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Peter,

Thank you, Here is the result i was talking about,

https://www.google.com/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=7rJVVef0EMGq8wfmwIGYBw&gws_rd=ssl,cr&fg=1#q=what+are+octave+bands

The search is for 'What are octave bands?' , Basically we are a manufacturer of sound level meters, but blog a lot about general acoustic related topics,

Thanks

James

Mozzers,

Google has recently begun to include some of our blog content within its knowledge graph, Not our company data for the branded searches, but within the results for general FAQ style questions and queries common to our industry. In a couple of cases using our content over Wikipedia which was really pleasing

My thinking is that this is not just general luck but that google likes our technical blog content and even as far as to promote it themselves and sees us as authoritative in this industry/field ? I see this as an opportunity to continue publishing if anything increase the frequency for this style of content to build up authority in this sector in the hope that google will look at our brand and maybe even our search positioning favorably. (Similar to the idea behind author rank possibly?)

Just wanted some general opinions from some knowledgeable Mozzers on this or if maybe i am thinking too far into it? Maybe there is something i should be looking at to further improve how favorably google looks at our content for inclusion in its knowledge graph?

Thanks

James

Thanks again Patrick,

Took a look through the article and subscribed myself to the Moz health, I will let things settle,

James

My Moz analytics campaign says i have lost some links since the last crawl on one of my sites,

Is there an easy way in moz to see which links these are i lost and where from?

James

If google is happy with your site in its mobile friendly testing tool https://www.google.co.uk/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/

Then i would think google would be pleased enough to not hurt your rankings, also if you see the 'mobile-friendly' label next to your site on a mobile device would be another indication.

Although i would think having your site suitable for as many many devices as possible would improve your user experience and have further positive effects on CTR'S, Bounce rates etc

Hope this helps,

James

Apologies not just fortnightly , you can set the frequency of backup yourself.... that just what i have set in the past

James

We use Backupbuddy

https://ithemes.com/purchase/backupbuddy/

Works a treat, fortnightly backups to Amazon S3 automatically, with Database or Complete Backup options,

Stores a backlog in case your most recent is not suitable if you use online storage, which i have restored multiple times,

Highly Recommended!

James

Haven't you just uploaded two variants of the same image/post twice?, and seeing as the default URL was taken Wordpress has just assigned the -2/ to the second upload ?

Maybe just redirect the second one in your htaccess file or just ensuring you have your rel="canonical" setup correctly will ensure googles doesn't penalize you.

Also just an extra note you could can add a sortcode which make any duplicate titles Unique like this... %%page%%  or %%term_title%% more available here https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-page-variable-inserting-extra-sep

Hope this helps a little,

James

Landon,

100% would try playing around with http://ubersuggest.org/

I find it useful for finding some of the high traffic searches around the industry, which can be used for blog article topic research.

For example if its an SEO blog, just a couple of searches like

What is link building? / What is SEO? / What is the best digital marketing software?

You will get lots of ideas that users have been searching for.

Hope this helps

James

Wow... Thank you very much for the replies and time taken to look at my problem.

I will take all advice on board and as Shawn advised carry on following best practice.

I am really happy to get some reassurance and second opinions on some of the spammy techniques they are using and  feel sure Google will catch up eventually

Thank you,

James

Moz Friends,

A very close competitor have always been challenging for similar competitive keywords. We seem to have the advantage for alot of long tail keywords but on one of the higher traffic relevant keywords they seem to do well.

I really struggle to understand why, particularly with the back links they use

Just my thoughts and notes on the two:

Our Page

• Better written text content (Maybe slightly written to for experienced target audience but we are working on simplifying things)
• Good Clear site URL structure and navigation for usability
• Fresh content updates
• Mobile optimized
• Reasonable page speeds
• Good on-page optimization
• Good back links from industry influences

Competitor Page Negatives

• Site structure and URL's are inconsistent and messy
• Lower quality content site wide
• They use tried and tested on page optimization methods like Keyword spamming, Bold Keywords,Underlining Keywords (Sarcasm)
• Terrible back links, all directories and free article submission sites (Seriously take a look)
• Less focused on page optimization
• Not mobile optimized

Most of the rest of the sites carry on the same sort of differences,

Engine: www.google.co.uk

Keyword: Sound level meters

**Our Page: **www.cirrusresearch.co.uk/products/sound-level-meters/

**Competitor Page: **www.pulsarinstruments.com/product-information/Sound-Level-Meter.html

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated please, i am really struggling to get my head around this

Thanks

James

You can use the Moz Crawl Tool, it exports all of your pages onto an excel document, its perfect for picking up duplicate content and broken links etc,

https://moz.com/researchtools/crawl-test

Quicker than waiting for your campaign to update,

James

I tend to use all Moz OSE, Webmaster tools and Majestic Crawler simultaneously to get the bigger picture as they all seem to pick up different links sometimes,

Just a thought,

James

Wow that's tough if the new site has different new content,

Yes i would,

But i would ensure the old site is up to the high standard also, I would ensure any significant improvements on the new site IE better quality content, better responsive design, better internal structure and navigation are mirrored across on the old site, I would review and merge the better aspects and content onto the older site as it has the better platform with the link/social profile etc,

I wouldn't want to you redirect which could be a better new site if the old site is not up to scratch, I would hope to get a second opinion from another Moz user on this,

James

I would think the Old depending on its current state,

If you can make any necessary changes to the old site without any technical limitations and maintain the back links and social profile then better than starting a fresh,

I wouldn't of thought the penalty would effect you long term if it has been fully rectified and was not for an overly serious offence,

James

William,

We don't use them after using them incorrectly in the past alongside categories and archives all fully indexed,

We now use categories only for post grouping content and navigation, category feed indexed as normal with tags taxonomies set to no index, follow within Yoast SEO to avoid any duplicate content issues,

Hope my view helps a little,

James

Thanks i strongly agree and much prefer Moz for technical seo tools from what i have seen,

However i am just looking for any feedback on what they offer to advise some co-workers, It is bloody expensive overtime also,

Mozz,

Some co-workers are looking into some of the of tools that Hubspot offer as part of there marketing package, I understand it is part of a bigger picture for the hubspot software and moz is much more focused on technical seo etc,

But i am just wondering if anyone had spent any extensive time using the hubspot software and has any feedback on the tools? Is there anything (Just the seo section) that moz cannot ? there are alot of really great moz tools i use that i haven't seen in the hubspot software, like the crawl test, the onpage grading doesn't look at as many aspects as moz, link information and opportunities looked limited compared to moz/majestic seo , no landing page tool like the one built into moz analytics campaigns and hubspot just generally seemed to provide less information ?

Any advice or feedback would be grealy appreciated ?

Thanks

James

Yes of course,

Just Archive it from the Campaigns Menu and it will stay intact until you need it again,

I regularly juggle between multiple campaigns as i switch focus,by archiving them,

Hope this Helps

James

Apologies the formatting is slightly off,

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