Hi Rand,

In the Netherlands/ Belgium I get no data.. I understand Moz will expand this tool worldwide. Any idea when we can go nuts?

Thanx in advance

Hi Krishna,

We also get backlinks by making profiles on business overview sites (E.g. Yelp) and get certificates for safe shopping etc... There's a great article on no-follow links on https://moz.com/blog/the-hidden-power-of-nofollow-links

Good luck!

Tymen

Hi John,

For Google My Business the most important requirement is that you can receive mail (oldstyle & printed) at the adress to validate your business. I would thus surely sign up for it for the new business.

Good luck!

Tymen

Hi Mark,

To have the image there withe the right ALT tag also contributes to the overall value of the page for that specific keyword. As Tim mentions I would not link to the image at all unless you want it to be seen larger. In several mobile versions this image linking goed wrong and it will harm the experience people have on your site. I only use linking when I write blogs about specific products I let the images link directly to the product page.

Good luck!

Tymen

Hi Radi,

I would get rid of all punctuation except for "-" as it is seen as a space. If you use othe punctuations they are ignored. When added in a query the results are without the punctuation. Same goes for Bing.

More info:

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?rd=1#exceptions_punctuations

Makes it easier for you I hope

Grt Tymen

Hi Jon,

Google allows several forms of structured Data which you can find on https://developers.google.com/structured-data/rich-snippets/. I just have the Reviews in place and this works very well for me. There's a handy tool to see if you meet Googles regulations on https://developers.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/

With Wikipedia's example I indeed think google is playing around. If your client is ont the Whiskey business aswell I would suggest you enrich the Wikipedia page for them :).

Good luck!

Tymen

Hi,

If you go to Search Console> Search Traffic> Search Analytics

You can select to also view Position

This gives you an average position in SERP's for a keyword. This is handy if you want to get Data from a period of time when you didnt use Moz Pro yet as mentioned below.

Regards,

Hi Zero,

I use Search Console/ GA for that the rankings differ slightly from MOZ but it still is good to show clients what progress you made. It is also possible to export your MOZ rankings to a different tool like Klipfolio where you can track rankings over time.

Regards,

Tymen

Hi!

Big images reduce the speed on the page and speed is a(n increasingly important) ranking factor. You could use Page Speed Insights to see your overall  site speed or the speed of a specific page.

Within Worpress there is also a setting to index images as a search result or not. On my site it was on and once turned off within a few weeks my overall scores increased so maybe that helps aswell.

Good luck!

Tymen

Hi Seoman,

I wouldnt use the brandname too often. I myself have it in the PageTitle so it comes with all subpages automatically. Too also use it in the metatitle is than not needed in my opinion. That works for me.

Good luck!

Tymen

Hi Justin,

I also work with Woocommerce/ Yoast and in the settings of Yoast you go to XML Sitemaps and than the tab: taxonomies. There you can exclude the (product attributes. I had the same with all images who where indexed seperatly.

Hope this helps you!

Regards

Tymen

Hi, What I see from Google in The Netherlands is:

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/179386?p=ws_settings_location&hl=en&rd=1

Hi Owen,

Is the site in Wordpress? I once had the same problem with a site and the reason was that on the backend in WP there is a box that says "block search engines" and that was on. Needless to say this was the reason for not ranking at all. Once turned off it took about a week before the first results to show up and definitely locally you should be able to outrank the overseas ABC's.

Good luck with all!

Tymen