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Hi there,

I think is a lot more serious than using the Disavow tool. They have an exact duplicate copy of your website. This is a major concern.

You need to file a DMCA takedown request.

It's also worth reading this - http://support.google.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1386831

You can contact Google - dmca-agent@google.com

I would suggest you make this a priority.

Hope this helps,

Mark

Hi Debal,

Maybe I'm interpreting you wrong but there is no quick answer to this.

You appear to be ignoring the advice already given to you by Brad. You need to spend more time reading about link building, and more time reading about on-page optimization.

There isn't one thing you can do to achieve the rankings you desire.

Cheers,

Mark

Hi Mohammad,

I'm not sure what level your SEO knowledge is at but judging by your questions, I'd guess you're just starting out?

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

Take a read through SEOmoz's guide above and you can begin to identify the key areas of your website which need to be addressed.

Typically, I would recommend starting with a full site audit for an already established website. Identify the on-page and off-page factors, prioritize them in terms of important and place a time scale next to them.

You don't need a tool to develop a strategy. You need to know the underlying factors affected your website.

Best of luck,

Mark

I think you need to look at it from two perspectives.

Is it really needed? Does every page of the site really need this content displayed on it? I would be hesitant about recommending you putting all these things into the footer of every page.

Secondly, Twitter feeds can slow page load time. This will impact on the bounce rate of your site and since site speed can impact ranking, you really gotta ask yourself again about the need for this on every page.

A couple of footer navigational links are fine. Just avoid stuffing the footer with Twitter, newsletter, navigational and blog post links.

Hi there,

It might be worth sending your request directly to the Moz team so it doesn't get missed -

https://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-seomoz-PRO-feature-requests

Annotations would be a pretty cool addition,

Mark

One of the real questions would be - Why are you paying for a link?

Why not approach them with great content and work on building a relationship with them so you earn the link from them? You could save yourself money and it could lead to future links.

A one off payment for links isn't a good link building strategy.

Hi Barnabas,

In the help section it states -

How do I add my logo or get white labeled reports?
If you have our PRO Plus or PRO Elite, you can upload a logo from your campaign settings page. This will add your logo to the top of PDF reports downloaded from the web app. This is a great way to show off our excellent data with your awesome branding. Enjoy!

Standard PRO accounts don't have this feature.

I hope this helps,

Mark

Meta-Keywords have no impact on ranking though.

Kathy, you will need to add more content to the pages that are public. Focus on the specific keywords you wish to rank for and improve the on-page SEO for these terms.

Also, from what I can see, there are no backlinks pointing to the site. You should focus on attracting links from high authority websites within the sector.

Hi Barnabas,

I respect your opinion but what I've found with many SEO tools in the industry is that you could pay $99 for just one tool per months. SEOmoz has a vast toolset at your disposal, along with this community forum and the ability to ask a private question directly to the staff here.

The cheaper PRO package (which I'm also on) is for people to utilize the tools for a small/medium site or just smaller projects in general.

What you're asking for with logos is more of a bespoke service so the cost would typically be higher.

That's not just for Moz but for the industry in general.

Seems to be working fine now Josh. I still would check issues with your host.

I was able to crawl 193 pages with ScreamingFrog. I don't see reason why you're encountering problems  with it setup in your Moz account unless it's setup incorrectly.

Agree with Screaming Frog. It's more comprehensive than **Xenu's Link Sleuth. **

It costs £99 for a year but totally worth it.

I had a few issues with Xenu taking too long to compile a report or simply crashing.

Hi Nadejda,

Do you mean your content has been stolen? Sorry, I may be misunderstanding you.

My post from another thread -

If you wish to remove poor quality backlinks -

Use tools such as Ahrefs, OpenSiteExplorer, MajesticSEO and Google Webmaster Tools to identify the poor quality backlinks.

• Contact the relevant website with a suitable email and request the link be removed
• If no response after a week or two, try them again with another email, or via Twitter, Facebook etc
• If every attempt has failed to contact them, still note it down in a spreadsheet for future reference.
• Then, consider using the Disavow tool from Google but **only **if all other methods of contacting these sites fail.
• Unless you have a warning within Webmaster Tools about unnatural links, you won't need to do a re-consideration request. And even then, be cautious. A reconsideration request puts Google's target directly on you.

Hope this helps,

Mark

I think Francisco covered these points very well.

You need to speak to management about the business objectives. Only then can you identify a suitable SEO strategy to help the company meet these objectives.

Are there specific money keywords they want you to focus on?

Does the site itself get large traffic but few conversions? Could CRO help to improve this?

I think you really need to ask management what it is they want you to focus on. Developing an SEO strategy is too broad of a request to expect from you.

They need to provide guidance so you can focus on specific areas. If you need any further help, we'll gladfully help you.

Best of luck,

Mark

Hi Susan,

Sorry if I can't get into too deep of a response as I don't know the full back history of what links you had removed, and also how the link profile for your website is at the moment since you didn't include a link to it.

However, what I can point out is a problem with your current link building tactics.

• Classified Submission
• Article Submission
• Guest Posts
• Blog Comment
• Forum Submission
• Q & A Submissions
• Product Submissions
• Review Websites

I personally would avoid all of the above methods except for Guest Posts, and even then you need to be incredibly careful about websites you distribute your content on.

Classified and article submissions will generally hold very little weight now (highly depends on the actual sites), blog comments can appear spammy if they're quite generic and on poor quality sites. Forum submissions I would generally avoid completely, but still considering interacting with people on forums within your niches and offering high quality responses to relevant topics. The same applies to Q & A submissions as well since you need to be thinking about what you offer the user.

As for review sites, it really depends whether you mean users can submit reviews themselves through sites like TrustPilot, or if they're cheap review sites which you're building fake reviews on.

My advice Susan would be to dip much deeper with your link cleanup process. You may have tried to remove as many links as possible, but if your link building tactics consist of the above list, I would be quite worried about whether or not you're adding to the problem.

If you have any questions etc, feel free to give me a shout

Hi guys,

To be honest, it's a little bit embarrassing to throw out this question but it's one of the weakest points of knowledge at the moment for me.

I've tried to get a grasp of canonical URLs and what it all means. From my understanding, it's informing Google which page to take into consideration when there's the possibility for duplicate content. Right?

However, with the site I'm working on I'm not sure if it would be worth putting site-wide and the impact it would have.

Site I'm working on - http://bit.ly/N7eew7

With the nature of the site, there would be a lot of duplicated content as there's the possibility that several properties listed could have a similar address due to being in the same building etc.

From what I can see, no canonical URL was setup on the homepage.

The other variations of the homepage URL are 301 redirecting to thee http:/www. version.

Can someone explain it all to me in simple terms? Honestly believe that I'm getting more confused by the minute.

Thanks guys for your patience

What a waste of money. Avoid.

A lifetime link? You'll maybe soon have to pay extra money to get the link back off of that site.

This type of directory is no longer effective at all. I would highly suggest keeping your money.

Hi Jonathan,

If it's simply Excel displaying the content incorrectly, you can follow these steps -

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/split-names-by-using-the-convert-text-to-columns-wizard-HA010102340.asp

If not, I can see if I can offer any other advice then.

Cheers,

Mark

Hi Brian,

I'm pretty sure this can't be done. It would be worth deciding on which account has the greatest amount of influence and then messaging everyone on the other account to inform them that it will no longer be used.

Can I merge or combine two or more Twitter accounts into one?

• There is currently no way to manage multiple Twitter profiles from a single account or merge multiple accounts into one.
• We are unable to migrate data (Tweets, following, or followers) from one account to another.
• If you no longer want one of your accounts, we recommend that you leave one account inactive (or deactivate it, if you want) and tell your followers to find you at your preferred account.

https://support.twitter.com/groups/31-twitter-basics/topics/107-my-profile-account-settings/articles/20169956-how-to-manage-multiple-twitter-accounts

Hope this helps,

Mark

Hi Angie,

From GA, what date did you notice the drop in keyword rankings and traffic? I ask because it could be attributed to an algorithm update from Google.

From looking at OSE, the domain and page metrics of your site are basically non existent. How long has it been operational?

Up until now, what have you been doing in terms of on-page and off-page SEO to achieve the rankings you had before? The more information you can provide, the easier it will be for us to offer advice

My instant reaction to looking at that website is that it's a very poor quality directory site.

It looks like a paid directory and a low quality one.

I struggle to understand why people chose to pay for these. They hold no weight anymore.