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Is this available now, 4 years later. I need at least 1-2 years data going back in order to create certain reports. We do not have all reports going back on file tbh, but we need that capability. Do any of your plans offer this at this point?
I want to be able to compare 6-12 months of performance to the previous 6-12 months.
Read that useful workaround post and up voted it in the middle of this thread, but this is definitely a feature request. By the way, where do we get to see current feature requests and vote on them? Is there any such place?
Have a look at this
https://www.incapsula.com/load-balancing/global-server-load-balancing-gslb.html
Also look into cloudflare
I believe what you are really looking for is a GLOBAL CDN (Content Delivery Network) provider. This is separate from hosting. Some hosts might offer it inclusive or as add-ons, it will often be resold by another major global CDN player such as cloudflare.
Hope this helps!
Have you reached out to plugin support people?
Sometimes, you just gotta try.
np, you don't want to assume things.
this is what Matt Cutts said in 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MswMYk05tk
It is still advisable that most websites out there rather rely on pages and subdirectories for regular pages and content than subdomains, but nowadays it is a highly subjective thing, basically suit yourself on it.
But keep in mind the simple formula for decision making: Pros v Cons... which outweighs which and why.
subdomains can certainly cause you, the owner and web dev, more work and impose a higher "moving parts" risk under most typical circumstances where /page is a viable alternative.
also look at these
https://moz.com/community/q/link-juice-from-subdomain
https://moz.com/community/q/getting-mixed-signals-regarding-how-google-treats-subdomains
Nima jan, just try it man 
it costs literally nothing to setup a branded shortener at bit.ly (well it costs you some kind of short format domain, this can be expensive if going for some of those 2 letter TLDs)
Once you try it and do a test, you will see what level of analytics bit.ly shows in free mode. They also have an enterprise mode with expanded analytics and some other bells and whistles, but I never tried it before.
I almost exclusively use a branded short domain for all my social media posts, not just stuff that goes to my own web properties, meaning if I am tweeting something about someone else's blog post, it will still go through my branded short domain, this is so I have basic clicks numbers on the actual link and for free information, I cannot complain about it.
Please keep in mind that likes and views are better tracked with social management suites. I like sproutsocial, but there are other ones and more capable ones out there too. That information comes from Facebook, so if it is something that Facebook does not provide (either directly or through API), nobody can provide.
You can get a free trial from sproutsocial and check it out, it is neato.
simple, you have 1 logical URL with a bunch of anchors around the page that scrolls to different "subpages", but again, you are still on that one URL for ranking and optimization purposes. Google does not consider your different sections of the same page (despite the change in /pagepart or # part of the web address) as separate pages.
Now, imagine you sell SEO & web design in Austin, TX.
If you had a single page to try and optimize and rank for two sets of keywords related to each service, the page will not be focused on either one specifically. This means a competitor who decided to separate out their pages topically with unique URLs for each can also separate their anchor text profile for each page, using proper and old school meta tags in the right places instead of having a bunch of H1s all over one page, among a bunch of other things that they can segregate and focus to optimize better, will have a much easier time getting their independent subpages rank better than your catch all page.
I guess the best way I can describe it is: do you like to go to a long ass page and scroll down scroll down to find what you are looking for.... or do you like to land on a precisely relevant page with what you are looking for right up top and also all over that page with all the juicy details?
I guarantee you most users will answer for the latter.
For these reasons, it is a much tougher task to make a 1-pager win from an SEO-standpoint when compared to multi-page competition (assuming everyone involved is doing a fine job on both sides), but more importantly you must think more of UX than UI. You must think of the experience than the trend. Trends die off. One-pagers are a limited application trend that does not apply to a lot of sites and businesses out there.
Something like that can be done, but you must exercise care to not get slapped for duplicate content penalties. There can only be one place for that content in the eyes of your users and google, meaning the funny proxy server should never itself be visible to public. But if you do this right, you can have the content rendered on your desired page on your site which should get captured by Google properly as well.
But if you really want to be sure, test it, setup a test page like this without all the fancy dev work. and have google crawl your site and see what it reports back after it picks up that page.
I think you will be ok if you do your research and do not miss your rel canonicals or other countermeasures for duplicate content.
However it gets rendered on your /page, make sure google console can show/see the same content there.
Has the content of the pages been updated? Could this be direct result of query mismatches now vs previous content in Spanish and Portuguese ( i suppose those are the content languages used in Latin America).
Have you made sure no 3rd party coincidences are not causing this (competitor coming along strong in the same period of time, market demand changes, search phrases changes)?
Have you compared your organic arrival queries from before to now and see if you are getting similar numbers of hits for specific key phrases?
There has got to be some further digging involved here, this just sounds way too odd to be a natural situation, something has got to be funny or wrong.
Because your CMS & SSL solution are not compatible in a nice way right now as you explained in detail.
My suggestion: ditch the crap plugin. Get you a cloudflare SSL, and setup your https and page rules properly and ball like a pro. You can try cloudflare for free just to play around with it and see what I mean, that will take care of all this. you can keep your redirects http > http and cloud flare can handle all http requests >> https by page rules and what not.
dig into it, I think this will help resolve your situation.
There are two things two consider:
REAL WORLD:
If your work is flawless enough that in and of itself is a living breathing advertisement for you, by all means you may want to give yourself a no follow link, so visitors there see that you have made the masterpiece if they are interested any further in your work...
GOOGLE WORLD:
If you give yourself a link that is a regular FOLLOWEd link, then you are doing your site a disservice by making your anchor text profile more spammy. but i do not see how a no-follow link can hurt anything on this side.
risk is all yours.
Google local listings are just like organic site listings. Someone else could have gone on steroids and got you ranked lower in those results. Chances are if you go and end up on page 2 of local results, those actions can suddenly drop to near 0.
Also to be sure of actual problem, check with the business and its walk-ins or calls and see if they can correlate a drop in that as well with the drop on these reported numbers online.
Double check your locations remain verified and no funky secondary admins are messing around with them.
Review all your settings and make sure nothing has been inadvertently changed to the wrong setting.
Short of these, you should probably reach out to Google for assistance right away before this gets worse or results in serious issues with bottom line...
Read these three, then do what you got to do...
https://www.searchcommander.com/how-to-bulk-remove-urls-google/
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/uYFJnsyiH8w
https://moz.com/community/q/404-redirects-to-the-homepage-is-this-good-bad-ugly
For proper removal, please ensure that there are no INTERNAL links anywhere on your website to 404 addresses, from sitemap, buttons, text, or images (the whole 9 yards).
Good luck!
Not that I know of, running a live crawl of the site is the only way, tool-agnostic.
How large of a mess is this, how many missing 301s? how many pages in total? Just curious.
You would still want to try and get rid of them if you can. The point is not to watch out for Google punishment, but think of your user and the spam they are dealing with. Follow that mindset and Google will become only a secondary reason.
Are you still showing the same erroneous data from moz when you look at the latest updated crawl?
ok yeah, apparently it STILL is not possible to delete questions. Come on Moz, that needs to be a feature!
So you are talking about the full image (text included in it) linking as a single link to the final property, right?
alt="Apartamento para Alugar em Campinas Residencial Vila Bella" title="Apartamento para Alugar em Campinas Residencial Vila Bella">
the bold part is your anchor text. It would not be "improved" by separating the 1 link to 3 (1 for image, 1 for text, 1 for photo, image and photo are not one and the same btw?). It would be improved if you made sure your keywords used above make sense and are actually what people search for in the order listed or part of them.
I would keep it the way it is, the other way would not really improve it, although it would give you more control and options over it and it would also give the originating page more TEXT content, instead of a bunch of picture. Google cannot READ pictures. It does read titles for them and alt text for them, but they are NOT replacement for TEXT CONTENT.
See the comment(s) here from danbri (Dan Brickley, Schema.org webmaster), last one matters though and should address your exact situation. You may not even need to make any changes really, see if you need to and see if it is worth the effort and time.
https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1109#issuecomment-212480234
I would avoid single page approach for SEO purposes.
Homepage can have some keywords sprinkled on it, but it wont really matter much, Google is far more into topics than keywords alone these days, context. Also, your sub pages that are focused on particular topics/keywords will probably rank far better organically than your homepage for related keywords.
So try to treat homepage as a generic landing page, the aim is to grab interest of visitor and have them interact with the site. A good idea is to find your major and well established/budgeted competitors and look up their homepages and see how they treat it, you will probably notice they are not text or keyword heavy or truly optimized in most cases. Try to start with award winning competition websites. awwwards is a good place to start for that and it has categories of business.
Would you please check an updated version of your Moz data and post here if there has been any changes or if you still see 0 internal links?
It may end up too deep to count as much as the main subpage would. But in that case, you can create CLEAN URLs for it, meaning, you can have the CMS or ecom solution render the data on maindomain.com/standard-metal-lockers instead of maindomain.com/lockers/standard-metal-lockers (I am not 100% if this is how it looks thogh btw, if it is as simple as this, it is not "TOO" deep tbh). and then you want to make sure the clean URL is marked as the primary source of data and the longer CMS based URL should have a rel canonical associated to indicate this. I would even try to de-index that original page from results entirely.
Think like amazon, the king of ecommerce: Although they have categories and sub and even sub sub categories for products, the url for end product and categories look more like these
https://www.amazon.com/Arctic-Silver-AS5-3-5G-Thermal-Paste/dp/B0087X728K/ [notice the keywords are followed immediately after .com/, then everything else is configured], you see how there are no categories listed before that and there are internal categorization and tracking items written after the keywords. this is obviously going to be hard to impossible to achieve with standard CMS out there unless they are super SEO friendly somehow which most CMS and especially ecom CMS are not out of the box. So you may have to do some research to see if you can pull it off that way. But the earlier method I described is what I have been able to succeed with previously.
Now lets take another look at what they do:
Parent: https://www.amazon.com/Computers-Tablets/b/ref=nav_shopall_basedevices?ie=UTF8&node=13896617011&nocache=1479275082032
If you click on tablets, you get: https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=lp_13896617011_ln_2?node=1232597011&ie=UTF8&qid=1479275076 (non keyword optimized URL)
BUT IF YOU INSTEAD SEARCHED FOR AMAZON COMPUTER TABLETS, ONE OF THE TOP RESULTS IS THIS, see the difference?
sub-cat: https://www.amazon.com/**Tablets/**b?ie=UTF8&node=1232597011
these two are literally the one and same page, but I guarantee you the latter is specifically optimized and indexed for search while the former is how the CMS sees the links.
My advice: Seek and find a trusted professional who can take care of this for you. Is your site in English?
My other advice: Improve English. Search more for this stuff, you actually need to read and learn a lot for the answers you are seeking. That is not a question anyone can give you a good answer to around here in one piece.
Once you do more research, you find out that there are tools out there such as https://ubersuggest.io/ and google keyword planner for ads that help you get the answers you want related to keywords. but best advice for YOU is to hire a professional in my humble opinion.
long tail keywords tend to come up with much much better quality leads, meaning they will be less likely to bounce from your site.
Long tail keywords also tend to have less lookups and cheaper ad cost for the same reason, but again, are highly accurate when they do end up showing up as part of your ad campaign or as an organic result. There is less competition for them too oftentimes.
Ever heard of a custom branded url shortener? That is one idea I can think of for tracking some of this information in a reliable and less costly way, with some limitations. You can also always setup url paramters for it too, but that is more pain and money down the drain.
What I think you really need is the data provided here: https://www.facebook.com/help/336143376466063/
You could technically use tools that can present API data much better than the sources themselves can show in their reporting and using that you can generate a much more user friendly report. one example is sprout social.
direct traffic can be from bookmarks and such, as well as it could depend on proper implementation of ads and retargetting too.
That does seem a bit odd of a coincidence though, I have never dealt with such a switch scenario like that and to that degree, I have only seen more negligible or at least less worrisome amount of such changes in the past which we ended up not spending time to find out what was the underlying sitch with it as it corrected itself as a trend after a short period of time.
You really need to understand these terms correctly
sub.domain.com < this is a subdomain
domain.com/page < this is a page and it could also be a folder of your site depending on your config
The answer to your question depends on the need here. Why are you needing subdomains? for multi-lingual site? e.g. us.xyz.com or FR.xyz.com? or just for something like a shop or blog and you are having a debate between making them into a page or a subdomain?
I recommend you spend more time studying what you are attempting to accomplish here. Subdomains should be avoided unless absolutely necessary, each subdomain is treated separately for ranking purposes than pages on the top domain
so domain.com will be treated as one site by google and sub.domain.com will be a whole nother page receiving next to no authority or juice or anything from the main domain short of your internal links. I would roll with a page wherever applicable and possible instead of a subdomain.
Google is your friend:
They may well use it, per what they have stated previously.
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2012/04/1000-words-about-images.html
As far as I know and if I understand your question correctly, Google does not consider duplicate images = duplicate content.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k15GpWfsxZU
But you can bet if it is a stock image, still the higher ranking PAGES rank their images better than yours, even if it is identical stock photos, with identical name and tags as well as meta data.
I would not touch adwords express with a 20 ft pole, such a tool or hack available or not...
http://blog.whitesharkmedia.com/adwords-express-sabotages-small-business-owners
IT depends on application and other design aspects.
I have seen websites that implement the same thing and like morons keep a never accessible footer there as well... you have no idea how impossible it was to get to the social bar/links at the bottom.
You have to think of the user experience to be honest, while there may be good technical reasons for such a design, you must in the end consider what the user goes through and wants to get out of. A/B testing these kinds of things would not hurt either.
But honestly only "feeds" should be this way. Facebook feed, twitter feed, news feed and even then applications should be considered with care.
Disclosure: I personally hate this behavior by default... basically the only place I find it acceptable is on facebook and twitter.
Outsource to legitimate people only.
Some use a script to babble together a bunch of nonsense, you don't want that. Some outsource what you outsource to them to fiverr and you get a poor quality grammar and spelling.
If I were you, i would not just find a writer, but an SEO-savvy copywriter for websites. I would also give them #5 before they write the article. Just review it afterwards and publish, not a crazy deal of changes. This way the SEO-savvy copywriter can use the right long tail keyphrases and you won't screw it up by doing a final addition of your side to it.
I would stay away from services provided by non-local entities to your locality...
Are you using these numbers for a report?
Make sure you are staying compliant and following best practices for latest algorithm updates in 2016
From: https://moz.com/google-algorithm-change
Just more than a year after the original "mobile friendly" update, Google rolled out another ranking signal boost to benefit mobile-friendly sites on mobile search. Since the majority of sites we track are already mobile-friendly, it's likely the impact of the latest update was small.
Google’s mobile-friendly algorithm boost has rolled out (SEL)
Think of traffic and end conversions you get from both... think of demand you get from these, and see if it is worth attempting to maximize the traffic by improving the Bing side first.
If it is, start learning about differences between Bing and Google. Bing still uses keywords, that is meta keywords while google has long not used them for ranking. < this is last I knew and I have been away from this game for a little while.
Chances are, the traffic from Bing and Yahoo is not worth the cost and risks in attempting to get improved ranking there, for most small business at least. But this can vary significantly for niches and localities.
Also, what links are you building?! Link building the wrong way can definitely backfire.
haha interesting the things you run into on moz.
So, what are you doing for other keywords that you are not doing for this? Also, are you competing with the same entities for the more successful keywords as in the one that you are having issues with? How long has it been since focusing on this one? Have you compared backlinks of this page and better ranking competitors? Have you checked their social feeds and campaigns perhaps?
There are a lot of factors involved for ranking and this is a rather normal situation, I would bet that particular key phrase is one of the more popular ones and with tougher search competition. You can use adwords keyword planner and a couple other tools out there to find out an idea of these things.
Generally this is a bad idea. Single page sites face more issues for ranking properly for the right keywords than separate pages topically speaking. Jordan is right to say you could see a drop in ranking and ?I add perhaps traffic as well.
I see one problem. you need to at least analyze your backlinks... "tier 1" links, "tier 2" links... this language sounds like one coming from a type of SEO operation that causes more hassle than it is worth...
Verify your rel canonicals are actually correctly set and read by google via google console
Login page could rank higher for a variety of factors, but perhaps because it has the least bounce rate vs. the top page for it? After all people are more interested in your login page than your homepage right?
If these don't work or if you need more assistance, drop me a line in private message here, I'll be glad to assist further.
Ranking depends on a lot of factors. Run a test with Google PageSpeed and see what it tells you, it will be actionable. All of that affects ranking to varying degrees. DA is just one of the factors and high 30s is not necessarily considered a very good or high DA from what I know, it goes up to 100.
Also, there are other factors for rankings such as personalization, demand/market changes in keywords from a few years ago to now in some markets (example: SEO ninja.... SEO Guru.... growth hacker)
And how is he checking on his ranking that he knows is bad? Rankings that moz provides? Google console? his own attempts to search for it?
One last thing, what is their backlink profile like anyway? Those may have been nerfed by Google in their value, but they still count to a degree. There is competition too, he may have found new and aggressive competition... one market like this is photo booth rental market. 3 years ago it was a new market relatively speaking, now it is saturated heavily and there are just too many hands. This will certainly impact ranks.
Also who is the guy lol name them if you suspect wrongdoing or unethical behaviors! I know of at least one page 1 ranking site around my locality that ended up converting a student organization domain with a lot of .edu backlinks and then just ran with it for seo and represented itself in multiple irrelevant and across the country large cities.
They even blatantly dared to SELL backlinks on their site... in broad daylight! in 2016! Needless to say I reported them to Google and saw them get kicked down a notch to page 2 for my test keywords from earlier searches.
I would look at the bottom line, which one do you sell more? Which one makes more profit on average per months worth of sales? Whichever one that is, use the old category URL for it and 301 redirect to the new URL for the more profitable URL. Then for a temporary period, keep a banner or a little link or something like that on the new URL that clearly directs users who are looking for the less profittable product's new URL to the right location.
That's the best I can think of. I had done this on a car rental company where they lost some of their cars and had to take down the URLs but we instead 301 redirected to the next closest choice and made some changes to "feature" the other related cars as well.
Those seem to be Google+ and Instagram CDN sources that are https originally from what I can see doing a quick crawl of your site.
How is it that signed in and signed out users get different urls for the same page, I have never actually seen this practice in any CMS I have seen or used before. Client should not decide these things... you as the developer or the seo should provide the right way of doing things and explain to them why. To say the least you are dealing with duplicate content as as risk and in that case you can use canonical tag to specify the primary page.
But I would not listen to the client for what they demand, a lot of times clients have no friggin clue about this stuff and ask the vendors to shoot them in their own foot... good vendors will counter with proper reasoning and explanation and if you are the SEO in charge in this case, know that their insisting decisions will have major implications in the results you get and the treatment and longevity of contract you get from these clients... just my 2 cents from few years of doing this as a freelancer, but now I am running my own team and agency and client says this does not mean anything to me anymore when it comes to technical decisions. I ask them about their end goal and find the right way of achieving that.
directory links are still a very much required part of the deal for major directories to say the least. Sure, a lot of them do not pass any link juice or Google may discount a lot of those links in its ranking factors, but you just want to be present where people actually check and where data aggregators grab their source data from.There has to be a reason why Moz local still is as service that charges people for exactly these "directory" listings...
Alan,
Google was sued back in mid-2000s, the judicial system has affirmed (and Google won that case) that Google search results are protected first amendment OPINIONATED speech and Google has every right to do as it pleases with its results. So be it if their wishes are politically biased.
Having said that, Google will never utilize one factor to penalize a site, if all factors are looking mighty well for a Rush L. site or fan site but the Google Chrome user blockage stats, then I strongly doubt that will have any significant impact on rankings, if any at all. After all, Google nowadays considers such abuses when introducing a factor and may do away with a factor if it becomes abused as such. Especially, on such a little known thing as Chrome site blocking. I mean, I have been doing SEO on and off for a few years now and consider myself fairly updated and tech savvy, and I just found out about this option smh doubt the bast majority of Chrome users even know this exists, let alone try to use it. As such, any potential abuses of this should for now easily stick out to Google.
Let us not forget Google does have manual review and appeals in place as well and if they find their automated code screwed up, they will re-evaluate and readjust the rankings again.
So interestingly enough, and without trying to identify the people involved, I have found a local SEO company that has somehow acquired a fully unrelated domain which supposedly used to have something to do with students and kids lives and was a resource of sorts back in the day.
This site has FOLLOWED backlinks (with the student resource context) from the United Nations, from cbs.com, and from a wide range of websites mostly referencing it as a student and kids life resource.
Given the looks and feels of their site, they seem like a shabby SEO company with rather grey or dark themed SEO tactics.
This company ranks on page 1 for City+ SEO combination of keywords for three to four MAJOR cities in the US.
I want to find out what you all think of this...
Is this ok?
How is this ok?
Is this going to cause them to be flagged eventually automatically for a penalty or purge?
Does Google have anything against this sort of thing at all?
Danke
