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Hi there.

Well, you can't really report them. I mean you can, but it won't help. Basically, you are trying to report a normal website with nofollow (read no spam) links, with some information (as long as it's not autogenerated, read not spammy content). So, what I'm trying to say is as long as that website doesn't perform any spammy actions like generated content, bunch of follow links and such, it wouldn't matter what the "real" purpose of the website is.

A non-spammy website, which functions, looks, being updated from time to time will not be considered spammy, just because it helps your competitors.

I hope this makes sense

Hi guys.

For past 2.5-3 weeks We've been experiencing lots of changes in our rankings, unfortunately, mostly going down. Our website is regexseo.com. I Know there was a January 12 "core update" in Google Algorithms, but there is no any specific information I can find.

Now, here is what doesn't make sense to me and it's the same reason I'm worried if we are doing something wrong (or not doing something right? - we've been rankings for "web design houston" in positions 2-4 for years, and recently after months of work we finally got to positions 4-6 on "seo houston". But during last two weeks we got down to beginning of the second page

Our backlink profile is growing, traffic to website is growing over all and stable to main landing pages (+/- 5%), new content is being released/updated every week, nothing stupid or drastic is being done. All the metric tools are saying we are "supposed" to do really good.

Now, while we are going down, our competitors have some fluctuation (+/-2 positions, but not anything close to what we are experiencing).

Any ideas, thoughts, suggestions?

Hi there.

Well, I don't speak dutch, so I have no idea if it read well, however, if I search on page for main word - oh my! It surely looks very much stuffed.

Also if you try density tool, waterpijp+waterpijpen density is more than 7%. I know density number doesn't mean much today, but over 7%... Usually it's considered stuffed when over 2-3%. And "shisha" is another 2.18%. So, just from probability point of view, your every 10th word is your keyword, which might seem ok until you realize that it's keyword density over ALL words on page including navigation, sidebars etc. So in reality it's more like every 5th word.

Is it just me or it's stuffy in here?

Verdict: I would rewrite the text if it was for me

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Yes, it will. However, if you just rely on having "wedding" in your name to rank, it's not gonna make that much difference. Also it will limit you in terms of brand associativity, so, if you also do portrait photography, you surely can target it, but if i see your name, which says "wedding photography", i most likely gonna think that this is what you specialize in, therefore you are not good in portrait photography (even though it's pretty much the same, it's just psychologically different).

Hope this helps.

Hi. This is the way to find it: http://bfy.tw/1iK5

Hi there.

Well, there is no way to make Google display exactly what you want, but, what you might need to look into is the schema markup for your knowledge graph - https://developers.google.com/structured-data/customize/overview

Also, make sure you have image optimization on the website (alt tags, titles etc), as well as images on G+ account - it seems that that's where knowledge graph images are being pulled from.

Also you need to make sure that everything on your google my business account is properly setup.

And, finally, you can call google and ask them to look if there is anything wrong going on. Other than that - it's the matter of time.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

It's more of a technical problem, so rather than looking for an answer on a forum, please email to help@moz.com with explanation of your issue and account credentials - they'll look into it for you.

Here is an awesome guide to backlink building: https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-link-building

And here is a post on how to do Technical SEO: https://moz.com/blog/technical-site-audit-for-2015

I assume you are new to SEO, and I would recommend for you to either hire a professional or take SEO classes. It's gonna be good investment for sure.

Cheers:)

Hi there.

Go to Google Webmaster Tools/Search Console and request manual recrawl of that page.

Hi there.

Here is a code solution - it adds " - Page: X" where X is a number of page. Add it to functions.php file of wordpress:

<code>php # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-/**
 * Plugin Name: T5 Add page number to title
 * Description: Adds ` | Page $number` to the page title.
 * License:     MIT
 * License URI: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
 */if(! function_exists('t5_add_page_number')){function t5_add_page_number( $s ){global $page; $paged = get_query_var('paged')? get_query_var('paged'):1;! empty ( $page )&&1< $page && $paged = $page; $paged >1&& $s .=' | '. sprintf( __('Page: %s'), $paged );return $s;} add_filter('wp_title','t5_add_page_number',100,1); add_filter('wpseo_metadesc','t5_add_page_number',100,1);}</code>

According to Google, they don't use any Google Analytics related data for rankings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgBw9tbAQhU

Is it a type of commercial warfare by competitors?

No, it's spam, which is targeted towards your curiosity - "oh, I got this visit from this website. Let me check it out".

The only negative effect is polluting your GA reports and data. Fortunately, there is a way to setup filters and block all ghost and referral spam. Here is an article - https://moz.com/blog/stop-ghost-spam-in-google-analytics-with-one-filter

About experience with it - yes, I have been fighting it for quite long time by now and what I see is that the amount of referral and ghost spam to our website grows like crazy, however rankings are not  affected at all. At least, they are growing, accordingly to our SEO work.

Hi there.

It's quite confusing the way you asking this question - they want two websites, but you gonna make one website? I understand you can use subfolders or subdomains, but if they are exactly the same restaurant, will they have different content? Do they want different designs? If so, what is going to be on main domain?

My suggestion would be to do one website with two location pages. This way, since content is the same they won't have duplicate content issues and it won't be confusing to users in case of different websites with different designs for the same restaurants.

Hope this makes sense.

Hi there.

Sounds like redirect loop. Check your htaccess.

Hi there.

I looked at your website, and, as you said, there are no external links really. I wonder if MOZ crawler considers your own website as external, since you are using absolute paths, rather than relative ones.

Try changing them to relative links (I personally prefer that due to faster loading and ease of work) and see if MOZ changes it's errors report.

Cheers!

Hi there.

I think you might find this q/a helpful https://moz.com/community/q/how-does-indeed-com-make-it-to-the-top-of-every-single-search-despite-of-having-aggregated-content-or-duplicate-content

Hi there.

No, IP canonicalization doesn't make any difference, due to the way of how dns works. Even if you do this type of canonicalization, your website still will have that ip, it's kinda like a pointer. Kinda like geo coordinates vs address. It's the same place, and even if you rename the street, you still have the same coordinates.

Read this here, it might help: https://moz.com/community/q/how-to-do-ip-canonicalization

Hi there.

Yes, you should. Especially if summary contains parts of full article content or is very close in its content. Basically, if there is any chance that summary can rank for keyphrases, same as full article - do canonicalizing.

Hope this helps.

Ok, so, here is how I understand it.

Google knows if domains are parked, and don't index, and, may be, don't pay any attention to those pages whatsoever (at least it would make sense). Here is a link to Matt Cutts video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF8i6rKojXQ

So, there is a good chance that those parked websites do not have any influence in any way. However, if, for whatever reason, google doesn't recognize some of them as parked (let's say 1%, which will equal to 200+ websites), and "assigns" duplicate content "tag" to those, you might get hit by correlation. Somewhat "friend of my enemy is my enemy" system. Therefore, if unique content is not possible, nofollowing all those links might be not too bad of an idea.

I would recommend sample testing. Unfollow links on large enough amount of those domains, see how it affects rankings etc., in a month or so, put those links back to follow, wait, see how it affects, then do the same with another sample. This will allow to figure it out pretty accurately within couple months for sure.

If you do do that, write a case study, post it here, it will be interesting case to look at

Cheers:)

Hello, my friend.

Well, I have done both ways on different websites and I've seen both ways work fine. However, just to cut time on adding schema and potential problems (who knows how google gonna treat duplicate schema tomorrow), I tend to add local business markup to header OR footer and use contact page for contactPoint markup. This has been working swell for me.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

I would say it's not the best way to do it like that. I'm not entirely sure how google would react to this. There are couple way to check it. Basically, google bots are very similar to any other bot, so, you can use, let's say, a facebook debugger, or check your MOZ tools, see what they say. If those tools are saying there are errors, then google most likely will say the same.

Hope this helps.