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what kind of content management system (CMS) is your website using? perhaps you could categorize your videos into an additional category/department etc/
also, if your CMS uses a tagging system it may just be as simple as tagging videos relevant to a topic (i.e. "sunday meetings") and then providing a sort link.
if you use a turn key CMS, there may be a 3rd party solution that will help you plug in organization functionality.
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11-10 is fairly low for page authority or domain authority.
what do their external links look like? are you sure you are showing ALL external links (any links to anything on the domain abc.com) and not just ones to a specific page (abc.com/specificpage.html).
if they are just linking to their domains from skeleton pages, to other skeleton paged domains, google will see that (which may explain the low authority). they should not be out-ranking you purely on the basis of links from their own domains, internal linking, and domain name matching.
if the authority scores are actually that low ("11-10" as you say), link building, building great content on your pages, and page optimization should help you pass them.
hi
these are all relatively high ranking /authority websites, so you will have a lot of work to do before you will rank above them.
what is the purpose of your website? are you a food blog? do you just really love breakfast cereal? are you really into the history of cereal? those are the kinds of things you can write about. if you are passionate about what you are talking about, you should be able to figure out the content end of it. if you're just trying to rank for a term, and don't have the content to back it up, it's going to be REALLY difficult.
community may also have a place on this. let's say you can tap into fans of kellog's cereals. go find them on facebook and twitter and pull them into your website content.
good luck!
hi
it could be a lot of things. google may be a/b testing changes and collecting data. any other seo related changes to your site may be "re-spidering" and temporarily swaying rankings while the new data "settles in".
additionally, if you are viewing this in your personal browser on google, cookied information (i.e. you are logged into google) may be affecting personalization results which can mess with the order of competitive results. location may be doing it to.
Did you just add your competitors to the list? it'll take a week or so for it to update.
somewhere on your root folder you will have a .htaccess file
.htaccess is a small server file that you can put conditions in. some conditions will redirect to a "new" location (your new folders) when the .htaccess detects a url to an "old" location. this is commonly called "mod rewrite".
the software used to issue these commands varies based on your web site host. contact them and ask them what rewrite/redirection software is on your account (for example, one common one is ISAPI rewrite:
Moosa is correct!
It may be tempting to "start fresh", but don't give up all that great information and link juice when you switch! 301 every product, and category page you can. these will be (301) permanent redirects that will tell google this is the new home of your website.
as to removing the hyphen, you may be able to do a 301 in your server's .htacess file. depending on what redirection software your host offers, the code for this will vary slightly.
hi
we've seen similar in our field, and yeah, it is pretty annoying. you are right in saying that the keyword match domain has less value than it used to.
have you taken the time to review their metrics in opensiteexplorer? (http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/). this may help you understand their backlink and trust metrics a bit more to understand if their site is ranking better beyond things like exact match domains. additionally, it will give you an idea for what "pocket" of links they've put their site in at which point you can go after those as well.
above all: build. great. content.
hi
to make sure i understand, you are putting more than one meta-description on a single page of content? generally you want one per page.
Agree with Tbrems here. The more info the better (see the zappos page here and click the "about the brand" link) http://www.zappos.com/nike-roshe-run-squardron-blue-sport-turquoise-gamma-grey-fiberglass#prdBrand
as to an actual link, i don't think i would link out as that takes the visitor off your site which you don't want.
i would cull some info from here:
http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo
additionally, i would explain the very basic idea of spidering, countered with the size of the job, to explain that ROI isn't going to be an overnight/1 month think.
hi,
you can do more than one page:
http://www.sundayschoolnetwork.com/pageaboutscheduls">
http://www.sundayschoolnetwork.com/pageaboutbustimes">
you wouldn't want http://www.sundayschoolnetwork.com"> on every page.
the point of this is to say to google "hey, this is the authoritative page about this specific topic on our site - if you see other URL's similar to this one, use this"
Also, should you do option #2 and your content system appends the URL with the "variant" (ex. ?product.php&whitestone), make sure the system is updated to post a concantation URL in the header.
Language is a pretty clear divider. I would do 2 company pages and just make it clear in the links to them which is what. That way you have 2 specifically targeted audiences.
One way to handle this is to change the content between the pages (the descriptions, titles, etc.) enough that you are no longer seeing the duplicate content problem.
Another option would be to pull the products (white, sandstone) into ONE product page that has a dropdown or menu selector to choose color. This would probably be less work than changing tons of descriptions, but it also may depend on your ecommerce platform. most platforms have a "variant" selector on product pages as this is a common problem (think: tshirts, clothing, shoe sizes, etc.).
Hope that's of some help!
i vote for JEREMYPARKER.NET
but if you are in a specific field, perhaps something like:
also, have you checked abbreviations?
heck, make up a middle name letter and use that:
A lot of "coments" plug ins will use javascript, which generally google is not so great at indexing. however, disqus and some of the larger players have "callback" systems that will let your comments get indexed into google for your site so you don't have to worry about it. i would suggest doing a trial on a few product pages you know have traffic. that way you can test a small segment and see if it's improving the traction on those pages.
hi -
it looks like the links you have on there are relevant to your website. that's good.
have you review the links you have there in open site explorer? are they QUALITY websites?
furthermore, are these websites linking back to you?
if the answer to the above 2 are both no, you may want to reconsider linking. there's nothing wrong with indicating you are a part of a community and link to relevant content, the the key is that it is actually relevant. if those sites are low in quality and don't reciprocate links, you may want to reevaluate.
work on getting more external links from relevant websites in your field. that will have a much higher impact that a page of links on your site. :>)
have you checked to see how often google is indexing the site? these may be affecting how "fresh" the results are in your target keywords. so, if it's only indexing once a month, you may not see a lot of change in search results.