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Hi,

I don't necessarily agree that too many outbound links can harm your own SEO. In fact, Matt Cutts has tons of outbound links on his blog, so as long as links are relevant from a user perspective there shouldn't be any issues.

Back to the follow/nofollow, if you are linking out to trusted and relevant sources, I don't see any reason to nofollow the links. On the other hand, if you have user generated content, I would nofollow external links, because you won't always know where are they linking out.

Hope this helps!

Dmytro

Hi Edgar,

Open Site Explorer is not always 100% accurate, as well as other platforms (e.g. SEM Rush, Majestic, SimilarWeb and so forth). Furthermore, it does take time for links to appear on Open Site Explorer. I personally see Open Site Explorer as a great comparison/link opportunity tool, which allows you to see rough figures.

You can always use Google Search Console to see links that point to your site.

Thanks,

Hi,

I think keyword density is quite outdated. I've seen many people asking on Quora about optimal keyword density. I think this no longer applies. In fact, Matt Cutts has targeted this question like 5-6 years ago (here is a video), but, I still see a lot of folks trying to stuff their keywords everywhere. Hence, I think this point was missing on the latest WB Friday. However, I totally agree with other points mentioned.

Hi,

Canonical tags are used when there is the same content in different locations of your website. For example, If you have a blog post that is also available in a printable version, you would want to put rel=canonical tag that points to the original piece of content (to tell search engines that you want them to show that original piece and forget about the printable version).

Please read this guide from Moz. It will explain everything you need to about canonicalization.

I hope this helps!

I'm seeing a slight rise in results for some of my clients and no change for others.

Hi Shauni,

Have you analysed where those links are coming from? Do they look spammy and unrelated? If so, don't worry, they will be penalised soon. Google may take some time to discover the nature of "link building" methods of your competitors.

Many Thanks,

I wouldn't say that Wix is that bad when it comes to SEO. Yes, there are limitations like no access to source code, robots.txt, little control over sitemap, canonical tags, funny "#!" characters in URLs (due to Ajax technology) etc. The blog part is pretty limited, you can't change meta titles, urls, descriptions, can't put rel=canonicals.

That said, I think Wix got a lot better in the last year or so, in terms of SEO. You can optimise every page of your site, they got better with the website load time, they use schema markup for product pages, etc.

Furthermore, I had few clients with Wix websites, and can say that we've achieved some good SEO results. Of course, if you have a large website that requires some advanced technical operations, I wouldn't recommend Wix. But, for small websites, I think Wix does a decent job.

I can't see content creation on the list (that is what you really want to target) and marketing that content. Obviously, there many many many more aspects to implement on-site and off-site when doing SEO.

With those you have listed I would be careful and wouldn't overuse them.

I agree with Mike. You shouldn't really allow bots to try and access wp-admin / captcha pages.

I would suggest adding the following line in your Robots.txt file: Disallow: /wp-admin/

You can also do the same to the captcha page or noindex the page.

Can you possibly post the link of your website so we can have a look at your link profile and spam score.

In regards to the links, there are many factors to consider. I'll tell you a few (what I think is a good practise for link building). First of all, don't purchase links (although Google doesn't really know if you've paid money or not). Try to get links from relevant websites to your own business, high authority websites with high Domain Authority, relevant publications and so forth. Avoid spammy websites (you can use Moz Bar to identify those) and keep the good balance between Dofollow and Nofollow links.

Check out the Moz Blog and Rand's whiteboard Friday for more detailed response, you can learn a lot from those guys.

Hi,

Not sure if you've already tried this, but got to chrome settings (the 3 vertical dots icon in the top right corner) > More Tools > Extensions > Find MozBar and hit reload button

Thanks,

Hi there,

I think you might be referring to "noindex" as opposed to "nofollow"? "Nofollow" is used to tell search engines not to follow the links on that page.If you don't see any use of these pages in search results and have duplicate content, consider adding "noindex" tags to these pages.

I agree with Patrick.

I personally think that search engines simply prioritise your homepage over the subpages, as a result of higher PA, Links and so forth.

Also, you said that this is a new page, was your homepage ranking for that keyword before you've added the new page? What I think, is that the new page contributes to the ranking of the homepage, as it hasn't got enough ranking signals (e.g. backlinks) on its own.

I might be wrong.

It will be helpful if you can maybe post the link to the website.

Hi,

Are you launching completely new website or just changing the design of the current website? If you are just changing the design, then you can post the new content and then re-design the website (as long as your re-design would not interfere with the content). Are you planing to keep the website live while re-designing?

Hi,

It's quite challenging to give any heads up as we don't know what your business is about and what do you sell/provide.

Google Keyword Planner can give you a solid understanding of the search volume and competitiveness of specific keywords. You can also use MOZs keyword difficulty tool which also specifiles the competitiveness of a specific keyword.

I think you should target keywords that are most relevant to your business as oppose to "most searched" keywords. As your website is new, it will be super challenging to rank for high volume keywords, therefore, you should focus more on long tail keywords that are highly relevant to your business.

Hope this help!

I would agree with Dirk. There is not much to rank for on your website, all of your content comes from amazon.

Still, another questions is why is it not indexed yet. The website is built on Wordpress and if you haven't touched your robots.txt then it should not block crawlers. As I can see you are not ranking for your exact match domain name (i.e. site: yourdomain.com) which can be sign of a manual penalty.

What I would suggest is to add some content, do some internal optimisation (download seo Yoast plugin), add Titles, H1, optimise images and so forth. Then, create a separate search console account and submit your sitemap and see if it works.

Hi,

I would say that it is beneficial to have a clear architecture/structure for users and search engine spiders to navigate across your website. If you'd decide to change the structure, I would suggest using something like this: www.yourwebsite.com/chairs/seagrass-chair/.

When you say that you have a "chair" page, does that mean that all of your products are listed on that single page or do you have separate products pages?

Hi,

I agree with the guys. As soon as the website gets popular, authoritative and valuable, other websites tend to simply copy stuff that you produce, including whole paragraphs of content and sometimes they don't even bother removing the links from the content.

Try to disavow as many as you can, but don't spend all of your time on it. As Dmitrii said, it is important to keep your spam score low. Hence, try to focus on building quality links that will easily outweight spammy ones.

Thanks,

Okay, I can see that you are disallowing: /locations/montreal/. This what might be causing the issue. I think you should ask your developer to review the technical side of your website.