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3. Is there a reason Why can't it just look like this:
Yes, It would generate a lot of duplicates issues, for example your robots.txt you have the follow line:
Disallow: /catalog/category/view/ -> That's the "real" category URL, you can access any category on magento by /catalog/category/view/id or by the "pretty" URL.
Because you disallow the "real: URL only the pretty URL will be viable for search engines.
This same rule apply for many other parts of the robots.txt.
When I want a fast general overview of a website SEO Potential, I check using 2 Moz Tools, On-Page Grader and Open Site explorer... plus a get a traffic estimate from some spy tool like similarweb.com However a full audit is need to know deeper about a website.
Panda Target content, does your website has a lot of pages with very little content? Like less than 300 words?
If you were hit by Panda you have to improve your website content. I noticed that a lot of small eCommerce websites had problems with Panda not because the site had bad content but because in Google eyes the site didn't have enough unique content.
I didn't look at your site, but my intuition says that you don't have links issue.
1 - Do you have any notice on Google Webmaster?
2 - Do you see any huge traffic drop on GA? In the last year? If yes, you should check if there was any know Google update around that time. http://moz.com/google-algorithm-change
ps: A big drop on traffic can be also cause by technical issues, so you should also check if your site had any big update in the time the traffic drooped. (for example a cms change)
If you dont have any traffic drop or notice on GWT, I would recommend you not disavow any link.... If you see a traffic drop you have to do a link audit and conduct a link removal campaign..
Hey Mozers,
One of my 2014 resolutions is to start doing A/B Testing, so far I have been following "best practices" and "common sense" when comes to website design, but I would like to go above and beyond.
I was hoping a could get a few tips some of you that are already doing A/B testing.
How is it been? Do you see a great ROI? What do you think would be best path for who is starting now? Any book or links you would recommend?
Thanks
You are basically asking for a BLACK HAT techniques to clean the messy made by other black hat techniques. Fast and "guaranteed" solutions will hardly be long term.
Would like your rank back in less than 30 days?
I'll tell you how you can get your traffic back in 3 easy steps:
1 - Buy a new domain and host it in a new server.
2 - Upload a copy of your site for the new server.
3 - 301 your current site for your new domain.
You'll get your traffic back right away and Google might take up to 2 months to give you other penalty.
How many links are you talking about? I think that if you naturally link your sister companies sites in your company sites... you don't have to worry about having a separate hosting. Google wont go after you if have a few links from the same ip.
Now if you have 40 sites all linking for your main site. Google might see that as manipulation so you can try to hide that you own all the sites. however the host is only thing, they can also check for who owns the domain etc...
To make it look good they hired a good designer and spend time and money doing CRO. You can see in the links below the technologies behind the scenes. However produce a great website is not about the technology it's about knowing the theories about designing a website. A professional using only Microsoft Pain as tool will do far better than some one with all the tools in the world that only knows how to use the tool, one can master every single feature of Photoshop for example and still make poor designs is not about knowing the tools is about knowing design.
http://builtwith.com/?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.quicksprout.com%2Fthe-advanced-guide-to-seo%2F
http://builtwith.com/?http%3A%2F%2Fbacklinko.com%2Flink-building
Did you see any lost in traffic in your site lately? You should be very careful removing link many of those links might be actually helping your ranks. If you don't have any penalty or traffic decrease I think is better use of your time to keep building good links.
Right in the paid version wont stop! You can see in their website that the limit of urls will be remove once you buy the license. http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/licence/
It should catch everything, maybe you can contact their support just to make sure, they are very good on support over twitter.
You can try crawl the site using screamingfrog, make sure you check the box “Check Links Outside Folder” in the spider menu.
How often do you guys use the search operator "link:"? How accurate is the data? Why the numbers of links when we use the parameter is way lower than the number on Google webmaster Tool or open site explorer? It only show the most powerful links?
Thanks, I'll try do that the messy is worse than I thought...
Here is a example:
This URL:
302 for: http://www.toolsandmachinery.com/jet-parts-5883/jet-dust-collection-8097/jet-jc-3-parts-8110/
Looks like their shopping cart (OS commerce) is doing all the 302. ..
I'm doing an audit for a new client and their website has tons of 302... (more than 1000)... What is the best/fast way to change all the 302 for 301...?
this article will open your mind about keywords: http://moz.com/blog/keywords-to-concepts
