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  • chill986
    chill986 last edited by Dec 31, 2014, 7:59 PM

    Over the past couple of months I have seen a couple of my campaigns have key phrases that change from week to week from being in the top 3 to being >51.  I worked pretty hard on the sites to get them mostly #1 for their preferred key phrases, and haven't been working that hard lately, but not sure what to make of it.  It looks as though those keyphrases that dropped this week to >51 will probably be back in the top 3.  Makes it diffuclt when you are trying to prepare a report for your client.

    Any suggestions are welcomed, and Happy New Year!

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    • chill986
      chill986 @EricaMcGillivray last edited by Jan 14, 2015, 8:26 PM Jan 14, 2015, 8:26 PM

      It does.  I was sceptical when I was told that it had something to do with Moz Local.  I'll take a look at the video - thanks for the suggestion!

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      • EricaMcGillivray
        EricaMcGillivray @chill986 last edited by Jan 14, 2015, 8:14 PM Jan 14, 2015, 8:14 PM

        So I want to suggest checking out the webinar we had yesterday on speeding up your website.

        I also wanted to address your comment about your crawlers and localized rankings possibly messing up your rankings. This is not the case. The crawler that looks at your site in Moz Analytics is different from our rankings crawlers. They do not connect. They do not influence rankings as the bots only record the information in the SERPs based on your keywords; they don't click into your site. Does that make sense?

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        • chill986
          chill986 @Ray-pp last edited by Jan 14, 2015, 11:19 AM Jan 14, 2015, 11:19 AM

          I went to a meetup last night that specifically talked about SEO, and although I wasn't given a good answer to this problem - and yes it continues - last week I had 30+ keywords improve by 48+ positions to #1 and this week I had 10+ drop to higher than 51,  I'm told that this is not unusual (not convinced of that either) especially with the new "localized" feature of Moz.com, and that ranking scans might be run from anywhere in the country causing the fluctuations.  This is the only site I'm seeing such dramatic swings so I'm sceptical.  I just discovered that I still have a .png as my header image (discovered last night, and have been working to improve server response speed.

          I'm hoping that I can get a good streamlined configuration for a caching plugin that will work "generally" for all my sites.  I'm still open to suggestions and thanks for this one.

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          • chill986
            chill986 last edited by Jan 2, 2015, 6:55 PM Jan 2, 2015, 6:55 PM

            I can do that with my clients that are on shared service accounts for free, but not for my VPS clients - this one is shared, so good idea.  I think I probably have some images that can be resized as well.  I have the load speed on the home page down to 3 seconds, so getting there.

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            • Ray-pp
              Ray-pp last edited by Jan 2, 2015, 6:26 PM Jan 2, 2015, 6:26 PM

              you may want to try out www.Cloudflare.com - They provide a free CDN which may give you a big boost in page speed with very little effort and it's free.

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              • chill986
                chill986 last edited by Jan 2, 2015, 6:18 PM Jan 2, 2015, 6:18 PM

                I have a client that has been trying a different plugin with huge success - compared directly to W3TC.  I just haven't been convinced yet will try it and see.

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                • EricaMcGillivray
                  EricaMcGillivray @chill986 last edited by Jan 2, 2015, 6:10 PM Jan 2, 2015, 6:10 PM

                  I do think it's worth exploring other plug-ins and working in the nuts-and-bolts of site speed. Even though WP plug-ins are very helpful, it's always good to know the details of what's happening as much as possible. I'm not exactly sure how W3TC works -- I've never used it or any other site speed plug-ins personally for WP -- but it's possible it can't optimize everything or that it's working the best it or any plug-in can.

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                  • chill986
                    chill986 last edited by Jan 2, 2015, 6:00 PM Jan 2, 2015, 6:00 PM

                    Thanks - I have been working to configure W3TC to improve page speed - only recently started working on it.  And yeah - I overoptimized in the beginning and have started rethinking the content based upon what I've been reading lately.  Will do - you think that page speed might be part of the problem?  W3TC is one of the most highly recommended performance plugins, but I don't think it is as good as some of the new plugins recently released.  Will search for a different one.

                    I appreciate the feedback - I'll see how things go next week.

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                    • EricaMcGillivray
                      EricaMcGillivray last edited by Jan 2, 2015, 5:54 PM Jan 2, 2015, 5:54 PM

                      Looking at your site, I noticed a couple things:

                      Your site speed is pretty slow. You can use pingdom.com to check your site speed. This is a great study by Jon Colman about site speed and how much it actually affects your site. I noticed that you're running WordPress, and here's some tips on how to speed up your WP site. Google definitely factors in speed, and this could be affecting how the bots reach your site (or don't reach it) and account for the flux week-to-week. You are correct in that it shouldn't be that dramatic of a change week-to-week.

                      I also noticed that your homepage was a little overly optimized for keywords. As search engines start getting more semantic, you want to optimize more for the user. Definitely don't kill all the keywords, but balance is the key. Read through the copy as a visitor, not just the SEO and industry expert. 🙂

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                      • chill986
                        chill986 last edited by Jan 2, 2015, 5:21 PM Jan 2, 2015, 5:21 PM

                        The website is oztruckingandrigging.com.  I've attached a link to the keyphrases that show a big drop - but I have just as many that went up by a significant amount.  And it seems to be a weekly thing now.  Very weird.

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                        • EricaMcGillivray
                          EricaMcGillivray last edited by Jan 2, 2015, 5:09 PM Jan 2, 2015, 5:09 PM

                          It would be great if you could leave your site URL and some examples of what you're looking to rank for so we could dig in.

                          Did you do any recent changes to your site that may account for ranking changes?

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                          • chill986
                            chill986 last edited by Dec 31, 2014, 8:29 PM Dec 31, 2014, 8:29 PM

                            Good idea - I'll take a look. Yeah, seems like the last 3 months or so.  I don't send my client reports every week, but still - weird they are bouncing so dramatically from week to week.  If they dropped and then stayed there then I'd probably have more to go on.

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                            • Ray-pp
                              Ray-pp last edited by Dec 31, 2014, 8:27 PM Dec 31, 2014, 8:27 PM

                              What does the 'lately' time frame look include? It's important to note that Google has had a lot of algo. updates in the past 3 months. You could be witnessing SERP fluctuation due to any of these.

                              Have you checked out Google Webmaster Tools? See if those keyword terms are in the GWT reports and if the same fluctuation is present.

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