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You can use site:plan-trip.com in Google Search to see which pages of your site are indexed. This way you don't have to manually check if a page is indexed or not. To see the position on Google you can use "Rankings" in Moz or a tool like: http://www.whatsmyserp.com/serpcheck.php

To see the rankings for your best keywords/url’s you can also check SEMrush:

https://www.semrush.com/info/plan-trip.com+(by+organic)

Hi,

So if I understand correctly you AB tested with two pages (for example: domain.com/page and domain.com/testpage) and both were indexed by Google? If yes, than option 2 as you mentioned is the best way to go here.

For the future I would recommend to make sure that the testpage is not indexed by Google via robots.txt/meta noindex or use the rel canonical tag. You don’t want the testpage to get organic traffic here to prevent issues.

Hi,
No you only have to setup a website per campaign, not individual url’s. In the “Rankings” tab you can add the keywords you want to track. After a week Moz will show you all url’s and their position for those keywords. This way you can automatically track them overtime and see your rankings on a weekly basis. Hope this helps.

Hi,

I had a look at your site and there are a few things I would recommend:

• First of all you said you wanted to rank for keyword such as kitchen, new kitchen and kitchen renovation. I don’t see any specific landingpages for these keywords. So I would make a clear SEO optimized landingpage for these keywords with a clear Call To Action button.
• Also you should use one h1 tag for your most important keywords. On the current site for some reason the logo is inside a h1 tag.
• In the source code I see only inline CSS. You should combine this in one CSS file to improve website speed.
• In the future you could also see to implement microdata for reviews. This way you can display review stars in the search results.
• For me it was not clear what your conversion is at your site. It isn’t an ecommerce site where you sell products online. You want to let the users contact you about a new kitchen. Currently you let these users land on the general contact form. I would recommend to make a specific form just for this conversion.

Hi,
I believe that Siri uses Bing for their search engine rankings. So first of all I would check if the rankings in Bing are more closely to the results in Siri. I find this topic very interesting but I never really looked into it. There are many good articles about SEO for voice search. An article from SEMrush about this: https://www.semrush.com/blog/how-virtual-assistants-like-siri-and-google-now-impact-seo/

Personally I use semrush.com to quickly monitor the backlinks to a website. It will give you a nice overview of all the referring ip’s and url’s and you can export it into Excel. However there is no option to see the changes over time (at least not in the free version). In Moz under “Links > Competitive metrics” on the History tab you can see graphs that compare some link data with your competitors over time. To get more information for a rapport I export the data from semrush once a week. This way I can show all the link metrics over time with the top referring domains for a website compared to the competitors. And yes it can take some time before the link metrics are indexed.

Hi,

The MozBar addon is temporarily disabled for Firefox.
U can still use the Google Chrome versions as an alternative.
See this post: https://moz.com/community/q/mozbar-login-change-update-firefox-temporarily-disabled

Hi,
Short answer: No you can’t hide a selection on a page from Google. If Google reaches your page it will crawl all of it. I personally wouldn’t worry that much about duplicate content here if it is only a small part of the page.

One solution could be to make an image for the returning content if this is possible. This way Google doesn’t crawl the text, but make sure you make the content visual. It is not userfriendly to put a lot of text in images.

Hi,

Some (more technical) things I would suggest:

• Use your keyword “plan trip” in the alt tag in some images and in your meta description of the homepage
• Use reviews and implement microdata to show review stars on the SERP (can increase your CTR): https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/reviews#top_of_page
• Your homepage is pretty big in size: 2.7MB. Some suggestions for your homepage: https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/dmlQqi/http://www.plan-trip.com/
• Place your non essential CSS and Javascript files on the bottom of the script. This way the browser renders the HTML faster so a user sees content earlier:https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/PrioritizeVisibleContent#overview
• Use CSS sprites for images that return on multiple pages (for example in the header and footer) to save requests: http://www.dtelepathy.com/blog/graveyard/are-css-sprites-really-faster
• You can compress some images/javascript and css files on your site to save some size:
• https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.plan-trip.com%2F&tab=desktop
• You also have a lot of inline css which you should load from a .css file
• Combine as much CSS and Javascripts files as possible to save requests

These are some basic things I could find, hope it will help you.

-Mark

Hi,

Yes this really depends on how frequently Google crawls your site. Do these pages now lead to a 404 error? If yes I would suggest 301 redirecting them to other pages on your site. See this useful Moz blog about 301 redirects: https://moz.com/blog/heres-how-to-keep-301-redirects-from-ruining-your-seo

You also mentioned that you don’t offer the web design service anymore. If you still gets some traffic there you could make a specific page. Here you can state that you don’t offer web design but maybe some other relevant services.

Hi,

The first place I would look to investigate this is at the Crawl Error Report in Google Search Console (if you haven't already). Here are some things I would also check:

• Does your site have a XML sitemap? If no, I would add it to your site (could help Google indexing the pages faster)
• Do you have a lot of redirects? This could cause problems.
• You could try Urivalet to check if the server header of your pages are okay.
• Obvious one: are you sure that you don’t have a NOINDEX in your meta tags?
• Check your robots.txt to see if those pages aren't disallowed.
• If your site uses Appache, maybe your .htaccess file is causing issues?
• Do you experience any problems with hosting/DNS or really slow loading times?

I don’t know what you already tried and the specifics, so it is a bit harder to troubleshoot

Hopefully you will find a solution soon.

Mark