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Is WHOIS data used by Google as a ranking signal?

We had a website that had some bad SEO work done a while ago hence took a knock, If I use the same WHOIS data on a new site is that likely to cause an issue?

Also I don't like the idea of providing too much information for privacy reasons, so have tended to stick to general email addresses and department names rather than actual personal information.  Is that a bad approach?

Hello,
Thanks for your response, I've attached a couple of screenshots.

Think I've establish it depends where you view the report, if run directly from the on page optimiser it displays a green tick or if you access it via project it seems to display with a black tick.

I just thought the some reason it was only partially validated, but maybe just down to GUI.

Can I clarify that black and green ticks mean the same thing? !!

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Does CDN impact on SEO or not?

There seems conflicting ideas as to whether they impact positively or negatively, I realise that if the page loads quicker this is a good thing for SEO and usability of course.

Does Google see CDN as just cheating and a get-around for not doing the work from the ground up and using good hosting etc?

Do you have any direct experience?

All constructive input much appreciated!

One of the pages I'm trying to optimise is achieving an 'A' grade, however all the ticks are black not green as I've seen on other page grade.

Why is this?

Help much appreciated.

Thanks

Are unintrusive pop-ups okay or is Google likely to impose a black mark?

I'm not talking about making people stay on the site, just talking about little one corner pop-up for a special offer.

An example would be an embedded live chat pop-up.

Have you had any experience?

Just answered my own problem!

"We are sorry that we have had to cancel this month's index release."

https://moz.com/products/api/updates

Shame you don't get points for answering your own questions!!!

Apologies if this is a thick question but do you have to trigger a moz index manually?

Having checked the analytics the domain authority etc hasn't been updated since 4 August.

I've done a bit of digging around and can't find any obvious solution or answer.

Seem to be getting an awful lot of referral spam (Very large percentage), does it cause a problem with SEO or do search engines ignore it?

Is it likely to have a negative effect?

Is it a type of commercial warfare by competitors?

Does anyone have any direct experience or knowledge?

Thanks

Depending on what market you're in LinkedIn seems to be extremely powerful, does anyone have any experience of marketing using LinkedIn as a platform?

All suggestions and tips welcome...

Apart from link acquisition any other ideas on how to build authority?

Thanks for your input - Interesting, Have batted it round social media a couple of times and just done a "site:" search and is indexed.

So must be an authority issue, the page has been round a few weeks and I'm fairly confident the pages in reasonable shape.

Maybe start a bit of quality link building?

Is there any benefits in using 'Fetch as Google' in WMT and then submitting for indexing?

I have a page which I'm trying to get to rank so far with no luck is it likely to help or could it hinder?

Please speak from experience not hearsay

Many Thanks

The way I would do it is to search for a super long tail keyword, copy a large bunch of text of the page and paste it in Google (you may need to pass it through a notepad to strip out formatting).

Afraid I don't have an answer answer to your question regarding info and site parameters.

I would trust the mega long tail keyword option more, You have to remember how dynamic Google searches are, even from one PC to another on the same premises.

Hope it helps.

This is a common problem, you have three options:-

Attempt to get the links taken down (by contacting the Webmaster)
Use the Google Disavow Tool tool
Recreate content on the site

To do any of the above as you mentioned you will need a list of URLs to fix, I would recommend using Google Webmaster tools & Moz Open Site Explorer.

You can also use Google search engine and search for the following:-
"-site:yourdomain.com yourdomain.com"

Remove speech marks

Hope this helps.

Think I've sussed it.

There is only about three or four main parameters so went to GA, Behaviour more > site content > all pages

Then did a search for part of the parameter name, sure enough you are right only a handful of visits.

Many Thanks

Is duplicate content of this sort actually a major issue?  Especially considering Google should already know from Webmaster tools that these are parameter pages.

Err-umm, next question then how do I check 3700 pages+ that have this problem for traffic?

(Other than turning into a night owl and having to purchase a new mouse :-))

Canonical URL is a good point, what about pages that have already being indexed possibly for a search term?

Are these going to drop off the rankings?

We have recently launched a new website, (domain has been registered to us for a time - just never got round to developing the website).

Any suggestions on kickstarting quality traffic to get the ball rolling?

Basic on page SEO work has been done and a little bit of link building, although the latter has been rather difficult to find bona fides sources.

So far most of the traffic comes via referrals from bot's no actual valuable referrals or organic traffic (According to GA).

And by the way, I'm NOT interested in people offering traffic bots

I'm just looking at ways of getting the site established organically, not interested in PPC at the minute.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

P.S. Please keep your answers as short as possible, I will request if I need any more information.  Also please note down if you had a positive experience of your suggestion actually working.  Many Thanks

Moz is picking up a large quantity of duplicate content, consists mainly of URL parameters like ,pricehigh & ,pricelow etc (for page sorting).

Google has indexed a large number of the pages (not sure how many), not sure how many of them are ranking for search terms we need.

I have added the parameters into Google Webmaster tools And set to 'let google decide', However Google still sees it as duplicate content.

Is it a problem that we need to address? Or could it do more harm than good in trying to fix it?

Has anyone had any experience?

Thanks