or 2.  And a number of the productions we do extremely well until the big news organisation start posting.   We have been involving this strategy.   But the search volume just isn't there for the alternative keywords.  I'm just dismayed when I see sites that haven't updated in months ahead of our site by 10 or 15 postes

• It looks like a lot of content on your site is timely, and you mentioned that you get some information early. In that case, I'd argue that you should get Google News status. I've never personally set that up for a client, but there are a lot of people on Moz who do.

ANSWER: We did try this a while back -- But were originally rejected.  I assumed this was due to the crawl erros -- We will be trying again soon.  We have eliminated our 404 on Moz and are just waiting for them to expire on Google.

• You said that you don't want to ask for links, which is why you've had a hard time increasing your DA. Rather than asking for links, focus on what you can do to make other site owners' lives easier: offer to guest post, syndicate content, create some partnerships. Think of link building as PR that Google can track.

ANSWER: we do all these things already.  I actually think the problems is the lack of understanding from the others we have relationships with.  OVERALL COMMENTS:

I have made some mistakes in the past but the site is looking cleaner and cleaner I resolved them.   The lack of internal linked anchor keywords was a big one.  We are getting there.   However as you said it is

It is just easier for us to get to a premiere red carpet event then it is to rank on Google.

I do appreciate everyone's comments.  Thank you all for the time. We will continue to slog onwards]

Susan

Umar,

Thanks for the reponse. All the traffic we have is good traffic. People read our site but they do skip away.  Any site with Social Media as it main feed tends to have people jump back away -- the bounce rate is between 70% and 80% depending .  And over 55% of our traffic is from phones and tablets.

We don't and have never done blacklist links.  In fact that is our biggest issue -- lack of links. I do not have the personality to ask people to link to us. I must admit I find it distasteful to request it.  We created problems with a move from Joomla to Wordpress, we broke old links everywhere and had over 15000 crawl issues.  As for moving SEO SERP -- I will believe it when I see it.  This has a been a two year slog and I have barely seen any improvement on the main key word that we need to rank on.

Back to the questionWhat I was thinking of doing was a Database change on a few key words.  i.e. this would link the key word across the full site.  Sound like you are suggesting not do do the global change which is really what my question was.

Hello,

I have a two larger established websites that achieve over 1000 unique views a day.  The sites have done well but we have always had problem with SEO.  The vast majority of traffic is from our social media accounts -- we rank low on the SERP - below competitive pages that have less updates and much lower traffic.

When I set the sites up I misunderstood a number of key issues but with over 4500 posts and 600 pages it has takes a huge amount of time to change things.

I have now realised another issue -- we did not use Anchor Text to link to provide internal links to our keywords on our site.   We are now adding them.

My question is two fold:

1. How many internal links should we add?  From what I read on Moz - 5 to 6 internal links should be the right number.  Comments?

2)  We have numerous posts ie over 4000 that go back over 4 years. Should I change them all at once or will this flag a spam issue with Google?  Believe me after years of problems I do not want another set back.

Suggestions and advice would be welcome.

Thanks

None of the blog titles have the same entry.

Thank you for your thoughts.

I would believe the statement if the 30th September update to Google had not moved us from the 5 page to beyond the 30 page. Clearly some structure is affecting our position.

So since SEOMOZ is indicating over 1500 Duplicate Titles.  I would like to address these. And the blog pages are over 600 of these duplicate titles.

If setting the structure doesn't work then I will look at other things.  But structure of the website first.

EDITED: To just focus on the issue at hand.

I am trying to figure out the SEO rules instead of just working on the content.  Please bear with me.  I am adept technically.  I just do not know the rules of the SEO process or even some of the termology.

So I’m trying to attack problems one at time.

Today’s problem – **Duplicate Page Titles **

We evidently have thousands of Duplicate Page Titles.

We are using Joomla 2.5 & Easyblog.  Our sitemap is automated from XML Sitemap

Easyblog takes the title of the sites and uses it for a name of the summary pages.  We post 5 blog items per page and all the names are the same.

http://www.OursiteName.com/?start=5               Page Title =  Site Name

http://www.OursiteName.com/?start=10             Page Title =  Site Name

A similar thing happens on the sorting by Author or Category etc etc.    Basically non-duplicate pages are looking like duplicates.

What is the best practice / approach?

Using the Robot.txt or XML Sitemap to tell Google not to crawl these pages?

Writing a script or edit the Easyblog code to edit the 2000 duplicate Page Titles?

Other thoughts?

I wanted to know if  my Google search results (my search) were affected by personal searches and you answered my question.  Thank you.  The changes I made are irrelevant and the time is irrelevant since just really wanted to know what was affecting my google search results.

Thank you for the help.

Thank you that is just what I wanted to see. I made changes we jumped considerably on "my search"  So now that I can clear the results.  I am much happier.

Thanks.

I get different results when I'm log'd into my Google account associated with my website than if I'm not.  The same country is occurring.

So how can I rely on the google results I'm seeing?

For instance my site is page 1 with the improvements I made based on SEOMOZ if I'm log'd in.  Yet I'm not on the first 25 pages if I'm not logged in.