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SussexChef83

Hi Guys

I'd like someone to run and email a report on one of my competitors in an upgraded semrush.com account please!

I only want to run one report and don't really want to shell out $70 for one report. The company is super event dot co dot uk.

If any one could help that would be ace!

All the best

Ben

SussexChef83

excellent thank you. I have submitted to the big boys and will leave it at that I think.

SussexChef83

Thanks again Ryan!

I really appreciate it I never even thought to check the amount of comments. So many of the sites that claim to have high volume don't allow comments. such an easy way to check how their site fares.

any other tips for choosing? I was thinking an easy way to get links are to mention equipment that we use so surpliers will link to us, but they won't really influence customers,

Ben

SussexChef83

Yes, my point exactly

But then again, could he just be the best of a bad bunch? looking around none of our competitors seem to have shareable interesting content.

I'm thinking if we pay for some blog posts from recognised industry leaders such as wedding magazines and create a lot of interesting content and perhaps a free to use tool that helps with wedding catering planning, should this out shine the competitor thats just got a lot of links going for it?

SussexChef83

Hi

The former owner of One of our competitors ( www.gastrocatering.com ) gave my some insight into how he got his site up in the rankings.

He said he got his site listed on 100s of directories

had bloggers Wright about him.

Gastro catering ranks highly for almost every key word we want

I used the moz tools to see where his links came from,

Should I copy what he did? I read a lot of posts that lead me to the conclusion I shouldn't, but he ranks #1 for so many desirable keywords.

What are your thoughts on this please?

All the best

Ben

SussexChef83

Hi, thanks for your reply, what do you mean by manipulative practices going outside of this setup?

We will be advertising sponsors of the campaign on the Micro site, and getting them to like to the save the royal oak url, but will use no follow in both directions.

Thanks again

Ben

SussexChef83

Hi guys

there's a campaign (which I am very passionate about) to save our village pub from being developed.

Now I have bought a domain name www dot SaveTheRoyalOak dot com

I've forwarded this domain to sussexchef.com/save-the-royal-oak

I'm using forward masking so the url remains save the royal oak,

I will contain the few pages to do with the pub so that the navigation bars are hidden so the site will pretty much look be it's own entity to the user.

this micro site will get hundreds of users and people linking to it,

My question is will this hurt my site at all? I'm guessing that when I ask people to link to it I should get them to "no follow" it to be on the safe side?

Thanks for your help

All the best

Ben

SussexChef83

Hi guys

Really funny to read this! I had some advice from a former compettitor (he has since sold his cateeing business) his site has little or even no interesting content (a handful of blog posts) but ranks well for all the keywords that we Desire .

I asked him how he did it and he said that he put his site on around 600 directories! He still ranks really highly even though he sold it a year or too ago.

The other thing he mentioned was buying blog posts on other sites about his.

So if I was to Wright some interesting content and get people in the catering industry to link to it. I should over come the directory spamming approach that he has taken? Perhaps a free tool or check list for weddings or something?

his site gastrocatering.com mine is sussexchef.com

SussexChef83

Hey

Thanks, that's a weight off my mind, some of my pages only have the word "Sussex" in the copy once or twice I was just trying to see why the other site has such an edge over mine and wondered if ti could be down to that.

Thanks for your insight

Ben

SussexChef83

Hi All

I am trying to rank my site for many key phrases but the pretty much always contain the word "Sussex"

The biggy with a lot of competition is "Caterers Sussex" and similar variations

when I view source on their page I find that Gastro catering's code uses "sussex" 92 times in it code.

My site www.SussexChef.com uses the word "Sussex" 590 times, the competitors site mentions the word less in its code and is dominant for all my desirable key words.

Am I spamming my keyword by using Sussex too often when naming my image file? Is there anything in this or am I barking up the wrong tree?

Thanks for your help

Ben

SussexChef83

Hi yes it is wordpress.

Do you mean Wp-admin>css>? there are lots of files in there! all .css

SussexChef83

I've opened a ticket with them, fingers crossed, any idea which file?

SussexChef83

Thanks for the compliment!

So I just 301 all 101 links?

sounds fun huh!

SussexChef83

Wow

Ok so the header is coursing the bad links, how do I go about fixing that? do I contact the support that make the theme?

SussexChef83

Hi I see it in screaming frog too, should I just redirect the urls rather than trying to find them and correct them?

SussexChef83

Thanks

Yes they are all coming from my site. However I look at the referring url and view source But I cant find any url's with Http:// in them twice, I looked in the htaccess file on the server and they are not their either.

Really od, where do you think they are coming from?

Ben

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SussexChef83

Hi I see them in the latest moz crawl and they are 404's yes

I just migrated my site so I was expecting 404's but not with the http: in them twice!

Thanks for your quick responce

SussexChef83

Hi

I'm getting some really odd 202 errors, I can't think that someone would link to me like this " http://sussexchef.com/contact-us/http.sussexchef.com/contact-us/ "

There are 95 of them to deal with, I've checked my site and I can click though all the links on my site with out coming across 1 404.

Any ideas?

All the best

Ben

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SussexChef83

Thanks Guys, did the trick thank you

SussexChef83

Hi guys and girls

After reading all the content It became apparent that our website is a bit of a dog. I'm about to update our site with a new theme and content on moz.com I've found myself becoming so much more confident at all this.

I've read all the material I can on Moz re: Site migration but still have one question. How do I find out all the links that I need to 301 before I make the new site live?

Please don't worry about patronizing me! I'm really new at this!

Ben

SussexChef83

Hi Guys and girls.

Thanks for the input, I'm not a web developer or an Seo expert, I'm a Chef, I found all the content on Moz amazing! not only has the using moz helped my web rankings its made My wife and I take on a whole new approach to marketing.

Not to mention all you guys are so happy to help out a novice

As for making the dev site Un-crawlable If ticked "discourage search engines from crawling this site" in the reading settings in wordpress, Is that enough or should I do something else too? I'm focusing all my time on building the now site, Should I run of and learn about robots txt file right away or should it be ok for now?

Thanks for your help!

SussexChef83

Hi All

So after calling Godaddy a second time I got through to a guy that suggested i go in to wordpress, go to permalinks and select a setting other than the one that was already selected and click publish. then select the one it was on previously and click publish.

It fixed all the problems instantly.

I just thought I'd share this incase anyone else has this problem and searches the forum for 608's in the future.

All the best and thanks for your help

Ben

SussexChef83

hi, quick question, I've made a new instillation of wordpress at sussexchef.com/dev and I'm about to start building pages, obvoisly I'm going to move it to sussexchef.com when its all looking right. when I choose my page address links/ permalinks thingy, should I use new url names that don't already exist on the old site? or should I keep the old url names so I don't get loads of 404's, but include the "dev/" in the url name?

Eg the old address sussexchef.com/home

should I use sussexchef.com/dev/home or sussexchef.com/home-sussex-caterers while building the development site? I'm guessing the later my help out in google searches too?

But if I use Dev in the url shurly I will have to go through almost 100 pages removing the dev/ and also changing all the links too? This would be days of work!
So confused!

I'd really appreciate your help here.

Ben

SussexChef83

Hi

Yes the site is behaving really badly in windows explorer and fire fox, chrome seams to adjust it almost instantly though.

SussexChef83

Thanks Dr Pete.

I'm toying with the thought of moving to a new theme so may leave it for now. other issues are my site maps, I'm using plugins to do this but google webtools doesn't like them. But I guess that's something to for me to research further.

Thanks again

SussexChef83

Hi Dr

It's amazing how much advice you get on the moz forum. I basicly ditched my developer and subscribed to Moz instead. I called go daddy but they couldn't recreate the problem their end, I even emailed your reply and they still couldn't help.

I'll take a look around the server settings soon and see if I can figure it out. If I can't can any one recommend a web developer? The last too I've had moved on to other things.

Thank you all for your help so far, it's most kind of you!

Ben

SussexChef83

Hi

I'm on the free trial, I'm finding it really useful. since I was 16 (16years ago) all I've done is cook. After 3 weeks of Moz I feel like I'm or the way to marketing my business instead of having others tell me how to do it.

A while back I used to use SEO freelancers to buff my site, but recently I realized that I was not doing enough to promote my business myself, I was trying to pay others to do it for me. I goggled Soe and marketing, of course I found Moz while doing so! The content is exceptional and really goes in depth and we are now coming up with a new content strategy!

The problem is that I have this gut feeling that The moz product is worth the money it asks for as I can easily identify the issues or opportunities my site has, I still feel that I lack the competence to use moz to its full potential!

Is there an option to have someone skpe me and give me some tips or in sites with in my own campaign?

I've spent a lot of time reading the blog content and watching the videos but this all seams to focus on how to get results but not so much on how to use the Moz console/dashboard.

I've probably just missed a hole bunch of content but if not do Moz have and option to help set up your Moz analytic and Research so you can get the most relevant info to you?

Any help is most welcome

Kind regards

Ben Horle

SussexChef.com

SussexChef83

Hi, Yeah, us brits have a way of getting points across.

thanks for your responce. Moz says :

608 Home page not decodable as specified Content-Encoding

The server response headers indicated the response used gzip or deflate encoding but our crawler could not understand the encoding used.

To resolve 608 errors, fix your site server so that it properly encodes the responses it sends.

The problem is that I don't understand the issue, so I have no idea how to fix it!

SussexChef83

Hi,

I'm on the free trial and finding it very useful I've fixed all my 301's. but now I have a load of 608's. I don't no what this is!

I feel like I've cured herpes only to get gonorrhea! can any one help. I have 41 608's which is more than the 301's I had. I hope they are non-related!

I won't bore you with the whole list but some of the url's are:

SussexChef83

Hi Thanks but that site is a competitor, My page I'm trying to rank is www.SussexChef.com/funeral-catering/

Thanks for your help though, I am now using incog and the results are some what different!

Thanks again

Ben

SussexChef83

Hi

looking at their site http://www.funeral-catering-services.co.uk/ they don't even use the key word I used, "funeral caterers" and the word "Funeral" is only in the copy 3 times and "caterer" is not used once, This is so confusing!

Thanks for your reply

SussexChef83

Hi

New to Moz, I'm finding it all very helpful and daunting at the same time. I've read heaps of Seo the Moz content and watched every Video I can find.

It's all going well and I've managed to get A's on some of my pages,

I was hoping some one cold tell me why this site (Link to screan grab http://tinypic.com/r/dnj9di/8 ) is way above me in the Google search results? It appears to be under performing me in Moz but in actual fact it is greatly out performing me in Google.

Any insights are more than gratefully received!

Thanks

Ben

SussexChef83

Hi, No no crawl errors with webmaster tools just in the Moz, I guess that a good thing?

SussexChef83

Hi thank you for taking the time to reply, that's really kind of you. So I found the dead links on my page and deleted the hyperlinks and made new ones for the correct address.

But what I should have done is redirected the old link to the new address so as not to break any external links? is this right? And I can use "Simple 301's" to do this?

Thanks I'll look in to both of those now!

SussexChef83

Hi,

I signed up after seeing the videos on Udemy and YouTube (white board Friday) So I've started the free trial and am looking forward to getting my site ranking higher. I've crawled my site www.sussexchef.com and its come back with the following errors (please see below.

608 I'm sure this information is very important but I have no idea how to fix the 608, I found a robots.txt in my directory and deleted it as I think that maybe the problem? I crawled the site twice by accident so will have to wait till tomorrow to find out?

404 I found it quite hard to find the broken links at first but once I realized all the information I needed was in the table I think I got them all. did I miss a tutorial or am I just a little out of my depth here?

503 I have no idea how to fix these, I can click the links and it takes my to that page or file. so how can it be the server down? Or is this because they are links to PDF's? should i convert them to jpegs and give them meta data?

I'd be grateful for any help anyone has to offer as I'm keen to learn how to promote my site better.

Crawl Error

Moz encountered an error on one or more pages on your site608 Page not Decodable as Specified Content EncodingInvestigate the cause of this issue on the Help Hub.Discovered: Sep 2 - 8Crawl Diagnostics

Crawl Issue Found: 404 Errors

10% of site pages served 404 errors during the last crawlA high percentage of 404 pages can indicate a problem with the internal link structure.Crawl Diagnostics

404 : Received 404 (Not Found) error response for page.

http://sussexchef.com/wedding-caterers.aspx4041215http://sussexchef.comN/AView Issue

404 : Received 404 (Not Found) error response for page.

http://sussexchef.com/dinner-party-catering.aspx404115http://sussexchef.comN/AView Issue

404 : Received 404 (Not Found) error response for page.

http://sussexchef.com/christmas-party-catering.aspx404115http://sussexchef.comN/AView Issue

404 : Received 404 (Not Found) error response for page.

http://sussexchef.com/wedding-cakes.aspx404115http://sussexchef.comN/AView Issue

404 : Received 404 (Not Found) error response for page.

http://sussexchef.com/outdoor-catering-specialists.aspx404115http://sussexchef.comN/AView Issue

404 : Received 404 (Not Found) error response for page.

http://sussexchef.com/hen-party-cupcake-classes.aspx404115http://sussexchef.comN/AView Issue

404 : Received 404 (Not Found) error response for page.

http://sussexchef.com/funeral-caterers.aspx404115http://sussexchef.comN/AView Issue

404 : Received 404 (Not Found) error response for page.

http://sussexchef.com/drinks-service.aspx404115http://sussexchef.comN/AView Issue

404 : Received 404 (Not Found) error response for page.

http://sussexchef.com/private-party-catering.aspx404115http://sussexchef.comN/AView Issue

404 : Received 404 (Not Found) error response for page.

http://sussexchef.com/corporate-catering.aspx404115http://sussexchef.comN/AView Issue

404 : Received 404 (Not Found) error response for page.

http://sussexchef.com/caterers.aspx40401http://sussexchef.com/wedding-catering/N/AView Issue

404 : Received 404 (Not Found) error response for page.

http://sussexchef.com/funeral-caterers-brighton.aspx

Crawl Issue Found: 500 Errors

More than 5% of site pages served 500 errors during the last crawlExcessive 500 errors impact search engine indexation. Double check that your website is serving pages properly to both users and crawlers.