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Its a stack of pages that follow one another down a page.  It looks like a really long home page, but there are 6 pages in my stack. You can link directly to a page and it will appear only as that page e.g. if you want to go to my rafting page. http://www.southernwhitewater.com/rafting But if you went to my home page you will see that page appear as you scroll down  http://www.southernwhitewater.com So that is what I call and index stack other people might call it and index.  Very modern sites are going this way as it suits phones and tablets as you don't have to keep opening and closing slow loading pages on your device. http://www.southernwhitewater.com

We find with the vast majority of our client's websites it takes a little while for Google to notice you. Give it a bit of time and I'm sure you'll start seeing your brand name up there. And as pointed out above, get some high quality links pointing at your sites and you'll start to see some improvements.

Thanks!  Yes, I'm talking about "referring domain counts". That's what I was thinking. After looking at link building strategy and individual links, nothing else makes much sense. I've included the graph, just to confirm. I was referring to the top two lines. zhe37im.png

First try to contact the web development people over at that place and ask to remove that link (they might have been hacked or something). If there is no response, than yes - disavow. If it continues - then you can report them through Google.

Personally, I'd still recommend using robots.txt to disallow all crawlers, even if more steps are taken.

Hello, there. I'll try to explain in short. MozTrust - is WHO links to you. DA - is how MANY link to you = popularity. TrustFlow of Majestic is very similar to MozTrust, but since it's two different companies and two different algorithms - here you get the difference in result. Now, why these metrics don't match the SERPS. SERPS depend on many things - far not just DA or Trust. Mainly is on keywords. So, if you have very specific service/product and you are trying to rank for whole bunch of longtail keyphrases, but at the same time dont have any links - you will still rank in top 20 for whatever many phrases. Example: you can make any website rank for "super awesome blue and red cat sitting on a stainless steel shelf" and so on. So, if you have whole bunch of pages, optimized for such keyphrases - you will be ranking in top 20 for whole bunch of keywords. However, it doesn't mean whatsoever that you are not spammer (therefore Trust metric will be low) and you can have vurtially no links (therefore low DA). And the reverse way. If you have high DA/Trust, but trying to rank for very competitive phrase - you won't be able to (or at least the  chances are low). Additionally, high DA doesn't always go with high Trust, it's much better after Penguin update, but still, if Google hasn't caught you as spammer, you'll have high DA, but since the links are coming from low trust websites - your trust metric will be low. Hope this make sense and helps.

Hello, my friend. "Password"? I assume you mean keyphrase/keyword. Well, first of all, the keywords you're talking about are not difficult And yes, if you use "in" it won't matter. In fact, go for natural word flow, since it's better for UX, and that's what google likes. Additionally, you don't have to use the whole keyphrase in H-tags. If possible - sure, if not - just do it in content naturally. Google has very-very sophisticated AI, so no worries, they will understand what page is about. Just don't go overboard with keyword stuffing.

Matthew, this is a great article with great data.  Kind of confirms what I was thinking but a great way to show it to the client. Very much appreciated.

No problem at all -Andy

Hi there! While our index is rather large, it is by no means inclusive of every link on the web. We're continuously working to increase the scope of our index, which means that you could start to see more links included than before. Also, rather than a sheer volume change in our index, it could be related to the types of sites that we're looking at for a newer index update. Unfortunately, we don't have the ability to report when a link was discovered by the index (other than in 'Just-Discovered Links' as Dmitrii mentioned above). It's certainly something we'd like to be able to accommodate for the future, but those changes would be a ways down the road. With respect to a percentage increase, I don't believe it's displayed anywhere within the app, but you could find the value for that increase by dividing the new number of links (1130) by the original number of links (1130-875) and then multiplying by 100. I hope this helps!

Will do, thanks.

I think VERB answered it pretty much  but as an alternative you could click / bookmark - https://moz.com/community/q/my-questions

I've heard theories that Google doesn't like you changing your page title too much, but I've never seen that substantiated. So, I recommend testing this for yourself: **Paid option: **For brand searches during the holidays, run an AdWords Search ad that uses a seasonal message. Compare the metrics of the seasonal messaging vs the metrics of the ad for the rest of the year to see what searchers are more likely to click on. This will tell you searchers' preferences, although it won't tell you Google's reaction to you changing homepage content. Unpaid Option: Identify the non-seasonal vs seasonal keywords that you'd like your homepage to rank for. Start tracking them in a tool like Moz. (I don't think that just changing the page title will drastically change rankings, but you want to be sure.) Change your page title, and have Google recrawl your page immediately using Fetch as Google. I've been able to get new page titles up within an hour that way. Keep the page title up for the shortest time span you can to get a significant amount of traffic. Ideally, you'd get enough traffic each day that a day's worth of traffic is fairly predictable, so a change in the page title will show an obvious spike or drop in traffic, depending on rankings and click through rate. If your traffic varies a lot day by day, though, change it once a week. Look at the changes in traffic, rankings, and conversions. Hope this helps, and let us know what you find out! Kristina

Thanks for the heads up about Open Site Explorer. We are currently looking into this. You can follow the progress of the outage here: http://health.moz.com/ Kevin Help Team

HI Dino, I don't see any issues. It is okay to use multiple H1 tags for reasons such as this. Google has confirmed multiple H1 tags are okay. My example above was probably more alarming to you then I could have realized. My effort was to point out a simple case of how to use css for multiple device types. In your case having different text is for the benefit of the user which is exactly as it should be. Good job, Don

Hi Stacy, Your question is smart! It's good you're working to understand this, and I'll do my best to explain how this works on a local level. I'm going to break this into 4 parts. Because your business is located in Akron, your Google local pack rankings will be confined to appearing for searchers who are either searching from a device in Akron, or, including the term 'Akron' in their search ... like 'magicians akron'. You are unlikely to achieve local pack rankings for any other city than Akron, because of Google's bias toward physical location. In order for you to achieve local pack rankings in Cleveland, you would need to have a physical location there. Because of the above, your ability to be visible for Cleveland is going to be confined to organic results rather than local ones. For starters, you will need a Cleveland page on your website. You don't have a physical location there, of course, but you can strive to create the BEST page in your industry/geography. You'll want to make this page totally amazing, with fantastic content, and link to it from the top level menu of your website. What would be natural here would be for you to thoroughly showcase some of your gigs you've done in Cleveland. Write them up, show photos, videos, testimonials from customers, FAQs, talk about Cleveland, your work there, etc. Be sure you're implementing best SEO practices in the text and tags of the page. In addition to your menu linking to this Cleveland page, link to it from other pages within the site and then begin the work of earning inbound links from third party sites. The better the page is and the more links it has earned, the better your chances of this page showing up in the organic results for Cleveland-based-or-related searches. Once you have built this best-in-industry/geography page, consider blogging to continue to grow your 'Cleveland-ness'. I'm not very familiar with your industry, so you'll likely have better ideas than I would regarding what to blog about, but I'd think further showcasing of your events, posts about magic, posts about magic shops, magic tricks, magic venues in Cleveland would be a start. Promote the posts socially. Each one is a chance for a potential customer to end up on your site, saying, "Hey, I want to hire this magician!" The third thing you have to consider is competition. If local pack rankings in Akron, and your best efforts to rank organically for Cleveland are not getting you the visibility and gigs you need, if may be that the competitiveness of the searches you are going for is just too tough for a new business to surmount and you will need to rely on PPC. You may only need to pay for clicks temporarily, until you've achieved local/organic visibility, or, it may need to be a permanent part of your marketing strategy. Finally, be aware that Google is currentyl going through the greatest upheaval in Local in recent memory, converting formerly free local pack rankings to pay-to-play home service ads (see: http://searchengineland.com/google-home-services-ads-plumbers-locksmiths-san-francisco-beta-226469). In the next few years, you may be _required to pay for placement. _This could be bad, if your budget is slim. Or, for a business like yours, it could be good if Google will allow you to pay enough to appear for searches in a neighboring city where you're not physically located. Not sure if that will work that way, but it might. So, stay tuned in on these developments. Hope this helps!