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Hi,
We're currently reviewing one of our clients backlinks in Google Webmaster Tools, Majestic & OSE as we can see many toxic links. However we cannot find the links on the webpages that are listed on Google WMT. We have searched through the website along with checking through the source code.
Should we still disavow the domain?
Thanks,
Edd
Hi everyone,
The quick answers box can be really helpful for searchers by pulling through content which answers their question or provides a clear description of an item or entity.
Our client appeared in the quick answer box for a period of time with their description of a product, but have since been replaced by one of their competitors. Previously, the answer was provided by Wikipedia.
Is there anything we can do to help get our client's content back in there? We've been looking at possible structured data we can use but haven't found anything. Also suggesting our client ensures they have a paragraph within their copy which is a clear, concise description of the product that Google can pull. Can anyone give any suggestions?
Thanks
Laura
Hi
We're running a Magento store which doesn't have too much stock rotation. We've implemented a plugin that will allow us to give products custom canonical URLs (basically including the category slug, which is not possible through vanilla Magento).
The sitemap feature doesn't pick up on these URLs, so we're submitting URLs to Google that are available and will serve content, but actually point to a longer URL via a canonical meta tag.
My questions are;
Thanks
I'm surprised that they're not keen to link through - you're a reputable brand, and I'm sure they're making the same margin on the sales anyway.
Anyway, good luck!
PS. Links from here are followed! http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/chrome/devices/
Aaron
Thanks for the response Andy
I guess it's easier for an agency to create these back links from a handy link on how to check snippets than it is for an ecomms site. If I get round to trying, and can even get some vague idea whether it's worked or not, I'll let you know! Shame nobody else has anything to contribute so far!
Ou of interest, which 'stockist pages' were you referring to?
Thanks
Aaron
Hi guys
I've just seen a website get a link from Google's Webmaster Snippet testing tool. Basically, they've linked to a results page for their own website test. Here's an example of what this would look like for a result on my website.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.impression.co.uk
There's a meta nofollow, but I just wondered what everyone's take is on Trust, etc, passing down?
(Don't worry, I'm not encouraging people to go out spamming links to results pages!)
Looking forward to some interesting responses!
Without mentioning names, we're noticing a shift in many of our clients ranking pages.
Previously many of them held page 1 positions with their home page. We've been building brand only anchor text to these pages for some time now and there's a noticeable change in visibility to the domain as a whole displayed in GWT and there's an uplift in organic traffic too.
It just happens that some of our clients already had pages in the root directory that were very optimised for the clients' head terms, but all of a sudden, these sub pages with very few inbound links have started ranking in the place of the home pages. I've attached a screenshot of the landing page organic traffic. The pages in question have been there for at least 8-10 months.
These inner pages would not normally have been able to hold their ground in this position and I'm concerned that this is a temporary change. I can see this going one of two ways; (i) home page beings to out rank sub page as before, (i) sub page loses ranking ability and home page rank does not come back.
My questions to the community are therefore;
From this query I can easily ask another wider question;
Good advice across the internet says we should be building strong brand links and citations to our clients' domains. Typically brand links go to the homepage, which should provide the homepage and (to a lesser extent the domain) with a ranking/traffic/visibility uplift. However, as I'm noticing other pages now picking up ranking boosts as a result of this;
I hope this can spark a little bit of a debate. I look forward to hearing everyone's thoughts.
Thanks
Moz.com mods - do we have a new URL since the domain change? I can't seem to find the URL anywhere 
Hi Mozzers,
I've been looking around online for some pricing for Zemanta, but have drawn a blank. It's a service that's been recommended by Rand in the past, and there are loads of users out there on the service.
I know they will provide a price over the phone but right now I can't call them as a third party have us signed up already.
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks
Have you checked these links? Are they still there?
They're still good for links! Plus, as a company you need to be producing Press Releases weekly anyway to give to other various sources. For the extra 10 minutes it takes to upload it to the site you may as well just for the high PR links!
Hi Edward, Welcome to SEOMoz!
There may be many reasons why the website in question is ranking higher than yours.
You'll need to factor in a couple of factors, regarding both your site and the competitiors.
How old is your domain? Theirs is almost 12 months old, which if I believe correctly, is long enough to avoid any 'youth website' penalisation. If yours is new then Google may not have crawled it properly yet.
Aside from this, OSE and Google do not share databases, therefore some pages that Google is aware of, OSE may not be aware of. Mozbot would need to follow links to the competitiors site for it to be added to the index (what I believe).
As a result of this, you will see 0 on the mozbar when infact there are some links pointing to it. In fact there are some (rather dodgy) links pointing to ambienmed:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=link%3Aambienmed.com&sugexp=chrome,mod=2&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
On page content can also play a part in ranking factors. Ambienmed has a wealth of content on the home page which is very keyword heavy.
Also, as mentioned previously, your competitiors are fortunate enough to have an exact match domain name.
I hope some/all of this helps!
A quick Google showed me this result: Video Optimisation
Essentially these appear to be important
Tom
There is an amazing list here: http://www.seoresearcher.com/articles-directories-list-alexa-rating-ordered.htm
Also check out: http://www.seomoz.org/directories
That said, these article sites will only go so far towards helping your link building efforts. I wouldn't submit more than a couple of articles to each (all unique, too), as it will pass some Authority and increase your unique number of linking root domains.
Once you've exhausted that list to a good degree, try guest posting on other blogs if you have spare content!
Mihai,
Panda is looking for thin sites, so as long as you have a genuine website then there should be no reason your site can't do well in time.
The on page reports are still very useful in highlighting factors for consideration. Whether you take them literally or not is up to you.
Using keywords in H1/Title tags etc is still fairly common practice if you're chasing that key term.
Is Google indexing all of the news pages individually. If they are all indexed, then what we can do is make it so that the individual page is more relevant than the news archive page. I'd suggest removing the h2 tag from around the news title, and replacing it with another inline element such a span. This would make the index page less relevant for your title term. Then make sure your individual news article headline is a h1 to make that the most relevant. Other than that, I'd just go through all of the on page optimisation check lists on SEOMoz and make sure everything is in order. Ultimately you can't choose what Google will show for you, but you can influence it. I'll have a look at your site when I'm on my computer to see whether I can suggest some more changes for you
Technically, yes, removing the Google Page will remove the results, but I'd think twice before doing it personally.
Have you checked all of your on page content to make sure your page is fully optimised for your location? I've found that our Google Places listing compliments ours, but yes the places listings get a lower click through rate.
It's not necessarily a best practice in SEO to do this, but there are tools out there like http://www.submityourarticle.com which I've seen positive results from. The service basically pushes out either the same article, or a close spun alternative to many article networks, so there is a huge risk that in the future the links from the duplicate pages will be discounted/have negative impacts on your efforts.
Hope this helps!
John,
41 links for a footer area, whilst it is a large number, isn't too many really. You should be careful on the total number of links on the page however. I believe you should try to cap it at 100, but I think I've read somewhere 200+ is classed excessive
Hope this helps!
This is as much a business decision as it is an SEO one.
I would personally continue only with one generic domain, such as propertyanywhere or worldwideproperty, then direct any of the other domains to the country landing pages as you suggested.
From then onwards, focus all of your time on the one domain, as you'll have better chances of ranking with a single authoritative domain rather than 4 or 5 weak ones.
