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Hi Kristopher,
Could you please mention what the title of the website is?
Most likely, Google believes that it might be too spammy for its search results, so I am assuming it's just returning the company name as the title tag?
This is quite common but can be fixed.
Here are some ideas:
Would suggest looking out there to see what the others are doing as well.
The keyword tool isn't about competition per se (even though it does talk about competition), it's more about how difficult it would be to rank for certain keywords.
In your case the keyword "christian web designers" might only return few search results, but the top 10 could be domains with a strong backlink profile, which would make it difficult to rank for the top 10.
Well if you want to double check it all the meta data is still there, either create a new campaign in SEOMoz with the new URL and see if any tags are missing or use software such as the screaming frog to test.
Hi BobGW,
Kinda funny as I'll mention the exact same article as the person asking a question below you in the Q&A.
Have a look at what Distilled did with their long guide at http://www.distilled.net/linkbait-guide/
Instead of just plain boring text, mix it up with the an occasional image and colored section or quote.
Good luck!
Hi monster99,
Definitely check out http://www.distilled.net/linkbait-guide/ which my favourite content producing article I've found so far.
Ok so now we know it is due to the Penguin update.
The first step to do will be analyzing every single on of your backlink. Use Webmaster Tools and export all the backlinks that are pointing to your website. Next you will have to check out each single backlinks to see the quality of the link. I like to use the Mozbar addon to quickly check what the MozRank and MozTrust of the page is where the backlinks to your site is located.
Once you got the full list of links you want to have gone, you will first have to manually try and remove the links. This could be relatively easy if the link for example is from a directory where you had to make a profile first in order to create a listing. In that case, you can just delete the listing. Otherwise you will have to email the owner of the website if they could remove your backlink.
Now if, let's say 2-3 weeks have passed and you still haven't heard back of some the webmasters (even though you contacted them), you can go ahead and use the link disavow tool. This tool however has to be used with high care.
Have a read of http://searchengineland.com/google-launches-disavow-links-tool-136826 for an understanding of the tool.
If you don't fully understand the tool, please come back to the SEOMoz forums and ask for help, you need to fully understand how it works.
Good luck and feel free to ask any other questions!
By the sound of you might of gotten a penalty of Google.
I believe it might of been the penguin update.
I had a look at your backlink profile, and out of a total of 2.9k links you have 968 links with the anchor text of "vietnam visa of arrival". This is a clear signal to google that you are trying to manipulate to rank for that keyword.
Did the rankings decreased around the period of April the 24th?
Hi Hoang Huy Do,
The following page explains quite nicely where you should keywords in regards to on-page optimisation.
http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/on-page-factors
In regards to link building, never go overboard with keyword anchor texts. I believe something around 3-4% can be keywords you are aiming for. Otherwise, it should be your business name or natural text such "click here" etc.
Having duplicate titles will most certainly be effecting your SERP rankings, along with many many others factors of course.
Page titles should be unique on each page, and contain keywords that describe or that are relevant to the page.
Check out: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/title-tag
Posting the new pages of your website on Google+, makes your page get indexed quite quickly.
Also, I did a quick lookup in Open Site Explorer to check out your linking profile.
You currently have 148 links containing the anchor text of "seo services london"
All these anchors seem to be from links from an Escort website? Anyway, mix those up or just change it to your business name (Reseolve), as this will absolutely be hurting your rankings.
One more thing, consider adding a Google Authorship to your site. You don't seem to have a G+ account though, but no worries they are easy to create. Once you set up your G+ account check out http://searchengineland.com/the-definitive-guide-to-google-authorship-markup-123218
Hi Steve,
Here is some quick feedback.
When I loaded the page I noticed it wasn't as fast as it could be, so I ran it through Google's PageSpeed Insights and it returned a score of 73/100, so it can definitely be improved.
Check out https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights and use the tips that they provide.
There are also a few 404 errors that could be redirected:
http://reseolve.com/WebOptimizationConsultant.co.uk/packages-pricing/
http://reseolve.com/wp-content/themes/images/toggle-Bg.png
Also I don't think the robots.txt file was done properly, when I look for your business name in Google UK, I can't seem to find it anywhere. Definitely check out http://tools.seobook.com/robots-txt/ as I think fundamentals are missing.
Lastly, I believe the sliders could be improved as well. First of all I'm using Chrome, and when I quickly click on the sliders numbers it seems to stop working. The looks could be improved as well, perhaps go for full width sliders that contain an image along with the text that you currently (see other sites doing this such as search engine land).
Hi Stephen,
Definitely, definitely don't do this. It sucks that your clients don't want to operate with you, but doing this might put them at risk of a penalty. You clearly know that the technique is used by spammers, and even though you might justify you reason, Google will not.
Have you showed your clients some articles or blog posts on the importance of content perhaps?
Biggest mistake?
Hiring a content writer overseas, even though that person was "high rated" it was utter crap. Got an in-house writer about 2 weeks after that.
Hi Spencer,
I did have the occasion that I no-followed an external link that was on the footer of the website, otherwise quite some link juice would of been wasted.
However, whenever I do new blog posts I make all external links do-followed within the blog post. By doing this you could let the sites who you linked out to know that they received a link, and the will enjoy the fact that it is do-followed. They might even link back or share the blog post on their social media accounts.
Hi Vikas_Rana,
As you said, simply sharing awesome content (doesn't have to be restricted to the niche of the business) helps a great lot in increasing the overall following and +1s of the Google+ page.
Other ways:
- Comment on other users' status updates (being funny helps :)!)
if you haven't done so, share the G+ page on different social media
share interesting posts of others.
Also the following article will be of help:
http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-increase-google-plus-followers
Good luck!
Hi Will,
Definitely not!
In fact it is great if other people are linking out to the online newspaper article. The more the links the article will get, the stronger your link will be that is within the article (as long as it's do-followed of course).
In addition to what Chris said, the tools listed below are quite useful to my everyday tasks:
On-Page Report Cards: http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization/new
The competitive link finder: http://www.seomoz.org/labs/link-intersect
Link Acquisition Assistant: http://www.seomoz.org/labs/link-finder/index.php
Spot on, I generally just use OSE to check out competitor's backlinks.
To me, nothing beats the back link results from WMT.
Also keep in mind that more tools beside OSE are avaible:
Hi Matchonce,
Finding quality authority backlinks is no easy thing. For starters, do a bit of research in your niche and find out who the top sites are. You could then contact each one and perhaps offer a guest blog post so you could receive a link from then. OR if you have awesome (and relevant) content on your own website, you could let them know about it, and receive a link as well in return.
Also, you can use Open Site Explorer (http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/) to find out what links your competitors may have. Export them into a CSV, sort out the bad ones and get started :).
Good luck!
Hi Diane,
Had a quick look at your website, and since it seems to be regularly updated (latest celebrity news etc.) I think having an RSS feed would be beneficial to have, this way frequent visitors of you site can easy check up what's new at your site.
They are also easy to set-up, so yes, definitely go ahead with it.
Regards
Hey Matthew,
SEOMoz only updates keyword rankings once a week, so it might be that by the end of the week your rankings might of shifted (quite common with newer websites). Although I had to send off some support emails to SEOMoz help staff in regards to rankings reports coming back wrong (on the actual day of receiving the new rankings report).
What I now do is use a keyword tool to check the majority of keywords, and the main keywords I look-up myself in an incognito search in Chrome.
Yes you are correct. By adding the "+1" right next or underneath your ad, people who like it will able to visit your Google+ page.
Hi,
If you have created fantastic content, I would recommend running paid ads for a little while. Just recently for an automotive infographic we have created, we ran a paid promotion on Stumble Upon. For $10, your content gets shown a 100 times. So we added just $10 as a fund and now the infographic is on its way to nearly 700 stumbles + gaining links from it.
Definitely worth checking out if your content is fantastic.
Good luck!
Hi BeytzNet,
As far as I know, there isn't paid advertising on Google+ just yet. What you could do is add the "+1" button onto your adwords ads (if you are doing those). If you do that you could lead people to your G+ page and you might also see a slight increase in your CTR.
Check out http://searchengineland.com/googles-1-a-potential-boon-to-paid-search-marketers-70836
Good luck.
Hey guys,
Today I checked the backlink profile of a competitor who is #1 in Google Australia for a highly competitive keyword. To my surprise though, every single link (except a few directory link) seems to be from a private blog network. It's a business selling advertisment products, yet somehow seems to have links on blog from website that sell pc repair services, sleepwear, bali villas rentals, etc..
In this case, would filing a spam report in google WMT be beneficial? It's not like they advertise that they sell links (nor are the websites the links are on), but it is quite clear that something dodgy is going on.
Thanks
Everyday I keep seeing spam website ranking at the top, frustrating to see that they are up there.
Example 1, we are trying to #1 for a educational course name for a client that is a training school. They are currently being outranked by a website that has about 90% exact match Japanese blog comments, simply because those blog have a high DA.
Example 2, we have a regional client trying to rank for [keyword] + [city name], they are being outranked by an EMD who has 1 link, which is a directory. Whereas we keep pushing new content on the client's site and building their social networks. Sure, the number 1 website isn't doing any shading spam techniques, but they are simply ranking because of their domain names which I thought Google's latest update would of fixed that..
In regards to diluting your link profile with new and better links is indeed possible as mentioned by Karl. However, this will be a massive job that will take ages to do.
Consider the following: a good standard of having either brand-name or exact match anchor text is about 30% of your overall link profile (I wish I had that article to show you, forgot where it was). Now currently, you have 76 out of 77 links with the exact anchor text of "whey protein". In order to get those links into the 30% of your overall anchor texts in your link profile, you would need to create A LOT of new high-quality links.
My best advice is to either change as many anchor text as you can, or just get rid of the backlink if it's on a low-quality page.
In regards to your ranking being incorrect on SEOmoz, it has happened to me before.
The best way to check what your current ranking are, is to use either incognito mode on Chrome (Ctrl+Shift+N) or "private browing" on firefox. By using either one, it ignores whether you are logged into gmail or not, as well as cache and a bunch of other things.
Otherwise you could also use Rank Tracker by SEO Powersuite, but even then I prefer to just manually check my rankings myself.
Hi btrr69, by looking at your OSE data every single backlink you have (except 1), has the anchor text of "whey protein". There are a total of 76 links containing that anchor text. I am getting the feeling that you might actually be punished by Penguin.
Anchor text should be super diversified, with only about 30% of total links containing either your brand name or chosen keywords.
If I were you, I would change as many anchor texts on those links as quick as possible.
Hey guys,
I am currently using Hootsuite for social media work for our clients. Although I am quite happy with Hootsuite, the layout gets quite hectic when a lot of social media accounts get added. Creating individual accounts for each client just wouldn't be sufficient. So now I am looking for an alternative.
Could you recommend a different social media scheduling site which is more user-friendly to manage lots of social media accounts in one central place? The most important function it must have is the ability to schedule messages.
Thank you
Hi Konstantin,
You are correct. Match those keywords together with the cities that you operate in, and you might be surprised what might come up.
When doing this, try both adding the area before and after the keyword, sometimes it can make a difference. To save time, I use Merge Words where you can easily put in keywords and then the cities before or after.
Good luck
Hi Joel,
Your best bet would be using the Adwords Keyword Tool.
Once you're on that page you can enter your keyword (be sure to select "exact match") on the left, and you can select your country as well. If you want to check keyword along with their location you could try doing [keyword]+[city], such as "plumbing goldshire" for example.
A nice small guide for the tool can be found here.
Good luck.
Simply put, the moz crawler bot cannot crawl every single page on the web, whereas the google WMT crawler does a significant job doing so.
If you do have a new site though, give it some time and your links should appear in OSE, every new site takes a while to get found by the moz crawler.
Hey Claudio,
We had the exact same issue at the start of last year. The payment went through without an issue, but finding our listing was a nightmare. For some reason if you typed in the company name it wouldn't show up; but if you went through categories eventually you would reach the listing.
Waste of money and time.
Thanks guys,
We just used a different CMS this time around and for certain pages it just grabbed the product name (e.g. "Mary") as the page title, so a bunch of those errors came up. I will increase their lengths of course, just wanted to know what the SEOMoz software believed to be the minimum.
Kind Regards
Hello everyone,
I'm curious here, what is the minimum length a Title Tag should be so it doesn't receive the "Title Element Too Short" error here on SEOMoz?
Thank you.
