Hi James,

Really sorry to hear about your problem, this kind of situation can be a real pain in the neck. If I were you, I would look for a better CMS which gives me a freedom to do a better SEO. If you still wish to continue with this CMS, you should map 301 the URLs for trailing slashes to their working locations.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

Your website is built on WordPress and it looks like that there might be spurious entries in the DB, which might also not be getting deleted due to the WP super cache plugin. You may try to empty your cache and install 'all 404 redirect' and 301 management plugins.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

Yoast determines the keywords that you are trying to rank by looking at the keyword prominence on the page. By the means of keyword prominence it would look into the following SEO factors:

• Header tags content ( H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6), the title of the page, description, alt images and the main content of the page.

It would try to analyze and assess what you are trying to showcase to the world and to search engines using above factors. If your website doesn't have the right content at right places, it won't show up on the prominent keywords list.

I hope this helps, let me know if you have further queries.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Bimal,

I understand that you wish to understand how to use an existing good blog content on LinkedIn. Whether to use it completely as an article on LinkedIn or link to your blog or some content with 'read more' link pointing to the blog.

Linkedin can be a good place to promote relevant content as there are real people using it and that too being a social network, it can help promote the content to the more similar audience on the article itself.

Advantages

• Your profile and previous articles get highlighted, increasing the chances that people will read more than just the 1 article. Your own presence and branding gets a boost.
• There are several opportunities that people who liked your article once, will get to see more of your content later, they can also follow you.
• Your reach to potential targets is increased.

Possible Disadvantages

• The articles will face competition from other content, and they might get lost if not backed by LinkedIn marketing strategy for these articles.
• Your readership might remain on LinkedIn and if you don’t incentivize them to visit your website.

DUPLICATE CONTENT OR NOT:
I have done my research and there are many articles which are published both on websites and LinkedIn without getting penalized. Preferably linking them via a permalink is a good solution for Google to realize that the content is coming from same person/ website/ company/brand.

I hope this helps and let me know if you have further queries.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

This might be a good approach, as you are using the branding keywords at the right place, your brand name search will get some impetus with that. Having said that, do keep in mind that you are over-doing it by stuffing it in many SEO related elements and might get penalized for it.

I hope this helps, let me know if you have further questions.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Martin,

I spent some time looking at their CSS and website code. It seems that they have UNICODED the characters from a font to get the effect. The following characters will give the same effect:

%uD835%uDD4A%uD835%uDD3C%uD835%uDD46%20%uD835%uDD63%uD835%uDD56%uD835%uDD64%uD835%uDD65%uD835%uDD52%uD835%uDD63%uD835%uDD65

You can refer to this article to encode custom fonts into characters and use them as title / H1 for the website https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27247145/get-the-unicode-icon-value-from-a-custom-font

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

Google has been struggling to eliminate spam pages, content and structurally ordering them; this is an inherent problem especially with badly structured e-commerce websites.

You might be aware that "Crawled - Currently Not Indexed"  means that your page(s) has been found by Google but it is not currently indexed, this might not be an error, just that your pages are in a queue. That might be due to the following reasons:

• There are a lot of pages to index, so it's going to take Google some time to get through them and mark them as either indexed or not.
• There might be duplicate pages / canonical issues for the website of the pages. Google might be seeing a lot of duplicate pages without canonical tags on your site, to improve the number of pages indexed you need to either improve pages so they are no longer duplicated or add canonical tags to help Google attribute it to the correct page

You need to justify each and every page for their merits, and then let google decide whether it think it should be available in their search and also against what keywords at what rank. To summarise, just help 'Google search' by structuring your data right, it might reward you by ranking your pages at right places for the right keywords.Thanks and Regards,Vijay

I agree with Kevin in the answer above, the content may be crawled (depending on how you have hidden the paragraph using HTML) but Google may not give the right advantage of the content available after clicking the link.

We have a client with FAQ section with similar situation https://www.fairsplit.com/faqs/  , the website gets authority for the Question Titles of the FAQ section and not for the content as answer available after clicking the question.

I hope this helps, let me know if you have further questions.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Andy,

Here are some things you can try to get it working:

1. Make sure you are not in incognito mode
2. Un-install your MozBar plugin.
3. Un-install and re-install Chrome.
4. Turn off any additional plugins these could be interfering with MozBar
5. Check to see if the address bar is hiding the extension icons: http://www.screencast.com/t/7cLHKkOP
6. Disable any software firewall or security apps.
7. Clear all cache and cookie data related to moz.com
8. Re-install your MozBar plugin here.
9. Try again to Sign-in into your Moz account here and the MozBar.

Clearing your cache and cookies of all Moz related data is a very important step since we've recently required authentication for the toolbar to function properly.

Sending over the below information to help@moz.com would be a huge help in efforts on diagnosing the issue, so if the above steps don't work for you, can you please perform the following steps and send over this screenshot to moz?

1. Click on this icon in the upper right corner of Chrome -  http://www.screencast.com/t/HUj3m4DGuoqK
2. Move the cursor over 'More Tools' and then click on 'Developer Tools' -http://www.screencast.com/t/B7SIh7qiPj
3. Click into the 'Console' tab - http://www.screencast.com/t/itHrYuuq
4. Make sure MozBar is running and then refresh the page if needed.
5. Take a screenshot of the results (the entire window is recommended) and send that to us.
6. What version of MozBar are you running?
7. What is your OS version?

I hope this helps.I look forward to hearing back from you about the above.

Thanks,

Vijay

Hi Rand,

Thanks for jumping in and helping us all out. Your response is much appreciated.

Regards,

Vijay

Yes, this is one of many factors for de-personalization. Also, there can be many more hidden factors which we are yet to discover.

I  have done a lot of research on this matter, I use a specific PC with VPN dedicated to checking keyword SERP ranks for my clients, as they are from many different countries and having a different target audience, we try to replicate the results for different scenarios.

I hope this helps.

Hi There,

First up, as per Matt Cutts, google will rank the most relevant results regardless of the domain name and extension. This is how they treat the Domain extension whether TLD or SLD for it's own ranking.

Now, coming to your question, I have no data to back my hypothesis but this URL has what my own hypothesis is all about. You should focus on getting the right backlinks that are relevant for your own website in terms of getting target traffic and conversion. Essentially, instead of focusing on domain name extension , focus on the right domain that would bring you results.

https://www.sitepoint.com/community/t/getting-backlinks-from-edu-and-org-are-beneficals-for-seo/92940/6

I hope this helps, let me know if you have further questions.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

In addition to the methods suggested for de-personalization of results, there are additional few more factors.You may also like to read a blog post I wrote on my website Impact of Personalized Search results .

Incognito window doesn't mean you have deleted history of the previous browsing, you will have to clean the browsing history and cookies.

Use VPN or proxy to get results from different locations and countries. This gives you best Idea about your SERP status in different countries.

I hope this helps, please feel free to ask more questions by responding.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Arnold,

Very Interesting case, and congratulations to you for getting a viral video without even knowing about it.

You have asked a much interesting question, how to find out some of your or some else's video that gone viral when they have not tagged you or provided a backlink directly to you.

Considering your case scenario as an example, If I were you, I would have first analyzed the traffic patterns, set up a question on the registration form "Where did u hear about us" . Also, called up signing up customers to understand where were they finding out the information about the website. Other than this, there is no direct technical way to understand the video content if the are not connecting your website via backlink or a hashtag.

I hope this helps, please feel free to respond and ask further questions.

Regards,

Vijay