A competator ranked higer thank me although all my seomoz factors are significantly higher.
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Hey,
I'm new to seoMoz and this is my first question (so far it's been great!).
Short summery, I got a website in a specific nitch in google IL, my website is 2 years old.
All my opensiteexplorer params are far higher than my competitor.On the exact keyword I'm ranked #3, wikipedia ranked #2, he's ranked #1. Cant figure out why is that.
I've tried copying his links profile, linking from same site he does. Had partial success but my links profile is far larger in terms of quality and content.
My page is graded "A" by seomoz tools.
Attached my OpenSiteExplorer screenshot.
I'm wondering what are your thoughts on that.
Regards,
Oleg. -
Oops, you're right about the 200, fixed to a proper 404.
Another related issue might be there you might have an advice for, what would you do with the 30 tags in the footer? nofollow, robots, removing the whole block or keeping it as it is - do follow links?
Regards,
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thats hard to say, it will be affecting your ranking , but how far is your compeditor ahead of you .
blocking by robots is not going to help. in your code it will be worse, as your links will be leaking into the unknown. A un-necessary redirect can lose you about 15% of uyou link juice, but linking to a page not in the index will lose you 100%.
blocking in robots is a last resoirt for serious problems.
My advice is to take the block out and try to address the redirects and broken links.
it is hard for me to know whats going on as i cannot read hebrew. One other thing, your 404 pages returns a 200, this is what they call a soft 404, you need to fix that also.
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My website is solar.org.il.
Do you think the reason for my lower ranking is Link Juice Leaks?
I've tried to blocking it by robots.txt.
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One more think, http://solar-israel.co.il/ has canonical domain issues, it ios also reachable using http://www.solar-israel.co.il/
http://perthseocompany.com.au/seo/reports/violation/the-page-contains-multiple-canonical-formats
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http://www.solar.org.il has over 1,000 Link Juice Leaks.
here is a typical sample
The link to "http://www.solar.org.il/services/%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD-%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD-%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD.html" has resulted in HTTP redirection to "http://www.solar.org.il/404.html".
something wrong there.
The is also a few canonical isses, pages blocked by robots, if you really have to block them, use a meta noindex,follow tag, so thsat the link juice will still flow.
50+ broken links, each one leaking link juice, example
The Web page contains the broken link 'http://www.solar.org.il/articles/search/.html'.This site has 1,0000+ brokrn links, leaking link juice
The Web page contains the broken link 'http://www.solar-israel.co.il/investing-in-green-energy'heaps of html errors, an example
The page at "http://www.solar-israel.co.il/" contains invalid markup.
The Tag 'p' was not closed correctly, the Tag 'div' was closed instead.Both sites have many other issues in smaller numbers.
I dont know what suite os yours, but who very fixes all their leaks should out do the other.
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Can we get the urls, it hard to do asnythinfg without them
The linking shows you have better links, but he does alright in some key areas like trush linking domains. There are many other factors we could look at if we had urls
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