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Hi EGOL,

Answering your question: Yes, it is a great option, especially due to sharing an URL is not time consuming at all.

So far, from time to time I include the link of an article. Although, I only focus on having a free glass window for some of my work.
Linked to my website, which by the way I let dropped down due to it was to much time consuming.
Like in almost all professions I have practically no time for my own stuff, fully dedicated to my clients.          That is more than enough if I wish a life for myself.

Mª Verónica

Hi Bee,

1.- Yes, please disavow those! I do not recommend to wait.
The awful quality of them is by default harming. Also the amount, if you have 50 good inbound links, I mean that you worked hard for getting them, having 100 low quality, that is a great proporcion. Please do it carefully, include only the spam ones.  You can use Moz´s Open Site Explorer for verify the spam score. Never use "disavow all".

How: verify into the Google Search Console:

a) Search Traffic, b) Links to Your Site, c) Who links the most, d) All domains.

There you will get a list of all domains.

Download it, erase from the list all the good inbound domains. Then you will have a list of domains for disavow, save as .text and upload to Google Disavow Tool.

You have to verify in all the properties, just in case. If it is necessary repeat the process in the affected property. Remember that for Google, every possible version of your website is a different property, for this purpose and many others.

http://www.example.com

http://example.com

https://www.example.com

https://example.com

Remember to disavow into Bing Websmasters too.

2.- Google might notice those as spammy or might "think" that you bought those.

3. It is possible, by the police or a highly skilled hacker. Therefore not many options.

4.- On the contrary. You notice them you took action. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

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Hi Jim,
Besides Gaston and Eli's responses, I truly think that is weird.
I mean that you have not a single inbound link after 22 years!
Did you upload a "disavow all" file?
Did you add the new property - https - to the Google Search Console?
Did you inadverted deleted the Google Analytics code?
Good luck!
Mª Verónica

Hi Neil,

Although no SEM here   I think this is the path for your needs:

https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/6100636

It seems that you are truly thinking ahead. That is great. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Hi Ajaz,

From SEO point, yes it's worth!
You already stated that helps for faster indexing just by sharing your content there, pasting an URL from your website´s articles.
Those links, as you said, do not pass ranking due to all of those are "nofollow". Although, the algorithms of the search engines read those signals anyway.
Every good SEO signal counts.

Perhaps you might consider to share posts of fellow SEOs from overseas, who have similar topics although no direct competitors, of course.
Also some nice comments, from time to time, work like magic for social engagement.

By the way, G+ is one of the options of having up to 3 mentions into a single page of results; the triple pack, a page of your website that anwers the query and an organic result from your Google+ that answers the query too. Good luck!

Mª Verónica

Hi Viz,

As far as know there is no written or spoken rule on that regard. Said that, for me the safest option is to do it calmly.
I consider risky to appear overnight with a bunch of links.

If I have to do it, I would chose a few, then I would wait for the indexicing. After that I would verify the consecuences, if any.
This way, in case something goes wrong I will know what caused what. Good luck.

Mª Verónica

Hi,

As Gastón said, you can disavow one by one.

It is not considered an spam link if under 5, a reasonable amount of them and highly related to the industry/niche.

I forgot to mention a basic, that almost all active websites have as normal an spam score 1/17 - 2/17 - 3/17 up to 4/17. Even Moz has 1/17. It might be due to the site has too many inbound links and little outbound links - algorithms might see that as unnatural - it is highly probable, we do not know for sure, that the amount of inbound/outbound links should be according to other websites in the same industry and location. Although, Moz has a lot of inbound links due to is the best SEO source of knowledge and SEO tools.

If as you said, your inbound links are from clients, do not disavow them unless the spam score goes over 6 or 7.

Ma Verónica B.

Hi,

Good question.

• You can link from the main website to the others, passing the good rank. No otherwise. Except a few ones for UX experience.

• It is not recommended to use the exact keyword in the anchor text. You are "donating the rank" and compete with your owns.

• If you have too many outbound links, it looks spam for some crawlers. It has to be equilibrated.

• Visitors that goes directly to a new domain, by not visit a second page in the website, are rising the bounce rate and decrease overall rank due to the algorithms have understood that your visitors leaved due to they had a poor experience. Therefore, in short time will show your website lower in SERPs due to it seems your visitors did not liked what they found and what you promised in your meta tags was not accurate. We know it is not true, but algorithms do not think, they react to signals only.

As far as I understand, many Real Estate blogs are on completely different domains, mostly due to the bounce rate tends to be high, because visitors go to the property itself, they do not to read a second page in the blog. In this case visitors go to the new villa domain, causing damage to the blog; since your blog is in the main website, damaging over all due to bounce rate & UX.

Hope it is clear enough - English is not my first language

Ma Verónica B.

You are most welcome! Ruled out the spam score, although it is important to keep an eye on them due to spam score changes over time.

A second consideration: are those inbound links damaging your website?, are they relevant to your site business/interests? For example, your website is a Corporate Bank having a lot of inbound links from gambling sites which have spam score 1, that is not a good signal, not due to the spam score, but as a bad signal for trust.

Or your website serves a community, with pizza delivery service in Canada, if having a bunch of inbound links from shoe stores in Australia, those are not relevant nor a good signal either. At the time somebody looks for a pizza, Google algorithms might decide to show other pizza delivery, instead the one with that bizarre signals related to interests and locations.

If neither of those issues are in place, as a general rule no action is necessary.

Mª Verónica B.

Hi,

Good question. It is highly important!

Although, there are various considerations to determine what to keep and what to disavow.
Inbound links are like letters of recommendations in the real world.

Therefore, it is perfectly natural and very important, to have recommendations from other operators in your industry/niche, universities, linkedIn accounts, as some examples.

Other natural good websites might be, serious aggregators/directories, serious websites for announce your events, high quality press, as some examples.

A second and equally important factor, is the spam score of the website. You can check with the Moz Site Explorer or the MozBar. Also highly important factors are the page authority "PA" and the domain authority "DA".

If you consider that is not relevant for your website and having high spam score, I recommend to disavow, both in Google and Bing.

Of course, it is a task that should be done carefully, studying each link, one by one and following the Webmasters recommendations from each search engine due to they are not equal.

Here is a complete guide by Marie Haynes.

Ma Verónica B.

Hi,

The best easy way to do it, is by using the Google Maps app on you phone, and the essential information, including the exact location.
The process might take up to five minutes.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/map-maker/UEN0wxhj6Rs

Although, you have to understand that Google Points of Interest are manually curated. Therefore, it will take time before it is accepted as a point of interest, if so.

Ma Verónica

Hi Randy,

You are most welcome!
Good idea, keeping track and using metrics to evaluate each change. You might be interested in this very clear explanation by George Freitag.

Please, keep us informed if those little, though important changes, improved the overall performance

Ma Verónica B.

Hi Randy,

A first glance - not an SEO audit - there is none consistency between the NAP of the homepage and the NAP in Google My Business. That is extremely important.

https://moz.com/local/search

Also, there is room for improve the Page title of the homepage, to reinforce the service already mentioned in the Google My Business; a more direct and clear message to the crawlers and for the people looking for video editors.

I am not completely sure; by using the postal code in the page title, you might be limiting Google algorithms to show your website, only for searchers/customers in your vicinity, a quite narrow area.

Mª Verónica B.

Hi,

Of course you can.

The SERPs that you shared only considered the product itself. Therefore, the result came up with products only. Although, if you consider an early query stage, you have a great opportunity. You might consider answering queries, like : "dentist recommended best electric toothbrush", "electric toothbrush battery life".

Almost all the people do two or three queries before going to the product itself. If you are at the early stage, you might capture that buyer. It is important to be there at the three stages.

Mª Verónica B.

Hi Alice,

Here are the metrics that I pulled from MozBar
PA: 46
mR: 5.63
mT: 5.76
3,804 links from
69 Root Domains
DA: 35
DmR: 5.05
DmT: 5.07
221,118 links from
455 Root Domains
Subdomain:
221,111 links from
453 Root Domains
Spam
Score:
2/17
Assuming that the content of that website is highly related to your niche, it looks fine. Though I strongly recommend that you check the local reviews.

Mª Verónica B.

Hi John,

Good question. Local website optimisation is part of a whole. If LWO is done properly and there is consistency of the NAP all over the internet, as well as by having good reviews. Therefore, it will attract more visitors and as a good secondary effect, the website performance in SERPs - if it is technically correct, no Penguin nor UX issues, - yes it might help to boost the rank of the homepage. Although, you might should consider to optimise the homepage as well. The best guide by Miriam Ellis.

Mª Verónica B.

Hi Ben,

I assume that you published the page, before the SF attempt.

Regarding your exact question, if there is no meta description established, Google will pick up from the content in your page. Let´s say it is much better if you use that huge opportunity to rank in SERPs as well as to engage the Google visitors to became visitors to your website, by creating a wonderful appealing meta-description. Yes, normally it will affect due to Google algorithms might chose from your content not the most appealing meta description for attract your desired visitors.

Is the noodp Meta Robot Tag in place?

Mª Verónica B.

Hi Clayton,

I have the same issue here. Analytics snapshot.
Besides to ignore, it due to it is wrongfully targeted.
I will report to WordPress and Google.

Basically, bots create a hyperlink to any of the pages of a website - usually the root domain - containing UTM-tags. Therefore, it is serious in those terms; my WordPress was targeted.

What I can say, not pleased at all. It is a dangerous lack of security in WordPress.

Mª Verónica B.

Good point.
You have to know about the quality in advance. An expert in your niche is always the best option.

Although a good copywriter, normally has ethic. Therefore, it will be hard to convince changing his loyalties. Maybe looking in a related niche would be a more successful choose.

Hi,

Good question. We always talk about fresh and relevant content.

There are different options on regard getting good articles. The frequency is highly related to the industry and the competitors. If your competitors are posting once a month, then twice a month will be enough. Although, if your competitors are adding new content every week, you might consider doing the same.

Related to the way to deliver, it could be with access to your website or a Word file, ready to copy and paste.
Not all good copywriters have WordPress' skills. Of course, those skills are best paid.
Fees starts at USD 0.2 per word. Normally you choose and pay the photos.

Ma Verónica B.