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Hey Edward,

Yes, even I could submit the same. For now, I'd suggest you to try submitting your site (.com) in US category again and see how editors responds. Sometimes, editor or the staff respond you back and you can explain them your situation.

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,

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,

Hey Li,

Thanks for posting the question. The heading structure usually go something like this,

<``h1``>Main Headingh1>` `<h2>Secondary Heading 1`h2> <h3>Sub-section of the secondary heading 1`h3``>````

``In your case, I'd suggest you to go with your main "Service/Product Name" with your brand name at the page title (it's a common practice) And in H1, you can use your main service/product name.

The heading tags are used to represent different sections of web page content and they have the impact on both the SEO and usability of your site. So do use them where they should be placed and do not stuff them with the keywords.

Hope this helps!``

Hey Kelly,

Seems like there is a problem with your redirection. You should get the help of your developer to fix it from the controller.
Check out this guide:
https://www.apptha.com/blog/magento-url-redirect-from-controller/

You can also use this magento's extension (I've used it and it worked out really good)

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/optimise-web-s-mass-301-redirects-for-404-pages.html

Hope this helps!

Thanks,

John is clearly explained the importance of both tags and their placements. Product landing pages (especially for E-Commerce sites) are always very important as these are the pages your visitors will gonna convert. So it's better to spend some time there to make sure the pages are properly optimised for machines and humans.

For more information about Alt tags, please see these guides:

http://www.shopify.com/blog/7412852-10-must-know-image-optimization-tips
http://www.verticalmeasures.com/resources/seo-tutorial-videos/using-alt-tags-for-image-optimization/
https://econsultancy.com/blog/63845-the-basics-of-using-alt-text-for-seo/

Hope this helps!

Hey Mike,

I don't think there is any problem in exchanging guest posts IF,

• You both are writing original and authentic content to each other sites (Not paraphrasing).
• Relevancy is there
• Both sites are not part of any PBN
• You're getting links in a natural way.. i.e. not bombarding links with commercial anchor texts.
• It's not a frequent practice like you're linking each other on weekly basis.

Let's see how other experts responds.

Hope this helps!

Thanks,

Hey John,

To be in "google finance", it takes a bit time and the authority of your site matters a lot. Usually if your site is already in Google news, there are high chances that it will pick up in the finance section itself.

I'd suggest you to look at this offical google forum link for detailed information:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!category-topic/news/google-news-publishers/AG5lYhTztys

Good luck!

Hey,

If you feel your brand can not related to your site, you should go for the re-branding. Just Keep in the mind that, your traffic and ranking might suffer a drop and you have to keep patience in whole process. Here are the things you should work on:

1. Perform a full SEO audit
2. Plan a perfect redirection plan
3. Update your business information at every place
4. Issue a press release stating your re-branding news
5. Update your social media profiles and handles (Obviously, you don't want to loose your followers)
6. Spread the word via blogging.
7. Inform your existing customers through newsletters and even phone call if necessary.

See these resources for reference:
https://moz.com/ugc/overcoming-a-rebrand-seo-search-engine-opportunities
http://www.mightybytes.com/blog/will-rebranding-hurt-seo/

Good luck!

Hey Vincent,

You may want to consider responsive design instead of a mobile and you can totally eliminate these problems. It's been in news that Google no longer favor m. sites because of the fact that they create more for Google to index with duplication issues and sometimes compete with your original site. So you have to deal with multiple issues by going with m. site.

Coming to the question, mobile sitemap is mostly same like desktop with only mobile:mobiletags inserted.

Do check out these links for further reference:
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-mobile-sitemaps-20137.html https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/_YrP2OIuM8k
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/RYjaTIRxesY</mobile:mobile>

Hope this helps!

Hey Sean,

I'd suggest you to go with option 2 and 3 i.e. add videos with a transcript and the the summary of that video. I believe by adding the content, you can target your pages with the specific and long-tail queries. Similar like Rand does on his White Board Friday series.

Though it will take sometime but the results will be great. After posting, promote them on all your channels and start attracting new backilnks.  I'm damn sure this strategy will gonna work out really well.

Hope this helps!

Hey Ben,

Thanks for sharing your problem and it's indeed a very tough situation for your business. If I were at your place, I wouldn't take this step to go with domain that's not matched with my brand name. Even if I had to, I'd go with something that at least partially linked with brand name.

For the email marketing problem, I strongly think this "FREE" word problem can be taken care, if you implement some latest email marketing strategies like Email Schema Markup. You can also work out on the useless traffic by creating some great and targeted content. From the SEO perspective, if you have good amount of quality links at your original branded domain, I'd suggest you to go with it.

Let's see what other experts recommends!

Good luck!

Umar

Hey Josh,

I really do not think you need any kind of hardware-specific approach for this. All you need to do is some understanding of basic programming to do it yourself.

Please look at these guides for your reference:

https://moz.com/ugc/how-to-put-google-custom-site-search-into-your-current-website-design

https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/tutorial/creatingcse

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/web-designer/set-up-a-google-custom-search-engine-for-your-website/

Hope this should help you!

Thanks,

Honestly speaking there is no such tool exist that precisely let you know why you're not ranking and others are.

But in terms of backlinks comparison, you may utilize Moz analytics feature and OSE's "Compare Link Metrics" & "Link Opportunities" options.

Thanks,

If your page secured the "A" grade in on-page, it doesn't mean you will be in top 100 now.

Various other factors including backinks, targeted traffic, technical SEO things and lots of other things are also very important.

Hope this helps!

Hey Juan,

By conducting the initial analysis, I can conclude that most of the backlinks are pointing to your homepage. Look at the OSE's attached screenshot with this response.

I'd suggest you to apply following things as well,

1. Implement RichSnippets
2. In your guest posts (if you're doing), link to your service pages.
3. Massively promote your service pages on social media
4. Launch a blog section and produce useful content to target long-tail keywords and link your service pages.
5. Target your service pages in the paid-advertising.

Hope this helps!

Thanks,

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Thanks for sharing Matt.. It's indeed a fantastic initiative by Moz to educate customers like me.

I will not suggest you to apply parameters in your robots.txt/WMT unless you're quite sure that your "wp-content" does not contain any content that you want to get indexed.

If you have any problem with Screaming Frog, you may restrict it to not crawl your site. If you're on WordPress try out this plugin "WP Ban",
https://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wordpress-wp-ban

Hope this helps!

Hey Shahar,

This is a usual tactic from google especially in desktop searches. Sometimes it creates own titles if it finds yours to be short, over-used, poorly written & stuffed with keywords.

As far as the mobile in concerned, have you tried to use Schema.org's JSON/ microdata markup?

JSON:

Microdata:
<title itemprop="name">Your WebSite Name</title>

I'm sure when next time Google index your page, your own title tag would appear.

Do check out these resources:
https://moz.com/ugc/google-serp-test-multiple-page-title-meta-description-tags (Check out the comments section too)
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35624?rd=1

Hope this helps to solve your mystery

Thanks,

Hey Sobana,

These are the tools that we use in our company,

1. Sony Vegas Pro
2. Final Cut
3. Adobe Premier

And you should check out this post

http://blog.ted.com/10-tips-for-editing-video/

I'd also suggests your to connect with one of the best mind of our industry Mr. Phil Nottingham.  He's the best in video marketing.

Thanks,