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Forum: Search Engine Optimization 21st March 2018, 09:46 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 118
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Shifting Post From One Site To The Other?

I move content around a fair bit.

I usually make a copy of the content on the new site, add a 301 redirect from the old, leave both versions live for at least a few weeks, when everything is...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 21st March 2018, 09:16 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 2,524
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: No redirect or canonical to HTTPS homepage from HTTP version

Here's a simple test for you.

When you load the http version of the site does it automatically redirect to the https version?

If it doesn't you didn't complete the full migration from http to...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 21st March 2018, 07:49 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 91
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Google rewrites my meta title

Google is using what it believes is your sites name/brand name at the end of titles when there's room, it will also ignore some title tags to maintain what Google believes is consistent branding.
...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 19th March 2018, 01:33 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 213
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: "Web Design by" Footer links?

You are running a huge risk with comment spamming like this link lindseybuckle.com: Digital Marketing - what do I actually do?...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 19th March 2018, 12:53 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 213
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: "Web Design by" Footer links?

Was going to suggest the exact same thing.

They are actively damaging their clients sites SEO in at least three ways.

1. They are stealing link benefit/PageRank from their clients sites....
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 19th March 2018, 07:07 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 103
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: What do I do with meta name="description content=" "

I used to give similar advice, I agree with the concept of "optimize the content to help boost CTRs on the SERPs".

When creating content try to add long phrases Google might use as the description...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 17th March 2018, 07:49 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 106
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Meta Tag Errors

Have you viewed the HTML source (in FireFox/Chrome Right Click on the page, select View Page Source) to see what's output by the pages showing those descriptions?

When viewing source do you see...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 17th March 2018, 07:44 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 522
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: What is the impact of social bookmarking in SEO

I own Twitter accounts with 100,000+ followers, some of my accounts generate well over a million impressions a month. If a single Tweet shared over all of them generates 1 backlink a week it's worth...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 17th March 2018, 07:31 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 198
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Questions regarding silo structures for a website

In SEO ranking terms what makes a silo is the linking not the URL structure. I'd avoid the /continent/country/ format you asked about, makes your URLs long for no gain.

For users (not SEO reasons)...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 17th March 2018, 07:45 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 181
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Title tag for the home page of an exact match domain

EMDs are one keyword domains like apple.tld and hyphenated like red-apples.tld.

Those are given a tiny ranking boost, basically if everything else was equal red-apples.tld would rank above...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 16th March 2018, 10:23 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 242
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Why AMP Pages Not Showing In Google SERP

Run your site through the Google Lighthouse Audit Tool (the Google Chrome extension version with the SEO audit) it gives a lot of useful info including this which might point you in the right...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 16th March 2018, 09:36 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 181
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Title tag for the home page of an exact match domain

I'm afraid you've misunderstood what an exact match domain is.

bestredapple dot com is only an exact match for "bestredapple" NOT "best red apple".

For Google to parse a SERP out of...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 16th March 2018, 09:16 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 522
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: What is the impact of social bookmarking in SEO

It only helps if it generates backlinks from other sites. Having a link from Twitter, Facebook etc.. has no direct ranking value, BUT if a user of the social media network visits your site from the...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 16th March 2018, 09:05 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 472
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Which one is better for SEO?

Interesting question.

Depends upon what you mean by better for SEO and what you are trying to achieve from the videos? For example if trying to convert users to buy a product or a service, you...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 16th December 2016, 10:45 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 104
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Googlebot being redirected but not users?

Interesting problem, you should have posted the URL it's one of those SEO puzzles that MUST be solved :-)

Try switching your user agent to Googlebot and see what you get:
...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 16th December 2016, 08:52 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 451
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Wordpress: Should I do my own SEO or hire help?

If a webmaster fully understands SEO the Yoast (and the All In One SEO) plugins are OK, there's no killer SEO features in those plugins their impact on rankings are minimal at best (assuming none of...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 16th December 2016, 08:27 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 382
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Does social bookmarking still work?

What do you mean by still works?

If you are trying to generate direct traffic from social networks like Facebook and Twitter, then yes it still works. IME the conversion from that source of...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 16th December 2016, 12:58 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 451
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin Review

I was trying to keep it simple, as it happens I use 6 'titles' (SEO theme feature) in total per Post for different things.

For example on this post Stallion WordPress SEO Plugin...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 15th December 2016, 09:59 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 451
Posted By SEO-Dave
Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin Review

No I'm not saying you need a backlinks service.

I'm saying you need backlinks, how to generate those backlinks is a major problem for most webmasters. You COULD use a backlink service, but there...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 14th December 2016, 12:26 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 451
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Wordpress: Should I do my own SEO or hire help?

Based on your background and time to devote it sounds like you won't need much help with generating content, your issue will be offsite SEO (backlinks).

As savidge4 touched on, academic writing...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 7th December 2016, 09:04 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 309
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Question about duplicate content

What you are trying to do is a really bad SEO idea.

Every webpage you add to your site costs link benefit to keep indexed/ranked and Google is quite good and comparing similar content and choosing...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 7th December 2016, 08:48 AM
Replies: 28
Views: 736
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Which of the old SEO methods should I stop using?

SEO hasn't changed that much over the past decade, Google just gets better at dealing with ways in which webmasters game Google. You will note most of the answers above with lists are lists of ways...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 22nd November 2016, 10:58 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 392
Posted By SEO-Dave
There are Hundreds of SEO Ranking Factors

Didn't check backlinks or any details, just looked at the Google screenshot.

First thing to notice is the WebmasterSun result includes the searched phrase "Internet Marketing Forum" in the title...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 22nd November 2016, 10:39 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 319
Posted By SEO-Dave
Hreflang Tags Tutorial

Yes you can.

Pretty much all you have to do is add the relevant hreflang tags to the head section of each webpage in a language set, don't forget the default one.

Be aware get your hreflang...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 20th November 2016, 09:33 AM
Replies: 57
Views: 1,140
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Back-links from blog commenting

That also means 25% of the links aren't spammy blog comments, how do you know those aren't the reason for the rankings? Could be due to a small number of high quality backlinks.

I've tested...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 20th November 2016, 09:17 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 199
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Homepage outranking all my category pages?

BTW there's nothing wrong with your Categories structure per se.

The folder/directory structure is irrelevant, every webpage on your site can be at root level (or on sub-domains or other domains...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 20th November 2016, 08:56 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 199
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Homepage outranking all my category pages?

Only took a quick look.

Several of the Categories I looked at didn't have title tags and main content that matched particularly well.

For example cwwltd.com/membranes/

Title Tag: Reverse...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 11th September 2016, 06:25 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 1,241
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: How To Check How Many Images Are Indexed in Google

Interesting it took 6 responses to get to the easy (right) answer.

This should be common SEO knowledge by now! This is basic SEO 101 info we (anyone interested in SEO) should know.

David
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 11th September 2016, 06:20 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 452
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Is page rank still exist in google books ?

I'm glad I'm not the only one that picked up on that.

Felt like I was arguing the sky looks blue while Mike argued, no you are wrong, the sky isn't red :-)

Talk about arguing for the sake of...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 10th September 2016, 08:44 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 452
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Is page rank still exist in google books ?

Where does it say the above in this forums description? Maybe you should read it, before stating what it is or is not about.

Interesting number of spelling mistakes in the description. also looks...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 10th September 2016, 10:47 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 139
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: SEO Experts: How would you better optimize this page?

They don't which is why I listed it with a LOL?

Actually having social network buttons is potentially SEO damaging, note all the issues they generate on Google's PageSpeed Insights Tool. Some can...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 10th September 2016, 10:43 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 452
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Is page rank still exist in google books ?

Actually PageRank is the formula described at The Anatomy of a Search Engine (http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html), I assume you don't believe Google ever used the public PageRank number...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 10th September 2016, 08:52 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 452
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Is page rank still exist in google books ?

Yes and no :-)

Although we have the original PageRank formula from years ago The Anatomy of a Search Engine (http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html) it is highly unlikely it's not been...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 10th September 2016, 07:24 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 139
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: SEO Experts: How would you better optimize this page?

Whoever made the report script needs to learn some basic SEO, many of the tips are awful! Hope it's not your script?

"Nice Work" for Nofollow links: WTF

Social Network share buttons are...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 10th September 2016, 07:14 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 452
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Is page rank still exist in google books ?

Google still uses PageRank, all they changed was we (the public) no longer get regular updates of what the PageRank of a specific webpage is. Google stopped updating public PageRank years ago and...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 9th September 2016, 06:32 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 882
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: How much does Twitter help SEO?

Very true, I wouldn't use social networks as an SEO tool in generating backlinks. Even when they do share a link, it's on social media which has no direct SEO value. You'd need soooo much traffic...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 9th September 2016, 10:45 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 882
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: How much does Twitter help SEO?

Not looked at this forum for about a year (maybe longer) and it's interesting the same SEO BS is still posted as SEO facts. WoW!!!

None of the social media networks have any direct SEO value,...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 23rd May 2015, 06:03 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,421
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Developing a WordPress Silo SEO Plugin with Yoast/All In One SEO Support

Currently it doesn't have custom post types and taxonomies as a feature. Would be a nice feature though.

Adding custom post types (and Static Pages and Attachments) shouldn't be too difficult,...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 21st May 2015, 03:50 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,421
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Developing a WordPress Silo SEO Plugin with Yoast/All In One SEO Support

Thanks for the input. You are right it's not that hard to generate a list of related posts, I decided to build the silo SEO plugin and it's around 500 lines of code due to all the options/features.
...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 19th May 2015, 09:13 PM
Replies: 33
Views: 806
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: SEO is enough for marketing?

Did you seriously expect help with so little info to go on?

You just asked how long is the piece of string behind your back!

Go to Google type:

SEO
SEO Tutorial
SEO Tips
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 19th May 2015, 08:28 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,714
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Anchor Text Strategy within Silo Architecture

Like you I avoid using tags, waste of link benefit on pages that are highly unlikely to rank.

Curious how you automatically links WordPress Static Pages together? Always looking for useful...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 19th May 2015, 08:23 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 414
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Does having Main & Mobile site mean i have duplicate content?

As nettiapina said as long as your mobile version has a canonical to the desktop version not only will it be OK duplicate content wise, but also SEO benefit flowing through the mobile site will be...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 19th May 2015, 07:27 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,714
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Anchor Text Strategy within Silo Architecture

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Yep, but to do this with WordPress means giving up WordPress posts and the automated internal linking through categories/tags and interesting features you tend to only get with posts. Using...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 18th May 2015, 08:15 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,714
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Anchor Text Strategy within Silo Architecture

You've misunderstood me slightly.

You won't be penalized for having sub-folders like

example.com/keyword/keyword2/keyword3/keyword4/

I'm saying it's not needed and LOOKS a bit spammy....
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 18th May 2015, 07:16 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 561
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Question about Trust flow, forward slashes, and redirecting

If you have multiple versions of a page AND (this bit is important) Google has indexed 2 or more versions of those URLs (see Google site: search), yes you might be splitting your link benefit and...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 17th May 2015, 09:05 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 561
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Question about Trust flow, forward slashes, and redirecting

Google doesn't use trust flow, that's a made up metric by MajesticSEO to try to guess what a combination of metrics might result in.

So any trust flow data you have does not mean Google uses it or...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 16th May 2015, 09:44 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 396
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Should I Nofollow the Links?

The solution is add a canonical url on the get version to the non get version.

So both URL versions have the same canonical URL.

This is exactly what canonical is for.

David
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 16th May 2015, 07:54 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 356
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: How do you get those types of links?

You make a site that generates traffic.

When people write articles they will use Google to find sources, so the site you linked to will have had the article writer search Google for a relevant...
Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display) 16th May 2015, 07:31 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,521
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Adsense experts please answer me about this plan!!

No I meant if a visitor found your site via an ad are they more or less likely to click another ad.

Some people (me for example) never click ads, I'm wondering if there are people who like...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 16th May 2015, 05:21 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 356
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: How do you get those types of links?

The person who wrote the article used material from those domains so referenced them.

That's normal behavior with news type sites, they reference their source material.

If you want your site...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 15th May 2015, 06:41 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 632
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: How to get lead & query by SEO/SMO work

WOW this thread and the site linked to could be a case study of why you have to be careful when hiring a so called SEO expert!!!

This is a sight to behold:...
Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display) 15th May 2015, 06:31 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,521
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Adsense experts please answer me about this plan!!

That sort of plan needs testing, start small and see if it works, if it does scale up.

Hmm, one question comes to mind, are visitors who hit a site via an ad more or less likely to click another...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 15th May 2015, 06:25 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 692
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Cheat SEO?

Send the site owners an email and ask them if they know they have hidden links. They could be hacking victims.

David
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 15th May 2015, 05:29 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 396
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Should I Nofollow the Links?

If I understand this correctly all the download link does is load the same content as the webpage you are on with either an automated download or a clickable download?

If so because you have the...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 15th May 2015, 05:20 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 500
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Is this classed as duplicate content? What should I do?

That's a good idea.

A slight modification to the above could be one of the webpages includes the video transcript etc... (so add the content normally) and the other one (ones) reference the video...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 15th May 2015, 05:06 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 500
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Is this classed as duplicate content? What should I do?

Canonical links are really simple, it's some code added to the head section of a page to indicate a preferred URL. If you have two webpages with the same content (identical or almost identical pages)...
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