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Does he benefit from the images ranking so highly? I haven't seen many studies where image clicks result in good traffic, especially in terms of revenue if it's an e-commerce site. It seems a strange way of doing things. Are you saying the images don't match the text content of the page? The context an image is placed in can help it rank, so it seems strange that these images are ranking based on their historical context. Google reads CSS so should see that the images are hidden. Unless you're blocking Google from seeing the CSS which is now against Google's Webmaster Guidelines: https://plus.google.com/+PierreFar/posts/TLeHSDRwjhB If you're not blocking Google from the CSS, all other things being equal, then 301 redirects of the page and images could be enough, though I wouldn't be surprised if the rankings drop as from the information you've given (and assuming they're relatively competitive keywords) I'm surprised the rankings have remained for so long! The best way to preserve the image rankings would be to have the images on a page with relevant content.

Thanks guys! I used your responses to test few other keywords and the results are similar. It is really not the backlinks alone. Surprisingly, for one my tests, only quality content and keyword competitiveness did the trick as i had no backlink for the page except 2 internal links (Wikipedia). Regards

Hi There, Thanks for writing us! So I am really sorry that you are having trouble with Moz Analytics. Generally we require at least 21 days worth of data before we can create a monthly report. Also, as the previous comment stated we generally send out monthly reports at the start of the month by around the 4th. If you need a walkthrough of our new reports or would just like to have a 1:1 interaction with a customer service representative I would recommend reaching out to our team at help@moz.com. We will generally try to get back to you within 24 hours although, if things get busy that may jump up to 48 hours. Hopefully this helps and if you have any questions let me know. Have a great day!

If this not really a manual penalty then disavow will take a long time and seeing the rankings nad traffic back will take months. The reason I will suggest not to 301 to the sub category of the main site is because if it was really under the red light, it will hurt the main site as well instead of helping it. What you ideally should do is to make sure you disavow all the bad links, now create some high quality links to different part so the website and see if this help you with rankings and traffic. One you see the rankings and traffic is recovered, then if you want 301 is a safe bet. Hope this helps!

Sounds a plan. Thanks for your help bud, much appreciated.

Hi! There are some terms that you just won't be able to rank for with a single page. It might be because of the competition or google might see the keyword as not as relevant so you'll be limited. I would look at it at a case by case thing. It doesnt mean you have to create a new page each time. It's just an option and you can do tests for it if you want. If it ranks better (and faster) then you have a winner. If it's just an extra maintenance cost and doesnt give results, you might want to just scrap it altogether and redirect the url to the old, improved page that was already performing. Hope you are having a great week!

Interlinking is when pages of my site linking to other pages of my site. Interlinking scripts are usually the ones that show users a block of links, thumbs, headers or similar tings to give them related articles, videos, etc. This method not only helps with engagement and pageviews, but also does a good SEO role.

Was the previous site in the your same niche? That would explain its "stubborn" high visibility in Google.nl, because you should also consider all the not linked mentions the site may have had in its history. Hreflang surely would be of help, but sincerely I don't know how you can implement it, because it was not thought for sites targeting only one country, but for multilingual and multi-country, hence Google Webmaster Tool could see it as a mistake and won't consider it.

The usual, compile the links, disavow them If you got a manual penalty, submit a reconsideration ASAP. Find some other traffic sources for the mean time while building better links. You can also start with some other domains as backup. There's really no way to protect your site from something like that unless you have a really good brand plus a lot of great links.

What's the exact day of the drop? Normally, I wouldn't really be concerned with a drop in webmaster tool impressions especially after a bump up, but since you mentioned you lost traffic on Bing, yahoo and social, it does raise some flags. IF that happened around the final 3 days of the month, then you were affected by the update I mentioned which nobody seems to be talking about.... Anyway, did you check crawl errors on GWT? Did you crawl the site separately ? Did you see any problems with the index/noindex/etc? As for injected codes, the easy way is to load pages (that you lost traffic on) in google. Check the saved cache. If you got some injected codes, they'll show up there. There's really not much we can do but assume things. I do hope you could find the reason for the problem.

I believe that for Facebook and Twitter you can only block profanity. I agree, it is a terrible thing to have to fight negativity on SM. Some people would say try to fight the negative reviews by offering free stuff or simply publicly apologizing. I would say remove the negative comments if possible. I don't think you can remove the reviews though. The example I kind of live by is the BBB. No matter how many negative complaints you get, you can keep a good reputation and rating by resolving the problems. If the in house customer service team can't fix the issues, and they don't make it to the boss except through Social Media, maybe this will be the eye opener to get things progressing.

Hi Andrew - Great follow up questions from you! There is zero risk in creating local landing pages on your website for your new branches. It's a very good idea, but should be undertaken with the understanding that the end goal of this practice is organic rankings, not local pack rankings. Without a Google+ Local page for each location, you will not rank locally. But, you could potentially earn some organic visibility. You might like to check out: http://moz.com/blog/local-landing-pages-guide End of the day - whether you also create Google+ Local pages is, as you say, up to your judgment, based on your take on how closely the new locations align with Google's guidelines. Wishing you good luck!

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Hi there! For this kind of question you can actually contact our help team here: https://moz.com/help/contact I did take a quick look at your account and see that you have A and B grades as well and there doesn't seem to be an issue.

Sounds good, Taysir:)

Hi As far as I know there is no way to do this in webmaster tools. You can test your robots.txt file with the Robots.txt Tester - but you need to actually update the real file to block URLs from being crawled. At any rate, normally you would not block 404s from being crawled - Google with either stop crawling them on their own, or this way if they are indexed they can drop out of the index.