Moz metrics are better than top10 competitors but still no progress
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Hi Moz friends,
So once in a while I encounter a challenge that I can't figure out so I thought maybe you can help.I would like to enter the top10 in Google.nl for a specific keyword and Moz's OSE is telling me all my metrics are better than most of my competitors. Als my on-page grade is on level (A) but I miss something .. somewhere.
The awkward thing is the competition level is very easy ..
Hope you guys can help, Cheers, Mark
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Mark - I agree with Dennis. You have some competitive metrics but best case scenario you are mid to bottom of page one currently, in terms of expectations.
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Hi Dennis,
Thxz for the feedback, which program do you use btw to check this?
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Hi Mark,
Im not talking about DA and PA. Anyway, I just took a quick look and didnt really have to look long. At the site's current state, could go up to #7 short term, and #1 is definitely possible. All im saying is that right now, most of them are still ahead. Like I said, I didnt do any onpage audits, nor analyse the existing links.
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Hi Dennis,
That's not correct as I beat half of the top10 with page authority AND domain authority. My page also have more links. Only at domain level I do not have more links (yet).
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Hi Mark
Since you said your on-page and technical details are already good, i took a look at the competitors, sadly, it looks like they are winning with domain trust/power
They just have a lot more even if you have more links to the actual page, they have more power on their domain, sorta like amazon.
I dont doubt that you will get there though as an optimised page with links will usually beat out authority sites that has little seo done to their inner pages
Keep up the work, youll get there.
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Hi Dennis,
First of all, thanks for the quick response! It's not locally targetting the local results (7pack) but I nationwide in the Netherlands (although we are not that wide ..).
Page that needs to rank in Google.nl is http://www.wvanderniet.nl/Hengelsportartikelen/Karper/Beetmelders for the keyword "beetmelders"
Something in the site ..?
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Hmm, usually, it's a map or something big that pushes worthy sites down. Im assuming you are at Page 2 ATM. I will ignore the fact of links for the mean time.
Im also assuming that you are working on a local business? So do you have local citations built and are the competing sites mostly inner pages of strong domains? Is your domain new? Or newly redesigned?
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