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The study was looking at the correlation between the amount of HTML and higher Google rankings. Although I don't believe it's an actual ranking factor, we typically find a small but positive correlation with longer content pieces. The simple explanation being that longer content has more "stuff" to rank for, and there's a corresponding correlation to longer content and links earned, which also helps with rankings.

Thanks for the hints re the robots, will tidy that up.

Currently the forum is holding the top 2 positions. Awesome point to make that they will only give rankings to one or two spots, and that creating a new thread might replace one of those positions. As a follow up, I've reached out to the forum to discuss sponsorship opportunities. We have already positively responded to the negative thread so the only opportunity now is to move forward and create a more positive presence within the forum. I've thought about creating a thread for exact match 'xyz reviews' and within that forum letting the community give their feedback on the product and how it might be improved in the future. Then create that content piece you guys have mentioned on how we can improve. Maybe taking the Buffer transparency rule here and creating content that says along the lines of here's how we failed you and how that has made us better.

HI Pamela Dmitrii is correct. Our listings are $84 or £84 per location per year. Can you show me a screenshot of where you see $50? If you are finding it from an older articles, we did originally price local at $49 before October of 2014.

Great, thanks for help

Those discrepancies would not concern me, but there are some differences between all the things you list: Total indexed: 2,360 Search Console - this is likely a reasonably accurate list of the number of pages you have indexed in Google. You could use a tool like URL Profiler to check index status of specific URLs. About 2,920 results Google search "site:example.com" - site: search is less accurate and will likely return a different number each time you do it, even if it's just moments apart. Sitemap: 1,229 URLs: these are URLs you added to a sitemap because they are priority pages you want to make sure Google has indexed and hopefully ranked. You control this number. Screaming Frog Spider: 1,352 URLs - Screaming Frog is going to start on your homepage and crawl the site attempting to discover as many URLs as possible. If you are not linking to a page, SF won't be able to crawl it. Google on the other hand may have old pages, old URL structures or pages that were linked from an external website in their index and they won't forget them. A really important question is: how many pages do you have that you want to be indexed? Is Google's index bloated with pages that you want to keep out? Figure these things out, and then try to adjust your sitemaps, noindex, robots.txt as needed.

We have used Rank Tracker for a good while now and find it to do its job very well. I think they do a free version but the paid version allows to you save reports and brand them so you can send them to your clients etc. Worth a look - http://www.link-assistant.com/rank-tracker/

Thanks, guys, for confirming my thoughts on this! I shall surely change those links and make something more useful out of them. Regards Nico

That's right. If the design hides content but there's a proper button to expand it (and legible for spiders) you don't worry at all. If you are trying to hide content on purpose, yes, might be penalized.

Antonio is absolutely correct - in the 10th line of your homepage's code is a no-index tag. To elaborate more on his second point, the reason the page: _kaya3976.com.au/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php  _is the only one being shown, is because Google sees that there's a website, but can't actually index any visitor-intended pages - and is therefore showing your WP Login page. You definitely want that to be resolved ASAP, but I would make absolutely sure with whomever's been developing the site that there isn't a reason it's de-indexed currently.

Hi there. _ I don't feel comfortable doing it this way as it goes against what I believe is good SEO_ Not true at all. Good SEO is exactly about this - good related content. In your case it's a little difficult, since it's international company and all. But the thing is that simply having local listings will not make you rank for local results, unless your brand is directly associated with the keyphrase you're trying to rank for. I would recommend to have not just 1 contact page per location and that's it, but have somewhat unique content for each location (or at least each major area).

Uhm.. If you got hit by penalty, just re-indexing the website without any content/backlink profile changes will not do anything. To recover from penalty, you would need to find out what penalty it was, then change a lot of stuff on your website. If you decide to dump old website whatsoever and build new one, don't redirect the old one to new, since, if there was a penalty, associating with old website is not a good idea. There are several articles on MOZ about recovering, read them all https://moz.com/ugc/from-disaster-to-triumph-how-to-recover-from-an-algorithmic-penalty https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=moz%20recovering%20from%20penalty

I would recommend sticking to nofollow for company profile Social Media links. Aside from that, I would suggest using dofollow for your own Social Media links, that's if you have any. May they be sitewide or individual links on a contact page. However, it's not going to make much of an impact to your site!

I hate to say it—and maybe John will have some suggestions and prove me wrong—but it's exceedingly difficult to suggest keywords from outside the business. There's a lot to consider when choosing keywords including your (or your client's) business goals, products, and market, among others. You'll probably have to do some keyword research yourself. John shared the chapter on keyword research from out Beginner's Guide to SEO and I shared "Keywords to Concepts." I'd also recommend checking out this webinar on using your Moz Pro subscription for keyword research. A bit has changed in the app, but the advice still hold true. Otherwise, I'd recommend Google's Keyword Planner—it requires an AdWords account, but you don't have to be actively advertising—and Übersuggest as good tools for getting started. Good luck!

Ok, now I get it Here: https://developers.google.com/structured-data/slsb-overview Basically, it requires some schema mark up and a little extra work. However, don't expect it to work immediately. It will take time - up to couple months.

You do seem really worried about this. Sooooo, to set any fears you have over connecting with Moz aside, I decided to go straight to the horses mouth..... well a helpful support LiveChat agent with the Google Analytics team who then emailed me this answer.... Hi Tim, I hope you are well. Just FYI with regards to third party apps and GA, we allow 3rd party integration with GA API so this should be no problem! Hope this helps! Kate In other words - It is safe to do!

That's right it depends on goals. If it's a single service / single product website targeting only one main keyword/topic, one page might be OK. I would definitely check out the article linked to!