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Ok, that works too. You are most welcome to ask further questions.

I agree with Kevin in the answer above, the content may be crawled (depending on how you have hidden the paragraph using HTML) but Google may not give the right advantage of the content available after clicking the link.

We have a client with FAQ section with similar situation https://www.fairsplit.com/faqs/  , the website gets authority for the Question Titles of the FAQ section and not for the content as answer available after clicking the question.

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

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

We have a travel client for the Caribbean who ranks very well for Caribbean events / carnivals etc. We made it a practice to 301 a past event to next year event date with information about this year's event (when an event is  passed) . This has helped us build much more authority for next year (2017) events and carnivals.

I also found an article that you can refer

Event Wrapup Page: Often it’s good to have a wrapup page for the event. Here's an example from a recent link building presentation I gave: Why Links Matter to Small Businesses and How to Get Them. This is a dedicated page on your website that has references from the event (such as a Slideshare embed of presentations or perhaps links to other resources you mentioned) and other pertinent information. It’s also a great place for event attendees to link after the event.

When I send out the copy of my slides to event attendees, I email them the link to this page and encourage them to share it freely and link to it.

Speaking of links after the event...

https://moz.com/blog/the-complete-guide-to-link-building-with-local-events

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

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

I checked your website, and found following issues :

Robots.txt missing (I don't think this is not linked to your problem though)

I checked with various tools, it seems that your website HTML code might be a problem
http://www.aliciaramirez.com/closing-tags-checker/

The following tags don't seem to be closed:

• Line 687:
• Line 719:* Line 720:* Line 720:* Line 728:

http://www.freeformatter.com/html-validator.html

• <header>Is Not Recognized! (At line 46, column 5)</header>

• <nav>Is Not Recognized! (At line 48, column 5)</nav>

• <footer>Is Not Recognized! (At line 105, column 1)</footer>

• Lacks "content" Attribute (At line 4, column 1)

• Discarding Unexpected

  <header>(At line 46, column 5)</header>

• Discarding Unexpected

  <nav>(At line 48, column 5)</nav>

• Discarding Unexpected (At line 56, column 1)

• Discarding Unexpected

  <footer>(At line 105, column 1)</footer>

• Discarding Unexpected (At line 113, column 1)

I feel, if you check your website codes and fix it, your problem might just get solved.

Please feel free to respond with further questions.

Regards,

Vijay

I don't think it would be a problem unless you are messing around with site data using this as a dubious technique for getting likes.

Yes, it's not a good thing for SEO to block users and robots from going through page content without Facebook.

Sometime back Quora.com had a similar feature, wherein they would let robots crawl the content and rank their pages, however whenever a real visitor would come to the page, they would ask for sign up / sign in before proceeding further.

This created higher bounce rate , google as well found out that something is wrong and they lost ranks. They have now removed the option and give access to full page to users and bots alike.

I hope this helps, please feel free to ask further questions.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Andy,

Here are some things you can try to get it working:

1. Make sure you are not in incognito mode
2. Un-install your MozBar plugin.
3. Un-install and re-install Chrome.
4. Turn off any additional plugins these could be interfering with MozBar
5. Check to see if the address bar is hiding the extension icons: http://www.screencast.com/t/7cLHKkOP
6. Disable any software firewall or security apps.
7. Clear all cache and cookie data related to moz.com
8. Re-install your MozBar plugin here.
9. Try again to Sign-in into your Moz account here and the MozBar.

Clearing your cache and cookies of all Moz related data is a very important step since we've recently required authentication for the toolbar to function properly.

Sending over the below information to help@moz.com would be a huge help in efforts on diagnosing the issue, so if the above steps don't work for you, can you please perform the following steps and send over this screenshot to moz?

1. Click on this icon in the upper right corner of Chrome -  http://www.screencast.com/t/HUj3m4DGuoqK
2. Move the cursor over 'More Tools' and then click on 'Developer Tools' -http://www.screencast.com/t/B7SIh7qiPj
3. Click into the 'Console' tab - http://www.screencast.com/t/itHrYuuq
4. Make sure MozBar is running and then refresh the page if needed.
5. Take a screenshot of the results (the entire window is recommended) and send that to us.
6. What version of MozBar are you running?
7. What is your OS version?

I hope this helps.I look forward to hearing back from you about the above.

Thanks,

Vijay

Hi Rand,

Thanks for jumping in and helping us all out. Your response is much appreciated.

Regards,

Vijay

Yes, this is one of many factors for de-personalization. Also, there can be many more hidden factors which we are yet to discover.

I  have done a lot of research on this matter, I use a specific PC with VPN dedicated to checking keyword SERP ranks for my clients, as they are from many different countries and having a different target audience, we try to replicate the results for different scenarios.

I hope this helps.

Hi There,

It seems that you are focusing on Quantity of backlinks rather than quality. The basic reason google gives value to backlinks is that it considers you are doing some work that is getting attention from right people on right websites.

We have worked for a very BIG website hosting company which was hit by earlier Penguin updates as there were literally million of backlinks pointing to their website(This was due to their affiliate marketing network). We tried disavowing links, however, they would creep up daily from one affiliate marketer or another.  The next Penguin 3.0 update, solved many of problems by itself, it seems Google understood and differentiated the Good backlinks and weighed them more over the bad backlinks

Quality of links will improve if you focus on getting real visitors to your website, and search engines will automatically follow you

• Referred Visitors who stay long on your website help boost your rankings, so try to create engagement using blog comments / social media comments. Keep the interaction real, informative, helpful and engaging.
• The goal is to establish you first as an authority for your niche, focus on this goal.

Whenever people talk about backlinks, their focus goes to building them up in number so that google considers you an authority for the subject matter showcased on your website. However, I always advice “Stick to basics”, focus on getting real visitors and giving them a good experience while browsing your Website. Rest will follow!! (even search engines and real traffic)

I hope this helps, and you would make organic looking , quality backlinks.

Feel free to respond and ask further questions.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

First up, as per Matt Cutts, google will rank the most relevant results regardless of the domain name and extension. This is how they treat the Domain extension whether TLD or SLD for it's own ranking.

Now, coming to your question, I have no data to back my hypothesis but this URL has what my own hypothesis is all about. You should focus on getting the right backlinks that are relevant for your own website in terms of getting target traffic and conversion. Essentially, instead of focusing on domain name extension , focus on the right domain that would bring you results.

https://www.sitepoint.com/community/t/getting-backlinks-from-edu-and-org-are-beneficals-for-seo/92940/6

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

Regards,

Vijay

As for URL structure keeping it shorter is better. Please do read this blog as well. https://moz.com/blog/15-seo-best-practices-for-structuring-urls

For ranks and quality backlinks, it's not the number of different platforms you use, but the how effectively you are using each platform that will make all the difference.

Try engaging your target customers in real time discussion on chat on the website and also on blogs/forums. It will help you a  lot to get traffic and branding.

I focus on very few platforms for my clients and some results are attached om this quora answer Travel Website results

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

You will have to wait and watch, there is a term called FLUX, which means results appear  / disappear and re-appear in Google time to time, this is how google decides which page to serve regularly on search results.

Hi Arnold,

Very Interesting case, and congratulations to you for getting a viral video without even knowing about it.

You have asked a much interesting question, how to find out some of your or some else's video that gone viral when they have not tagged you or provided a backlink directly to you.

Considering your case scenario as an example, If I were you, I would have first analyzed the traffic patterns, set up a question on the registration form "Where did u hear about us" . Also, called up signing up customers to understand where were they finding out the information about the website. Other than this, there is no direct technical way to understand the video content if the are not connecting your website via backlink or a hashtag.

I hope this helps, please feel free to respond and ask further questions.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi There,

The results on google SERPs are hugely influenced by your personal preferences in Google , your browser history, and other factors that google considers while giving "personalized search results". You may also like to read a blog post I wrote on my website Impact of Personalized Search results .

Now, as for your question about search result being shown by Moz and google webmaster / analytics , and not to users . The ranks picked by these are indicative ranks, and give you an idea where your website might be ranking on certain keywords (not guaranteed ) . Along with this fact, the ranks also fluctuate for new websites based on their content freshness and backlink profile.

You will have to wait for some time and see whether this is consistently the case with your results.

I hope this helps, pls feel free to respond and let me know if you have further questions.

Regards,

Vijay

Hi Daniel,

I have a few travel clients for SEO and Digital Marketing. Get your SEO audit done via Moz, you can take trial for 30 days

As for getting website SEO,  focus on getting real visitors to your website, and search engines will follow you.

• Approach news portal reporters with USP of your business, and try to get them to write them an article about you.
• Answer on quora travel related queries for Iran and also promote travel to Iran in general.
• Focus on a couple of social media platforms, drive traffic to your website from social media. To remain focused, don’t go after too many platforms, just be persistent with right platform related to your business.
• Referred Visitors who stay long on your website help boost your rankings, so try to create engagement using blog comments / social media comments. Keep the interaction real, informative, helpful and engaging.
• Post of Local directories under right section/categories.

This should be enough to start the process, just keep it real and always focus on real visitor. (not just search engines)

Regards,

Vijay

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 There,

First of all, understand the fact that Domain Authority and Page authority are third party metrics developed by Moz.

Secondly, the domain extension doesn't impact DA value, to get more knowledge about the factors that contribute to Domain authority of any website can be found here https://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority

Third, and most important point, my own website has a domain authority if 1 till now, but since I focus on my target audience and work on tasks to engage them (to get desirable results), I have been successful in getting achieve my business goals.

This means, by creating a good sized website with unique content, you have taken the right step in the direction of achieving your website business goals. Find new off-page  SEO (white-hat) methods to take it further and this would automatically lead to higher rankings, domain authority. The Moz tools are designed to help you achieve this and you can read it to understand how it can help.

I hope this helps and please feel free to ask further questions by responding to this answer.

Regards,

Vijay

hi Christopher,

This seems to be a device specific problem, I checked my own account using a simulator and it works fine.

http://mobiletest.me/ipad_mini_emulator/?u=https://analytics.moz.com/manage-campaigns

Please check it for yourself, also share the browser name and version you are using.

Regards,

Vijay