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I know its early days and even the wonderful Dr Pete said it will take a few days to notice anything, but has anyone seen anything.

I've not seen any rise in traffic yet, but none of my ranking tracking tools have ran yet.

Anyone seen anything, are you expecting to see any?

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Yeah have to agree sounds like 'doorway' pages that are there to generate search traffic which Google doesn't like.

You either need more content on these pages, getting UGC would be one way of adding more relevant content to the pages

Your asking the million dollar question.

There is no right / wrong answer for the number of pieces, if you say there is no real competition you might get away with the 1 piece a week.

In terms of rankings, this shouldn't take as 6 months, I've usually found a few weeks to get indexed and ranked.

What you need to do is work out how much the content is going to cost to produce - if its going to cost you $2k to get $5k worth of sales is it worth it. Also if its costing you $2k then you probably worth only creating 1 a month as the maths wouldn't justify it. (costing you more than what it generates in sales).

Also the content alone wont help you rank, you will still need links to help boost its rankings and also a technically sound website.

Have you made some changes on your website, like adding noindex to the certain sections of your site or have you removed an internal link to a section meaning Google can't access that section. I would investigate firstly what changes have been made on the site.

Might also be worth checking your server logs to see which pages google are crawling - this might also help find out which pages they aren't indexing.

Reason why you might be seeing more pages when you do a site search is because it might take a few days to disappear from search.

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Does your client have a trademark / copyright on the business name - that would be my first place to start.

See if legally you can get them to take down the website for trademark / copyright infringement.

If not then have to agree with Vijay - its going to be hard work but you have to be better than them - build up the brand.

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Andy

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While I haven't done it yet, I do have a client which I am looking at this issue for. I came across this plugin which looks decent and will do the job.

https://store.plumrocket.com/magento-extensions/accelerated-mobile-pages-magento-extension.html

My client has some other issues which needs fixing first before we start looking into making their site AMP.

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Andy

Yes,  it doesn't tell them which pages not to crawl - just not to index them

rel=canonical is not really an robots instruction file - rel=canonical is to help with duplicate copy where you have the same or similar pages and your telling search engines which pages is the preferred page.

If you don't want pages crawling you have to tell Search engines in the robots file

If you dont have access to the logs that could be an issue - not really any automated tools out there as it would need to crawl every website and find 404 errors.

I haven't tried this - so its just an idea. Go into GSC download all the links pointing to your site (and from places like Moz, Ahrefs, Majestic) and then chuck that list of urls into Screaming Frog or URL Profiler and look at external links and see if any are returning a 404. Not sure if this would work - its just an idea.

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Andy

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Have to agree with the above, Rogerbot does listen to robot.txt file, unlike Bing - while they are getting better Bing ignores the robots.txt file frequently.

Ive analysed quite a few server logs over the years and Roger has always listened to the file - its usually a mistake the in the robots file.

There is an option to test your robots.txt file in GCS - while this is testing to see if Google will crawl the page - usually Roger has the same instructions as Google.

However if you are still pretty certain that Roger is ignoring robots.txt please DM your Server Logs and your website and I will take a look and analyse it for you (free of course).

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Andy

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The best way I have found is to look in your server logs, its the only true place to find out what Google is doing on your site.

Download the logs and look at all the 404 errors - quite simple and depending on size of your logs can take you around 5 minutes worth a work - the longer time period you can analyse in your logs the better.

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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

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The search Analytics in Search Console is now the only true way of finding out what key terms are driving traffic to your site.

The big differences between the two:

• you used to be able to drill down and see which keywords we're converting
• you could see which pages the users was landing on

You can have an educated guess about the second issue - but can't do the first.

In terms of how reliable the data is - its pretty accurate I would say its as accurate as the data was in GA, do I trust it 100% nope - but i never trusted the data 100% in GA. I use it to inform decision but don't use it as my only source of information.

Other ways to see what your ranking for is to use third party tools such as SearchMetrics and while this might give you which page ranks, it estimates CTR and traffic so is less reliable that Search Console.

Hope this is useful for you, if not feel free to get in touch.

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Andy

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Is there any issues with the campaign section?

https://analytics.moz.com/manage-campaigns

I keep getting a 404 error page.

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Andy

Hi Lee

I've just done the same search in Bradford and getting same results. While its unusual its not unheard of.

Its a bit difficult to say what you need to do to appear without looking at your site.

PM your site and I will take a look for you.

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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.

I am getting error messages from OSE - it just keeps saying 'loading data' and then after a while 'there was a problem getting your data'.

Any ideas what wrong, I really need this for a meeting this afternoon in 1.5 hours.

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Andy

Agree if the link is a nofollow then consider it, if its followed I would be to nervous about it.

If its nofollow find out how much traffic does the site generate, where does the site rank for the key terms.

If the site ranks number 1 (or top three) for 'window tinting' or what ever your targeted keywords are then go for it, however if you rank above them - whats the point potential customers would of all ready either seen your site and discounted it or been to your site and don't like you.

However that being said, if they rank below you but spend a lot on paid advertising, have a large email database and drive traffic that way it could be worth investing. The site might get a lot of direct traffic.

Forget SEO and put yourself in a potential customers head. Which site are you likely to see first the directory or your clients. Whats the customer journey.

Forget Google here - think of potential customers, they in the long run drive sales and Google second. I've never known Google by tinted windows before.

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Thanks, yeah I've done arguably the worlds greatest marathon, so every marathon I now do will never have the same atmosphere, but my first ever marathon was a quite one and they do have their benefits.

I will never qualify for Boston, maybe if I can still run a marathon at 70 I might have a chance.

I've got 19 weeks so I have decided to do it - the medal looks pretty cool.

Depending on the legs I may do one of the group runs as well.

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