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Hi Guys
I'd like someone to run and email a report on one of my competitors in an upgraded semrush.com account please!
I only want to run one report and don't really want to shell out $70 for one report. The company is super event dot co dot uk.
If any one could help that would be ace!
All the best
Ben
excellent thank you. I have submitted to the big boys and will leave it at that I think.
Thanks again Ryan!
I really appreciate it I never even thought to check the amount of comments. So many of the sites that claim to have high volume don't allow comments. such an easy way to check how their site fares.
any other tips for choosing? I was thinking an easy way to get links are to mention equipment that we use so surpliers will link to us, but they won't really influence customers,
Ben
Yes, my point exactly
But then again, could he just be the best of a bad bunch? looking around none of our competitors seem to have shareable interesting content.
I'm thinking if we pay for some blog posts from recognised industry leaders such as wedding magazines and create a lot of interesting content and perhaps a free to use tool that helps with wedding catering planning, should this out shine the competitor thats just got a lot of links going for it?
Hi
The former owner of One of our competitors ( www.gastrocatering.com ) gave my some insight into how he got his site up in the rankings.
He said he got his site listed on 100s of directories
had bloggers Wright about him.
Gastro catering ranks highly for almost every key word we want
I used the moz tools to see where his links came from,
Should I copy what he did? I read a lot of posts that lead me to the conclusion I shouldn't, but he ranks #1 for so many desirable keywords.
What are your thoughts on this please?
All the best
Ben
Hi, thanks for your reply, what do you mean by manipulative practices going outside of this setup?
We will be advertising sponsors of the campaign on the Micro site, and getting them to like to the save the royal oak url, but will use no follow in both directions.
Thanks again
Ben
Hi guys
there's a campaign (which I am very passionate about) to save our village pub from being developed.
Now I have bought a domain name www dot SaveTheRoyalOak dot com
I've forwarded this domain to sussexchef.com/save-the-royal-oak
I'm using forward masking so the url remains save the royal oak,
I will contain the few pages to do with the pub so that the navigation bars are hidden so the site will pretty much look be it's own entity to the user.
this micro site will get hundreds of users and people linking to it,
My question is will this hurt my site at all? I'm guessing that when I ask people to link to it I should get them to "no follow" it to be on the safe side?
Thanks for your help
All the best
Ben
Hi guys
Really funny to read this! I had some advice from a former compettitor (he has since sold his cateeing business) his site has little or even no interesting content (a handful of blog posts) but ranks well for all the keywords that we Desire .
I asked him how he did it and he said that he put his site on around 600 directories! He still ranks really highly even though he sold it a year or too ago.
The other thing he mentioned was buying blog posts on other sites about his.
So if I was to Wright some interesting content and get people in the catering industry to link to it. I should over come the directory spamming approach that he has taken? Perhaps a free tool or check list for weddings or something?
his site gastrocatering.com mine is sussexchef.com
Hey
Thanks, that's a weight off my mind, some of my pages only have the word "Sussex" in the copy once or twice I was just trying to see why the other site has such an edge over mine and wondered if ti could be down to that.
Thanks for your insight
Ben
Hi All
I am trying to rank my site for many key phrases but the pretty much always contain the word "Sussex"
The biggy with a lot of competition is "Caterers Sussex" and similar variations
when I view source on their page I find that Gastro catering's code uses "sussex" 92 times in it code.
My site www.SussexChef.com uses the word "Sussex" 590 times, the competitors site mentions the word less in its code and is dominant for all my desirable key words.
Am I spamming my keyword by using Sussex too often when naming my image file? Is there anything in this or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Thanks for your help
Ben
Hi yes it is wordpress.
Do you mean Wp-admin>css>? there are lots of files in there! all .css
Wow
Ok so the header is coursing the bad links, how do I go about fixing that? do I contact the support that make the theme?
Hi I see it in screaming frog too, should I just redirect the urls rather than trying to find them and correct them?
Thanks
Yes they are all coming from my site. However I look at the referring url and view source But I cant find any url's with Http:// in them twice, I looked in the htaccess file on the server and they are not their either.
Really od, where do you think they are coming from?
Ben
Hi I see them in the latest moz crawl and they are 404's yes
I just migrated my site so I was expecting 404's but not with the http: in them twice!
Thanks for your quick responce
Hi
I'm getting some really odd 202 errors, I can't think that someone would link to me like this " http://sussexchef.com/contact-us/http.sussexchef.com/contact-us/ "
There are 95 of them to deal with, I've checked my site and I can click though all the links on my site with out coming across 1 404.
Any ideas?
All the best
Ben
Hi guys and girls
After reading all the content It became apparent that our website is a bit of a dog. I'm about to update our site with a new theme and content on moz.com I've found myself becoming so much more confident at all this.
I've read all the material I can on Moz re: Site migration but still have one question. How do I find out all the links that I need to 301 before I make the new site live?
Please don't worry about patronizing me! I'm really new at this!
Ben