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Hi There,

As mentioned by Nigel there are various tools available like Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster, SEMRush, Moz tool etc. Most of the tools are available for free like Google search console, Small SEO Tool, SEO Review Tool .. However, most of the free tools won't show the value of the link for your website in terms of building website authority and also you need to track traffic it might be bringing to your website actively. You need to buy a professional service like Moz Link explorer to get all detailed analysis of your website link profile, historical inputs and help to build a good link profile.

I hope this helps, let me know if you have further queries.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Ruben,

This google review has become a more complex to handle, Google detects fake reviews based on their own system and deletes them. If you wish to recover reviews or get them deleted you can write to google support but I don't think there is much that can be done here. We have had a situation where competitors are trying to hurt our or our client's business but Google didn't pay any heed to our fake reviews complaints.

I would recommend getting the users to write the reviews again, it would be less time consuming then following up with Google.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

VJ

Hi Christopher,

I got the problem, I checked  on my mobile ( android version with UC browser) and It seems mobile version of Moz is not as good. You will have to switch to desktop / responsive version, and that should fix the issue.

How to open desktop websites on mobile

1. Step 1: Open your favourite website or the one you surf the most on a desktop on chrome browser. We have chosen Google just to show you an instance. ...
2. Step 2: Tap the three dots on the Chrome Browser and tap the checkbox 'Request desktop site'.

https://www.mobigyaan.com/how-to-open-desktop-websites-on-mobile-android-guide

I hope this helps. Please, Do let me know the results.

Thanks,

Vijay

Hi Luke,

Here is what google recommends in terms of page speed. Server response time to be less than 200 ms.

Now, coming to the Page Speed tool / Insight that google provide the measure the page speed ratings (1-100) , Google Page Speed score is indeed a strong indicator of a website’s loading performance in terms of time.

As per my research, total website download less than 10 secs corresponds to 75-85 on pagespeed score.

I hope this helps.

Thanks,

Vijay

Hi There,

I would like to suggest some more links additional to what Tawnycase has recommended

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/foursquare 
https://developer.foursquare.com/overview/samples
https://www.schoolofhaskell.com/school/to-infinity-and-beyond/pick-of-the-week/foursquare-api-example
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-foursquare/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24376594/searching-local-venues-with-foursquare-api
https://developer.foursquare.com/overview/support

I hope this helps your cause.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Paul,

The difference would be made how you plan to use these domains, if they are going to inter-link to each other, they may be seen as Link-wheel  strategy (black hat strategy). If they are competing for same industry space (as in keywords) or working to benefit the same company together, then again that may be a problem.

As for the same IP, there are several websites hosted on same server IP at a time.

I hope this helps, please respond if you have further questions.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

In addition to the methods suggested for de-personalization of results, there are additional few more factors.You may also like to read a blog post I wrote on my website Impact of Personalized Search results .

Incognito window doesn't mean you have deleted history of the previous browsing, you will have to clean the browsing history and cookies.

Use VPN or proxy to get results from different locations and countries. This gives you best Idea about your SERP status in different countries.

I hope this helps, please feel free to ask more questions by responding.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Kristen,

As you are on Asp.Net , you can either use ASP DOT Net Store Front as CMS, or use any of PHP based CMS on WAMP environment.

We have devised such solutions , where customer Asp.net website uses WordPress blog on their websites.

I hope his helps, let me know if you have further inputs/questions.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Radi,

The process explained by you getting backlinks via "agency link farms" seems to be completely black hat to me, the process is much risky.

I have seen many of SEO having the same problem with their clients wherein they take their work for a lower budget and then aren't able to deliver quality work. The idea of a white-hat SEO, in my opinion, is not to grab links wherever they come from, but to focus on right target audience, trying to create a website to cater them and to find the right places on the Internet where you can find them.

It seems, your complete strategy is focused on low-quality links.  I have a few clients who have not so good looking websites but they ranks well with a good off-page strategy, on the other end of the spectrum I have clients who have good looking websites with great on-page they also rank well. So, it's your approach to the online presence and how you end up promoting it, which will make the difference.

I hope this helps, let me know if you have further questions.

Thanks,

Vijay

Additionally, do check the content using Fetch as google in Google Search Console / Webmaster tools. It would really help you see how spiders see the content compared to users. This is an important aspect of SEO which a lot of people ignore, you are looking to find that whether the spiders see a structured view of the content and not messy. I hope this helps, if you have further questions, please feel free to ask. Regards, Vijay

Hi Praveen,

Additional to this, my this answer to a similar question might help you define the quality of the links.

https://moz.com/community/q/how-do-you-handle-a-site-with-inherited-negative-links-but-no-penalty#reply_350787

Do check spam links manually, sometimes tools can generate false spam report based on their own metrics and you might lose a valuable link which might be bringing real target traffic to your website.

Feel free to respond and ask any questions further.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Kristen,

You should choose a CMS wherein you have a good development team to back you up.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Bimal,

I understand that you wish to understand how to use an existing good blog content on LinkedIn. Whether to use it completely as an article on LinkedIn or link to your blog or some content with 'read more' link pointing to the blog.

Linkedin can be a good place to promote relevant content as there are real people using it and that too being a social network, it can help promote the content to the more similar audience on the article itself.

Advantages

• Your profile and previous articles get highlighted, increasing the chances that people will read more than just the 1 article. Your own presence and branding gets a boost.
• There are several opportunities that people who liked your article once, will get to see more of your content later, they can also follow you.
• Your reach to potential targets is increased.

Possible Disadvantages

• The articles will face competition from other content, and they might get lost if not backed by LinkedIn marketing strategy for these articles.
• Your readership might remain on LinkedIn and if you don’t incentivize them to visit your website.

DUPLICATE CONTENT OR NOT:
I have done my research and there are many articles which are published both on websites and LinkedIn without getting penalized. Preferably linking them via a permalink is a good solution for Google to realize that the content is coming from same person/ website/ company/brand.

I hope this helps and let me know if you have further queries.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Alexa,

It's the worst situation from SEO point of  view, you have both the sites with same content, URL structure etc.

You should immediately do complete website 301 redirects, choose one domain to keep alive (https://www.vpsnine.com/  has domain authority of 30 and ideal candidate to be kept alive)  and transfer all URLs to their respective couterpart.

• Try to map each URL of existing website with 301 redirects to new domain URL equivalent. (example : > About-us page to be mapped with About-us page on new domain ). This will transfer most of the SEO value and authority to the new domain URLs and to the right pages.

• Register and verify your both domains with Google Webmaster Tools.

• Create a custom 404 page for the old domain which suggests visiting new domain.

• In a development environment, test the redirects from the old domain to the new domain. Ideally, this will be a 1:1 redirect. (http://www.example-old-site.com/...to http://www.example-new-site.com/...)

• 301 redirect your old domain to your new domain.

• Submit your old sitemap to Google and Bing. The submission pages are within Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Center (This step will make the engines crawl your old URLs, see that they are 301 redirects and change their index accordingly.)

• Fill out the Change of Address form in Google Webmaster Tools.

• Create a new sitemap and submit it to the engines. (This will tell them about any new URLs that were not present on the old domain)

• Wait until Google Webmaster Tools updates and fix any errors it indicates in the Diagnostics section.

• Monitor search engine results to make sure new domain is being properly indexed.

I hope this helps, let me know via your response if you have further questions.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Kay,

**og:description : **This meta data descriptor is very similar to the meta description tag in HTML. This is where you describe your content, but instead of it showing on a search engine results page, it shows below the link title on Facebook.

Unlike a regular meta description tag, it won’t affect your SEO. (So, don’t spend too much time figuring out how to sneak in keywords.) However, it’s a good idea to make it compelling because you want people to click on it.

You are not limited to a character count, but it’s best to use around 200 letters. In some cases, depending on a link/title/domain, Facebook can display up to 300 characters, but I suggest treating anything above 200 as something extra.

Example:

_**Source : https://blog.kissmetrics.com/open-graph-meta-tags/**_

I hope this helps, if you have further questions, please feel free to respond.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

Yes, pages with less content and only images can hurt your site's SEO. Another problem with portfolio pages is that with the limited content, similar title and description, they might look as duplicate to search engines.

I have a client who had limited content on product pages, we had great success in SEO after adding a unique description to pages. Best to handle the situation is to use a portfolio main page with unique on-page content.

I hope this helps. Please respond if you have further questions.

Regards,

Vijay

I agree with Donald Silvernail, it might be a script hiding in the DB or somewhere on the website. You can either ask for help from your hosting provider for a thorough scan or do it yourself if you have sufficient resources plus rights.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Fabrizo,

Yes, they would be treated as different entities, as a precaution, I would recommend the geographical location of the server IP to be far off and not from the same IP block.

Thanks,

Vijay

Hi Meisha,

I recently reviewed and provided a solution to a website with a similar issue on Moz Q&A. They had a DIV element with name description, which was being pulled as meta description.

Or check if there is some HTML tag that is not closed properly.

Reards,

Vijay

Hi There,

This question has beend asked and answered over and over , pleas check if these links help

https://moz.com/community/q/trailing-slash
https://moz.com/community/q/trailing-slash-at-end-of-url
https://moz.com/community/q/duplicate-content-on-url-trailing-slash
https://moz.com/community/q/duplicate-content-with-a-trailing-slash

I hope these links help, if you have further questions, please feel free to respond.

Thanks,
Vijay