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I am looking at your competetors for these keywords, and i'm suprised your ranked in the top position in the first place. If you look at the top results for these two keywords your competetors are microsoft, slideshare, and youtube which all have a Domain Authority of 80+ and a Page Authority of 50+. Your homepage has a Domain Authority of 27 and a Page Authority of 33 with only 50 links to your site as a whole.

A reconsideration request wouldn't help you because there is nothing that you did in violation with their webmaster guidelines.  if you type into the google searchbar site:agentpresentations.com, you will see that google has your site in their index 86 pages.

Remember that adwords and organic search are two separate things, and I don't understand why adwords would recommend a reconsideration request.

I would personally focus on creating more content and outrech to gain more links to your site.

Hope this helps

I know that SEOmoz was having issues referencing the AdWords API, which may be why your having this issue. They also had an issue a few months ago where their keyword tracking went down.

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I know that SEOmoz was having issues referencing the AdWords API, which may be why your having this issue. They also had an issue a few months ago where their keyword tracking went down.

Hope this helps

Okay,

Thanks a lot!

Zach

I am curious, what is the best way to link things from an SEO perspective

1. Full Path; http://yoursite.com/links/alink/

2. Absolute Path /links/yourlink/

3. Relative Path ../yourlink/

Just curious if there has been any quantifiable data on this.

Thanks

Zach

Howdy Everyone!

Since i've seen the MozCon presentation by Richard Baxter at SEOGadget, i've been completely amazed by the links extension for Excel. I tried this morning to give it a try. Unfortunately, I cannot get it working, and was hoping that someone here could help me out. I know it's out of the usual "realm" of questions, but I figure it's worth a try

I successfully installed the addon and entered my Access id (as "member-xxxxxxxxxx" member is in my id) and the secret key. I then downloaded the "OSE" excel spreadsheet" just to make sure I get all the calls right (as I know the doc works)

Once I do this, and enter anything in, I get the "an error occured: the remote server returend an error: 401 unauthorized.

I then went into the config file (as the setup doc suggests) and disabled run time caching (or at least set "SEOMOZ_API_use_cache_YN":"N") and the SEOMOZ_API_timeout to 100000 from 60000.

I have also tried uninstalling and reinstalling the addin, along with regenerating the MozScape API Key

Anyway, i'm not an excel wiz, and would appreciate any help that I could get on this. I'm also about to experiment with SEO Tools For Excel if anywone wants to check that out.

Thanks in advance

Zach Russell

I looked at the top pages, and it looks like the traffic (and everything else) is down across the board. Do you guys have any other suggestions as to why this could be happening?

Thanks for you help

Zach

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Okay will do, is their an efficient way to remove all of these links at once? From what I se WMT only has a 1 link at a time option, and we have like 9,000 to remove.

Hello Everyone,

I made a post a few months ago about one of my sites, Poker On A Mac dropping off the face of google. I found out that it was hacked, and redirecting traffic from google to other, pharmacy websites. Doing some research, I found out it was the WordPress PharmaHack, and we ended up recovering from it.

Now, since October 23rd traffic has went down again mainly organic traffic, I tried to see if it was hacked again, with the same thing and their was nothing I noticed. I was wondering if anyone could give me any insights as to why this happened?

Thanks

Zach

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301 redirects basically tell browsers (and search engines) - "Hey this page no longer exists at this URL it is now located here" statistically, you also lose 1-10% of link juice when you 301 redirect a page, and, for duplicate content issues, should be avoided unless it's absolutely necessary.

The rel=canonical tag, however, is a way to tell search engines the preferred version of a given URL. The good thing about this is that you don't lose link juice, and generally it is the least intrusive way to implement a fix to duplicate content issues.

If you were to implement a 301 redirect, you'd have to consider that all of these URLs are different (duplicate content wise) and would need a redirect implemented to a single url:

http://domain.com/sample-page

http://domain.com/sample-page/

http://domain.com/Sample-Page

http://domain.com/Sample-Page/

etc...etc...etc...

You can see that it can get tedius. By setting will get you the desired results much easier, than implementing tons of 301s.

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It really depends, I've seen pages rank in a matter of days, and others take months. One thing to consider is findability. By earning more (legitimate!) links to your site from reputable sources, it is more likely that Google's Spiders will find your site. I'd also make sure that your not doing anything like blocking search engines through robots.txt, and submitted a sitemap to Google through WMT.

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It really depends, I've seen pages rank in a matter of days, and others take months. One thing to consider is findability. By earning more (legitimate!) links to your site from reputable sources, it is more likely that Google's Spiders will find your site. I'd also make sure that your not doing anything like blocking search engines through robots.txt, and submitted a sitemap to Google through WMT.

Hope this helps

Hello,

I'm in the middle of developing a website that will be a tutorial site for SEO, http://universityofseo.com. My plan is to do video tutorials & blog posts to help entry-level SEOs and SMB Owners to help them become familiarized with SEO through quick and easy to watch videos.

I eventually want to turn this into a revenue stream through advertisements. I want to know for both SEO and profit reasons, if I should host the videos on youtube and then embed them on my site, or do something like Bits on the Run / Whistia and put ads in the videos that way?

I'm not overly obsessed with monetizing the site, but it would be nice to do it, but first and foremost i'm concerned with optimizing the site, having great and actionable content, then monetizing it.

I'd appreciate any help on this matter,

Zach

Hello,

Now i'm not an expert in this area, but if you look in the GA iOS SDK I believe that their is a way to track entrances by "bookmarks" Please check this out https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/ios/devguide#trackingModes they have the utm_soucre paramater that should be able to be set to bookmark.

This means that the hack was removed.

What it would do before is redirect people to their ad sites. With it 404inf, that is fine, google just has to remove this from their indicies now.

I am in the middle of optimizing sites for SEO, and am wondering how big of a factor it is to get page load speed under 1.5 seconds?

I am prioritizing tasks and I want to know how much this could affect trafiic?

Thanks

Hello,

The site i'm referring to is http://www.pokeronamac.com, it was hacked via something called the "WordPress Pharma Hack" http://theblawblog.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/restoring-a-pharma-hacked-wordpress-site-wp-3-4/

We restored it as far as I can tell, but if anyone can confirm this by doing a site search and not getting redirected it would be appreciated. You will see that some search results still show up as spam, but when I click on them, they 404.

I want to know If I should submit a reinclusion request, I wasn't notified by WMT of malaware, so I want to know the SOP here.

Thanks

Zach

You are correct, that's why I'm doing a huge linkbuilding campaign focusing on .edu TLDs. The .edus should help us recover from what we were losing before, especially since they are high quality domains, with a high DA.

Irving,

Thank you for your response. I understand what your saying. MacPokerOnline.com isn't an online betting site, it's simply a site where users can get reviews and discount codes for online casinos, but specializing with Poker on the mac OS.

Please be aware that when you search google (in an incognito window) for "mac poker" (broad match), that our site is #1 there, with Google Authorship. We never lost rankings on our main pages, it is just for longtail phrases.

Just thought I'd let you guys know this.

Okay. I'll see what I can do with that. We can't to PPC since were promoting gambling unfortunately. Maybe well wait it out a few weeks to see what happens. Our site isn't deindexed and we have seen an increase in traffic the past few weeks of 5-15% week over week. I think this is penguin penalties getting lifted as google detects more links we've removed.