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Hi Moz

I cannot get the onpage grader to work , I have been trying for a few weeks now

Can you advise, I see - Sorry, but that URL is inaccessible.

I have tried many Websites and all return the same Message

Thanks

Adam

Thank you Everybody for taking the time to Answer our Question

Hi All

We have over 10000 Products and a while ago we spent some time adding Product Descriptions to the Product Pages, For Example we have

Product - Black Snazaroo Face Paint

Product Description - Great for Childrens parties, fundraising events, Halloween or other festive faces. An easy makeup to apply and remove. All Snazaroo face paints are Non toxic, Fragrance free and Skin friendly. Snazaroo is suitable for all skin types, however it is always recommended you do a skin patch test on a small area before full application.

Unfortuantly our Meta Descriptions really need some work, for example this same page contains the following meta descriptions

We realise this could be holding our site back.

Is it ok to use the same Product Description inside the Meta Description Tags also, for example can we use the Meta Description for this Page -

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Hi

Don't worry. We have seen the same issue.

We disavowed at the start of 2014 and the links still show in Webmaster Tools

I'm sure eventually they will update the Links to show an Accurate list

I would say the most important message you are looking to see , is the one from Google Acknowledging the Disavow or if you have received a penalty , the message from Google saying the Penalty has been uplifted.

Thank you. We add Content to the Blog Weekly and have about 6 Years of Content, but the Blog never seems to rank anywhere either. Can you recommend any tips for finding relevant DA 70+ links

Hi Monica

Thank you for your reply

On the 03/06/14 - Manual Penalty was Finally Lifted

Hope this helps

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Adam

Hi Moz Friends

I wonder if you can help me , a while ago we had a Penguin Penalty and lost our Rankings. After Months of work Disavow and Reconsiderations , Google sent me a message in Webmaster Tools to confirm the Penalty had been uplifted.

Since then we havent recovered. I have been working with Bloggers to build relevant safe links, each having a DA of between 10-30. We have developed a Mobile Friendly Website and ios and Android Apps. We have improved Site Speed and moved to a Server within the same Country. We add lots of content and believe we have ticked all the boxes for onpage optimisation.

However our DA and PA seems to have dropped slightly after Moz update today. We seem to be jumping in the serps, one day page 4 for "fancy dress" the next day nowhere to be found.

I'm not sure what to do next.

I'm not expecting to jump back to page 1 for the main keywords but some positive movement would be nice, especially as there are Lower DA Website, not mobile friendly or as fast above us in the serps.

What I am looking for I guess is any ideas from you and also what you think about this idea

A few people have mentioned that we might stand more of a chance using our domain name example.com instead of example.co.uk. example.com has never been used and is totaly clean (no penaltys ect..)

Do we use example.com and move the website and content away from example.co.uk ? if so do we use redirects or would that just pass any hold thats on example.co.uk to the .com version

Ideas Welcome

Thanks

Adam

Thank you

Hi Everybody

If you have 2 Google Place Listings (Local Listings) 1 with 1 Location and 1 with another Location, is there anyway to merge the 2 Accounts.

1 of them has lots of Reviews and the other contains some Reviews so Ideally there would be 1 Account which merges all Reviews into 1 Account

Multiple Locations can then be added into the 1 Account.

Any Ideas

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Adam

Good Point , thanks for your help

Thats ok I appriciate your reply

Thats the Certified Shops this is Google Trusted Stores , Google Trusted Stores will be easier to implement for us as our Platform has a module for it

Hi All

Does anybody know when the Google Trusted Stores Program will be available in the UK ?

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Adam

Using that tool I have identified the drop is from the last Penguin update, I think if I start a campaign to improve the DA and PA for the Website by obtaining highly relevant links this should help. I dont really want to disavow anymore, we disavowed 1000s before and had the message in webmaster tools to say we had recovered.

I disavowed any that looked spammy and were not relevant and contains anchor text containing keywords not brand name.

Maybe its time now to start growing the DA and PA

Thanks

Adam

Thank you everybody , very helpful I have lots to go on there

Matt - I think we are just down the road from you if you are the same company

Thanks Monica

The Problem I have is the links that are shown in webmaster tools are links I have already disavowed but they are still showing as links to our site, so I am unsure if there are any new ones.

I can see websites on page 1 do have a higher DA and PA, but there are sites above us that have a lower DA and PA that us when running them through open site explorer

we are DA - 43/100 PA - 49/100

One above us is DA - 17/100 PA - 22/100

The Content on the site isnt too bad, we have content on most pages and we have 1000s of blogs on the blog page on the same site

Hi

We was hit by the Penguin update a long time ago and we lost a lot of traffic/positions because of this. For a long time we worked really hard to identify all off our links that may have caused us to recieve this penalty. After Months of work we submitted the disavow file and reconsideration request and in June 2014 we recieved confirmation from google in webmaster tools that the manual spam action had been revoked.

over time we then started to recieve more traffic and better positions in the serps, however since penguin 3.0 we have dropped again for a range of keywords. many going from page 1 to 2 or page 2 to 3/4

Any ideas what we should do here , any help will be really appriciated as I'm totally confused

We havent done any link building at all since the penalty / recovery

Hi Matt

It was the only change we made , I have since optimised more meta descriptions across main landing pages so I will let you know what happens.

Thank you very much everybody, we made that change on friday. The changes can be seen today when searching for the relevant keyword "fancy dress costumes" and we have increased our position from 13th to 7th !

Hi Friends

We have Meta Descriptions on our Pages but when certain keywords are typed into google search , different meta descriptions are created , for example when searching for "fancy dress" we see our meta description which is correct -

Shop with Party Domain for all your Fancy Dress. 1000s of Fancy Dress Ideas at CHEAP Prices. Halloween Fancy Dress. Next Day Delivery and Same Day ...

However when searching for "fancy dress costumes" the same page is ranked but the meta description is

Fancy Dress. Female Pirate Fancy Dress Costume. £ 13.80. Female Pirate Fancy ... SKU: G11034. Pirate Captain Fancy Dress Costume. £ 12.22. RRP: £ 15.02 ...

Thanks

Adam