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Makes perfect sense now.

Firstly, I agree with hemblem5 above on how to track this.

Most importantly however, the very first SEO recommendation I would suggest to your client, is that they change the way the GEO-location redirect is currently set-up.

Having a GEO-location redirect in place can cause indexation issues with Google. Googlebots need to be thought of like a human as they crawl and index pages in a very similar fashion.

Just imagine this scenario:

• Your site domain.com has several different country profiles set-up for it /UK/ /US/ etc.
• To easily direct the user to the most relevant page, a GEO-location redirect is put in place, which is great for the user journey.
• However, when a Googlebot comes along, it is registered to its own GEO-location which lets say for this example is the US.
• Consequently, it is redirected to the /US/ version of the site, which has very few links, if any to the /UK/ subfolder
• This results in the /UK/ version rarely (if ever) being indexed. Which is not good for SEO.

You'll be glad to know however, that there is an easy work around for this.

Instead of using a GEO-location redirect, let the user see the global domain (www.domain.com) then, using a pop-up or welcome page, offer to direct the user to the most relevant page to their country.

Doing the above will ensure that you have no indexation problems and will help to rank the global domain higher overall.

Let me know if you have any questions on the above or need any further references etc.

Hope this helps

Thanks

SilverDoor

Hi Virginia,

I'd be glad to help.

However, the pictures you've attached are set to private.

If you can make them public I'm sure I'll be able to offer some insight.

Thanks

SilverDoor

Hi,

I'm slightly confused with your questions.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean when you say a new domain?

/uk/ would still be on the same domain as www.itelligencegroup.com

I can see that a redirect is already set in place to go from www.itelligencegroup.com to itelligencegroup.com/uk/. I'm assuming this is based on the users GEO-location?

In answer to your question Moz will report on the domain of your website. Which in this case would be www.itelligencegroup.com.

Can you possibly elaborate more and give me some information as to what other domains there are, if any?

Thanks

SilverDoor

Nice one Pixel by Pixel,

Completely forgot to mention about the Meta keywords!

But yes I completely agree. We've removed them from our site completely.

Only give competitors an edge over you.

Hi,

I wouldn't recommend changing anything that is already successful. i.e. high click-through-rate (CTR) high conversion rate or low bounce rate.  People often get caught up with the idea of testing things and improving results and end up doing more harm than good.

However, if you identity areas where improvement is needed, these are ideal places to carry out tests.

In terms of what to do next, I recommend that you do some in-depth competitor analysis on all of the sites currently ranking above you.

Look at all of the elements that you've mentioned above and see what your competitors are doing in those areas. If you find that they're currently doing something better than you, strive to improve that.

Good research is the key here. Make sure to follow this rule:

Research - Hypothesise - Test - Review

Another important element to not forget is benchmarking. Ensure that you benchmark before you implement any changes, that way you can see what the overall effect is.

Hope this helps

I suspect you may be right.

How long ago did they appear?

Are they starting to go gradually down or up?

A hundred percent agree.

That's exactly why I was asking why he wanted them placed there?

Hey,

I'm more than happy to take the time. Always happy to help.

Use the list below as a checklist. If it meets one of the points then remove it.

• Low Domain Authority (MOZ Domain Authority and Page Authority)
• Unrelated links from websites that bear no relevance to the content / theme of our website
• Directories
• Pages with hundreds of outbound links on them – the more outbound links the less credible your link becomes
• Overly optimised, keyword rich anchor text
• Any sitewide links (across the whole domain multiple times)
• Any Adult websites
• Anything that just looks plain crap

Also, when your going to start building links, it's worth reading this to get an idea of the things that are seen as acceptable by Google 19 Things Matt Cutts Said in 2013 That Changed the Way We Build Links

Making a bit more sense now?

Thanks

SilverDoor

Hi,

You should never redirect to a 404 page.

Search Engines are going to see this as an error and may even think you are trying to manipulate users around your site.

I would redirect the pages to a relevant page on your site.

With regards to the huge number of errors now appearing, I need some more details to answer the question:

• How many 404's would you expect there to be (give an estimate)?
• How many 301 redirects do you think would have been implemented with the script?
• Have you recently changed anything else with the HTTP Status Codes?

SilverDoor

Hi,

Which links are you referring to?

[url=http://www.idehdesign.com/سئو]سئو[/url]
esta
آیلتس
خرید شارژ ایرانسل
handelsregister

or

single parent adoption

or

auto second hand

And why are you putting a link in the signature anyway?

Hi,

Unfortunately, nobody will be able to tell you exactly how Moz calculate their PA and DA. These are algorithmic and intentionally kept secret.

However, there are several sources on their site that can at least provide some insight into the things they may be using

• What is Domain Authority? 
• What is Page Authority?
• Search Engine Ranking Factors (This will probably give you the most insight into elements they take into consideration within their algorithm.

Sorry there's not a more specific answer to your question.

Hope you find this useful.

SilverDoor

Hey David,

Firstly, welcome to the world of SEO.

I know that things can seem pretty confusing and daunting, especially when your new to SEO. The key is to not rush into any decisions without having evidence to back the potential benefits. It's very easy to go storming into things and end up making poor decisions. Here is my recommendation for how to proceed from here:

Step 1:

Benchmark your current rankings, traffic etc. (You need to do this so you know if the changes you have made have had a positive or negative impact)

Step 2:

Do a quick health check of your website. Use Google Webmasters to check for any issues or penalties you may have received. Fix any issues as soon as possible.

Step 3:

Do a backlink audit using Open Site Explorer. Export your results to Excel and then analyse them. Look at every single URL and check to make sure that they're not harming your site. If you find any that you think may be harming your site, then get in touch with the webmaster of that site and request them to remove the link. If that doesn't work, use Google Disavow Tool to remove it. This article on Link Audit Guide For Effective Link Removals & Risk Mitigation will guide you through this process.

Step 4:

Use Open Site Explorer to analyse your competitors backlink structure. Look at the places they have obtained high quality links and attempt to target those same sites.

Step 5:

Once you have successfully obtained backlinks, analyse the results against the initial benchmark you did. Then you can see exactly what has improved and other areas that may still need work.

The above is a time consuming process and takes patience. Seriously though, it's worth doing it right as this will help prevent dips in traffic in the future.

Hope this is clear and concise enough.

Let me know if you need anything else explained.

SilverDoor

Hi,

I recently encountered this issue myself.

It took several attempts before I realised that the tool does work. It's just extremely slow.

Tick the ones you want to delete, click the delete button and let it do its thing.

I promise it will delete.

If the problem still persists, get in touch with a member of the Moz help team at Help@Moz.com

Let me know how you get on.

Thanks

SilverDoor

Hi David,

I'm assuming that one of the reasons you've dropped so rapidly is because you were previously engaging in black-hat tactics?

Have you done a full SEO audit? If so, what did you find the problem to be?

Did you find that you had a problem with your backlink profile? If so, have you taken action to remove any potentially harmful links (directories, link farms, low-quality unrelated sites)? If you haven't done this, I would advise this is your first step. There's no point in building up good links on an already bad profile.

Let me know where you've got to so far and I can advise you with your next step.

Thanks

SilverDoor

Hi James,

Congratulations, it sounds like you've done some really good work so far.

In terms of what to do next, I recommend that you do some in-depth competitor analysis on all of the sites currently ranking above you.

Look at all of the elements that you mentioned above and see what your competitors are doing in those areas. If you find that they're currently doing something better than you, strive to improve that.

Good research is the key here. Make sure to follow this rule:

Research - Hypothesise - Test - Review

Another important element to not forget is benchmarking. Ensure that you benchmark before you implement any changes, that way you can see what the overall effect is.

Hope this helps

Hi Carl,

As Site A is a development site for Site B, you will not want Google to index this or anyone to have access to this (I'm assuming), as this will have a detrimental impact on Site B for search purposes. Here is the action I propose you take:

Site A:

• Block search indexing using Meta Tags: To prevent most search engine web crawlers from indexing a page on your site, place the following meta tag into the section of your page: . Ensure that this is done across the whole site.

• Robot.txt file: Set up a robot.txt file for Site A and set to disallow

• Password protection: Set up password-protection for the website

In order to ensure that Site A is not found or indexed by any search engines it's best practice to do all 3 of the above.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Great answer.

Couldn't have put it any better myself!

Hi Carl,

I need a bit more information in order to answer this question.

Why would you not want Google to see/follow those links?

Do you want Google to index site (B) at all?

Your next action completely depends on the above.

Totally agree.

Really well explained.

Just wanted to expand and point you in the direction of this article on Moz about "The Hidden Power of Nofollow Links".

It's well worth a read. Enjoy!