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Hey Perry, Here is a few things to look at: 1. Your site is way slow bro!  https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.querease.com%2F&tab=desktop Try caching your WP site with a plug in.  Optimize your images. Seriously it took 20 seconds to load with a really good internet connection. That's way to slow. 2. You need more links and social to compete with other services like yours. You may want to have your experts be more active on social media, your own accounts as well. Your link profile should be clean too. Not too much spam. 3. Check out AHREFS.com and do a competitive analysis with your top competitors, see what they are doing better than you, then copy what they are doing to start. Once you get to doing this you will discover even more things you can do that your competitors have not done yet. All this will help you to rank in the future. 4. Because of your niche "ask a expert" you may want to consider youtube videos and daily motion videos that link back to the expert pages on your site. These are all no follow but you're not doing it for link juice you are doing it for authority and conversion. Hope that helps! Cheers, Erick

OK, I can't imagine that the duplicate content across the two sites is causing Google to miscategorize the page<>keyword relationship. They deal with that all the time on ecommerce sites that all share product descriptions, and typically have no problem ranking a variety of ecommerce sites for the correct keywords. Assuming there's no major duplicate content onsite, then my next thought would turn to the actual onpage targeting. EG - is the title tag stuffed or very clearly written, is there more than a few variations of the core keyword on that page in non-duplicated text, are images optimized at a basic level, etc. Perhaps try adding unique product descriptions to a handful of the pages that Google is having trouble with, and test to see whether that 'resets' how the pages are getting ranked? The other thing that comes to mind is the custom CMS - that can very easily screw up a bunch of stuff. So - this may or may not be a moot issue by February.

Hi Syed, Thanks for the question. There could be a number of reasons why you can't rank any higher in search results. One place to start is to look at the websites that rank above you and see what they have that you don't. The things I'd look for are: Are they stronger, mainstream brands or established websites who are naturally stronger than you? For example from the UK, I see websites such as Buzzfeed and Amazon ranking for this keyword. These types of competitors are going to be very hard to move above. Do they have more and better quality links than you? Radi pointed this out in his answer and Open Site Explorer can help give you an answer here. Is their content better than yours on this topic? Be honest with yourself here and see if they're doing anything better than you and see what you can learn from this. Do they have larger audiences (you can get an idea of this from their social channels or engagement such as blog comments) which means they may be generating more user signals to Google? Is their content more keyword focused than yours? You can use the Moz on-page grader here to get an idea of this. It can be hard to jump above stronger websites, but focusing on lower competition, niche keywords first is definitely the right approach. I hope that helps! Paddy

Here is the view all page I created. Each of the anchor text links will take you into each paginated page (6 in total). All 6 of these pages have a canonical tag back to view all page. Did I set that up correctly? Thanks for your insight!

Hi Marc, No worries! I hope it helps. Let us know in the thread what you do and if certain things help more than others. I am currently running some tests on articles getting ranked and how to outrank competitors for specific keywords and then seeing if those keywords actually bring revenue. Also some reputation management stuff. If you have any questions on any of that stuff feel free to message or email me. erick.at.brandsavvi.dot.com Have a great Thanksgiving! Erick

Thanks for your response. I agree that we are indexed and why when you do search for "thepowerboard.com" and or "site:thepowerboard.com" that we show up. However it is rather odd that when you search (using quotes) the title of that page that it is suppressed as explained above. Which makes us think that there may be a duplicate content issue. There is really no reason why it shouldn't be ranking in the top 10 especially with a link coming from MTV.com. There has to be either some issue with Google, and or a backend issue with the way the site is set up.

Hi Ruben, One of our staff members wondered if setting advanced Google search parameters in the Moz Bar and combining that with a GPS emulator might get you further along in the process. There are such apps for mobile devices, but I'm not sure of one for desktop. I will say, I'm more used to approaching this from a citation angle, where you are looking for the top ranked sites for specific terms in hopes of hopping aboard there, but I think what you're describing is somewhat similar. I hope these thoughts are helpful.

That depends on the tool! If you're using Moz Pro, Moz Content, or Followerwonk you'll have access until the end of the time you paid for. However, when canceling a Moz Local listing, the listing will immediately go away. For Moz Local, you can simly opt out of renewal to finish out the subscription period!

If the change was done after the crawl date it's probably that. You could try to do a fetch & submit to index on both pages and then check if the error persists. In my experience - the test from dejanseo is doing a good job. It it doesn't list an error your implementation should be ok. Dirk

So glad I could help!

It looks like Moz's SERP analysis Reports are almost entirely based on link analysis. Does that mean that this isn't very relevant in my area?

Thanks very much for your answer Dirk! Yes, I'm not totally sure this is going to work but canonical is the best solution that came to my mind... It's a difficult situation. This is why I want to be totally transparent to Google to show that I don't want to do spam, but only searching for a solution. Your idea regarding the products it's really smart, thanks! Please if somebody thinks that it exists a better solution I want to know it!

Hi, It's my understanding that using responsive design/content, and dynamically serving content, does not cause a risk for any cloaking penalties. These are all recommended ways, along with a separate mobile site, to serve content to users (see this Google Webmaster article) The most important thing is that smartphone users see all content which Google's Smartphone Googlebot will see, and that desktop users see all content which the desktop Googlebot will see (as there are different Googlebots for this). Here's a video from Matt Cutts, explaining that as long as the hiding is done for user experience rather than search engine deception, it's ok: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-hiding-content-17136.html

Just get those keywords you're trying to rank for somewhere naturally on the page - within the text, headings, alt text, etc. So long as doesn't look keyword-stuffed.

OK. So as long as I add in lots of meta tags, then I don't actually need text on the page to help Google? Meta tags + a headline + lots of good inbound links will be enough?

I'm also interested in this. I might build my own (for our clients) in case there is not API available for Moz On-Page Grader or similar tool. Are there any open source tools that do On-Page grading? In any case, it would be nice to have peek under the hood at Moz On-Page grader.

Thanks, Jeremy! I've responded back to you there.