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Hey,

I have noticed in the past week/2 weeks that my websites domain authority has dropped by 2 points but what is weird is all the other website which are our main competitors in our industry have also dropped by 2.

I was wondering if anyone knows of any changes that have been made to the way the domain authority is calculated or is it just a coincident that we all dropped at one time?

The article is not even indexed yet on either site.

Get it indexed on your blog first, share it on Google+ might help this happen.

Might help

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1034383?hl=en-GB

Hi,

If a blog has 100's of quality blog posts all with PR 1-3 but has no internal linking going on, what kind of affect would it have if someone was to go through all the pages using mixed anchor text (where it fits) back to money pages.

Would generating 100's of internal links from a blog in a matter of days cause problems / flag up to SE's.

I'm guessing it would be best to stagger it over a long period of time.

Cheers

Hi,

If we take the Moz stats into account here, how comes sometimes weak Moz stat domains out ranking strong Moz stat domains?

For example: A inner page with DA56 / PA40 is outranking a Wikipedia inner page with DA100 / PA82.

That's a massive difference basically twice as strong on the Wikipedia page but being out ranking.

In this case I assume the onpage SEO is playing a big part, but can onpage optimisation be that powerful?

And I see this all the time, what SEO factors cause this?

Thanks.

They have to be found before they can show.

I assume these are parked domains?

Hi Alan,

Are you saying that guest blogging is not worth it? I hear all over the web from authority SEO's that guest blogging does work very well, just depends on the quality.

Thanks.

Hi,

I have always thought if 2 links on a single page, both going to the same url wouldnt pass PR from both.

I watched a Matt Cutts vid and he was saying in the original algo it was built in that both links would pass PR.

So for example if I guest posted say 1000 words and this article had 2 links pointing to the same url would they both work?

Cheers

Cheers Tom, helpful.

What happens if the domain has been around for years and did have a PR3 which dropped to PR0.

I'm guessing they have been hit and any outbounds won't pass PR anymore.

Hi,

Why would a website with good Moz stats such as DA/PA 45, mR/mT 5.0+ have 0 PageRank?

Have these sites done something? I have seen some sites with similar Moz stats have PR3/4 and when I have checked a year later the PR has dropped to 0.

Does that indicate Google has hit those sites and removed their PageRank?

Thanks.

Thanks Peter,

That's makes the situation clearer.

Do you think it could be small sample tests for something much larger? it seems strange we sore this flux then 2 week later Matt Cutts notified the world of there algo plans over the summer.

Then the next day this happens - http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2268438/Google-Takes-Manual-Action-Against-Thousands-of-Link-Sellers

I get the feeling something large will happen soon.

Hi,

When I check OSE against the Competitive Domain Analysis report in my account the numbers are way off.

If the CDA report was 100%, OSE is showing 30% of that.

I'm looking at linking root domains with no filters applied.

Is the data not pulled from the same db?

Thanks.

I would just rewrite the outbound url to look like sub folder so abc(dot)com/visit and then block the sub folder /visit in the robots.txt file.

I may even run a really good competition and try to suck the users up into a email list so when the time is right, expose the other site.

Its a tough one because you can't indicate the move to another url to Google so it's like starting again but at least you have a few lists and some traffic to the old site.

Thanks for the reply,

Yeah I actually think that personal training example was a really good one.

I think your right as well, just not sure if it would work for ecommerce, services I do though.

Hi,

Quick question really, I can see how a Google+ profile picture showing up in the results can increase CTR and even trust but would this be a no no for a normal website?

I mean if you had a website which offered personal training, so a brand rather than an individual would you not use this snippet?

I've seen some website, even ecommerce sites using this tag to just increase their CTR.

No-Follow will stop PR passing through but the bot will still go through.

You need to block the bot from going through using your robots.txt file.

Redirecting the old website would worry me, it wouldn't surprise me if you redirected the problem along with it.

I would do what you suggested, modal popup with something like 'Hey, we have built a bigger, better website just for you' then block the url pointing out in the robots.txt file.

But that's just me.

This is the problem I have had in the past,

If an authoritative site which everyone knows such as gov.uk ranks first position and the user can find the answer to their query on that site, you are out of luck.

You have to be #1 and that's a hard task when your fighting against wiki, gov.uk etc.

Without a doubt your search term is not a browsing term, I would be inclined to guess it's a question and your client is supplying an answer.

I think it looks pretty good, and doesn't come across to spammy.

I can see your main heading at the top is a H1 tag, so that's enough on the H1 tag front.

You could squeeze in a H2 but only if you think it fits.

You could try some more semantic words which relate to each other such as 'international' and 'Global' or 'list' and 'database' but I think you might already have these in play.

Uh ok, thanks for feedback.

What's going on at the moment, i can't find any info on the 5/9th May but Mozcast is showing some movement.

Anyone have any info?

Cheers

Thanks,

The root page is not the 'view all' page but I do have a dropdown which allows for all the products to be viewed.

I wouldn't want this page being the page displayed in the SE's though because so many products are being loaded it can cause a lag.

using the SEOMOZ Toolbar I can see some of the paging along with filters (view all/cheapest/highest/a-z) have some juice, and ideally I only want the root page to show in SE's, so im thinking of canonical tagging all the paging and filters back to the root category page.

Thoughts?

Hi,

Lets say you have a category which displays a list of 20 products and pagination of up to 10 pages.

The root page has some content but when you click through the paging the content is removed leaving only the list of products.

Would it be best to apply a canonical tag on the paging back to the root or apply the prev/next tags.

I understand prev/next is good for say a 3 part article where each page holds unique content but how do you handle the above situation?

Thanks

Hi,

If a blog has a section which contains 40 outbound links almost like a blogroll do you think Google looks at this cluster as suspicious?

Could this come across like paid links to Google?

Awesome news,  I know it wasn't quick enough especially in your situation but you must have done some good work to pull things back in a few months.

Your clients are going to benefit from your new knowledge as well, which is cool.

I'm getting different results then you,

I can see your login to your Google account, try login out or if your using Chrome use incognito to search.

What you got, same or different?

Hi,

So I have a page which is steady for months, sits at say position 15 then every few weeks it will jump to position 7 for maybe 24 hours then back to position 15 again.

I assume it's trying to work out if we should be higher up the results by putting us in a higher position and monitoring the CTR and other metrics.

Anyone got any other ideas? And when it does this can you do anything to signal this position is better? Maybe when it moves, ramp up social activity, shares etc.

Thanks.

Nice,

The link bait would be on the same domain but if your an eCommerce site then PR will be distributed across a large number of pages.

I was thinking of making a content hub, with articles, infographics etc and stripping out the eCommerce navigation which should allow more PR to flow down to the target page.

Thoughts and thanks.

Hi,

Lets say you have two pages, one is your money page which contains products etc and the other is a piece of content used for link bait.

Say the link bait works well and you pick up lots of links from it, how do you then benefit your money page from this? I can only think of creating an anchor text link from the link bait back to the money page.

Is that usually how this process works?

Nope just off-site activity.

So how would you recommend bringing it back? im inclined to try and remove the heavy anchor text and replace it with mixed anchor from higher auth sites, but even then im not sure if Google have marked it and there is no coming back.

Ok so this is what I got,

1 page ranks for about 5 different terms, all closely matching for example: Flower Pots, Flower Pot, Cheap Flower Pots, Buy Flower Pots.

Flower Pot and Flower Pots are on page 2.

Flower Pot stays where it is BUT Flower Pots drops out the rankings completely after being there for years.

Could a blast of exact match anchor text at the term Flower Pots cause this?

I would have thought the page would have been zapped rather then just one keyword.

Any ideas?

Hi,

How would you go about finding a connection between words in the eyes of Google?

So for example if I enter ~shoes -shoes I get a few things turn up in bold.

Boots is one which makes sense and I would assume Google makes a connection between the words so using both in content would help semantically.

BUT the other word it bolds is Store - this is where I get lost why would it make this connection unless Google is taking actual query data from users and making a different type of connection between words.

How do you find a solid connection between words?

Ok,

So we know from your charts 16/17th Jan is when the real drop happened, we know it's not just a handful of keywords it's basically everything down and we know you haven't received a warning so it 'might' not be off the back of a penalty.

What's the drop like in keyword positions in the search engine, we talking a drop from Page 1 to Page 2 or Page 1 to Page 150?

Also in WMT's if you look at the Health tab, flick through some of the sections, see if anything is out of the ordinary around the time the traffic dropped.

EGOL knows what he is doing, so if anything follow his guidance as well.

In Google analytics go traffic sources -> All Traffic -> click Google / organic -> Secondary Dimensions (dropdown) -> Traffic Sources -> Keyword

Now compare the 16th and 17th Jan with the same range in Dec.

Are all keywords massively down or is it a hand full?

Hi,

Lets say you have a 1000 pages, is it ok to generate a template meta description and flip the keywords depending on the page?

For example:

Red Shoes page: Buy Red Shoes at amazing prices. We have a large range of Red Shoe sizes available.

Blue Shoes page: Buy Blue Shoes at amazing prices. We have a large range of Blue Shoe sizes available.

Thoughts?

Cheers Tom

Hi,

I have been using the FWE tool currently in the SeoMoz toolbox but can't seem to do something.

I want to search for say 'Flower Pots' but only return results with the extension .co.uk.

Is this possible using the operators?

Thanks

Hi Mark,

It's not a big deal, more work if anything.

But I don't believe that .net EMD will bring any exact match boost, only the .co.uk and .com will really give you that (I have done some work with EMD's and that's what I have found).

I suppose the only thing to worry about is if it takes a little longer to rank because it's fresh, im guessing they want the EMD because they think it will have some sort of magical powers to jump to page 1?

I just want to reiterate what Andy said about sitespeed as well, try to have as little plugins as possible.

When you visit a WP site and its super slow, its usually because they have gallery plugins and all sorts running which sucks the life out of the sitespeed.

Anyway, good luck seems as though you know what your doing anyway.

Agree

I think you have already done quite a bit.

I suppose just be a little more selective which plugins you install, some have holes in and once the word is out about particular holes in certain plugins these people will come looking for blogs with it installed.

What industry you in?

I'll give this ago.

Cheers

Thanks, I do already have that hooked up and was were I originally found some interesting data I wanted to drill down into a little more.

How do you view image search data in Google analytics?

Do you need to apply tracking or can you drill down into the default data?

Thanks.

Hi,

How would you optimise for rank higher in image search? Any tips/rules which need to be applied.

Thanks.

Nice cheers Irving,

I can see how LSI could open the doors to other variations showing up in the SE's.

Do you think a search engine such as Google makes the connection between terms such as 'PC Screen' and 'PC monitor' and do you think this is a factor in rankings?

For example, if a page was targeting the term 'PC Screen' but the page included the word 'Montior' a few times do you think that word would benefit the term 'PC Screen' in relevance/rankings.

Thanks for your time, it's something im trying understand more.