Questions created by Will_Craig
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SEO for a site in development
We've recently taken on a new client for an initial 6 months for SEO (until their new site is going live) to help build traffic to the site. They are currently getting a new website built so don't want work done on their current site... but due to the current structure it is making it difficult for us to improve rankings for a number of keywords. They are essentially a booking engine for services across the UK so it is just a home page with a search filtering through their services, locations and dates which leads to a results page. It is a combination of services and locations we need to target keywords for but there are no appropriate landing pages due to the site layout. The one thing they are happy for us to work on is the blog, so my question is would it be best to create landing pages on the blog targeting keywords such as 'sports massages in London' and build links to these pages? Then when it is time for the new site, with new appropriate landing pages, simply 301 redirect these pages? If anyone has any input on this idea or suggestions for other ways about it we'd be delighted to hear from you Thanks
On-Page Optimization | | Will_Craig0 -
C-Block domains OSE
hi all quick question regarding c-block domains OSE tells me we have 70 c-block domains with a total 130 root domains, is it telling us 70 root domains re c-blocks as this is near impossible for us are c blocks listed as root domains or just links
Moz Pro | | Will_Craig0 -
Ecommerce website with too many links on page
Hi, I'm working on onsite seo for an ecommerce website and my recent report has shown that I have a high number of pages where there are 'too many links on page'. Does anyone have tips on how to avoid this when we're using mega menus, plenty of navigation for the user and links to products on each page? Thanks
Technical SEO | | Will_Craig1 -
Is it better to redirect a url or set up a landing page for a new site?
Hi, One of our clients has got a new website but is still getting quite a lot of traffic to her old site which has a page authority of 30 on the home page and has about 20 external backlinks. It's on a different hosting package so a different C block but I was wondering if anyone could advise if it would be better to simply redirect this page to the new site or set up a landing page on this domain simply saying "Site has moved, you can now find us here..." sort of idea. Any advice would be much appreciated Thanks
Web Design | | Will_Craig0 -
C Block IP Links Strategy
Hi guys i run a web design company and have around 50 sites that i have designed most dont have links but to us i was considering adding a footer link that will link to a blog page within that site, each post on each site will have unique content about the project and about us as a design company. As you can see most of my ip address are c blocks, any advice here please, thanks in advance Example Ip list
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Will_Craig
abc.32.230.1
def.20.252.37
ghi.48.68.82
zz.32.229.131
zz.32.231.208
zz.32.253.87
xx.170.40.170
xx.170.40.172
xx.170.40.232
xx.170.40.247
xx.170.40.32
xx.170.43.200
xx.170.44.103
xx.170.44.105
xx.170.44.108
xx.170.44.111
xx.170.44.127
xx.170.44.137
xx.170.44.146
xx.170.44.157
xx.170.44.77
xx.170.44.81
xx.170.44.86
xx.170.44.95
xx.170.44.96 [question edited by staff to remove full IP addresses]0 -
SEO Ecommerce Keywords
Hi guys got a question regarding ecommerce seo do you think its a better idea to target more long tail terms and try get links directly to product pages, brand pages and categories. Rather than focus on short keywords that do bring in good traffic but are very broad, i will prob do both, but i would like a second opinion please about other users strategies thanks
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Will_Craig0 -
Open Site Explorer Date of Links obtained
Hi is there anyway to compare a competitors profile over two time periods ie, 6 months ago, then today for example. I have the sites within a current campaign, i would like for example to find a competitors back-links they have obtained in the last 6 months. As some of my competitors have 1000s of links to its difficult to see what they have been upto thanks
Competitive Research | | Will_Craig1 -
Changing URL's for a website redesign
Hi folks, We're redesigning our website and looking for some advice on how changing our URL's would affected our rankings. If the page URLs are changing how can we carry out redirects to avoid losing any SEO rank? Thanks, Ross
Web Design | | Will_Craig0 -
C Block Links in Open Explorer
Hi there, Wondering if anyone can help me with understanding the advanced reports in Open Explorer. I'm looking to create a list of competitors links to go after but don't want to create loads of links from the same c blocks for blog posts, articles etc. In open explorer it says my competitor has 451 linking C Blocks but when i download csv's using advanced reports with the filter of 'links that come from the same C block', the csv only has 26 links. The same happened with the filter 'from the same ip address'. How can i download and analyse the links so I can see all the linking C blocks and know which sites I want to use and which ones I want to avoid? Thanks, Ross
Competitive Research | | Will_Craig1 -
Home Page Rankings Drop
Hi all we have being working with a small local client in the last few weeks getting good rankings using onsite op, and business listings we have been getting good ranking ie top 15 then today we drop right out the top 50, after completing manual checks i see the keywords as all related | glasgow catering | Not in Top 50 | down > 42 | |
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Will_Craig
| catering glasgow | Not in Top 50 | down > 41 | |
| glasgow caterers | Not in Top 50 | down > 39 | |
| caterers in glasgow | Not in Top 50 | down > 37 | |
| caterers glasgow | Not in Top 50 | down > 32 | Also when completing manual checks on the above keywords, the home page is not ranking what so ever, infact its missing i went 300 results deep and cant find it, other inner pages rank but not the home. The only other recent change is that we now have a listing under the Google maps section of the homepage on page 1 any advice www.georgieporgies.co.uk0 -
301 help, whats the best way
Hi all right now i have 301 redirects setup in my htaccess file i recently redesigned our site so i have been redirecting all the old urls to the new ones. I saw a post about having all your urls the same format, so i updated my htaccess file to redirect all urls from http://www.mysite.com/food to http://www.mysite.com/food/ (added a forward slash). Now on my latest seo crawl i see all my site urls, redirecting to the forward slash url. am i doing this right, thanks will
Technical SEO | | Will_Craig0 -
Internal Linking - Same page
Is there any benefit in internally linking back to the same page? I have no other relevant pages in the site I can link to so wondering if it's worthwhile to use anchor text to link back to the same page?
On-Page Optimization | | Will_Craig0 -
New domain, and Local Service, Moderate Keyword
Hi all i have a new client, who has bought a shiny new domain name for his business, it has one keyword in it related to his business. He is a local plastering looking to get his site ranked, but my worry is the domain age, its very new less than 2 months, i know google sandboxes new domains, The term he is targeting is Mod Completive (26%) is getting his domain ranked page one within 6 months a possibility, or will it just seem utterly spammy in googles eyes. Any tips please thanks will
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Will_Craig0 -
On page report Confusing Whats wrong?
Hi Guys i am getting really confusing messages from the on page report in seo moz, i am running one of my customers urls, and testing it against a keyword "corporate catering " its coming up with an A but there is no meta data in the site or any keywords on the page regarding this, http://www.georgieporgies.co.uk/corporate-catering corporate catering it should not be getting an A but it does, i just checked a few other pages and its the same story whats going on, what am i missing here thanks will
Technical SEO | | Will_Craig0 -
List all URL's indexed by google
Hi all i need a list of all urls google has indexed from my site i want this in excel format or csv how do i go about getting this thanks in advance
Reporting & Analytics | | Will_Craig0