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I know most people typically use Yoast, we use it on our sites, but we have one site where Yoast is causing a conflict.  I wanted to investigate some other options and see what the best solution may be.

Anyone else have an effective plugin they like?

I know the answers vary greatly, and I don't want anyone to have to give away numbers.  I guess the question is more, how do you charge?

• Percentage of ad spend (if so, what percent if you don't mind)
• Percentage plus hourly rate
• Flat Fee
• Hourly Rate
• Results Based
• Some other model?

I'm just curious how other people are doing it and if I'm in the minority.  Thanks.

-Adam

I agree, but this is actually a service that submits to over 1400 different URL's, that's why I was concerned...

A client had a very grateful customer, who submitted their sites to www.pingmyurl.com

Do you think that this is going to wind up hurting us in the long run as far as webspam, or is this a pretty legit service?  Anyone have an opinion or any experience with this site?

A client website dropped drastically on April 12.  Outside of some branded keywords, search results dropped off of the first page and are buried on page 3+ at best.  Nothing has changed on the site, and there were no problems with the link profile.  GWT has no manual actions.  Kind of at a loss.

Does anyone know if there was an algorithm update or anything external that may be causing some problems here?  Site is www.averybiomedical.com if you want to take a look, but I'm just curious if there was anything I should be aware of.  Thanks for the help!

I know this has been answered before, but I don't think it has been in about a year (and we all know how quickly the SEO landscape can change).  We're having a little debate on it right now and I'd be curious to get some feedback from the community.

What is the minimum number of words you would use on a page?  Does it matter to you if it's a second tier (website.com/x) or third tier (website.com/x/y) page?

It's always a tough sell on design between trying to keep it clean and trying to provide a lot of useful information.  I'd be curious what your thoughts are.   Thanks!

-Adam

Wow Gary.  That sucks and I'm so sorry that happened.  What are you doing now?  Are you watching new links like a hawk?

I wouldn't worry about it at all.  First, if there's just a couple of links like that which Google doesn't like, Google's not going to care because it's such a low percentage of your profile.

Second, Google knows it's an aggregator site and probably just devalues it if it doesn't like the content.

If it was me, I honestly wouldn't give it a second thought and would just ignore it.

Earlier today, Google announced an algorithm change that should affect about 90% of search queries.  They said this has rolled out over the past month.  When more details come out and some people do some more testing, this may have something to do with it.

The first thing I would do is download the crawl report as an excel sheet.  You can do this from your crawl report page.

From there, sort by the 404 error column, bringing "True" to the top.  The top of the list is now the broken URL's.  One of the very last columns on the right is the "referrer" column.  This will show you the page where Roger is getting the bad link from.

Make Sense?

I'd love to see the URL and some of the keywords, but I completely understand if you can't do that.  Some immediate thoughts I have are:

• Site structure - are there structural issues in the site that are causing this?  Are we talking home page compared to a page 3 layers deep?  Is it apples to apples?
• Anchor text - you don't want to be unnatural, but anchor text is still a big factor and not measured in DA/PA
• Depth of Content - Do you have one page of content on the desired keywords vs. a significant amount of content regarding the topic?

Those are probably the first three things I'd check.

Wow, thanks so much everyone.  Sorry, emails didn't come through indicating that there were responses or I would have gotten back sooner.

I do not have a URL yet - site is still in development by another agency.  The structure is pretty set, but I do want to be able to manage expectations.  We will work on creating a blog that we can use for additional pages (possibly part blog, part full pages to target keywords).

So, it looks like it's not going to kill us, but it's not going to do us any favors either.  thanks so much for your help.

Just as a heads up - it is likely that if this was the issue, these keywords were being tracked as organic searches.  Check to see if your organic traffic suddenly drops.  If so, it's likely that your traffic isn't really dropping, it's just being measured separately (properly) now.

I've had that happen, and it's frustrating.

Double check your redirects again.  When I tried to check your backlinks, I was showing redirects between tasteinc.com, www.tasteinc.com, and www.tasteinc.com/   Every time I tried to find the profile using one of those links, it would tell me that it redirects to another one of those.

I didn't have a problem going to your site, but the way that software was trying to crawl things, I would double check that again.  That's the only issue that I saw.  Has the site been up long?

We may be inheriting a site and will be asked to do SEO for it.  We will have control over the development of the site, so this structure is what it is.  My question is - how significant of an impact do you think this is going to have and can you think of any workarounds that may help?

Basically, the user experience of the site will feel similar to multiple pages.  However, this site will, in essence be one page and pull various content through javascript from different locations.  I have not seen the site yet (and believe it is still in development), but this is how it has been explained to me.  Any thoughts?

My first thought was to add a blog to add page depth to the site and expand the content.  Any other thoughts are welcome and appreciated.  Thanks.

(I know this is limited information, I'm sorry.  It's just about all I have to work with right now, and I was a little concerned and was hoping for a second opinion)