Does MOZ do more than report after report?
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Does MOZ do more than churn out report after report? I do appreciate the useful information about my keyword rankings and from the crawls - the report cards are great too. But I need my site analyzed. I need to know what about my blog as a whole is wrong. I did very well with google traffic until the summer when my traffic plummeted overnight due to a Google Panda update/tweak.
I have been working really hard and I know I am doing the right things (I got 28K unique visitors this past month and people are sticking around) but I still get basically no organic traffic. Is there a feature in Moz that can tell me what is broken? Like an SEO Audit? I feel that there are things I am missing that are more technical and I don't know how to find out what they are.
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I would prefer to share your blog URL over here and I believe me and some other folks will help you do the basic audit and indicate you where the problem is!
hope this helps!
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Thanks. Articles and message boards around the time my blog lost organic traffic overnight talked about a google panda update.
I have looked at SEO websites but my blog is too small to pay $500 or more for some help.
I do have some 404 errors to fix. I am working on that too. But i don't think it's big enough of a problem to cause me to get no organic traffic.
I know I have work to do but it feels hopeless at this point since six months of work has not improved anything.
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Yes I realize that. That is my problem. I am not ranking on the first page and nothing is improving my rankings. I do keyword research but it is not as simple as that.
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Nick I believe it is difficult to say if you website is actually attacked my panda or penguin update or it is something else if you didn’t get any notice from Google in Google Webmaster tool. I would prefer you to check the date when you traffic was gone in a day and then compare it with the Google Panda and Penguin updates. If the date of traffic is around the date of the update release then you probably are the victim of Google Panda or Penguin.
I don’t think Moz tool can analyze this automatically!!
On the other hand I would recommend you to give a close look to reports (especially error reports) that Moz sends you every week and see where the errors are in your website and fix it accordingly. Probably this will help you building and maintaining a bug free blog and this may also help you gain better rankings in Google.
But..
If you think you are doing all things right and still getting no organic traffic then you probably should go for any SEO Expert that do website analysis and he will be able to tell you what is wrong with your blog as a whole and why organic traffic is not coming to your website.
Hope this helps!!
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Any keyword that isn't on the main page is going to be really hard to get traffic from. Think of the last time you went to the 50th page in google and clicked on something? It doesn't happen. The trick is to do keyword research and find long tail keywords that you can rank for. Do you mind sharing which website we're talking about?
-Nick
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My blog is not even a year old. It was ranking very well at first because I was getting awesome (authentic) backlinks. I have no sketchy backlinks that I know if and I check open explorer all the time as well as google webmasters. I have no manual actions in webmasters. I think the problem was thin content and maybe affiliate links.
1. I am now using a plugin to make external links nofollow with some exceptions.
2. As far as thin content, some of my earlier posts was very short due to the nature of my blog. They are still very useful to my readers but under 300 words. I am using a word count plugin to slowly noindex the older, short posts. I just started that and it's time consuming.
I rank # 1 for one keyword that doesn't give me much traffic and a few others above the 50th spot but I get no traffic. Most I do not rank for at all. I feel like I was blacklisted.
I am increasing my Facebook likes and pinterest followers but haven't focused on twitter yet. My newsletter is growing. I have written 2 guest posts with original content for the top blog in my genre. I am doing other good things but I won't bore you.
Nothing helps.
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Howdy,
I'm sorry to hear about your traffic drop! Have you corrected the issues that caused the original traffic drop? Mainly removing the sketchy backlinks and content that got you in trouble in the first place? It's hard to get google traffic when you're on their bad-list. Are you tracking keywords with MOZ? How are you ranking for the keywords that are important to your niche? If I were you I would concentrate on some keywords I thought I could realistically get into the number 1-5# spot on google with and see if that helps. What about social pages and mentions? Are you tracking those with MOZ? The strong suite of MOZ in my opinion is that it puts all the main things any SEO pro would want to track in one spot.
Best of luck,
-Nick
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