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This question has all ready been asked previously and you can find the answer here:

http://moz.com/community/q/google-webmaster-tools-and-open-site-explorer-s-links-not-matching-up

But to sum it up. Google has far more servers than Moz, even though Moz is a great company there is a big difference in the size of the companies so Google has far more reach to crawl even more websites.

Google isn't perfect and will also miss links so its good to use multiple sources for seeing link data.

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Adsense doesn't affect ranking in either a positive or negative way, Google freely admits they keep them completely separate (otherwise everyone would just chuck Adsense on theirs sites to get number one in Google).

https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/9717?hl=en-GB

Having three ads on a page doesn't seem to excessive IMO, but without seeing the page its a bit hard to tell.

Don't rebrand. Would try everything to get them not to re-brand there are numerous examples where you don't get your visibility back after months / years.

Appliances Online changed to AO.com and have done a huge TV campaign in the UK, but they have never recovered there search visibility (info from Searchmetrics).

I would advise stay away from at all costs.

If the client defiantly wants to, my web designer simply put in a few lines of code onto the old domain, and if a customer types in an oldurl.com/webpage25 it redirects to newurl.com/webpage25 so that you don't have to 301 every page.

He has just left for the day, but if no one else can give the answer by the morning I will let you know how he has done it.

But my advice stay away from rebranding.

Also depending how new the site is Moz Domain Authority score only really updates once a month (ish) next update is due on 24/7. http://moz.com/products/api/updates so you probably wont see any movement until then.

Like mentioned above welcome to the world of SEO where nothing makes sense and can drive you up the walls. Google is a cruel mistress that you won't never understand and are always trying to please.

And have to agree with Andy - never ever pay to go on directories and in honest stay well clear of them, I am trying to get old links removed from these places. A few years ago this was the thing to do to get to number 1 in google and was very simple, now it actually hurts you more in the long run than benefits you.

If you are new you might want to run read this history of SEO as a starting point http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/history-of-seo-glimpse-into-future-tl-ss

The recently discovered is just that, recently discovered by Moz, its nothing to do with the date the article / link was published.

I use three bits of software, Talkwalker, Opensite explorer and Google Alerts. And if I am honest the only one I care about is Google Alerts as its Google rankings I monitor so the sooner google pick up the link the better.

In terms of time length, I am still getting alerts for links posted years ago on poor links, but get alerts within the day for links of places like Virgin.com so it all depends on when the crawler manages to crawl the page.

Have you checked the page with the link on is crawable. Can the bots find the page. If they can't find the page, it will never get indexed and you will never benefit from the link. So if its been 4 weeks check to see if the page has been indexed / can it be indexed.

If you send me the link I will do some analysis for you.

This all depends when the page with the link on it gets crawled and by who.

Would recommend using Google Alerts, these are a good way of spotting new mentions / links to your site.

Would also recommend watching White board friday from two weeks ago about using Email alerts for SEO http://moz.com/blog/8-ways-to-use-email-alerts-to-boost-seo-whiteboard-friday

But it does all depend on when the Page is crawled.

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I am assuming you mean organic traffic. Paid is a lot easier.

GA this week has re added a SEO report. This tells you the top 1000 keywords driving traffic, but these numbers to me seem to be aggregated.

if you have the cash or access try Hitwise. Very good data and very useful for giving competitor traffic too.

You can also use search metrics that is pretty good software for keywords and rankings.

as mentioned webmaster tools will give you this info so there are quite a few places to get this info. Just depends what you want it for and how detailed.

First thing, keep it simple and easy to use otherwise people won't use it.

probably add to your contact page as well.

If you wish to use our content or quote a piece, please email email@domain.com.

Or:

Would you like to quote or reuse our content for Free, please email: email@domain.com.

assuming you are not wanting to charge for it.

hope that's hopefully

Hi all

just wondering if anyone has ever had any experience / tips / advice.

moving from domain name a to b is well published all over the web and the practice is often discussed on here.

but my question is has anyone ever done moving the domain from a to b and then after x time move back to domain a.

i can't find any examples, notes anywhere on Google.

thanks in advance

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Would always be nofollow, its the affiliate network which actually gets the benefit and not the end website. (or it is with the network we use).

Plus as mentioned above they are paid links so don't risk getting penalised by promoting paid link. Not worth taking the risk when nofollow doesnt affect any commission you can make of the link.

On one URL.

How I have always tried to explain it to people before.

If you have two urls and a person is searching in google, you are leaving it upto Google to pick the correct page to display. Google isn't perfect and may show the user the wrong URL and not help the user. However if all the information is on one url, then you don't need to worry about this. Plus you don't need to build links into two pages, just one page (hopefully getting you a better page authority and ranking). Plus it adds fresh unqiue content onto otherwise product pages, which can be similar across the web

If you worried about not ranking because of the word review missing from the URL, this is only a small issue but the benefits of the above IMO out weight the slight disadvantage.

Great article by Econsultancy on benefits of Reviews on product pages: https://econsultancy.com/blog/9366-ecommerce-consumer-reviews-why-you-need-them-and-how-to-use-them#i.1mpjwvuml2epzz

thanks, got it working with the advice. Looking forward to have the issue fixed.

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Not sure if it is just me, but I am seeing no data for Just discovered.

I know there should be data in there.

Is anyone else having any issues this morning.

Thanks

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It says when you get over 200 moz points that you "Removal of "nofollow" from first custom URL on profile", this isn't the reason I have become more active on the network, but I was wondering do I need to do anything or does it happen automatically.

Thanks

Andy

this is the one thing I dread happening.

Apart from what you are doing there isn't a lot until it stops - I wish there was a button in web-master tools to tell Google that a competitor (and it usually is) is doing bad SEO to your site.

If you do try anything other, then please share. I am currently putting together an contingency plan in case it ever happens to the site I manage.

I can see this becoming more prevalent in future and a lot more companies using these tactics to get an SEO advance. I could even see some dodgy SEO agency's setting up to offer this type of service.

The only other thing we do is infographics, whether you would class that as part of a content strategy or not is a different matter, but these usually have some great results, but like every GIGO comes to mind, to actually make a infographic work, firstly you need to do the research, and get some interesting and relevant facts in there, and then spend a lot of time trying to publishing it, speaking with blog owners, news sites etc.

Our last infographic we managed to get a link of mashable.com and I believe there DA is around 94 ish so was worth all the time and investment in making it look good, have decent content within it.

If your client isnt all ready doing infographics I would recommend them

have to agree with DJ123 - just write naturally for your description, but for your video title's I would recommend thinking what someone is likely to type in Google.

If you can get any type of keyword research software (I use software called Hitwise) to find out what people are searching for then this can be very useful.

Always remember to put useful links to your website etc, while these are nofollow links (so no SEO benefit), they do drive quite a bit of traffic for us

In terms of being seen as duplicate, yes but this content is essential - you can't get away from the fact the dimension / spec is the details and you can't change them, but what you can do is add more unique content to the page.

There seems to be a lot of manufacturers content on the page and I would assume that a lot of your competitors are using the same info - so this is where the duplicate worry would come in for me.

While this is quick and easy to use, its worth spend the time to add more unique content, and higher up the page the better.

You have Reviews section, have you been contacting previous purchases and encouraging them to leave a review - this will help to create unique content. If your using a shopping platform to create your store like shopify etc there are a lot of plugins to do this for you automatically so once set up you don't need to worry about it.

On a side note, it actually took me a while to find the buy button - it wasn't where I would of expected it to be, next to the price.

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I agree and a lot of work has gone into making improvements and hopefully they are all done, but its more the basics I am after to make sure something fundamental isn't missed and the improvements don't get to have an impact as the basics wasnt checked.

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I am in the process of launching a new version of my site and I know I need to get my current SEO Agency to check and test certain aspects of the site so that I don't lose any rankings.

The problem is I am unsure of everything to ask them and I was wondering if someone could help me out.

I don't want to have missed something basic and therefore want to give them a checklist to confirm they are happy before go live.

Any help appreciated