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Hi Guys,

As voice search seems to be getting more popular, I would like to start accounting for these searches.

I've tried looking for low impressions/long tail searches in the Search Console but feel like I am just guessing which queries are search.

Does anybody have any clever way of finding these searches or could you list an example of how/if you search using voice?

Thanks!

If you are using pagination and have rel="prev" and rel="next" on number links then I would ignore the alert from Moz crawl. You don't want to make these into unique pages.

It's definitely not considered keyword stuffing but if you prefer a shorter URL then use the second option.

It is also going to depend how your CMS handles this. If it was me I would start by having categories for Motorcycles, Cars and Trucks (naming could depend on best keywords), then have the sub category (Engine Oil, Batteries, Tyres) followed by the product.

An example of this would look like:

• xyz.com/car/engine-oil/castrol-30w-50
• xyz.com/truck/batteries/exide-battery

If you have a lot of content and want to rank for Hyundai i30 car engine products you could have a page for that too.

• xyz.com/car/engine-oil/hyundai-i30-engine-oil

Just set up the structure in a way you can expand on.

I wouldn't be too concerned, the Moz crawler acts differently than how Google perceives your site.

If you are worried, Google this - site:urbanforestprofessionals.com and check each page title to see if there are duplicates. Or in your crawl report check the pages, pass them onto your SEO guy he can change them or noindex if you are concerned.

Hey,

When you are fixing the website do you roll back to a save version of the website or just change password?

Most likely there is Malware hidden away which if you do not remove will allow them to keep doing the same thing. I think generally backups go back 2 weeks but if your server provider has copied a hacked version you will need to remove the Malware manually - not fun.

I would Google the plugins you are using and see if anyone has been hacked using that plugin.

Thanks Martijn,

That sounds like a good idea, we were also considering a Javascript loading option where we remove the pagination and load content on scroll - I am still 50/50 whether or not hidden content like this is crawled or ignored.

Thanks Anthony,

We are using rel=prev/next on the pagination for these blog pages which does reduce duplication, but because of the parameter filters we still have thousands of duplicates.

That's a good point about the indexing of older blogs!

Hi there,

I'm working on a site which is using parameter URLs for category pages that list blog articles.

The content on these pages constantly change as new posts are frequently added, the category maybe for 'Heath Articles' and list 10 blog posts (snippets from the blog). The URL could appear like so with filtering:

• www.domain.com/blog/articles/?taxonomy=health-articles&taxon=general

• www.domain.com/blog/articles/?taxonomy=health-articles&taxon=general&year=2016

• www.domain.com/blog/articles/?taxonomy=health-articles&taxon=general&year=2016&page=1

• All pages currently have the same Meta title and descriptions due to limitations with the CMS, they are also not in our xml sitemap

I don't believe we should be focusing on ranking for these pages as the content on here are from blog posts (which we do want to rank for on the individual post) but there are 3000 duplicates and they need to be fixed.

Below are the options we have so far:

Canonical URLs

Have all parameter pages within the category canonicalize to www.domain.com/blog/articles/?taxonomy=health-articles&taxon=general and generate dynamic page titles (I know its a good idea to use parameter pages in canonical URLs).

WMT Parameter tool

Tell Google all extra parameter tags belong to the main pages (e.g. www.domain.com/blog/articles/?taxonomy=health-articles&taxon=general&year=2016&page=3 belongs to www.domain.com/blog/articles/?taxonomy=health-articles&taxon=general).

Noindex

Remove all the blog category pages, I don't know how Google would react if we were to remove 3000 pages from our index (we have roughly 1700 unique pages)

We are very limited with what we can do to these pages, if anyone has any feedback suggestions it would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

I have worked a lot with Joomla 1.5, you will need to upgrade 1.5 to I think 1.7 first then you should be able to go to 3.

But, upgrading from 1.5 is going to be an absolute nightmare - do not waste your time. I HIGHLY recommend just transferring everything over to Wordpress, try find a template from themeforest which is similar to your site, it will save you so much trouble.

I can't even look your domain up on Who Is? If it's a new domain it's quite likely you won't be fully indexed for a while or if you have changed the URLs recently.

Also, when I search site:http://www.yellowpages.com.lb/ it shows 54,000 pages indexed! is that not all of them?!

Every case is different, what might work for someone else may not work for you. This depends on the content you are saying is thin - unless it has caused a penalty, I would leave it indexed and focus on writing more quality content.

I never see 'Click here' in meta descriptions from the SERPs when I search, I would definitely avoid doing that. Meta descriptions always change with what you search but if you are using the same ones for your open graph data it needs to work well on Twitter, Facebook etc.

I like to use descriptions which give enough information to capture your attention but not answer your question/search forcing you to find out more without saying 'find out more'.

Looking at Wayback, there have been development changes to the site - some of this included dropping H2 tags and replacing with spans for titles, removing internal links.

The drop will most likely be related to content/structure changes.

I think it's better to add more valuable content rather than removing content which you feel is under-performing. Unless its wickedly harmful then you should just leave it and move onto making better stuff.

You can use different methods other than subdomains e.g. folder structure /nz/, /us/, /uk/ etc after your domain or ?hl=en parameters (this is what Google does).

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en

Setting up your site with hreflang tags would be the first step, make the site change language depending on IP/location - after that start working on rank.

Acquisition > All Traffic > Source/Medium. Select Bing/Organic

It's hard to make a judgement without seeing/comparing your website to your competitors. The types of backlinks, age of the content or even the content itself could be enough of a reason to outrank you.

How old is your website and what keyword are you trying to rank for?

Without seeing the website, content or links to your site it sounds like a penalty.

You can check the drop in your traffic against algorithm changes here https://moz.com/google-algorithm-change

Also, it could be the keyword you are ranking for - if you were spamming this or using tactics to rank #1 you may have just been penalized.

Regards,

Jason

Hi Li,

Do you have any warnings in Webmaster Tools for penalties? Have you removed all the damaging links to your site?

When you say dropped over night, do you mean you lost 90% of traffic or did you lose all traffic from a certain source?

Cheers,

Jason

If GTM is on all pages for the kontenta.co.uk domain, they will both be tracked. Both pages are on your domain so you will need to track them under the one account.

You can just filter the pageviews in Analytics for data inside /designroom/* and the index

Is this your website? http://embrace-i.com/

Hi Pablo,

What report are you using to find the 404 pages? Are they soft 404 or hard 404s? A lot of reports may return a 404 response for something like a failed file request which does not really impact usability.

If you have a consistent page name for your 404 pages, look under Analytics site content and filter by page title then search for your 404 page title - this will give you the actual failed page requests, you can then narrow down if they are internal page links or external.

It may be worthwhile checking what links are pointing to your 301 redirects and if there are links you want to keep, dropping them could have a negative impact on your site.

Regards,

Jason

Thanks Patrick,

I talked to Moz Support and this is what they said:

Hi there! Great question. Unfortunately, a limitation of our API is that we can only export the top 25 links from each linking root domain. This means that if the majority of your links are coming from a small number of domains, we would only be able to export a small percentage of your links. This includes internal links as well as external links. This process ensures that you have a wider range of data from all domains linking to you in the CSV rather than a focus on data from a couple of domains. If you want a full export of link metrics, you may want to take a look at our API to set up your own calls.

I'm embarrassed to say I didn't even think of using the Google Search Console! Will be doing so now haha.

Thanks,

Jason

What CMS are you using?

If the pages are loading the style sheets globally, can you just use a class/id for the body of adult and child pages then use these classes for setting the different styles:

.child-template .container-div {  }

.adult-template .container-div {  }

Then you can have the layout/page structure under the one URL with different styles.

Maybe it is a type of blog filtering/tags and they are creating more as they create new articles? If they are spammy links it's going to turn out bad for them.

With GoDaddy you should have access to the DNS template for the website, just add a cname record for www or A record if that's what you want to use.

What do you set for rel=canonical? Everything should be consistent.

Could you try make your domain name 'Free Scrabble Dictionary' look like a brand rather than just a URL?

I thought the EMD update was quite old, and if it was going to affect your domain it should have by now?

Hi there,

Moz reports 70k+ external links pointing to my site but when I use the Open Site Explorer to export all links, I only see 9,000+

I have tried combining different combinations of fields ('this root domain', 'this subdomain', 'all links' etc) but can never see more than 9,000 links.

My website does redirect to www. and have a couple of subdomains, the report for non www. only shows around 120 external links.

We also use Ahrefs and the crawl reports here display 40k+ links (on the dashboard and when exported) which makes me believe the problem is not with my website but rather OSE.

Any help is much appreciated,

Thanks,

Jason

Hi Thomas,

I was wondering how you got on with this issue? Since it has been 5 months have you started to rank higher?

Also, what were the types of links to your site (e.g. www.domain.com/?id=123456)?

Thanks, Jason

Well the schema for Organization is mainly marking up an address and contact details as far as I know. I wouldn't bother uploading it if its changing in 3 weeks. I assume this is the page you want to upload it to - zing.co.nz ?

You are better off investing time creating G+ / MyBusiness page in my opinion.

You should definitely use Schema, depending on the website it may help. For example if you have products and use schema on the reviews you will display stars in the SERPs for that page (which is likely to increase CTR) and if its a blog you will display publish date in SERPs. I don't know about increasing the organic results so much but it definitely helps search engines crawl your site.

Probably not important but there is a wild card A record (*.greatwesternflooring.com) https://who.is/dns/greatwesternflooring.com, if you visit http://greatwesternflooring.com you get a 301 redirect to http://www.greatwesternflooring.com/

I would try have a CNAME for www. and maybe set a rel="canonical" for the domain