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This really depends on a number of different factors... How many pages does your site have in total? Removing 98 pages from a site that only has 100 would be pretty drastic. If your site has thousands of pages though, that 98 really isn't a whole lot. What's the quality of these 98 removed pages? If you're cleaning out thin/weak content, then removing these is likely a very good strategy. What's the topical focus of these 98 pages? If those 98 pages are random or irrelevant compared to the focus of your brand, then removing them may create less dilution of your main content. All in all, it really depends on the purpose of removal here and where it fits in your overall strategy. Hope that helps.

Yes, there is a difference - but it is variable. If you have links pointing to a redirect which: 1) chains (redirects stringing together) 2) is not a 301 3) lands on a page with highly dissimilar content (in machine terms, think Boolean string similarity), to Google's last active ache of the redirecting URL ... then your links are likely to be nullified, or they won't help you very much Use redirects that point to (mathematically / %-wise) similar content. Use 301s, don't chain your redirects If you meet all of these conditions, then some links can continue to supply a decent amount of ranking authority, even through redirects

Thank you, I thought so but had to check))

Every other month I come back and check in but I'm glad to see that you're here

I gave a solid response here which is hugely likely to shed some light on your disavow predicament. Disavow work is a preventative measure, it is not work which you should 'expect' to raise rankings. If you didn't replace the disavowed (discredited) backlinks with decent ones, obviously you'll just go down and down

You have to understand your audience requirements and then plan to write articles in your blog in such a way that your articles solve the purpose of your customer. Always remember "Content is the king". You can get DA 25 plus without even earning backlinks, just write high-quality original content in your blog. (Disable right click throughout the site to prevent plagiarism) At the initial stage, keep your topic very narrow. Getting DA does not solve our purpose. The articles should do sales for you which should be your ultimate goal. Have promotional banners within articles to take the user to our plans page and then aim for conversion. (This varies as per your business niche)

Hi Julie, The domain authority on the pages all look good. But what matters more to the SEO impact is how related the linking page/site is to the site that they are linking to. You did not say what the target site was. But if the target site is for a musician or artist, then the spotify or creativemarket links would be more valuable than the moz link. Hope this helps,

if the domain expired, then there wouldn't be a backlink to your website (Moz's index might just be out of date for that backlink). if thats the case, no need to worry about it.

Hi! It is possible to get an indication of this by using tools like Link Explorer > Inbound links (https://analytics.moz.com/pro/link-explorer/inbound-links). Looking at the linking domain in question and then looking at the "Spam score" column, might help you see if this is good or bad for you. Best regards, Anders

Thank you for both of your answers. So from my understanding no need to worry if you have a few bad links, google will ignore those and better work on attracting good links than trying to remove those bad links, correct ?

Hello Domain Authority in Moz is Moz's own score of your site/site health and it's backlink profile. Google has its own ways of grading your site. Google is not affected by Moz's domain authority score but it my experience, a higher domain authority has correlated with higher rankings and more traffic.

HI Joe. Yes. Links still work flawlessly. And if you view page source, they look perfect. Here's a button I just made in the theme. http://starttheme2.wpengine.com/url-encoding/ If you hover over it you can see the url is perfect. But the url it's coded in the page like this: https%3A%2F%2Fmoz.com%2Fabout%2Fteam%2Fbritney-muller I'm not sure what plugin is causing this. If you want to have a look you most certainly are welcome to. https://starttheme2.wpengine.com/wp-admin/ UN: demo PW: St#rtTh#m#2018

In my experience it doesn't from an SEO perspective/DA perspective. The additional traffic will help in other ways! I hope that helps!

This is just an exemple (not really one of my clients) but lets say there is this paragraph of this web page: https://smallbusinesstaxaccountants.ca/about-us "Small Business Tax Accountants (Canada) Inc. is quickly becoming an industry leader at accounting and bookkeeping for Canadian businesses by combining the latest templated documentation with highly qualified business professionals, in a truly unique formula!" and on each of my citation and directory's description i am building, I am using this text as a description: "Small Business Tax Accountants (Canada) Inc. is quickly becoming an industry leader at accounting and bookkeeping for Canadian businesses by combining the latest templated documentation with highly qualified business professionals, in a truly unique formula!"

I agree with Will. I would stay away with these services as they can hurt you more than help you - especially down the road. My recommendation would be to look at PR services to help you get backlinks through PR outreach (not just doing e-releases).

Using link research tools I was able to find out you have approximately Backlinks 569K with only Ref Domains 1K that is not a great ratio. One of the things I think that is extremely important that you know in conducting research on your site using builtwith.com I was able to find out that you have different canonical's for three of your four possible domains https://www. https:// http://www. http:// This is something I noticed when looking at your site and has a lot to do with link equity all of your redirects are pointing to different URLs with different canonical's https://i.imgur.com/hJz4w1o.png This is an excellent tutorial on how to force HTTPS using Nginx or Apache https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/redirect-http-to-https/ if you need a lot of help with this stuff Kinsta also a very good WordPress hosting company **If your web server is running Nginx, ** server { listen 80; server_name nightwatchng.com www.nightwatchng.com; return 301 https://nightwatchng.com$request_uri; } If your web server is running Apache, RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301] You can also just use  plug-in but I recommend not using plug-ins if you don't have to this one's very lightweight https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-ssl/ you may also need to use redirect rules like this one https://www.aleydasolis.com/htaccess-redirects-generator/ https://www.aleydasolis.com/htaccess-redirects-generator/www-to-nonwww/ <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.nightwatchng.com$ RewriteRule (.*) https://nightwatchng.com/$1 [R=301,L]</ifmodule> A similar tool for nginx https://www.scalescale.com/tips/nginx/nginx-redirection-www/ Redirect non-www to www for all your domains Place this code inside your server block {}: **return 301 $scheme://$1$request_uri ;** The full example in a server block {} to: server { server_name "~^www.(.*)$" ; return 301 $scheme://$1$request_uri ; } Redirect www to non-www Redirect www to non-www for a single domain Place this code inside your server block {}: return 301 $scheme://mysite.com$request_uri; Example: server { server_name www.mysite.com; return 301 $scheme://mysite.com$request_uri; } https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/218411427-Page-Rules-Tutorial https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170536-How-do-I-redirect-all-visitors-to-HTTPS-SSL- https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/redirect-http-to-https/ Hope this helps, Tom PS (I really wish there was a way for this tool to save a draft because I just wrote a very long reply and it's gone. Either way here is a shorter version of what I had written before.) hJz4w1o.png

Hi everyone, I'm doing some bad link cleaning. And am following this nice guide: https://moz.com/blog/bad-backlink-analysis-using-moz-link-explorer And there it says that "Because we aren't concerned with nofollow links, you will want to set the "follow" filter so that we only export followed links. " So does it really mean that I don't have to worry about nofollow links, even though they would be spammy, or some weird stuff like drug perscription anchors which for sure won't help me?  Or is it better to disavow those as well? (I would assume so).

Hi there, There is a lot more to this question which probably goes outside of Q&A, but here are a few points on the links that you've shared: The blog posts don't appear to be written by real authors, they appear to be blogs that are made just to link to Results Plan, so while they may pass some link equity, I'm not sure that they are going to be seen by Google as high quality The anchor text used on all links is clearly keyword driven. This in itself isn't necessarily a big problem (the whole link profile would need looking at to assess that) but again, it implies that the blogs are built just for link building purposes The blogs don't appear to be getting much engagement such as social shares and comments which indicates that they may not get a lot of traffic, so you're also unlikely to get real traffic clicking through to the website Overall, as I said, more work would be needed to make a full assessment, but looking at these sample links, I'm not sure I'd be recommending building lots of links like this. Hope that helps. Paddy

Yes there is, especially for local SEO. Chamber of Commerce for cities are awesome links. The cities usually require a yearly fee to obtain these do-follow links.