Why is this site ranking better than me
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Hi just used the compare tool to try and find out why a site is ranking better than me http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/comparisons?site=www.lifestylemonthly.co.uk%2F
my site is www.in2town.co.uk and the site i am comparing with is http://www.lifestylemonthly.co.uk/
Can anyone explain what is going on and how i can achieve better ranking results
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how can i check for negative links
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If you're finding an abnormal amount of back-links coming to you, somebody could be performing negative SEO on your site. Keep an eye out and try and report them to Google.
I believe Tommy may be referring to the fact you have a lot of things going on, and maybe increasing your sites bounce rate, as people maybe overwhelmed and quickly navigating away. You'd have to split-test your home page to see if that is in fact a problem.
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thank you for this. i paid a seo guy a couple of hundred pounds for advice as i was getting frustrated. my budget is really small and embarrasing until i get the site paying for itself. Basically the seo guy said there was nothing on my site to say it was a lifestyle magazine, so said that i should put a description at the bottom of the page and also put the title of the site at the top of the page.
He also said to put things like
Celebrities In The News With In2town Lifestyle Magazine
can you please explain the following:
worse user experience because of the amount of text? high bounce rate?
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remove those spammy meta keywords
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lifestylemonthly is very active on Facebook, shares and likes - how can i improve this
I am finding i get a lot of backlinks that i cannot take any control over and not sure why they are linking to my site.
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Some thoughts:
- why is the
font-size:10 and hidden at the top?
- worse user experience because of the amount of text? high bounce rate?
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remove those spammy meta keywords
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make a more user friendly meta description
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lifestylemonthly is very active on Facebook, shares and likes
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check your exact anchor texts and remove links from spammy sites. Its better to have few links then many bad links.
- You are ahead on all OSE factors except the registered social shares Summary:
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remove all those details that makes the website look over optimized
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improve the usability
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check for bad links
Hope this will help you!
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i used the keyword - lifestyle magazine
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Example of keywords that you used for the comparison between those sites?
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