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Alright, i think i found your problem.

Do you have lashgroup campaign set up for http://lashgroup.com?

instead of http://www.lashgroup.com? Do you have proper redirects from non-www to www version (or vice versa)?

Check screenshots.

P.S. As far as i understand, moz is looking for exact match of domain when retrieving rankings for your reports. so, www and non-www make a lot of difference.

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Howdy.

This is very strange. So, does your dev team block all bots? How about search engine bots? 0.o

Anyway, the 302 redirect is not the way to go. If you'd like to manage bot access, use robots.txt, htaccess rules or simply filter it out afterwords in reporting tools.

Hope this helps

try different tools - semrush or any other. Also simply moz rank tracker.

Oh, that's when you click on that three dots icon, it's right below "invite friends".

Hi, sorry, I must have saw something what didn't exist. So, don't mind what I said about that. However, if I go to http://chemometec.com/product/nucleocounter-nc-200/ it has canonical to http://chemometec.com/cell-counters/cell-counter-nc-200-nucleocounter/ which, in turn, has canonical to http://chemometec.com/journal/nucleocounter-nc-200-the-most-precise-cell-counter/ which does have canonical to itself, meaning that canonical link tag points to http://chemometec.com/journal/nucleocounter-nc-200-the-most-precise-cell-counter/

Why to have this type of chain canonicals and also self-canonicals? I think it'd be better to canonicalize to the "end of chain", and for that "end of chain" don't have a canonical whatsoever.

Hi there.

I always go with human element. But at the same time you also can use number data as well. So, the way you can approach it is to do research for those keywords nationally - since such keywords are not strictly local (unlike apple store near me), there is gonna be pretty much straight forward correlation between national and local amount of searches.

Meaning that if nationally "baby photographer" gets more searches than "baby photo studio", then the same will be happening locally. So, look at national results to find out the "human element", and then you also can check local numbers to see if you get better ideas.

Hope this makes sense.

As I said use robots.txt or htaccess rules for bots, where you would be able to allow access to specific bots like seofrog (at least temporary). Or, maybe they can allow seofrog to crawl it temporarily or something.

As for Google bot - try to "fetch as google" within Google Search console. See what response there is.

Hi there.

I would say use all available tools like you mentioned + Ahrefs, Screaming Frog etc + Simply googling exact match links. Build up a combined list of returned results, get unique links. This is really the best way to accumulate all those links.

See the screenshot below.

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Yoast automatically creates canonical links to itself, unless you specify otherwise or "teach" Yoast to behave otherwise.

Hi there.

Many use SEMRush (I do to). Also There is Moz Content. It's not really a keyword research, but rather topics research, using which you can come up with keywords as well. The same type of tool is BuzzSumo.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Well, I recommend braking that pages into two different pages. If that is completely out of the question, I recommend version #2 to tell people that you offer both of the services.

P.S. I hope these are not actual titles, but examples, otherwise you need to expand on them

Hope this helps, Cheers!

I assume that there are not that many results being returned?

Yeah, that would be the bad part - I believe there is nothing really can be done about that.

Maybe before changing URL, you can do some type of announcement on the page, saying something like "hey guys, we are about to change our FB url, here is what it gonna be". Also do similar email blast.

I reeeeeally doubt that.

Now, what are you seeing? attach a screenshot

Hi there.

NOINDEX !== no crawling.  and surely it doesn't equal NOFOLLOW. what you probably should be looking at is canonical links.

My understanding is (and i can be completely wrong) that when you get hit by Panda for duplicate content and then try to recover, Google checks your website for the same duplicate content - it's still crawlable, all the links are still "followable", it's still scraped content, you aren't telling crawlers that you took it from somewhere else (by canonicalizing), it's just not displayed in SERPs. And yes, 80% of content being noindex probably doesn't help either.

So, I think that what you need to do is either remove that duplicate content whatsoever, or use canonical links to originals or (bad idea, but would work) block all those links in robots.txt (at least this way those pages will become uncrawlable whatsoever). All this still is unreputable techniques though, kinda like polishing the dirt.

Hope this makes sense.

Hi there.

Check out these two whiteboard fridays - it will help you:

https://moz.com/blog/cant-do-keyword-research-like-its-2010-whiteboard-friday

https://moz.com/blog/discovering-prioritizing-best-keywords-whiteboard-friday

Howdy.

Here is my opinion - there is no better analogue than recaptcha. Google has extremely fast servers, they think about loads and amount of requests. So, make sure that recaptcha is being loaded asynchronously, so it doesn't affect your visual time loading. Otherwise, do something custom like extra field "two plus two = ". The only problem with such thing, is that it's gonna be easy to hack.

Hope this helps

Hi there

Well, here is my thought:

1. Let's say you had a domain old-domain.com with bunch of good backlinks;
2. You got rebranded (or whatever) and got new domain new-domain.com;
3. You did a 301 domain redirect from old domain to new domain (which is a well known good practice and recommended by everyone, since, as we know, 301 pass goodies along);
4. Would it count now that you have a backlink (any benefit) from your old domain?

I don't think so. Otherwise everyone would buy 10000 domains and did 301 redirects from them to their main domain, right? So, to me it seems that shorteners have the same logic.

Hope it makes sense

Hi there.

I haven't dealt with such problem before, but here is an idea - what if you "user upload" new nice images, which will get +1s and shares - in theory this should push unwanted images down, out of sight. Or at least out of first glance sight This might help a little while you wait for google to remove bad images.

Hope this helps

Hi there.

Well, here is a bummer for you - metrics don't matter. If we were in perfect world, yes, the websites with higher metric scores would be ranking higher, but it's not true at all. There are so many factors Google is including in their algorithms, and nobody knows what those are.

Instead of looking at metrics, look at actual content, on-page optimization. What about technical SEO? Also some of your backlinks have high spam score - that might be hurting.

As for penalilzation - if you were penalized, you for sure wouldn't be #4 - you'd be number #104 if ranked at all. Check your Google Search console for manual actions, if there are none, then you are not penalized, you just need to work harder on your SEO. Which area you ask - nobody really can give you better answer than yourself. You know your website best and you know which areas are the weakest (on subconscious level for sure).

Hope this helps.