Right now, we still just have the three competitors, though we are looking at the possibility of adding more in the future.
Best posts made by KeriMorgret
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RE: Can I add more then 3 competitors do my SEO moz pro account?
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RE: Dev Subdomain Pages Indexed - How to Remove
You'll want to keep the robots.txt on the dev subdomain, then verify the subdomain in Google Webmaster Tools. Once you do this, you can request removal of the dev subdomain from Google's index (same goes for Bing).
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RE: SEO Optimization is causing rankings to drop
After looking at your site, I have a couple of questions and suggestions about the site in general. Remember, it's not just rankings, it's also visitors and conversions and visitors trusting your site.
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The latest Open Site Explorer crawl is showing only 13 different domains linking to you, and not all of those are relevant (such as the five-page skylifeguard.com site that links to STD tests, XBox 360 cheats, and a couple of dozen other sites including yours.
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Remove that pop-up! When i try to view another page on your site (not trying to leave the site), I get a big window that asks me if I'm sure I want to leave the page. It's not helping your users have a positive experience.
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Is the blog content unique? I'm seeing what looks like the same content on several other blogs. Also, the "223 comments" next to a blog post but the message of comments being closed and no comments being shown is confusing.
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If you haven't yet, verify the site in Google Webmaster Tools to look there for any messages from Google regarding the site, and to see more information about the site.
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There have duplicate content within the site. There are twenty pages that appear to be identical, except for the city being targeted.
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RE: What is the highest conversion rate you have achieved? URGENT... Community please help!!!
That's going to be really subjective and it depends on a ton of things. Here is a good post that talks about a lot of the factors that go into optimizing for a conversion http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-definitive-howto-for-conversion-rate-optimization.
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RE: Google Displays Domain / URL Above Description?
I've seen mention of it on Twitter, and I'm seeing the URL directly under the title tag in my results, both logged in and logged out. I bet there will be coverage of it on Search Engine Roundtable in the next day or two.
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RE: I am launching a new site, what I need to know about backlinks
Also look at "what can I offer that the other phone review sites don't currently offer? What can be unique about my site so that people will come to my site instead of one of the others already set up talking about the same thing?"
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RE: Link Building
If it's the topic you've talked about before, I know nothing about that, so I would not be the one to write about it. For ecommerce, check out Rob Snell. His site is at http://www.robsnell.com/, and I've seen him speak at Pubcon, and listened to him on an interview at Webmaster Radio (probably in their ecommerce experts show). He talks about how he gets content for his brother's product pages. IIRC, he sits down with a tape recorder and has his brother tell him all about why you would want this particular product for your hunting dog, what makes it great, what are some of the questions that they get on the phone all the time, and then goes and writes all that up for the site.
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RE: Local SEO Agency Suggestions
Hi Chase,
I want to let you know that one of our Associates, Miriam Ellis, specializes in local SEO. She will be included when we next update the recommended companies list. I do not know what her rates are, but suggest that you PM her and she can help you herself or help you find someone in your price range in her network of people who specialize in local search. Her profile URL is http://www.seomoz.org/users/profile/13017
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RE: Infographic for SEO
This post from YouMoz also has some helpful advice from someone who has created many infographics. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/indepth-guide-to-content-creation-with-infographic
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RE: Favorite SEO firm you would recommend
Moz has a list of recommended companies (based on our own personal experience) at http://moz.com/community/recommended.
If you search, you will find some companies (there is one prominent one in particular) that state they rate SEO firms. You may want to look on the Q&A forum for opinions of those companies, as they often require payment to even be considered in their listings.
Also, what works for one person, may not work for another. Do you have a 25 page site that serves a local area spanning two counties and sell nothing online? Or do you only sell your products online and never meet face-to-face, and need to be present in searches in Asia, Europe, and the Americas? Two very different firms would meet those needs.
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RE: Nofollow advertisers with high value sites
Likely the primary reason they do this is to comply with Google's wishes regarding paid links, outlined at http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66736. They do not like to see links sold to manipulate pagerank, and adding a nofollow tag complies with their guidelines. They are doing it so their site doesn't get hit with a rankings penalty.
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RE: PR Releases? Do they help your SEO?
Matt Cutts chimes in on Alan B.'s SEJ article at http://www.searchenginejournal.com/get-over-yourself-matt-cutts-did-not-just-kill-another-seo-kitten/56842/ and mentions that he (Cutts) said the same thing in 2005. The series of tweets Matt made are copied below:
I think I covered this on http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-article-in-newsweek/ pretty well (search for “press release” to catch all the comments I made.
Ultra-short version: 1) don’t expect links from press release websites to help ranking.
- Don’t expect press releases on many other websites, e.g. http://www.chron.com/business/press-releases/article/Levitra-Buy-Viagra-Cheapest-Prices-Guaranteed-3993998.php on Houston Chronicle to help either.
& 3) the benefit is not links/PR from the press release directly; it’s primarily when reporters write an article as a result.
but I think all of those points are implicit in my 2005 comments on press releases from http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-article-in-newsweek/ Hope that helps.
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RE: Entireweb.com
Well, do you want to get included in these search engines? http://media.entireweb.com/images/pages/express_inclusion/ewpartners.png If not, I wouldn't worry about it. Those are not exactly major search engines they're talking about (the previous link was found at http://entireweb.com/express_inclusion/features/). Google and Bing both have ways to submit your site to them for free, if they haven't already picked up on it. Bing's index powers Yahoo these days, so by submitting to just those two you have over 92% of the US search market taken care of (per August Hitwise numbers at http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/08/10/searchenginesjuly2012/)
So, I'd save your money and time on that one.
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RE: Shoing strong for last 2 years for search terms NOW GONE! What happened?
A couple of things I'd do right away:
Look in Google Webmaster Tools to see if there are any notices there (I'm going to assume that it's Google where you are no longer ranking).
Look in your analytics to see if there was a particular day that you dropped off. You can then look to see if that coincided with any known algorithm update.
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RE: Link building plan
Some would say cough EGOL cough to spend all that money on killer content for your own site, and that the links would come naturally. Can you tell us anything about the site, and if you have good content in place, good site structure, etc?
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RE: Best company to do an analysis of our website
We have a list of recommended companies at http://www.seomoz.org/article/recommended that could serve as s starting point for you.
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RE: Responsive web design should I bother? If it isn’t broke don’t fix it?
Obviously Moz is in a different industry than cottage rentals, but one of the biggest things we heard about our redesign was that it was not responsive and did not render well on mobile devices. At least for our audience, they've come to expect that the site will be usable on something besides just their primary computer.
From the perspective of a small business owner though, I get you. I wouldn't imagine too many people are interested in ordering a USS Iowa hull from their phones, but I could be wrong. In your case, I would think it would depend on how far in advance people book your cottages. If there are some available with only a few days of notice, I would think having a site that works well for mobile would help when people are on a holiday and looking for their next place to stay.
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RE: Shoing strong for last 2 years for search terms NOW GONE! What happened?
I looked at some of your content, and some of it seems quite thin, such as the regulations for each state. There's really only a couple of sentences (in the instances that I saw) that deal with the individual state, and then there's a lot of boilerplate content, navigation, and other site elements that are the same from page to page. Just one more thing to think about.
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RE: What do you think of this?
I've edited this question to keep it TAGFEE, especially empathetic to both the potential client and to their current SEO company. This can be a good discussion question when talking in general terms, but given how Q&A is visible to everyone and indexed, we need to pull out this type of identifying information.
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RE: Product Reviews
However, DO NOT mention Yelp. Yelp does not allow you to in any way encourage customers to leave reviews, even without a contest. Be sure to read and understand the guidelines of review sites before trying to encourage people to leave reviews.
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RE: Why isnt this site ranking?
Looks like you may have been hacked at some point. Go to Google in incognito mode, and type site:vonderhaar.com and start going back a few pages. This page is an example of a blog page that is filled with spam http://www.vonderhaar.com/blog/kprsd40080f/. Looks like it might have just happened, as I see today's date on at least one of the posts.
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RE: How to Check if The Content is Spinned
Much of the time, you can tell just by reading the article. You'll find nouns and adjectives that don't sound quite right, and idioms are often broken. I once saw "think before you beverage" in an article about alcoholism.
Sadly, we see spun articles come into YouMoz on a regular basis. Because several words will be swapped out, searching a long phrase won't always show you another copy of the article. Often the subheadings of the article are more intact and less likely to be spun, so I put them into Google. I'll also grab several short 2-3 word phrases and run a search on that, looking for the same content elsewhere on the web.
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RE: Google Analytics All Kinds of Messed Up
You might check out this other Q&A thread, as there have been recent changes to GA. http://www.seomoz.org/q/has-anyone-else-noticed-a-jump-in-google-analytics-traffic-since-session-parameters-were-changed
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RE: How do you get this?
I don't believe this has anything to do with Wikipedia. Google has been, in some cases, showing site/folder names in place of URLs for a couple of years now. There's a post on it at http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/06/google-experiments-with-removing-urls.html from 2011.
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RE: Link building options...slim
Have you exhausted the links from your own town first? Do you sponsor a little league team? Do you volunteer for anything? Are you a member of the chamber of commerce? Of your local real estate group? How about creating the best piece of content you can about relocating to your particular town so that it naturally grows links?
All of those seem a much better ideas than going to another state and looking for links.
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RE: Data Overload! So . . . ..Confused . . .. !
SEOmoz and Google Webmaster Tools use different sources for their data. I believe EGOL meant to look at the trends over time for each metric compared to itself. Don't compare GWT to SEOmoz, compare GWT in one month to GWT in the next month, and SEOmoz in one month to SEOmoz in the next month.
Open Site Explorer updates about once a month, so it does have a lag time in showing your updates, and it only crawls about the top 1/4 of the web, so its numbers will differ from GWT.
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RE: Now that opensiteexplorer.org has been down for the last two days, where can I look for updated info like it?
Hi Greg,
Open Site Explorer did go down last night when severe whether in Virginia caused Amazon to lose power to some of their data centers. Netflix, Pinterest, Instagram, Raven Tools, and many other sites were also down because of the outage. We were up by 3:00 am Pacific time Saturday morning, and we had people working on it overnight.
I'm sorry to hear that you've been having problems accessing the site both before and after the outage that we had. If you can contact our help desk at http://www.seomoz.org/help, they'll get back to you and help you find out why you're not able to access Open Site Explorer.
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RE: Domain.com/keyword1.keyword2.html vs doamin.com/keyword1-keyword2.html
A period before the domain is a subdomain, like blog.domain.com.
A period after the domain usually indicates an extension, such as domain.com/index.html.
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RE: 9306 inbound links but onle 143 root domains?
Hi Gary,
One answer would be footer links. It looks like there are links to that site in the footer of http://www.newportoc.com/ that could account for thousands of links but be from only one root domain.
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RE: What are Branded Keywords
Sometimes it's helpful to segment branded vs non-branded. I sell model warships that shoot and sink each other (a fairly small niche), and my company name is Strike Models (and was formerly a company called Swampworks).
If someone comes to me by searching Strike Models or Swampworks, they already know about me, and just want to find my site. I also rank high for these terms since it is my brand. If they search model battleships, then I have more of a feeling of accomplishment -- I've got a ton more competitors out there for that term, and here is someone who hasn't heard of my before that is a new potential customer.
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RE: Keyword Research Competition
Are they making double the money you are? Like Tony said, the type of keywords matter a lot.
I get traffic for Bismarck waterjet from people in North Dakota looking for a waterjet cutter, but what they find is a page on my site that talks about using a waterjet cutter for the DKM Bismarck warship model. That's traffic my competitor isn't getting, as he doesn't mention waterjet on his page, but that traffic isn't doing me any good.
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RE: Recommended SEO Companies
Someone ought to write a good post about how to find (and vet) companies via forums.
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RE: Submitting to Directories
Hi Brandon,
Have you read this recent post by SEOmoz about directories (which includes a link to our directory of directories)? http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices
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RE: What is the most effective link building technique?
Abe Lincoln is quoted as saying "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
I think you need to sharpen the axe here, or at least mention more details about your site. Do you have any killer content for the people to come see? Have you made sure that everything works so that people can easily do the desired action/conversion on your site?
What's in it for the users?
[OK, EGOL now you can come in and say to spend all $6000 on content and none on link building, I've done the initial part of adding option C as something to think about ]
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RE: Default Local SEO question: Does Google really do improptu check ins?
I've already flagged this question for her attention, via our secret admin-only system.
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RE: Value of EDU Links?
Like any links, will they be relevant?
http://faculty.cbpp.uaa.alaska.edu/afef/Principles_frm.htm
https://openjournals.wsu.edu/index.php/landescapesarchived/comment/view/912/70452
These are both EDU sites, but you couldn't pay me to have my link there.
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RE: High PRLinks
Keep in mind that the links themselves do not have pagerank. Also, are the links from a page itself that has a toolbar pagerank of 8, or from a site whose homepage has a toolbar pagerank of 8? Sure, I have a link to my business website (which ranks on the first page of Google if I choose the right keywords) from a stanford.edu address. It's a subdomain on stanford's site that got fewer than 100 visits in the last year. Doesn't mean that the link does me a bit of good, but I can make it sound great when I say I have a link from Stanford an a .edu link.
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RE: Analytics Alternative
So sorry to report that it's not going to be that easy. Google isn't passing along that data, no matter what analytics program is used. Webtrends, etc. isn't going to give you this information either because Google is just not sending it; it's not that GA is suppressing it.
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RE: VERY specific Google search result not showing
I'd remove the <link rel="<a class="attribute-value">canonical</a>" href="<a class="attribute-value">https://globalrose.com/</a>"/> on the pages of your subdomain for a start. Ease up on the auto-generated pages, too. I went to check the robots.txt of the subdomain, and instead got a page with the title "Fresh Flower Delivery To Robots.Txt and throughout the USA"
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RE: How do you decide which answers to trust on here?
Even if we don't always chime in, the SEOmoz staff and associates are here and we review the questions and answers. We'll add a comment if something isn't quite right, or endorse a good answer, or provide an answer ourselves. The thumb system is in place here like it is on the blog, so you can see if others have agreed or disagreed with a particular answer.
I second what Ryan Kent says as well -- if you need more information or an answer doesn't feel write, ask for the additional citation or more background.
Welcome to Q&A, and I look forward to seeing what you have to say. Please feel free to use the Feedback links for any comments to SEOmoz that you may have about the site!
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RE: Directories
Here's a recent post about best practices for link building with directories that might help you.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices
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RE: Has GA changed how it calculates bounce rate?
I'd check in an incognito browser where you are not logged into Wordpress. If you're an admin, WP can be set to suppress the GA tracking so that you're not recording your own visits, and when you view the source you see just the one tracking code, and continue to pull your hair out (voice of experience here!).
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RE: Problem with connection to Analytics Account
Hi everyone,
We are having a known issue with the google analytics connection right now. If it is affecting you, please submit a ticket from our Help Desk and let them know the campaign name(s) you're having problems with. Sorry for the troubles, and thanks for your help!
Keri
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RE: Where to start?
A starting place would be the Learn SEO tab on SEOmoz (http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo). That will help explain some of the terms your seeing in your report. The Beginner's Guide to SEO will help you learn about SEO so that you can either do the work yourself, or understand what an SEO pro is telling you.
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RE: How to measure number of visits from Google News coming from Google Universal Search (NOT referral coming directly coming from news.google.com) with google analyitcs
Gustav, the poster is asking how to tell if the visit came from their site being in Google News or in a regular SERP. I don't believe this addresses that question for them.
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RE: Where can I upload my logo for custom reports?
Hi! The logo is for PRO Plus and PRO Elite users. Your profile says you're at the PRO level, which I suspect is the problem.
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RE: Can anyone recommend a great seo company?
SEOmoz maintains a list at http://www.seomoz.org/article/recommended.
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RE: How to measure number of visits from Google News coming from Google Universal Search (NOT referral coming directly coming from news.google.com) with google analyitcs
Google publishes the same URL in both news and universal search. That will not help.