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Like others have said, DA is just a number and in today's Googles eyes, it's all about relevancy of the page, rather than the page authority.

Also a site might have a high DA, but if the link juice doesn't pass down to the page where the link is, DA is irrelevant.

how about looking at links in a different way. Instead why not image Google doesn't exist and the only way to get relevant traffic to your site is from other websites talking and sending referral traffic (through a link). You would then only place links where you know you would get decent traffic and sales - think like this and you will get the relevant links and rank nicely. DA and numbers are irreverent then, it's all about relevancy

I would do some keyword research and look at doing some mid to long tail keyword articles. The articles which aren't as competitive and easier to rank for.

I would also look to add more content on your category pages to help Google determine what the pages are about. While Google might be smart enough to work it out, but the easier you make it for them the better, plus if your leaving it to a machine they could incorrectly work out what the page is about.

I don't know if its just me, but the page takes a long time to load - if that's not just me that will be a bad signal for both Google and the users.

Links are only part of the ranking algorithm, content and technical are the other two. But if you can source high quality links back to your site this will help with rankings.

Firstly welcome to the world of SEO, but the answer is pretty simple and I don't know why anyone who knows SEO would tell you any different.

If your site / CMS allow is, have them all on your site otherwise you are creating more work for yourself.

If the articles are on your site, the DA will pass down to the article pages. Google ranks pages based on your customer experiences, so if they have visited a blog article on your site through a long tail keyword and then want to actually purchase your services. If they type in 'x', Google will remember they have been to your site and interacted (so long as it looked like they had a good experience) Google will rank your other pages higher, potentially leading to more conversions and traffic.

Also you only have one brand to manage and not two, if someone wants to link to one of your detailed and informative blog articles then this link also passes weight back to your home page.

I would always say where possible have the blog on your main site, the only time I would suggest not to is if your current site can't support it.

Hope this is useful, I have only given the key reasons why you should put it on /blog (and it doesn't have to be called blog, you can name it anything you like, articles etc). But there are far more reasons for keeping it all on one domain.

Without knowing the company that recommend putting it on a new site I feel unfair commenting about them, but maybe they was thinking they could get you to pay for a brand new additional site and get some extra revenue for themselves - like I said I don't know them so don't like commenting about other peoples businesses if I don't know them - but that would be my only logical thinking of why they would want you to have a second site.

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Andy

I would disagree, I would prefer to be taken to the sub category page to show me similar products with a message saying the product you was looking for is no longer available, please check out these very similar products - but I guess we all have different tastes and thats why as webmasters we can never please everybody

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Easy answer: get relevant links to your website.

But its slightly harder than that. First of all read: http://moz.com/community/q/how-to-increase-domain-authority

You want to find relevant and influential people in your industry and link to your content and share your content. (Followerwonk) is a great tool for this.

I would worry less about the DA of the website you are getting a link from, and more about the relevancy of the link.

Image if Google didn't exist. You would want links on the web that drove potential customers to your site, not on high DA sites that are not important, so if you think like this - you don't need to worry about potential algorithm updates.

If you want people to link to your site, you have to give them a reason to, so you need something on your site worth linking to, whether that is a blog article, infographic, etc.

Hope this is helpful, its the basics of what you need to do, and there are a lot of tactics for link building, but just make sure they are genuine long term strategy and not short term wins.

Things to not do for link building:

• Ignore directories (yes you can potentially get a good relevant link, but there are a lot of pitfalls that aren't worth the risk)
• Ignore all the emails from India etc (sorry, there is too much spam that comes from there, there are probably some very good services from India, but there are more than would cause you harm)
• Anyone claiming to get you to get you number 1
• Link farms
• Many more here: http://moz.com/blog/17-types-of-link-spam-to-avoid

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Andy

I wouldn't recommend changing the url structures, however what you could do is create specific landing page about boutique apartments or flat and list all the relevant products.

Also you could use this space to really sell the experience, why you should pick a boutique hotel over a normal standardize hotel.

I am personally not a fan of changing url structures on websites once indexed by Google.

On all 1500 hotel pages, you would need a way of linking back to the main "category" page.

This is just from experience over the years of changing urls and expecting to get the same traffic etc. During a redirect you lose link juice so the hotels might not rank as highly etc.

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Andy

Just put them in a disavow file and forget about them.

Your telling Google that you know these are bad links and you don't want them associated with your domain. I would do this sooner rather than later.

If you get a penalty you have to show evidence you have tried to contact these and get them some removed - whereas if you simply upload your disavow file you can forget about them.

Simple guide here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2648487?hl=en

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Andy

to cancel it - simply go to Billing & Subscription and click on the cancel button.

In terms of getting your money back, I doubt it - but one of the staff members will be able to answer this.

Why would you want to cancel one of the best pieces of marketing software on the market.

Moz is brilliant for SEO and a host of other great features, granted its not perfect but its improving every day, and there isn't a one stop solution for marketing software - you usually have to use this in conjunction with other bits of software.

But for SEO I wouldn't be able to do my role without moz. Even just checking Domain Authority of links gained etc is great as well as tracking how well your doing.

You could use Search metrics to determine how much the visibility of the site has dropped - it wont to tell you which keywords they were ranking for, but will give a benchmark of where you need to get back to in terms of visibility

Ryan is right, you will have to do some 301s and it will confuse Google for a while so you might see rankings drop even further for a while.

Shame they don't have analytics at least then you could find out the pages which was getting the most traffic.

I agree but lets see to get 100% (and not even Google has 100% of your links, I use three sources for monitoring links, Google Alerts / Webmaster Tools, TalkWalker / Moz / Opensiteexplorer). But lets say you want Moz to go from 3% to 100%.

This would required extra resources on Moz end so we would end up paying higher monthly fee.

We currently pay $99 a month. Lets hope my maths is good. So $99 for 3% or $33 for 1%, to get that to 100% that is $33 * 100 that would be $3,300 a month. I can show the benefits to my MD who pays the invoice each month of the benefits for $99. Convincing him to pay $3,300 I couldn't justify that.

Also it would depend where all your links are. If they are from highly reputation sites like Mashable, BBC, et al then you are more likely to have a higher % than if your links are all from domains which are less well know and less likely to be found by the Moz crawlers.

Regarding Moz telling you in advance about the % - I will leave that to a Moz employee to explain but I guess the % would be different for everyone so would be quite hard to explain.

Unfortunately there isn't a 1 amazing tool like everyone has said, its all about using multiple tools and using the best tool to meet the specific task you are trying to complete.

It also depends on what budget you have for SEO software, I am quite fortunate in that I have quite a lot of the software agreed by my MD, but I know some who really struggle.

I use:

• Moz
• Rankwatch - for rank tracking
• Ahrefs
• Searchmetrics
• SEMRush
• Majestic
• Screaming frog

And those are the ones i use frequently there a couple more i have that I cant remember of top of my head that I use for certain tasks and projects.

I wish there was a one best solution, all the above solutions are good, but not great in isolation and need to be used together.

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Andy

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I assume you meant the DA and PA etc - these we're all updated yesterday: http://moz.com/products/api/updates

Next Update is in April.

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Andy

The first question I would be asking myself - is this useful for the customer. If the answer is yes I wouldn't worry so much about Google so long as you offer good user experience.

However if the answer is no and your doing it more for search engines then I wouldn't recommend having the link in the first place.

But what ever you do, don't put nofollow on the links, you want Google to freely crawl your site.

No tool is perfect and will find all your back links straight away, even Google doesn't find them immediately, so I use a combination of Moz, Ahrefs, Majestic and Webmaster tools to monitor new links.

It will just be a case of when Moz crawlers, crawl the website you have got a link from.

As Moz is relatively small compared to Google, it cant and probably never will crawl the entire web, so it tends to crawl the more larger sites first and crawls the sites which changes frequently more often.

It all depends what you want from the software.

I use:

Moz, ahrefs, majestic, searchmetrics, rankwatch, SEMRush - I use them all frequently and depending what info / research I am doing use the specific software.

Moz is great and has some wonderful features (including this forum - arguably one of the best on the web), but it does have its flaws - its crawl database is relatively small (but its growing 366 million urls was crawled on its last count).

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Andy

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While I have never used the service - it seems pretty expensive to me. For one link on a site with DA30+ its going to cost £80.

Especially as from the looks of it you can't decide which sector the link is on - seems very grey / black hat to me, where its all about having a link. So you could sell car parts and get a link on a site that's about kitchens, might be DA30+ but not very relevant. Google knows where users click and will be putting more weight behind those metrics rather than website scoring metrics.

We usually look to get links for our clients where potential customers are that can drive traffic and sales as well as a ranking benefits.

While its probably more hard work than buying a link, its more natural, will give you greater benefits and you don't risk the chance of a Google penalty.

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Andy

Nope you need to add the wildcard onto the end of the product line so it looks like this

User-agent: *

Disallow: /index.php?route=checkout/cart
Disallow: /index.php?route=account/return/insert
Disallow: /index.php?route=product/*

Otherwise it will just exclude that specific url.

Let me know if this works.

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Andy

Meta descriptions are what you request Google to display, these are a request and Google does sometimes use other information if it feels its more relevant.

This isn't new and I've seen it numerous times over the last 5 or so years.

Dr Pete even did a blog article on this (very old 2011 - https://moz.com/blog/why-wont-google-use-my-meta-description but its still relevant.

Also the question has been asked and answered on here before: https://moz.com/community/q/google-not-pulling-the-right-title-tag-meta-description - I could cover the same answers in this post, but we all know Google hates duplicate content.

I don't know if this is possible, but couldn't you offer 5% off your next order if you complete your profile.

This way you get a second order and a complete profile of your customer.

This way you are not reducing the chance of people not completing, increasing the number of repeat purchases and get the information and potentially more information that just sector.

I would be willing to complete my profile if there was an incentive, but as don't know the platform you are using, I don't know if this is possible in your case.

Well done on getting some content published - its seems to be getting harder.

I am a big fan of Guest blogging, but not done for SEO purposes but for brand building.

If you are writing content where your potential customers are and they see your brand in a place they trust they are more likely to come and visit, or if they see you in the SERPs more likely to click on your link.

The link (if you get one), is just a second benefit - before the days of Google to get traffic to your site was to get links and mentions on other websites that was relevant to drive awareness of your site - I don't think anything has changed, just some people in the industry saw it as a way to cheat Google and was punished so its now seen as bad tatic - but if done correctly can drive some wonderful traffic to your site.

We do accept Guest post onto our blog, but this is down to the editors discretion but sometimes they can add some real value to our visitors - so it helps both parties.

if i understand the question correctly and you are changing manufacturer. You have the potential to lose traffic as your page will no longer contain the text 'old manufacture name', so therefore wont rank for it this term.

If your urls aren't changing you shouldn't lose to as much visibility as any links etc pointing here will still be valid.

The only area where you could lose visibility is in the old manufacturers name if this had more search volume that the new manufacturer.