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Probably the complete opposite to all the questions asked on here before hehe

One of my online stores is ranking in Google at no2 for a service we used to offer but no longer do as we do not have the contract anymore.We need to derank the listing as fast as we can we do not offer this service now. Normally we could just get google to deindex the page but it's the homepage we are ranking. It is ranking due to a good collection of exact match backlinks on.

Have been trying to get our page off the first page for a couple of months but it appears that we did too good a job of getting it up there...it's not moving!

Anyone have a suggestion please on how we can get off page one asap for this keyword without deindexing the homepage for our store?

note: the keyword in question has not appeared on the site for a couple of months, removing that has had no impact on the ranking

Thanks

Just logged into one of my profiles to review my traffic data and the last traffic is for 9th Jan. Given it is now 22 this is far far from acceptable. Given the high monthly fee charged by this service why is the traffic data so far behind. If other services (cheaper services) can update their traffic data daily or even weekly why should I continue to use SEOMOZ.

The rankings, errors etc are all updated for the 21st of Jan so why not the traffic.

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An unhappy custimer

Sorry, related to the above...does the site seem slow to other users? I have moved it from a Netherland dedicated server to a UK VPS to try and see if that would help with the rankings in Google UK but all it seems to have done is slow the site down

my domain is www.brighttights.com it is an affiliate marketing website in the niche of tights and lingerie. A few months back my traffic was pretty good, doing about 500 hits a day from product search terms only. After the panda updates I blocked all the product pages from google as they were duplicate content and I am now working on a program of seing for the category and homepages instead.  I am using much more generic, and high volume, keywords for these.

Several months later I seem to not only be down to 7 people a day on my website but i'm not even ranking for terms such as "bright tights". I used to be no1 for this. I have domain authority of 27 so it's not terrible, competitors on the first page range from 45 to 9.  This lack of ranking for the sites name/domain name term is leading me to wonder if I have a penalty on the site.

Any feedback would be gratefully received.

Hi

Just done a 250 crawl on a new site I am working on (still under development), all 250 pages seem to have too many on page links, however they do not have any links I can take away

This page, for example, http://empleous.com/gb/store/category/398743/shoes?price=20-50 has (according to moz crawl) 252 links on. Seems a little high.

What would be the best way to correct this please? I cannot find that many links. I know there are about 85 links in the menu bar but they are all needed and none of the others can really be replaced either.

Thanks

Carl

I would be interested in hearing the views of other seomozers on this issue please.

I have a web server hosted in The Netherlands which I currently host my sites on, it is super fast (16core 24gb ram) and in 8 months has had 4 mins of downtime! On this server I wish to build a couple of ecommerce stores. However this is where my issue lays

The first store I launch will be targeted at the UK market, however the domain I wish to use for it is a .com domain which has a moz ranting of about 36 (better than most of my competitors, worse than a few so it's a good headstart). The problem I would then have is a .com domain hosted on a Dutch server targeting UK people. Even if I was to set the webmaster tools location to UK it would not be ideal. Also, when it comes to launching the US site I would then be looking at using a .us domain which is far from ideal

The other option I have is to use the .co.uk domain for the UK site but this is new and lack any decent moz score.

Given this I am now pondering the following set up....using the .com domain on the Dutch server but putting the UK store in domain.com/UK and the future usa store in domain.com/usa. Would this be the best work around? I could then set the location of folders in the webmaster tools?

Also, I plan on using geo redirecting on the domain so if a uk page happens to rank in the USA listings the user gets automatically redirected to the nearest matching product available in their country in the /us/ folder. Would this be easiest to work with on just one domain as it wouldn't technically be redirecting people to another site as per using two domains.

Any thoughts would be good. Not even sure I have managed to explain it very clearly hehe

The latest traffic I see is from week ending 2nd Jan 2011, this seems an overally long time to wait for a traffic update, given that tools such as Raven can provide live stats.

Hi

Are there any plans to include the Tiwtter and Facebook information in the SEO reports tool? I find the information in this very useful and it would be great to be able to share it with client as part of their weekly/montly reports

thanks

carl

I'm of the opinion that anything a competitor can do to your site (within reason) cannot harm. If a competitor were to be able to point bad links at your site to get you banned, then what's stopping me doing that to my competitors, them doing it to me and so on.

At worst, I think Google will just discount the links.

thanks, great link. Will copy that into my outlook calendar

I would guess that total links are the total number of links you have and the followed ones are those the bots follow and thusly credit as a backlink.

*waits for someone to say he is wrong..."

Hi

Personally I still use article submission for link building. Although it is now mixed with other link building techniques such as guest posting (which I suppose could technically be called article submission), I find that it works well.

That said, I think the days of sending an article out to hundreds of websites for hundreds of links are over. You need to choose the article sites more carefully these days and it will provide benefit.

I use Ezine and article base as well as Knol, Article dashboard. Isnare is also good if you want the article to appear on lots of sites, but be aware these may not be the best quality sites. nor in the same niche as yours.

Sorry if this has been posted previously but couldn't find anything when searching.

Anyone know how often the Historical Domain Analysis should be updated? The last stats I see are from 28/11

HI

I know that having a strong domain can help when creating sub domains, but can it also work the other way round? Can having a number of strong sub domains help the top level domain's quality and history?

My reason for asking is that I have half a dozen domains which have been used for various projects, and still are, which have involved having a landing page on the root domain and running dozens of sub domains.  These subdomains, across 6 root domains, have about 500,000 pages indexed. I have now decided I should do something with the root domain so am wondering if there are any benefits I would have gained from my initial approach.

Thanks

Adwords tool for me also. Once signed in you get 800 results which is more than enough to get going with.  Used to use Wordze but the less said about the quality of their results these days, the better!

When you say Hostgator, have you looked at seohosting.com? Part of the same business I think.  I've not used them but meant to be pretty good.  Hosting with different IP's is becoming very expensive these days. On my hosting, a dedicated server, I am forever in battles with my host to get new IPs for nameservers, ssl. Apparently having unique ips for different domains is no longer valid justification.

Just noticed on one of my sites, in a different campaign of mine to the original question, one of my competitors has dropped from 66 to 62 in the past month. That's very interesting considering they are one of the major UK high street fashion chains. My site has gone from 25 to 33 in the same period.