Latest posts made by JohnSammon
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Data that shows people who click on paid vs organic listings
Hey Everyone,
I've been searching for data on the percentage of people who click on paid vs organic. My last stats which are now outdated show 60% of the people click on organic on average and 40% click on paid. Any help/links would be greatly appreciated.
posted in Competitive Research
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RE: How do I see amount of traffic to a particular page on a website?
Hey There! Have you had a chance to install Google Analytics on your site?
If so, you can see this by going to Google Analytics. On the left side of the page:
1. Click on behaivor
2. Click on site content
3. Click on all pages
It will then display a list of all of the viewed pages on your website.
I hope that helps!
John
posted in Moz Bar
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RE: What to do with internal spam url's google indexed?
Yes - I would remove/no-index rather than redirect. The URL's don't have any equity so it's not worth redirecting them. Thanks!
posted in White Hat / Black Hat SEO
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RE: What to do with internal spam url's google indexed?
Hey there!
At first glance, it looks like your site has been hit with a malware attack. I would recommend using a service like https://sucuri.net to help you clean up the site and put certain protective elements in place so that you don't get hit again.
Once that is done, you'll want to go into the search console and bing webmaster tools to no-index any other spam URL's that may have been created from the attack.
I hope that helps!
John
posted in White Hat / Black Hat SEO
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RE: Advice on redirects for a category I want to reuse.
Hey Neil - I think if you went this way you would be okay. You may see a short-term drop from the redirect but the majority of the equity would be transferred. User experience is always important in Google's mind so if you follow that for the new website structure and URL structure (along with the 301's) you should be okay. I hope that helps!
posted in Intermediate & Advanced SEO
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RE: Advice on redirects for a category I want to reuse.
Hey Neil!
I assume that /personalise-toys will be a more general category that will link to new more specific categories like /personalised-toys-for-boys right?
If that's the case, I would just change the content on the more general category to the new content/products that you have with the new site (rather than 301 redirect). The equity would be transferred to the more general category which lists products relevant to it. So if someone Googled it, they would still be able to find what they are looking for. The equity that you've built up with the more general URL will be passed to the new URLs that you create and link to (I assume) in the new iteration of the website.
posted in Intermediate & Advanced SEO
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RE: Google Indexed Images: Website Vs Social Media
Hey there! This is a fantastic question. I would continue the process of posting your images to social as it will improve the probability of people finding you either way. I know it's tedious but if you find that you get a presence in image search on your site and in Google with both, I would keep it up. You can create a custom action in photoshop where you just take an image into that and it'll brand it with a few clicks (you may have been doing that already).
I commend your diligence on doing both as an A/B experiment. I would love to know if these image searches via pinterest are driving response via your site (sales/leads).
Thanks!
John
posted in Social Media
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RE: 301 Redirect - Rank Recovery Examples?
Hey Mike,
I would publish content right away on the new site. You can also share in social to help get more inbound links and shares to the new site.
Thanks!
John
posted in Intermediate & Advanced SEO
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RE: 301 Redirect - Rank Recovery Examples?
Hey Mike,
It sounds like you've done all the right things. If you are seeing 404's for elements or pages that you don't believe have value, then you can request them be removed from the Google index via the search console. You may want to do that. You are welcome to paste them in here for me to see just in case.
It's more or less a waiting game now. The good news is that you've done all the right things. If you have time, I would start building links or social shares (anything natrual and not fabricated) to the new site to help with SEO while the redirects fully kick in.
Thanks!
posted in Intermediate & Advanced SEO
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RE: 301 Redirect - Rank Recovery Examples?
Hey! Can you provide a bit more detail and even share the URL of the site? It sounds like you launched a new site at a different URL and 301 redirected everything (page to page). You'll typically see a drop in traffic/rank for 30 days - how dramatic of a dip will vary from site to site. A few things to review:
1. 404 errors in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools
2. Going through each of the 301 redirects to make sure they work (tedious but necessary)
3. Submit sitemap from new URL
If you can provide any more details on things you've reviewed that will be helpful. I'll keep an eye on this thread.
posted in Intermediate & Advanced SEO
Best posts made by JohnSammon
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RE: How to Remove Old Photos from Bing Maps (Yelp is Involved)
Hey! Have you tried uploading more photos to the yelp account or encouraging people to leave reviews with photos? Perhaps they may pick those up and replace the ones current listed on the maps.
posted in Local Listings
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RE: Advice on redirects for a category I want to reuse.
Hey Neil!
I assume that /personalise-toys will be a more general category that will link to new more specific categories like /personalised-toys-for-boys right?
If that's the case, I would just change the content on the more general category to the new content/products that you have with the new site (rather than 301 redirect). The equity would be transferred to the more general category which lists products relevant to it. So if someone Googled it, they would still be able to find what they are looking for. The equity that you've built up with the more general URL will be passed to the new URLs that you create and link to (I assume) in the new iteration of the website.
posted in Intermediate & Advanced SEO
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RE: Best way to link from press releases
Hey Kyle,
This is also a good question. I'm curious as to why you would want to add the UTM parameters as you could just look at the referring source of traffic and attribute it to the specific site that the e-release is on. I'm looking forward to the discussion as I know some others will provide good feedback.
posted in Social Media
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RE: Dynamically Inserting Noindex With Javascript
Hey there! Do you have a link to a page where it's implemented live? As long as you have the no-index, no follow in there, you should be okay. Other things you can do:
1. Use robots.txt to hide the directory of pages that the plugin is outputting
2. Sign into the Google Search Console and no-index the same directory
I would do 1 and 2 to help speed up things once the no-index, no-follow tag is in place.
posted in Technical SEO
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RE: Google Indexed Images: Website Vs Social Media
Hey there! This is a fantastic question. I would continue the process of posting your images to social as it will improve the probability of people finding you either way. I know it's tedious but if you find that you get a presence in image search on your site and in Google with both, I would keep it up. You can create a custom action in photoshop where you just take an image into that and it'll brand it with a few clicks (you may have been doing that already).
I commend your diligence on doing both as an A/B experiment. I would love to know if these image searches via pinterest are driving response via your site (sales/leads).
Thanks!
John
posted in Social Media
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RE: How do I see amount of traffic to a particular page on a website?
Hey There! Have you had a chance to install Google Analytics on your site?
If so, you can see this by going to Google Analytics. On the left side of the page:
1. Click on behaivor
2. Click on site content
3. Click on all pages
It will then display a list of all of the viewed pages on your website.
I hope that helps!
John
posted in Moz Bar
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RE: What to do with internal spam url's google indexed?
Yes - I would remove/no-index rather than redirect. The URL's don't have any equity so it's not worth redirecting them. Thanks!
posted in White Hat / Black Hat SEO
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RE: 301 Redirect - Rank Recovery Examples?
Hey! Can you provide a bit more detail and even share the URL of the site? It sounds like you launched a new site at a different URL and 301 redirected everything (page to page). You'll typically see a drop in traffic/rank for 30 days - how dramatic of a dip will vary from site to site. A few things to review:
1. 404 errors in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools
2. Going through each of the 301 redirects to make sure they work (tedious but necessary)
3. Submit sitemap from new URL
If you can provide any more details on things you've reviewed that will be helpful. I'll keep an eye on this thread.
posted in Intermediate & Advanced SEO
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RE: 301 Redirect - Rank Recovery Examples?
Hey Mike,
It sounds like you've done all the right things. If you are seeing 404's for elements or pages that you don't believe have value, then you can request them be removed from the Google index via the search console. You may want to do that. You are welcome to paste them in here for me to see just in case.
It's more or less a waiting game now. The good news is that you've done all the right things. If you have time, I would start building links or social shares (anything natrual and not fabricated) to the new site to help with SEO while the redirects fully kick in.
Thanks!
posted in Intermediate & Advanced SEO
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RE: Advice on redirects for a category I want to reuse.
Hey Neil - I think if you went this way you would be okay. You may see a short-term drop from the redirect but the majority of the equity would be transferred. User experience is always important in Google's mind so if you follow that for the new website structure and URL structure (along with the 301's) you should be okay. I hope that helps!
posted in Intermediate & Advanced SEO
Hey everyone! I've been doing SEO since 2008 and run my own agency focused on helping businesses get more traffic, leads and sales from the internet.