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Thank you! yes the clarifies a lot, one question though, any suggestions as for high quality directories and content sharing websites? i know medium for content sharing but nothing about directories and looking into competitors didnt look like they are registered on any directories.

Hi,
so our website (www.18brandz.com) has been up for 8 months now and has not been ranking yet, we are indexing, moz crawler SEO issues are regularly fixed and we are down to about 25 non major issues, i started using google lighthouse to optimize and had made changes.

we post GOOD quality in house written unique content, we follow an SEO templet of guideline i wrote for titles/meta title tags, structure, site speed has been optimized and as for the moment we rank A OR B with no major issues on all speed checking sites possible (gtmetrix/google speed insights/ webspeed... etc) but nothing. and i cant figure out why we wont rank, our field of digital marketing is a tough one and very competitive , i know, yet not ranking for so long seems odd. our only know fact major disadvantage is the lack of links and no link building strategy.

any suggestions? any idea?

Hi! there is no way to track the activity once it leaves your website unless the vendor places a tracker for you on their page OR redirect to a sort of "thank you page" that is placed on your website.

content is being added weekly, the only thing i can thing that might be causing this is the change in the URL, decided to go with a URL without www. so for example https://website.com

Hello,
So something weird is going on, i run a few websites for clients, few different CMS. there has been a constant increase in traffic and ranking on one wordpress website and now the squarespace website is climbing up in rankings in the past few months. both has GTM installed for months, which has been optimized regularly.
for the wordpress website, in the past 2 weeks, starting June 4th, on google search console the clicks and impressions has started going down to the point that i lost 90% of clicks and impressions and traffic on analytics has started dropping a few days later, now at about 60% less traffic.

for the Squarespace website, exactly the same thing, started June 7th and drop in clicks/impressions (though ranking increase) and then traffic drop. checked both GTM for recent changes incase of wrong code implement, no changes, no new major issues.
different hostings different CMS, no link between them.   i just cant put my finger what is going on.

anyone got any idea what is going on?

So. its kind of weird.

on my campaign keywords tracking I now have 4 keywords that my client site is being ranked for. (on Monday it was 2) however on Monday and now too. I cannot find my website when I try and search that keyword manually.

i understand that Moz does not update and search every keyword every day but even after a few days now. also the rank tracker show different results for same keywords and these results too seems not accurate

what am i missing?

WOW.. i never even thought about it.. i made sure to make changes in google analytics to track HTTPS only. anything else i should do for a better more accurate data?

all above has been done already. it just a matter of if i should or not. but i guess i should

Hey!

i was wondering, should i force all traffic to https address? i know that overall a better secured website will rank better since it earns more trust from users which means less bounce rate and the list of benefits is endless..
but should i FORCE ALL traffic to a https? or maybe only force a http to https? or not at all?

Thank you. that was an eye-opener.now i understand now that the SEO content and UX on a page can be great but if the interaction on the site is not satisfying to Google compared to competitors then is not enough.

for example, Moz OnPage Grader. im checking a website of a client i work for and results comes out as not having keywords in title/content etc.. which it does. also i still yet to figure out how websites/pages rank for a certain keyword even if that keyword is not in title/content when the OnPage grader claims its a hurting factor NOT to have that.

after consuming countless of articles and Whiteboard Friday still, to me it just an overall feel like something fundamental is missing in my knowledge or understanding, and since i am the only SEO in the agency i got no one to consult

site speed both mobile and desktop is over 75

i know exactly how you feel. 5 years into SEO industry and sometimes i can't put my finger on why and how some pages or website are being ranked so high or low compared to other pages/websites that have different content but otherwise exactly the same! there was a blog/whiteboard Friday about page analysis but i still could not figure it out. feels like something very basic, very fundamental is missing and i can't tell what.

Hello,
 i cant seem to figure out how to approach this matter. we have a website and a domain setup in one place and we wanted to setup a blog for that website on a different hosting, what do i have to do to link between the two to make it so when a user type domain com /blog he will get to our blog that is hosted on a different hosting plan? with the blog hosting plan we received a temporary domain that does not expire but i have been told that if i redirect to that temporary domain it wont work correctly

also,

if we do manage to go through that process will accessing the blog will the URL show domain com/blog or will still show the temporary given domain?

is my only option is buying a new domain and just link between the two?

Thanks!

so search in google "site:mydomain.com search"?
i am using google search console for a while and today i fetched as Google and requested to be reindexed, i got 504 404 errors but most of them were fixed or supposed to be fixed for a while now.
no smartphone errors, only for desktop. i did just noticed i got 45 mobile usability errors. and no manual actions.
the mobile website is useable and looks decent but pretty bad to operate, most of our traffic is from mobile....
that might be the problem?

Hello,
since August i am working on a customers website on WordPress who has a costume made theme, back in October  after updating some plugins we had a massive breakdown and the website went up and down and had technical issues for over a month and traffic was completely gone for a while, since we have dropped to about 40% of the monthly traffic the website was getting prior, i was waiting to see if the website will recover since we were getting some traffic and are ranking but that did not happen,

is there a way to tell if there are any code issues or anything that can cause that drop? moz crawler only indicates normal meta description errors but nothing in the code, changing the theme would probably be best solution as a popular premade theme would give a definite answer but that is not possible.

Hello,
my first question is, i started working in August on a website for furniture repair and services that is a local business and who ever setup the website and did the SEO before me implanted the front page content and many other pages in the theme itself, we got Yoast premium and i mostly get bad rank of the page both from Yoast and Moz im guessing because it is simply cant find the links and content that is on the page since it is in the theme code. should i recommend the company to do a makeover and move everything to the actual wordpress page?
Also many changes has been made to the website, too many to track and i have seen in the past month an continues drop lower and lower of our visibility, but yet in the past week and half huge jump in some rankings. some of them are for hard to rank keywords, a jump of sometime 20/30+ up the ranks.
since i dont have a track of all the changes has been made, is there a way to know what cause it?

Also one last question,
i have implemented google tag manager and been configuring it for the past month and now i have finally getting close to track all metrics we would like to track, i have removed all google analytics codes that i knew of and managed to find through search through the theme and plugins but yet when i fire up tag assistant it shows two codes the tag manager and analytics, i know it could interfear each other or give false/double readings. is there a way to track it and remove it? i have went through all theme files.. and cant find it..

Thanks!