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Meta descriptions are what you request Google to display, these are a request and Google does sometimes use other information if it feels its more relevant.

This isn't new and I've seen it numerous times over the last 5 or so years.

Dr Pete even did a blog article on this (very old 2011 - https://mza.bundledseo.com/blog/why-wont-google-use-my-meta-description but its still relevant.

Also the question has been asked and answered on here before: https://mza.bundledseo.com/community/q/google-not-pulling-the-right-title-tag-meta-description - I could cover the same answers in this post, but we all know Google hates duplicate content.

In terms of being seen as duplicate, yes but this content is essential - you can't get away from the fact the dimension / spec is the details and you can't change them, but what you can do is add more unique content to the page.

There seems to be a lot of manufacturers content on the page and I would assume that a lot of your competitors are using the same info - so this is where the duplicate worry would come in for me.

While this is quick and easy to use, its worth spend the time to add more unique content, and higher up the page the better.

You have Reviews section, have you been contacting previous purchases and encouraging them to leave a review - this will help to create unique content. If your using a shopping platform to create your store like shopify etc there are a lot of plugins to do this for you automatically so once set up you don't need to worry about it.

On a side note, it actually took me a while to find the buy button - it wasn't where I would of expected it to be, next to the price.

I am guessing you mean free sitelinks - these are determined by google on how authoritative your site is in that area.

See googles link below exploring it in more detail, but a useful tip would be to build more links into that page, from relevant sources to show you an important retailer in that sector.

Site links can work for part of your site and not others.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/47334?hl=en

If your talking about Paid site links, its pretty simply to set these up in Adwords.

Hi

That link is pointless from an 'link building' point of view, however I still go after links from places like the Sun even though I know they are behind a paywall because they drive a lot of traffic.

So if your looking at it from an old school SEO point of view - they are a waste of time, but if you are interested in traffic and sales then these links are still very important.

Thanks

Andy

Hi

From an SEO point of view, Google reduce the important of keyword in the URL so having the keyword in the URL doesn't have as much of a factor as it once did. Again a lot of research and even Matt Cutts has confirmed its not as high as ranking factor as it once was.

I would never ever put a hyphen in the URL, there has been many tests show it does impact rankings (might have once been a whiteboard friday), but it not there have been multiple experiments, all showing that hypthen in the domain name is bad.

This is a must read, its a bit old (2007), but its very relevant http://moz.com/blog/how-to-choose-the-right-domain-name

Hope all this is useful

I would agree with Pixel by Pixel, DA is all about links, but its not the quantity you need to worry about, its the relevancy of the links.

Also you don't want to get links, you need to earn links - then you don't need to worry about penalties from Google and other search engines.

To earn links there is plenty of great articles on Moz about improving your DA but I would start from this one http://moz.com/learn/seo/page-authority

Thanks

Andy

Hi

I have to agree with both, having links to external websites isn't a bad thing, IMO it adds value to your website.

A simple way of looking at Google is that it was create by some university graduates who we're taught, like everyone at uni is to reference where you get your information from. So when they started 'Google' (I know it wasn't called Google initially), they used the fact if you linked of to somewhere it was like saying this website is a good source of information and the more links pointing at a page the more authoritative it must be, then came along SEO's who realised this and abused it and now you have a situation whereby too many spammy links will actually hurt your rankings.

But the core part of the algorithm which still helps rankings is outbound links, so if ever webmaster remove outbound links, google would suddenly struggle to rank websites.

Just image you are writing a university essay, does the link (source) add value to your article.

In terms of links in your footers, this is a bit different, this was an old black hat SEO tactic to stuff keyword anchor text links into your footer to boost other websites you owned, so links in the footer, think of more a user experience point of view rather than SEO, but a great question was asked on here (http://moz.com/community/q/sitewide-footer-links-bad-or-not).

Hope this was useful.

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Andy

First thing: Your sites authority will not decrease because you add an external link (otherwise no one would ever link)

Second thing: Exactly how much is passed is a little hard to determine and is not revealed by Moz, someone asked a similar question earlier this month and this has got some great responses and I don't want to duplicate their work

http://moz.com/community/q/how-much-domain-authority-is-passed-on-through-a-link-from-a-page-with-low-authority

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Andy

Well done on getting some content published - its seems to be getting harder.

I am a big fan of Guest blogging, but not done for SEO purposes but for brand building.

If you are writing content where your potential customers are and they see your brand in a place they trust they are more likely to come and visit, or if they see you in the SERPs more likely to click on your link.

The link (if you get one), is just a second benefit - before the days of Google to get traffic to your site was to get links and mentions on other websites that was relevant to drive awareness of your site - I don't think anything has changed, just some people in the industry saw it as a way to cheat Google and was punished so its now seen as bad tatic - but if done correctly can drive some wonderful traffic to your site.

We do accept Guest post onto our blog, but this is down to the editors discretion but sometimes they can add some real value to our visitors - so it helps both parties.

I would do some keyword research and look at doing some mid to long tail keyword articles. The articles which aren't as competitive and easier to rank for.

I would also look to add more content on your category pages to help Google determine what the pages are about. While Google might be smart enough to work it out, but the easier you make it for them the better, plus if your leaving it to a machine they could incorrectly work out what the page is about.

I don't know if its just me, but the page takes a long time to load - if that's not just me that will be a bad signal for both Google and the users.

Links are only part of the ranking algorithm, content and technical are the other two. But if you can source high quality links back to your site this will help with rankings.

if i understand the question correctly and you are changing manufacturer. You have the potential to lose traffic as your page will no longer contain the text 'old manufacture name', so therefore wont rank for it this term.

If your urls aren't changing you shouldn't lose to as much visibility as any links etc pointing here will still be valid.

The only area where you could lose visibility is in the old manufacturers name if this had more search volume that the new manufacturer.

Your asking the million dollar question.

There is no right / wrong answer for the number of pieces, if you say there is no real competition you might get away with the 1 piece a week.

In terms of rankings, this shouldn't take as 6 months, I've usually found a few weeks to get indexed and ranked.

What you need to do is work out how much the content is going to cost to produce - if its going to cost you $2k to get $5k worth of sales is it worth it. Also if its costing you $2k then you probably worth only creating 1 a month as the maths wouldn't justify it. (costing you more than what it generates in sales).

Also the content alone wont help you rank, you will still need links to help boost its rankings and also a technically sound website.

Nope you need to add the wildcard onto the end of the product line so it looks like this

User-agent: *

Disallow: /index.php?route=checkout/cart
Disallow: /index.php?route=account/return/insert
Disallow: /index.php?route=product/*

Otherwise it will just exclude that specific url.

Let me know if this works.

Thanks

Andy

in short - yes, this used to be a free channel until about 18 months ago and drove a lot of traffic however that traffic is still there and more (now its in the SERPs) you just got to pay for it and its quite expensive for certain keywords.

Hi

I would say you have done it correctly, optimising the most useful pages for the best user experience.

This key phrase that you are considering putting on your home page - instead of that, why not simply spend more time building links to that page. Instead of focusing links to your home page, focus relevant links to the specific page.

Think of a customer, do they want to land on your homepage and then have to navigate to the correct page to find the information, or do they want to land on the correct page and don't need to navigate away.

There is a really good article (sorry I can't find it), but it talks about the more steps you make a customer make to find the product the less they are likely to buy - I know your not exactly selling a physical product, but you still want the person to sign up and get in contact. So the more difficult steps you make it the less chance you have.

I hope that helps.

I confirm this is currently a test - but there isn't anything you can do about it. They are always looking to show the most relevant web pages and in their eyes the manufacturer is the one of the best sources of info.

More importantly (and this is me guessing), you are going to pay more on Adwords if your natural listing are pushed down - hence they are driving you to spend more on Adverts. The more they can get you to spend on Adverts the better - in my opinion manufacturers rarely spend money on advertising so by pushing these further up the rankings, the more retailers have to spend on Adwords.

If they start pushing manufacturers to the top of natural search - even the best SEO, good DA, quality links, relevant unique content (all the things good SEOs have been doing for years) will have been wasted if suddenly manufacturers start appearing in position 1.

A little tip maybe if this is what Google does decided to do - contact the manufacturer and see if you can get listed on their recommend reseller listing, then you may not having to worry about getting number 1 listing, if you can get traffic from the manufacturers page that Google ranks in position 1.

on a last click basis (as track in Google Analytics) we get very very few conversions - not to say that they come back through a different channel and buy, but we get very little traffic so its not an area we have looked at.

The people coming through from these pages, have a high bounce rate and spend very little time on the site.

I usually see people are trying to grab the images for their own sites.

However I do have a call with Google n 20 mins so will ask if they know of any case studies to prove either way

Update after the call. Google dont have any case studies and have not done any analysis on this.

Depends on the SERP page, some of our keywords move around like that on a daily basic as they are a active SERP results.

It doesn't sound like you have been penalised with such a small drop. Probably more likely others have benefited by having old penalties lifted. I would just carry on with what you are doing and building better links

Directories are a bit of a grey area. I tend to stay well clear of them as they can be seen as spammy by Google, but good honest directories can actually drive you a lot of traffic and sales - rule of them, if the directory is in your niche area and its where you customers would expect you to be listed, its worth appearing or forget your website. Would you be willing to list your site on the directory to help improve sales and leads, if either of them if yes I would be tempted to add yourself to the directory as its probably not spammy.

However if your only adding yourself to the directory for the sake of getting a link, or the directory seems poor, irrelevant etc stay well away.

For PR related issues, there are plenty of useful companies which can help get your info in front of the relevant bloggers, journos etc. Also can be done by doing a lot of research and hard work (depends how much time / money you have). This OLd articles on PR might be worth a read if you haven't done any PR related work previously http://moz.com/blog/an-introduction-to-pr-strategy-for-seos.

Also think like your customers, work out where they like to hang out, what information they like to know etc and once you have worked out where your target customers are, reach out to these sites and work with them. If you have got any great insights into the industry, great information share it with them, help them write articles and in return they may mention you and drive traffic and brand awareness.

Again for social make sure the content is easy to share (looks like you have done this), but maybe add a blog section and start sharing some useful insight, infographics etc and spread your brand online.

All of the above is difficult and takes time and practice. You are right to worry about Google, but seem as though you have a new domain, with no historical bad practices associated with it, just stay away from buying links. SEO is hard work and is only paid off in the long run. Try cheating Google and they will catch you eventually and penalised you and then all your work was a waste of time.

Getting to number 1 used to be easy, but  now it requires creating good quality content that people want to interact with.

I've never heard of this before and I have created quite a few FB pages.

I would of suggested the same thing as Monica, maybe you clicked something you wasn't meant to but as you are saying you didn't I would try contacting FB - but in my experience it takes a while for them to get back to you.

Look on there developers forum and ask the same question - you might find others who have had the similar experience and got a solution.

Hi Ryan

The 'duck' ride sounds fun, I will do some research on that later.

Thats what I was hoping for either seasonal Mozcon attendances or mozzers advice.

I just don't like turning up to places and not really exploring the good parts.

can I ask why concentrate on two different websites, without knowing what you would be selling / listing its a bit difficult, but as Moosa said having the same address / telephone number google might think they are the same business and link them, but more importantly why do you want two different domains.

In my opinion your spending time creating great unique content on two different sites, managing two different domains etc - why not simply put all the content onto one great site (rather than two good sites) and 301 one url to the other. It would be easier to get one great website higher up the SERPs rather than trying to get two good sites to link.

All your efforts would be to get links to one site, rather than two different domains, you would be ineffective splitting your domain authority (doesn't quite work evenly like that).

But if you really do need to have two different websites and are willing to put in the extra work, the best thing to do would be get them listed separately on Google places (ideally at a different address), have different contact details, names on their so that search engines don't try and link them.

In theory yes it shouldn't make a difference to your international rankings. It's just making sure Googlebot (which does come from the US) is able to crawl your website.

For every other country, because it's for legal reason I would suggest just block them, but you need Googlebot (and other bots like Roger) to crawl your website.

Instead of completely blocking traffic from the US, would it be possible (and I don't know the legal requirements) to detect if the visitor is from the US and show them a different page? "Sorry, we can't help you but here are some great resources" and link to some American sites. Hopefully, Google would still crawl your website as would be able to see your sitemap.

Sometimes if it's a legal requirement you have to do it, even though it may potentially harm your rankings (I have a similar issue with a finance client, where some of the legal requirements go against Google / UX best practices but they have to be done to trade).

What I would do is once you have blocked US visitors, is monitor Search Console and your server logs to make sure Googlebot is still crawling your website as frequently and as deeply.

First of all, all comment sections I have ever seen on blogs are nofollow links so they are really a waste of time in terms of SEO, in terms of driving traffic they are ok.

Spend time writing quality over quantity content, but more importantly when writing it have a list of news sites / blogs / contacts in mind who you are planning on outreaching the article too.

The hardest part is the outreach, anyone can write a great article, but you need to get it picked up and distributed. In an ideal world, you would all ready have made contact with the journalists before hand and see what articles they want.

IMO journalist are very busy and if you can provide them with a great article which happens to include a link to your site, if they are rushing to hit a deadline, then you have a higher % chance of it being accepted on their site.

Social media the way to go: depends on what industry you operate in some industries this could be a complete waste of time. Especially if you are a B2B company. Plus with Facebook's latest algorithm update its actually quite hard to get a social media post in front of your audience.

Biggest tip would be, quality articles over quantity and spend as much if not more time on outreach to relevant blogs, websites to get your content picked upto and linked to.

Hi

I am fully aware of how to do facebook paid advertising but I follow a page called:

https://www.facebook.com/GiveMeSport/

They know that I am a Liverpool fan (might a filled out a survey once or some other way, but they know I support the greatest football team on the planet) however they only ever show me Liverpool articles in my feed and they are organic. They post a lot more but i never see any of it.

Does anyone know how they are able to do this as I would love to segment people on my site and target them accordingly.

Thanks in Advance

Andy

thanks all for the suggestions, i will put a plan together for the Saturday and Sunday of things to do.

Thomas - I am arriving a few days early hence why I wanted to know things to do, I assumed during the actual conference there would be loads going on

Hi

Welcome to the community,

First of all it looks like you have very few links pointing to your website so this isn't going to help rankings. I would look at doing some outreach especially on some of your blog articles as this information could be very useful.

Look at other local sites that you think the content would be useful for the web site users and contact the site owner and see if they would like to use part / all of the article. If you are going to let them use all identical content - watch this whiteboard Friday on the best practices to follow: http://moz.com/blog/syndicating-content-whiteboard-friday

The next area I would look at, is the length of the product you offer. Can you not increase the words on here, maybe by putting some tips to look out for if you suspect you have bugs etc. There was a recent whiteboard friday which suggest you need to have around 1,500 words per page.

I am sorry to say, but your 'where we serve' pages look to spammy and look like they we're written purely for SEO purposes - so if I am thinking that then so will Google. All the content is identical on each page, apart from you change the town / place name.

Could you not simply have one page explaining all the services you offer and a list of the towns. (You will have to excuse me here as I don't know US places that well), but could you not group them into larger areas and reduce the number of pages and write unique content for each page, so more places on one page but geographically towns together, maybe by state etc. Also could you include Google maps on these pages - make them more interactive - this is a must watch video http://moz.com/blog/panda-optimization-whiteboard-friday 

So basically I would:

• Work on getting more links
• Write longer blog articles
• Organise your areas where we work sections

Hope this is all useful for you.

Hi

The search Analytics in Search Console is now the only true way of finding out what key terms are driving traffic to your site.

The big differences between the two:

• you used to be able to drill down and see which keywords we're converting
• you could see which pages the users was landing on

You can have an educated guess about the second issue - but can't do the first.

In terms of how reliable the data is - its pretty accurate I would say its as accurate as the data was in GA, do I trust it 100% nope - but i never trusted the data 100% in GA. I use it to inform decision but don't use it as my only source of information.

Other ways to see what your ranking for is to use third party tools such as SearchMetrics and while this might give you which page ranks, it estimates CTR and traffic so is less reliable that Search Console.

Hope this is useful for you, if not feel free to get in touch.

Thanks

Andy

Hi

Good news - you can recover, the bad news - you have a lot of hard work to do, and when you will recover I don't know, Google hasn't yet confirmed how frequently the updates will roll.

First of all. Do a FULL link analysis and what ever links look unnatural and fake - disavow them straight away.

If you have a penalty you must show evidence you have tried to contact the webmaster's to get the links removed. Try to contact as many as possible and then do a disavow - the sooner the better.

Unfortunately, all you can do is hard work. Even if you did purely white hat going forward (and most sites I would say do Grey hat in my honest opinion, sending products out for review and a link, in my eyes is grey hat - but I digress), you still wouldn't recover.

The site is basically now on sinking sand any and good building you put on top is going to sink and be a waste of time, until you have sorted out the foundations (i.e. removed the bad links).

Sorry to say, this client is going to be taking up quite a bit of your time in the coming weeks, but you can be the good agency. Sit down with them and clearly explain everything what is wrong, what the previous agency / in house teams have done wrong and how your going to fix it. Then explain once you have fixed the issues, you are going to be good and do white hat techniques so that they never get penalised again - potential client for life. Put in the effort now and they will keep coming back.

Hope this is helpful.

Depends where you are based, I know a small SEO agency based in Doncaster, Yorkshire http://www.thinkboxseo.co.uk/ but they only deal with Doncaster and the surrounding based area companies. And only deal with small companies

If I have understood the question correctly I would worry less about the product pages themselves, and focus more on the category pages, in the instance above Givency Bag - dont worry too much about the product description if your taking the page down within a few days, concentrate on getting decent unique content onto the category page, meaning the category page will rank high in SERPs for bags and when someone clicks on that page they see the latest deals.

Alternatively you could leave the pages up but just remove the option to buy, stating that this deal has passed, but you may also like these similar products.

If you watch the whiteboard Friday from last week:

http://moz.com/blog/the-rules-of-link-building-whiteboard-friday

rule number 4 is don't link to external links in the footer. Hence linking to your website is external link building - but that said sometimes it is useful to find out who built the website.

My advice would be to put the link in - but as "nofollow" link - therefore you can still hopefully generate any sales from people who liked your site build skills, but avoid getting your own site penalised in Google.

Plus if the site you designed did any bad SEO tricks and get themselves penalised you don't suffer - I guess once you have built the site you have very little control over there SEO tricks and they might go for quick win black hat SEO tricks and you wouldn't want to get down ranked for something that is out of your control - nofollow would resolve all the potential issues, but wouldn't affect sales

Hi Dan

I was about to ask the exact same question, so will keep an eye out for an answer.

I hope it is possible, but I couldn't work it out.

1. Google is a bit secretive and hasn't let a lot slip out yet. My best guess would be when they next do an update if you have removed all the bad links you have the potential to increase, but this would be if Google thought you had cleaned up your bad links.

2. I use some software called ahrefs to get the full list of back links - even WMTs doesnt allow you to download the full list'

3. You could in theory have a link from a DA of 10 and be a great link, DA isn't really a great indicator - you could also have a link from a DA of 70+ and be a bad link. Check out these great articles:

http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links 

http://moz.com/blog/category/link-building

But basically links need to be organic and natural, so if you have lots that are from forum signatures / comments, on websites outside your niche. If you sell garden furniture and have a lot of links sites about shoes for example, the odd one could be seen as relevant, but in general these aren't natural. You basically need to go to every page that is link to you and see if the link is relevant on the page, does it look natural and add value - or does it seem like it was just added in for the sake of a link.

4. For disavow you simply upload a file, please keep this master file when uploaded as if you ever want to update this you need to include all previous bad links, as they don't keep an historical record and just use the latest file.

You only need to show evidence if you have a penalty in WMTs and are trying to have it removed.

Hi

Don covered most of it correctly. Yes if you follow the above you should be ok, don't worry to much about the power of the link, its all about link relevancy, and the only little thing I would add in, don't try and get to many links too quickly, this could be a sign to Google you are trying to spam them. Get them to link over time to you.

Also don't tell them which pages to link too or which anchor text, let them pick and choice (sometimes a mention is just as good as a link) this way it looks more natural and don't worry if a few of them say, we're happy to put links but they are nofollow, this again make the process look more natural.

Once you have written Jargon guide, I would spend a lot of time outreaching sections of this to relevant people and getting them to mention it. There is software and services out there which are basically directories of journalists names and email addresses, I would highly recommend signing up to these to get the process started.

If you can make them a bit light hearted, a bit of fun some of the misconceptions try getting it listed on Buzzfeed (http://moz.com/blog/my-recipe-for-success-how-to-launch-a-successful-blog) while you may not get the perfect link, if its picked up and share you could suddenly have a lot of additional people visiting your website.

But you have the basics of SEO, so good luck

I would have to agree with SEO 5 team and get them changed, why take the risks of a ticking time bomb that could hit you at any time and without knowing your actually site potential destroy your listing.

I would go about the call slightly differently I would go about it in the sense of how by not doing this google could penalise his site and destroy his rankings and visibility. He is more likely to help and change his site, if he thinks he has got something to lose, which technically he has.

So explain to him, that Google are penalise site which take paid links and put "nofollow" on them.

It might hurt your rankings in the short term - but at least your then not worried about every update Google does.

If your playing by the rules, then you will actually come to enjoy Google updates as your competition suffers and you improve.

I guess a combination of both, I always find phone is more personal and has a better success rate, but takes a lot longer and requires more work.

I would suggest try both methods and keep trying, you will get a lot more no's then yeses, but keep going. If it was easy everyone would do it.

I don't personally do the work, I just manage a team to do the outreach, so the actual work involved I am not too knowledgeable, but from speaking with them this morning, a combination of the two and don't give up.

It does get easier - the more your known, but to get known you have to spend time contacting these websites and getting rejected.

Thanks, I have sent an email and hope to get this resolved soon

Hi

There was a Google Update in March: http://moz.com/google-algorithm-change

Developers have a tend of not implementing GA properly and tracking things incorrectly - our developers do it all the time.

If your developers are saying its been tracking wrong, which channels have been affected, are these channels now up and Organic down since they made the changes.

If you have access to Search metrics - has your Search Visibility dropped over the same time period.

I would then do some further digging as Fabio touched on, and as well as what devices aren't performing as well, what pages aren't performing as well. What has changed on these pages.

Or is it a simple case - you have stayed pretty still and your competition has caught up to you and over took you?

Can you edit your urls to include a country part: i.e. www.palmatin.com/uk/example and www.palmatin.com/us/example or does your CMS restrict url edits

but Google actually for once give a very clear help on this topic - I would recommend reading this.http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/working-with-multi-regional-websites.html

Do you own www.palmatin.co.uk?

I cant answer the about CCL certificate, but web hosting can potentially affect google rankings in the sense of load time.

If your hosting is on poor servers, throtle band width Google does take this into account when ranking websites, as slow websites lead to poor user experience and they want happy user experience.

Website load time is a higher ranking factor on mobile websites, so the slower to load has the potential to rank lower.

http://www.quicksprout.com/2012/12/10/how-load-time-affects-google-rankings/

There are many things you can do on the page to improve load time (and there are many articles out there), but hosting can play a part.

So in answer to your question a good hosting company can help improve your rankings. CCL certificate I don't know enough about to give you an answer - so I am hoping somebody else can answer that part for you.

Oleg is correct, the crawlers have to be able to spider the page in order for them to find it.

There are a couple of ways round this but these are nasty, not fool proof and I wouldn't recommend them and as Oleg said the page probably doesn't have to much power anyway.

If your purely after this site for a link to pass juice don't waste your time, however if your after a link to generate sales, leads and revenue then still get the link.

Not all links should be about Google and ranking, obviously when link building don't break any of the SEO rules, but don't turn down the opportunity to generate sales, just because you won't get any link juice from the site doesn't make the link irrelevant.

In understand about dev time and trying to get things put into the priority list - its a real challenge in todays business especially for those in SEO as these days onsite factors help in ranking, its no longer all about links

But I agree about images that would be good, if and when you ever do move to a new platform and want some people to test the it, let me know I am always willing to help out where possible.

I know its early days and even the wonderful Dr Pete said it will take a few days to notice anything, but has anyone seen anything.

I've not seen any rise in traffic yet, but none of my ranking tracking tools have ran yet.

Anyone seen anything, are you expecting to see any?

Ireland a bit tricky in registering a country domain - you have to prove you have a business in the country, even in the UK it can be difficult to get a domain.

Having different sites means doubling, tripping your SEO efforts, whereas if you have the one site you can use the existing links to boost your initial ranking in a country.

There a pro and cons for either method, but I always prefer 1 domain, then your content strategy is for one site so a blog post can be useful to multiple countries and you don't need to re-write the content.

Hi

If your users are clicking on the links then yes keep them, but make them no follow, however if they are not driving traffic to your other sites and don't add any real value I would recommend removing them.

However this article is very similar to a question that was asked last year and instead of duplicating everything that was said here I thought I would just post so that you can read the comments http://moz.com/community/q/are-sitewide-links-bad-for-seo (we know Google doesn't like duplicate content)

that is great - at least you havent done any Black hat.

page 3 isn't too bad, but why do you have to wait for these people to find you. Why don't you take your content to these other blogs, new sites and show it off to them.

If it is good ( and I am assuming it is) they will naturally want to link to you, quote you in their articles.

This will then boost the articles page authority and also your domain authority meaning future posts rank higher, but even then - don't stop the out reach. Don't wait for people to find you - go out and shout about your great article.

If your waiting for people to naturally find your article and link to it, you will be waiting ages and it may never happen. The moment may have past, however go to news sites, tech blogs and share them your article and knowledge.

Hi

I watched WBF all the time and at different times and never have an issue. What browser are you watching them in and what version - I am guessing this is what the Moz staff are going to ask, so at least they will have this info when they see the question.

You probably all ready do, but I would make sure you have the latest version of the browser you are using - but thats more of a general tip.

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Andy

this is no use to you right now, but might be useful for future - using the Adwords API I download weekly all the data and store in our own databases, that way I can then quickly run the report you are after above.

As far as I am aware you can't do what you are trying to do in the interface - to say its the area where Google makes most of its money, I do find some of the most basic reports missing.

Mine has dropped to, but so has my competitors so its all in relation. Tracking DA as a single metric is irrelevant, its all in relation to your competitors.

DA isn't something you can look at in isolation as there is a ceiling of 100.