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Forum: Search Engine Optimization 21st March 2018, 09:34 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 974
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: How can we follow the backlinks of our competitors?

I've been doing SEO for over 15 years and I've never understood why people spend valuable time looking at a competitors backlinks?

From an academic SEO research perspective it's interesting to...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 21st March 2018, 09:16 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,952
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 19th March 2018, 01:33 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 136
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 17th March 2018, 07:45 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 149
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, 09:16 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 484
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: 437
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, 08:52 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 416
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, 12:58 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 416
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 14th December 2016, 12:26 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 416
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 20th November 2016, 09:17 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 174
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: 174
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, 06:20 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 418
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, 07:14 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 418
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 18th May 2015, 08:15 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,683
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: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display) 16th May 2015, 07:31 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,474
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 15th May 2015, 07:09 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 472
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Is this classed as duplicate content? What should I do?

If all you have on the two pages is the video, so pretty much two identical webpages, then yes it's duplicate content.

Google will probably choose one as the 'original' and not rank the other one....
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 14th May 2015, 10:11 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 428
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Suggestions for new niche site

Those numbers mean nothing regarding competitiveness etc... Gives no details about the anhcor text of links, are they related to the SERP targeted, are the links aged or new.

I assume you've read...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 14th May 2015, 07:23 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 428
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Suggestions for new niche site

Realistically only way to know for sure is try it.

One mistake in your thinking, you aren't targeting just one phrase, every webpage on a domain has the potential to target one or more Google...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 14th May 2015, 06:57 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 359
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: differences between a www and a non www

That's why I said consider adding some .htaccess file rules, if you set the preferred domain you don't NEED the rules.

The rules can help make your new backlinks consistent, every visitor will...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 14th May 2015, 12:39 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 3,759
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Effect of SEO on changing the date of Post in Wordpress?

I regularly change the date of posts when updating a post so the date is current, though the theme I use has an option to change the text associated with the date, so rather than it saying something...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 13th May 2015, 08:23 PM
Replies: 49
Views: 4,015
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Don't you think this method can rank better in Google

What do you consider highly competitive? How much traffic does the SERP you targeted now generate to your site?

You might consider a phrase that has no traffic or competition competitive and have...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 1st May 2015, 04:46 AM
Replies: 54
Views: 1,879
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Do nofollow links provide any value for ranking?

It's quiet scary at the lack of SEO understanding of many posting in this thread.

We know nofollow links pass no PageRank (link juice).

We know nofollow links pass no anchor text benefit.
...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 30th April 2015, 07:11 AM
Replies: 54
Views: 1,879
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Do nofollow links provide any value for ranking?

Here you go https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en




I've tested the anchor text benefit and though I've had inconsistent results years back (Google makes mistakes),...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 29th April 2015, 06:56 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 430
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: 1 website or many?

It's a good question.

Ignoring branding and only covering SEO it's easier to rank one website compared to ranking two. When you have a domain you've worked on backlinks for years Google 'trusts'...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 29th April 2015, 06:46 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 1,305
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Power of Content in SEO

No, not really.

Content alone won't generate traffic, so it's not king.

Lots of dofollow links can generate traffic with barely any content.

If anything links are king, though I wouldn't...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 28th April 2015, 04:35 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 629
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: All In One vs Yoast

Neither of those plugins have a major impact on what you mentioned.

Yoast/All In One won't make a major change to indexing, the XML sitemap will give Google another way to find your pages, but...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 26th April 2015, 01:55 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 672
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Tags

You can do what you suggest, but you'll be wasting link benefit creating tag archives for the sake of it.

Every tag you add costs link benefit to get it indexed and potentially ranked. You'll find...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 26th April 2015, 01:48 PM
Replies: 34
Views: 919
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Quick Index of Contents

That's what I said.

The difference between radio ads and SEO, radio will definitely cost you money, building backlinks won't necessarily cost money (minimum cost is time).

Since we are...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 25th April 2015, 07:01 PM
Replies: 34
Views: 919
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Quick Index of Contents

Erm, no, no and no.

Those three activities will not improve Google rankings. Unless some how webmasters follow sig links and decide to add a dofollow link from their website or again someone...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 23rd April 2015, 11:24 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 615
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: How Content Changes Can Affect SERP Rank?

Traffic could go up or it could go down.

When I'm doing what you are about to do I look at current rankings/traffic and try to add more emphasis on what's ranking and modify what's not ranking.
...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 23rd April 2015, 05:24 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 651
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Content for Wordpress Auto blog

If you have a very small number of copied content you'll probably be OK, but even a few articles a week will add up overtime. The more copied content you add more of a risk you take, I wouldn't put...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 20th April 2015, 05:42 AM
Replies: 31
Views: 974
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Blog question

The problem with this type of discussion is what you consider good content isn't necessarily what others consider good LINKABLE content.

I write detailed SEO tutorial articles that cover some...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 19th April 2015, 07:31 AM
Replies: 31
Views: 974
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Blog question

Do not share your high quality content on article directories.

If the domain is lacking backlinks and you share your content on article directories with lots of backlinks there's a risk Google...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 9th January 2015, 12:52 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 841
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Seo Experts: Wordpress or Responsive HTML Template?

It is really easy, having a static home page is built into WordPress by default.

On the Left Dashboard Menu hover over Pages and click Add New

This will start creating a new Static Page.

Put...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 8th January 2015, 11:28 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 841
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Seo Experts: Wordpress or Responsive HTML Template?

And if they learn about WordPress Custom Page Templates : Page Templates « WordPress Codex (http://codex.wordpress.org/Page_Templates) gives even more options with any theme.

It's a shame...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 8th January 2015, 12:58 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 841
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Seo Experts: Wordpress or Responsive HTML Template?

It's not because your competition has a static HTML page (whatever that means).

When you say static HTML assuming you mean the content never changes?

The issue isn't about how a page is...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 8th January 2015, 09:38 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 841
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Seo Experts: Wordpress or Responsive HTML Template?

That's because with the standard WordPress setup (it's originally a blog platform) the links to older content roll off the home page.

Either go static home page like Mike suggested or make sure...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 8th January 2015, 09:22 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 988
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: I was approved to guest post on Social Media Today, good or bad?

That is quite funny, if you look at the site it has nothing at all to do with social media, it's just another article/guest post directory.

It's the owners of the site that benefit the most, those...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 7th January 2015, 11:35 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,953
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Discuss Domain with WWW or without?

The difference is minor with non-www being slightly better.

Google uses keywords within the URL as a ranking factor and the www counts as a word, so unless you are targeting www SERPs** the...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 6th January 2015, 07:51 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 1,361
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: too many backlinks from a single domain

I've not seen your site so don't know the setup.

I've assumed it's something like banner ads or text links in footers/sidebars. Basically obvious ads.

If this is your setup and the links are...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 6th January 2015, 03:24 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 991
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: I'm replacing my old HTML site with Wordpress. Should I redirect old pages to preserve Google PR

1-4 Yes, you understand how to do this correctly.

Any URLs that have been replicated don't need a 301 redirect (they exist via WordPress), think about it, you'd be redirecting /webpage.html to...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 5th January 2015, 10:51 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 991
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: I'm replacing my old HTML site with Wordpress. Should I redirect old pages to preserve Google PR

Before changing URLs and 301 redirecting (which is the correct advice others have given when moving URLs) consider it costs ~15% of the pages PageRank you are redirecting from.

If you redirect...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 4th January 2015, 09:00 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 1,308
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Why are these sites exempt from Google penalties?

If Google gave your site an unnatural links penalty they have already discounted the links, nothing you do with those links will have an impact.

If your old rankings were based on the unnatural...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 4th January 2015, 08:53 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 1,361
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: too many backlinks from a single domain

The issue you have is Google considers any paid link Google can spider and count in the PageRank calculation (not nofollow) as gaming their search engine. As others have stated the easy solution is...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 4th January 2015, 03:09 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 506
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Silo question

Sort of like Yukon said except the directly structure is irrelevant, a silo link structure is built via links not physical location of the files.

If your webpages are named as numbers (not ideal,...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 4th January 2015, 10:37 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 895
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: SEO plagiarism

Unique content is relative.

If all you are doing is replacing the odd word it's copyright infringement, if it's writing an article on the same subject using someones content/format as a guide it's...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 30th December 2014, 02:19 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 897
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: High PR link dangers

Oh boy!

Google no longer publicly updating PageRank does not mean Google is no longer updating PageRank and using the PageRank data in the ranking algo.

It means we as the public are no longer...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 30th December 2014, 01:56 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 730
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Backlinks from non-similar sites, bad?

All the social networks Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc... have nofollow links.

No idea bout Yelp etc... I don't use them for links. Go check where your link would be, if nofollow they have no...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 30th December 2014, 11:48 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 730
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Backlinks from non-similar sites, bad?

Any link which lacks a nofollow rel attribute or is on a page which lacks a nofollow robots meta tag counts as a backlink. The webpage the link is on also has to be indexed by Google, obviously a...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th December 2014, 09:28 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 721
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Does an Outbound Link to a PDF Count?

Pretty much, only link out to sites because it makes sense to link out for your visitors. Never link to a site ONLY because you think it will help your site rank, you are wasting PageRank on a...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 26th December 2014, 08:25 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 721
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Does an Outbound Link to a PDF Count?

Linking out to authority sites helps the authority site not yours.

Yes there's an SEO benefit from the anchor text of the link, but you would get that benefit if you linked to another article on...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 26th December 2014, 08:18 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 984
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: Page speed: Slower with W3 and WP rocket

Does the www or non-www redirect to the other version?

If so having the redirect will slow a site down when testing the version that redirects (a redirect takes time).

Don't worry about this if...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 14th December 2014, 08:24 AM
Replies: 74
Views: 3,663
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: 3 Major New Google Ranking Factors

Quite obscure ones do appear naturally without a major search volume.

SEO Dav gives SEO Dave
Stallion Th gives Stallion Theme
Stallion Res gives Stallion Responsive Theme

It only has value if...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 13th December 2014, 11:39 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 698
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: What happens when an authority site links to my site ?? do I benefit from it ?

Well that couldn't be a more confusing way to ask the question.

Let's ignore who added the link, Google doesn't give a toss if you added it or someone added it via a comment or hacked your website...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 13th December 2014, 08:04 AM
Replies: 74
Views: 3,663
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: 3 Major New Google Ranking Factors

I skipped most of the first 10 mins (seemed the usual waffle with no substance) to the social media signals (about 14 mins in) and listening to that part tells me John Limbocker is full of shit.
...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 9th December 2014, 08:29 PM
Replies: 78
Views: 2,060
Posted By SEO-Dave
Re: contents is not king?

Beek is sort of right, I'd argue it in a different way.

You offer some sort of local electrician service so need one webpage that people can find for relevant local searches, give you a phone...
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