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Hi there.

I would recommend looking at backlink profile in OSE and ahrefs to see the spam score and difference between number in total links (in ahrefs) and number in links-which-matter (in OSE). This will get you an idea of how spammy/bad your backlink profile is. Also do competitor comparison. This will tell you how far behind you are.

As for DA drop - DA is relative number, if it went down, it doesn't mean anything until you compare with competitor DA changes. If theirs went down the same or more - good for you. Read this on this matter - https://moz.com/community/q/da-pa-fluctuations-how-to-interpret-apply-understand-these-ml-based-scores

And also do audit and competitor analysis on content. You might think that your content is super awesome, but still, look at what your ranking competitors have, what keywords they are using, how often they are using them and so on.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

I assume you're tagging for local image search results? If so, just make sure that Google understands those geotags (i guess by googling your tagged images and seeing if they come up). If Google does read those geotags, then it wouldn't matter what program you use.

Cheers

Hello, my friend.

My understanding is that it depends on brand/product importance/recognition. Is your brand big and known enough to make a purchase decision difference? Is your product big and known enough to make your brand grow?

Example:

"Nike Shoes" vs "Shoes by Nike" - first seems to make more sense, because as soon as you see first word "Nike" you dont have to finish the sentence - you know that it's shoes and they are good quality.
Now, compare that to this "Nike Shoes" vs "Self-tying shoes by Nike" - here second sentence makes more sense, because the main word is "Self-tying shoes" is the subject of "importance" and the word "Nike" adds extra super-coolness to it.

So, going back to standard situation of infamous products and brands - I think it would depend on what exactly you want to push. Usually companies choose to put product name first (gotta be good quality product), and then hope that the quality of product and word-of-mouth would grow the brand.

Hope this make sense and helps.

Cheers

Hi there.

Did you outsource the project or you have in-house team? Also, how do you get this information - Google Analytics or actual loading times in "Web Inspector" or something?

The reason it can be increasing is if while rebuilding the website developers used a lot of none-deferred JS and extra CSS, which is not optimized. So, if you have in-house team, tell them to optimize it. If you outsourced it - oh well. What you can use as a reference as well - Google PageSpeed Insights. They even provide "optimized" files (don't blindly trust those).

P.S. And, of course, if you need tech help - you can PM me or email me at dmitrii@regexseo.com

If you have ahrefs paid subscription, you can download all links, group them by domain. Then you can check those domains in moz's OSE for spam scores. Usually you'd know good domains, cause they are well known (or at least known in your industry). And the amount of the rest should be that large.

But this is what makes the difference:

Realistically I know I need more content on the site

If you think so yourself - that's what's "wrong"

Hi there.

I think people are forgetting that GMB and G+ is pretty much the same. As far as I understand, Google is actually moving from personal G+ to Business G+ and changing the name of the network. So, assuming that my thought is correct, I look at this: https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1057172?hl=en

And it says:

Tip: We recommend that you choose a photo that's 1080 x 608 pixels. The smallest photo you can choose is 480 x 270 pixels, and the largest photo you can choose is 2120 x 1192 pixels.

Hope this works.

Hello,

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2604777?hl=en That would be your main guidelines. Now, here are my questions/suggestions. How did you translate that website? Is it automatically generated through google translate? Have you done any other spammy stuff? Is your backlink profile clean?

According to Matt explainations in video above, it would have to be very good reason to mark your website as pure spam. So, if you just translated (properly) english website, then it shouldn't be the reason for taking manual action on your website. So, check everything else.

Now, as to your questions.

1. I think that would depend on is your "healthy" website really healthy. Because if it's actually as spammy (at least in the eyes of google), then you'll basically tell google "Hey, look at my another spammy website". But, I believe, if english website is all good and has no spam attached to it, then it shouldn't be a problem.
2. According to Matt, it will be pretty difficult to unmark your website and you'll have to spend a lot of time and effort on proving it. So, roll up your sleeves and get ready to work.
3. If you're translating it, you're pretty much rewriting it. I used to work as a translator and there is no way to translate word to word, the proper way of translation is when you translate the idea/thought/intent, not words itself.

Hope this helps.

Well, using GA for this is quite useless. It's very inaccurate. Use right click->inspect element->network tab for those times. Or webpagetest.org.

Hi there.

1. It might, if you got hundreds of them at the same time or a lot of those guest posts are duplicate content.

2. Most likely locality. Also the language of backlinking websites. Anchor texts also could be the reason.

3. I doubt there is something you can do in ten minutes and get your rankings back.

Now, here is a thing. While backlinks are a strong signal, it's far not the only signal. Have you done any other changes to your page recently? Have your competitor done any changes recently? How is your SEO? Technical SEO?

If you were ranking on third page, it means that fluctuations of +/- 2-3 pages are normal, since there were no "good reason" to rank your page anyway.

Hello, my friend.

It seems that you're forgetting that SEO is much much much bigger than number of keyword repetitions, connections and relations between two of those pages.

Do you have good UX and UI? How about good backlink profile? What about unique and awesome content on category/subcategory/product pages? Are you overstuffing/understuffing pages? What about brand awareness? If you're talking about shoes, are you targeting local market? if not, can you compete brand-wise with large corporations like Nike etc?

You're saying that you get 60% of all traffic to the article page, but traffic is mostly irrelevant. So, I don't see how it would help sales if you merge that article with shoe page - if you gonna get traffic to it, it's still gonna be sales irrelevant.

All online store websites, especially built on CMS are always about great content! Add an awesome sauce of backlinks and you get your exposure, rankings and so on.

Hope this helps.

Howdy.

Well, since all you are doing is updates css and adding pictures, but keeping url, text etc., you won't have any effect (positive or negative) on SEO whatsoever. SInce it's gonna look a bit better, maybe engagement metrics will go up, and it'll improve SEO, but that's a tall story to hope for

Hope this helps.

Oh dear..

Disavowing links does not guarantee bump in rankings whatsoever. What you need to be looking into is proper SEO and branding. There are lots of resources about it on this forum, here are couple:

https://moz.com/learn/seo

Hi there.

Google reserves the right to use whatever they think is best description the page/company in a title. Yes, they most often use title tag, but not always. If, for whatever reason, they think that title tag is not matching enough what the page is about, they can show something different.

Also, as you said, since you removed "Limited", it might take some time for Google to "realize" that.

Howdy!

Well, as we all know, Google is all about user experience now, and, with menu not working, something tells me UX will suck. So, yeah, I'd say menus shall be working either JS is on or off.

P.S. I think the problem originates from a lot of developers using bootstrap and such for sake of ease of development, which uses JS for menus.

Hope this helps

Howdy.

The only reason I would suggest disavowing is when the links are coming from spammy domains. So, if those dead domains were spammy - then sure. Otherwise it'll drop off on it's own without any harm.

Hope this helps.

Well, what you're saying is not true.

Example: if I search for "tree" the first result is not tree.com, because tree is a very generic phrase and tree.com doesn't have huge brand. However, if I look for "apple" apple.com comes up number 1,  due to brand associativity.

So, taobao is pretty generic word and, apparently, your brand is not big enough to overtake it. This is proved by category pages ranking high. Therefore invest in brand awareness and exposure.

As for Google "punishing" - i don't think so, because if you had some kinda penalty, it would be for domain, not for certain query. Basically, you wouldn't be rankings anywhere for anything.

Cheers.

Hi there.

Yes, I'd recommend to create new domain with new website, new brand name and content. Since you guys want to market it on it's own, it's going to be separate entity, so separate website/domain is needed. Yes, it's going to be more work in the beginning, but much less work than moving and rebranding (or "disonnecting" brands) in future. Additionally, there won't be any user-related confusion, which can happen if you put new brand on existing brand's website.

Cheers.

Hello, everybody.

Today I noticed that finally the latest release of mozscape update has been posted.

Now, I noticed that NONE of 25 campaigns websites NOR any of their competitors DA has changed. I do understand that DA can stay the same, but 25+25*3=100 websites domain authorities hasn't changed at all since August 4th (the date of previous mozscape release)?

Or is this happening only to me?

Please advise.

Just dug a little more.

Yes, my #3 thought seems to be correct. Basically, there is ajax or js which intercepts request and does its work.

However, I think that for rankings you actually would want ?page=x to rank, because if js is disabled in browser, then post request url might not work, you won't be able to bookmark and, if you change backend filtering, it won't exist.

Hi there.

Well, first, even though backlinks are awesome, not always it's a requirement to be ranking and become popular. As you mentioned, social media is your huge friend, especially in realty industry.

At the same time, even though "usual" people don't have website, there are other websites like ask.com, quora.com etc which everybody can use and give you backlink. Also there are other forums, which accommodate any user etc.