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Feedback on different SEO Tools
MOZ has more metrics and is very detailed, but in terms of freshness and latest links recommend using href and majestic SEO. One more advantage of using href and majestic SEO is that the reports can be downloaded ASAP. Unfortunately for whatever reasons reports by MOZ take more time to download. Whitespark is especially useful in cases of US and UK citations. However for Asia and Africa specific regions, the results are not very good For lead based websites, recommend using wordpress since its free and very user friendly. For e commerce related websites, majento is highly recommended as it is more stable. Sajeet
Local Website Optimization | | SajeetNair0 -
Consistent Ranking Jumps Page 1 to Page 5 for months - help needed
Suggest going back to the basics - Generate sectional sitemaps and submit them to WMT. Check which sections are not getting indexed to the fullest 301s to the home page might be an issue in cases in which the URL numbers are lot Code clean up, use gzip compression, call all JS and CSS files externally, improve text to code ratio Implement self canonical tags along with Syndication and original source tags, this is just for hygiene purposes Check for duplicate content, see if anyone is scraping your content Check at server levels, sometimes some CMSs generate scripts that block search engine spiders at the server level If you can clean WMT HTML improvements that would be great Check if rel=next and prev tags have been implemented in case of paginated series I am assuming that all the other SEO basics are in place, no spammy on page and off page techniques. Hope this helps. Sajeet
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | SajeetNair0 -
Does Google Dislike Slideshows?
Upload slideshows on Slideshare.net Google loves the domain from what I have seen, if you have a great range of links to the Slideshare content you can have them ranking for great terms. If you upload slideshow content to your own domain it may not be as effective.
Content & Blogging | | JamesNorquay0 -
Mozscape Index Delayed? Why?
Hi all, Following up from Brad's post, just a note that the index was updated on March 11th - next update scheduled for April 8th. Cheers all, Jane
Link Explorer | | JaneCopland0 -
Some products not shown in SERP
Adrian First step, is to check that the page is indexed - which is it. So then it is a matter of ranking, which is a huge topic of course, so let me point you to some resources that have already covered how to rank; http://moz.com/blog/how-to-rank http://blog.kissmetrics.com/seo-for-ecommerce-websites/ http://blog.crazyegg.com/2013/09/12/on-site-ecommerce-seo/ http://pointblankseo.com/link-building-strategies In general if your on page grade is an A you may need to continue making the site more popular with links, social media, referral traffic etc. For example the link metrics show a fairly low DA of 35 and online 10 linking root domains.
Local Website Optimization | | evolvingSEO0 -
Having portal page that takes you to website with a different url
Appreciate your feedback. This clarifies the issues for us. The timing worked out perfectly ... so yes, your response worked for us. No doorway page. Thanks for adding the link to Matt Cutts article.
Local Website Optimization | | Manifestation0 -
Is this traffic drop do to cutting backlinks or Penguin 2.0 (Graphs attached)
Locking the question and directing people back to the earlier posts.
White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | KeriMorgret0 -
How do I change my on-page report urls?
Hi! Campaign On-Page grades are actually generated automatically for keywords ranked in the top 50 of SERPs. We take the keyword that ranked and grade it against the page it ranked for. You can always manually set up a keyword/URL combination to be graded weekly through the Add & Manage On Page Grades section. You can also use the stand alone Research Tool to run one off reports. Head over to our Help Hub for more information. Thanks! Best, Sam Moz Helpster
Other Questions | | SamWeber0 -
Upstream locations to mark a business closed that will cascade to other listings services?
Hi Scott, I am not aware of a process for what you describe, unfortunately. Obviously, you would want to make sure the info has been manually corrected at Google+ Local, Axciom, InfoGroup and Localeze, but I'm not sure even these major providers will ensure that a closed business message is replicated across the board. You've asked a really interesting question and maybe others in the community will have new feedback on this. In the meantime, I recommend you read: http://moz.com/blog/local-search-moving-locations https://support.google.com/places/answer/154102?hl=en
Local Listings | | MiriamEllis0 -
How to Target Other Countries Using TLDs?
Hi Stephane, For just one or two pages, targeting different countries, on-page content might prove to be sufficient. That is, a page about companies in X field in the UK, listing UK companies with their addresses and telephone numbers, will give Google a range of signals to indicate that that content is most relevant to people from the UK. That said, the page itself should not contain href lang information to indicate that it is for a Canadian market. If href lang information is included, it should specify the UK. If the content is sitting on a .ca domain, it will be harder to show that the UK review page is for the UK - it would be better to place this sort of information on a generic TLD website. The question of duplicate content between .com, .ca, .co.uk etc. sites is answered by geo-targeting, both using the ccTLDs and href lang tags. Google "ignores" duplicate content when the websites' tags tell it that although the content is the same, this version is for Canadians, this version is or Americans and this one over here is for Brits. Hope this helps. Cheers, Jane
Technical SEO Issues | | JaneCopland0 -
Product with two common names: A separate page for each name, or both on one page?
You can try to focus two KWs on that page, so the two you provided. It might take some trial and error to make it work but I know that it's doable.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | SoleGraphics0 -
Automated contact form submission
You can actually accomplish exactly this with a special feature of Pingdom's Uptime Tracker, Stuart. When you set up an Uptime Check for your form page, you can designate the check as a Transaction Monitor. You then use the excellent little editor wizard to create a multi-step process that will automatically fill in the fields of your form with your designated text, and then trigger the submission of the form. (Hint: use a unique email address or content submission to make downstream filtering of the submitted form and email notification easier). You can do this kind of tracking for 1 URL/form with the free account, or you could monitor several forms with the paid accounts (about $120 for up to 10 URLs). Downside is, the slowest you can set up the monitor is for once every hour, so you'll be getting a lot of emails You'll want to set up some automated email management to handle this. The upside is, you can be immediately notified by Pingdom alerts (email, SMS) if the web form is failing for any reason. You'll need to set up your own monitoring of the downstream email delivery process though to catch issues like spam blocking. (Though surely you've got a whitelist entry in place on the spam filter to ensure those form submissions get through?) In addition, if you wish, you can also set up a check that monitors an IMAP email server as well to know within a minute whether your Exchange server ins't responding correctly. Lastly, if you're using Google Analytics event tracking on that form submission, you'll need to apply an IP address filter for Pingdom's IP addresses to the Analytics profile to keep the form testing from totally screwing with your Events data. Does that sound like what you're looking for? Paul P.S. Have never tried this with a captcha-protected form - no idea how you'd handle that.
Online Marketing Tools | | ThompsonPaul0 -
Does this graph look like a Penguin 2.0 hit?
I opened the question with "Panda 2.0", where I meant "Penguin 2.0". And I didn't give the date. I'll try again in another questions. This one's confused.
White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | BobGW0 -
Anybody know of an efficient bulk webmaster email scraper for link removal?
I advise you that I won't really be able to offer you a definitive answer. More, I put this as discussion so to entice people in offering their ideas and so trying to help you and the community. Sincerely, I don't know if exists a "definitive" tool doing what you're asking. Did you try Rmoov? Or the SEOGadget Link Cleanup & Contact tool? Or the same LinkDetox, which has a good contact retrieval tool inside its links analysis one? Another good tool is Linkrisk.
Online Marketing Tools | | gfiorelli10 -
Proactively Use GWT Removal Tool?
*Disavow, that's what I meant to say. Alright, thanks for your insights! I appreciate it. Ruben
Search Engine Trends | | KempRugeLawGroup0 -
Dynamic Number Insertion (DNI)
We use If By Phone quite extensively and have always had a positive experience with them.
Paid Search Marketing | | SEO5Team0