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Meant to say it's def Yelp that's boosting the rankings. I've investigated and reported lots of cases of using high authority directory pages to help fake spam pages rank. For a long time an atty ranked in 2 spots in the 7 pack for Los Angeles Personal Injury Attorney. One of the most competitive local phrases out there. One listing linked to the Lawyers.com search page for "Los Angeles Personal Injury Attorney" the other one linked to the Avvo.com search page for "Los Angeles Personal Injury Attorney". Think about it. All those pages are filled with local NAPs and local keywords. +++ High authority. BTW this is now against the GMB guidelines since I made a big case out of the LA atty and some other cases. But of course some are still getting away with it.

Ah, I see. You guys should get a new one! The last one was great, and got me to try Moz

Basically Google’s algorithms has a hard time figuring out where to rank it. As time goes on, info increases and determines rank. Here is an explanation on why from Matt Cutts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzfK6isC7CA

coughAnd Australiacough I'd even contribute our citation list if it helped speed things along.

Hi gardenbeet.com had the same problem about 4 years ago - do not be alarmed. It just means that the internal page has (probably) higher value links than the home page . At the time I was advised to look at my site architecture to ensure the link juice gets distributed around the website (at least as evenly as the home page would redirect the juice)  (not sure if that point is still relevant).

I don't have any experience with Cision, but I have tried a tool that may be similar. https://www.hey.press/list hope this helps, Anthony Biondo Creative LLC http://www.biondocreative.com

Thanks for the update! So glad it's working now.

Hi Swendt, Personally I would stick to what fits your overall branding strategy best. this means I wouldn't change anything about how your business name is displayed just because it's in the meta description. A few things I would consider when making this decision: 1. Is your business name merged or separated in your logo? 2. If your a existing brand, do people search for your brandname merged or separated? This gives you more insight in your customers perspective. (you can check this through Google Keyword Planner in Adwords) 3. If your business name tells potential customers something about what you do I would definitly consider readability aswell. If your business name contains two worlds I would, in most cases, separate them. Also, I'm not a huge fan of TM aswell, but I'm from Europe so I'm not sure if it's more common in other parts of the world. Good Luck!

**UPDATE We hit #2 last night and have held the position this morning. Hopefully a stronger link profile will now take us to #1!

Ok thanks Dan

Hi Lara, Sorry for the delay. You're right that the string inverter page definitely has more than 12 internal links.  Moz seems to have picked up on the changes now, because OSE shows 50 now.  However, even that may not really be all of them because Moz's index was already small, and Rand said it might be getting even smaller soon - see http://moz.com/community/q/what-s-the-story-on-mozscape-updates Hope that helps! Mark

Hello there, Answers to your questions below My client's site has a .com domain where most others have .co.uk I suspect this isn't the issue. but provided your client is only targeting the UK you might considering setting up geotargeting in Google Webmaster Tools - see: http://moz.com/community/q/geographic-target-set-up-in-google-webmaster-tool Most sites on the first page have either jewellery, wholesale or both in their domain names This is unlikely to be the issue. Relevance of linking sites could be playing a part here. My client has links from wholesale sites but few from jewellery-related sites. Attracting relevant links is never a bad idea, plus even if you don't see ranking improvements you'd hope that relevant links sent good quality traffic. I'd definitely do this if I were you Within my client's link profile there are very few, if any exact anchor text links for the term 'wholesale jewellery' I'd suggest it's unlikely that this is the issue - anchor text is not the ranking signal it once was. Legacy of a penalty could be making ranking progress that much more difficult? I think this is the most likely answer, but I don't quite agree with your phrasing. You mentioned a past penalty - given that you're ranking on the first page I suspect you're not suffering from said penalty any more. However, if you do still have a lot of 'low quality' links, then further clean up might be the way forward. However, you'll also need to continue to build the sorts of links that Google want to reward (i.e. links which are editorially given from quality sites) in order to improve your rankings. Incidentally, you mentioned you've disavowed a bunch of links. 3rd party tools (ahrefs, majestic, moz) aren't able to filter these out because they've no access to your disavow files I hope this helps, Hannah

Nice link Mark. News to me, really. But the fact that Schema.org and HTML5 both have author identification methods shows that it may be used by other search engines and/or services. And the followup article to your link there is "Google Authorship May Be Dead, But Author Rank Is Not." http://searchengineland.com/google-authorship-dead-author-rank-202254 But darn, man! All that time wasted getting authorship to work back then. Google's authorship verification process was indeed grueling.

I've actually run into 1) a lot. When you search for site: you get the raw index data, not what Google will show in live SERPs. This is a problem for rich snippet text as well; when Google can read your rich snippets but chooses not to show your mark ups, the mark ups will show up in site: but not in any other searches. I was able to find the "our range" version when I was searching just now, so this is still a problem, I'm afraid. I've given you my opinion in more detail below.

Regarding B), one thing to consider is whether redirects will help or hurt your site.  Even websites that are appropriately redirected lose some link equity in the process.  See Matt Cutts' video here which says that roughly 10-15% of PageRank is lost through redirects and outgoing links.  Therefore, if the site has existed using the format domain.com/post-name for a long time and attracted links to those URLs, then the small benefit you get from adding the keyword to the URL may be outweighed by the natural loss of link equity. For C), an introductory blurb could help, but make it good quality content, not just for keywords.  Especially since this text will push down the actual blog posts, it needs to be worthwhile for people to read or it could increase bounce rate.

I'm so sorry! Honestly, your best bet will be to email help@moz.com about the issue. They can look more deeply into it and determine what's going on, and what might need to be done to fix the problem. I'm sure you and they can get this resolved!