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Hey Michael,

Usually these kind of sites belong to a network that runs multiple sites.. Whois look up in the best option to track the details but if it's also not workout like your case, I submit another business with all the wrong details, IP address, fake email address and wait for the confirmation email. Once I get that, I contact them from my original address.

The other option that I lookout is to search on social media, though the chances are less to find the real pages or accounts but you can contact the people who shared something about them in past. For this site, I searched on Twitter.

If nothing works out, then you can clearly tell your client about the efforts you did. In most of the cases, they appreciate your efforts and you can move on.

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 Johannes,

After implementing a 301 redirection, the previous links that your blog pages contained will automatically redirected to the new links.

For more details about redirection, please refer to this guide by Moz.

Hope this help!

Umar

Hey Mike,

I do not think Google will consider this as "Keyword Stuffing" as the ability of understanding keywords and the context has been quite matured over time. If you think "Roho" has to be present in your content, keep it and see how thing goes..

I'd also like to see the effect this practice has made so far..

Hope this helps!

Umar

Nathan,

I don't think every time copying a content on new pages is a very good idea. I'd do this way,

Create a main landing page for "Promotions" and list all the previous organized campaigns under that. URL structure would be like, ABC.com/Promotions (for main page) and ABC.com/Promotions/Aug-2015-Nike-Campaign(for a campaign). If Nike will come multiple times in a year and a company don't want users to see the previous campaigns, I'd redirect the URL to ABC.com/Promotions/2015-Nike-Campaign when that particular promotion ends.

In this way, I'll preserve all the links and the users will see the short, optimized and simple URL for every campaign.

Hope this helps!

Umar

Hey Falguni,

These are the things I adopt before starting SEO of new sites:

1. Analytics & Search Console Integration
2. Sitemap and Robots.txt creation
3. Thorough Keyword research (SEMrush, Google keyword Planner, KeywordTool.io )
4. Competitor's analysis (Similar Web, Moz analytics)
5. On page SEO (Screaming Frog, Raven Tools)
6. Content Optimization (fixing duplicate, updating old content, adding more content on important pages )
7. Targeted link building campaigns (OSE, Ahrefs)

I guess all these things are quite essential for getting good rankings.

Hope this helps!

Umar

Hey Stephen,

First of all welcome to the world of SEO, I am sure you will get the grip on all the channels very soon.

I don't know what have you read about on page and link building yet, I'd suggest you to go through to these tutorial for better and deep understanding.

For learning On-Page SEO:
https://moz.com/learn/seo/on-page-factors
http://backlinko.com/on-page-seo

For Linkbuilding:
https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links
https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-link-building
http://backlinko.com/link-building
http://pointblankseo.com/link-building-strategies

For E-Commerce:
https://blog.kissmetrics.com/seo-for-ecommerce-websites/
https://moz.com/blog/perfecting-onpage-optimization-for-ecommerce-websites

For your question regarding the on page fixing, yes you should fix all the pages. But, fix the important ones first. If you have analytics installed, go and check your important pages and start fixing them one by one. If you haven't installed the analytics, then target the pages that you think are important.

Currently your site requires proper on page fixing, plus the design needs some revamp. There are lots of white spaces that can be utilized. Plus, the header section is bit crowded too. Seems you haven't build lot of links for this also.

I'm sure after carefully reading the above links, you're be able to get the desired results.

Remember, SEO requires patience and it's the game of experiments.

Hope this helps!

Good luck!

Umar

Hey,

I agree, this site could combine these both pages not only to rank better but to get a very good response from users and attract links. I am not sure but seems they might did it intentionally to rank better on different keywords. Though, the idea is bit old but it's still working

I suppose that in this scenario, when Google (presenting two lines from the same site on first page) is easy to outrank at least one result by producing something more powerful and interesting. I did that in past once and it's worked out.

Umar

Have you updated anything in terms of content and meta tags recently? I'd also check your traffic data in this period.

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

Hey Simon,

I think you need to sort out this issue once for all. It might cause some crawling issues that may result in a ranking and traffic drop. I think you need to discuss this issue with your hosting company.

Umar

Amit,

I do no think Google will consider it as a cloaking unless you're just playing with your "Currency Converter."

If the content and other layout will change based on the IP, then you need to take some serious measurements. For this, check out these useful guides:
http://searchengineland.com/understanding-the-seo-challenges-of-language-detection-47524
http://www.stateofdigital.com/international-seo-ip-redirects/

Hope this helps!

Umar

As people say,

"Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have never been known for thinking small."

So, let's see and enjoy... Expecting to see some interesting developments in upcoming months.

Thanks Matt. Really looking forward to be there next year

Already emailed to my boss for the videos, I am sure he'll reply with a green signal.

Hey,

Only the number of outgoing links does not determined the Spam Score but the overall Link anatomy matters.

And yes, the spam score will decrease if you get the no follow links from those sources.

Check out this WBF of Rand about how Spam Score actually works:
https://moz.com/blog/understanding-and-applying-mozs-spam-score-metric-whiteboard-friday

Hope this helps!

Umar

hmm it would be slightly difficult to get the natural backlinks on that. Obviously, you can link it from your guest posts to other blogs but yielding natural one is bit hard.

Hey,

I agree lots of agencies are following this practice but the question stated "we have a huge back catalogue of opportunities". So, it's not a good idea to get the tons of links on these phrases in a short time. That's why I said, it "might" get caught into a spammy practice.

Plus, if you have the opportunity to get some decent links, it's better to have them on your branded term to give away a strong brand signal to google.

What do you think?

Hey Steve,

I'm afraid it might be caught into Spammy practice because of the latest penguin updates. You should get the links from these sources after all you deserves them but just change the approach a bit.

Rather getting links on "Powered by", "built by" or "developed by", you should try to get the links on your branded term. Something like "Developed by Moz".

Google has no objection, if you're getting links on your branded term and your profile will gonna look more authoritative and natural.

Hope this helps!

Have a rocking Sunday!

Umar

Hey Sarwan,

A bounce rate can be defined as a percentage of sessions/(visits) where only one interaction occurs. It's actually measured by a first arrival of a visitor, and if there isn’t a second interaction within next 30 minutes – it counts as “a Bounce”."

So, in this way, if you're viewing a page, and leaves your browser idle or left that page open for longer than 30 mins, it will register as a bounce. And, if you continues to navigate after this delay, a new session will occur. Same applies, if you keep open the tab for a whole day.

See the attitude image for more understanding.

Hope this clear your confusion!

Umar

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Hey Hall,

For this kind of analysis, I always recommend and personally use Similar Web. It gives you all the insights of traffic sources, last 6 months traffic stats, top referring sites and tons of other great info.

Hope this helps!

Umar