Just personal preference for me but I like the ones that come out of the side, like the feedback tab on here
See sidereel.com to see what I mean.
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Just personal preference for me but I like the ones that come out of the side, like the feedback tab on here
See sidereel.com to see what I mean.
It definitely wouldn't be the fact that it's a .uk.com that's causing the problem. No-one would ever use any other TLD's if it was only a few that got indexed.
I wouldn't go with completely worthless. Mostly worthless yeah, but it's worth it for extra IP diversity I think
You've not got that much in terms of link diversity, or from much that's relevant. Directories, blogs and forums, links pages, etc... that don't pass a lot of value. 11 Linking Root Domains, including directories, some are nofollow. Not a lot in terms of quality links. And then your anchor text needs a little more diversity too: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/www.nintendowiifitconsole.co.uk%252F/a!anchors
Google will often let a new site rank well for a bit before knocking it back down again.
Also, my personal belief is that Google's not all that keen on affiliate sites anyway... I lost rankings on mine from Panda.
I reckon all in all, if you get some more, higher quality links... and as it appears now some social signals too, then you'll start ranking much better
And make sure you've submitted an up-to-date sitemap
I wouldn't do it anyway... think of all that link juice, social signals, usage data, etc... that will end up getting split between domains instead of all going into one!
I used some of Bruce Clays a while ago, wasn't as many tools as you get here... he might have more now. I found that I preferred the SEOmoz tools anyway. I still think you get some great and valuable info from Bruce Clay Inc but over-all I'd say here was best for tools and data. Just my opinion.
Dunamis is right, Askimet is the best way, and also if you're blog's links are nofollow it will help to deter at least some of it. Not all, as some of the automated stuff posts anyway, but some of it will only comment on dofollows, and it will stop some manual spam comments
It depends... are these links the only direct links to those particular pages? I mean, would you have to go an indirect route through the main menu or something (i.e. via a category)? If they're the only direct ones, keep them. You want the pages linked to from the homepage so they're as shallow as possible to get crawled.
Also, if they are not the only direct links, do the other ones have the appropriate anchor text?
It might be a good idea to keep them for the anchor text alone.
Are there any other links you could get rid of... how many links are there on this page?
Do you need to keep the existing info on it?
If not, you can archive the domain and re-enter a new one in its place.
If it turns out to be right, I'm going to get myself a deerstalker hat, start smoking a pipe, and walk around calling everybody Watson.
It could be that you're a little over-optimized. On this page for example: http://www.recoveryconnection.org/addiction/alcoholism.php
Near the bottom, you have three anchor text links all near each other, all pointing to the same page of http://www.recoveryconnection.org/detox/alcohol-treatment-detox-programs.php
Try just navigating to your campaign manually through the site menu and refreshing a couple of times.
Any hosting or ISP packages for SEO are not really SEO packages at all, they're just submissions. At some point in the future there will hopefully be more transparency on this stuff, and companies will have to make a proper distinction where they can't just loosely use the term SEO, when they only offer something that is under 1% of what SEO really is.
Thanks Alan, that makes good sense. I'm going to monitor it constantly and will update you guys the second something happens!
Ah, you might be on to something there... with wordpress being primarily a blogging platform, maybe there's something there. Maybe blogs, with their higher content churn have a little precedence at the expense of longevity in the serps.
Awesome thinking Dunamis!
Thanks EGOL. Yes I must admit I thought a definitive answer would be pretty much impossible... even in here.
I agree about waiting for the sites to drop too, it only just happened but that's the first thing that went through my head when it did.
This may sound odd, as of course it's good for the client that both sites are up high, but, part of me is hoping for the drop. Otherwise it will feel like everything I know to be true has become obsolete. Like all I understand about SEO has been turned on its head.
I reckon you're right that there's got to be a bunch of optimal stuff with Wordpress which could make a difference. But yeah, it could never make this much of a difference of course.
I think I'll have to accept that there simply are anomalies from time to time.
Anyway thank you, knowing there's a similar situation out there somewhere has put my mind at ease a little
Something has happened which is, well inexplicable to me... I'm stumped!
We have a client that has two sites which compete for the same keywords. One is a .com, the other is a .co.uk. They have different content so there's no dupe worries.
We have, for the past few months been carrying out SEO for the .com site. It's doing great. We don't do anything with the .co.uk site, which, incidentally dropped from 2nd (under the .com) to 9th after Panda for its main keyword.
The owner of the site has switched the .co.uk to Wordpress and now that site, with the same content, same links, same social signals, etc... (nothing was done to it except the platform being changed) has suddenly shot up above the .com for not only its main keyword but most of the others too.
What gives?? It doesn't even have a link from the .com site!
So, the .com which has undergone SEO is now being beaten by the .co.uk which hasn't. The .com is still directly underneath it. It feels like all of the things we know about SEO, all of the ranking factors and everything are being totally undermined here, just due to a change to Wordpress. Surely that can't be it?? The .com is an older domain, has more content, has always done well, has more links and from better places, and all the social stuff surrounding the business is targeted at it.
This isn't a penalization issue or anything like that, this is simply a matter of the .co.uk suddenly blasting above everything for no apparent reason.
Any ideas?? I know that there "might" be a tiny, tiny, tiny advantage of the country TLD but that's not enough to do this, and the .co.uk always did worse before.
It's good to have internal links through-out the body copy (not too many though) as long as they point to relevant pages within the site... just not using the anchor text of the keyword for the page you're on... if that makes sense
If, through your on and off-page SEO your telling Google that page x is relevant for keyword y, then the last thing you want to do is link out of that page with keyword y as the anchor text.
If you think about it, it's confusing for the search engine... everything your telling it is that for keyword y, see page x. Then, on page x, you have a link which says, actually, see page z for keyword y. You're passing it on to a different page for that keyword through using it as anchor text.
Hope that helps
Aside from the Twitter feed factor, as far as I'm aware there is some issue where only some shorteners pass link juice while others don't. I can't remember where I got that from so I did a search to see and found this (not sure of its credibility though): http://www.kensfi.com/how-url-shorteners-pass-link-juice/
There's some links from SE Land here though which seem to be saying all is well http://searchengineland.com/twitter-gets-its-own-url-shortener-to-stop-scams-37676
http://searchengineland.com/analysis-which-url-shortening-service-should-you-use-17204
That only really half answers the Q, but interesting none the less I think
It's highly unlikely you'd get problems from it but it's not going to get you much in terms of link juice either. It will some, just not loads... if you make sure you've got a whole bunch of links from other places too then it won't matter
Where I work, we provide hosting as well as SEO and there's quite a few sites all on the same C block that have footer links to us. They do pass some link juice, but they'd do better for us if they were hosted in other places.
There is a solution though. Funnily enough I only just found out myself today (from a Distilled Link Love seminar vid). There's hosting sites that can offer you webspace with different IP blocks and whole different locations.
A couple are: http://www.aseohosting.com/ and http://www.biggest-hosting.com/seo_hosting.html among others.
Hiya,
Your best bet to begin with would be to read the following: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/keyword-research
And go to the Google Adwords Keyword Tool https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
Then enter a few keywords you think might be about right. The keyword tool will suggest a bunch of others and show how many people (roughly) search using each word or phrase each month (on average).
It's a good idea to check the box for "Exact Match" on the left to get a close as possible figure.
Other than that, try a few of the keywords in Google and go on to the sites that come up (competitors for those keywords), then right click somewhere on the page (in a blank area around the outskirts) and click "View Source" (or something similar, depending on your browser).
A new page will open. Do CTRL+F to find, and type "Keywords" (without the quotes) then you should find a list of META keywords that site is using it their header. It may not be there though (if they have any sense), and it may not necessarily be good keywords either... it should give you a general feel though if you look through a bunch of them
You don't want the content to be the same, it's still dupe even if in different countries (even if in different languages from what I've read on here once) and whatever you do... don't have a pop up that asks people to choose a country when the page/portal first loads up. Lot's of sites seem to be doing that now with some CMS plug-in, not realising that it makes it difficult for the site to be crawled (Googlebot can't choose and click, etc...). Maybe have a call to action for people to choose location, but don't force it on page load.
I would keep them on their current servers, if you move one to be hosted with the other it will likely affect the rankings for that countries serps.
Don't forget to 301 EVERYTHING!!! So when you change any addresses with the new page URL's you don't lose link juice, etc...
Same... I see "True" or "False" in the first bunch of columns as an indicator of an issue, then many columns along I get the actual URL's.
Thanks Donnie, yeah I contacted Cindy... just didn't know if there was mobile SEO only, instead of Mobile UX. But it sounds like she deals with both.
MarketMotive is the best I've done in terms of not being so targeted at beginners. Plus if you do a Master course, you get to do there other courses at practitioner level (if you do them quickly enough)... meaning some great other learning i.e. Web Analytics by Avinash.
I haven't upgraded so I'm not sure I'm afraid. Maybe try to export the report and see if you get an option?
Hiya,
We have a client who uses us for SEO, and a separate company for web development. They have a fairly large site on a bespoke CMS. They're happy with the site, but the user experience on mobile devices is not right.
Can anybody recommend a company specializing in that area? Preferably a UK company but not essential.
Thanks
Ah, sorry... I should learn to read. Then I have no idea. I haven't even looked at the new Facebook thingy, but there's bound to be something (not that that's a very helpful answer).
Haha, Ryan you make us sound as if we are aliens or something
Run the links used in the campaigns through Google's URL builder tool, and use the generated links for on the campaigns: http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55578
You don't need to do anything else, it'll all just work in conjunction with Google Analytics from there
You can if you upgrade... check the memberships that allow branding on here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/new-seomoz-pricing-plans-more-keywords-for-everyone
I can give you tonnes of examples, I have some affiliate sites I test things with, and we've taken over client sites who had previously had that kind of SEO... It definitely works that way.
Also, we've made the mistake on our own clients.
Buy the new Link Love Videos from Distilled and you'll see that Wil Reynolds goes over it being an issue in his "Pitfalls and Mistakes" video: http://www.distilled.net/store/linklove2011-pitfalls/
Yeah isn't there tools to put the link through for that?
Just a guess from me here, but I don't think hiding redirects from a search engine would be a good idea at all. I mean, we know they really don't like us trying to hide stuff from them whether it's keywords or anything else. Not sure how that would work out, or what the chances of anything bad happening from it would be, but I would assume that if Google thought people were doing it, it would soon be in their webmaster guidelines as "Don't". But again, complete guess, I don't know enough about it to say anything for sure.
Sounds like you've found yourself a potential goldmine then.
You should go for it... no/low SERPs competition = lots more chance of $$$ for you
Worth a shot I reckon!
Tonnes of that going on already with affiliate sites. i.e. product codes even... I've got some for TV's but even then there's competition as others are doing it too.
Same, I get a Google sites app page with no content.
But then that doesn't exactly seem like much of a competitive keyphrase... I wouldn't have thought many sites would be SEOing for it. I mean, "Buy Burton Snowboards" yeah, but coming 5th for something with very little competition for having exact match only... well it makes sense I guess. If there were other sites working on those words, then I doubt it would be there.
Searches are pretty low...
It's Adsense, so the plan is always to show "relevant" ads for your site right?
Look at your ads, they're for hotels in Romania, Talk Talk, and other stuff that's not really that relevant.
You are on page one for the term in the UK though... the links you're getting, how many of them are from other Romanian sites?
The too many on-page links... they're ads aren't they?
Is the site still massively ad heavy?
Three weeks is not a very long time in search results changes... it can take much, much longer than that to see the impact of your work.
So you went through and got an "A" for your on-page SEO yes? And the crawl error report is nice and clear?
Just one, Raven... but you've already said you're using it lol.
Sorry
Just me, but I slap everything through Google URL Builder Tool, then add it as a campaign in Google Analytics.
Okay yeah I see what you mean. I guess it really comes down to how much of your objectives are based on the local advertising then. If it's a huge portion of your revenue then maybe the separate sites. Although I still wouldn't. I would have assumed the benefits of one site would outweigh the advertising issue, as I would have thought it wouldn't make that much difference, but then I don't know enough about the market and what advertisers might want.