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I'm trying to compare the state of our seo before we started moz to now. I can't find the first set of rankings and on-page grades when I initially setup Moz. I do have access to our first report, but in that first week, I made a number of changes based on the initial crawl/rankings/on-page grades. Anyone know how to get that?

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Ruben

It's a plugin, but it's not Yoast. We use All-in-one SEO, and then a separate one for the sitemap. However, that does help me. I could always just uninstall the sitemap plugin and redo it. That might work. Thank you all for helping me flush that out. I do appreciate it.

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Ruben

Actually, I did contact them as soon as I saw it in my report, but when I tried to find the link I was a little lost. Thanks for the help!

I have no idea how this happened, but our sitemap was http://www.kempruge.com/sitemap.xml, now it's http://www.kempruge.com/category/news/feed/ and google won't index it. It 404's. Obviously, I had to have done something wrong, but I don't know what and more importantly, I don't know how to find it in the backend of wordpress to change it. I tried a 301 redirect, but GWT still 404'd it. Any ideas? And, it's been like this for a few weeks, I've just neglected it, so I can't just reset the site without losing a lot of work.

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Ruben

According to Moz Analytics we have a link coming from here: http://www.grayshadowfinancial.com/ The anchor text is earthquake prone map. I can't find the link, but if I cntrl+f  "earthquake prone map" it shows in the find box, even though I can't see it. I'm guessing this is some spam tactic and they are hiding this with their CSS? Is there anyway I could see it?

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Ruben

Thanks everyone. I will pass this information along, and see what they want to do. Thanks again for the detailed points and recommendations.

Ruben

You're right. They are going to transition to that. They get most of their business through phone calls or emails from the site, but they want to change that when they redesign the site to add a cart and a buy button.

Thanks

It would be for redesigning this site: http://gaport.com/ They sell carports, sheds, portables, etc. They ship and have inventory, but if you look at their site, you'll see anything is a step up. Thanks for the response!

Do any of you out there use wordpress for an ecommerce site? I'm getting some mixed reviews on it (but it's the internet, so that's bound to happen). Is there any sort of site traffic or page limit that would make using wordpress a bad idea?

Thanks,

Ruben

They are going to do an entire website redesign for http://gaport.com/ and I think they should adhere to responsive design best practices. However, I'm just saying that because everything I have read says that's the "way of the future" if not the way of the present already. Any reason, they shouldn't do that and keep the desktop/mobile sites?

Thanks,

Ruben

As always, thank you very much! I appreciate it.

My cousin asked me to look at his site, http://www.gaport.com/ and I'm wondering what his main website flaws are? I looked at his backlinks, and while I don't know enough to exclude penguin being the cause, I don't think it is. I think it has more to do with duplicate content and lack of keyword optimization. However, before I tell him that, I wanted to get the opinion of this forum, please.

Thanks!

Ruben

If you have a basic Moz Pro account, then you have Moz Analytics. It's only a 3 day gap, maybe they had some trouble linking or crawling your site. Sometimes, my data is not 100% up to date, but it usually catches up soon enough.

I didn't really understand the part about the trial period. If you paid for a Pro account, your data wouldn't have ended. It would have transferred.

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Ruben

Ryan,

I don't think you will have a keyword stuffing problem either, and here's why: http://www.shoes.com/en-US/Womens///Athletic+Shoes~Walking/_/Products.aspx I did a super fast check and typed in shoes. shoes.com was number 1. They have shoes twice. Granted, this is not scientific, but I bet if you did some digging, you'd see several companies with high rankings that have the keyword twice.

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Ruben

If I understand you correctly, your homepage was optimized for various keywords. Then, you built out other pages for those keywords, correct? If so, I would guess the reason for your drop in rankings is because your homepage had various links to it AND was optimized. Your new pages with those keywords will (most likely) have far fewer links and may not have even been indexed yet.

I'm sure there are several possibilities, but that's the best one I can come up with.

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Ruben

Here's an example of something I think would be fantastic content for a marketing firm. Around a year ago, Walgreens which is a very well known drug store in the US (at least the part I live in), told all its employees to end every interaction with "Thank you and be well." They had to have done that for a variety of marketing related concerns. Discuss those concerns and what you believe their rationale for the change was.

Why is this good content? Everyone around here noticed the change, even if it was subconscious. The moment you pointed it out, people would think themselves "I did notice that actually or yeah, now that you mention it, they do do that." Then, you break down "big corporate strategy" in simple terms for everyone to understand. You come off as an expert, and if you can explain big company marketing, surely you can handle a mom and pop store. Granted, that last part isn't necessarily true, but lots of people follow that line of thinking.

Essentially, I'd just pay attention to changes in marketing that your everyday customers would notice and explain them as best you can.

Also, I think interviewing your clients and/or using them as case studies can be effective, too.

Best,

Ruben

Thanks everyone. I appreciate the insights, and thanks for pointing out the picture portfolio, EGOL. I hadn't noticed that.

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Ruben

This company http://www.synapseinteractive.com/portfolio/kempnrugelawgroup.php is linking to us, with a bs graphic about how they improved our rankings for some keywords. I have no idea who this company is. Does this happen often? Also, I'm tempted to contact them to take it down, but I really don't need some questionable company getting annoyed and then linking 10,000 spam sites to me. Any thoughts on what to do?

I'm tempted to just do nothing, but for I ignore it, I want to make sure there's insidious about this link that would cause me any problems down the road. No, I haven't got any GWT or BWT messages about it.

Thanks,

Ruben

Okay. Shoot me an email at ruben@kempruge.com. We can schedule something soon.

Thanks,

Ruben