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I will wait and see what your opinion is from an agency point of view and see if it differs. Be interesting to see - but from client side I would always push the agency to use my domain name emails.

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When we have used agencies in the past, we have always created some at the agency (we shall call him John smith) his own email with our domain so john.smith@mycompanydomain.com

Just seems more professional and the person on the other ends thinks that the person works for the company and not an agency. Some manufacturer websites will only deal with peoples who's emails end with @mycompanydomain.com but I know some companies re reluctant to give out email address to none staff.

If the client gives you the opportunity to have the email address use it, at the end of the day your trying to grow your clients brand and not your own.

Thanks

Andy

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Which country are you interested in. I know of some software in the UK, but it only has UK data.

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Andy

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.

there could be several reasons.

Has Moz found new sites pointing to your domain.

Check out this link explaining the basics of Domain authority, http://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority

but as they look at links and Moz Trust it could be a case of you getting a few good links, and removing a few bad links.

Also note that a drop is not always a bad thing and really you should compare your score against your competitors.

Your DA has increased by 3, but if all your competitors has increased by 4 then in theory you are worse off, but this also applies, if you drop by 1 and ur competitors drop by 2 then you have gained even though you have dropped so I would always recommend benchmarking yourself against your competitors and not using it as a stand alone number.

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We use a company called Awin (Affiliate Window) in the UK and they are very good.

As far as I am aware there is no two way affiliates, but the easiest way round it is, to set your self up as a publisher and advertiser.

Its quite easy to do, and you could be up and running as an a publisher in minutes.

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Andy

simple as everyone else has stated, there is no relationship.

The day a website goes live and can start being indexed, having content added, gaining links etc will start improving the DA, not the day it was purchased.

But older website's can also have a lot of bad links pointing to them from previous poor agencies / in-house staff, building bad links so in theory old domains could rank lower by previous black hat techniques to improve rankings.

firstly that is not quite true. If something is shared on twitter it will not automatically rank in Google, as Google won't use Twitter as a signal, as Twitter can cut off their service at any point (http://www.brafton.com/news/qa-with-matt-cutts-at-ses-san-francisco-social-reputability-for-seo-traffic-cannibalization-and-the-promise-of-transparency-from-google)

Posting on G+ might be different as it will tell google about the new page, however so long as your page is in the sitemap and Google can crawl your site, this is still the best way to initially get a page to rank.

Improving a page rank is a different question to getting a page rank.

Search metrics among other great sites reveal correlations that sites that rank well have (http://www.searchmetrics.com/en/knowledge-base/ranking-factors/) but this isn't a check list and just because you do them all, doesn't mean you will rank highly. Moz has one too http://moz.com/search-ranking-factors

Both of them state that pages that have more +1s tend to rank better, and while this might be the case, they usually also have great content, high DA, large user base etc

Search engine land did a great article on social ranking factors (http://searchengineland.com/what-social-signals-do-google-bing-really-count-55389 - bit old but still relevant).

So in answer to your question - does posting a link on twitter help it rank - Nope and does it improve rankings, probably not.

I am assuming you have done the basic checks like:

• page is in your sitemap

• Google has crawled the page

• meta title and description optimised

If this has been done, does the sub pages have better content than the main page.

Like Bruce said, use Moz and see what keywords the page is ranking for or you could use something like searchmetrics to see what keywords are driving the traffic. Without knowing the url or keywords its a bit difficult to give you a bit more detail

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I would have to agree with Ken - what do you want people to see when searching. If you don't help Google out and offer a meta description (not that they will use this), but without they will pull some text from the page which they think is "useful".

I would always recommend putting a meta description, even if you don't spend time optimising each page, a basic description about the page will help CTR to your site.

Don't bother with meta keywords, have Google have confirmed they don't use these any more so these would be a waste of time.

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Andy

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I can't find an upto date answer to this so was wondering what people's thoughts are.

Does putting content behind 'view more' css buttons affect how Google see's and ranks the data.

The content isn't put behind 'view more' to trick Google. In actual fact if you see the source of the data its all together, but its so that products appear higher up the page.

Does anyone have insight into this.

Thanks in advance

thanks for your responses and clearing this up.

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Does having quite a few Duplicate meta descriptions hurt SEO. I am worried that I have too many and thinking this could be the reason for my recent drop in search visibility.

Thanks in Advance.

Andy

Thanks, I have sent an email and hope to get this resolved soon

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I use chrome and have no issues with the Moz bar.

Is it affecting one website or do you get no data on any websites?

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From an SEO point of view, Google reduce the important of keyword in the URL so having the keyword in the URL doesn't have as much of a factor as it once did. Again a lot of research and even Matt Cutts has confirmed its not as high as ranking factor as it once was.

I would never ever put a hyphen in the URL, there has been many tests show it does impact rankings (might have once been a whiteboard friday), but it not there have been multiple experiments, all showing that hypthen in the domain name is bad.

This is a must read, its a bit old (2007), but its very relevant http://moz.com/blog/how-to-choose-the-right-domain-name

Hope all this is useful

in that case, I am not receiving any alert emails.

If I go into the alerts I can see there was data, but I am not receiving the emails. Do you know of any reason why this might be.

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Andy

I believe they do, check out this old article in section 3 they talk about banners and how they can be great from an SEO point of view: http://moz.com/ugc/becoming-a-double-threat-integrating-your-seo-and-affiliate-marketing-campaigns

There isn't really a lot out there about banners and passing links, but I know normal banners pass link juice so can't see why GIFs would not be any different.

Hope this is useful.

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I set up several alerts on the Fresh web explorer - however I haven't received emails and these we're set up over a month ago.

What email address do they come from - I have checked my junk folder but I am thinking I might need to whitelist the email with the developers to receive the emails.

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Andy

I am happy they are now followed, I am sure when I previously checked they we no followed, no just to get a link