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Hi there.

It looks like you need to read this: https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-link-building

And couple more articles from here: http://bfy.tw/1cUh

Alright, I see what you're talking about. I have tried to do similar search in Russian Google - it gave me the same suggestion.

https://www.google.nl/intl/en-NL/policies/technologies/cookies/

As far as I understand Google uses your browser locale and settings to offer different language, so, if you say all your settings are in dutch, then I'd look into your normal usage - do you mostly search in english? do you mostly browse english websites etc.

Additionally I noticed in past that even if you tell Chrome browser not to suggest to translate page, it still does it. There is even meme about that (can't find it now).

Right. Chain redirects = bad.

However, in the same video of Matt Cutts, he does say that the overall amount doesn't matter, and that's what I was talking about in first part of my previous answer.

Now, let's crunch some numbers to show you that the number of no-chain redirects doesn't matter.

1. Assume that we are in perfect world, so all given manufacturer given numbers actually right and all operations per second are actually operations per second

2. Lets say that standard hosting server is 2GHz power = 2*10^9 computations per second

3. Since all htaccess work/computations are strictly on a server side (bots/browsers just send request to server for response if page should be redirected), the only time which can slow down the request is server response time.

4. Match computations are always considered low computation power processes.

5. so, let's say you have htacces with 1 000 000 redirect rules, server keeps it in memory to do match computations when bots make requests, it means that 2GHz server has to have 2000 requests per second to just START struggling.

So, do you have 2000 requests per second to your website and 1 million redirect rules?

P.S. All number above are very rough approximations

P.P.S. If you really wanna see if your server is/ would struggle - login into web host manager, go to server status and info, look and see how much of your server power is usually being used. Usually that number is lower than 6-7% at 90% of the time.

Hope this clarify some things

Hi.

It's not happening to me. Are you the only one who it happens to? Have you tried doing that from different machines?

Hello, my friend.

Well, whenever people says "don't have too many redirects", it doesn't mean not to have too many redirects in total count, for example, if you have old page

a.php redirected to b.php,
and old page c.php redirected to d.php
and so on - there is no any problem. However, what they mean is not to have consecutive redirects - eg.:

a.php redirects to b.php, which redirects to c.php, which redirects to d.php, instead of a.php redirecting to d.php straight forward.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

According to this article about MOZ Local - https://moz.com/blog/announcing-local-reporting

Listing Reach is our indirect representation of how far the data aggregators have spread your listings across the local ecosystem, based on the number of results returned for exact-match searches of your NAP.

so, as far as i understand it's literally just estimate of number of searches. So, if there was large decrease in overall searches or decrease in searches for your industry and your name didn't show up in results - you'd get change in "Listings Reach".

So, it's not necessarily problem with MOZ local. I say just wait couple weeks and see if there are more jumps.

Theory states that duplicated content reduces certain keywords’ position in Google.

Wrong. Google might omit duplicate results or ban sites practising it, but it doesn't lower rankings based on number of duplicates or something. Otherwise wikipedia or any aggregating websites like car dealers etc would be nowhere to be found.

It also says that a web who copy content will be penalized.

Semi-wrong. It will be penalized if it's spammy and overdoing it.

Watch this video of Matt Cutts on duplicate content - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZY7EmjbMA

So, my understanding is that there is no 100% working way of getting down scrapers, because some of them are actually "good" scrapers. Like Facebook! - the biggest scraper in the world.

So, to beat them in rankings, just make sure that you are an authority in your industry, have awesome backlink profile and all aspects of SEO are properly implemented. And yes, sometimes those penalization tools can help.

Hi.

My suggestion would be to go Google Analytics into real-time data. Look at traffic sources. at the same time go to that ad and click on it. see if it's actually being tracked correctly. then complete the conversion and see if that conversion is being successfully tracked in real time.

Let me know what you get.

Hello, my friend.

Have you heard about referral spam and ghost hits? This might be your answer to unreal numbers. Here is a post about it: https://moz.com/blog/stop-ghost-spam-in-google-analytics-with-one-filter

Also, as it was mentioned above, good DA/PA doesn't mean or guarantee rankings. What about 10000 other things SEO is about?

Also, is time on page the only problem child? everything else is fine? It sounds that you need good analysis of google analytics data.

Hi there.

It looks like you need to read this: https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-link-building

And couple more articles from here: http://bfy.tw/1cUh

"B" option is way to go.

Just optimize and use those terms in natural way, don't keyword stuff and you will be fine.

Hi there.

This is very interesting. I manage about 30 different accounts and I don't see mismatches in any of them. Now, my only thoughts on this matter are: under "Search Engine Optimization" no data is available from most recent two days, at the same time it shows data only for top 1000 daily landing pages. Also you can't use segments in this report, so, maybe your data under "Behavior" is being automatically filtered by segment?

Also keep in mind that under "Search Engine Optimization" clicks do not include traffic from adwords. So, if your website gets a lot of adwords traffic, that might be the reason.

Would you mind leaving screenshots of those three pages (Acquisition->SEO->landing pages, sorted by clicks; Behaviour->site content->landing pages;Aquisition->all traffic->channels)?

Hi there.

Well, let's go step by step:

1. www vs non-www.

From SEO perspective It doesn't matter what version you link to, as long as you have proper 301 redirect from one version to another.

RewriteCond %{http_host} ^your-domain.com [nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.your-domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

This will assure that you wouldn't have duplicate content and will give Crawler Bots understanding what version of your website is "canonical". Just remember that "www" is technically subdomain. At the same time you can set preffered version of your website in Google Webmaster Tools. This will "tell" google how to display your website in Search Results.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/44231?hl=en

2. GMT "no data available"

If you have added new version (http://, www, non-www, https://) of your website to GMT it will require some time to gather all information.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2571221?hl=en

3. MOZ different results

Make sure that you do have proper 301 redirect from www to non-www (or the opposite), if you just did it, it will take time for MOZ tools to recrawl and understand that. If redirect is proper you should see in Open Site Explorer a message like this (when you enter the version, which is supposed to be redirected):

You entered the URL http://your-domain.com which redirects to http://www.your-domain.com/.

Because it's likely to have more accurate metrics, we're showing data for the redirected URL instead.

Click here to analyze http://your-domain.com instead?

So, first, make sure you have redirect, then wait until it's recrawled. (You can request recrawl in GMT).

Hello, my friend.

I have been asking myself the same question you ask here

Well, i have done very scientific statistical research on a corner of newspaper while i had my morning coffee And the results I got weren't surprising at all. The conversion rates on traditional advertising are way lower and much more expensive.

Now, as to the question you asked. The only(!) way to do this properly is to run only one(!) type of advertising at the time, for somewhat significant period of time (i'd say at least three months, plus another three months to track "snowball" results).

So, this is the way I'd do it (requires lots of time, money and several clients who are ready to be lab hamsters

1. Let's say you have 4 non-seasonal-type-of-business clients, without any advertisement/marketing running at the moment. Track their conversion rates for three months, traffic spikes, growth over this time and all metrics like this.
2. Then start only one type of marketing per client. Let's say first client gets internet marketing, second - TV, third - radio, fourth - billboards/outside display marketing. Let it run for three months, see how their metrics are relatively changing (or not changing). Also dont forget about post-advertisement snowball period (may another 2-3 months).
3. Compare impacts and ROIs - now you gonna have somewhat "scientific" results.

While running all those experiments, it'd make sense to use promo urls for non-internet marketing channels, e.g. domain.com/nameofradio - this way you can promote your website with certain landing page and track visits to it.

P.S. Of course, three months is short period of time to see good results. Extend it to 6-12 months if it's possible Also, if you do it on 4 different clients, there is gonna larger margin of error. So, in perfect world you'd do it on the same client

Hope this helps and good luck

Alright, I see what you're talking about. I have tried to do similar search in Russian Google - it gave me the same suggestion.

https://www.google.nl/intl/en-NL/policies/technologies/cookies/

As far as I understand Google uses your browser locale and settings to offer different language, so, if you say all your settings are in dutch, then I'd look into your normal usage - do you mostly search in english? do you mostly browse english websites etc.

Additionally I noticed in past that even if you tell Chrome browser not to suggest to translate page, it still does it. There is even meme about that (can't find it now).

Hello, my friend.

I have noticed the same thing happening to our website and our clients' websites. As you said, we see lots of bad/spammy links to our competitors and they rank high (not always higher though). Well, I asked this question here: https://moz.com/community/q/spammy-backlinks-are-working

After reading all that + just using common sense +  a bit of hope for intelligence of Google updates, I just didn't have enough guts to risk the rankings we achieved so far and reputation of the domain.

So, as it's said in responses in that discussion, if you're willing to see your website get messed up in case everything goes south, you're more than welcome. Just write a case study/research after that for curious minds like me

Yes, I'm in US. That's why at the moment I'm like "What are you guys talking about?!"

Hello, my friend.

It looks like those pages was not blanks at the time, it looks like these are session based shopping cart pages. Meaning that while you are on the website and add something to your shopping cart, you get that url with identificator of what exactly you have in your cart. After you leave the page, that id page either being saved (then it shouldn't be blank now) or get deleted if you make a purchase.

So, check how your functionality works, most likely there is some type of bug. If there are no any bugs and all those page supposed to exist and be blank (weird...), just canonicalize them all to domain.com/cart.

Hi there

First of all, Google's "link" search operator is not accurate. At all, actually. Read this post of Rand: https://moz.com/blog/google-link-command-busting-the-myths

Now about OSE. The way it works is the explanation of why your links can be still shown as well as the explanation for why new (or older existing) links are not being crawled yet.MOZ has it's own index, it does not contain all links on the internet. It's large, but still limited. So, in case of local listings, for example, MOZ doesn't crawl past few first couple hundreds results. Here is the topic on this matter: https://moz.com/community/q/local-listings-aren-t-being-crawled

Also, the OSE index is updated about once a month, so, if you deleted/disavowed backlinks after last update (date can be found here), it will not show changes for sure.

And lastly, Even if you disavow backlinks through Google, they are not being removed from it's existance, they are still on those forums/sites/etc, they are just not being counted by Google as link-juice passing entities.

So, to sum up: Google "link:" search operator is inaccurate, mozscape index is being updated every month, not every day, at the same time crawling only "surface" links, and disavow doesn't equal deletion.

Hope this helps!