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Christina,

Although it's seems kind of illegal activity but I'm telling you with confidence that there are thousands of IT companies operating in this manner. They put all the infos on websites including; Physical address, zip code, phone numbers (Skype number) everything..

Virtual offices works in a very smart way.. They delivered and respond to every query they receive regarding your business to you. Even, I have worked with the company who had virtual office and their google local listings were all perfectly placed. The problem arises when you have to change your virtual address due to any reason and then the cleaning mess starts.

So be careful!

Hope this helps!

Umar

Hello Farhan,

Yes, it's not normal. Did you change your web hosting in this period? or have you faced any kind of penalty in recent past? Usually this happens when you just recovered.

You also need to look out your Search Console for crawling problems, are there any crawling or server issues you're facing? Sometimes, your .htaccess creates crawling problems, make sure to check again. Also, see how fasts your pages are loading, if the speed is low it also cause the crawling delayed.

Hope this helps!

Umar

Hey Jay,

I agree with Travis regarding the SEMRush API but do check out KeywordTool.io's pro version. In that, you will have the accurate volume data of all the keywords.

Hope this helps!

Umar

Hey Jawahar,

Thanks for posting your question. Guest posts will never harm your blog if you follow these guidelines:

1. Content is fresh, detailed, unique and optimized.
2. It's well-written (in terms of grammar) and meant to educate users.
3. There is nothing wrong in giving do-follow links if the site "really deserves" it. So make sure to double check every outbound link in the post.
4. Make sure to use images with credits or with permission.
5. It's up to you how many links you want to give away from each post but avoid any commercial anchor texts links.
6. It's better to accept the authors who have previously contributed in that niche but if the author is new and the pitched topics are interesting, give them the chance as the new bloggers sometimes can be beneficial.

Hope this helps!

Umar

Hey Anirban,

There was some DNS and server problems that causing the crawling issues. Have you checked your crawl report in Search Console?

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

Dear editors,

This question has been answered, I think it should be closed now.

Thanks,

Hey Bryce,

First of all best wishes for your site and I'll surely visit it to get a toner if you give me a good discount

Coming to your question, is it a new site or you moved the old one? For dealing all the redirection issues, my developer usually go with this extension and it's pretty good,
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/optimise-web-s-mass-301-redirects-for-404-pages.html

Could you please tell us which crawler report you're referring to, is it a Moz crawler or some other one?  And, when you fixed it? As sometimes, it does take some time to report things correctly.

Umar

Hey Oksana,

It's a good approach to know the related keywords before uploading a new video on YouTube. For this, go to http://keywordtool.io/'s YouTube section and get all the keywords data.

You can add a long tail keyword in title but make sure it makes some sense. For the description, it's recommended to use the main keywords in the first 3-4 lines.

Check out this guide from Brian Dean for better understanding,

http://backlinko.com/how-to-rank-youtube-videos

Hope this helps!

Thanks,

Though the difference b/w both metrics are explained above. I just have some reservations regarding your "Deal".

"Exchanging Links" would not be a very good approach so you have to be very careful while striking these kind of deals as it might affect both sites. There are multiple other ways in which you can get some heavy links, I know it takes time but the end result always comes in positive manner.

So, review your decision again and if it's really that necessary it's better to done a full-flash SEO audit of that site to know all the in and outs.

Hope this helps!

Umar

Hey,

I couldn't get your question completely. Could you please elaborate it further?

Thanks

Hey John,

Yes it's becoming a common practice as it looks good. The problem with the infinitive scrolling is the use of Java Script. As we all know, Google does not read java script really well so it only reads your top section of page and ignore the scrolling area.

For the best practice, it's suggested to use pagination with scrolling. There is also a plugin available that take care of this issue but I haven't used it yet. It's called "infinite ajax scroll".

Check out these resources for clearer understanding and implications:

https://econsultancy.com/blog/63394-infinite-scroll-its-impact-on-seo-and-how-to-fix-it/
http://www.sitepoint.com/seo-friendly-infinite-scroll/
http://www.quicksprout.com/2014/05/21/how-to-create-an-seo-friendly-infinite-scrolling-page/

Hope this helps!

Umar

Hey Derek,

As I understand your question, you're referring that your competitor (abc.com) is showing under linking domain section, right?

Well it usually happens when your internal pages linked with each other and it's a good recommended practice. As far as the score is concerned, I think you're referring to "Page Authority". It means, the power of that page in terms of external links and other metrics. The more powerful links you're getting to that page, the more high that score will be.

See this explanation:
https://moz.com/learn/seo/page-authority

I'd suggest you to check out this guide for using OSE more efficiently:

https://moz.com/help/guides/research-tools/open-site-explorer

Hope this helps,

Have a good Sunday!

Umar

Hey Cornelius,

It's a very vast topic but in a nutshell, Web 3.0 or "Semantic Web" means to get the best results on a query that matches with user intent.

Check out these posts on Semantic Web that will give you the clearer picture of it:

https://moz.com/blog/semantic-seo-questions
http://www.seobythesea.com/2014/11/early-days-semantic-web/

Hope this helps!

Umar

If you really want to get smashed by Google and ruin your site's reputation, go ahead! I agree it can yield "VERY" short term benefits but it's not a worth investing option, it's really not.

Take John's suggestions seriously and avoid this stuff.

If you're new in SEO arsenal, check out daily posts on Moz and other blogs to keep yourself updated with new trends.

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 Gareth,

Luckily there are multiple alternatives available but you need to run a pilot phase with them before totally skipping adwords and bing ads.

Try our these:

1. Facebook (I'm not kidding)
2. Adroll
3. 7 Search
4. Info Links
5. AdSonar
6. Clickstor

Hope this helps!

Umar

Hey E,

Yes, Google considered these two URLs separately. Usually the "/" indicates that, it is a directory and the URL without "/" denotes a file. It's better to put a 301 redirect to the appropriate page to avoid any problem.

Checkout what Google recommends on this topic:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.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