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The whole reason I'm doing it is for pushing ROR down - please read P.S. part of my original message.

They do have various social media profiles, branch websites and other directories ranking for their name, but they all rank below ROR - that's the issue.

Checked the basics - all good as far as I understand.

It is new campaign, running for less than a week.

Now, there is a problem with CTR - the amount of impressions is very low, and there are no clicks so far, so CTR is 0%.

I will do some optimizations for sitelink descriptions.

Thanks for your help

Thanks for reply!

Yeah, I thought it would be "illegal"

Now, about sitelink extensions. I have created them and they are showing, however, descriptions for those sitelinks are not showing. Any idea why that can be happening?

Hi guys.

Can I have 2-3-4 ads come up for the same keyphrase? The situation is:

I'm bidding for client's company name, there is no other competition (nobody else bids for client's company name), I'm bidding only for exact match and phrase match.

Is there way to have, let's say 4 ads come up when somebody searches for exact matched company name?

P.S. I know it's weird question, all this is done under reputation management for this company, I'm trying to occupy as much space at the top of the 1st SERPs, so people don't see ROR article in organic position #4. If you have other suggestions - please feel free to put it here. (SEO is being done, not-index pages are being optimized to try to come up as several organic results, backlink building is in process, Social media profiles are being optimized as well). I'm just trying to have some temporary "fix".

Hi there!

Good answer! I am doing pretty much what you said, and am getting lots of good feedback as post likes, comments and personal shares. However, I'm not getting as many page likes as I'd like.

About being relevant and posting engaging content - this part seems to be covered. My page is about dogs and puppies (here, you might like it too https://www.facebook.com/LeMitris/), and, therefore, all groups I post in are about dogs and puppies. Feedback is great, here is an example. I did this post and after doing some social networking work I got 45000+ reach, ~2k likes, 70+ shares and ONLY ~30 likes to the page. Now, as you see, it be very nice to at least invite those 2k people to like the page, but I can't since all those likes are in groups, not on my actual post. Any idea how to utilize this? How to rip these benefits?

P.S. I guess I can try to friend all those people, but it'd be pretty weird, no?

Thanks for reply.

I'm not sure if I expressed my thought incorrectly, but all posts are public. (not sure where you got opposite idea).

I do understand indirect influence of engagement on facebook on organic rankings, however, I'm just trying to get likes to the FB page of the company. (At least as part of the problem I'm trying to resolve under this topic).

Hi guys.

So, here is the question/task I'm battling for several days:

As you know, you can't share as a company page in facebook groups. However, you can on other pages. If I share on other page, and people like my post, I can invite those people to like my page, no problem there.

However, if I want to share a post in FB group, I can only share as myself, and whenever people like that post, they like a post of me as a person, therefore I can't invite them to like my page, unless I add them as a friend (which is not the best scenario really).

The same question goes towards when someone shares a post.

So, what is the best way to get some benefits from people I can't invite to like a page directly?

Thanks!

A lesser evil

Hi there.

If they are actually buying links or using any shady techniques - they will get what they deserve, don't worry. And I don't think you can report this type of activity without hard proof.

I'd recommend rather focusing on your work - seo, natural backlinks, content and all of that. The reason your competitor is ranking #1 is not necessarily due to buying backlinks, since there are so many other factors.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

I'd try to make space for other content - if you want website to rank (franchise or not), you will need content.

As for if you HAVE to pick between two - it depends on brand. Is brand known? Are you trying to push your brand? How people find you etc? Usually you can optimize index page for a keyword, and brand name kinda tags along.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Well, it's quite weird. I do get 404, even when I use just Inspect Element of the browser, but it does display the sitemap.

Make sure that there is no enforcing of a response status somewhere or inproper RewriteRule or something.

P.S. it does sound like improper settings or header or something. Check this thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6402177/url-is-returned-with-404-error-but-content-exists

Hi there.

Since you guys have only 80+ products, I'd go with custom solution. Just make sure that you get company, who knows what they are doing and do some type of contract for updates.

Second choice of mine probably would be Shopify. You haven't mentioned it.  They keep stuff up-to-date, but, as with all CMS systems, there are limitations, especially to technical SEO. I'd never go with Joomla, Wordpress+WooCommerce might be an option, but, additionally to cons you mentioned, it's, again, CMS, which means restrictions.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

I think Google is smart enough to correlate those. I have used special characters in pretty much all of my campaigns and didn't see any bad influence, since keywords are ranking in top 3 etc.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

"for some time" - how long is that? As far as I know the changes will be "noticed" after next campaign recrawl.

Hi there.

Do any of those navigation links have nofollow attributes or 302 or 4xx statuses?

Also it might be due to crawling history on your website. OSE relies on data from MOZscape crawls, which means that if your website is fairly new or haven't been indexed often enough for whatever reasons, it will be showing fewer pages. links etc overall. Also, since MOZbot has the crawl limit per domain, and you have thousands of pages, the issue might be that mozbot reaching limit before crawling every page.

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

Your link doesn't work.

Anyway. Youtube video are embedded iframes, and as we know, iframes are considered pretty much as a part of another website, inserted into your website's page. I assume that price thingy is the same. So, no matter if you lazy load it or not, iframe will not be considered as a part of YOUR content, especially not as unique content for sure.

So, make sure that you have plenty of another content on those pages - text, images, whatever. Otherwise even from the user experience perspective it would be not the best page to be on.

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:)

Hi there.

Well, since it's just one page websites without really any content, you won't be able to get much out of them. So, the only way you might utilize them is with backlinks. So, I'd have 2 follow backlinks, one with company name, one with matched anchor text. Also make sure that you have unique content on those one-page websites - so you don't have duplicate content issues. Other than that, unless you will be creating full content one-page websites for each of those parked domains, i don't really see much benefit.

Hope this helps.

P.S. Do make sure that you are not using exactly the same pages for those.

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.

Hi there.

As far as I understand, province is equivalent of state. Since most countries don't have states, but their local state "substitutions", this is where you'd put it in. I'm not sure how you guys have it in Britain, but here is example of russian address - 123 Blabla st, City, Udmurt Republic (this one would be province), Russia.

Hope this helps.

P.S. If you don't have specific province to put in, I'd leave it blank.