<address>The site may be no-indexed (via no-index tag or various other ways accidentally) or penalised, have you investigated either possibilty?</address>
Posts made by David_ODonnell
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RE: How can a site not indexed on google still have 40+ Page Authority on OpenSiteExplorer?
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Blog Post Analytics
Does anyone know of a Wordpress plugin that has similar functionality to the post analytics SEOmoz blog posts include?
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RE: DMOZ listing
At this point in the game it's really not going to make much difference at all. It's one link that was at one time, thought to be critical. Now, not so much.
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RE: A/B Tests: How To Verify Difference In Average Order Value?
Perhaps this will get your on the right track, from http://flintanalytics.com/how-to-determine-if-you-should-advertise-higher-priced-goods-to-mac-users/
Average Order Value Statistical Significance
To do this you need to download the transaction data for both variants, because you need to be able to determine the variance in order value. You can download this data by going to conversions > ecommerce > transactions in Google Analytics. Once there, Google only lets you export 500 rows of transactions at one time, so to keep it simple I ensured my date ranges were under 500 transactions.
Once you get the order values for each set of customers in Excel you need to perform a t-test so that you can compare the means of the two groups. This t-test will give you the p-value that you will use to determine if the difference in average order values between the groups is significant. Yout formula in excel should look like the following:
=t.test(array of group 1, array of group 2,two-tailed distribution, two-sample equal variance homoscedastic)
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RE: Software for checking local listings?
Authority labs checks keyword rankings (keywords that you define) at the domain level, and reports if the SERPS are displaying local listing for that particular keyword.
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RE: Multiple domains different content same keywords
301 the additional domains to the one you want to focus on - except the domain that has the penalty, if you're certain it does.
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RE: Multiple domains different content same keywords
Four domains = splitting your efforts by 4, splitting your potential links and DA by four etc.
If you work on just one domain, you can put all of your effort into it - this is the way to go.
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RE: Open Site Explorer vs Webmaster Tools
Very briefly, OSE has a much smaller index and is updated less frequently.
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RE: Google is indexing wordpress attachment pages
This plugin automatically 301 redirects image attachment pages to the parent post, simply install and activate, done:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/attachment-pages-redirect/
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RE: Google Analytics Content Experiments
Gah, answered my own question (I swear I trawled the Google product forums for 20mins before asking!) source if anyone else has the same question in the future;
http://analytics.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/multi-armed-bandit-experiments.html
Summary:
Google Analytics uses a multi-armed bandit approach to managing online experiments. A multi-armed bandit is a type of experiment where:
- The goal is to find the best or most profitable action
- The randomization distribution can be updated as the experiment progresses
Twice per day, we take a fresh look at your experiment to see how each of the variations has performed, and we adjust the fraction of traffic that each variation will receive going forward. A variation that appears to be doing well gets more traffic, and a variation that is clearly underperforming gets less. The adjustments we make are based on a statistical formula (see the appendix if you want details) that considers sample size and performance metrics together, so we can be confident that we’re adjusting for real performance differences and not just random chance. As the experiment progresses, we learn more and more about the relative payoffs, and so do a better job in choosing good variations.
I'd still prefer the option of a true A/B test, but at least I have an official answer.
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Google Analytics Content Experiments
Has anyone else found that Google Analytics Content Experiments seems to quite quickly favor the best performing variant in an experiment, and then show that variant many times more often than other/s - not split the traffic evenly?
What is Google's thinking behind 'optimizing' during an experiment? It seems odd to me.
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RE: Reverse 301 redirect - how will that work?
Obviously not a best practice, but should be fine.
What motiveated the change in the first place, then to reverse it?
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RE: Struggling to get indexed and ranked
High five, happy to help!
What do I win? Just kidding
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RE: Struggling to get indexed and ranked
Might seem obvious but I've seen pages being robots noindexed via meta tag at the page level, checked for that:?
Have you tried the Fetch as Goole tool in Google Webmaster tools?
Checked for crawl errors in GWT?
Submitted an XML sitemap to Webmaster Tools?
Is Bing indexing it?
Let us know how you go!
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RE: Blocked from google
Did you implement 301 redirects from the old site, to the new?
Checkout:
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RE: Video Optimization
Probably because it's relatively new. Just an idea, why don't you markup one of your own videos and run it through Google's Rich Snippet Testing Tool? Then you'll have a live example
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RE: Why is this link from a .edu source not being counted?
Is it a new link? You may have to wait till OSE's next update, which looks like it'll be on May 20.
See: https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule
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RE: Directory sites in 2013
A very small amount IMO. Those that are:
- Highly relevant to your niche
- Not a free for all
- Well indexed
- Have decent DA
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RE: Why do websites use different URLS for mobile and desktop
Some sites serve different content to mobile devices, therefore require a seperate URL.
Google and Bing currently prefer responsive design because it allows the same URL to be displayed on desktop and mobile devices and requires less crawling ./ indexing on their behalf.
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RE: How to make Google include our recipe pages in its main index?
Agreed, it's not easy getting duplicate content indexed, and usually, that's a good thing.
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RE: Pimsleur community post
Crazy Pills?
Nothing came up for 'Pimsleur' when I did an internal site search or a google site: search for that keyword on this site.
Might have been on another SEO site?
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RE: Website structure for SEO
I'd think about the visitor experience. Are they finding what they're looking for via your existing search results for step by step recipes or would they be better served landing on a category page. Do you get a lot of search referrals using that keyword?
If you do decide to create a category page, add some unique content at the category level and build some links to it.
I guess my only reservation with that method would be that you say the enitre site is about step by step recipes. In that case, shouldn't you be targeting the homepage for that keyword?
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RE: Internal Linking Questions
2. If you do that you are going to dilute the strength / confuse the of relevance of the anchor text to that page. There is no good reason to do that.
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RE: Is there any good tools for toxic link checking.
I've used this for a number of clients. It is useful in generating a list of potentially harmful links and classifying them. However, you still need to manually review the results as sometimes there are false negatives.
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RE: When will links appear
If the blogger's sites are new/small/not well linked to themselves, it may take some time the mozbot to discover the links to your site. You should also consider the last time OSE was updated (Feb 12th 2013) and run another check the next time it's updated, looks like next update is set for March 12, see:
https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule
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RE: Why is Google changing my title tags?
Check a few things:
1. Length: Try and keep them under 70 characters
2. Content: Make sure they aren't spammy.
Either can trigger Googs to re-write your title.
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RE: Best On-Demand SERP Tool? - Need for Presentation This Week
You could try the free version of Rank Tracker: http://www.link-assistant.com/rank-tracker/
It checks Bing and Google and checks on demand, have a play and see if it suits your needs.
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RE: Setting up goals in Google Analytics
You leave out the destination URL from the funnel.
Cheers.
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RE: Should I index my search result pages?
Sounds like a recipe for a duplicate content disaster, there would be nothing unique on the pages, just a list of jobs. Do not index those search result pages.
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RE: Disavowing links cause over 2M pages deindexing
The danger of the disvow tool is that it is possible to disavow links that weren't harming your site. If you disavowed a number of decent links it could explain losing some indexation. My other thought is perhaps the deindexation is part of a penalty that you have yet to be lifted.
Did you file another reconsideration request? Sometimes, if you're lucky, they do give you some useful feedback.
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RE: Creating a new page versus adding to existing page (for targeting a keyword phrase)
Also consider:
- how similar / relevant the term is for an existing page
- how many keywords you're attempting to optimise the existing page for
- how unique, awesome you can make the new page
Good luck.
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RE: E-commerce site product descriptions and duplicate content
Have you considered scaling the task, rewriting perhaps the top 20% of products to begin with?
It is a massive undertaking, but I think you'll find it'll be worth it.
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RE: Setting up goals in Google Analytics
Correct! That way you are recording successful form submissions.
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RE: Ecombuffet.com are offering a Rescue Review focused on Panda - Penguin and identifying issues. Has anyone used this service or aware of the organisation in general?
"Overall I think they are reasonably priced..."
Based on what price?
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RE: Back Links Page
My advice would be not to do it. It's a very outdated tactic that will likely have zero impact, or perhaps even harm your site.
Instead you might want to look into content marketing, blogger outreach etc
Have a read of these:
http://blog.kissmetrics.com/guide-to-guest-blogging/
http://www.copypress.com/blog/outreach-specialists-bible/
Good luck.
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RE: Ecombuffet.com are offering a Rescue Review focused on Panda - Penguin and identifying issues. Has anyone used this service or aware of the organisation in general?
You will be paying them to identify issues you could do yourself, assuming you had the time and ability. If you don't then you might need to pay someone to do that for you. But you should get a couple of quotes and get feedback on any company / service you consider.
Keep in mind they are not offering to do any of the leg work of getting low quality links removed, which is tough. You'll either need to learn how to do the outreach to get links removed, document it all, and file a reconsideration request or get someone to do those tasks as well.
If you do have the time, you should have a look through some recent SEOmoz panda/penguin guide posts and do it yourself. You'll learn a lot!
Good luck.
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RE: Which meta descriptions should I fix first?
You could prioritise based on the pages that get the most impressions in search.
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RE: Does anyone use pingler and is it any good
Sounds like a waste of money. Simply pinging search engines is not going to influence how likely they would be to index your content. It may help discovery, but you can use free tools to do that (pingoat, pingomatic), Wordpress has the function built in.
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RE: 'No Follow' and 'Do Follow' links when using WordPress plugins
Not sure why you would want to nofollow 95% of your outgoing links, might throw up some red flags, but sounds like the plugin you are using to nofollow may not actually be working. Have you tried adding the html manually to the links?
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RE: PPC Keyword Phrases and Options
"If you'd like to add keywords that contain multiple words (phrases), you don't need to use hyphens or any other punctuation."
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RE: SEO for FMCG
Start with the SEOmoz SEO Guide - it covers most of what you are after, once you have the basics down start looking through (searching) SEOmoz blog posts to get more specific on each of the 4 areas you've outlined.
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RE: Market Motive Courses Feedback
I've heard back from Market Motive directly, they claim to refresh the courses each quarter, but may add units more often than that.
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RE: Market Motive Courses Feedback
Hi, Can you comment on how often they are updated?
Thanks
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RE: Best techniques For EMD Ranking in 2013
Seems to be a number of Timber businesses at that address...
Regardless, 17 occurrences is going to set off some red flags.
Just trying to help you out with your query.
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RE: Best techniques For EMD Ranking in 2013
Good observations in regard to EMDs in general. However, if you take a look at the site in question, I think you'll agree the OP needs to do a lot of work on the site regardless of the fact that it's an EMD.
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RE: Best techniques For EMD Ranking in 2013
Honestly, that site is poorly optimised. I wouldn't be surprised if you earn an over optimisation penalty, or already have one.
There are 17 occurances of 'timber Melbourne' on the homepage.
The site is not written for humans, first sentence on the homepage, "We sell Timber Melbourne Wide. Timber Melbourne are the Melbourne Timber Specialists"
That is really bad.
Step one would be to re-write the content for humans, then revisit the on-page SEO, like titles, metas, alt tags etc. Then have a look at the UX, it's really hard to read the content on that background.
Lots of work to do here my friend, I suggest reading the SEOmoz beginners guide to SEO first though.
Good luck.