Actually, what caught my attention is that they appear to have skyrocketed in the SERPs around the same time they acquired 3,600 new links and 80% of them pointing to jpgs. That's not to say the remaining 20% isn't of high quality. So whatever it is they're doing, it's working well for them.
This is very cool, thank you for all of this!
I'm just beyond the pen and paper point solely for the reason of wanting to easily share it. Mind Meister seems to be the right tool for me, simple and intuitive. I am fascinated by Gephi, I wish I had a reason to explore that more. I wouldn't even...
60 sites had the period anchor text. there are more than 900 image scraping domains in question pointing to this one particular competitor. Shared IP addresses in ranges of 5 to about 20 sites each address. All of these links newly acquired, along with their spike in search visibility in...
You guys are the best! Just downloaded Xmind. Looks like Mindnode is apple only, too bad, I just ditched my mac as my main workstation. Mindmeister looks pretty sweet, very intuitive, could make do with a free account for now.
Draw.io could end up being useful too. Connecting to drive is a huge...
What is the best way to visually map out a content silo? I'm playing around in both google sheets and trello but I can't seem to come up with a good way to tie interconnected posts together. Anybody have any recommendations?
I have a dumb question. What is the point of these spammy looking sites that scrape images then link directly to the original site's image?
Looking at backlinks of my own and competitors, I come across these sites with super simple layouts, text logo, and nothing but keyword optimized pages...
Can't imagine it would seeing MCC is intended for agencies to manage multiple accounts and who knows what kind of mess their clients made before coming to them.
I might be misunderstanding you but, are you using MCC to run multiple accounts for your own use? If so, why do you have multiple...
The only thing that I think would matter is you would lose your keyword history, that would disrupt your quality scores for those keywords, which would affect your CPCs and positions. If the account hasn't been suspended and you've fixed all the things they weren't happy about, I wouldn't bother...
Kind of weak message to send as a digital agency. Wayfair does it better in their robot.txt. They turned their's into a recruitment opportunity.
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Google sheets ImportXML for very small runs, SeoToolsForExcel plugin can handle slightly larger jobs. nothing quite like what screaming frog can do though.
Example of how to do it in Google Sheets:
Column A
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/microsoft-xbox-one-s-500gb-minecraft-favorites-console-bundle-with-4k-ultra-hd-blu-ray-white/5613810.p?skuId=5613810
Column B
=CONCATENATE(IMPORTXML(A2, "//div[@class='price-column']/div[@class='item-price']"))
Google Sheets ImportXML function + XPath Helper Chrome plugin. Use the Xpath plugin to grab the price on the page, note this can be tricky if the site has varying product page types. Make a column of the urls you want to track, then use the ImportXML function to match your Xpath.
I've seen plugin this before but didn't realize that's what it was for. Thanks!
I will always welcome friendly reminders to make backups, I've been burned by my own forgetfulness and impatience before.
I'm building a client site that needs a load of purchased stock images, I'm using the watermarked comps until they approve them. Is there an easy way to later overwrite them with the purchased version? I'd like to preserve the placement, name and alt text in the post.
EDIT: Probably should have...
Do some research on content audits and technical seo audits. Moz is a good place to start: https://moz.com/blog/content-audit-tutorial
Ryan Stewart has a ton of actionable information: http://webris.org/how-to-perform-a-technical-seo-audit/
If you're performing an audit on a larger site you...
To Turbin's point being able to prove you have the mentality and work ethic speaks volumes. Demonstrate some of the keyword research, optimizations and outreach you've done on your site. If it's an in-house position, perform an audit on their site and do some keyword/competitor research for them...
Google once said they devalued content hidden behind tabs but have recently changed that (last November) due to the mobile first approach of web design. Using display:none on text that will later be shown by interacting with the site through JS is fine. Google is able interpret the javascript...