Internal linking disaster
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Can someone help me understand what my devs have done?
The site has thousands of pages but if there's an internal homepage link on all of the pages (click on the logo) shouldn't that count for internal links? Could it be because they are nonfollow?
I've attached my competitors opensiteexplorer rankings (I'm the 2nd column) .. so despite the face the site is new you can see where I'm getting my ass kicked.
Thanks!
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According to Google you have over 2000 indexed pages. However your site does not have any Extremely intuitive ways of allowing someone to navigate to those pages. I see the search directory. I would contact the developer and go through your entire site making sure that it will not prevent Google bot from crawling it
http://marketing.grader.com/report/http://www.casacol.co/#seo
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You're getting your "Ass kicked" as you It's said because you do not have more than 2 unique domains pointing to your website.
Total linking root domains are a very powerful metric. If you have more and they are from relevant powerful sites. You will do much better than your competitors. Your competitor has more root domains you have only to unfortunately you need to share content on social media and earn some links.
It is best practice to allow someone to link to your homepage or via your logo it's also smart to have your logo on every page.
This is a navigation link not a duplicate of something it only points to one page and that's the homepage. You can interlink all you want what I mean by that is I could link from my blog to my homepage inside the page. The text or as the developer has done correctly allowed people to instantly return to your home page by clicking on your logo.
Don't worry about it all,
Internal links are really about how many links you have that are facing out meaning links pointing out external links if you have over 300 that can drain your page rank and that has to be looked at on a page by page basis. Use the Moz toolbar to check.
It is a good thing the way to set up that the logo links to the homepage.
Lynn is correct http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/ It's is an ideal tool to use for this situation. Especially if you have the Pro version however if your site is under 500 pages the free version will give you all the information you need.
If you want to check the same thing over the web you may use this tool.
http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/seo-tools/google-sitemap-generator/
Sincerely,
Thomas
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Hi,
If I understand right, I don't think internal links are your problem (or at least not the root of your problem).
The problem is that your homepage is set up so that it is mainly all one page in Google's eyes. Any of those links to different areas at the bottom of the page reload the same page with the map moved and showing the area. If you put your site through screaming frog you will see the same thing, only 5 pages are crawlable. I see you have a sitemap with different property urls, are those all getting indexed if you look in GWT? If the site is new, it might take some time to get indexed, but I think you will need to make it easier for the crawler to get to your pages beyond the sitemap. Reworking your area links so that they are also available on separate urls and giving some links to the properties outside of the maps api and your sitemap are probably the best place to start.
Hope it helps!
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