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Hi Rob - I am PM for MozBar - are you still experiencing issues? If so which browser and version? Also are you on MozBar 2.61

This is pretty hard to give a good answer to without knowing the site, but a significant sudden drop is usually not tied to smaller factors like page speed. Rather, they tend to be tied to low quality link building (penguin), low quality content (panda), over optimization penalties, or technical problems (look for noindex, robots.txt, nofollow, canonical issues). I know it's a bit broad but without a specific URL, I'd start looking there. Good luck! -Geoff

Um Thanks.... I'm a little confused though. Are you saying Garrett can't be beaten?

Thanks for your responses. I looked at everything using your suggestions and I just think that my wild fluctuations are real. I used the Rank Tracker tool on Keywords on my competitors for a long while now, and it shows what I felt, that starting back in April through around June 2013, Google started messing with everything. Around 45 Keywords are all over the place since then- one week they rank 50+ the next week #1, etc. Before that pretty much of a straight line. I think Moz reports are sometimes off a little, but in these cases it's pretty accurate. I've tracked in Moz Rank Tracker for a couple of years my 5 main competitors, they now are barely on any page in the top 50, and the Rank Tracker proves it. I've even done just a manual search and counted the positions - and it's fairly accurate. I just can't figure out what to do now in Google to get a consistent score and a consistent good score. All my pages grade A for the specific keywords I want, and they have always ranked for several years in the top 5. Now it's just all over the place. Just can't figure it out. Thank you for your input. I was trying several things to see if I could get a change, before I replied, but no joy.

Actually I would suggest something totally different. What platform are you on? Send a variable to the title tag that prints out the page number to the title tag. If you are on page 1 have no page number printed out. That will solve the issue. If you happen to be using Prestashop something like this would work perfect for you, http://www.presto-changeo.com/en/prestashop-modules/25-duplicate-url-redirect.html  it handles that.

There is a mozinar about this specific topic called "Online Reputation Management: Branding for SERP Domination" and the mozinar breaks it down for you step by step. here is the link http://moz.com/webinars/online-reputation-management-branding-for-serp-domination

I would say, Try: WebSEO, in addition to MOZ data. MOZ does a good job on the first half list of items you mentioned. In my part of the world, this is what I do first. On top of these data, I do my web-scraping and scripting to see what's trending in terms of social keywords. No offence, MOZ team, but we have to do this due to our very specific focus in Canadian market and domain authority tracking. | URL: | http://www.theweathernetwork.com | | TOTAL TWITTER TWEETS: | 2522 | | FACEBOOK MENTIONS: | 8872 | | GOOGLE BLOG SEARCH RESULTS: | 0 | | DELICIOUS: | 251 | | DIGG: |  - | | STUMBLEUPON: | 539 |

Hi Will, A C-block is part of the IP address of a website (xxx.xxx.CCC.xxx), for example, with my blog, the IP address is 173.248.188.141 - the c-block is 188. Usually, websites that are all hosted on the same server have the same c-block. This is a way that Google can detect link-farms, where loads of sites are set up on the same server and used to link to your website. This is why it is good to have diversity in the amount of linking c-blocks. Inevitably, you will have some identical c-block links but that's ok (and is completely natural). In terms of the links to your website, you have links from 130 root domains that are made up of 70 unique c-blocks. This ratio is perfectly fine, so don't worry. Hope this helps.

Sri, What I am saying is that this won't be a problem for you. But, I wouldn't do it unless Pinterest is really important to you.

I think AWR (http://www.advancedwebranking.com/) is the best solution for you. Obviously, it is not limited just to Yandex.

My pleasure, Partyrocks! Good luck with the work ahead.

Start off with landing pages focused on long tail keywords.  You can use those landing pages to build site reputation and traffic.  Use that as a platform for competing with the big guys.  Going head to head with them right out of the gate is a recipe for frustration. The analogy I use is that it is like always being at 3rd and 1 in American football.  You don't have to throw into the end zone, you just need to move the ball a few feet.

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I recommend you do some keyword research using the Google Keyword Tool or Planner and see what people are searching for. See how many people are searching for it with the space vs without the space. That should give you a good idea. You also need to see if you'll be able to rank without the space by checking the competition level, but also the keyword difficulty using Moz tools. There may also be other alternative formats that people are searching for that you can take advantage of. For example, maybe there's a bunch of people that aren't using the last 3 numbers? Or maybe there are a lot of people who just type in the model number without "New Balance" in front of it. Doing good keyword research will help you decide what keywords to target. You can also use Moz's SEO Beginner's Guide where they will show you all about keyword research and what to do afterwards. There is also a great post on the 3-tier keyword system, along with a video at Moz.com/academy. I highly suggest you check those out.

If I would be at your places I would have played natural. Instead of adding keywords to all the images, I would have randomly added Alt tags to images and tags would define images and not keywords! I will recommend using the same idea when building content. Just do not consider about keyword percentage in the document and make it as useful for reader as possible and you will see rankings as well as conversion ratio will increase.

Ours do the exact same thing. Keyword rankings for one of our campaigns were reported today and there were fluctuations from down more than 48 to up more than 26. One term is ranking 17 in Bing and 7 in Yahoo - and Bing dropped this week while Yahoo increased. Some terms rank on the first page for Google but not even the top 50 for Yahoo and Bing, and vice versa. And then we have the whole issue of accuracy. This morning, one of our mid-level keywords reported as position 4 in Google with an increase of 9, but I immediately checked and saw that it was 14 (not logged in, non-personalized, location-neutral, etc). This happens every week. A Moz team member looked our account and said our keywords are just highly volatile. I don't know what else to say other than you're not alone. It's frustrating.

My theory is you get what you pay for, so i only use paid tools My recent favorite is https://serps.com/. You can track a lot of keywords and domains as well as get updated ranks everyday for a pretty cheap price. They also just released some pretty neat international and local tracking options included even in the lowest priced plan. I have also compared their results with MOZ and a few others and they are always spot on and accurate. Cheers! Kyle

Hi Jarno, Thanks for your response. I build links through article on my own personal blog and I also build links through another website through free article submission.I make one article a day, with the keywords that are repeated about two-three times per article. So far I have not received any warning from Google. I am not sharing content on a different site and feel that I am not over optimizing as the article is only written once a day. Unfortunately since this is a work I am doing for a client I cannot share much information. Would it be possible for you to show me, what I can look for from the domain name and recent articles I write? I really appreciate you helping out. ThanksRegards, Debbie

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