Welcome to the Q&A Forum

Thank you sir for the pointing me in the direction of this material.

Cheers!

I have a website which has been up and running for around 7 years.   It contains relevant content, receives somewhat timely content updates and has not been involved in any poor marketing activities.

http://www.aleutianadventures.com/

That said, it has a very low domain authority and bounces around quite a lot in search results.

Any  thoughts on how to improve the sites current state.

Thanks a bunch!

Thank you, I have not been keeping up with things, so, nice to hear I am somewhat in the right track

So, I am using Wordpress and the seo by yoast.....  I have heard that meta keywords and descriptions are no longer recognized or used by search engines with respect to page rankings in the serps.  Is this true?  If so, why do people still recommend using these?  I thought content is  king these days?

Good point.  I did not know that.  I will look into it.  Thanks again!

Good point.  I did not know that.  I will look into it.  Thanks again!

Thank you for your insight.  This does happen to be a WordPress site and does run a little slow at times.  As I mentioned I have just come to know this site; I will keep and eye on it.

Thanks again!

Is it possible to have to many 301 redirects.  I am currently looking at 156 of them.

Does this create any quality issues with regard to site performance or any other issues.

Thank you for your consideration!

I hear ya.

Thank you!

Its a simple fix, just have to go up the chain of command w/out ruffling feathers..... I am the new guy.

Thank you.

Thank you for the responses... kinda what I thought...

My thoughts exactly thank you sir!

all pages

So, Im working in house with a large company.  They have a number of sites which are in need of content up dates etc.  In looking around, I noticed

meta name = 'robots'content='noindex,nofollow'

The IT person here who has influence as to what is or is not done; says it should stay that way.

It is my understanding and please correct me if I am wrong..... we generally would like pages followed and indexed.

I'm pretty sure by optimizing on page and making this change it could help the site.....

Thanks for your consideration!!!!

I have had good results with SEOMoz and find the tools easy to use and the information provided to be easily interpreted.

I would say the most recent issue by far was the outstanding problem to date.....

I have had a word press site hacked in the past......

Once we eliminated the issue.  I installed some additional security and changed passwords etc.

This seemed to take care of it.

I am not sure, but I want to say a plugin the customer had called Akismet may have played a role....?

Still not working for me either......

Yep, me too.

Seems like things are a mess right now with a number of tools.  Its not unusual for one item to be on the fritz, but multiple at the same time is a bit frustrating.