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Hi there
What this is is the video embed you have for your June 13, 2014 post called Key Largo Wrecks have been great lately! Goto your blog category page and scroll down to that post (which is second to last) and try playing the video. It's not playing for me, hence why this is showing a 404.
What I would do is either find the right embed code for the video, reupload the video, or remove it. That's really all you can do.
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I would worry about potential duplicate content issues if you have https or http versions of your site. Beyond that, I would let the rest of the group chime in - this is just something I would make sure you understand - choosing a protocol and www. or non www. and sticking with it.
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This is fair. I really like Tom's answer as well - lots to think about.
Have you considered surveying your audience or checking into what are your competitors doing? The issue is, this isn't an obvious yes or no, there are factors and you have to consider the audience, the industry, and how your site is set up. In my opinion, you're betting off testing these sorts of things as no two sites/audiences are the same.
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Actually, if you have ScreamingFrog you can run a crawl and this will tell you what pages these internal link errors live on and what their anchor texts are so you can quickly pinpoint and update them.
If this is something you don't feel like you can do (or have time to do), shoot me an email and we can discuss - my email is in my profile. Otherwise, there other companies you can reach out to if it's easier for you!
Hope this helps! Chat soon.
Hi there
Here are a couple of great resources to help with your title tags:
Title Tag Best Practices (Moz)
Title Tags & SEO: 3 Golden Rules (SEW)
Remember, what you put in the title tags comes down to what your users are searching for. If their intent is not met, they are not going to click. As long as the title is relevant and catches the eyes of the user (and search engines), you will be golden.
Also, don't forget that you could do all the research in the world and Google could change your title tag - just be mindful that that could potentially happen, so don't be discouraged. Same thing with your meta descriptions (here are some great tips on click through rates around meta tags).
Don't overuse keywords or cram as much as you can in. This can come across as spammy and hurt your chances of ranking. Be mindful of length, phrasing, and branding.
Hope this helps! Good luck to you!
Hi Justin
While it won't show you what is converting, check out SEMRush. It's a great tool that will show you what competitors are ranking for, the estimated traffic they are getting for that keyword, as well as the landing page.
The beauty with this tool is that you can research from both a SEO and paid perspective.
You can learn more about the features and tools here.
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Hi there
Check out this great answer from Andy Drinkwater in this Q+A thread. You also have to consider your industry and the keyword difficulty. Check out the on-page grader as well, this can help you prioritize what steps to take.
Hope this helps - good luck!
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I would focus on your on-site SEO, primarily around your title tags and overoptimization of those, especially with the word "Utah" - it doesn't need to be in almost every title tag and everywhere onsite. I'd imagine you take work from outside of Utah, right?
Beyond that, I would look into your local SEO and citation building to see if there are any opportunities there. Are there any web development directories or relevant certifications you know of that you guys can apply for? BBB?
Also, if you're going to be doing footer links (which that appears to be all you have in your backlink profile), make sure those are branded - not exact match. Those are there to reference your work, not for SEO.
This is a matter of building your Domain Authority, so focus on providing value based on intent and user experience that can result in mentions or relevant linking opportunities. There's not a lot of content on the site really; there's a huge opportunity for you!
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Hi there
Google actually has a phone call tracking partners list, you can check that out here.
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Hi there
Take a look at Google's URL patterns and exclude URLs resources. These are great pieces to help you handle your search URLs and patterns.
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Hi there
I am actually seeing a redirect in the URL you are posting. ScreamingFrog is telling me that...
https://www.motifinvesting.com/blog/cleantech-obama-romney/1494
...is 301 redirecting to...
https://www.motifinvesting.com/blog/cleantech-obama-romney/
It actually appears your entire blog section is redirecting when it has a /(post-id) in the URL. You're on Apache so I would have your web development team check your URL rewrites and make sure there is nothing strange happening there.
Again, this seems to be a blog issue around your post-ids - I would start there and check other sections of the site as well.
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Hi there
Moz offers a great resource that can help you see how the conversion rate optimization process works and should be approached, from discovery to review.
You're going to want to collect your data, take an unbiased look at your website, make hypothesis on where the bottlenecks/pain points are in your website, and create a plan of potential tests you want to run to test those assumptions. Hotjar is a great tool for this.
Do not just start making changes to your website - test them. This is easily done with different tools, including:
Visual Website Optimizer
Optimizely
If you are weary about this process or don't have the time and resources to do so yourself, you should look into a professional that has experience doing so. You really should talk to a professional to begin with, as you want to be making the right decisions based on the right data, and sometimes this can get overwhelming. Moz has a great list of companies you can reach out to for the process.
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According to Moz's Errors in Crawl Reports:
"902 Unable to contact server
The crawler resolved an IP address from the host name but failed to connect at port 80 for that address. This error may occur when a site blocks Moz's IP address ranges. Please make sure you're not blocking AWS." Here's a Q+A thread with resources and tips, as well as input from Moz Staffer Sam Weber.
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I would do it, especially if it's easy like you said. People are visual and you don't know how much it could potentially help users who need the visual validation that they are about to buy the right cartridge. With a sitemap, you're also able to add your own titles, descriptions, and it also helps Google find images that may potentially be reached through Javascript.
Again, if it's easy enough, do it - you covered another base and helped your chances of increased visibility. Here's more information for you.
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According to Moz Health:
_"Identified - Domain Authority scores have dropped a bit as of our last update. For a detailed description on why these scores have changed, please reference this new blog post: http://moz.com/community/q/what-s-the-story-on-mozscape-updates _
May 11, 09:16 PDT"
It appears that they have found the issues and are preparing to resolve them within the next 24 hours or so according to their last update.
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Hi Hitesh
Try this procedure from ShoutMeLoud. Their suggested procedure:
You may also want to check internal links and sitemap to make sure you don't have references to that category section if it is in fact gone; that will provide a bad user experience. That's a discussion for you and your team though.
Also, run through your backlinks and update those pointing to Coffee to point to the most relevant category in place now.
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According to SEMRush, while note specifically ranking for that phrase "reverse mortgage", you're ranking for a TON of other reverse mortgage long tail - so I would be extremely happy about that.
This is a very broad search term, and you're competing against the likes of FTC.gov, Wikipedia, hud.gove, aarp.org, and more. You're going to have a hard time there.
I would focus more on opportunities around what your audience is actively searching for. I would imagine with people looking for reverse mortgages they have specific issues that could be a ton of potential content for you guys.
You could do competitive analysis around the top ranking sites for this search, but I honestly think your efforts/energy would be focused on creating content around specific reverse mortgage opportunities.
Hope that helps! Good luck!
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My bad! Yeah - you could just do this:
User-agent: Rogerbot
Disallow: (check out this resource on how to block specific query strings)
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According to Google:
"...we don't guarantee that we'll crawl all of the pages of a particular site. Google doesn't crawl all the pages on the web, and we don't index all the pages we crawl. It's perfectly normal for not all the pages on a site to be indexed."
Google also provides tips and resources to help your site being indexed properly and, possibly, more fully. You can check that resource out here. Kissmetrics has a few other tips.
To Andy's point, Google indexes what it wants - don't be discouraged if your entire site isn't indexed in WMT. If you know how many pages are on your site (which you definitely should), I would try the "site:" function and get a better idea of what actually is indexed in Google.
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Hi there
Check out URL Profiler - this tool is fantastic for pulling different metrics for URLs - single or bulk - for a multitude of reasons.
There are also other tools you can find through search, but I would stick with URL Profiler.
Hope this helps! Good luck!