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Hi!
I agree with Chris. As long as Google is able to tell that the links should be pointing to your website, and aren't some sort of spammy link scheme, then having links from websites in other languages is fine!
Just make sure that the websites you are getting these links from are relevant and have a high domain authority so they will pass on the link juice to your website.
Hi there!
While I typically use Keyword Planner and Moz Keyword Explorer, there are a variety of other keyword tools that you can try, including:
For more detailed information on any of these tools, check out this website: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/10-alternatives-googles-keyword-planner/167440/
Hope this helps you on your search for keywords in the Belgium market! Good luck.
Hi there!
Search engines have gotten smarter in the past few years and should be able to determine that the keyword (with AND without an apostrophe) means the same thing. I wouldn't worry about the keywords you're tracking and the keywords you're using within your content if the only difference is the apostrophe usage.
Hi EcommerceSite!
Would love to help you figure this out - please PM the URL. Thanks!
I agree. This is going to make the title tags too long. Instead build out individual service pages for each location so you can include the city in the title tag of each of those pages.
Hi pragnesh9639,
Do you have Google Analytics installed on your website? This is definitely the most accurate way for you to dive deep into the data and see how your website is performing in Google organic search results.
Unfortunately, I don't know of a tool or website to check the organic results of (competitors) websites that are not yours.
Hi Mark!
In regards to your question about keyword stuffing, I agree with Chris. Stick with what other leaders in the industry are doing. Google should also be able to see that this is a particular product name, and should be able to differentiate that you are describing a name vs. stuffing keywords within the content with the intention of trying to rank.
All I can really say is to use your best judgement. Track, test, tweak, repeat until you get into a rhythm that seems to work best! Hope this helps.
Hi There,
There could be several different issues you've run into here:
One issue could be that there is a site coding error. I would refer to your team of webmasters for this and have them double check all URLs and coding structures to see if they can determine the issue themselves. It is possible that Google is having a hard time reading, crawling and indexing your pages.
Go into your Google Search Console and check your inbox/messages! Whenever Google finds an issue with your site (and it looks like in your case, it has) you will receive an email in your Google Search Console inbox.
You should still have specific results for Google Referrals, this data should not have randomly turned into organic.
Hope this helps!
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Hi there!
I have a few questions for you to get a better idea of the situation. Did you redesign the site? Did you change your hosting company? Did you change who has access to the back-end of the site? Did you canonical any pages?
Any of these could be impacting the changes you're noticing with your indexed pages!
Hi Becky!
You should be able to find the answer on here: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/132596?hl=en
Let me know if you have any trouble with that, thanks!
Hi MissThumann,
Wouldn't it be nice if they could just tell us what we all need to do to rank well? #wishfulthinking
As you probably know the ranking factors are not appreciably different for Bing/Yahoo than for Google, but you will always see some disparity between them. Based on this, I suggest that you make sure you are as diligent with your Bing Business Listing as you are with Google. We tend to put a major focus on Google, but ensuring that your Bing Business Listing is verified and filled out completely is an important starting point. That will assist you in locally ranking for Bing queries. Otherwise, look at those ranking ahead of you and see what they are doing you are not, then see if you can manipulate a page to rise in the rankings.
If you aren't try using Bing Webmaster Tools so you can find better insights into which pages are getting traffic through Bing and which aren't so you can determine which pages might need the content tweaked for Bing.
Like Julie suggested, find out how important it really is for this website to be ranking on Bing (or Yahoo). Do these search engines bring in enough traffic for you to devote a lot of time trying to decode the algorithm? Or are you better off putting most of your eggs in one basket with Google?
Good luck!
The Moz website currently says "Until the new experience launches, we've closed the submission process for the old YouMoz Blog, and existing YouMoz posts will remain available at their current URLs." so stay tuned to be able to guest blog!
Hi Charles!
I would love to help but I need a little more details to provide an answer that will really help you improve your campaign!
To get a jumpstart on improving your rankings in the SERPs, I recommend asking yourself the following questions about your website:
All of these factors could be reasons why you might not be performing as well as some of your competitors. Then, take this same this of questions and run it by the top competitors ranking for the keywords you want to rank for. This will give you a better idea of where you stand, where they stand, and how to outperform them.
Unfortunately, sometimes a drop like this is to be expected. Think about it - now you have a brand new domain age. Before, your older domain was helping your rankings. While that is not the only this negatively hurting you, it is one that is a big deal for the authority of your website.
I would work on building our your new website (both service pages and blogs) to indicate that you are THE authority in your local service area. Like Jordan said, definitely ensure that all your local citations are correct and updated with the new domain. If there are any inconsistencies this could be negatively impacting your rankings.
Rebuilding your rankings on a new domain can take time, so although this is not ideal, be patient and hopefully you will see an increase in rankings shortly.
Hi Alexa!
In order to solve problem one, I would choose which domain you want to use (it would be a great idea to use Moz's Open Site Explorer tool to see the domain authority of each of these URLs), and redirect the other URL to the preferred domain. If you don't want to redirect the one website, you could leave both sites up and running just like it is and use the robots.txt file to stop the search engines from indexing one of the domains.
Let me know if you need anymore help!
I highly recommend putting a 301 redirect in place for any links like the one you mentioned above.
Google wants the ensure that users have a great experience when in your website, and if there's even a slight chance that their visit could be interrupted by a broken link, you could be dinger. To stay safe, I recommend redirects.
Hi Greg,
I know some companies use Zerys. They have an abundance of writers who specialize in different topics and are at different price points. They're definitely an option you should check out!
Hi Aceturtle! Like Kristina said, you wrote this on the Moz Q&A forum. To get a more direct response from a Moz representative that can assist you with your subscription cancellation, you will need to contact them directly.
Go to the help page to content them: https://moz.com/help/contact
Hope this helps!
Hi Joao,
One thing that you might try to do to differentiate the content from search engines' perspective is add schema markup designed for job postings.
Schema helps search engines understand what the content on a page is or is describing, and you can specify things like:
Adding this information will give search engines much more context about what the content is about, and may help your issue.
Hope this helps!
I would perform an 80/20 analysis and see if these pages are driving any traffic to your website. If they aren't performing well, I would delete them and redirect them to similar pages or back to the homepage.
I agree with Bernadette about checking Open Site Explorer. You want to makes sure you are not going to be giving up any valuable backlinks that these pages might have generated.