My site can only have so many pages. Once it fills up, should i migrate to a new platform, or find a way to marge several from the same platform together so i can not rock the boat too much?
Our Google business listing has been verified for 2 months now. It shows the business hours, website, local phone number and a detailed description. We have 5 positive reviews on Google. We also have 52 additional (positive) reviews from 3 different websites linked on the listing. It has about a dozen pictures + a 360 tour uploaded. I've made 2 high quality posts on it including images and detailed text. Our website has an embedded Google map with the location on it.
We also have 150+ citations all using the same name, website, address, phone number, business info, etc. I've added pictures wherever possible. I have recently paid someone to also add 200 live Google Map citations.
Am I missing something here?
Technically, we show up as #1... as a paid Google Ads provider.
But organically, the 1st and 2nd results are both the same person - using his personal name for one listing and his company name for the other. (How is that even allowed?)
The 3rd result on Google Maps has 1 review, no website, business hours, description or pictures on his listing.
There are at least 2 other listings that show up before ours - with no reviews, pictures, websites, business hours, descriptions...
Our business is on the same avenue as #1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in case that matters. We're just a few blocks away. We are the #5 result in Google searches using the same keywords (on pages), but not on Google Maps.
Why is it that other much less appealing listings are shown before ours? What can we do to optimize this further and appear higher?
I appreciate your input and any advice that you'd be willing to share.
Front end Programmer here -
My employer has a website that could use some more links
Their suppliers often have a 'suppliers' page, however it requires entering a zip code, or searching for the city, before it shows any results
Are these links useless from a SEO point of view?
Do I simply duplicate the page, then go through and replace all instances of city A with city B?
Do I add canonical links to all pages except the main one? Will this mean they won't rank?
Basically, I've got a service page that ranks well in city A. I just want to duplicate that page and replace city A with city B, so I can start ranking in city B. What is the best way to do this?
Let’s say you built your content around a keyword you thought you could win and now you are getting decent traffic from it for example best city plumber. How do you move from that to : plumer in city, plumber city, etc. ? Do I have to create new pages that focuses on those keywords ? How would that work if it’s the same service ?
i'm doing some outbound research for my company. i sell text links on websites i've brokered deals with. i have a network of them and a bunch of inventory i want to fill. i'm trying to cold-email/call SEO companies to see if they want to buy links but am also curious about other possibilities.
I have a (joomla) category called Testimonials - and I only want the category view to be displayed and indexed on the site.
The individual testimonials are all separate articles within that category - and I don't want the individual article pages being displayed or indexed.
Currently, there is no way to navigate to the individual article pages via the website menu structure, however the article URLs still exist and do show up in my sitemap (and presumably are being indexed by google).
I've removed all content from the article layouts (so essentially, when viewed directly they are just made up of the Header, footer, and nothing inbetween) - So there isn't really anything of value for google to index - But these URLs are still showing in my sitemap.
Is this the best method to hide the article layouts from google? Is there a better method? Should I place a no follow / no index tag directly into the article page layout?
Is there anyone else at SMX West that is highly disappointed? I feel like I haven’t gotten any useful information from any of the speakers. They all seem rushed and are not very good at getting their point across.
My onsite SEO is on-point but I'm not sure what else to do other than backlinks to grow further. Some sites ask for 100$ and others ask for 2000$ It's insane!
I don't do SEO but PPC. I have a client who is concerned that the number swapping the software does will affect seo because he thinks Google will see the replaced number rather than the original. But I'm pretty sure it doesn't impact rankings, right?
I need an expert to take a look at a website and give their opinion as to why our rankings suck. Ive tried multiple things to produce some results and so far (12 months time) I’ve had little to no success. From my previous experience our competitors shouldn’t be ranking as high as they are compared to us. Their loading times, UX (and mobile UX), keyword density, and google developer scores are worse or fairly similar to ours. So I’m at a complete loss. If anyone can offer some professional advice/support I would be happy to provide compensation.
I may be being impatient but I built my website using Squarespace and went live around December 23, 2018. I looked at keyword research terms and know that the keywords I am targetting have a high volume of searches. When I however search for any of my keywords, my website is not even on the last page of Google
Here is what I have done so far:
- submitted my website to Google Search Console
- made my website HTTPS
- created blog content and pages with my keywords
- added meta keywords and meta descriptions to all my pages with keywords
- added alt tags to all images with keywords
- started Twitter and Facebook accounts where I crosspost my blog contents
- Started and uploaded YouTube videos with my keywords
When I search google with "site:[website address], my website pages show up which means that it has been indexed. I am at a loss as to what else I can do to get my website to even show up on Google.
Thanks in advance.
I'm trying to scan my website for broken links and need to list all the broken links in a spreadsheet with the source (page located on) and the actual link itself (with maybe some anchor text/status code but the first two are most important).
However some links have been redirected over time and the scan records the redirect link as the source/inlink with the new redirect instead of the ORIGINAL source and the ORIGINAL broken link. The original is what I need because I want to know what the actual broken link is and what page it is located on. I can get to this information by right clicking an individual record and exporting a crawl path report. But this method is inefficient because I am dealing with a thousand plus records.
Any Screaming Frog pros know how to deal with this? Thanks! 😊
I have a client moving to my platform and need to write redirects. I downloaded the ahrefs sheet of backlinks but many of the links are pointing to images on the site with URLs ending in .jpg or .png.
I want them to resolve on the product pages for the site but the URL itself has no indication of what product the image belongs to.
How would I go about pairing these image URLs with their corresponding page the image is found on to write proper redirects?
Hello Everyone,
I run into this issue every once in a while because I sell a SaaS cloud-based software. The client's that use our product get a site created at companyname.mycompany.com. They then use a CNAME record to create a custom domain on a subdomain i.e something.company.com. This is the industry standard in our market. All of our competitors suggest the same and it's overall easily accepted by our clients. Every once in a while we get someone who will aggressively argue with us that it has to be in a subfolder and not a subdomain for SEO.
Now I do get the impression from browsing this subreddit that people generally assume subfolder is superior to a subdomain for your main site's SEO. We find this argument odd given that GWT has tools to declare subdomains as officials parts of your primary web presence. However, I'd be willing to concede maybe subfolder is better than subdomain at face value (let's say 55-45).
That said, with a hosted solution, there's also a number of technical reasons why we consider it a bad idea because the only reliable way to do it is through a 'reverse proxy'. The nature of a reverse proxy makes requests slower (bad for SEO), the uptime is now dependant on your main site (eliminating a benefit of a cloud service) and a bunch of other issues related to security and technical debt on our side of the equation.
I am curious what the SEO professionals in this community have to say about how they deal with hosted solutions, which from my understanding, require to be on a subdomain and not a subfolder when it comes to SEO. Is it a deal breaker for you? Do you really think it makes THAT much of difference i.e if subfolder was 5-10% better is that really worth all the other headaches? What do you typically suggest to your clients using hosted solutions?
Basically, I am continually running into this debate and to be quite honest, I've had the (dis)pleasure of dealing with some SEO gurus in my line of work that want this to be their Hamburger Hill. I would really like to hear from your side of things how you tend to manage the subfolder vs subdomain thing for hosted solutions in a constructive way.
I know each of you have a list of a few sites where you can quickly post some content and get dofollow links. Let's share our lists here together with a few info about those sites. What do you think?
Hey guys,
Our homepage ranks well for ' keyword a'. The homepage itself is not the most interesting thing to link to, so we have created an article (with the aim to collect natural links) around the subject of our websites main keyword.
Would you advise linking back to the homepage in the article, in order to boost the rankings for 'keyword a' (somewhat of a reverse silo).
If you'd recommend linking back to the homepage, what anchor text would you recommend? An exact match? Partial match or something related to the subject?
Thanks for your input!
Hi everyone. I launched a website about 6 weeks ago, and at first the search results had the correct Titles and Descriptions.
But as of a few days ago the titles have been replaced with text taken from places other than the title tag—and the descriptions are completely missing. I've checked my pages and there's nothing technically wrong with the title tags or meta titles, or meta descriptions.
Any idea what could be going on here? Is this just a normal part of process? It's driving me a little nuts.
The site has nothing to do with adult content, so I'm wondering if someone playing dirty, what effect does it have, and what should I do to prevent it?
Hi, well my question is in the title. Im aware that good kw research and providing quality content is the main part in SEO, but regarding Onpage & Offpage im kinda lost. I'm leaning towards Offpage, simply because since there are only 3 Products, there are only few landingpages to optimize, but i'd love to hear your opinions.
I already analyzed the homepage and the most relevant competitors and in my opinion, the company need improvement in both regards.
Of course there are no backlinks without onpage optimized landingpages etc., but what would be more important for choosing a seo software in this particular situation?
I was quoted $8,000 (AUD) for an SEO work to be done on a local cleaning business website for a period of 6 months- 2 months on page SEO and 4 months off page SEO.
The quote is from a local SEO agency, but is this a fair/ reasonable quote or am I being ripped off?
Hello, I have been experiencing some very strange things on google search console lately which has caused my rank to plummet, first it has been crawling pages such as: cart, login, account, register, etc. then it's having issues crawling AMP pages through a third party app and now its detecting a coverage issue server error (5xx) for a URL that not only has never existed but is not even worded correctly
I spoke to AMP app developer he said everything is looking fine on their end and this is an issue with google but I have no idea if this is true nor do I really have any idea what im doing when it comes to search console.
All these issues have been happening pretty recently like the few months my website no longer shows up the first page of google search for keywords in my niche. I don't think it even shows up on google anymore. I am not sure whats happening to be honest I think this is going to drive me out of business i'm no longer getting any traffic what can I do i have no one to help or to guide me if i'm doing something wrong and google doesn't have customer support
I'm looking at just deleting the disavow file from google, seeing if that gives an easy win.
Anyone tried this before?
If I'm building a press page for a brand, should I simply include the screenshots of press clippings or is there SEO value in linking to all of the brand mentions?
I've updated about 30 pages.
After asking Google to recrawl 10 I get the annoying captcha ID traffic lights, cross walks etc.
I don't want to tell them to re crawl the page and all links from it as not everything was updated!
What the best option? Continue as is, or do 10 a day etc. It seems a bit OTT.
I recall reading that that there was a Google algorithm update in the past the penalized sites that are filled with random posts from unrelated topics vs a site that specializes in one topic.
For example, if you're targeting a keyword related to guitars Google would favor a website exclusively about guitars rather than a website that covers hundreds of different topics, and happens to have a guitar related article on it.
I was wondering if anyone has any experience/ case studies around this.
I had always believed it to be true. Then I found this one site where it literally positioned itself a site that was meant to be a hodgepodge of random facts for those who are overly curious about random things. Possibly someone who's into trivia or something.
I looked through the articles and they were all high quality, well-researched posts.
I looked in SEMrush and it seems that the website is doing pretty well considering it only has 40 posts on it.
This idea really has me interested because I feel like keyword research/ content strategy would be SUPER easy for a blog topic like this. Literally infinite amount of low competition/ high search volume keywords that you would be able to target if you don't have to stick to one category.
I would love you know your thoughts on this.
Thanks
Hello r/SEO, newbie here with not much SEO experience.
The company I manage has a website. Out of discretion, let’s call it getcash12345.com. When “get cash” is googled our site does not show up, but when “get cash 12345” is googled we are #1 rank.
The company ALSO owns the domain, let’s say getcashnow.com, and it redirects to the original site ‘getcash12345.com’, but when the phrase “get cash now” is googled it doesn’t have getcashnow.com ranked anywhere near the top.
How can we reconfigure this redirect to make the more popular search terms display the redirecting domain as a top result.
Again, those aren’t the real domains that I provided, but similar and in the same industry. Thanks for any help!
Ok so I have analytics set up on an e-commerce site. Everything works well, transactions are sent and logged to google analytics with each transaction number.
The issue I am having, is I think people are leaving the browser window open and refreshing the order confirmation page and I do not know how to fix this.
Like say Monday order numbers 100-120 come in, they will log to analytics with the value, say its $1 per order. So the value for the day will be $20. But on Wednesday, someone who placed order number 110 might refresh their order confirmation page (like they left it open this whole time) and it will move order 110 from Monday to Wednesday, and also reduce Mondays stats by $1.
This is happening on a larger scale and I am not sure how to handle this. Any insights?
I have a good understanding of HTML and CSS and I develop Wordpress websites.
I hear a lot about PHP, AJAX and Apache but I don’t have a great amount of knowledge on what they do. (Except PHP)
If you asked me to touch my Wordpress database I would absolutely need a tutorial with me and I feel like I rely on plug ins way too much.
When did you make the jump to learning these languages? For example how many websites did you make before you touched them?
So, let me preface by stating, I love SEO. I find it fascinating.
I originally fell in love after having my cleaning agency start to rank for super competitive keywords and overnight become a success.
Now, I've been wanting to replicate the success of my cleaning agency in several other similar verticals.
In essence, I want to just focus on SEO, copywriting and building out a superior brand and grow my businesses organically.
The issue I have is, every one says create quality content and the backlinks will come but I've honestly tried that.
I've tested with 3,000 word guides of the highest quality, 800 word blog posts of super high quality and I've received 0 back links as a result of them.
Is it because of the niche I'm in?
I'm using Facebook, Medium and Twitter to help with indexing each post but from my experience the mantra that quality content = automatic backlinks is a false one, especially in the home & garden niche.
Hey Folks,
We are a young fintech startup who is migrating our website to Wordpress. Given the nature of the products we offer we are required by regulation to show a Pop-Up prompt to anyone who visits our website so that they can declare whether they qualify for our products.
This however is something we anticipate Google's search bots will not like at all.
Does any one have any suggestions of how we can get around this? Make sure the prompt appears if it is normal users but somehow allow Google to crawl all the pages?
Hi all,
I was looking through the subreddit for any discussions about this. But most of the talk is around SEM Rush vs. Ahrefs. I've decided to go with Ahrefs since I'm more focused on organic search and don't have a need for PPC info right now. For users of Ahrefs, which version would you guys recommend a freelancer like me - Lite or standard?
Thanks for your help!
Jonathan
Please give me the title of a book that is relevant to practices that companies would utilize today.
My friend is currently using a digital marketing agency for his business and asked me to evaluate the services they have provided and I couldn't believe how ineffective (what I think) the agency was. I would like to see if I can get a second opinion from this community. (my apologies w/ typing errors)
Background: My background/specialty is in social media (I think), and have created a small e-commerce business last year and have experience with SEO and SEM (adwords and fb) to some extent. I've used Shopify for the e-commerce business so marketing was not too difficult as Shopify is pretty user friendly. I am no expert with SEO/SEM, but I do believe I know the basics at least. (So please try not to judge. sorry.)
Friends Business & Agency: My friend used this agency for their marketing to promote through newspapers, magazines, etc. The friend decided to use the agency for their digital marketing needs as they had a history of working together but is not getting the results he expected. (Has been working together for ~6 months).
As I was talking to my friend, I noticed he does not have access to Adwords. I found the agency has created all their campaigns within the agencies account. I requested of my friend to ask the agency for access (even if its "view only"). After several emails of going back and forth, they refused to give access saying it is private information as it can give away their strategies (which is understandable i guess...). I also found out they refuse to my friend how much they are using daily/monthly for their budgeted campaigns.
Some information they provide are impressions, visitors, and traffic increase. (which isnt too much. went from ~5k monthly visits to approximately ~8k monthly visits.) btw, my friend is paying them ~12k monthly. I personally think these metrics are near useless. I want to see unique visitors, ad campaigns, conversions, etc. Not f**king impressions... That should be the last thing they show me.
In summary: I can go on forever, but my question is, what information do agencies typically provide the client with? Is this normal where agencies do not provide all the information? Should the agency have analytics properly set up as in creating a funnel? I also been using semrush to see if I can get additional info.
There's a particular phrase that my website will rank 13th or so one week and then 90+ the next. And this is happening frequently.
It's basically a synonym of what the page is about, and an exact match of the phrase is written once on the page. But nothing has or is being changed on the page.
Why in the world would this happen? Should put the phrase again somewhere in the text to try to get it to stay at a higher ranking?
Quick question, I found a backlink service that is providing 5,000 links for $30. Anyone used a service like this? No way they can be quality links right? Gotta be high spam score sites or something...
One of my client's goals is to rank higher on Google. Is it normal to hire an agency for a 1-time website audit and they give me a laundry list of objectives to complete in order to rank higher?
I've recently started an all out blitz to get some backlinks and so one of my first points of emphasis has been to look for broken links from the first page or two of results for keywords I'm targeting.
And what I've noticed is that 80%+ of the sites provide an absolutely abysmal first impression for user experience.
There on the first page of results for nearly every keyword, you had: cookie policy disclosures taking up a third of the page, inundated often with 2-3 ads always somewhere on the screen no matter how far you scrolled, and being prompted 2-3 times with a complete page covering ad to ask for my email for the newsletter/product/whatever.
And I don't mean to come across as naive, I know this happens and I know it's not "new" in any sense of the word. But when you listen to so many people talk about "user experience" and then see sometimes just utter shit of a website repeatedly in the top 3 results across a multitude of keywords it can become pretty disheartening.
How have you all been able to square these ideas in your head?
Good day very one out there, I'm not really good at asking questions but I need to any way. So my url have showed on google result page a couple of 5.4k times but getting only a few hits less than 200.
How do I leverage this opportunity and convince these users to actually click and read my page?
Is it fine if the sitemap is just one line? Or do I need to break it into more lines for it to work with the crawlers?
On January 17th i experienced a big drop of traffic and i still am. My main keyword which was in the first page and 3rd position went down to page 6. Another keyword that i was ranking in 1st position it went down to the bottom of the fist page and sometimes 2nd page.
What should i do about this? I see that my website is dancing around 6th page for my main keyword and i don't know what to do :/.
Hey, title says it all. Currently I am placing local business schema in the global head. Is this correct or should I only have it on the homepage?
Any advice is would be great. Thanks all
This might be the wrong place, but I need some opinions.
I work for a small business selling it's own brand goods via their website and through various retailers etc.
We've had a bit of a slump in web sales lately so a lot of work is going on to improve the site performance and conversion from clicks to sales.
Some time ago I wrote a little C# console apps that queries the site for applicable products (ones that are for sale) and gets the details according to the site. It then basically writes this into an XML file and FTPs it up to Google.
Having searched around I can see that the Content API is available for on the fly updates and changes to any product data. As things seem to be changing rapidly I feel that this is the best option for the business, so I was wondering if anyone knows about this sort of thing and possibly has some tips on how to implement such a system.
Tl,dr; Shopping Feed sucks and I need help! Need dotnet Shopping API examples!
Anybody has an idea of what this metric means? It says #1 for some of my keywords, which are not #1 on the serps
Hello,
So I'm very recent to SEO, but I started working in the digital marketing department and I'm getting more into it.
Now the company where I work is basically a company that offers a big variety of services. What we want is to rank our services pages so people find us when they are in need of that kind of service. So basically, our homepage doesn't really matter, what matters are the services pages.
Now, for SEO we are mainly doing LinkBuilding strategy with email outreach and guest blogging. But, which link should we get a backlink for:
- The root domain (www. example company . com)
- or the services pages (www. example company . com / services / service1 ) ?
Because we have so many services and I really think we are not getting any results. We always aim for the services pages links, but maybe getting backlinks for the root domain may increase and strenghten the other pages?
Would love to get some opinion.
Thank you,
How does it hold up compared to the other more well-known options?
I've just been asked by one of the Devs at work about the impact of some copy within the page. Their new designs put it lower down, and they were advised by an SEO agency that this will negatively affect rankings.
Currently, it's in a side panel, but they are looking to put it below the product image.
I have advised them that this may have a negative user experience impact, but is the Agency correct that it will impact the SEO from a technical standpoint?
So, lets say I run an IT company, is there any sense in buying a URL that's "londonbasedItsoloutions" and basically forward it to a related website?
If its a silly idea let me know and Ill save myself a few ££ :)
I am looking for $1 or somewhere around that hosting providers for my Private Blog Networks. Any suggestions for reliable provider?
My email team wants to test a bunch of new mobile email address capture pop-ups and they are asking me if there's a way to determine if Google will penalize us for them.
Does anyone know if there's a quick way to tell if Google doesn't like what we're doing? Will we see a warning in Search Console or will we see our site's SEO traffic drop immediately?
so i was using screaming frog to crawl a website and it showed me the home page and 3 other files with a .js extension. Turns out the website was made through ReactJS.
So 2 questions:
I'm currently working on some blogs for a website, and I'm trying to create a 'virtual silo' by linking certain blogs together.
I have a 'main' blog that will be something like 'The 5 most important points to consider when doing x'.
I will then have 5 supporting blog posts that go deeper into the 5 'most important points':
1) The 5 most important points to consider when doing x
1i) How to do point 1
1ii) How to do point 2
1iii) How to do point 3
1iv) How to do point 4
1v) How to do point 5
I understand that if I want to create a silo that is good for SEO, the 5 supporting pages should all link back to the main page, and each other.
But it also makes sense for the 'main' page to link to the 'supporting' pages. Would doing this cancel out the silo effect? If all the pages in the silo link to each other, surely there is no 'main page'?
Thanks in advance.
Hay, every one my self ayush patel. I am writing quality blogpost everyday but I am not getting a single backlink to rank for please help me.
I have a blog posts that provide certain info about English novels. the post is missing images and would like to add one photo about each novel I'm talking about to make post more visually appealing and improve its SEO.
What is the best way to do that without breaking the copyright laws? I tried to search Shutterstok but could not find the covers or any photos related to these novels.
Thanks!
Hi everyone,
I am aiming to do a website with a onePage style. As I have 3 different pages I want that to be the first section of the page and the other section would be the same on the 3 pages. But my question is : how to do that avoiding duplicated content ?
Ahrefs usually shows less than half the volume of what Semrush shows for each keyword search.
Why?
Our primary keyword for Cflow website is "workflow automation software" and it is on the second page now. Is there any strategy to bring it back to its position?
I'm seeing some strange things in the new Google Search Console.
I'm in the report section: "Index" -> "Coverage" -> "Excluded" -> "Page with redirect"
In this report I see URLs that should not exist, and therefore should not have 301:s "on them".
For example, I see variations of some of my most read blog posts where the category part of the URL is of a completely different category than what's set on the post, and it's a category that I know, with 100% certainty, that the post have never been categorized as.
I've also downloaded all external links via Majestic, and filtered for some of these URLs that should not exist to see if any externa links are pointing to these pages.
Does anyone have any idea why this could be showing in search console?
Quick backstory: I finished my exam in digital marketing in December and was lucky enough to get a job straight away at a firm, but I'm still a noob in the digital marketing space. alright, here's the problem; I was assigned to work with a customer and they wanted better ranking on Google. The SEO consultant that has worked with the firm before me assigned me to write 5 articles that must include certain keywords. When he explained his strategy I could not help raise my eyebrows. bare with me because he's really bad at specifying his procedure and English is not my native tongue.
The articles, that I'm writing now, will be placed under 5 different domains that he will create. He also wants 500 words or more and the keyword must appear 3% - or 3 times per 100 words. Furthermore, the articles will point back to the client's site which will increase the number of backlinks.
I can't help to think that this is not a legitimate backlinking strategy since backlinks need to point from sites that are relevant and up-to-date, or am I wrong?
Could you advice me how can I fix this issue
My co works with an auction website for product development and we did some email marketing work for them only because they needed some help right away. They've hired an agency to do their SEO but they've also asked us to do a quick review. I plugged in their domain in SEMRush and got quite a few technical SEO suggestions. Any idea what could be included apart from this?
Apologies if I'm not posting this correctly.
I am a web developer who runs a high-ranking website which is essentially a single page app. Lately its ranking has dipped from 1st place to 3rd for its target keyword. Although the site is primarily a single page app, there are about 30-40 auxiliary pages, mostly there for SEO, as well as a recently-added blog.
I'm interested in possibly hiring someone to help advise me on how to regain my top place ranking. No actual SEO work is necessary - just a site audit with recommendations and some information on how my competitors are improving their positions over my own. Maybe a basic game plan for me to follow over the next 3-6 months.
If anyone is interested, please DM me.
Thanks!
I have a website with political content and was at 1st position in Google search result for a long time.
Then someone decided to copy my website by taking my logo, title and everything except its content. After a few government blocking, my website fell to position 2 and the cloned website went to top 1.
Recently he got blocked by our government too and he redirect the website to new link. Surprisingly now he got the old domain at 1st position and the new domain at 2nd, and my domain is pushed far behind the search result. How is it possible he have 2 domains pointed to the same website and took both top 2 spots? And how the heck my website pushed far away from the top 10?
As this is my soirce of income, I feel so bad because I am losing it and people wont know that I am the real person behind the original website. People won't even know mine is the original website, not his.
Anyone got any idea to counter that website? I am already thinking to quit this once and for all.
I'm planning on implementing a strategy to get more search clicks and I'm hoping if anyone more experienced can tell me if it's a bad idea (because last time I tried something I screwed myself over).
Background: I run a meme generator website. It's no longer close to the front page of Google but I find some luck with some long tail search terms. e.g. instead of "Meme generator", if the search term is "Surprised pikachu meme generator" I can be on the first page. The meme generator itself allows you to upload your own image or choose from templates but some pages like the one that comes up for "Surprised pikachu meme generator" will have the meme preloaded for convenience.
So my plan is to do busy work the next few days, adding pages like that. Like, thousands of pages with different meme macros, in hopes of maximizing my traffic by the trickle of the one-odd click on thousands of pages.
From what I've read Google takes a longer time to index/crawl semi-duplicate pages. Is that something that can decrease my SEO ranking to my site in general or screw me up in some other way or is it low risk? Is that something that can increase my search engine ranking overall or would it more likely than not diminish it?
I'm helping out a friend with their site for their new business and I'm finding it harder to optimize than it is for my actual SEO clients at work. It's a video production business, so I am optimizing around "Film production company [state]" with the page title, meta, etc, but they are ranking low. They used a one page squarespace template, but I started breaking out content into different pages and fixing the homepage so there is only one h1.
I'm guessing that building backlinks will make the biggest difference, as right now there isn't any DA or PA. As a video production business, they meet with clients / do work on location so they don't have an office address; the business is filed with the home address. Because of this, I'm not sure how to go about building links. I created a Google My Business and hid the address, but the GMB ranks low as well. Normally, I'd start with setting up local listings, but without a physical address, I'm not able to create many.
Wondering if anyone has any thoughts or suggestions?
What would be the best way to optimize a table of data for SEO purposes? Should it be built out in html, or would it not affect anything if I posted it as an image with proper tags?
Also this table or graphic will be on multiple blog post with different insight blog post. Will it hurt my rankings for duplicated content reasons?
When I did a search of my video, I could not find it. I have looked up all search results, but still not find. Why??
I thought the Mac Finder tags (that show up in the sidebar) were just an internal-to-Mac sorting mechanism, but a client I’m working with said they read somewhere that tagging images with keywords via the Mac Finder has an impact on SEO. Can anyone confirm/deny?
Has anyone experienced a drop in local rank or traffic after activating a Google Beacon? I have data that more correlate to a decrease just after, but haven't found any resources on the web verifying from other SEOs.
I'm creating homepage schema for a brick-and-mortar business that has three different locations. I was going to employ a similar strategy to #2 in this article - https://intuitivedigital.com/blog/json-ld-for-multiple-locations/ - where I have three different LocalBusiness types nested under "location" within a single Organization type. Each LocalBusiness type would have its own address, phone number, image, coordinates, etc.
On each of my site's location pages, my strategy would be to use a single LocalBusiness type, which would look the same as the corresponding type nested under Organization on the homepage.
Is this a viable strategy? Does anyone have any experience doing anything similar, or any recommendations on a better way to use schema on my site's homepage?
Hi All,
I work for a company that heavily relies on their eCommerce site to make sales. I recently hired an SEO firm who seems to look great on paper (google/yelp reviews). It's been three months of them adding competitive keywords to our meta descriptions and meta titles. Furthermore, they seem to be either creating accounts (ie pinterest) with our company name/info on it, creating a short page on a site like weebly and posting one of our random blogs, or creating accounts on other forums (most are relevant to our industry, but some aren't) and posting once saying stuff like Hey everyone I'm new!
I asked them if this was Black Hat they continue to assure me it's not- but I am not wholly convinced. Is this against Google's regulations?
When I look in google search console for my website, "Total Impressions" took a major hit after I made some website changes at the start of the year. Search Console says total impressions of my home page are essentially zero since making changes. Total Clicks to my home page also appear to have taken a huge hit.
Search Console says clicks for my main keywords have stopped completely. And Search Console says my average position before making changes was 6.6 and is now non-existent since making changes.
This is confusing to me because I am currently #3 in google for my keyword as far as I can tell. If anything my ranking has improved from around #5-6 to #3 for my main keyword. So I have no idea why search console isn't recording my average position anymore.
According to Google Analytics, traffic has been relatively consistent before and after the website changes.
None of this makes any sense to me. If my total impressions to my main page have taken such a huge hit, how can my traffic (according to analytics) be largely unaffected? And the % of my traffic coming from google is also unaffected.
I'm very confused by all of this. Can anyone provide some insight?
I can’t figure out how to get Screaming Frog to ignore HTML Anchor Links (#).
It causes the scan to take forever and treats the URL like a separate page. I’m not sure why it does this by default. Is this something anybody wants? I can’t believe they didn’t notice this the first time they ran a report. What possible use is there in reporting that a 5k page site has 100k pages?
I just received an email from someone who wants to swap links with me. It’s a website that I’ve known of for years and have actually bought products off of, and it’s relevant to my site.
Is this something I should consider? How do I go about it in a way that will make Google happy?
Hello Reddit!
I have a very specific problem. I checked article history but found no case that would answer my question, so I am making another post:
Long story short.
A photographer did an oopsie - He sued people that were using his pictures. Now his name (which is also his brand name) is associated with ask-a-lawyer forum posts (made by people whom he sued) on the 1st Google page.
My question is, which is the best course of action to repair this damage:
I hope I have clearly defined my dilemma. If not, I am open to conversation.
Have a nice day
I just got a new location for my business. I’m going to add it as another location for GMB.
What should I do after that? I will reach out to clients in those areas for reviews and upload pictures. However, should I be doing citations for this new location? Should I edit the footers of each landing pages this location serves? Do I need a separate phone number for this location as well?
Sorry if this is in the wrong reddit forum or if this has been asked before.
I've been using Microworkers for a while now and lately I've been noticing that you can probably make more money as an employer than a worker depending on what you do of course. I already have one referral campaign going on and it is pretty good soo far and I would like to get a second campaign started. I have three questions for everyone here and My 1st question is does anyone know where I can find referrals or a place/forum where companies/individuals post referrals? I would imagine BlackHatWorld would probably have something like that?
My second question is would it be smart (and this is just an idea haven't tried it yet) and worth the time to use Microworkers for SEO? In other words would it be feasible to post on let's say fiverr that I can help companies/individuals with ranking their website and then they pay me and then I take that money and then post different campaigns on Microworkers essentially being an SEO middle man? Would this be a feasible SEO endeavor/company? or is it just a waste of time, over saturated, and/or wrong ethically?
Last question is has anyone ever been a worker for Microworkers or any similar type of website then at some point figured out not only that you can make more as an employer but how to do it? And now months or years later are making way more than what you would've made if you just stuck to being a worker?
Thank you all and I apologize again if this is in the wrong reddit forum I'll move it if it is, thanks.....
Cross-posted from the local SEO sub, but that's a ghost town right now...
MOZ Local is easy to use and rather handy. I'd like to know how many local and/or regional directories take the info from the data aggregators MOZ Local uses. Is it 200? 250? 300? More?
Anyone have any insight? Google is pretty silent on this.
Context:
I am working on a website that took a dip in rankings across all keywords last year. Given the timing our initial thoughts were that it was EAT related so we have been working to address that (and a few other areas we discovered after some analysis and speaking to agencies).
However, we recently updated the whole site moving from Wordpress to a custom CMS that involved updating page templates and 1:1 redirecting a large number of URL’s. More recently we also made the decision to remove Hreflang and in doing so redirected more URLs back into the English versions. On both occasions we saw a spike in rankings Only for them to drop again over time.
It seems that Google is giving us the higher positions at first before it processes more signals about the page and then it drops back down again.
My question is:
What signals do you think Google would be processing in the days after these changes?
My initial thought was links, but we have been very strict on the links we’ve built and I have scoured our back link profile and found no glaring clues. Am I missing some other potential signals that could be causing this and need addressing?
Hey r/seo!
I have a site that I think has some malware on it. I have tried to fix the problem but ended up almost breaking the site and had to restore it.
Does anyone know any good plugin, person, or company that can clean an infected site?
Would I be better off just rebuilding the site and trying again?
We have not hit any google penalties. But I want to remove the malware and set up a better firewall.
I was using Sitelock, but they are trying to charge me another $300 to fix the site! I pay them $50/month to prevent this, so I am not really sure how it happened.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you!
Looking for the communities input on this.
When using working with a blog on the WIX platform. Would you use a canonical tag on the template blog or no canonical tag?
Here are the known issues and concerns.
Although, I complain about the platform there is nothing I can do about it. This is what the client is on currently. So, looking for the input from the community on how they would handle this "issue"
So there is this domain that has 300 links pointing to my domain. But that domain is no longer active, so I can’t even check if it’s legit, but by the volume of links it seems to be very spammy.
I would think that if I let it be, eventually google would realize that the domain is no longer active, and remove those links from my search console. It’s been almost 2 months, and all those links still exist in the console.
Should I just disavow that domain or just wait longer? I did perform a disavow in the past (for spammy domains), and saw my traffic falls shortly after. My traffic is currently growing, so I’m afraid I might have a negative impact. But at the same time, if that domain is left unchecked for a longer time, I could also get google penalty.
What should I do?
We're rolling out a new category page design in the coming weeks. Currently we use server-side responsive design, and we're moving to client site.
Currently:
Desktop - 99% of pages use an ajax [Load More] button
Mobile - Most pages have the above, and some use auto-load more (i.e the ajax executes itself to provide an infinite page)
We're looking to move to:
Responsive Site - All pages have pagination.
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My question is how we handle the page urls, and internal links at the bottom of the product grid/loop that link to Page 2, Page 3 etc.
Years back, we used to have paginated pages with pgno=X parameters on the URL. The setting in Search Console at the moment is set for google not to crawl urls with this parameter.
Hi SEOs, My friend and I run a podcast on SEO called SEO is Dead and Other Lies. We have both been in the industry for about 10 years and are active reddit users. If anyone has any questions or topics we would be happy to cover them on our upcoming episodes.
