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Great expansion on the line of thinking from Steve here. Thumbs up. @Drew T, questions like these are the things you'll want to consider and map out for someone(s) that you task with building links. Ultimately some of the best relationships you'll cultivate online will come from more than just getting a link, but actually connecting with other people that are in your niche.
I agree with Alan. Wordpress has been turned into a full blown CMS platform and is capable of handling well over 400 pages. A quick walk through some of the sites in the Wordpress Showcase (http://wordpress.org/showcase/) will reveal several sites that are well of 400/800 in page size. And if you make the pages static there are going to be even fewer server calls. Speed at that level will really be determined by server speeds, network bandwidth, connectivity, and up times. Typically a slow site can be solved by a new host not a new CMS.
It's just another thing that can be ticked off the list. Even with third party tracking it could vary substantially depending on where the original request is coming from. Even if the time savings are miniscule moving up in Pagespeed grade is useful.
Excellent resource Dr. Pete. Thanks for this. It'll be a likely place to link back to in the weeks to come. Are there any twitter accounts or other reliably updated sources to reference people too as well as the date approaches and passes?
Sometimes you see a bit more organic (in terms of people just naturally linking to things) indexation of content if pages are dynamically generated by a user selecting the amenity, location, etc, and then the database creates the page on the fly and then someone links to that. Still it's nice to have a bit more control over page URLs and give them a bit more established, static presence ahead of time.
I wouldn't worry about their release in regards to amount. Just make sure they function, have sitemaps indicating the new content, and try to drum up a press blitz on the new amount of pages in social and conventional space. Google does well with large increases if it sees a correlated increase in search or press.
Thumbs up to Tom's suggestion. That reminds me that you can also run searches in Google on Yahoo Question's repository, so something like: furniture site:answers.yahoo.com or get more specific inserting wildcards like: *** furniture * site:answers.yahoo.com** Cheers!
Concur. Looks like a link farm and your link isn't surrounded by content so much as it's surrounded by a ton of other links. Definitely look for another solution.
Here's a solution that might work in your case, but like Steven said, hard to tell without an example: http://www.webmasterworld.com/apache/3957440.htm
Hi Aidan. When it comes to figuring out precise traffic levels, there's really no other way to do it than have access to their analytics. That said, here are two other posts on the same topic that I recently answered that should help you out.
infer some traffic amounts when you're tracking keyword rankings
get a good idea of how much engagement or traction a competitor is getting from social via tools
you're going to be missing a lot of data by not knowing how well they're doing in terms of email marketing, social, referrers, etc.
Cheers!
Excellent. Was thinking of Barry too when I first saw your update. I have a feeling there's going to be a lot chatter and some wild MozCast weather in April...
I think that's an excellent way to cover some of the conversion factors for people reading about the benefits of your software. Are there channel / vertical markers within your case studies as well? For example: X Company in the Public Sector increases compliance by Y%... If so, I'd work on including some of those factors that could help drive search if applicable: company type, vertical, channel, problem type solved, and so on.
Hi Andy. If your 30 websites are all similar content and a similar template you can probably just go ahead and redirect them straight away to the community website, especially if they haven't been performing up to your expectations.
If your 30 websites already have some of their own traction you'll probably want to redirect them piecemeal in order to see how users react to the new, singular website; and to see how the new website measures up in analytics.
If you're already at 90% UK traffic I'd look into diversifying and go after easy fits like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and South Africa. Is the site on a UK domain with UK hosting? If so, that will be more of a location signal than links and the major factor in UK boost. Stronger links--from anywhere--will apply to the strength of your site globally, plus the UK. I'd start going after those.
From a hypothetical point of view there are a lot of variables that go into this question: size of site, PA, DA, text of link, mix of links, contextual nature of the links, and so on; basically, you have a spectrum of answers depending on all the variables, where in one case a link from the home page would be massively stronger than links from all sub pages, or the inverse, where universal links would dominate one link from the home page.
Hi John. Correct, your site is indexed with Google, and Google will distribute your site across its search portals, for example you can run the site search on Google Italy, Google Russia, and so on, but when you set the search to pull specific results from just the UK your site doesn't appear. It's still in Google, but what you're asking Google to do is show you only UK-based sites. You can do something similar with Italy here: https://www.google.it/#q=soccerbox.com changing 'Paese' to Italia. Then the site:soccerbox.com search returns no results.
Another way to see this behavior is to go to Google Advanced Search where you can select 'region'. Here: http://www.google.com/advanced_search For the descriptor of that, Google states, "Find pages published in a particular region." Since you're publishing globally instead of locally you won't appear when you search your domain plus a given region, like Australia, the UK, and so on.
It looks like Global results are your preference so everything looks to be working as intended. Cheers!
I haven't seen this Ben. And you're still doing fine in Google? Have you checked Google Trends in relation to your content? Did your robots.txt file change? Is your site in Bing Webmaster Sites? https://www.bing.com/webmaster/ Just a few of the things to check on. Cheers!
Hi Rosemary. CPC campaigns should only be counting clicks sent from Facebook to your target website. See: https://www.facebook.com/help/659185130844708 and https://www.facebook.com/help/336724533157327
If they're not you'd be able to report the non-visit charges as fraudulent and likely have them removed from your billing.
Since Google leaves SafeSearch Off for its text based results, it's rare that you'll see a difference. In some cases if people have SafeSearch set to moderate or strict you may notice your listing removed. Pretty easy to test though.
You're welcome Sara. I'm leaning towards no penalty associated currently, but you'll want to use your judgment. Things like percentage of spam to reputable links, whether or not the client is showing up for branded searches, number of pages listed via the 'site:' search, and so on. If they don't appear to be penalized and are competing about where to be expected then these links likely aren't affecting them.
GWT doesn't guarantee showing all backlinks, so yes, it is a possibility that you won't find them there. You can use other backlink checking tools like Majestic and Ahrefs to compile an even larger list, while a site like https://www.rmoov.com/ can help with speeding up the cleaning process.
Finally, it'd probably be instructive for you to run several sites through OSE and see how much spam is common place so that you can start to get a feel for it. Much is from content scrapers that are linking unintentionally, things of that nature. Google knows to ignore them for the most part.
First, I'd look for a way to shorten the URL via the API. There are a TON of blank variables in that URL so I'm guessing the API has everything turned on, even though you're not pulling results for all those variables. If you can, get it to return data on only the things being searched for.
Next, if the API is just too unmanageable, I'd look into building static pages that pull search results into them via an iFrame. That way you could control all the URLs and content for several hundred popular searches, have nice clean URLs, but still have the dynamic search results as a portion of the page.
A last option, if possible, would be to setup URL rewrites to change the popular searches into normal sounding pages, but that could be difficult and cause things to break if the API changes suddenly or throws more random variables into the mix.