Do you think have to re-submit my site to search engines after I made improvements?
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Some time ago I started to do SEO for a one-page website and didn't get any positive result: no traffic, no filled in online booking form (yet another, multiple page website offering the same service yielded in multiple filled-in "schedule an appointment" forms). I found out my one-page website was considered to be "keyword-spamming" and converted it to a multiple page one. Its domain authority went up, but it doesn't still bring any traffic. I am thinking maybe I have to let the search engines know that it has been updated so they stop penalizing it? Do you think it might help and if yes, what exactly I should do? Will be thankful very much for any suggestion!
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Thanks for your help, Carson! I just realized that I put in http://example.com while using Open Site Explorer. When I searched for http://www.example.com, I received the result with PA 29.
Once Moz tech support rep told me that in ranking results, only the best optimized page is shown for a particular keyword. I'm doing optimization for an appliance repair company and some time ago we created area pages (burbank-appliance-repair.html, etc.) for area based services (like burbank appliance repair, for example). I decided to promote area based services through our blog and created respective blog posts (post for Burbank Appliance repair, etc) I made sure to delete all previous area pages links but I didn't delete area pages from server. And they are still shown in Moz ranking results as pages for my high ranking keywords. Do you think that those pages are really better optimized and I should go back to them? My blog posts are also shown for some keywords in ranking results, but not for highly ranking area based services keywords...
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If it's just an indexation issue you can try the "fetch as google" feature under the crawl menu. You can google the site:URL to see whether this is necessary.
Your PA might have dropped on the home page if you changed the URL. For pages that Moz hasn't been able to look at and compute the default score is 1. All new pages are always 1, and will update when the new index comes out (roughly every 1-2 months). Also make sure you do a 301 redirect if you've changed the URLs.
Sometimes it requires a little more time and effort depending on which keywords you're targeting. Without seeing the site and looking at the links I can't say much more about it, but the first thing I'd look at is your backlink profile. If it looks like a lot of links anyone can get by posting a comment or something, there may be the problem.
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That's what confuses me most of all - the website's backlink profile is getting better every single month, its DA is increasing, I've updated the content (made sure it's not keyword spammy) - yet traffic is close to zero. Website's spam score is 5/17: low MozTrust or MozScore, large site with few links (not true), small proportion of branded links (not true).
I have another website on the same topic that seemed to have some traffic. It has online request form that people used to fill in. After some work on on-page SEO traffic is gone. No one fills in the form. I guess I did too much (homepage's PA fell down from 20 to 1). While it's DA went up from 1 to 14. Now I'm revising the texts, titles, and meta descriptions. Do you think I have to get Google to visit my website after I'm done?
Thank you!
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Just to add on to what Kevin is saying, a reconsideration request is generally not the way to go unless you've received a manual warning in Search Traffic > Manual Warnings. It's more likely that the site doesn't rank due to limited backlinks and content. Make sure you look at the keywords you want to rank for and ask yourself whether you're providing as much value to the users as those on page 1.
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Hi kirupa,
Once you log into Google Search Console, select your website. Then click on Crawl on the left hand side and then Fetch as Google.
Here is a link that explains it in more detail:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6066468
Hope this helps!
Regards,
Kevin
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Hi Kevin,
Thanks for your reply! I just cannot figure out where exactly that section (Fetch as Google) is...
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Hi kirupa,
There are a few ways to get Google to visit or crawl your site. One way is to login to Google Webmaster Tools / Search Console and go to the section that lets you "Fetch as Google" and have it fetch your website or if you have a specific page to crawl, then enter that there.
Other ways is to create a sitemap and then submit it withing the same console. That way, if things change on your site on a regular basis it will be automatically updated by your sitemap, which Google will check on a regular basis.
Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions.
Regards,
Kevin
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