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Sure, no problem

Ouch, then yeah, I really doubt there is anything you guys can do about that. I say try to get fully matching brand name domain now, if possible

Hi there.

There are not many ways for you to get the domain back:

1. Buy it from current owner;
2. If the domain name is complete match of company's name or company's product, and this name is trademarked/copyrighted, you can get the domain back through court, since it would be a domain squatting by former employee.

But, if there is no trademark and domain was purchased legally - I believe there is no way for  you guys to get it back, but buy it from that guy.

P.S. Why didn't you have on automatic renewal?!

Well, if you can improve the quality of backlink somehow - move it to higher DA domain or higher PA page, then sure - go ahead. Just make sure that your efforts would be worth it, cause if you gonna spend 4 hours on it to increase DA by 1, there is no point in it. It'd better to get another link.

Hi there.

In short, Yes, iframes will pass link juice, but to the page, which is a source of iframe, not to pages, which are linked inside the iframe. And no, javascript created links are not passing rank flow.

When using iframe, basically what you are doing is you are pointing to the container on another website, and whatever is inside that container, it's hosted on that another website. That's why rank flows only to src link.

As for JS created links - they are considered hidden, devalued or obfuscated. Refer to this page on MOZ - https://moz.com/learn/seo/internal-link

Hope this helps.

Hi there.

You should see link in Open Site Explorer after next recrawl, which is scheduled on Feb 28 - https://moz.com/products/api/updates

If your blog posts were created very recently or on small DA websites, then it might take till next recrawl.

As for Google Search Console - it's usually detected pretty quick. Maybe couple weeks. But, sometimes for unknown reasons it can take way longer than that - up to several months, but it's unlikely.

Hope this helps.

Well, I at least got the answer on where to dig

Thanks!

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.

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.

Hi there.

Pagerank? It is very outdated metric and it's not relevant anymore.

What I can tell you is to do SEO on your website. Health score from Ahrefs is just about missing title, meta descriptions etc., it doesn't tell you how optimized your website is. Do on-page optimizations, backlink building, technical SEO - and you gonna get ranking results.

Hope this helps.

Hi guys.

This is somewhat a continuation for this topic: https://moz.com/community/q/january-2016-massive-rankings-fluctuations

After that update, several of our clients and our website as well have experienced high fluctuation rankings period, which ended up in huge drops - 10-20 spots. Which, obviously, made everyone unhappy.

Anybody knows what exactly the change was about? What should we fix/take a look at, analyze again?

We aren't using any shady techniques or black hat. Everything is honest. All metrics, number of backlinks etc are going up, no major changes have been recently made.

Please, help!

Hi there.

Uhmm.. Why would you want to do it? If all links are relevant, "need" to be where they are and make sense to user - there is no reason to delete those. If you have some "internal link fishy scheme" going on or something, then yeah, you might want to. Simply delete links or restructure your website(I'd go with restructuring).

Hope this helps.

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.

Oh my!

This is surely the most ridiculous way to do it I've heard of. There are APIs, plugins and other much easier ways to do it. Do they know about it?

Here: http://bfy.tw/4AqJ - first three links.

Make sure then that whatever backlink building you do, it'd be for domain.com/language, not just domain.com

Hi there.

It's quite simple - Moz crawling resources are way smaller than Google's. So, instead of crawling every single possible page and link, MOZ pays attention to top pages on your (and others) domains, as well as they look at domains, which are more correlated to rankings, rather than every single possible one.

Read here: https://moz.com/help/guides/research-tools/open-site-explorer

Section "FAQ".

Hi there.

These settings are surely weird, especially first one. Your main domain should be main language and the rest should be linked with hreflang. Therefore #2 and #3 would change. Also navigation links, since they are internal, don't matter if they are follow or nofollow in terms of ranking boost, however, you might be cutting off your inside pages from search engine crawlers, which could lead to indexation problems.

Hope this helps.

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.

Hi there.

If understand correctly - sure you can. The question is how much resources you got to spend on this task. For example, you can use product name, and based on it spit out proper url. It would require either creating some type of specific structure for product name or creating some type of specific database with all that information.

Instead of product name you can use whatever unique piece of data on those pages.

Hope this makes sense.

Hi there.

I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. Are tweets copied and pasted into each page separately? Then I don't understand the "populate a twitter feed" part.

Can you explain a little more?