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Hi Anton As many state below, the platform has little to do with potential SEO but rather how the site its self is setup. WordPress is just one of many means to an end. WordPress by default is great - but many things added to it such as themes, plugins, hosting packages, customization etc can really mess with it. Less is more. The more you can simplify your setup the better. This is the ultimate post on WordPress site speed I've ever seen. I definitely suggest also checking out some content I have on Moz; Setting Up WP For SEO Success Hands On WordPress Answers Mozinar (and slides are here) No site is going to rank on the first page of Google for your top keywords super quickly, without plenty of all the right signals. This includes on-page and off page such as links, social metrics and in the case of your site local SEO factors (local SEO factors here). I suggest checking out Danny Sullivan's periodic table of ranking factors for a high level look of all ranking factors. My favorite speed test of choice is WebPageTest - and your test results are here. I especially like the "Waterfall View" as it shows the performance of each element as it loads. It is showing the visible load time to the user as 2.8 seconds which is pretty quick actually One thing for example is some sort of Twitter file being called which takes over 1 second to load (3rd party social buttons are notorious for this). It may not be needed for every page, or you may be able to find a better way to do that. Anyhow, I know there's already a lot of info on this page - so hope that also helps! -Dan

Hi Anton! Great question and hope my response will help you out in the thought process... Whether EMD's are bad or good has been discussed at great length both here in Moz and elsewhere. If your website seems spammy, poor content, poor quality links, incorrect on-page optimization, etc... then your EMD would be useless against those stronger sites/brands. Another item to strongly consider is that Google wants to see more "branding" across the web since their algo's are smart enough to correlate your products and services (most of the time and will continue to improve as they evolve) to your brand/business name/personal name. In your case, your company is called Launch, and your domain is an EMD. May be fishy. May not be. That is for Google to decide as your site doesn't look spammy or poorly executed. We just will never 100% know if Google will flag it. 2. You never mentioned what keywords your website is displaying on page 2 for... If you provided that, then we could take a very quick glimpse at the competition currently outranking your site based on PA/DA, Google PR, links, content, etc. 3. I'm really liking your other domain and here's why. It has your company name and a keyword. I'd migrate what you have from edmontonweb.ca to launchwebdesign.ca immediately. Why? Because your current domain doesn't really have too high of PA/DA, you have PR 0, and you have 5 linking root domains (LRDs). A quick fix to migrate the WordPress site over to the new domain, submit your XML sitemap, set up your Analytics and Webmasters Tools and then go back into those 5 LRDs (if you can, or place a request) to change the linking domain to your launchwebdesign.ca 4. Build your links with your keywords and your branding now to the new domain and begin building authority for that. Forward the edmontonweb.ca just in case anyone has it saved to cover any potential missed leads. 5. Your DA will not transfer to the new domain, however, as mentioned before, you don't have much to worry about if you can get the new domain set up properly, move the site and change the LRDs. Then rock and roll from there as you would before to build your Launch brand! Your DA/PA will jump up relatively fast, I'd imagine. 6. I went through your site and you could begin pumping some useful, original articles into your blog as well. Google enjoys coming back to index more content. So feed the beast!! And as you do that build links to your inter pages or other blogs articles you have written over time and any authority blogs where you can reference material, stats, facts, advice, tips, etc. Hope this was a good answer and helps you out! - Patrick

To make it look good they hired a good designer and spend time and money doing CRO.  You can see in the links below the technologies behind the scenes. However produce a great website is not about the technology it's about knowing the theories about designing a website.  A professional using only Microsoft Pain as tool will do far better than some one with all the tools in the world  that only knows how to use the tool, one can master every single feature of Photoshop for example and still  make poor designs is not about knowing the tools is about knowing design. http://builtwith.com/?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.quicksprout.com%2Fthe-advanced-guide-to-seo%2F http://builtwith.com/?http%3A%2F%2Fbacklinko.com%2Flink-building

You're welcome Emily. Moz has a list of recommended companies here: http://moz.com/article/recommended

You may also find this YouMoz about recovering from a penalty helpful: http://moz.com/blog/ultimate-guide-to-google-penalty-removal It'll help us if you say if you've gotten any notices in Google Webmaster Tools, if you've submitted a reconsideration request, removed any links, disavowed any links, etc.

No problem at all. I wrote a Moz post on removing penalties a few months back. The actual article was targeted towards removing a manual penalty, but the information on gathering the data and analysing the links applies to both manual and algorithmic penalties - http://moz.com/blog/ultimate-guide-to-google-penalty-removal It's a bit of a mammoth article (sorry!) but should help you to identify which links are good / bad. Essentially, start with removing all the sitewide links. If you're affiliated with the sites and get referral traffic, you can nofollow them. Once you've done that, start looking at blog comment spam, forum profiles and article directories. If you look on OSE or Ahrefs, you could take a look at what your highest anchor text target is. You could then look at all the sites where you're targeting this particular anchor text and work to remove this first. Once you've done all that, try to build some links to your site (which are purely from commercial anchor text), but build the links naturally. Write great content about your niche, write for communities and try to write content that gives the reader some value. That way, you should get natural social shares, natural links etc which should help to lift the penalty. If you want more information on Googles guidelines, take a look here - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769?hl=en - It's pretty well laid out. Hope this helps! Lewis

Hi, this problem was resolved - thank you. I received and email today to check if it had been. I unsubscribed from Moz because the tool I thought would solve my problem was not the right one and in the end one of your community pointed me in the right direction (an Spider software) to identify all the links in the website I am editing. Cheers Hugh

Hi Gavo, If you are talking about local business citations, most of these exist on business profiles on local business directories. If you have a national/virtual business, then local business directories aren't really the right match. However, if you do have something like a corporate headquarters that accepts walk-in traffic during stated business hours and makes face-to-face contact with customers there, then you can certainly create local listings for that office. But, it sounds to me like you are describing a national/organic SEO campaign for a non-local business, in which case, citations are not the right fit for what you are doing.

i have verified with both but i have also issue

Hi Matthew, Thanks for the question. There are a lot of changes and improvements that were already rolled out with Moz Analytics. Some of the more prominent ones include: A more robust custom reporting platform A new integrated brand & mentions section that allows you to track mentions of branded terms, competitor mentions, and industry conversations. More integrated link data with link opportunities called out An expanded rankings section A new traffic-focused dashboard showing metrics and progress across your different inbound channels Matt Brown wrote a field guide to the tool soon after launch which provides some more details: http://moz.com/blog/a-field-guide-to-moz-analytics Another addition you might not know about is a new alerts feature as part of Fresh Web Explorer. This allows you to set up email alerts anytime your brand is mentioned in web content that was recently published. It's like Google Alerts, but more robust. All that said, this is a platform that we are very actively working on. A few things that are up and coming in Moz Analytics: Monthly timeframes, which will allow you to see your data broken down by month for higher-level views and comparisons. Better interfaces to gain insights now that so much keyword data is Not Provided A little further out: A new section focused on measuring the effectiveness of published content and finding ways to make your content marketing more effective. We are also focused on making improvements to some of our most popular tools, like Open Site Explorer and Fresh Web Explorer. We went through a period in which our tools were a bit stagnant while we worked to ship the Moz Analytics platform. Not that it's out, we will be shipping new capabilities and features very frequently. If you have specific features you are looking for, I encourage you to add them to our feature request forum. We try to make sure we respond to each request so you have an idea of where it lies in our current priorities. I hope that helps. Let me know if I can supply any more details. Best, Adam

Hello, Let's try to compare you with your competitor http://ocpatentlawyer.com/ Hundreds of indexed pages. Have a blog. That's a good sign Meta Tags are not optimized at all i.e Title Tags, Meta Description. That is absolutely essential Content quality is good but not optimized with keywords Around 1000 Back-links with Non Money Anchors. This is really encouraging Social Sharing is on but need to boast to significant level http://www.jafaripatentlaw.com/ Optimized Meta Tags. Really Nice! More Than 300 Indexed Pages. A blog as well. Very Nice! Content Optimized with keywords Around 1600 Back-links Remarks I am really happy with current position of your website. With proper On Page and few more quality back-links (In Compliance with Best Practices) could turn things significantly in few months Social Sharing need a push Keep on blogging. You are doing really a nice job. I hope, this will help! Regards

Hi Armin, So glad the community could help you find the best possible use of your resources by weeding out ones that wouldn't be best. Good luck!

By the way Hugh, if you think the broken link reported by Moz isn't actually there, then you can contact them about a possible glitch here: help@moz.com

Hi Tufail, Did these responses answer your question? If so, please mark one or both of them as a "good answer." Thanks! Christy

What do you remove? Just curious. What kind of things did you do to achieve the first page ranking in the first place? Is it possible that came back to haunt you? Have you been hit with a penalty for bad links pointing to your site? Have you looked at the link profile for your domains using site explorer? If you don't get a helpful response I know a place where you could find a couple thousand Internet Marketing professionals, hiring one of those would no doubt solve your problem Good luck my friend, Matthew

Hi Alex, Did any of these responses answer your question? If so, please mark one or more as a "good answer." Thanks! Christy

The challenge is similar to "How do I get a credit card with no credit". The authoritative blogs that can drive traffic you seek won't accept posts from just anybody (especially somebody without a real following). While I am sure it isn't what you want to hear the first question needs to be "How do I make connections / friends in my niche" That's easy. Same as a new job or high school - be authentic, provide value, be helpful, help them get ahead (share their stuff, make meaningful comments). Here is a great guide on the subject - http://www.viperchill.com/guest-blogging/ (providing you that link is an example of me showing a real pro some "love". I don't expect anything from him in return but I know there is a good chance that if I help him enough in enough way it might be enough to get a mention in some way or possibly a relationship, who knows) This same thing worked for my just last week. I put a link to Ana with http://www.trafficgenerationcafe.com/ on the homepage of my site and she mentioned me (AND LINKED TO MY SITE) Thanks Ana! in a post she wrote last week, sorry I don't have it in front of me. Sorry for the long message. Hopefully it was helpful. Have a great weekend! Matthew

Hi, It's a tricky one, I've looked in to this also a while ago for a site I was working on. I don't have a definitive answer but we went for another solution. Creating sitemaps and using the last_modified date element in there so hopefully Google would get when we last updated the specific pages.

Thank's this was helpful. I'll check them out.