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I did use the OnPage Grader, and it says I'm fine. But, it doesn't tell me how it's calculated.

Maybe I should clarify. I'm not looking at keyword density as a way to boost my rankings. I'm trying to make sure I understand how it is determined, so I don't get any keyword stuffing penalties.

Does keyword density only account for the content-based text on the page or everything that can be crawled on the page?

To illustrate, I'll use this forum page and the keyword Moz. Here's my incredibly short blog post:

"Moz forum is very helpful, but I still can't figure out Moz analytics."

Now, in terms of keyword density, is "Moz" only being counted twice for the times I mentioned it in my post (what I'm calling content-based text) or is "Moz" being counted 40-50 times for all the places it appears on this page.

Thanks,

Ruben

Thanks everyone.

Happy Friday,

Ruben

Thanks, Miriam, I had read something about that. However, in my example, it's beyond just the one word descriptor.

The exact example is "Tampa Personal Injury Attorney" google plus page, and the business is "Capaz Law Firm." I feel like that is beyond what google's descriptors should allow, but I'll do a little more research...perhaps I missed something.

Best,

Ruben

None of these people legitimately named themselves that. The google plus page didn't match the business name...at all. But, still, it's good of you to point out, just to make sure.

Yes, you should. Some of the best bloggers I've read/heard of, spend significant time going back to their older posts. They check for broken links, better phrasing, better keywords and implementation, etc. Plus, some of your older posts could may be "evergreen" i.e. not time sensitive, so - if they are quality - give them their best shot to rank, be read and improve your site overall.

Best,

Ruben

For your blog post titles, is it "better" to use numbers or write them out? For example, 3 Things I love About People Answering My Constant Questions or Three Things I Love About People Answering My Constant Questions?

I could see this being like the attorney/lawyer, ecommerce/e-commerce and therefore not a big deal. But, I also thought you should avoid using #'s in your url's.

Any thoughts,

Ruben

I was under the impression naming your business something like "Miami Plumber Joe Smith" was a violation of google's guidelines...but I see these pop up all the time. Unlike backlinks from thin content sites or whatever, this seems like a pretty easy fix for google to change if they wanted to.

Am I missing something or has google just not dropped the hammer yet?

• Ruben

P.S. All those businesses I've seen, have no reviews and poor citation scores. i can only assume, they rank in the maps because of the keyword in the name.

I hear ya. It's always fun to run experiments and learn something new. Whatever your reasons for pursuing it, just make sure it doesn't link to any of your other sites and isn't hosted on the same c-block...at the minimum.

Best,

Ruben

We switched from Network Solutions to Bluehost awhile back. Our serps improved, and we had no problem SEO-wise...but, we paid to have bluehost do the migration for us ($100). If I had to do it myself, there could definitely have been problems. If you aren't very comfortable with migrating the site, then paying someone else to do it for you could be a way to mitigate any potential loss.

Happy Migrating!

Ruben

I don't have access to my old custom reports that were created in the old moz pro platform...where are they? There's a "click here" for old reports option...but it's not clickable, not hyperlinked to anything. Help, please.

Thanks,

Ruben

The generic response is:

1. Your budget is better spent developing high quality, unique content.

2. This is a violation of google's guidelines and will most likely get you penalized now or in the near future.

My response is:

1. If you want to commit yourself to trying to say ahead of everyone at google, by all means, have fun. However, by the time most black hat techniques have garnered as much attention as cloaking has, they have pretty much lived out their usefulness.

2. Admittedly, you're new to cloaking but confident you could figure it out...I just find that dangerous. I wouldn't implement something on my site, I didn't fully understand, especially if it's something google doesn't like.

My two cents.

Best,

Ruben

Quick follow-up, how do I know where google thinks I am? It says Trinity, because I created the map to say trinity. But, (and this is where this area gets more confusing) there is also a city north of New Port Richey called Port Richey. The Port Richey firms rank just as well for New Port Richey searches as the New Port Richey firms do...but none of the trinity ones rank well at all in local search...

Maybe I can look up some addresses in Trinity and see if google makes a distinction between NPR and Trinity or just considers it all NPR? Would that be an indicator?

• Ruben

Yeah, I think I'm going to have to start the process of converting to New Port Richey. The Trinity address depiction certainly isn't helping us, so I might as well try it and see what happens.

Thanks for the insights!

• Ruben

How much traffic can return is dependent on how much traffic the link exchange brought in. Your best case scenario for the immediate future would be to get back to around the same levels before they implemented the page...assuming you get all the bad links removed.

Sidenote, sending a few emails and waiting a week may not be enough for google to move on your disavow request, but it's a start.

Good luck,

Ruben

Thanks for the tips. I'll definitely check them out.

• Ruben

One of our offices is in Trinity, Florida. However, "Trinity" isn't a real city. It is essentially the nicer part of New Port Richey. Organically, we rank for new port richey terms, but i have a suspicion, our lack of maps/local presence is hurting us. Should we do a massive citation overhaul and change everything to New Port Richey for that office? Will doing that somehow hurt our site overall?

Thanks,

Ruben

Thank you both! I appreciate it.

Happy Friday,

Ruben

There are a handful of pages, I'd like to get a fresh perspective on content-wise. They rank well and get traffic. However, we are not seeing the conversions we want to see, so I'm thinking a fresh pair of eyes could help write something more compelling. Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas on pricing (yes, feel free to self-promote)?

Thanks,

Ruben

P.S. I'm really not looking for any ESL elance type solutions unless there are some strong writing samples.