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A popular (and free!) tool (for up to 10 questions I believe) is SurveyMonkey. I have created a Pinterest board with some pretty helpful conversion optimization resources on it if you're interested.

You can use Google Webmaster Tools if you do not have Screaming Frog. It will show you where the link is linked from and how long it has been reporting a 404.

You can delete campaigns from http://analytics.moz.com/manage-campaigns.

SamuelScott is 100% right, I only wanted to add, that we should stop thinking about the anchor. It is allways manipulation in the room, when we think about anchor. Thats my opinion.

Hi I thought that there was a good chance that you had been hit by Panda at some point as your site content was so thin and the little content you have could be even considered over-optimised purely there to rank for a term in the search engines. Every time Google brings out an update there are changes to how it looks at sites and even though you haven't been doing anything to yours it could have triggered a penalty as it matched the relevant criteria of the that specific algorithm update. Have a read of these two resources I think you will find them interesting - http://marketingland.com/panda-4-1-changes-content-performance-strategy-103850 and http://www.hmtweb.com/marketing-blog/panda-4-1-analysis/ Don't forget Moz's Google Update History - http://moz.com/google-algorithm-change In terms of your site and how to fix it I would stick with what I suggested originally and make sure you start building a great information resource for visitors - then more will come! Focus on really beefing up that copy on each of your pages. Also consider employing some form of review system and encourage visitors to review the different places hotels, restaurants, etc. Also make sure that you have submitted your XML sitemap URL to Google Webmaster Tools - plugins such as Yoast SEO will automatically update your sitemap when new content is added. Remember Googles aim is to serve the most relevant content for a search term whilst also providing the best user experience. Again I hope this helps

I'd recommend you run some A/B tests. In our experience with site revamps, it's best to ensure your visitors are happy first, whcih you can measure using conversion rates. If you notice a big dip in conversions, something may be broken which could then have a knock-on effect with your rankings. From a massive revamp we recently did to make things responsive (1.5M pges) we noticed an increase in most of our rankings. But just remember - treat google as a mobile user, so if  you start simple and progressively add more content via ajax as the screen size increases, remember google may not pick these up, it will see your 'simplest' page, so make sure you don't remove any important on-page factors.

I believe he is talking about Breadcrumbs - not sitelinks. To get your breadcrumb rich snippets displaying in the SERPs they must use the appropriate micro data markup. Some examples on how to implement this can be found here: http://builtvisible.com/micro-data-schema-org-guide-generating-rich-snippets/#breadcrumb And here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/185417?hl=en Until recently, these breadcrumb links were clickable from the SERPs but like a lot of things in SEO, this was exploited to do things that it wasn't intended to do so Google removed this feature. You can read about clickable breadcrumb links being removed and why, here : https://www.seroundtable.com/google-breadcrumb-snippets-drop-hyperlink-19595.html

Hi Steve Having unique content for each product page is a must! I guess sofa beds are individually unique to a degree in terms of brand, size, functionality, design etc. If you could elaborate about what it is exactly you are trying to do, I'll try to help? Gary

My developer claims that this is a common — and natural — occurrence when using WordPress WordPress does tend to create duplicate pages. However, they can be easily managed/prevented. and that there's not a duplicate content issue to worry about. Is this true? You definitely need to worry about duplicate content - especially when there are auto-generated pages, category pages, author pages, and tag pages. In your site the /authors/fear URL has "http://www.quotery.com/topics/fear/" set as the canonical URL. So, the developer did add a correct canonical setting to try and prevent duplicate content issues. However, a canonical setting is only a suggestion for the search engines and they do not necessarily adhere to the settings. Therefore, since the pages seem identical, I suggest noindexing the /authors/fear page.

Looking at a screenshot of a website is a very poor way to determine content quality.

You're much too kind Happy New Year!

Thank you guys! I did it with the Yoast Plugin, works perfectly!

Thanks Marie!

I appreciate it if people tell me when I am on the wrong path.

Hi Bertrand13, Unfortunately, from Page Authority alone, we cannot determine if a page has been penalized by G. The page could be new, thin content, doesn't have many links pointing to it, hosted on a new domain, ect. You're on the right track for auditing the PR services. When pages, such as the one you've identified, are found the next step is to do a manual review of the page. When visited, is the page: Very spammy Little to no content Bombarded with comment spam Includes a ton of external links Completely unrelated to your niche Stuffed with keywords If so, then I would say you want to disavow that link and ask why/how your PR firm acquired the link.

I agree with Miriam and Ray. Additionally it does depend on the query/industry. For instance "indy plumbers" does pull a 3 pack, so Google does realize I was searching for Indianapolis. But in your industry I'd search to be sure a local pack comes up. I'd include the full city spelled out in all the relevant SEO places on your site though to help you rank for the majority of searches that will include full city name. But with Indy as part of your business name and URL you should find it fairly easy to rank for Indy searches, though the search volume will likely be less.

Open Site Explorer can show you if your site has sitewide backlinks, but I would not rely only on OSE for a link analysis of that kind, because the total amount of URLs its crawls in not the biggest one around. As Ray-pp you can use also other tools like Ahrefs or Majestic SEO (or Cognitive SEO, which is particularly effective when it comes to link analysis), but I would always start from the "incoming links" page of Google Webmaster Tools. To answer to your first question (how to detect sitewide links): sitewide links are very easy to detect. If you see that a domain is linking to yours with hundreds or even thousands backlinks, that is because they are sitewide links, or - classifying them - a single link published in a website element that repeated as it in every page of a site (i.e.: footer, sidebar, header). In the specific case of your sites, the interlinking due to the "flag" menu is a classic. Normally they should not represent a problem, because Google recognizes they are systemic to certain kind of web design for multi-country or multilingual websites. On the other hand, though, Matt Cutts once suggested that a better solution would be creating a country selector page reachable via internal linking from the header or the footer, so to avoid the creation of an always increasing number of sitewide sitelinks.

Hi  ImprezzioMarketing, I suggest adding localization to the URL structure of the blog and removing the keyword stuffing from the titles and such. For example: www.domain.com/chicago-plumbers/title-of-the-blog-post With the above structure, every post listed in the local are would include localization in the URL and not require him to stuff the keywords into the other areas. You'd still want to try and localize the content as much as possible. E.g. talk about specific jobs successfully executed in the Chicago area. Also, try and consider the human readability of the keywords. Would you search for "plumbers chicago?" I bet more people search for "chicago plumbers" instead. Google adjusted to understand 'tags' in blogs and discount those links. I do not put much weight into tags, they are more used for UI/UX and allow for visitors to quickly find content related to the current content they are viewing / search the site easily. As with most SEO strategies, make sure to diversify as appropriate.

For more competitive keywords it's quite hard to rank with forum posts. I am running some quite successful forums and all the traffic I get is from long tail keyword searches. Basically, you have to do the same optimizing as for other websites. Are you talking about a specific forum post or forum posts in general?

Hi Leonie, Thanks for your answer. I am indeed dutch so this will help a lot! groeten