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Hi, it's difficult to say without knowing anything about your site. Would you be able to share a link to it?
The other possible reason - and I am not saying this is the case - is if you have had any used any overseas backlinking service that could be based in these areas. Could that be the case?
Peter
Hi Tony, the video seems up to date (or near to) as far as I can see. It shows the breadth of things that Moz can do in terms of keyword research.
I am wondering if you are referring to keyword suggestion? That is one area which Moz's tools don't provide much support with other than on the Find New Keywords tab which only lists keywords that your Google Analytics reports your site has been found for. What Moz's tools don't do is take a seed keyword and provide suggestions based on that seed that you may also optimise for.
Peter
Thanks too Mat for your feedback.
Yes, I can see it displayed for that search too. In fact testing further if you type "things to do in portsmouth" it shows for that as it does for "things to do in <location>" so that implementation seems consistent.</location>
I haven't found any carousels displayed for service type searches in a location, e.g. hotels bournemouth. In that case it still just shows the Google Places results, but I guess carousels for that may come.
Thanks again,
Peter
Thanks Andy for your research on this - much appreciated. Yes, I see that too.
Seems a limited roll out at the moment, but no doubt it will increase.
Peter
Hi, I have seen a situation before where GWT says that no images are indexed but they have indexed them. I don't know why.
Checking Google directly, by searching site:thesalebox.com and then clicking the Image tab shows that Google do have images indexed on your site, maybe not all, but there are some so maybe more are being indexed:
Peter
HI Paul
First to say congratulations on your site. My daughter used it recently before taking her UK driving test! I expect your site is quite a labour of love keeping it up to date?
I have to say looking at your current site I don't think there's a lot wrong with what you have now. OK, it doesn't follow the country code / language code convention (which you have included in the new structure), but there is no particular URL structure required by Google I know and I guess it's the same with Bing and Yahoo.
Have you had a look at Google's FAQs on internationalisation here: https://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/faq-internationalisation ?
So, for your URL structure proposed above there is nothing in particular I would pick up on.
Just one things re SEO on your site and one on commericiality...
Your best asset re building the site SEO wise will be your articles area. Grow that and add lots more useful articles for learner drivers.
Commercially, I think it is a great idea to add Insurance searches on your site, but (1) I think they are hidden where they are in terms of encouraging a call to action and (2) at the moment the dropdown combobox doesn't seem to be working.
Again, well done on your site. All the best to you.
Peter
Hi Mike
I doubt that this will help, but one thing I have seen recently is missing campaigns in Moz Analytics that are shown in Moz Pro. I have also seen someone saying yesterday on the Q&A that they were missing campaigns the other way around.
As I say, I doubt this will the case in your situation, but it may be worth checking if they are in Analytics or vice versa in Pro.
Peter
Hi all,
I am looking at doing some Google Places work for a client and so have been looking at updated info on this having been a while since I added/updated an account.
I have read reports of a recent change which shows a Carousel for some local searches. However, it appears this is only showing in the USA as I haven't seen it at all on Google UK.
Does anyone know when this will be coming to the UK?
Thanks in advance,
Peter
Hi Andy
If the hair salon owner only wants to target Sheffield and nowhere further afield, then one option to guarantee page one attention would be Google Adwords.
Whilst local SEO is easier because of the smaller target demographic, the city of Sheffield is quite large as you say, so if he is wanting to target quickly after a rebrand then that may not work as quickly as he wants through organic SEO.
I hope that helps,
Peter
Hi, my recommendation would be the latter - their brand page on your website. There is more context that way and the link (which hopefully they will agree to make a "follow" link) will pass good value to your web page so that page will rank higher for that brand because of it.
I hope that helps,
Peter
Hi Jake
Depending on how long they have had their current domain (i.e. the one like soccershoes.com), then it may be better to focus their attention in optimising some of the pages on that site for US market.
One of the ranking factors for a site is the domain's authority which in part is based on its age. For a new domain there is no authority to start with, so if the existing domain they have is older and is already online and earning authority then concentrate on that one. The other domain they have just bought can then be redirected to the existing one, but there isn't any great SEO value in doing that.
Exact match domains like ussoccershoes.com used to be a quick route to target being ranked for search terms but because they have, Google is not paying so much attention now to ranking them well, especially when they are new domain. That isn't to say it wouldn't be possible to rank a site like that for the search term, but at the end of the day it comes down to having lots of good unique content for the keywords you are targeting.
I hope that helps,
Peter
Hi, I don't understand how you can do a 301 redirect on a YouTube video because the YouTube video is hosted on YouTube not on your web server where you would have the authority to create a 301 redirect.
Maybe I am missing something here but I am not really clear on what you are asking. Where have you picked up this idea from?
Peter
Hi Zulfiqar
In your other question you were asking about how to rank highly for a specific term. Yes, I would highly recommend at this stage you look at having a clear idea of what business you want to be in as you have suggested and a business that would interest you. Also, where you can bring expertise.
It's easy to get sucked into using different tools and techniques with SEO, but the bottom line is about having a strategy, one that looks at your business and what you have to offer and about the type of customers you want to be able to reach with your business. Search engines are really the glue in the middle that connects your business with them and them with you.
I hope that helps,
Peter
Hi Coleman
As Matthew says, but also, if you created accounts in Moz Pro and then went for the try out of Moz Analytics. You campaigns at that stage would have been migrated to Moz Analytics, but if you then created more campaigns in Moz Pro, those campaigns will be missing from Moz Analytics.
Peter
Hi Zulfiqar
You do not say what type of site you have, i.e. what you site is about, but I am guessing a site about IT recruitment?
It will be important for you to build a site with pages containing good unique content about the search terms you want to be found for and other things like that, but don't get too hooked into tactics and techniques. Think about the people you want to find your site and what they are looking for and the questions they may have. That should drive the type of pages and content you create.
Yes, Moz videos will be a good start for you in the Moz Academy and also read Moz's Beginner's Guide to SEO. Both will give you a good kickstart into what you want to be able to do.
Good luck to you,
Peter
Hi Steve
Others will comment on this I am sure and how effective your strategy may be. The article here may also help you.
Peter
Hi Mike
I have no experience of Attracta, but if, as you say, what they are offering "doesn't exactly sound white hat", that would worry me.
The last couple of years have seen many sites experience loss from 'not exactly white hat' link building. You can get quick climbs in keyword ranking, but if your site gets slapped it could suffer a long time in obscurity. The net result is not worth it.
But as I say, I have no experience of Attracta so my issue is not with them because what they do may be totally fine. All I would say is if in doubt be cautious.
I hope that helps,
Peter
EDIT: I suggest it is also having a look at this page which may help you to qualify what may or may not work for you: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356?hl=en
Hi Lara
This isn't a Hummingbird issue. From the sound of it, you may have been hit by Penguin 2.1.
To start with you may find it helpful to read this article: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/penguin-2-1-changed-since-2-0-recover/72977/
Peter
Hi Iris
OK, I think I can see what you mean. About 20 lines down there is a block of inbound links showing as coming from your domain. Is that what you mean?
It's a good question. I think this is to do with the fact that you use absolute URLs in the links on your website and not relative URLs.
An absolute URL to a page is like this: www.mydomain.com/mypage.html whereas a relative URL is like this /mypage.html
If you use absolute URLs to link internally then because they have the full path including the domain then I think that is being seen as an inbound link, whereas if you use relative URLs that don't include the domain they are not seen as inbound.
The report shows inbound links and not **internal **links so there is a subtle difference. If you run the same report on your site using Open Site Explorer that provides a filter which allows you to see inbound links that are only external or only internal. Using these filters hides the block of links you are seeing when filtering external only and shows them when filtering internal only.
See here: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links.html?page=1&site=villasdiani.com
I need someone to verify this but I think this is the reason.
Peter
Thanks for including that screenshot Iris.
Regarding villasdiani.com/?db being shown as one of your top visited pages, I think (and perhaps someone from Moz will confirm this) that because you have been receiving links to your site to villasdiani.com/?db and that is probably also being recording in your Google Analytics, it considers that to be a page when it actually isn't.
As I mentioned earlier in our conversation on this, villasdiani.com and villasdiani.com/?db are actually go to the same page. They are just seen as different because you have had inbound links to villasdiani.com/?db and as said before when the query string ?db is not processed by the web server because there is not recognised, it is then ignored.
I have run a search to see what external sites/pages are linking to villasdiani.com/?db and the following were some of the results:
http://dianibeach.com/airservices/index.html
http://dianibeach.com/apartments/index.htm
http://dianibeach.com/bedbreakfast/index.htm
http://dianibeach.com/books
http://dianibeach.com/carhire
http://dianibeach.com/golf
and they are showing as all having had the anchor text of "Raul".
Is Raul the name of this guy you know who said he was giving links to your site from the footer of your site?
I have checked the source code of some of the pages above villasdiani.com/?db.
The data being reported by Moz for these type of reports is not totally up to date but taken from the last crawl they made. You said at the start of this thread that you had asked this guy to remove the links to your site. Could it be that in the last few days or so he has done that and so from now on you won't be getting any links to villasdiani.com/?db ?
That's possible, but I cannot say that is definitive, but it would explain what you have been seeing.
Maybe someone from the Moz team can throw some light on this or one of the other more knowledgeable forum members.
Peter