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How to check internet archive
There are archive tools out there. I have not used but take a look at http://www.screenshots.com/, https://archive.is, http://www.competitorscreenshots.com/ You might find what you are looking for, but don't assume all pages will be crawled for various reasons. From Wayback: If you look at our collection of archived sites, you will find some broken pages, missing graphics, and some sites that aren't archived at all. Here are some things that make it difficult to archive a web site: Robots.txt -- We respect robot exclusion headers. Javascript -- Javascript elements are often hard to archive, but especially if they generate links without having the full name in the page. Plus, if javascript needs to contact the originating server in order to work, it will fail when archived. Server side image maps -- Like any functionality on the web, if it needs to contact the originating server in order to work, it will fail when archived. Unknown sites -- The archive contains crawls of the Web completed by Alexa Internet. If Alexa doesn't know about your site, it won't be archived. Use the Alexa Toolbar (available at www.alexa.com), and it will know about your page. Or you can visit Alexa's Archive Your Site page at http://pages.alexa.com/help/webmasters/index.html#crawl_site. Orphan pages -- If there are no links to your pages, the robot won't find it (the robots don't enter queries in search boxes.) As a general rule of thumb, simple html is the easiest to archive.
Online Marketing Tools | | MickEdwards0 -
How to check competitors' strengths/weaknesses?
Landon Patrick has answered the primary question above. We do alot of work on competitors strengths and weaknesses. My primary job is to take clicks away from competitors. Not that hard. The best overall tool I believe is www.similarweb.com - though not 100% accurate is comparatively accurate. Semrush useful, I also like Alexa - and the new Moz product in reviewing links and status of same. In Semrush you need to go to the domain v domain sub heading. The graphs & spreadsheets is a beautiful and easy way to interpret where you sit on keyword status with competitors. On similiarweb - I look at overall traffic, where a competitor is getting traffic from. The referral tab is gold. You can really understand a business and how they are run, by using a combination of the tools above and referring the link Patrick has sent through. Let me know if any questions.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | ClaytonJ1 -
I don't have a business address, Any problem?
Hello, I often list my address, even though we don't serve customers from the address. There are a couple of reasons for this; firstly it strengthens your brand identity and gives people confidence that your business is real, and second because there is no other reliable way to get local search on your side. If you use another address this may look odd and make people suspicious about the business. If you do list your address you can set up your site for people to contact you in the ways that you wish, rather than by coming to your address, if that's what you prefer.
Local Listings | | T0BY0 -
Is the content on my website is garbage?
Hi there You'll want to look into the Thin content with little or no added value resource provided by Google - there you will find next steps, as well as resources on Reconsideration Requests. Once you pinpoint and alleviate the content issues you on your site, you should take a look at the Ultimate Guide to Google Penalty Removal - it will help you with your reconsideration request. I also suggest going through the a proper content audit for your website, and continue to do so every so often going forward. Coupling this with your on-site SEO check ins will be a huge benefit to your organic site visibility and performance. Hope this all helps! Good luck!
Technical SEO Issues | | PatrickDelehanty0 -
Why my website is not ranking?
Hi Landon, Everyone else has some very good advice here. Moz also has some helpful resources on Local SEO that you might find useful since you are targeting a local search area: Local Search Rank Factors (2014) Local SEO Audit How to Have a Successful Local SEO Campaign (2015) Local SEO Articles Local Learning Center Definitely agree with the others though - it seems like you need to address some other important SEO elements like site speed, title tag & meta description optimization, h1 tag optimization, adding relevant schema markups, and improving the overall website content. Good luck!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Fuel0 -
How to use Social backlinks in SEO.
Hi there I am going to echo Martijn's question here - it's kind of hard to follow what you mean. For me, making sure information on your social profiles are up to date, correct, and verified helps search engines connect information back to your brand's online presence. If you want to track the performance of your social platforms you can take a look at Social Analytics, tagged URLs for posts, Buzzsumo for performance and competitor research, and Followerwonk for Twitter analytics. I would also make sure you learn more about Facebook Insights and Google+ Insights so you can learn more about your performance on those platforms. Again, you're not using social for link building, you're using social to build brand awareness and engage directly with your target audience. You're humanizing your brand. Hope this helps a bit! Good luck!
Social Media | | PatrickDelehanty0 -
What a PBN is? please describe how you use them for SEO.
Hi, Private Blog Networks, PBNs, are generally groups of blogs or sites often controlled by one publisher, with the goal of building up links within the network as a way to help particular content rank better in Google. Here is a tutorial on this @ http://www.cloudincome.com/building-private-blog-network/ I wouldn't suggest you to use that because in past Google has reportedly taken action on sites participating in private blog networks. Hope this helps Thanks
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Alick3000 -
H1 tags are ok for my website?
For the most part you don't really have H1 tags. A few pages have like "Video" as the H1 - which is not very descriptive. This page: http://brandstenmedia.com.au/aerial has TWO h1 tags but most of the rest barely have one. I would write more descriptive H1 tags that explain what's on the page (think like a very descriptive book title.) I would expand your H1 tags and push the weight from H2 to H1 just for organisational purposes, if nothing else. (Your H2s aren't bad ... the H1s are just a bit too simple)
On-Page / Site Optimization | | MattAntonino0 -
Check my website loading time
Hi Landon, As Patrick Suggets Google's PageSpeed Insights has recommendations for both your Desktop and Mobile. Follow that and everything will be fine.
Technical SEO Issues | | Verve-Innovation0 -
How to SEO to make "phones-ring"
Making phone rings - is the goal most clients want from SEO. Here are the SEO related steps I take to ensure the most calls, and the ability to track them back to SEO and website efforts: Add Phone Number in Top Right Header of All websites Setup a Dedicated 'Conversion' Landing page with a big call to action and phone number. The phone number should be setup using a call tracking service like https://calltrackingmetrics.com/ (that one's my favorite $5/number per month) Run a Google Adwords campaign to the landing page above Report to Client OR your internal business team the result each month. Tweak and tune to get better results. Those are the main steps I do for each of my client accounts to get the phone ringing, and make sure it's tracable back to the SEO/online marketing efforts. The end goal of course is to show clients that an increased investment in SEO leads to more calls! Than everyone wins Hope that helps
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Snoogle0 -
How to dominate first page results?
Hi, First of all there is no perfect way to show multiple search result for 3-4 times. Google will show multiple search results from same website when Google find that results are useful & doesn't affect diversity too much. You can achieve what you have mentioned in your question, one is from local result and other one is from organic result. I am sharing a video of Matt cutts in which he explained in which circumstances Google shows multiple listing from same website 1> How does Google decide when to display multiple results from the same website? @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGpEdyIcZcU#t=45 As René Hansen suggested you can do it in three ways 1>Local listing 2> Organic listing 3>Paid listing Hope that helps you. Thanks
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Alick3000 -
Is my website is having enough content on it to rank?
Yes I would, I would overlay those images with text, and mark them up using good html5 semantics and schema.org. don't make it hard for the search engine to work out what you page is trying to do. describe your data well so that the search engine knows just when your trying to say.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | AlanMosley0 -
How to find keyword related questions to answer?
Landon, 100% would try playing around with http://ubersuggest.org/ I find it useful for finding some of the high traffic searches around the industry, which can be used for blog article topic research. For example if its an SEO blog, just a couple of searches like What is link building? / What is SEO? / What is the best digital marketing software? You will get lots of ideas that users have been searching for. Hope this helps James
Link Building | | Antony_Towle0 -
SEO Benefit of having scoop.it paid account?
Hello Landon, I'm not a content curator professional but some of my employees use it everyday. I think they have recently done a great job by improving a lot their functionalities, and the paid version could be worthy. As far as I remember, you get some advantages versus the free version: Decide the subject where you want to archive content (the number of subjects depends on the version you have) Team curation Customize templates, newsletters... By the way, hehe I don't work at Scoop.it at all!!
Online Marketing Tools | | Yeeply.com0