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Hi Erin. Thanks for the help. Cheers, Maciel

I believe you're asking that if you have backlinks created that include your specific keyword in the anchor text, will it be beneficial to your SERPs ranking? Yes and no. You want to have backlinks created naturally and not force backlinks all into a specific anchor text. Concentrate on writing value-added, high quality content about the keyword you're targeting. Then spread that article around to outlets and try to get other sites to talk about your article. I.e. you do an in-depth write up on a specific topic that includes detailed examples and lots of content that people can refer too - they in turn write their own posts and sometimes cite your awesome examples and info - now you have high quality backlinks on the topic you're targeting.

What Semalt is doing is also known as "referral spam." Here is more information from the Google Product Forums, including how to block Semalt...however, don't go to Semalt's site and try to do it with their tool, block them via your .htaccess file https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/VdmF4xDYnDE My favorite line is "The company is engaged in old school stupid customer acquisition techniques (referrer spam).  As to their links from their site, they belong to a class of links that I call fungus (automated crap).  As to the referrer traffic, it is crap traffic that is meaningless to you.  If you can isolate the IP addresses used by the company, block them via .htaccess (but beware that they may spoof their IP address and you don't want to block a legitimate IP range)" The thread contains instructions for adding code to your .htaccess file that will block them. Hope that helps!

When did you get the email, and who is it from? We haven't used the seomoz.org domain since May, 2013. [edit] I searched my records, and this appears to be a promotion that was done in 2012 and is likely no longer valid, and was valid for new users only. I'm contacting the right people at Moz to make sure this is removed on our end to prevent further confusion. Thanks for pointing it out!

Hi JDM, Thanks for reaching out! My name is Erin, and I'm on the Moz Help Team. SilverDoor had some good advice. Can you email us at help@moz.com and let us know which campaign(s) you're experiencing GA issues with? We can help you troubleshoot this from there. I hope this helps, and we look forward to seeing your email! Cheers, Erin

Thank you. Our server is fast, hosted in OVH France and we use MaxCDN. Using Magento we can achieve a very low TTFB and load time of around 180ms. We rank better for our kws in France than we do in other European countries although our site is not in French. Any ideas where I can find a map of european connectivity and hosting companies? Thanks for your help, I think that we are heading in the right direction!

I'd agree, it's hard work! But, that's why we get paid a nice salary, to figure out those difficult problems. If you have an idea of the Customer Lifetime Value, for that country, you can get some decent estimates from the expected increase in traffic when targeting that country specifically.

I experienced a similar issue recently with a client. A few 904 errors seemed to coincide with a notice in the client's 3d cart CMS that they were short on bandwidth. We also saw a VERY significant drop in rankings across the board. We upgraded the hosting plan and the 904 errors went away temporarily, and a very modest improvement in rankings followed, but not a return to normal. It's now about 2-3 months after we first saw the 904 errors and I've just noticed another one that has come up.

thanks for your kind advice. I will try to follow up your suggestions~ thanks

1. If your contacts know you enough (you know them personally or they have opt in to your newslettet) you can send them a newsletter type email (with some regular content) and link to yoour facebook to join. This will work if they see your name and recall "yes, I know this enitity" 2. If you are not that close to your contacts, use your email list as remarketing list and advertise on facebook to show your advt (which will ask them to like your facebook page). Even though it is paid, it can be very effective. Not many people realize that their email list has lot of throw away email addresses, email to which no one reads. With this solution atleast you are paying for ads only when your audience engages.

Hi Mason, You can use call to actions on your page, even use hellobar.com, etc - then locate all these engagers using circloscope and ask them if it be ok to give you a +1 for the link you will mention in the message. I'm not sure if that is what you meant but I hope it helps.

Hey Matt, Thanks for writing in and sorry for the confusion! What you are describing is actually a known bug that our engineers are working to correct already. We don't currently have an eta for when the main campaign overview dashboard will display the quick snapshot of data correctly, so thank you for bearing with us while we work to resolve this. As for asking for support or reporting bugs, you can always send them directly to our Help Team at help@moz.com. Please let me know if I can help you with anything else. Chiaryn Help Team Ninja

ah , my bad. I would think that any attempt of that sort would constitute a copyright /image licensing infringement.

Here is what I use in the PHP files for pages and posts on my Wordpress sites: class="entry-title post-title">Name of Website Page Note: I don't think I've ever seen someone put the page title in the header file. You may want to move it to the template files for posts/pages. In your case, though, it may work just to put an H1 tag at the beginning and end of the whole thing: <title><br /><?php<br />// Generate Page Title dynamically<br />if (is_home()) {<br />  bloginfo('name'); ?> - <?php bloginfo('description');<br />} elseif (is_category()) {<br />  single_cat_title(); ?> - <?php bloginfo('name');<br />} elseif (is_single()) {<br />  single_post_title();<br />} elseif (is_page()) {<br />  bloginfo('name'); ?>: <?php single_post_title();<br />} elseif (is_404()) {<br />  bloginfo('name'); ?> - <?php _e("Page not found", "fungames");<br />} elseif (is_search()) {<br />   bloginfo('name'); ?> - <?php _e("Search results for", "fungames"); echo esc_html($s, 1);<br />}<br />?><br /></title> I hope this may help -- good luck!

Let's look at one of the pages ranking higher than yours: http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/bankholidays.html This site has a DA of 74 as compared to yours with a DA of 18. I would look at the on page and the off page optimization efforts for all the non .gov sites as they are the best ones you have a chance of beating in the rankings. Hope this helps.

Hi Samuel, Thank you for the detailed answer. A couple of things; My two "L" typo is just as written here... not on the site. Sorry about that. On the use of the url parameters indexed, those are used internally, but they're set in GWT as having no effect and to only look at the representative url,.. everything before the question mark. On your point about rel canonicals, one way we use them is in a category pages which are long lists of other pages. In that case it looks at page one of the long list as the canonical. With that in mind, along with all the duplicate stuff in the index (paginated page #s, ignored url parameters), what would you suggest I change? Thanks... Darcy

Hi Nick, I do not think you have that bad of a problem if google is showing 23,000 pages even though you have only submitted 1155 pages. How are you getting the 23,000 number? Try using the site operator search for  "site:domain.com" in google (if you have not already) This will show you all of your pages that are indexed. As long as you are working on fixing your errors and making sure you have no dupe content by unsing canonical tags, removing all the page that have thin content OR adding content to pages with little to no content you are going to be in good shape. In regards to your comment about googles webmasters tools. I have a lot of sites in GWMT where I add both www and none www even though I have a 301 redirect with htaccess.  It will not effect you if you add the none www one back (if you deleted it) as that one has data and the one you have just added will not have data in it for a while. Best, Cibble.

Hi there! Thanks for reaching out. My name is Erin, and I'm on the Moz Help Team. Sorry to hear you're having trouble with your GA connection! We can totally help you troubleshoot this. Can you email us at help@moz.com and let us know which campaign(s) is having this issue? We'll go from there. I hope that helps, and we look forward to seeing your email! Cheers, Erin

I just wanted to point out a few issues I saw right away; Internal linking might be playing a roll. The site is not linking to these hacks pages right from the homepage, it is down a second level via the "download hacks" link. Yet the forum is being linked to universally across the main navigation. In fact the forum comes on top for most internal links --> http://screencast.com/t/MYjf3dNzZGE Bear in mind Google will treat privacy pages and sitemap internal links differently, because they know these are standard pages linked to universally, so you don't need to go removing links to those - but you should think about overall site architecture in relation to your content pages. The top YouTube video won't play - it says: "This Video has Been Removed as a Violation of YouTube's policy against spam, scams, and commercially deceptive content". That can't be good for the pages quality score. All comments below are unanswered. This is your opportunity to engage with visitors, show some extra and helpful content etc - I would respond to some of the commenting. I see 225,000 pages indexed on the entire root domain. Is there really this many pages with actual content that people are looking at and using on a regular basis? Maybe it's a good idea to do a content audit on the site and remove or consolidate low quality and/or extra pages. I am not familiar with this industry and type of site - but Google seems to be trying to rank forum pages for other domains as well - and only a few "landing pages" - as these landing pages just try to get the visitor to register, only only after they register can they get access to the content. Google is reluctant to rank pages in which the user can not easily complete the desired action on that page. Maybe this industry is out of that norm? Make sure you are not blocking CSS and JS from being crawled in robots.txt - http://www.ilikecheats.com/robots.txt - there's a lot of stuff in your file there, and Google now prefers to crawl these files, so I would check you're not blocking that. Use the new fetch and render tool in webmaster tools. You've got an infinite crawl loop happening --> http://screencast.com/t/hNekO6fx3A - I found this with screaming frog SEO spider. Something you'll definitely want to resolve. Lots of pages link internally via 301 redirects, which can also hurt crawl efficiency Did you intend to make this page a "post" and not a "page"? http://www.ilikecheats.com/01/rust-cheats-hacks-aimbot/ - see my video about the differences - either way you should be updating this page, and fixing issues as they arise to make sure users are happily finding what they need on it. Is doesn't seem like there is any one silver bullet thing to fix, but it seems like Google might be having trouble figuring out which page to rank for certain queries - so perhaps the architecture, keyword targeting etc is not clear enough. I also suspect the forum may be more trusted and authoritative due to user metrics. It's likely users are visiting the forum more often, staying longer and engaging due to the nature of the forum. But you can certainly help Google out by clarifying the site structure and page targeting a bit better.