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Luie Chris mentIons effort is needed.  But also time and patience. Could you tell us how long the pages are online. did you submit site maps and such.

Check out this post from Rand, where he goes over most everything you need to make sure to have done to optimize your page.

Awesome Travis! Glad that worked

You've answered a question I've been searching for today so thanks Bryan. Whilst I fully understand why Google does not allow Moz to access those figures, I cannot see the value in understanding solely Bing stats - I'll end up optimising our website for Bing and it's Google we need stats for. Is the Google Keyword Planner the same as Moz's keyword difficulty tool? What's the difference and benefits? Thanks Jason

No problem. good luck

Hi There, First of all, let me clear one point- **Google supports frames and iframes but to the extent that it can. **this means, Google does not support frames and iFrames completely. However, Google is often capable of crawling iFrames on webpages if the iFrames are SEO-friendly. In fact, Google is capable of passing link juice via iFrames (read more about it here- https://www.seroundtable.com/google-iframe-link-14558.html). In my personal opinion, _**avoid ****using iFrames if you can, **_because they are not 100 percent SEs friendly. If it is required then you should take the effort to make iFrames as Google-Friendly as you can. Here are few tips for that: -You can index your iFrame trough robots.txt use Google web master tools to add the URL of the iframe source to be crawled. However, this will only index the iFrame and not the parent HTML document. So it won't score high on the Search Engine Result page. -if you have frames on the master page of your website, to ensure Google crawls the entire website, ensure that you include links to other pages within the website inside the no frames area of the master page. - ensure your main or surrounding page highlights more when it comes to search engines. It’s best not to make your main page simply a placeholder for one iFrame or even multiple iFrames. -Try to move as much info as possible from iFrames to the main page. Overall, your main page should at least describe the content within the iFrames. _- I_f you want the iframe to be indexed by google, include a link from the parent page to the iframe page. Add meta tags to the master page. However, meta tags are only a partial solution, because not all the search engines support them. Most search engine spiders will only see the master page. Just like an old browser, they don't understand the instructions on how to produce the frame layout. These are ignored, and only information within the noframes tags is read. so use noframe tags also. Apart from this, I would recommend you to read the following article as well- http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2064573/Search-Engines-and-Frames Hope this will help!

Hey, There's been a few threads on here about Updowner, but most are about folks trying to block them so they don't push up their backlinks. The good news is, G ignores them anyway. It looks like your HTML template contains code that verifies site ownership with Updowner, which might be used to block Updowner from indexing/creating hundreds of links to the site. I'm not 100% on this, but seeing as no one else has weighed in. I believe the previous site owner has verified that they're the owner of those sites with Updowner. You'd usually do this to block their robots. Excerpt included below: To register, you have to add a meta tag to your index page or you can just upload a verification file, which is easiest.  It’s just like verifying for Google Webmaster Tools. Download the 55 byte file and upload it to your site’s main directory. So, for me, it’s public_html/theseonewsblog. For you it may be www/yourdomain or public_html/yourdomain. (Some folks prefer to use the www directory. Makes no difference.) Once you’ve done that, then plug in your domain at UpDowner and verify your account. At the top of that page, there is a link that says, “Block Site,” and when you click it, UpDowner will not list your site. I’m hoping that means they’ll delete the links they’ve placed pointing to us, too, but well… time will tell. Google ignores Updowner links anyway. but if I were you I'd probably remove that code.

This technique is famously known as the toggle effect. According to Matt (in recent video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsW8E4dOtRY), It's pretty common on the web for people who want to be able to say okay click here and then show manufacturer details, show specifications, show reviews. That's a pretty normal indium at this point it's not deceptive, nobody's trying to be a manipulative. It's easy to see that this is text that's intended for users and so as long as you're doing that it should be not an issue. But certainly if you were using you know a tiny little on that users can see in there's like six pages of text area and there is not intended for users and there is keyword stuffing then that is something that Google possibly could consider hidden text. If you just doing it for users than you are in pretty good shape. Here is the ref link- http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-on-hidden-text-using-expandable-sections-youll-be-in-good-shape-167753 Hope this will help!

Hi there! My name is Erin, and I'm on the Help Team here at Moz. Thanks for writing in to Q&A! I appologize that it took us so long to respond to your initial support email! We always aim to get back to folks as soon as we can, but we've been a little slammed lately. It looks like our amazing Mozzer Alliancer Annette followed up with you on Friday afternoon, and I'll be taking this request over from here. Our engineers are currently looking in to this. I'll follow up with you via email as soon as I have more information. Cheers! Erin

Agreed with Chris that some context would help. This is a big, complex decision, and it's tough to judge link quality without seeing the links. My gut feeling is that a bunch of foreign Blogspot dofollow links probably are spammy, but there's a big difference between fixing a link-based penalty, preventing one, and just taking a hatchet to your links.

Hey Nopsts!! Those other pages could be ranking higher due to many many other factors outside of PA & DA. Did I say many enough? lol I wouldn't focus your efforts on the authority of your site or pages as this really holds no weight in the SERPS. What are the social signals for your page? Trust and value of the links coming into your page? Etc. Dont fall into the trap door of Page Rank or Page & Domain Authority. It becomes the good ol hamster wheel that we all find ourselves running REAL fast in and getting nowhere. Hope this helps!!

Hi vijayvasu, Maintaining a healthy link profile is necessary; and being proactive, like your question implies, is a great skill to exercise. Start by using Moz's link analysis tool. Export the links to an excel, remove duplicate domains, then identify from that list the domains that may be spammy (low DA/PA). You'll need to visit the site to know how spammy it is and whether or not your should proactively shun that link. Use Google's disavow tool to remove them from your link profile.

I wouldn't worry about the location of the IP too much. What's most important is that you're getting quality, value-added links to your website for your niche. This is conjecture on my part, but I say it would be more important to receive a link from a .es domain than from a website with an IP in Spain (for specifically ranking in the .es SERPs). However, unless the terms you're trying to rank for are very competitive, I would concentrate on just receiving quality links, regardless of location. I'm not sure that there would be that much incremental benefit from the IP address location.

Thanks Patrick.

A good social media campaign can really help - http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-social-media

Hey There! Think you might enjoy reading: http://blumenthals.com/blog/2014/03/18/google-maps-report-a-problem-does-it-work-for-local-spam/ Hope this helps!