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Know of any tools to report overlapping of organic placement and keyword search placement on SERPs?
The question isn't clear but I'd guess you are looking for something like SEMRush.
Online Marketing Tools | | DennisSeymour0 -
Duplicate Page Content
Hi there I would recommend looking into your canonical tags to point to http://signup.directiq.com/, as well as the parameter opportunities in Google Webmaster Tools. You are also able to block paramaters in your robots.txt, but I would be extremely careful doing so. Hope this helps! Good luck!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | PatrickDelehanty0 -
What's more valuable: new content or optimizing old content
Hey there Moz actually has a great step by step guide to help you with deciding what content can be updated, removed, or consolidated. You can read more about that here. It covers everything from traffic, relevancy, shares, linking and categorization and more. Super comprehensive. Hope this helps! Good luck!
Moz Pro | | PatrickDelehanty0 -
Use Open Site Explorer and the Keyword Difficulty Tool to find your competitors' keywords and how they're ranking for them. Get your Daily SEO Fix!
Thanks for the feedback Matt - definitely something we're looking into as we work on the next iteration of the tool. I think going up in report limits is something we can certainly do for the higher tiers in the future.
Link Explorer | | randfish1 -
Technical Argument to Prefer non-www to www?
Thanks Cesar, I appreciate your detailed response. Pick one, set up our redirects properly and we're good to go! Thanks much!
Search Engine Trends | | Allie_Williams0 -
I don't have a business address, Any problem?
Hello, I often list my address, even though we don't serve customers from the address. There are a couple of reasons for this; firstly it strengthens your brand identity and gives people confidence that your business is real, and second because there is no other reliable way to get local search on your side. If you use another address this may look odd and make people suspicious about the business. If you do list your address you can set up your site for people to contact you in the ways that you wish, rather than by coming to your address, if that's what you prefer.
Local Listings | | T0BY0 -
AdWords & Iframes?
Hi, "Google AdWords doesn't allow ads for websites that copy the content of other websites, using techniques known as "mirroring" and "framing." So Google will not allow you to run campaign in your case Hope this helps. Thanks
Paid Search Marketing | | Alick3000 -
2 websites, 1 business... How should I proceed?
To add to what Miriam said, as I am in the process of handling a merger for a client right now and am dealing with this same issue. In my client's case, they are building a new website that represents the merged company, migrating the content from both sites into one (in many cases content on both sites is redundant so we eliminate/consolidate some) and then we will use 301 redirects mapped from the old site content to the new site content.
Local Website Optimization | | Kenn_Gold1 -
Bolt on Blog Software
Yes this should be doable, just follow the instructions here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory and note that there is some specific info for IIS in there.
Technical SEO Issues | | evolvingSEO0 -
What keywords should I choose?
Hi there There are some great resources on Moz to help you with this: Keyword Research Keywords to Concepts: The Lazy Web Marketer's Guide to Smart Keyword Research Simple Steps for Conducting Creative Content Research All of these should give you some great pointers and tips to be well on your way. I would also take a look at developing personas and content as part of the user experience. Researching both these areas will also help you structure your site in both a user and crawler friendly fashion. Researching your audience, where they are, how they digest content, and doing some well thought out competitor research will help inform your keyword and content research in a more deep and granular fashion. The research will essentially answer itself. I personally like to go after high volume, low competition, but then create long tail variations of those keywords/queries based on what my audience is talking about and how they get their information. There's really no right or wrong way to do keyword research, it's just a matter of knowing your audience's goals, where they are, your place in the industry, and how to develop content that moves your audience through the funnel. Create the best user experience from a content and structure standpoint, and you are golden. Also, don't forget that Moz has a keyword difficulty tool that is highly valuable. Hope this all helps! Good luck!
Online Marketing Tools | | PatrickDelehanty0 -
RSS feed issue
Ok - wasn't willing to let this go until I could definitively track down the issue. I've never come across this before. Rob, you've somehow managed to get a Unicode Escape character entered at the beginning of one of your paragraphs in your "Photography Series Part 1 Picking your Camera" post. This character is invisible to the reader, but because it's considered an invalid XML character, your RSS feed (which is just a specifically formatted XML file) is erroring out, as you noted. To fix this, you're going to have to go back into your WordPress dashboard to edit that post. Scroll to the second paragraph in the Smart Phone section that begins "You can buy a waterproof housing..." Place your cursor at the beginning of the word "buy" and then use your backspace key to delete all the way back to the word "plenty" in the paragraph before. Then hit the Enter key to create the new paragraph, and retype the words you've deleted in that "You can buy..." sentence. Then retype the words into the end of the previous sentence. Then, click Update to save the new version of the post. Believe it or not, that should fix the RSS feed validation problem. Now, the next issue will be that many places where the RSS is used will cache the feed (i.e. store a copy of it) The only way to bust/refresh that cache will be to publish another post, so the cached version gets updated to show the new post and the fix to the old post. If you are adding the RSS feed somewhere it hasn't been used before (e.g. to a newly created sidebar widget) it should be pulling the corrected version of the feed and work as expected. Hope all that makes sense - if not, just holler. Sorry for all the previous confusion as I tried to work out what was actually happening. Paul [Ignore the original suggestion below - the fix required more research] Rob, on your blog post titled Photography Series Part 1, Picking the Right Camera, the first subhead is "Which Camera is Right for you? Sea Dwellers Dive Center of Key Largo..." Try removing the extra space after the question mark and before the words Sea Dwellers. [EDITED TO ADD: Also remove the exclamation mark from the alt tag (alt="Dive and shoot!") for the associated photo.] Then you'll have to clear the site's cache if it has one to clear any RSS cache. Lemme know how you get on. Paul
Technical SEO Issues | | ThompsonPaul0 -
Is the content on my website is garbage?
Hi there You'll want to look into the Thin content with little or no added value resource provided by Google - there you will find next steps, as well as resources on Reconsideration Requests. Once you pinpoint and alleviate the content issues you on your site, you should take a look at the Ultimate Guide to Google Penalty Removal - it will help you with your reconsideration request. I also suggest going through the a proper content audit for your website, and continue to do so every so often going forward. Coupling this with your on-site SEO check ins will be a huge benefit to your organic site visibility and performance. Hope this all helps! Good luck!
Technical SEO Issues | | PatrickDelehanty0