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Is there a site on the domain at the moment, or has there been one recently?
If there is you could see how well indexed it is (site: command), see if it ranks for it's own brand terms, and even moderately competitive terms.
You can also run the site through opensiteexplorer and see how dodgy the external link profile is.
Labels are used to categorize your posts, used correctly they can be helpful. Instead of re-iterating what these posts say, I'll just point you to them:
http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=44498
http://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.com.au/2010/04/categorising-your-posts.html
http://www.blogdoctor.me/2007/06/everything-about-labels-in-blogger.html
Hi Chris,
You might be better off checking out the API discussion board here: https://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293196-developer-discussion-group
Or contacting the API support via api@seomoz.org
Good luck!
If anyone else is interested in this topic, Enrico Altavilla pointed me in the direction of this Matt Cutts video, which encourages the practice. The comments are pretty damming, however.
These appear to be tools to check if the site has been black listed for email spam. While it's good to check for when buying a domain, it won't tell you if Google has penalised the site.
Forget about forcing 4 subpages of low quality content just because you read that somewhere.
If you don't have the content don't create subpages.
You might want to track things like # of links on a regular basis (monthly) from multiple sources (OSE, Ahrefs, Majestic, GWT). You might also track DA over time using OSE.
You'd also want to look at how the link building is affecting your organic search rankings and traffic.
Hi Jan,
I posted a similar question just the other day (http://moz.com/community/q/thoughts-on-proactive-link-disavow)
Sheldon commented on that question with a link to an interesting G+ Hangout where they touched on it slightly. You might want to check that out.
I also posted the question on G+ and got a number of replies which may be interesting to checkout:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/112470203895742795102/posts/gAXXxDWMLNS
Like most things SEO, there are people on both sides of the fence. One side suggessts that you don't want touch the disavow tool unless you get a warning email (or penalty) from Googs. The other side are all for regularly, proactively disavowing junk. You may need to take all the available info into consideration and make your own judgement call.
Hope this helps.
You may not like this answer as I'm not going to recommend some service which makes it easy to find quality blogs that will accept your content. Because that service does not exist. There are plenty of sites offering such services, but the quality of sites that partake are typically pretty sketchy. A few years ago this may have been an option, but now that guest posting has blown up, those sites are ineffective in my opinion.
If you want real results, you'll have to do some outreach to secure posts on awesome sites that aren't simply a free-for-all accepting posts from anyone. Of course, this means the content you put forward has to be equally, if not more awesome.
With Wordpress you can no-index category pages, tags, author pages, archives etc.
Most of the SEO plugins let you do this, I know Yoast's plugin does it for sure.
Also make sure your site is using canonical tags and you should be good.
Everyone is going to have their own personal fave's, but top 3 are:
Raven Tools for an all-on one interface (un till last week anyway) still nice for streamlining reporting
BuzzStream for outreach prospecting and management
SEOmoz for crawl / on-site issues
(obviously Google's suite of Analytics, Webmaster Tools, Adwords, Insights & Alerts go without saying!)
Agreed, building authority on one site trumps trying to work on multiple - otherwise you are doubling your efforts and splitting your results.
Hi Guys,
I'm managing a campaign targeting multiple cities across the country. The campaign is using DKI to display locations in ad titles. Is the following example the best way to handle it (example data only):
Ad headline: {KeyWord: Local Chocolate Delivery}
Keywords:
chocolate delivery
chocolate delivery Dallas
chocolate delivery Austin
Etc etc?
Yoast's is an SEO plugin, Jetpack is quite broad and varied (and not really SEO focused at all) in what it offers, so I don't believe it's an either/or decision.
See: http://jetpack.me
If the blogger's sites are new/small/not well linked to themselves, it may take some time the mozbot to discover the links to your site. You should also consider the last time OSE was updated (Feb 12th 2013) and run another check the next time it's updated, looks like next update is set for March 12, see:
https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule
Start with the SEOmoz SEO Guide - it covers most of what you are after, once you have the basics down start looking through (searching) SEOmoz blog posts to get more specific on each of the 4 areas you've outlined.
I think you should implement meta noindex to prevent duplicate content issues.
Have you considered scaling the task, rewriting perhaps the top 20% of products to begin with?
It is a massive undertaking, but I think you'll find it'll be worth it.
How recently?
OSE's index was last updated on May 15, if it was later than that, you won't see any data. Next update is due on June 12. But to be blunt, wix is horrible for SEO - get a self-hosted Wordpress install, with a few plugins you'll be on the right path.
Hi guys,
Wondering if anyone can comment on their experience using Adroll, especially in terms of it's performance in comparison to Google Adwords retargeting campaigns.
Thx!