Sorry, I didn't understand the initial question.
But yes they are extremely similar. The location and keyword is the same throughout all the terms. I think it would be best to have them in a single page.
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Sorry, I didn't understand the initial question.
But yes they are extremely similar. The location and keyword is the same throughout all the terms. I think it would be best to have them in a single page.
Your main focus should just be one keyword and different instances of the keyword.
Lets say focus on Florist Clearwater..you want to have that maybe 1-4 times throughout the page(depends how much content is on that page) and then you want to connect florist with lets say flowers and then you want to connect Clearwater and Florida.
I hate visiting sites and seeing blatant mass keyword terms on a page. It is not good SEO. You should just focus on a single term and then have different instances of your keywords in a way the user can benefit from it.
Try not to clutter the keywords into your page and Google is usually pretty good at connecting different keywords and connecting them in terms.
From my experience if there is little downtime there is little to no effect at all.
Assuming everything stays the same and nothing is changed except host.
For Google it is usually almost instant. Once they crawl your site and other sites with your content it will be indexed.
As for SEOmoz, OSE usually updates once or twice a month. You can check the update calendar here.
https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule
But FYI SEOmoz doesn't get all the links, they only scrape a little percentage of total links.
You can also check Google WMT for links to us to see if they update that information.
The only few I'd say are BBB and Yahoo.
Some of the directories on the list are no longer quality directories. But some still are.
At the end of the day directories are not as effective as they use to be. However, those that are quality will require payment.
Payments for listing is sort of a way to weed out the spammers because look at all the free ones, they have lots of spammy sites.
Paid links are not always lets say negative. In Google's perspective it is usually cases where someone buys a footer link for like $XXX for a year. Think about PR sites, although they don't count as much they still are effective sometimes in a marketing perspective.
I would either nofollow or just have it on one page.
Irving you troll. You just wanted a thumbs up! (well you got it!)
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I too am sad private Q&A is going away, I like to keep some questions private and keep certain sites private. But I hope this brings out more Moz associates to answer certain questions.
Valuable content. That is it. Allow ONE link to their site and keep other links that are actually helpful.
Use CopyScape do check plagiarizing.
But to be blunt guest bloggers are only the quality you look for. I suggest looking for other sites where they have published content and figure out if they are worth the content.
You should know when you have a REAL guest blogger or just another spammer with spun content.
Not a good idea. Same IP and a considerable amount of links from those same IPs will look like a blog network. Google frowns upon this. It is best not to do it but if you must..include minimal links.
There was another post on this on the 19th or so. There was some sort of update and traffic to a few of my sites are down as well.
For those of us that have not received warnings on WMT, I'd suggest you wait about a week to see if your rankings recover.
There was some sort of small update or change in Google's algorithm and one of my sites dropped 30-40% and just recovered about 20% traffic.
Sometimes these fluctuations happen, don't panic just yet!
Traffic has definitely dropped on a few sites. Very few have increased.
It seems the SERPs are changing a but could just be temporary.
One of my sites had a drop yesterday. But can't be 100% sure. Will keep an eye on this question and refer back. I will look on a few other high organic sites I have.
Questions like this pertaining to CRO can really depend on A/B testing. A lot of marketers will recommend you to test something similar to the well scripted and produced video before spending the budget. You can maybe try another video that you have access to or the rights to publish on your site.
See if this increases the conversions and if it does it may give you the evidence you need to spend the budget on the tailored video.
CRO always comes down to testing and studies.
I would say <20. But this is really up for grabs. Sometimes low authority sites become high authority. I believe natural links will be natural links. Bad links will be easy to tell. Poor content, site structure etc.
There is really no set % of anchor text and links that will get you penalized. Everything is speculation and best practice.
Everything is up to the webmaster and usually they know which links are bad. It is best to be honest.
As for checking bad links, they are usually the ones with low domain authority and page authority. You should extract your backlink report from OSE and weed through the low quality links(low DA/PA).
Good luck!
In my opinion, go with Magento or BigCommerce.
Pick one and stick with it as migrating to either a custom or another cart will be extremely expensive and time consuming. Your cost for migration depending on how big your store is can cost the same as the custom cart itself!
In terms of SEO your best options are those two. Shopify and carts like Volusion are not that great at SEO.
I really believe you can suffice on platforms like Magento and BigCommerce mainly because this is what they do. In terms of all in one carts like BigCommerce, you don't have to worry about backend problems and always have some sort of support.
Magento while extremely customizable you will probably run into problems and need to pay for support or customization.
If you have the budget go with Magento since you can customize everything and it will look similar to what you consider a custom cart. Sometimes these custom carts end up being more costly and troublesome than you would like.
There is currently no software that can tell you this information. Google basically just blocks this information out.
You can try to compare the data you have a long with Bing. Which is the best option right now.
That is good news. It will ease some minds that are going nuts over the duplicate content reporting. Thanks!
Honestly, I wouldn't worry about Alexa rank at all.
Its not a good metric on valuable traffic. Your site is for movies and more entertainment content which doesn't really translate to users who have an Alexa toolbar, thus making it irrelevant what Alexa rank you are.
If you were a SEO blog or webmaster forum or anything in that medium then Alexa rank can decrease much more and reflect the users that are visiting your site.
Alexa rank, Quantcast, Compete all have their own systems and none are 100% accurate of real worldwide traffic.
No. IP address does not affect SEO.
This would ruin the shared hosting plans since shared hosts usually have hundreds of sites under one IP/server.
Just to give you an idea of what kind of partnership they are referring to..
The sites they partner with generally just pull the text and occasionally maybe the link within the PR. What I've seen from a few PR I had with PRweb, there are no links to your site other than PRweb and any outlet that decides to publish your content.
No actual site or 'partner' would want to aggregate that many PR...AND give link juice. That is just not cool SEO.
So there is little danger of PR damaging your SEO.
Whether or not PR is still a good source of SEO is another topic for another day.
Hope that helps
No I've never heard of DNS affecting SEO. International or domestic, DNS shouldn't impact SEO.
This usually happens after 1-2 months and it really depends on the amount of links you have.
SEOmoz usually update Open Site Explorer every month and if we are lucky twice a month.
You can check the calendar here:
https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule
The last one was I believe in the last week of December.
Good luck!
Hosting services are really hard to choose. Everyone will have their own experiences.
In my experiences, I usually look at webhostingtalk.com because they have a large amount of webmasters that post reviews of certain companies.
Find a couple of hosting companies that fit your budget.
Then Google them for reviews or search at webhostingtalk.com
Always worked for me
There will be slightly more value to your headterm than headterm.com. I suggest you mix it up or just use headterm.com.
It won't matter if sites are all authoritative because you can still be penalized if there is an abundant amount of anchor text with your head term.
I don't know exactly how many but usually links are built to the focused URL the owner 'thought' was the primary URL, thus giving the other URL less links.
I would suggest picking the link that has the most inbound links just in case you lose any rankings for losing out juice for those that are pointing to the opposite.
But as you mentioned if it is about the same and it is nothing substantial you can go with your opinion.
Yes, this means either they have inbound links referring to the http://website.com and http://www.website.com.
This happens all the time especially if you don't have a redirect in place.
I suggest going into your WMT and choosing preferred http://www.website.com or whichever has the most links. Then you want to make sure your .htaccess redirects to your preferred URL.
You can submit your sitemap and setup crawl frequency on Google Webmaster Tools. And it would probably take 24-48hrs at most.
Off-page optimization is more difficult hence it is much more powerful in rankings.
On-page SEO should always be the first thing you do because you can control it and easily fix and adjust everything. Off-page is more difficult since it requires partnerships and PR, which of course you can't control that easily.
Not really, the whole idea of the web is to pass the juice. It is like asking what if you link to SEOmoz or Google. Linking out to sites are natural and unless that site is spammy, I don't see how it can affect you that harshly.
Bottom line, it happens all the time and you shouldn't think about it too much. If Page B is offering something good for your users then it is 100% warranted anyway!
No, its a redirect from t.co. The actual link is to: http://t.co/YOURSITE
Hi Darin,
We might've gotten confused with the OP's question.
I agree with you of course in marketing terms but the OP's question is referring to backlinks. Backlinks as in SEO not PR. Hence my answer commenting for SEO purposes are useless and not a good idea.
Commenting for marketing and PR is good, but be selective.
Yes, blog spamming is not really a smart idea. Plus majority of blog platforms nofollow comment links.
The only way you will benefit from blog comments are if they actually help the reader and is more of a marketing tactic than SEO.
Hi all,
Having some trouble figuring out a metric I'm dissecting. We have a large amount of traffic going to deep pages and I'm looking at the traffic source and an alarming amount are coming as Direct traffic.
The thing is this can't type in or bookmarked traffic, so what else could it be? We have numbers like 80% and 60% for direct traffic, which judging by our previous efforts, that just can't right.
Anyone can figure out what I may be missing out? Deeper pages should usually not get as much Direct traffic, so what can it be?
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Yes it would be a bad idea.
If you must, just nofollow the links. The dangers are getting ALL the sites penalized and that just isn't cool to have it happen.
Are you talking about external links on OSE? OSE updates only once a month, so you might have to wait 1 or even 2 months for an update.
This may be that they do not know better or have limited resources. It doesn't matter what a competitor is doing as you can always do better.
More than often the reason is because that is the default value for their meta tags.
Meta descriptions and meta tags in general are for as you would say it "sales pitch". Meta data holds little to no weight in ranking as mentioned before.
Yes, my answer was assuming yo uare talking about meta title tag.
No problem, first time setting up can be tricky. Good luck.
This happens often because a lot of platforms that sites run don't allow you to manipulate every single page. It is sometimes automated.
However, most sites allow you to pick from pages and posts, which is usually what is most important. Best practice title tags are generally to create a good CTR. Title tags have really little to no weight on SEO.
Meta tags are more for CTR and attracting the right user.
Let's say you have evaluations of real estate, you target is not to sell real estate but to provide reviews. You would gear your meta tags towards evaluations and reviews and not buy and sell. Attracting the right user will give you better numbers and actual conversions. You don't want someone visiting your site if they have no chance of converting in the first place anyway.
Thanks for letting me know about NSFW.
Anyway I'm seeing 40/47 on OSE. Go here:
http://www.opensiteexplorer.org
And search it there. You probably made a mistake in your campaign setting, if you can't change it yourself, I'm sure SEOmoz support can help you out.
So it is showing a good DA and PA.
Let me know what your domain is.
We need the keyword and link, otherwise we will be just as clueless
Is your site new? OSE updates once a month and can take some time for it to be indexed.
I'm no expert in storage but you will have to find your niche to get publicity. You may want to provide more images because in a content perspective, your posts all have lots of text and few images. Not really appealing and hard to attract a user to text versus an image of what is being discussed.