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RE: Getting Google Authorship to Work
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RE: Anyone else seeing increased duplication of domains since Penguin?
Yeah I have noticed the same, while searching on a keyword "sugar daddy oregon" on google.com, I noticed the SEO work I had done secured the top 3 positions for seekingarrangement.com
This only happened after those major updates.
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RE: Getting Google Authorship to Work
You can check your rich snippets here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.touristisrael.com%2Fneve-tzedek-tel-aviv%2F354%2F
It's is working! You may have to wait until Google picks it up.
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RE: Twitter Personas
Then it is not a twitter persona which is the act of playing a social role. In this case you are just playing a natural social role and should have no problem interacting with said designers.
Anyways I looked at your twitter profile, I think it would be fine. Since you describe yourself as a Web Designer on here, you should also describe that on your twitter profile. From a professional stand point, using your personal account will put more of a face on your account when you socialize with users. I think @justinmarch would be better off than using an account like @BestWebDesignerEvar.
As long as the method of approaching someone clearly outlines your objective, you should have no problem. Don't lead people to figure it out for themselves. We are all lazy and the amount of people that will research you because you did a @reply to something they said will be far less than a direct message complimenting on their design work that you took time researching.
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RE: Where is Bing traffic?
Well like I said it depends on what keywords you target... So if those keywords are ranking high on BING but not providing good traffic, then it is a waste of time. Until you get top positions in BING, then you cannot know for sure. Here is BING's keyword tool.
In the last 6 months the word "Google" was searched in bing 1.3 billion times.
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RE: Redirect link from a particular domain
Yeah I got lost as to what you were trying to do man. Good that you figured it out!
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RE: Redirect link from a particular domain
Since you contacted the owner of the external website and they would not make the link change then unfortunately you cannot do anything about it. You don't have access to there server files!
So basically you cannot change the link going to abc.com to site 123.com. Hope this helps
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RE: Where is Bing traffic?
First of all, that article is really old. Second her source was from a study of about 10 million U.S. internet users.. probably more realistically people over 60 that are using Internet explorer. (JK)
I would find a more updated article like this one: http://www.zdnet.com/google-dominates-u-s-share-stats-in-june-bing-up-yahoo-down-7000000717/
Published July 11th, Bing only holds 15% market share. which is drastically far away from 30% and way way far away from Google's 65%
Since there are fewer searches performed on Bing, not all search queries will be made, hence why you may only see a few hits to none. It's the same for my sites as well.
Hope this answers your question! and if so, make sure to mark it answered Thank you
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RE: Redirect link from a particular domain
May need clarification, but are you saying..
you have site abc.com redirecting to site 123.com? Also, site abc.com has a really nice link pointing to it which gets lots of visits.
Since the content on site abc.com is different than the content on site 123.com. The link is related to talking about letters.. but instead you point them to the domain that try's to sell them numbers.. then yes you will naturally have a bad bounce rate. Especially if your redirect is a slow process, people will notice you are making them go to different websites.
You could redirect the traffic from site abc.com to another domain using .htaccess, honestly I would restore your site abc.com and give the visitors what they are looking for!
If I have this mixed up, let me know! and I'll try to re answer. But if I did answer your question, please mark it answered
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RE: Does Google index url with hashtags?
the search operator "inurl:#" did not return any results.
check to make sure that your URLs follow the RFC-3986 standard for URIs. This document (recomended by Google) might give insight on using the # (Number Sign)
If you arne't trying to create a uniform resource indentifier, but just a uniform resource locator.. this site may help: http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm
Hope this helps, and if your question was answered please mark as answered
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RE: What are some of the best Word Press themes for SEO?
I have an like using a theme called U-Design, it is great for SEO too. Also I like using a free theme called Responsive!
SEO by Yoast
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RE: WIll Splash Page Triggered Only for iPhones Hurt SEO
For our customers here at ebizautos, we offer a special mobile page that is hosted on our .mobi site. For example, universalautonv.com ranks really well in las vegas for it's search terms. When you find the result in the SERP's and visit with a mobile devices, it get forwarded to a different domain.
It has not affected out clients ability to rank!
Hope this helps, and if I answered your question please mark this post/question as answered Thank you!
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RE: Shopping comparison sites for ecommerce Seo
In a way you would benefit from being on such sites because of possible click through's to your website. However, being on those sites may or may not give you a better ranking. It depends how your website is displayed and linked to. As if it is followed or no followed.
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RE: Website redesign testing environment
If they put up new content, and that content is the same you will be using.. make sure they take it down soon after you approve of the design. Otherwise I don't think there will be any problem for your website.
Only thing I can think of would be duplicate content.
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RE: Annex city & citations
Make sure all your business directory listings are consistent with the new location. This means Yelp, City Search, BING, Yahoo ect..
A good service to look into is yext.com, a bit pricey but it will make managing somewhere around 35 websites like the ones above, a breeze. You have control over the details all in one place, making it way easier than keeping track yourself.
There are other services like localeeze, we have used them but is not as effective & takes a while for the listings to be updated. Both these services should help with SEO rankings in the local listing area. Hopefully Google will pick it up and display the correct address. I have heard of similar problems with businesses changing locations and Google displaying the old address. I would definitively ask the post office to make the correct changes as well with any phone companies you use under your business.
Hope this Answered your question! If not, I will gladly try to answer anymore questions you have on this matter.
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RE: Twitter Personas
To interact with designers, I would not think you should fake being one. Not sure how you would pull it off.. but I would show interest in their work to interact with them. I doubt they will follow you just for claiming you are a designer.. Heck they might think Huh? this dude is going to rip off my ideas. Maybe you could look at their personal sites and offer some SEO critiques for exchange of some Design critiques, that may build a relationship between the two of you!
I'd say the best way to represent a quality twitter profile is to be yourself, of coarse with objectives in mind.. whether it be the sheer number of followers or the highly targeted group of relationships. Do exactly that of a person that you would follow yourself.
If you do go on to creating specific accounts you could use tools like 'tweek deck' or 'hootsuite'! those are really good for managing multiple twitter accounts.
Hope this helps and good luck!!
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RE: Can you appear in both Google local and universal results on the page?
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Here is a SS of what I am showing. Hope that proof is sufficient enough to answer your initial question. Please mark this as answered if it was! Thanks -
RE: Can you appear in both Google local and universal results on the page?
I just did a search "pizza las vegas" and I see Metropizza.com in universal rankings and in the local.
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RE: Can you appear in both Google local and universal results on the page?
One of my clients have before but it is rare I think (explanation below). Often they would bounce around from being in a good local spot and then the next week they would be in a universal position. There was only one time that I noticed that they were ranking for local and shortly after a few spots down in the universal.
The swapping back and forth phase was consistent from week to week for about 3 months.
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RE: Are sub domains considered completely different than the root domain?
Google treats sub domains as a different site in a sense.. and hardly ever passes any benefit of the root domain to the sub domain. Usually, your root domain would rank higher than the sub domain.. naturally.. unless your sub domain has better seo on/off site.
If both pages were equal it would show both. but would have to choose which one would receive the better ranking.
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RE: I'm afraid I may have messed up my site's organization
301 redirect! set up a rule in your .htaccess file to redirect www.domain.net/default.asp to www.domain.net
A few related articles to help you if needed.
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93633
http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection
Hope this helps you out! and if it does please mark answered
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RE: Are sub domains considered completely different than the root domain?
It is duplicate content either way across the world wide web. For example.. a blog posts an article, I take that article and post it to my blog.. that is considered duplicate content. Use this post by rand to help determine when to use sub domains!
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RE: Help optimising this site
WordPress will not limit its ability to gain rankings.
A Few Google Guidelines for Places;
Do not create a listing or place your pin marker at a location where the business does not physically exist.
A P.O. box is not considered a physical address.
You also are not allowed to use more than one listing per business.. in example.. spread among the coastal locations you want.
Without a physical address, it is impossible to be on Google places legitimately.
I would just place your business in your home address. Make content specifically for the coastal locations you are interested in marketing too. Sorry but there is not much you can do about the local listing situation and how you would like it to be :[
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RE: Spinning software advice / suggestions
Yeah do not use spinners! They are bad news, I have seen websites get destroyed by them. Mechanical Turk through amazon would be cost effective, I could also recommend using writers from textbroker.com
If you want to keep costs low, find someone on forums.digitalpoint.com to go through and rewrite all the descriptions. Post an ad describing your work needed and ask for a example of work by re writing a sample piece from your websites.
The cost of getting quality content will be less than the article spinner most of the time. Unless you have hundreds and hundreds of pieces needed to be re written.
I know a spinner sounds like the best method, but it will not help you out at all! You want results for the future, it is important.
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RE: Article Falls After Maintaining ranks for years. Page penalty?
As long as you wrote the article first, Google will know! It won't penalize you bcz people stole it.
A suggestion for the URL:blog/how-set-marketing-budget-your-smb/index.html
I would change this to: blog/marketing-budget-for-your-smb/index.html
I would keep the article title the same!
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RE: Article Falls After Maintaining ranks for years. Page penalty?
Also, try and get more social shares! I noticed your competitors articles got tweeted almost 100 times! These social signal will help you.
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RE: Article Falls After Maintaining ranks for years. Page penalty?
I am currently showing you in position #9 for that term. I took your content, did a word count and counted how many times 'marketing budget' was used. in the article you used it 8 times within a 969 word article. Your big competitor (INC) used the term 5 times inside a 1,162 word article. #1 position is INC.com followed by, Microsoft, About, Wiki.. These are all big players in the Google rankings and hard to compete with.
Due to the nature and competition of this keyword I am not going to suggest re writing.. I would setup a few more pages, with similar content about marketing budgets.. maybe not only for small businesses but for big ones, maybe tone down the use of the keyword, add some variations to it! Make about 2-3 new articles like this.
Track these new articles. They should have different titles, number & variations of keywords, URL's. Take note on which performs better than the others. After some time has passed.. take your better article and make those subtle changes to your article. Maybe change up some of the keywords, improve the URL and maybe put your keyword closer to the beginning of your page title.
(I do not want you to make these changes to your current article yet). I am not sure how it will affect it's ranking.
When you get your articles tracked and they start to improve on rankings, go ahead and link to your already ranking article from the new ones.
Hopefully over time you will be able to get back into the top 3!
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RE: Should you proactively remove spammy links?
You should take note of all these spammy links and put them into a spread sheet. I would also ask for the webmasters to remove them as well. Try contacting them through two different methods. Such as support ticket or through a contact us email. Document that as well.
In case you get penalized you will have the work already done in trying to get a reconsideration. I wouldn't sweat it too much though, Google is working on perfecting their algo to identify this type of problem & situation.
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RE: Article Falls After Maintaining ranks for years. Page penalty?
A rewrite wouldn't be a bad Idea, being that it is from two years ago. Are the websites that out rank you have fresh content? Google likes fresh and this could be a reason why you dropped. If you could screen shot the article and upload it to imgur.com or just provide me a URL I would like to look at the piece of content, maybe I can give you a reasonable cause as to why it dropped.. also a search term would be nice too!
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RE: Suggested Link Builder and Brief
I would not trust cheaper SEO's across sea's, they will often just use automation software and build un natural links. I am sure you can find a hand full that will legitimately build links such as sharing pieces of content from your websites & also content that they write. I would put your funds into content creation and come up with a strategy to get that content seen. Post to all social networks, and then use some of your content to specifically do guest blogging.
I would make sure each website has its own Facebook page, Twitter, Google+ & Maybe even Pinterest. You can also share your content through websites like Reddit, Digg and even Squidoo.
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RE: External Followed Links History, number of links go down
This could be a result where your back links were coming from websites that have been de indexed or banned. Those websites were affected by the updates of Panda most likely. I am not a expert on the subject because I have not had to deal with it directly.. But the dates your links started going down looks about right.
Refer to this page for more info about Google updates: http://www.seomoz.org/google-algorithm-change
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RE: Videos impact on SEOmoz On Page Analysis
Yeah I don't think SEOMoz has a video evaluation.
Some tips for adding video.. Host it yourself! and make it so people can embed it.. this will gain a link from the website. You can also make / submit a Video sitemap.
Refer to these posts:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/video-sitemap-guide-for-vimeo-and-youtube
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RE: Issue: Rel Canonical
Check the page source and CTRL+F and search "canonical"
If the Yoast fixed it then I wouldn't worry about it. Be worried if you find more than 1 canonical element.
Is the "Errors" actually listed under
Crawl Errors Found
or
Crawl Notices Found
???
If you implemented the plugin and changes after your last crawl, I would wait until SEOMoz re crawls your site and makes a fresh report. If you click the number of errors, warnings or notices found with canonical, it will bring you to a page where it finds it. if you hover over the "Tag value" it will give you the true canonical path!
It could also be a theme problem! You may have to edit your page / post templates and any others that are effected.
Hope this helps!
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RE: What i should do about bad links ?
You will have to remove them one by one unfortunately! Yeah I took a quick look at your link profile and you have links from health websites and stuff like that. Unrelated to your blog! Just keep working on building a better link profile.
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RE: What i should do about bad links ?
If you created them you should try to remove them. If that is not the case, try to contact the webmaster of where your links are.. it's a long shot but some will remove the links. Gather a list of every link that you think is doing you wrong and use that list as a guide for removal. Do whatever you can and as much work as you can to get them removed and document your methods used.. whether it by emailing, on site support, snail mail or phone call.. make sure to write it down.
You may be able to get a reconsideration but I doubt it unless Google Webmasters specifically left a message about bad links. You will have to keep guest blogging and building links naturally to out weigh the bad. You could start over, grab all your past blog posts and save them, start a new blog.. go back to fix your guest posts to point to your new domain. That may be the quickest way and better unless your site is still bringing in allot of visits. It really depends on your current situation. I'd say for me.. if my website was bringing in 250 people a day rather than 1,500 per day from before.. I would try and save it.. anything less than that I would probably spend my efforts to create a new website with best practices.
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RE: What is the best practice for replacing an old xml sitemap?
You could use a XML sitemap builder like http://www.xml-sitemaps.com, I just tested it and seems to work alright.
Make sure you are truthful about how often you update your website with content. This could be daily, weekly monthly and so on. Second, I would let the sitemap builder determine importance of your pages, it should make your home page the most important.
WARNING: Using the above service will let you work with only 500 pages, if you have more than 500 pages on your website do not use the sitemap it generates.
You can find other services by searching "sitemap generator"
The best way would be to use http://code.google.com/p/googlesitemapgenerator/ but configuration and setup is required.
Good Luck! Hope this helps.
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RE: How to Activate the Review Rich Snippets
I don't believe there is a method of activating the rich snippets, it is about implementing it correctly and waiting for Google to cache it. I may be wrong but I just did research for this same type of problem.
I would double check your code using this rich snippet tool, and then if it does not show there, use this guide for trouble shooting rich snippets.
Other than that you may have to wait! Good Luck
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RE: Low Domain Authority - Rank Well For Competitive Keywords
You must remember that rankings don't only rely on back links. there are many factors like content, social signals & on page optimization to name the bigger players.
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RE: Do you think this is hurting me SEO efforts?
<dt style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Occurrences of Keyword "jigsaw puzzles"</dt>
<dd style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">18</dd>
Personally I would remove one of the two words "jigsaw puzzles" occurring in the websites title.
If you can limit that word to about 15 times of occurring, that would be optimal. I looked at your page source and indeed it would be hard to limit the number of times it gets repeated. Try to add other keywords in, like Puzzle Games!
Hope this helps!
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RE: Linking between your own websites- yay or nay?
This could come off as a "Blog Network" to Google and would be frowned upon. Since your Directory was dinged, I wouldn't associate it with your other websites. Personally I had 5 sites myself that were all in a "General" niche but a little different and all linking up with each other. They did not get penalized or anything but as soon as those updates rolled out I removed their linking structure. Better to be safe than sorry!
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RE: Thinking about using a Public Relations firm to post articles
There is great benefit to doing this! You would be putting your content in front of more people while increasing your changes of them sharing it. I think 4 per month would be as much as you would want to do. You will want to think about value to the readers most of all, and think about news broadcasters and how they might respond or take action to your press releases. If you publish a great story every week vs so so stories every day, they would take you more seriously if you did the 4 per month route.
My past boss who is very good at creating controversy in the sugar daddy dating niche via seeking arrangement, was really good at this. He always tried to provide site data about the users and presented it in a controversial way to make other writers react.
His press schedule depends on what is going on, and usually tries to push something out every week or so. Sometimes he would post anything for a month.
The best way to approach this is to make a plan of when and where you will be publishing these stories. Be consistent and do research on the art of press releases! This post should help a bit.
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RE: Client question: What should I do?
I would work on sharing those articles, that is the only thing possible you could do. Hoping that Google will connect the dots of those articles content with her name.
It may work, it may not.
Good luck!
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RE: Is there a keyword suggestion tool available in the SEOMOZ suite of tools?
No, but it will offer a competitive analysis of keywords you provide it!
I am not sure of other services like SEMRush, I have only used them before.
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RE: Negative SEO?
I highly doubt Negative SEO was used on your post. Unless you can see / gather off site data the would prove otherwise. Google likes fresh content, and will normally rank fresh content high for a few days and is common for that post to be dropped after awhile.
On second thought, looking at your back links through Ahrefs I wouldn't rule out the possibility you could have been sabotaged.
June 25th @ 293 back links to _July 2nd @ 628 back links _
I think that is pretty fast for negative SEO.. Do you or anyone else in your company or have hired someone to do "SEO Work"?
By the way, I show that you rank #9.. "First Citizens Bank Overdraft Fees"
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RE: Duplicate content harms individual pages or whole site?
Being dinged for duplicate content would be penalized as whole on your website, not just by page.
If the post is original and you just have a picture of the book with a sentence or two of it's description, I do not think that would harm or trigger a filter on your website.
They usually go for "substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match other content or are appreciably similar"