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You dont have the Export drop down menu in the upper right hand corner of your on page optimization page?

For me it is in the same spot as it has always been.

If you're not seeing it that a question for the moz folk

If I understand correctly you want to have a top result for those keyword within your area as opposed to one of the indented "local" results right?

Assuming that is what you mean, doing a quick local search for "locksmith" and "locksmiths" what I notice for the companies that rank above the local indented results are either larger companies that are not local (but have a local service) with high DA and PA.  Also the other results are skewed toward EMD and place so "placelocksmith" or "locksmith-place" or "locksmithsinplace".  The local results have stronger DA and PA, but without EMD/PMD so for example"tonyslockbusters.com" etc.  So, look at the google results and see what differentiates those top listings from the non top listings

If I am misunderstanding...let me know and I can try and help

Glad to try and help best of luck

I had the h1below the fold which might lead to bounces -- obv. you have to wait and see.  For me, the copy reads a little bit weird using the phrase so much -- maybe that's me.  I think in terms of SEO it looks fine -- maybe some UX things I am not totally crazy about -- but I the users are the ones that decide not me.

Best of luck

The only other thing that I could think of would be if the links for your client's site are newer and have not been detected yet -- otherwise if they are essentially identical links, I am not sure as to why they would not be listed -- that might be a question for the moz people.

Going back to your original question -- you can filter for nofollow links on OSE -- go to the Inbound Links tab and then filter for show only rel="nofollow" and that will show all the nofollow links going to a particular URL.

Google notes more links because O.S.E. is only taking into account what it measures as the strongest links to your site.  The GWT is looking at a more accurate number of total links.  So the discrepancy in total number of links does not mean that they have been removed.

Before addressing the broader questions here -- drill down to the actual pages, and not just the domains, that are linking to your site and your competitors to see if there are any glaring differences there.   i.e. homepage link vs. profile link etc.

How does your competitor get a link from adobe.com?  Looking at the adobe page linking to their site is the first step and then go from there.

Just to add a bit to the discussion if you did not see this already:

http://moz.com/blog/early-look-at-googles-june-25-algo-update

Essentially, I think you are asking is, let say... moz did an a/b test on their homepage with a as the page left as is and made the b page with more copy, then which one would rank higher for the main keyword? (assuming they could compete against each other for ranking? and the extra copy is not necessary related to the keywords?)

I don't think B would rank better, but it is impossible to say for certain

I would think that eventually the page that converts better would develop stronger signals to google than the on-page copy to separate it from the worse converting page -- more conversions, better metrics, (maybe more links?) etc. that also get folded in to the algo.

I think that when ppl say very little copy on landing pages is because you want the landing page to be all about conversion as to not distract the visitor from the task at hand.  For instance, if you have a landing page geared towards email sign-up, you don't want 5000 words and then a box at the bottom to capture the email.  You want as simple as possible -- maybe just the email capture box.

Obviously if your home page is used for conversion there are ways to maximize SEO -- good title tags, you need to include copy - but always keep in mind the goal of the page, and if you have good user metrics that gets folded in as well.

I don't think it is one or the other: SEO vs. CRO.  You can learn a lot just by looking at the Moz.com homepage.

The "follow potential customers around the web for the next 30 days" is what I personally find annoying.  In principle, it sounds like it could work, but being remarketed to has turned me off to a few brands for whatever reason...maybe I'm in the minority or maybe people don't notice it and/or realize that the brand controls the ads as opposed to Google?

Anyone have success with re-marketing?  If so any particular strategy?

I have been hesitant to try it out b/c I personally find it a bit annoying, but I am willing to change my mind if people have had success.

I had seen that post by Rozek a while ago, but forgot about it, so thanks.

I think the key here is "a slow, diverse and steady acquisition of reviews over time is a much better strategy than trying to make a big splash all at once"

Any one have good strategies to get product reviews from customers? Whether general or specific to G+, Yelp, On Page, local review sites, etc?

Thanks

To my knowledge there is not a single place that is known as a hub for e-commerce merchants -- you didn't mention SF and San Jose which are big tech hubs.  Why not just run the AdWords campaign to see where you get nibbles from,  get real data and then focus on those areas where you get more interest from?

No

see:

http://www.rimmkaufman.com/blog/site-search-dynamic-content-and-seo/01032013/

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/search-results-in-search-results/

My feeling is that if that site search info captures long-tail traffi,c why not find a way to make an indexable page targeting the words that have received traffic to that search page.  Cutts writes in the post I linked to:  "Google does reserve the right to take action to reduce search results (and proxied copies of websites) in our own search results"

It's not unreasonable to think that they are unrelated (and why MOZ doesn't show it)

a searcher looking for "football" in the U.S. is not looking for "soccer" info.

Google KW tool is good for ideas , but also look at your competition see what terms that they use, think of synonyms that might be overlooked, word strings that might be underrepresented etc. -- Google KW tool though does not give accurate info in terms of monthly searches, just use it to gauge relative popularity of search phrases.

If your site is commercially based set up an AdWords account -- that is really the best way to see real search numbers.

Well, it depends on how much this site means to you.  It sounds like you got hit by Google, and once that happens the road to recovery is not easy -- as you are seeing -- but also not always possible.  Getting rid of paid links, writing blog comments , forum posts and article pubs. are not strong enough to turn the tide.  I don't want to tell you what to do, but from what I understand (I have not had to attempt a recovery personally) it will be easier to get a new site up and ranking.

Just to piggyback a bit off of Marcus's point -- the benefit of PPC is that you can get a lot of information in a short period of time (at a cost though of course).  Generally, I agree with Marcus' advice, but the key to PPC is experimentation and learning from what works for you, your site, and your visitors/customers and then what doesn't.

i.e. You can set up the two campaigns run them head to head and see what converts better.

I think that it is tough to answer the question posed in title of your post other than to say "a lot".  But I don't think that having a tight "overall site semantic theme" and selling a lot of products are mutually exclusive.

For instance, Home Depot's Title Tag is "Home Improvement Made Easy with New Lower Prices", so that is a massive site where essentially everything is tailored towards fulfilling that one idea, which is extremely broad.

Drill down to product descriptions and they describe individual products and their usefulness in the context of the rest of the home/ other products that they sell.