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Hi Guys
I'd like someone to run and email a report on one of my competitors in an upgraded semrush.com account please!
I only want to run one report and don't really want to shell out $70 for one report. The company is super event dot co dot uk.
If any one could help that would be ace!
All the best
Ben
excellent thank you. I have submitted to the big boys and will leave it at that I think.
Thanks again Ryan!
I really appreciate it I never even thought to check the amount of comments. So many of the sites that claim to have high volume don't allow comments. such an easy way to check how their site fares.
any other tips for choosing? I was thinking an easy way to get links are to mention equipment that we use so surpliers will link to us, but they won't really influence customers,
Ben
Yes, my point exactly
But then again, could he just be the best of a bad bunch? looking around none of our competitors seem to have shareable interesting content.
I'm thinking if we pay for some blog posts from recognised industry leaders such as wedding magazines and create a lot of interesting content and perhaps a free to use tool that helps with wedding catering planning, should this out shine the competitor thats just got a lot of links going for it?
Hi
The former owner of One of our competitors ( www.gastrocatering.com ) gave my some insight into how he got his site up in the rankings.
He said he got his site listed on 100s of directories
had bloggers Wright about him.
Gastro catering ranks highly for almost every key word we want
I used the moz tools to see where his links came from,
Should I copy what he did? I read a lot of posts that lead me to the conclusion I shouldn't, but he ranks #1 for so many desirable keywords.
What are your thoughts on this please?
All the best
Ben
Hi, thanks for your reply, what do you mean by manipulative practices going outside of this setup?
We will be advertising sponsors of the campaign on the Micro site, and getting them to like to the save the royal oak url, but will use no follow in both directions.
Thanks again
Ben
Hi guys
there's a campaign (which I am very passionate about) to save our village pub from being developed.
Now I have bought a domain name www dot SaveTheRoyalOak dot com
I've forwarded this domain to sussexchef.com/save-the-royal-oak
I'm using forward masking so the url remains save the royal oak,
I will contain the few pages to do with the pub so that the navigation bars are hidden so the site will pretty much look be it's own entity to the user.
this micro site will get hundreds of users and people linking to it,
My question is will this hurt my site at all? I'm guessing that when I ask people to link to it I should get them to "no follow" it to be on the safe side?
Thanks for your help
All the best
Ben
Hi guys
Really funny to read this! I had some advice from a former compettitor (he has since sold his cateeing business) his site has little or even no interesting content (a handful of blog posts) but ranks well for all the keywords that we Desire .
I asked him how he did it and he said that he put his site on around 600 directories! He still ranks really highly even though he sold it a year or too ago.
The other thing he mentioned was buying blog posts on other sites about his.
So if I was to Wright some interesting content and get people in the catering industry to link to it. I should over come the directory spamming approach that he has taken? Perhaps a free tool or check list for weddings or something?
his site gastrocatering.com mine is sussexchef.com
Hey
Thanks, that's a weight off my mind, some of my pages only have the word "Sussex" in the copy once or twice I was just trying to see why the other site has such an edge over mine and wondered if ti could be down to that.
Thanks for your insight
Ben
Hi All
I am trying to rank my site for many key phrases but the pretty much always contain the word "Sussex"
The biggy with a lot of competition is "Caterers Sussex" and similar variations
when I view source on their page I find that Gastro catering's code uses "sussex" 92 times in it code.
My site www.SussexChef.com uses the word "Sussex" 590 times, the competitors site mentions the word less in its code and is dominant for all my desirable key words.
Am I spamming my keyword by using Sussex too often when naming my image file? Is there anything in this or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Thanks for your help
Ben
Hi
I'm on the free trial, I'm finding it really useful. since I was 16 (16years ago) all I've done is cook. After 3 weeks of Moz I feel like I'm or the way to marketing my business instead of having others tell me how to do it.
A while back I used to use SEO freelancers to buff my site, but recently I realized that I was not doing enough to promote my business myself, I was trying to pay others to do it for me. I goggled Soe and marketing, of course I found Moz while doing so! The content is exceptional and really goes in depth and we are now coming up with a new content strategy!
The problem is that I have this gut feeling that The moz product is worth the money it asks for as I can easily identify the issues or opportunities my site has, I still feel that I lack the competence to use moz to its full potential!
Is there an option to have someone skpe me and give me some tips or in sites with in my own campaign?
I've spent a lot of time reading the blog content and watching the videos but this all seams to focus on how to get results but not so much on how to use the Moz console/dashboard.
I've probably just missed a hole bunch of content but if not do Moz have and option to help set up your Moz analytic and Research so you can get the most relevant info to you?
Any help is most welcome
Kind regards
Ben Horle
Hi,
I'm on the free trial and finding it very useful I've fixed all my 301's. but now I have a load of 608's. I don't no what this is!
I feel like I've cured herpes only to get gonorrhea! can any one help. I have 41 608's which is more than the 301's I had. I hope they are non-related!
I won't bore you with the whole list but some of the url's are:
http://sussexchef.com/catering-at-mr-mrs-currys-50th-wedding-anniversary/guestsarrive----608
http://sussexchef.com/funeral-catering/picture4-2----608