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Check this post out. In reference to a similar question.
Basically the TLDR is that unless it looks like blatant PBN/SPAM/Manipulation google doesn't seem to concerned. I have plenty of backlink that are 75% spam score and higher. Obviously I don't recommend looking for links that are super high spam score but I would put your effort into link acquisition as opposed to link cleanup.
If what you are doing is working then don't change it! IF your business grows enough to be worth it then fold NY into the larger site. If NY is the primary target, just keep both of them for now. You can refer all the NY traffic that is coming to the MY page to the NY page.
Hey everybody. I am working with a handful of medical news websites and some of these sites are rather large. I am noticing/suspecting there is some cannibalism going on here. How do news sites deal with this? Do they noindex the old stuff? Update the old stuff instead of writing a new piece all together? Curious what to do!
Do you have a rule of thumb? Check anything over 50% and then disavow anything over 70% etc. Obv there are exceptions but just looking for some guidelines
Hey everybody!
Looking for a few opinions on this. I am working with a site that has some backlinks with extremely high spam scores, all the way up to 86%. I have ran these through screaming frog and A LOT of them are 404's, or even 301. So obviously if they are 404's then I don't need to worry about them as much. They will sort themselves out.
But what about all these other ones with a 25% and higher spam score? A lot of them also do not have SSL and are obv insecure. I would presume google doesn't like backlinks from sites that are not secure. Thoughts?
Hey everybody,
I am seeing some confusing results. I am seeing that in the back of our Search Console we are showing around 4,500 sites indexed.
If I use the "site" operator in google, only 2820 show up... any thoughts as to why that happens?
Thank you! I think the problem is what you mentioned in the previous post. So MOST of them are indexing but I guess really it is a ranking problem.
I have been banging my head against a wall and I cannot figure out why this site isn't ranking, driving me nuts!
So just looking it appears you don't have a robots.txt file or a sitemap. At least one that I could easily find.
This Moz post might help when creating one.
Hey!
I'm seeing that you have 1,300 Domains linking to you and 21,000 individual links going towards your site. Are you seeing different numbers?
You will never have an exact answer as to how many backlinks there are to your site. Moz, ahrefs, Majestic, and Search Console will all tell you different answers. So you decide what your source of truth is. I personally feel that Google Search Console is the ultimate authority. Moz is my second source of truth because Moz find the most similar answer to Google. You can download a backlink report from Search Console as well!
Hi Chris.
I don't work for Moz.
Most of the time I have found that a the best way to get in touch with company representatives like Moz etc, is to state your question, or issue, as opposed to leaving it open ended. Not only that, but you would be amazed at the wealth of knowledge that people on these forums are willing to share. Even Rand, the founder of Moz, is known to drop in and share a few words.
Part of the reason I signed up for Moz, not only because of the analytic tools, was because of the forum. And the resources that were available to me from my colleges. I met with an SEO director one time and he explained to me one of the reason he didn't like many of the SEO tools that gave you "answers" was because all it was doing was giving you the opinion of who ever wrote the code. He also explained that one of the reason he liked Moz, Majestic, and Ahrefs was because they left the data open ended and allowed him to make the decisions.
Agreed, at first it is frustrating, I pay good money for an expensive program, and at first there is just SO much information that I became overwhelmed and felt like I couldn't take advantage of everything the program had to offer. Essentially what Moz has done is crowdsourced support. They have done it in a brilliant, controlled way that not only saves them money, but actually helps people LEARN in the process. I have learned more in the past few months of asking/answering questions than I had in the previous classes/tutorials/seminars on SEO I had taken.
Not only that, but people like KeriMorgret literally has Moz implanted into her head, so anytime people have serious problems regarding Moz products, her or the other team members seem very quick to answer.
Sorry for the frustration! I promise it's worth the blood, sweat, and code!
When I first started SEO there were 3 big guns in three search marketing world.
I still think those 3 are they best in their realm, and with an unlimited budget, I would pay for all 3. But I don't have an unlimited budget, and I to had to pick just one, so I set out to do some research like you did. Upon further review, I did found that someone actually basically did the baclkink study for me!
http://www.analyticsseo.com/blog/link-data-research-majestic-seo-moz-linkscape-ahrefs-part-2/
They all have their pro's and con's, but for me, Moz seemed to be the best bet. I looked at is as an investment. I felt that in the long run, the quality of links that Moz were finding was more important than the extra links that Ahrefs or Majestic were finding. My second thought was that as all these companies grow, Moz, seemed adapting to the needs of modern SEO better than the other companies. So after weighing the pro's and con's I figured it was worth it and would only be a matter of time before Moz's backlink tool was more powerful, or would outshine the others simply because of efficacy.
So far, I am pleased.
As I said, with an unlimited budget, I would have all 3 programs. Moz, SEMRush, & Majestic. I can't, so I choose Moz, any day.
Hope that helps.
Unfortunately this is a tough one.
Google doesn't really want you buying links, and really, they want everything to happen as organically as possible. So maybe I'm misunderstanding your question. Based on the second paragraph, it sounds like you are looking to be the one giving out the backlink, or are directly negotiating the purchase/trade of a backlink.
If you were looking to "create an opportunity and a potential blogger or prospect can apply." you are either saying we want so give someone a link, or your want to give someone xyz for their link, which pretty much violates Google TOS. Now, if you happen to work for a fortune 500 company, you are in a position where it should be very very easy to convince people to write someone for you by simply jumping on social media and posting something that incites people to write about you. If you are a small business it's a little more difficult, this is where old school PR/SEO comes into play.
Content is king. If you are pumping out quality content, someone will either want a guest blogger, or need some content, or want to write something about what you wrote. As far tools to help, the moz Link Analysis and Link opportunity tools are a great place to look and try to determine where to start.
Some of the other ones are things like PRWeb or PRNewsWire, which you pay, they distribute your post, and it gets picked up by various news outlets (hopefully). Another option is HARO (help a reporter out), I personally haven't had success with it, but I know a few who have.
Good Luck links are tough, but the time spent invested in getting valuable links will be worth it in the long run. If shortcuts were better they would just be the way.
So, assuming you have done the necessary research before hand, for example this Moz article on mobile Google makes it pretty clear that it is not going to hurt your desktop rankings, so before any panic sets in, I sincerely believe in checking the data and making sure its worth the investment.
For example if only 2% of your traffic is coming from mobile, and there don't seems to be many conversions from that, I personally would take my time finding the perfect solution, and hold out until everything could be made responsive.
Also based on this website you sent, I fear it will end up being a lot more work than it appears. I HAVE NEVER USED IT, but based on my 10+ years in graphics/web design, conversion tools generally are not as effective as they appear, although some work very well.
In conclusion, look at your mobile traffic and conversions. Look at what people are using mobile for, are they simply getting a phone number? Then a Google + Business Page can help serve the same purpose while you start the new site. Are they making purchases? Then maybe it would be worth looking into the solution they sent simply to keep revenue. If mobile isn't incredibly influential to your overall web presence, I would just hold out and do it right. Measure twice, cut once.
Hope this helps!
I would agree with Don. Matt Cutts, who is pretty much the authority of all of this, has answered this question. Granted it was 7 years ago I think the answer is still valid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6-KA20QqL8\
Quantity is important for people, quality is important for google.
Good morning,
To my knowledge, the end result of the review doesn't really make a difference. The general rule of thumb I always try to follow is if any money/product/services were exchanged/traded then I have to have some sort of disclaimer stating that there was some sort of exchange made in return for the review.
I try to be as transparent as possible in my marketing/SEO tactics. At the end of the day, its going to come back and bite you in the long run.
Consumer Reports became famous because they refused to receive anything for free, and they were able to build trust with the consumer because of that.
EGOL, a active member on these boards, states over and over, that your content will speak for itself. If you are writing content that is worthy of the positive review, it will come on its own. You may need to help push people in the right direction, but I would agree with Houses, that same energy could be put into refining content, natural link building, creative marketing etc.
If shortcuts were easy or better, they would just be the way.
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Hey there,
I am in a similar situation and I have posted about it on these boards. If your company can afford it, it is probably in your best interest to just hold onto them. At the same time, as you stated, all this can change in an instant. Take .mobi for example, that was supposed to be the mobile browser extension, but clearly with responsive design, there isn't as much of a need for the .mobi in my opinion.
On the flip side, Google keeps doing more and more towards local, or so it seems. So having the domains in other countries, may become more beneficial. I have all of our extensions forwarding to our primary domains.
My personal opinion is the vanity domains aren't going to take off. Everybody was so excited with the .tv extension for example, but once people find a way to keep all of that, or display similar information on a .com it becomes useless. There used to be benefit to having a .org, and people realized it was being abused. Now the only other benefits are .edu and .gov, because there are restrictions to owning them.
If you can, keep them, it certainly doesn't hurt. Is it going to make or break your company by not having them? Probably not, but it could save you a headache later down the road.
Hope that helps.
We have teamed up with a local agency in Los Angeles who will be assisting us with a redesign. They are also going to look through our SEO and assist, if possible, with that. I am currently working with the studio, our treatment team, and myself to come up with a website architecture that is user friendly and effective.
As far as what has been done with the link structure. I was able to narrow down the 1000 domain list to roughly 200 that actually had content and were actually linking to us. I changed the nameservers on all of them which should not only speed up the private server we are hosting on, but also lower the number of domains on our CBlock.
I have spoken with a few members from this forum offline who I will not name unless they give me approval to give them credit.
Thanks Everybody!
Welcome!
Another simple-ish trick you can do is to create a campaign in Moz. The campaign will run an audit of your site and take a look at all of your webpages, checking all of your tags, links, etc and it will actually give suggestions of what to do & where to start. The Moz campaign will show you which keywords are sending traffic to your website and which pages should be optimized from there.
Unfortunately, there is no quick fix for SEO, and depending on how much needs to be done, it might be in your best interest to contact an outside professional for a consultation!
Good Luck!
UPDATE
So as of 7/9 I have removed 423 Tags and redirected them to 2 of the our main tags.
I isolated the 2 most effective tags and spread them across the 160 posts that we have. I limited it to one tag per post as to not create duplicate content, and because I am leaning towards removing tags all together.
Part of the other reason that I am doing this is because our categories seem to be gaining more traction than our tags.
My thought moving forward would be to take all of these, and fold them into the categories.
My Audit reads as follows:
It is much to early to tell how things are going with traffic. Our visits are down 2% (and nobody checks into rehab until at least a week or 2 after the holiday weekend) but our keywords sending visits are up 9.
I will keep you all informed!