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Kevin,
Thanks for your reply. Question, could you elaborate on "it its difficult to get in a directory". We've had good luck with Thomasnet; with their directory, the difficulty getting in is that they require a lot of information about the client. Is this what you mean?
I know that after the recent slate of Google updates, many free directories got taken down. We've typically used the list of directories placed on SEOmoz (www.seomoz.org/directories). Before adding a site to a directory, we always check to see if it is indexed by Google.
Is this still a safe option or should directories be avoided?
Thank you Martijn. Regex is always tricky so it helps to have another set of eyes!!
I’ve got a website with 20 different forms; and I’d like to track all 20 form completions with one Goal in Google Analytics. The completion-page URLs follow the pattern below (the website uses Drupal CMS)
Form One: www.acme.com/node/2990/done?sid=651
Form Two: www.acme.com /node/2991/done?sid=785
Form Three: www.acme.com /node/2992/done?sid=1021
Form Four: www.acme.com /node/2993/done?sid=459
I believe that there is a way I can use regex so Google Analytics will track if any of these completion URLs appears. Looking for guidance how to format the regex statement.
One of my client’s recently purchased a competitor’s website, and we would like to transfer the content from the competitor’s website (http://www.wilson-hardness.com) to our client’s existing website (http://www.buehler.com); at the same time we want to minimize loss in keyword rankings the competitor’s website has established.
The two websites work in similar fields: one measures and offers products in scientific measurement and analysis of various materials. The other website offers products that are in similar field: hardness testing equipment.
Looking for suggestions on how to proceed or recommended reading on the topic. I’ve tried to do research, but haven’t found anything, so I’m not sure what to topic-names to search.
Any guidance would be appreciated.
A number of the client's we represent have seen drops in rankings. The title tags on these sites are formatted old way of doing tilte: "Blue Widgets| Cheap Widgets | Metal Widgets".
We are going to change them to the natural format: Acme Offers Blue, Metal Widgets for Any Budget."
Just wondering if anyone has made similar changes post-penguin and if they've seen improved ranking from doing it.
Thanks for your input. I know they have some duplicate content at the moment, but I didn't think it would affect it this drastically. No links appear to be spammy and over optimization doesn't seem to be the issue.
Hi,
I am looking for some guidance on figuring out a problem I am having with one of my clients. Their site is http://www.macton.com. They have seen a pretty significant drop in rankings for "hoist systems" "industrial turntables" and "railroad equipment."
Below is my analysis and thoughts. Please let me know if you have any input you can provide me with.
Hoist Systems
I'm not sure why Google has started to rank this new page for this term when there is no reference to that keyword in the page and the other one is better suited.
Industrial Turntables
Some things we thought would help this was to create a whole new page just on industrial turntables in order to rank better for this term.
Another thing that I think would be highly beneficial is to do some more aggressive link building. Their top anchor text is all brand related, and very few include their target keywords.To my knowledge, I don't think they have a penguin issue, although I could be mistaken.
Can anyone provide input and/or guidance on my analysis? Any suggestions?
The 50k in links is coming from one link source where our client bought a spot on buyersguide.aluminum.org.
I checked the pages of some of the reported links and dont see our client's link on the page.
This is an example link:http://buyersguide.aluminum.org/company.php?id=1120185&company=United Aluminum Corp.
When I check OSE, they link isnt listed there either.
I was looking at Google Webmaster Tools and the amount of links that are reported in there are inaccurate.
They reported over 50,000 links that created a huge spike in their link graph and I checked some of the links and they don't even have the link on their site.
Can anyone help with this?
I hadn't gotten that far in my analysis, so that is helpful advice. Thanks.
For one of my client’s sites, I have several keywords that are ranking in the top 5 positions. However, they have a high bounce rate. I believe this is because Google is delivering a different URL than the page we have optimized for the keyword.
Any suggestions on ways I can get Google to present our preferred page?
Thank you for the quick reply. Quick question, do you know where I can find out more about the guidelnes on link/nonlink content ratio? Any resources or articles that you could recommend would be appreciated.
Eric
Egol,
Great suggestions. As always, I appreciate your guidance.
Eric
I have two clients whose websites have landing pages that feature a number of product links. In order to meet SEO/Google best practices, do I need to have additional content on these specific pages or will the links suffice? (Getpaper is an ecommerce; inpak is not)
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
http://www.getpaper.com/find-paper/inkjet-plotter-paper/color-bond-21-lb