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Another thought would be to look at Google Trends. I did a quick search for fence repair in the US http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=fence+repair&geo=US  and over the last several years, winter clearly has a dip in searches. Also interesting is that the southern states have more searches than the northern states in general.

Thank you for the response. I've ran two MOZ crawl reports today, one with mysite.com and one www.mysite.com. Both returned 1 result for mysite.com and www.mysite.com respectively, with a 200 status code, but no meta data. I know that I've successfully crawled www.mysite.com about a month ago with no problems. I have made small changes here and there but nothing is jumping out at me as wrong. Screaming Frog is currently crawling my site successfully about 1/10 tries. The successful tries it sees 163 Total URL Encountered (its a small site) and the other 9/10 times it shows exactly 1 URL (the one i entered) and no meta data. There doesn't seem to be any pattern when it successfully crawls and when it doesn't make it past the first page. Google WMT is currently showing No Data Available for both internal links and links to your site which is a little concerning. Everything else in WMT looks ok.

I agree that the easiest way is to build in SEO features to your submissions. Making sure that the title translates into an H1 tag, etc. One of the reasons why YouTube became such a success, pre-Google purchase, was because every time you upload a video to YouTube, you do some SEO work: tagging the video, upload a transcript (if prompted), adding a description, etc. If you make the user interface easy to do this, you'll be ahead. When it comes to complex schema data, I wouldn't worry as much. Most forum/article submissions rely on long tail traffic. Spend time optimizing the best traffic drives or the pieces that get the highest social shares, which might also work great on searches. It's okay to cherry pick the work when you don't have time to do it all.

Hmm I wasn't able to view that example with the URL you provided. What is the domain name?

So yes, Google is starting to factor in mobile user experience as one of it's many ranking factors. It is still a bit unknown how this works -- machine learning or human review? -- and exactly how much you're going to get dinged. But if you can't get the budget, then that's a different issue. You need to be making a solid business case for spending the budget to get a mobile site. You need to dive into your analytics and figure out the user experience for someone coming in on mobile. Figure out how much money you're losing because of this experience. Figure out how much potential traffic you'll get. Figure out how best to tackle the project. (Depending on your site, you might not be able to make everything mobile right away. Example, Moz's site is terrible for mobile, which we're planning on fixing. However, the blog and Moz.com marketing/resource pages are the priority. Putting our software into a mobile experience is a different project.) Best of luck!

for up to 2000 pages this is probably the best free online generator out there - https://xmlsitemapgenerator.org/ useful settings for session ids, images, filters and it does html, rss and xml at the same time

Thanks for your help. Google is so picky about link quality these days. The site has some links going out but I don't think has any coming back. I will check out the discussion you sent a link on. Thanks again.

Great to know that Moz is working on support for other countries!

Thanx Monica this will help a lot! The ovelaps are going in and today w'ere looking at the high volume, low ranking keywords, and what's the best way to optimize the landingpages and get traffic!

Everything went back to normality in GWT after 48 hours.

ok great thanks Erica ! All Best Dan

Wow... Thank you very much for the replies and time taken to look at my problem. I will take all advice on board and as Shawn advised carry on following best practice. I am really happy to get some reassurance and second opinions on some of the spammy techniques they are using and  feel sure Google will catch up eventually Thank you, James

Hi Leonie, Thanks for the response and clarifying the position for me. Much appreciated. Regards Gareth

I'd worry mostly about it becoming a duplicate content nightmare. It would be better to have a choice to buy the brand new item or a refurbished one on a single product page. Think of how Amazon lets you select different versions of a books, movie, etc., different sellers, new/used, etc., all on one page.

Its the total amount of links to a site, This would be all types of links etc. More info here - http://moz.com/help/guides/links/competitive-metrics Let me know if you want me to try to explain that better..

Hi Leonie, I will pass this up to our product team and to let them know, however it represents a pretty big project so we can only hope as time goes on we can make Roger even more awesome! If you have any other questions feel free to write into help@moz.com or use the amazing help button at the bottom right of your screen. Have a spectacular day and a zany adventure!

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