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    • mr_w
      mr_w @irvingw last edited by

      Thankyou everyone for the input!

      Irving, I checked my sites load speed via google's page speed insights https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights#url=www.yakangler.com&mobile=false and I got a 93 out of 100 should I be using a different tool?

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      • mr_w
        mr_w @William.Lau last edited by

        Changing out domain name is not an option we are already heavily invested in the brand "yakangler", would buying a domain name with the keyword "kayakfishing" in it be worth it maybe to a 301 or park it or something?

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        • mr_w
          mr_w @UnderRugSwept last edited by

          Marisa how do I do a search in "private browsing"?

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          • UnderRugSwept
            UnderRugSwept @mr_w last edited by

            It depends on your browser. If you're in Firefox, go to Tools > Start Private Browsing. With other browsers, it'll be something similar. Perhaps in Edit or Options, ect.

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            • mr_w
              mr_w @UnderRugSwept last edited by

              Ok did the manual check ad we are on page 47 "private browsing" on Google for the United States...  Not sure why, I've never done any black hat links or anything...

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              • UnderRugSwept
                UnderRugSwept @mr_w last edited by

                I don't know if that's good news or bad news. At least if you were penalized you'd have some kind of an answer. I think your solution lies in Irving's response. Blogs are great for SEO, but left to their own devices they can wreak havoc on your site and rankings. What does your SEOmoz crawl report say? How many errors does your site have?

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                • irvingw
                  irvingw @mr_w last edited by

                  If you create a new site keep it in mind but at this point i wouldn't change it. Once you create a site you are pretty much married to the domain and even more so as time goes by.

                  I don't think incoming links are your problem, did you get a "unnatural link profile detected" email from google in webmaster tool?

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                  • irvingw
                    irvingw @mr_w last edited by

                    see what google WMT says under site performance. your homepage is REALLY hanging for me over here in NJ when i try to get to it. takes like 20 seconds before i see your homepage render - see if you have any funky tracking, social media or other types of code that can be causing this. Google is not going to show results for pages that don't load.

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                    • mr_w
                      mr_w @mr_w last edited by

                      "I don't think incoming links are your problem, did you get a "unnatural link profile detected" email from google in webmaster tool?"

                      No I didn't get any emails like that from Google

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                      • mr_w
                        mr_w @mr_w last edited by

                        Yeah it's showing some bad #'s Home page 17.9! I have a facebook like and google + buttons on the top of my home page...

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                        • mr_w
                          mr_w @mr_w last edited by

                          I have alot of errors but most of them are "blocked urls in the robots.txt"

                          Just checked again today and I'm on page 41 instead of 47... so guess that's a good thing or maybe just a fluke for today.

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                            mr_w @irvingw last edited by

                            I've made some changes my home page seems to be loading faster now

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                            • poolhall
                              poolhall last edited by

                              I would suggest nofollow/noindex your tag pages.  A search for site:www.yakangler.com tag yields 73,800 pages.  In my experience G does not like tags.

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