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We do this all the time on SearchBuzz. It doesn't always work, and you will find other sites ranking above you even if they only have one word in them related to the question, but then their whole site is filled with other related content. I am of course competing against the tabloids and major news sites, so it rarely works but when it does.. oh boy is the traffic good...
https://www.google.com/accounts/recovery/
Select "I don't know my username" and recover by phone details., the username provided should be an email address. Image attached as example of what output will be.
Well, I believe you could also simply change the URL structure, so it would be something like:
I believe this is known as cloaking, and Yoast mentioned a bit about it:
https://yoast.com/cloak-affiliate-links/
You could potentially remove ugly affiliate links as well as solve the no-follow issue as it wouldn't be a direct link to Amazon.
It varies massively on the site of course, so I would recommend using Google Analytics to find the answers to these questions, as it will be able to tell you.
In terms of our own site, SearchBuzz, we noticed that the average visit length was longer on the computer. Windows has people on for around a minute, whereas people only managed to stay an average of 30 seconds on iOS and Android. But that's because we are a news aggregator and we send our traffic straight back out again deliberately. This is what I mean by it depends on the type of site you have. A social site or a forum is going to have much longer for both mobile and desktop.
Hi Dan, hope you are well.
SEO is moving on these days and Google is focusing much more on original content, with longform and lots of content per page. If you can naturally add content to your page, you can encourage your relevant keyword to appear in that multiple times without it appearing as stuffing, whilst still including it for relevance and potential small boosts in search rankings.
I can tell you right now that average monthly searches is wrong. The term is peaking more than ever on Google:
https://www.google.co.uk/trends/explore#q=send%20sms%20online&cmpt=q
Software such as WhatsApp is increasingly keeping people from texting traditionally and using the internet instead.
Here is the relevant Matt Cutts announcement about it:
If Google catches you doing the frame breaker, you will be blacklisted.
Do you mean where it says "You are viewing: topic name"
I think it's fine personally - but I don't know if it will really have that much effect on your rankings - having the titles of each item relevant would likely have more of an effect, even if they are not exact matches, because Google should be able to relate them to "jewelry" in general.
Overall titanium rings appears 7 times on that sample page, and two of those are in the grid showing the specific items available - so those two would help as opposed to the extra one at the bottom, and rank for a slightly longer tail keyword, ie black titanium rings which less people may be searching for, but there would also be less competition for that keyword.
You could even go as far as to change your image advertisement to a HTML text based one so you'd get more keywords:
http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/titanium-rings/titanium-rings-banner.jpg
But then you don't want to be keyword stuffing too much.
Ash
In my opinion, just get your current template sliced for responsiveness. The fact your homepage has button style links means it is already cool and easy to use on a mobile device, and the detail pages have a mobile feel to them too. I think its simply because when you load it on a mobile device, its either very small and you have to zoom in and move around, or it simply cuts off half of the screen. example, go on http://ipadpeek.com/ and view the portrait version on iPad or iPhone,and you will see it's cutting off the right hand side.
Once your template is sliced, it will be responsive for mobile devices on any screen size.
Are you on Wordpress? It would cost only a couple hundred dollars to get it done properly.
He means when you click an image on Google images, that it navigates to the website instead of opening in Google Image's search. (I think)
The help hub has some great documentation. I recommend starting there and you should be able to grasp the basics if you sit down and read through it.
If the old domain had relevant content, domain etc, then I would usually 301 redirect. It helps to redirect it to a relevant page on your new site as opposed to just the homepage, such as a similar category, about page > about page etc. Match as much as you can, and the rest leave for the homepage simply for potential traffic when a user clicks a search result for someone appearing on your old domain, or a referring link etc.
Ash
Are you running a wordpress website or another Content Management system?
If so, you can use an SEO plugin to easily add meta descriptions to pages. If you run a simple HTML website, you can add the meta description, as shown on this Moz page:
http://moz.com/learn/seo/meta-description
Title elements being too long simply means you need to shorten your title so that the end is not missing from Google search results. Keep your titles short and too the point and maybe remove the site title if needed.
Duplicate page title will list the pages on your site that have the same title as another page on your site. Simply change those and ensure all pages (URLs) have a different page title.
A few milliseconds for a secure browsing experience on a ecommerce site. If you think your site needs it, and deals with personal information, you should definitely add it in my opinion, but it depends on the type of website that you currently operate.
I had a similar issue with a Freelancer who basically took 9 months to design our website, and it lacked the functionality I was after, yet because of how Freelancer.com milestones work, I could not redeem the money back.
It's good to put it behind you and learn from that mistake and realize you can do some stuff on your own once you learn how to, spending minimal amounts on what is important, ie a Moz Subscription.
I would get on to some reputable link building guides. Moz has one posted a couple weeks ago:
http://moz.com/blog/beginners-guide-to-link-building
Point Blank SEO has a good one:
http://pointblankseo.com/link-building-strategies
And there is another good one on Money Making Ninja:
http://www.makemoneyninja.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-link-building/
Be creative, learn how to get authority links relevant to your industry. Article based mentions will most likely be dofollow, forget about bounce rate, I ranked a 95% bounce rate aggregator and got 1 million visits a month with just 40 Domain Authority, it can be done with the right links and right content.
Ash
It would be ideal to have the first paragraph of the press release as the meta description, as this is usually a summary or outline of the news being announced.
You'd then have to truncate that to approx 140 characters to fit inside a Google result.
How that is implemented depends on the type of site you have, what you are running on etc.
Ash
Hi, this means you have redirects set up which are not particularly SEO friendly. Moz has the following description of Meta Refreshes.
"Meta refreshes are a type of redirect executed on the page level rather than the server level. They are usually slower, and not a recommended SEO technique. They are most commonly associated with a five-second countdown with the text "If you are not redirected in five seconds, click here." Meta refreshes do pass some link juice, but are not recommended as an SEO tactic due to poor usability and the loss of link juice passed."
So, if you have something on your site saying something like "you are about to be redirected", it is basically saying you should not have this, and instead use a direct redirect which passes link juice more.
Ash
