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Hi Cynthia, A text-to-HTML ratio of between 15 and 70 percent is generally considered ideal. Try this tool, http://tools.seochat.com/tools/code-to-text-ratio/ It is a pretty good tool, but like Andy stated, the best bet is to focus on improving the content on your site, followed by running these pages through https://validator.w3.org/ and follow whatever recommendations possible to reduce code bloat etc... Cheers, Kevin

Everyone is correct the Title Tag is more important than the description.   You should also consider you H1 in context of your title tag as that is also important. On the description that has no or nominal SEO impact. So as  Patrick states this is where you take the opportunity to focus on CTR or a CTA. Your sample tag - does not include the brand name, so google will likely draw that in. So Patrick's suggestions should be considered Page | Category | Brand I would think that you are shooting yourself in the foot including monthly figures and square foot in the title unless that is a key way people search for the space in the US - i would think  Greenwich Village | Office Space Rental | Brand.  That is what I would recommend.  Cover suburb, geo-specific and key words office space and then brand... I am not sure I would even list size etc in the description, but leave with you.

I am chiming in a year late but there is just one thing I am not sure I understand. Why would you want to index images on no-index pages? What are these pages that you want to be no-indexed in the first place? If you do not want these pages to be found when searching in Google, why would you want some of the content, like images, be found instead? I am with Michael and recommend that you fix the sitemap. I am also curious to know what has happened in the past year. Have your issues resolved? Have your SEO improved?

Don't think its a red flag, just not getting the maximum benefit from having all of those images.

I _really _doubt that you'd see any negative effects from having one hyphen in the domain name. Google is trying to discourage domains like www.best-office-space-in-nyc-new-york.com—that is, spammy, keyword-stuffed domains. Of course, I can't make any guarantees on that, but I'd be pretty surprised if that one hyphen caused any noticeable trouble. That said, you may want to just check on the domain sans-hyphen, if only so you can sleep a little better.

Hi Patrick: Thanks so much for your detailed and thorough response!!! While I have some doubts about our brand name, we were solely considering changing our very spammy sounding URL that contains the two hyphens. But from what you say, even if we do that, we may have a limitation in that the company name "Metro Manhattan Office Space, Inc." contains the match anchor text of "Manhattan Office Space".  So if we need to stay away from match anchor text in both the domain in the URL, this rebranding is going need to go a lot deeper than anticipated. My thoughts were solely to replace www.nyc-officespace-leader.com with www.metro-manhattan.com but this is still problematic.  Perhaps a domain of www.mmos.com (abbreviation of Metro Manhattan Office Space, Inc.) would be better? Or www.lastNameerealestate.com possible? Thanks for the resources on the migration. I understand that special care must be taken regarding NAP information for the move to be successful. But I would think this is less of an issue if we are only changing the domain name. Could we keep our company name and solely change the URL or this an incomplete job? Are there any resources you can think that would help us think up both a new corporate name and domain name? Maybe we should consider tackling both at the same time as www.nyc-officespace-leader.com plus the corporate name of Metro Manhattan Office Space, Inc. don't sound like the most SEO friendly combination.

Hey, Can anyone help me out with how I can add keywords with noodp directives?

Thanks!!

I agree with Moosa here. When we went through this we used Link Detox to help identify the links we wanted to remove/disavow and RMOOV to send an automated email campaign. The response rate was less than 5%as I recall and usually took multiple emails if there was to be a response. This is the nice thing about the tools as they track success for you. It's also a really good idea to use a "throw away"email address,as many of these may be reported by the recipients as spam and get your email account added to spam filters. I think the personal touch thing is more for outreach. Not worth the effort here. Best!

Hi there A lot of this sounds extremely odd to me - I have never heard of anyone being able to expedite a disavow file and you shouldn't automate link removal requests, too much can go wrong if people reach out to you. Instead, try this: Collect your backlinks Google Webmaster Tools Majestic Ahrefs Assess your data Good links These links help your business These links are relevant to your site These links are relevant to the content they link to These links don't have spammy or low metrics Bad links These links aren't relevant to your site or content These links are part of template directories (example) These links do supply traffic to your site These links tend to have low metrics These links come from sites that look untrustworthy Neutral links Nofollow links Disavowed links Not active Prioritize your bad links What ones are you removing? Reach out to those webmasters 3 times with 4 days between each message I outlined a Create your disavow file (yes - they work) Links removed - in case they come back or webmaster misses a link Links you couldn't remove Links that requested payment Links previously in disavow file I have never used LinkDetox, but from what you described, I'm skeptical. I have used LinkRisk and I liked it a lot, you can learn more about it here. Try this manually one time through - you could learn a lot about how this all works and what to look for. I included other links in my answer to your other question as well that will help you. Hope all of this helps! Good luck! Let me know if you have anymore questions or comments - would love to help!

Hi Moosa: Thanks for your response. Yes, LinkDetox seems to be the best solution for toxic link removal. I purchased the basic package today and ran a report (See enclosed)  As a novice I have a few questions for you regarding this package: -We scored a domain wide detox risk of 1,723. The site has referring root domains with 7113 links to our site. 121 links were classified as high audit priority. 56 as medium audit priority. 221 links were previously disavowed and we uploaded a spreadsheet containing the names of the previously disavowed links. We had LinkDetox include an analysis of no-follow links as they recommend this. Is our score really bad? If we remove the questionable links should we see some benefit in ranking? -Some of the links we disavowed last year are still linking to our site. Is it worthwhile to include those links again in our new disavow file? -Prior to filing a disavow we will request that Webmaster remove offending links. LinkDetox offers a package called Superhero for $469.00 that automates the process. Does this package effectively help with the entire process of writing and tracking the removal requests? Do you know of any other good alternatives? -A feature called "Boost" is included in the LinkDetox Super Hero package. It is suppose to expedite Google's processing of the disavow file. I was told by the staff at Link Detox that with Boost Google will process the disavow within a week. Do you have any idea if this claim is valid??? It would be great if it were true. Thanks for your feedback, I really appreciate it!!! Alan p2S6H7l

Hi Alan First - don't noindex pages to increase your authority numbers. That's not going to help. Especially if those pages do hold value. You need to give your site an honest and unbiased assessment. I would take a look at the following: Domain Authority Page Authority I would read the following to see if your content can be cleaned up or enhanced: How To Do a Content Audit - Step-by-Step I would read this to get a good competitive analysis going: The Illustrated SEO Competitive Analysis Workflow I would read the following to see if you can clean up any backlink related issues: Link Audit Guide for Effective Link Removals & Risk Mitigation The reason being - these authority numbers are pretty holistic and not just content related. You have to look at multiple facets to increase these numbers - it takes a lot of honest research and critiques of your site to make sure these numbers increase. They aren't related to one specific aspect of your site. I would also take a look at the on-site SEO factors to make sure you have all the foundational aspects taken care of. Here's a great technical checklist as well. Hope these all help! There's a lot of angles to look at - good luck!

Just like everyone else here responded, ssl is no major ranking factor. Implemented ssl on 8 websites during the last 4-6 months and there was no change in ranking.

Hi Kingalan - first off, I'd recommend checking out http://moz.com/blog/understanding-and-applying-mozs-spam-score-metric-whiteboard-friday which will give you a pretty good overview of what Spam Score is and how it works. I wouldn't worry about firing two flags - Moz triggers a few, and many good sites do as well. If they're things you want to fix anyway, go for it, but Spam Score flags aren't about saying "this is necessarily bad" or "this definitely needs fixing." It's merely identifying features that, when added together, show correlations with sites we saw Google penalize/ban. As far as your links go - that distribution seems fine to me, too. If you want, you could look at the highest flag count links and if you believe they're problematic after manually reviewing, go ahead and give them the boot (via disavow or getting the site to remove them). The flag count is merely to help you order your manual review - it should never replace the process of actually looking at those links and determining which should be kept/removed.

Moz knows very well, it may affect bad moz itself. So, Moz has already been using nofollowed tag in all such external sources link to get rid of such fear. as above Keri said

Considering that traffic for this site is about 4,000 visitors per month and the domain authority is 23 and a page authority is only 32 would that make it easier and faster to recover traffic and ranking? The site currently has about 400 pages, what if I prepare re-writes on about 100 pages of text before the domain change and then gradually add this content after the switch. Would that speed recovery? I intend to re-write the content anyway but perhaps to do so after the new domain gets launched. On the other hand I may keep the domain as is if this switching is too much trouble. However the URL does not match my company name and I am concerned this discordance could be harming the site long term.

Hi Alan, To go down another route, you could instead set up URL parameters in WMT itself, that way you could set the URL that contains /page/ as the canonical without having to implement anything on the Wordpress side. Kind Regards Jimmy

Hi Ruborg, I would argue that those tools don't do the same as Moz.  They cover the same areas, but do different things.  Also, Moz is much more limited in the number of sites you can direct it at.  With the domain limit in Moz I'd say I am paying considerably less and getting more of the functionality that I am after. That isn't any criticism of Moz. It's horses for courses and Moz just isn't the right horse for the course I run on!

Hi, What is the % of mobile visits - could you check the page speed within Analytics with segment 'Mobile'? I prefer to use webpagetest.org rather than pingdom - because it seems to give more realistic results (pingdom always seems to load faster than webpagetest). On your desktop version everything seems ok - site loaded in 2.3 sec - images are very heavy though: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150103_1M_SYT/ Different story on mobile: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150103_CT_T0H/ - initial page load = 14sec - mainly because of the images (900K). I would check if these images could be compressed - or remove the slider and replace it by 1 image. rgds, Dirk

Hello Alan, while we did have an update on the data on December 4th, it is taking a bit longer than expected to load the data into all of our campaigns. We should be all caught up in the next day or two. If you do not see the new data by then, please email us at help@moz.com so that we can do everything we can to make sure you get this data soon.