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  • Our hearts are with you and the whole city/region. Glad to hear the outage is shorter than expected, and certainly let us know if we can help more.

    | randfish
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  • With OpenSiteExplorer, you can check all the internal links to a specific URL. Just put in the URL and under Link Source choose the option "Only internal". Good luck! wVI037C

    | RobertvanHeerde
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  • Thanks for your help David - I apologize for my delayed response.

    | dkeipper
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  • Have you tried MozBar? Adding this (free) browser extension from Moz, then heading to Google.com to perform a search query may be all you need if I'm not mistaken. After downloading and enabling MozBar, head to google.com, search for your keyword and change your Search Profile to target a specific search engine, country, region, and even city. Additionally, I highly recommend Keyword Explorer from Moz for much more in-depth keyword research. Best of luck! Zack

    | BartonInteractive
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  • PM replied Just to keep others in the loop (without giving away too much information), it appears that newsworthy and non-newsworthy articles on the site are not currently separated in any way. For example, sitename.com/articles contains a mix of blog and news articles, which will prevent it from being accepted in Google News because Google News wants only newsworthy content. I suggested coming up with a way to separate these news articles from the /articles page and only submit that URL to Google News - eg. sitename.com/news All articles (news and blog articles) could still appear on the /articles page, but the news articles need to be isolated, somehow. It's a great site and I don't think there will be any issues being accepted in Google News once the news articles can be separated from the non-newsworthy articles. All the best with it and I'd love to hear how you go! Cheers, David

    | davebuts
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  • I'm in the process of adding new content. Yes, you're correct we need to work getting quality new links. Thanks for the advice on the drop down menu.

    | AaronRainsSEO
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  • 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

    | Andy-Halliday
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  • Thank you so much!  I may have glanced at these before I really understood what I was doing or what they meant. I get it now.  I had assumed I couldn't access the title tags, etc.  This shows me how. Much appreciated! Sharon

    | Sharon2016
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  • Hi there. I have tried some of the "coupon" websites, which say that they have working coupons for facebook. None of them work. As far as i know, If you signup for adwords, you can get a coupon for like $25 or so, but anything besides that is on personal basis, meaning that you have to spend money with FB ads, and then, maybe, they gonna send you a coupon. Other than that - you might follow official FB groups, they rarely give away some coupons. P.S. FB advertising is awesome for most B2C businesses and products, especially if your audience is quite large. See these posts for some case studies - https://moz.com/blog/10-things-ive-learned-while-learning-facebook-ads and https://moz.com/blog/1-dollar-per-day-on-facebook-ads Hope this helps

    | DmitriiK
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  • Hi Gopi, What you're looking for is the Google Search Console API: https://developers.google.com/webmaster-tools/Once installed it will save the data also after the 90 days. So like Gaston mentions it is not possible to get older data but once you have this API running it will give you the data in the future from the moment it is installed. Good luck! Tymen

    | Tymen
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  • Hi Rachel! That was a pretty long reply, but if it helped, well worth the time. Best of luck in your efforts!

    | MiriamEllis
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  • In  Addition to Andy list there is another one Called SE Ranking which is quite useful and affordable for small comapings.

    | Mustansar
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  • Hi, You should find your answer in this link: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/enhanced-ecommerce#overview But essentially you will have to use something like: ga('ec:addImpression',{            // Provide product details in an impressionFieldObject.   'id':'P12345',                   // Product ID (string).   'name':'Android Warhol T-Shirt',// Product name (string). **'category':'Apparel/T-Shirts',   // Product category (string).**   'brand':'Google',                // Product brand (string).   'variant':'Black',               // Product variant (string).   'list':'Search Results',         // Product list (string).   'position':1,                    // Product position (number).   'dimension1':'Member'            // Custom dimension (string).}); But you need to specify the Field Object in the top line. Read the link I sent you and should be all self explanatory. I hope this helps Issa

    | iQi
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  • Nice new article on the subject, with input from none other than our very own Dr. Pete! Should You Worry About Voice Search? via Entrepreneur

    | MattRoney
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  • hey, sorry just catching up on these after a busy week! I figured i would start with having someone write unique content for me for the top 100. and for the rest find someone really inexpensive to go out and copy information This plan is perfectly fine until the words "copy information" If you're copy/pasting content from other sites then you're really going to hurt your potential to rank. Rather than doing this, my suggestion would be to either put that budget you were going to spend on copy/pasting into having that person write more pages, OR have the second person use the first writer's first 100 as a reference point for how the other pages should read then write them for you. Since duplicate content will essentially be ignored, you're better off with no content than a site full of duplicates - at least the no content option is free! maybe use an online tool that modify's some of the words This is what we refer to as "content spinning" and is an old tactic that no longer works. Even if the content is spun enough to be seen as unique, it will be so unreadable that you'll suffer for low quality content instead. if they grab the descriptions from a 3-5 sites, then maybe google wont consider it duplicate content. This won't actually help you either. Search engines aren't looking for completely duplicated websites, they're looking for duplicate content. Even if your content came from a mix of 1000 different websites, it would still be seen as duplication. Overtime if i have success with the top 100, i will add another 100 or so every month. Nothing wrong with that at all. When it comes to SEO you basically have 2 choices. Either cheat the system and likely see great gains for a short period of time (black hat) or you can focus on offering excellent, unique value and an experience that users want to return for (white hat). Content spinning & copy/pasting from multiple websites definitely falls under the "cheat the system" category.

    | ChrisAshton
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  • Donald, you are exactly right.  If you optimize for Google you automatically get at least some benefit on other search engines. Imagine if another search engine gave explicit instructions for optimizaiton.  How much would they differ  from what you already do for Google.  Probably not much, is my guess. Yesterday one of my sites received 187 visits from duckduckgo.com.  That was about 0.2% of my traffic.  I didn't do a thing to get that traffic.  It fell from the sky.

    | EGOL
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  • Thanks a lot for your response ! Much appreciated.

    | Starcom_Search
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