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I presume your site is waspkilluk.co.uk. When I went to your site, the content doesn't load immediately, but rather only when you scroll. Can you just double check what Google actually sees when the page loads - in webmaster tools try fetching and rendering the homepage.
Everything may be fine, but there is something niggling me that maybe google doesn't actually see your site properly.
Can you not just ask them to reissue with the WWW's? I would definitely speak to them before doing anything.
If you had purchased with the www's it should have covered both the non www, and the www version.
Every post I write gets shared to about 16 different social media outlets. I do this not only to drive traffic (although some hardly drive any traffic if I am honest) but to also get the content out in front of other people. Who knows... sometimes I get a burst of traffic, other times I hope someone decides to provide a link back because they write their own version or a related article.
My best social networks are Twitter and Google+ and that is where my efforts go. If I had more followers elsewhere I would love to use those as well, it is just I use whatever I find easiest etc. Overall though, I have not found Stumbleupon very useful, although I don't really understand how best to use it or have not really put much effort in.
You need to be really careful doing this. Whilst that used to be pretty much the industry standard, Google recently updated its guidelines to do with Doorway pages. I am not sure that these new algorithm changes have been implemented but it is exactly this method that it will affect.
So, until we know what is up with that you will need to proceed with a bit of caution, and at least ensure that all content on those location pages are completely unique.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/an-update-on-doorway-pages.html
Now, I know that there is no set figure to be used here, whichever metric you are using and it will depend on the article and what is natural.
However, lets suppose for a minute that we are taking a keyword in isolation, and I have a 2000 word article using the keyword 17 times and rank no. 3 in Google SERPS. The no. 1 slot uses the keyword 8 times but only has a 800 word article and only a B grade on the onpage ranker.
Of course, there are off page factors as well, but just wondering what your thoughts are on whether you look at density or total keyword usage.
It is easy to just write without think about keyword density or usage, but occasionally you end up using the keyword about 50 times, and it is then I have to actually think about it. Other articles I barely use the keyword because the article just writes itself and it works out fine, but these are generally shorter. With longer articles on my best converting pages, I can't help but think about it more and it ends up a little hit and miss.
I would highly recommend this guide if you are looking to speed up your site (I note it is wordpress):
https://www.besthostnews.com/guide-to-w3-total-cache-settings-with-cloudflare/
If they copy it then submit a DMCA to Google.. I don't even bother asking people to take down content. WHat I was referring to was legitimate referencing when they write their own unique article because they like the idea of my own article. This latter thing is what I would like to achieve. Social sharing helps get your content in front of other bloggers which can help facilitate this.
Basically if you have good content, people will over time give you links naturally.
The on page grader counts the whole page, including things like breadcrumbs, sidebar widgets etc.
When I first started with Moz, I actually removed a fair amount of exact match keywords from sidebar and footer widgets upon using the grader tool. The results from the improvements in on-page SEO have been good as a result.
Aman,... well what you are doing is creating thin pages which over time might just risk a Panda Penalty. You might want to at least no-index those blog pages.
I agree, Google is constantly evolving and becoming stricter on what it considers acceptable content. You should be looking to constantly improve your website in line with the evolving best practices and Google Algorithm updates.
I would be interested in reading more about this if you have a source to back up that definition of keyword stuffing.
Interesting info. Thanks.
On the 21st April Google is updating its mobile algorithm so that any non-mobile friendly sites will be actively penalised in the mobile serps.
You will want to check the mobile usability section in your webmaster tools, and also here: https://www.google.co.uk/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/
I understand that the penalty is either on or off, so either your site is completely mobile friendly or it isn't.
If the link is from a decent site (i.e. not spammy \ black hat) and you want the link, normally what I do is just accept it knowing Google is sensible enough to know you are the original source from the backlink. However, what I also do is take the opportunity to update my own content seeing as someone else is now competing with your article. Just make your article better \ more unique, and it is a win win from your point of view.
If they have blatently copied just submit a GOogle DMCA request.
John Mueller Webmaster Central Hangouts. Learnt quite alot from these hangouts over the last few months, and you can also submit your questions to be answered.
Not necessarily. He could be using Nginx as reverse proxy.
He already said the http to https is working fine with my suggestion. The problem is the redirect from one URL to another which what I gave him for the .htaccess doesn't address at all.
ie.
https://www.directtraveller.com/holidays/about-direct-traveller/british-travel-awards.asp
to
https://www.directtraveller.com/awards
Are you able to share a link to the page in question?
Hi,
No, it is not overkill to use a CDN with Cloudflare. For my own site, I used MaxCDN with Cloudflare Railgun with HTTPS. Cloudflare railgun (free with certain hosts) will cache the content that shouldn't be cached, so great for SSL.
Unfortunately, what I found was Cloudflare gave Google fetch errors for certain files, so now I just use Maxcdn plus I like my EV SSL certificate which doesn't work with Cloudflare (unless you have the $200 pm plan).
You may want to check out https://www.besthostnews.com/guide-to-w3-total-cache-settings-with-cloudflare/ as that guide will help optimize your site, although I think WP Engine has it's own caching system.
Looking at your site: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/dzqaUq/https://www.aerlawgroup.com/ it looks very lightweight, with only 27 requests. That is about as good as it gets, especially with your very low page size (300kb). I personally think you will struggle to optimize the site more, as quite frankly... your site speed is excellent. Well done!
Regards
Jonathan
All I see on that domain is "this webspace is expired".
If you still see your website, try clearing your browser cache. It could explain why your site is not ranking.
I only use two currently:
I have tried many other tools, but these are the ones I keep going back to.
Accuranker is cheap, and allows me to instantly see how a page ranks for new content, and for after content is updated. I find it invaluable, as you can submit a page to webmaster tools via fetch and then check rankings 5 minutes later to see the effect (noting, you may see an initial effect and then some days later get more movement).
Cognitive SEO is great if you need full backlink data, i.e. for link cleanups etc or if you get hit by negative SEO etc. Basically it is cheaper than signing up to ahrefs, majestic and moz. Although Moz is great for all the other tools.