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Hey Hans,

Are you referring to this "Feedback" feature? (See the attachment)

If yes, then it's a feature of Google Knowledge sidebar panel and also appears with the Local place listings.

If your company has the WikiPedia page, then you will most likely able to see this result. Freebase was very helpful for this but I think Google shut it down last month. You can still utilise Schematic markup for this.

Check out these guides for better understanding,

https://moz.com/learn/seo/schema-structured-data http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/knowledge-graph-optimization http://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2014/03/20/schema-seo https://blog.kissmetrics.com/get-started-using-schema/

Hope this helps!

Umar

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Sorry but I'm bit unclear about your question. What do you mean by "Google's new product on your websites"? Do you mean, the latest announcements from Google?

And, If you're referring to google alerts (you get email notifications any time Google finds new results on a topic that interests you) is a good practice to keep yourself updated.

Umar

Hello Prakash,

First of all welcome to blogging world

There are multiple blogging platforms available and most of the bloggers prefers Wordpress because of plugins, seamless integration and easy to use functionality.

Coming to other parts now,

1. Yes, I'd suggest you the same to post content on frequent basis at the start to get the flow of traffic and early traction. Then schedule a proper editorial calender and follow it. You may even add the "Guest Post Day" every week apart from your post in the calendar to attract new bloggers.

2. Wordpress doesn't help you in this way.. Yes, they do have lots of SEO friendly plugins like Yoast but again SEO is something that you need to do yourself. Though, Wordpress can tackle your technical SEO part nicely and if you're going to learn Wordpress, you will easily play around with its features.
   Checkout this post for Wodpress training,
   http://www.copyblogger.com/new-to-wordpress/

I'd like to wish you all the success for your new blog!

Good luck!

Umar

Hey,

Thanks for describing the question completely. I'd suggest you to go with a personalized H1 with the related keyword If possible (don't bombard it with the keywords if it's not fitting naturally).

Honestly speaking, I really don't think you need 4-5 pages for each degree. For the universities as I see, there is only a single page that contains all the information including objectives, course details, credits, fee structure etc. And because of the good amount of content, they ranks well.

Anyway, try something like,
"Why Study Tourism Management?" (for objective page)

I would also look out for some KW research related to these degrees and forms some queries that makes some sense like I did above. In this way, your H1 will look good for users and search engines a like.

Do check out this thread and especially Christy's response,

https://moz.com/community/q/are-h1-tags-important-or-influential

Hope this helps!

Umar

Hey Sarah,

It's always recommended to use words that makes sense to people and search engines. For punctuations in particular, Google usually ignore them with the exception of some.

The punctuations that you can use are: hyphen, underscores, pipes & colon.

The punctuations that should be avoided are: ' + . , | ! " $ %  / ( ) = ? ^ * ;   > ] [ @' For more details, refer to this article:
http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/watch-your-punctuation-online.html

Hope this helps!

Umar

Hey,

If your main keyword has multiple types then you can use in your inner pages. For instance, if your main keyword is "Plasma Tv" and you have inner page that deals in "Sony Plasma Tv" then you can use "Plasma TV" as google understands your intent. But if you want to optimize multiple pages with exact similar keywords than I think you should need to consider your strategy.

Check out Rand's WBF on this topic,
https://moz.com/blog/keyword-targeting-density-and-cannibalization-whiteboard-friday

Do check out these threads:
https://moz.com/community/q/the-same-keyword-on-multiple-pages-but-not-all-combined-with-other-relevant-keywords-for-products
https://moz.com/community/q/can-i-use-same-keyword-for-multi-pages-title-tags
https://moz.com/community/q/is-it-considered-spammy-to-have-multiple-pages-on-the-same-site-optimized-for-the-same-keyword

Hope this helps!

Umar

Hey Hall,

We can't tell you anything specific unless you upload the theme on your domain. In speed tests, your hosting servers and development plays a vital role.

As far as the SEO-friendliness is concerned, by looking at the theme we can only tell about the UX and overall design matters. Second theme looks good to me.

Good luck!

Thanks,

Hey Marina,

Yes, this method will work out without affecting your root domain. This question has already been answered at the following threads, please refer them for more details:

https://moz.com/community/q/how-to-remove-an-entire-subdomain-from-the-google-index-with-url-removal-tool
https://moz.com/community/q/dev-subdomain-pages-indexed-how-to-remove

Hope this helps!

Umar

Dear Abbas,

Thanks for posting your question.

Your blog has good authority and the design is quite simple. It's good to know that you're using Yoast for handling all the on-page things.

Problems:
Abbas you really don't need to post 4-8 posts every day for the sake of traffic. Quantity of posts will never bring you desired traffic unless you achieve some significance. Another thing that I notice is the low word-count and absence of interactive content (videos, images b/w the posts, etc) in majority of your blogs.  I think you might have a high bounce rate also.

Solution:

1. Do aggressive keyword research before writing.
2. Find out the crawling issues that search console highlighting
3. Post in-depth and interactive content.
4. Start content marketing activities.
5. Promote your blog to all the related communities.
6. Cite external high authority links in your content (you can put nofollow if you're conscious)
7. Allow Guest contributors and add a separate page for that. (This thing instantly grab the attention of fellow bloggers)
8. Conduct experts round-up posts and interviews.

I am pretty sure that, the above things will surely help you out.

Good luck!

Umar

Hey,

Yes I did face this issue sometimes ago and figured it out it was due to crawling issues. We solved all of them and resubmitted the sitemap and it's started showing up the data after a day or two.

By the way, SEMRush could help you with organic ranked keywords data of yours. (A temporarily solution till you resolve this)

Hope this helps!

Umar

Hey Nichole,

Yes it's possible for the users to send automated responses in the form of DMs, Tweets, RTs and Favourites. Though, Twitter has very strict policies when it comes to auto responding.

There are multiple tools available for this, the best of them is IFTTT. They have good recipes for Twitter (according to Twitter rules) that you can set. Make sure to create something that looks natural to your followers.

Hope this helps!

Umar

Hello Andi,

I think there is some confusion here "you can rank a page without backlinks with high DA".

Actually, Domain Authority is calculated with number of factors and backlinks is the most important one. So, if the DA of any page is high, it means that domain is getting good links.

Refer this guide for DA:
https://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority If a Domain has good authority, yes the other indexed pages will get the benefit. For judging the worth of other indexed pages, there is another scale called "Page Authority" which tells you how that particular page will gonna perform in search engines.

Refer this guide for PA:
https://moz.com/learn/seo/page-authority

Hope this helps!

Umar

Hey Falguni,

Your client is following a very bad approach here, you should guide him with the proper reasoning. I'd suggest you to go through this thread thoroughly to get the idea what I'm referring to,

http://moz.com/community/q/will-multiple-domains-from-the-same-company-rank-for-the-same-keyword-search

Hope this helps!

Thanks,

Hey,

Yes, it does. If you're getting a link on a particular page of yours, PA (Page Authority) of that page will definitely gonna increase and the other linked pages on a root domain level also get the benefit. This is how your overall Domain authority or PR build..

Hope this helps!

Umar

Hey Luke,

You're right. The same URL principle implies on the images URL. And, I really do not think putting images in subdomains is a very good idea. You also need to avoid the typical images names like DSC4566.jpg rather you should go with something meaningful that contains your keywords like /images/Burj-Khalifa-largest-building-world.jpg  -----  (I am in Dubai these days :p)

Hope this helps!

Umar

Hey Josh,

The best solution in that case would be to go with two separate URLs & Titles; one for you marketing page/form and the other one for your webinars and white-papers.

Check out Wordstream's approach, they have two separate URLs:

For form:
http://marketing.wordstream.com/seo-white-paper.html

For white paper:
http://marketing.wordstream.com/white-paper-download-seo-best-practices.html?aliId=126861802 Hope this helps!

Umar

Don't use Fiver for "30 High PR Backlinks" kind of gigs.

I always use Fiver for voice overs, content re-writing and some small graphics projects.

Good luck!

Umar

Hey Jawahar,

Yes, it's a good practice to boost the old pages again and help the users to navigate more pages of your website. I would recommend the following things:

1. For finding the old pages, don't rely on your site's search bar only rather go to analytics and check which pages in past performed well in terms of traffic, conversions and bounce rate.
2. When you have those pages, check if you can link them in your new posts. If the information is outdated, update with the latest info or add some cool images.
3. You can link them either on the anchor texts or as the "Related or Recommended Read" with link on the complete post title. Same thing as Entrepreneur.com does.

Hope this helps!

Umar

Alright this website looks "Awful". Work on the following on page things as soon as you can before seeing further drop,

1. Update your meta tags, localize them according to your targeted region.
2. Update the whole content and provide fresh, optimized and unique content.
3. This is 2015, you really do no need to add 100s of keywords between your main content twice. (I am referring to the bold/ italic content section and the last green section)

Check out these resources to improve your on page SEO,

1. https://moz.com/learn/seo/on-page-factors
2. https://moz.com/blog/visual-guide-to-keyword-targeting-onpage-optimization

As far as the backlinks are concerned, I suspect that they also required serious attention. For now, work on your on site and get rid of all the spammy links that have been built.

By keeping your industry in mind, you don't required 100s of links. Work on the page and acquire good handful links, it will be enough.

Hope this helps!

Umar

Hello Edward,

I don't think there will be any problem in this. Usually, a business with multiple locations is listed at a particular regional category. If it has one location,  then it would be listed in only appropriate category but if it has multiple offices all over the world (like yours), then it can be listed at the related regional categories.

Make sure, your sites doesn't have identical content as it is against their policies. Do check out their guidelines here:

http://www.dmoz.org/help/submit.html

Hope this helps!

Thanks,