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Takeshi hit it right on. You could also look at adding more text (like a caption) that is relevant to the image. Link to it if you have to. Go into photoshop and add metas for the image. Oh, and what works for us in terms of image traffic nowadays are highly popular personalities or brands. They send a lot of traffic, but not that good of a quality

I would spend a lot of time on getting the links removed than just disavowed, at least for now. We get better results after doing disavows that had a bunch of links removed versus just relying on the disavow.

To answer your question, the link detox score is a good estimate. Since google treats each niche differently, you might want to look at that as a goal number to reach so you are within the average of the niche. But obviously, you have to still follow through with even better links. It's a pain!

I would just reach out to the former employee to transfer the whole page to you. Creating a duplicate will just lead to more problems down the road (plus an email from google themselves)

Like Takeshi said, it does affect with long tails, especially if you got a good deal of traffic from that before.

Aside from that, I wouldn't really mind too much. If it's a good site, it'll get some good comments again.

But yeah, disqus is a pretty good alternative but you probably have your reasons for going with Facebook only.

Good luck!

I would just pay for it myself instead of losing the whole account. If it's not that important of an account (low points and not much branding for you personally) then I would just create my own one

I hate it that they also removed the discussions tab. You might want to try buzzsumo.com Chenzo.

I would actually just try to mark it as fixed. 404's are not a big deal nowadays. It's just troublesome sometimes because WMT keeps bugging you about it, especially when you have links pointing to those pages.

Most likely a breach to your wordpress. If it's an old, outdated version, had vulnerable plugins or the server security was brute forced.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.batesmillstore.com/*

filter with Buy or Cigar

You'll see that it has been there for a while.

Secure your website, server. Check your backlinks for cigarette links and don't worry about those 404's too much.

could you post an example of the URLs you are seeing?

Ubersuggest and Keyword Researcher can help with getting keywords from Google instant. You could try Adwords and see there. You could try to find competitors as well, and use Semrush.

I see what Federico is seeing. So you should be ok.

I have experienced yoast's plugin conflicting with some themes though, when it came to title and description tags. Sometimes, Google indexes the theme's built in SEO title tag together with Yoast's plugin. It's weird, but I've seen it happen before.

It's actually a pretty sweet framework, easy to use and their child themes are great. I dropped Thesis back then because of Genesis.

Don't worry about hooks, just use basic hooks for now (they have a plugin) until you learn in time, they also have great tutorials.

Best thing about a widely used framework is that most plugins are compatible plus a lot of people write tutorials about how they fixed up their own sites.

Security wise, I haven't had trouble with it. As long as your server is tight and the plugins are properly configured, you shouldn't be worried too much.

Hi Tyler,

There shouldnt be any problems with this, especially with Google+.

If that's your only option, then that subdomain is fine. There are a lot of great sites that use that kind of url structure.

Like they said, compile/export everything, combine then remove duplicates and insert to the tool of your choice, like link risk, link detox or even rmoov if you want to contact these webmasters

Be sure to still check the list since it's never 100% right. Some good, natural links can be classified within their calculations of bad urls.

there's a little "i" information button on the right. Point your cursor there.

Either way, the duplicate url, should appear within the table as well

We try to keep it as basic as possible by using Bufferapp. Using tools with too many functions hurt productivity (in my case) for teams, especially if it's about social media.

Like Tommy above just said but you might have a reason for doing the homepage as the landing page so just noindex it, assuming they are just direct traffic landing pages

You have 5 identical sites but you want to solve the duplicate problem? Then change each site and their content?

Actually, they have such a great domain that they can get away with anything.

Normally, I would say if Zappos is doing it then just do it but internal linking too much hurts the UX in my opinion.

For my ecom sites, I also do this but I limit it to a certain number. I dont get it to link the word boots 10 times in one page to 1 category. It hasnt lost a beat so it's good.

Ill just give a practical response based from my own ecom projects

Category optimisation DOES wonders for impressions and SEO. You've seen it work.

In my case, increasing the content length DID help get more impressions but not conversions (directly)

If it helps people to make choices for products, go for it. If you are just increasing the length just for the sake of SEO, that's where you will need to make a judgement call.

Consider your traffic data and conversion funnels that you have right now and make the decision based on that.

Hell, if I was asked this personally, Id just say go for it, test it and see what happens, but like Doug mentioned, it might make you lose money if you are already converting well and that's the last thing we want to happen