Feb 21, 2024

Unwanted traffic

jaap published thread Unwanted traffic

A client of mine experienced a lot of bot traffic. I found the source is gammatraffic.

How to stop this and block?

Feb 7, 2024

Advise asked

jaap replied to thread Advise asked

It depends :)

I found out that the software my client use is generating H1 tags. And because this my client didn't know, he was starting all his categories and products with a H1. The result is that almost every page has 2 instead of 1.

Today I fixed them all. So I'm waiting for the changes in the results.

Feb 5, 2024

Advise asked

jaap published thread Advise asked

I compared a shop with the biggest competitor using Spyglass. Can someone explain how I can achieve more organic traffic for my customer? The difference with the competitor is enormous, while the shop of my client scores better on several points. Could it be that technology is the culprit? And if so, how do I find out? Other tips are also welcome.

Well because placing an image here is a hell of a job I'll explain it in plain text. First my client then the competitor: Search words: 1277 - 642 Inlink rank: 18 - 3 Domain inlink: 63 - 14 Backlink: 6277 - 248 Traffic: 3798 - 12.837

Jan 28, 2024

SEO Question please

jaap replied to thread SEO Question please

Why not link all cities from the homepage? And from every city back to the homepage with different relevant anchor texts? A big site in the Netherlands has great results with this.

If you want to rank beter with a city, see if you can link also from another page well indexed. It should help.

Do Follow and No Follow External Link ?

jaap replied to thread Do Follow and No Follow External Link ?

It depends in my opinion, if you link to a high authority site it's also brings trust and value. If you disavow this link, it will not be followed, so you can't "tell" spiders that you want the best user experience. And yes, you lose some link juice.

I'm really interested in your test.

Jan 8, 2024

Delete, or Delete or Redirect?

jaap replied to thread Delete, or Delete or Redirect?

Absolutely correct @ms. But the opportunity to create redirection chains decreases by this method, in my experience.

Jan 5, 2024

Which one is better, Google or Bing?

jaap replied to thread Which one is better, Google or Bing?

Google, if I use Bing results are by far not as relevant.

Problem regarding SEO

jaap replied to thread Problem regarding SEO

Probably the script you use is causing the issue.

Delete, or Delete or Redirect?

jaap replied to thread Delete, or Delete or Redirect?

Check first if a page has traffic or backlinks. If not, redirecting is not beneficial.

Dec 13, 2023

Will below situation get caught by google and say I manipulate the Search Results?

jaap replied to thread Will below situation get caught by google and say I manipulate the Search Results?

It's a proven way, we also use it. However 80% similar content is reasonable high. Try to reduce it.

At least use a different heading, meta description and tags. If you use images, make at least this onze unique for both sites.

Or check it with a duplicate content tool, if it can be traced.

What will Happen to Ranked Pages When I Turn on Canonical Links

jaap replied to thread What will Happen to Ranked Pages When I Turn on Canonical Links

I would advice to turn them on. Duplicated content is a SEO killer. The crawl budget will be used more effective. Internal links will have more value.

It'll take some time, but then your rankings should go up.

Dec 1, 2023

Not seeing any traffic or ranking improvement after 9 months of doing SEO

jaap replied to thread Not seeing any traffic or ranking improvement after 9 months of doing SEO

Do you have visitors?<br><br> Do a technical audit<br> Use a heat map.<br> Use Search Console to see exit page, bounces.<br> Check CTR <br> Check load times of every page.<br> And don't forget high quality backlinks, backlinks, backlinks.

new and old domain

jaap replied to thread new and old domain

The impact of redirecting a domain is useful if the domain has incoming links with traffic. And there is relevance between the domains. Best practice is to redirect not the complete domain at once, but relevant pages. So a visitor gets where he is looking for.

Re: Spam on forum

jaap upvoted Re: Spam on forum

Removing quite a lot of spam and trash every day + banning users posting, but they just keep coming so we currently have automated spam solution in progress on our local dev branch. Need to fix few bugs as I don't want it to be greedy and remove lower quality yet authentic questions from real people. Hopefully this will air in two weeks, as I absolutely feel you @jaap

Coming back and seeing all the trash makes me crazy all the time.

Nov 25, 2023

Spam on forum

jaap published thread Spam on forum

I know the owner of the forum is a busy man. But the amount of spam on this forum is terrible. It reduces the fun reading and reacting. Isn't there a solution to avoid it, or to remove it faster?

Nov 24, 2023

SEO-bad backlinks

jaap replied to thread SEO-bad backlinks

Google will probably ignore these links, however to be sure I would disavow them anyway.

Nov 11, 2023

Algorithm Updates and Strategies

jaap replied to thread Algorithm Updates and Strategies

Invest in your content. Make it unique and give your visitors a good experience.

Has you engagement rate changed?

Can I add internal link from cornerstone page to other pages?

jaap replied to thread Can I add internal link from cornerstone page to other pages?

If the link is relevant and it's helpful for your visitors, just do it. Internal linking is a great way to enlarge your visitors dwell time. A lot of SEOs believe that Google does use dwell time as a ranking factor. It shows that your content is relevant to the search query. So it might give you, in time, a better result in the SERP.

Oct 27, 2023

Page Click

jaap replied to thread Page Click

Google finished rolling out the October 2023 spam update. Might be the reason.

Oct 23, 2023

News Aggregator

jaap replied to thread News Aggregator

For SEO there's no value. Keep also in mind that you make a lot of effort to get visitors to your site. Offering links to leave are not always very helpful.

I would rewrite interesting news and publish it at your blog. So visitors will stay where you want them to be.

Subpages are not found, although they should be indexed

jaap replied to thread Subpages are not found, although they should be indexed

Hi Stefan,

We have a spam score of 22% Is it a domain used before? Do you have pages with plenty of (internal) links?

Check you backlinks, page speed, quality of content.

Check if you have a penalty, find out here more info: npointseo.com/blog/google-penalty-checker-tools

Please Help Me. I lost all my ranking - SEO

jaap replied to thread Please Help Me. I lost all my ranking - SEO

Check your backlinks, I had a Bing penalty before. Disavow toxic backlinks should be your first step.

Oct 18, 2023

Visibility difference desktop versus mobile

jaap published thread Visibility difference desktop versus mobile

For a client I have to improve ranking. His desktop visibility score is 93% His mobile visibility score is 0%

I checked all elements for mobile and can't find issues. Anybody can help?

Oct 13, 2023

Listing within Main Listing Ranking above the Main Listing.

jaap replied to thread Listing within Main Listing Ranking above the Main Listing.

Place a link in your text on Blood Bank Kailash Hospital to Kailash Hospital & Heart Institute with the exact anchor. If this doesn't work, make another link like this from another page.

Or de-optimize the page Blood Bank Kailash Hospital by removing Kailash Hospital for example from the h1 or title.

Sep 11, 2023

Why do I get zero impressions?

jaap replied to thread Why do I get zero impressions?

There are to backlinks pointing to this URL. First solve this with some high quality, relevant ones.

Check you competitors, there backlinks are a good signal where to find them. And which ones you need to rank high. Pay attention to the anchor text.

Also a good internal link structure is important. If this is cornerstone content, a link from the homepage would help too.

Do external links matter in search engine rankings?

jaap replied to thread Do external links matter in search engine rankings?

If they are relevant and gives the visitor beter or more information, yes.

Aug 17, 2023

301 redirect page from product page from another website home?

jaap replied to thread 301 redirect page from product page from another website home?

Is your plan to remove website A in the future? And focus all on B? Or you've another strategy?

Pruning pages

jaap published thread Pruning pages

My client and I are having a conversation. He wants to prune a lot of his blog pages. In itself a good idea to merge almost the same content, we agree.

However, there are a number of pages that are very similar, but highlight a subject slightly differently. As a result, not 1 but 2 pages are shown in the searches for a certain position. He also wants to merge these.

For the low positions in the SERP, I agree with him. However, he also wants this for the pages that together occupy positions two in the search results. And here we differ.

My idea is that a duplicate listing should be kept at position 2, and brought to position 1 with some support from backlinks. He thinks position 1 will move faster with the merging of both.

I am very curious about your opinion.

Aug 15, 2023

Removing AMP from webshop

jaap replied to thread Removing AMP from webshop

No, I'll wait some weeks to disable AMP. First all 301 redirects should be indexed properly.

Jul 28, 2023

Can anyone help me improve the SEO of this blog post?

jaap replied to thread Can anyone help me improve the SEO of this blog post?

1) Make quality content for readers, not for Google. 2) Search intent (ahrefs.com/blog/search-intent/) 2) Relevant backlinks (internal and external) 3) Optimize meta tags 4) Remove site technical issues

why my website showing .com in same line?

jaap replied to thread why my website showing .com in same line?

See the answer of @binayjha. Otherwise share the URL

Jul 27, 2023

Removing AMP from webshop

jaap replied to thread Removing AMP from webshop

Will wait till all is indexed before deleting the amp module.

Thanks for the info!

Removing AMP from webshop

jaap replied to thread Removing AMP from webshop

Super, al amp pages are redirect to the original ones with 301 In .htaccess with

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/amp(.*)$ 
RewriteRule ^ %1/ [R=301,L]

Shopify website Out of stock query

jaap replied to thread Shopify website Out of stock query

It depends, Out of stock products are very good conversion killers. So I would advice to have a proper stock management.

If the product will be back in a month, probably this you have to mention in the stock status. Giving the client the opportunity to buy it anyway. with the notification that the delivery will be within a month is an option. But very depending on the type of product you sell, whether this is accepted.

Never remove a returning the product! If a product will be sold out for ever, you can with a 301 to a relevant page.

why my website showing .com in same line?

jaap replied to thread why my website showing .com in same line?

You means the URL is in the SERP and not the name?

Removing AMP from webshop

jaap published thread Removing AMP from webshop

A shop installed AMP. I see the mobile conversion going down, more than 15%

So the owner wants to get it removed. However the pages are indexed well in Google.

Is the best solution to redirect every AMP page to the original one in .htaccess? Or is there a better solution?

The structure of the URL is like: index.php?route=product/amp_product&product_id=230 index.php?route=product/amp_product&product_id=231 index.php?route=product/amp_product&product_id=232

So redirecting complete maps isn't possible.

Already read : kinsta.com/blog/disable-google-amp/ but it's about Wordpress.

Help appreciated!

Jul 24, 2023

Website ranks first when spelt incorrectly, but doesn't rank at all when spelt correctly

jaap replied to thread Website ranks first when spelt incorrectly, but doesn't rank at all when spelt correctly

Don't change the domain, it's not needed. In time you'll be found.

If you do have a lot of content, it might help to optimize your internal inking with the keyword 'the world over'

Also linking from social networks with a EKM will help.

More important is to rank for LTKW like The beaches in the Gower for your page aworldover.com/the-beaches-in-the-gower-you-need-to-visit/

At the end of this page you have a link to your blog> "Want more travel ideas? Then head to the blog where you’ll find all of my travel content" You might change it into: "Want more travel ideas? Then head to the blog of a world over where you’ll find all of my travel content"

Forum downtime

jaap replied to thread Forum downtime

Good you forgot, means you are busy.

Jul 20, 2023

BING penalty

jaap replied to thread BING penalty

Disavowing links helped, back in 5 day's

Jul 9, 2023

BING penalty

jaap published thread BING penalty

A client website has a Bing penalty. However I suppose he has. There's no notification in his webmaster tools. But no page is found anymore, only his business profile.

Spammy links were disavowed for Google but not for Bing

I uploaded all these to the Bing disavow tool.

Can anything else be done?

Jul 3, 2023

Indexing discrepancies in site: and GSC

jaap replied to thread Indexing discrepancies in site: and GSC

Is your site map up to date?

How many variant articles of a product can I create?

jaap replied to thread How many variant articles of a product can I create?

As long as the content is unique and focusing on a particular subject you can write an article. Perhaps a category page (how to choose the best tent for your needs) with all these pages will help your visitors to find the needed information fast. Keep the user intent in mind.

Which is more effective between off-page SEO or on-page SEO?

jaap replied to thread Which is more effective between off-page SEO or on-page SEO?

Both are important. And one can't be successful without the other.

A SEO optimized site with technical problems will rank lower. A perfect fast loading site without backlinks will have the same issue.

A Ferrari looks like a fast car, however with a sewing machine engine inside it'll run slow.

Jun 17, 2023

How do you handle SEO for an e-commerce website?

jaap replied to thread How do you handle SEO for an e-commerce website?

Search intent of your targeted audience is important. Keyword research gives you the answers your audience is looking for. Provide them with the best high quality answer.

Divide your audience in 2 groups transactional and informational. And provide them both with relevant content.

Jun 10, 2023

Setup my backlink

jaap replied to thread Setup my backlink

Create a page link partners. But no link from your index to this page.

And keep in mind: With a reciprocal link there is a consideration, so these links do not count in the backlink profile. They do have a certain value for SEO, but this impact is not that great. By exchanging mutual links, websites can generate more traffic and benefit from each other's popularity.

Jun 6, 2023

Newbie totally confused about picking keywords for travel blog

jaap replied to thread Newbie totally confused about picking keywords for travel blog

"But picking these SAME keyphrases over and over for each page, does that make sense?"

No, is the simple answer.

For your articles you use long term keywords. Your page " "How to pick a tour of Iran that fits your personality?" is a perfect example. Optimize it for example for the long tail: how to pick a tour in Iran? In this article you put 2 or 3 links, some to other relevant pages and 1 to your homepage with your main keyword travel to Iran.

Writing other pages use different phrases to link to your homepage, not only travel to Iran, it's not natural for search engines.

Don't write for SEO tools, but for your audience. Find out where they look for and give them the best information. If you do like this, you'll also find out that other webmasters will link to your articles.

Jun 1, 2023

Best Tools for Keyword research in 2023?

jaap replied to thread Best Tools for Keyword research in 2023?

Another great source are your customers. By asking with which keywords they search.

If a keyword could be styled as either one or two words, should I try to rank for both?

jaap replied to thread If a keyword could be styled as either one or two words, should I try to rank for both?

Mix the words through the content, Google will understand. Start your text fe with Floor plan or floorplanning is.... And use both in the meta.

May 29, 2023

Site issues

jaap replied to thread Site issues

The site isn't finished. Visiting the tab SHIPPING & DELIVERY on product/bounce-back-pillows gives me a beautiful text in Latin. Best receipt to scare people away.

Technical issues on mobile are killing your work. Optimize your images first, your speed index is 6.9 (PageSpeed Insights) Why not use WebP?

There's a lot of thin content. Find out the search intent of your target audience and explain why they should buy exactly your product. Benefits, solution for sweat, neck or anything relative. Convince them to buy!

May 16, 2023

GMB has crashed my site

jaap replied to thread GMB has crashed my site

I had a situation like this once.

Publishing regular images and news at GMB helped also to regain trust.

May 11, 2023

2 Shops how to gain more visitors?

jaap replied to thread 2 Shops how to gain more visitors?

Customer uses Adwords.

Backlinks I'm busy with, however the client's budget is very limited.

I suggested him to improve also his internal linking.

Still remains the question: What would your first step be to improve traffic in this case?

May 7, 2023

Will Irrelevant or Not-closely-relevant Website Contents Hurt the SEO?

jaap replied to thread Will Irrelevant or Not-closely-relevant Website Contents Hurt the SEO?

I think these articles are a way to show authority about the subject.

It's more about site structure. I would link from this articles to product pages, with in the text close to the link a explanation about the solution you offer with this product.

Probably to test, you can place this articles a level more down from the homepage? And no back links to these articles from home page or product pages (suppose you haven't). Only from other articles.

If your articles rank this well, write more about your products?

May 5, 2023

2 Shops how to gain more visitors?

jaap published thread 2 Shops how to gain more visitors?

I'm busy for a client with a shop He wants to outrank his competitor. Let call his shop A Competitor Shop B

Keywords 3.1K (A) 2.4K (B) DA 17 (A) 14(B) Backlinks and quality BL 4K and 958 629 and 44 (B) Performance mob-desktop 61-98 (A) 56-93 (B)

In all above shop A wins. But now look at the traffic 2,8K (A) 6K (B)

What would your first step be to improve traffic? I'm now busy to optimize his most profitable keywords, and add links from his blog to relevant articles in the shop. And some technical improvements for mobile.

It's a start but not enough

Apr 30, 2023

How Long It Takes to Rank a Blog with Long Tail Keywords.

jaap replied to thread How Long It Takes to Rank a Blog with Long Tail Keywords.

Content is king, keep publishing high quality content frequently. Results depends on your niche, competition, backlinks, authority, internal links, technical SEO, and some 200 other factors. Success!

Website ranking is down

jaap replied to thread Website ranking is down

Sharing you URL makes it more easy to give advice.

Website redesign without redirects - huge break-in in impressions and ranking, why?

jaap replied to thread Website redesign without redirects - huge break-in in impressions and ranking, why?

I would suggest that any removed indexed page should have a 301 redirect. If there's no proper page to link to, link to the homepage.

Conversions in GA4 without amount

jaap published thread Conversions in GA4 without amount

GA-4 set up for one of my stores is not functional. The amount of conversions is visible, however without the order amount. So practically useless...

Anybody has any clue?

Apr 6, 2023

how to get traffic on my Instagram page and videos?

jaap replied to thread how to get traffic on my Instagram page and videos?

A planning tool to schedule posts regularly would perhaps help you. Later and Buffer are just two of many.

My site is not getting indexed. Help.

jaap replied to thread My site is not getting indexed. Help.

Improve UX first. All these broken links in your menu don't help.

Internal linking will help

What are the most important keywords?

Apr 1, 2023

Hey Everyone can you suggest me Indexing tricks (:

jaap replied to thread Hey Everyone can you suggest me Indexing tricks (:

Share new pages on socials Build quality backlinks Link new pages from index page and other relevant pages

SEO and speaking URLs

jaap replied to thread SEO and speaking URLs

Fix your canonical URL problem

best site to buy Facebook likes?

jaap replied to thread best site to buy Facebook likes?

There's is a much more cheaper way to get likes. Advertise on FB an target countries with the lowest costs.

Duplicate Contents in Order Pages of Multiple Products

jaap replied to thread Duplicate Contents in Order Pages of Multiple Products

You can't have a page where to order all products and from your landing pages a direct link to order the specific product? Would make it all much more flexible.

Mar 22, 2023

Duplicate Contents in Order Pages of Multiple Products

jaap replied to thread Duplicate Contents in Order Pages of Multiple Products

I do agree, after looking at your site, with @binayjha. One order page should work best.

Try to make per product a unique landing page with rich content. Well-optimized titles and metadata can avoid duplicate content warnings.

Why not a landing page for PowerPoint Recovery How to recover your Powerpoint presentation?

And for PDF Repair Easy repair all your PDF files

There's enough to write about all the tools you offer.

Mar 17, 2023

Re: How to improve SEO ranking for my site?

jaap upvoted Re: How to improve SEO ranking for my site?

We're deleting tons of questions like yours.

You have to provide details. The better description of your question => the more helpful answer you can get.

Google Considers Reducing Webpage Crawl Rate

jaap replied to thread Google Considers Reducing Webpage Crawl Rate

Still I think it's again a signal that quality will be even more important. Not only back links, but dwell time and bounce rate will become more leading factors. Crawling is an expensive hobby :-)

How to improve SEO ranking for my site?

jaap replied to thread How to improve SEO ranking for my site?

What have you already done for this? It's hard to answer if we don't know your goals.

Google Considers Reducing Webpage Crawl Rate

jaap published thread Google Considers Reducing Webpage Crawl Rate

Google may reduce the frequency of crawling webpages as it grows more conscious of the sustainability of crawling and indexing.

This topic is discussed by Google’s Search Relations team, which is made up of John Mueller, Martin Splitt, and Gary Illyes.

searchenginejournal.com/google-crawl-rate/434265/

Mar 12, 2023

How to increase Domain Authority in a short span

jaap replied to thread How to increase Domain Authority in a short span
  1. Write an in-depth high-quality article about your nice to become an authority on the subject
  2. Start a newsletter subscription
  3. Share your articles on social media (good content will be shared)
  4. Internal links to relevant content (siloing works great)
  5. Start with number 1 again
Mar 1, 2023

Why with same keywords, I am getting different results?

jaap replied to thread Why with same keywords, I am getting different results?

You used the word virgins 18x, virgin only twice. So the SERP are based on your input.

Feb 26, 2023
Feb 20, 2023

How to start learning SEO

jaap replied to thread How to start learning SEO

Another one worth reading ahrefs.com/blog/seo-basics/

Backlink starter

jaap replied to thread Backlink starter

I'm not a supporter of reciprocal links. If somebody wants a link back, I place it on another domain. My money site is not giving away link juice.

There are also free backlink checkers, they'll give you info on where your competitors do have a link from.

Before applying for a link, check the website for DA spam score, etc. Never offer immediately a backlink in return. If your content is worth reading for the visitors of the site, often it's not even needed.

Feb 13, 2023

Why different website showing different result.?

jaap replied to thread Why different website showing different result.?

GTmetrix offers a free account where you can change the location. A paid account offers even more locations.

Feb 7, 2023

Google's Reply to ChatGPT: Bard

jaap replied to thread Google's Reply to ChatGPT: Bard

Don't you think that because both ChatGPT and Bard scrap information, traffic to websites will decrease? We already see this trend through the Google 0 position and this development will reinforce it.

Feb 3, 2023

Re: Sub Domain Ranking issues

jaap upvoted Re: Sub Domain Ranking issues
  1. The blog section can be used on the domain itself. There is no need to move it on a subdomain as in current case. You should consider it so that URLs shouldn't change.
  2. Hope all old URLs have been redirected permanently to the respective new URLs
  3. Hope The Google Search Console is not showing errors to be fixed.

Duplicate H Headings?

jaap replied to thread Duplicate H Headings?

In the source code of the index page , I found Why Choose Real Estate Finance Group?

UK guest post sites

jaap replied to thread UK guest post sites

Perhaps you'll find here something? seosandwitch.com/guest-posting-sites-uk/

Is it necessary to make backlinks on those website which is from same niche

jaap replied to thread Is it necessary to make backlinks on those website which is from same niche

Keep in mind that relevance is a strong signal to SE. Like @ms said before stay in your niche. So real estate, finance, builders f.e., dependable of your website content

Jan 31, 2023

Current title is not in serp

jaap replied to thread Current title is not in serp

Give it some time. If the old result is showing up, the new info isn't indexed yet.

What to do with deleted product pages

jaap replied to thread What to do with deleted product pages

Just deleting products is a tricky business. If they have backlinks or were indexed I always prefer a 301. Or to a related product, otherwise to the homepage.

Jan 29, 2023

Yandex ‘leak’ reveals 1,922 search ranking factors

jaap published thread Yandex ‘leak’ reveals 1,922 search ranking factors

Interesting for a better understanding of search engines,

searchengineland.com/yandex-search-ranking-factors-leak-392323

Jan 27, 2023

Does doing SEO Activities in Day or Night affect a USA-based website?

jaap replied to thread Does doing SEO Activities in Day or Night affect a USA-based website?

SEO activities are a long continuous process. Changes made will only be implemented in search results once a bot has crawled the site. Compare it to placing a backlink, which is only valuable for the SEO after a bot has visited. The time for optimizing is not important at all.

Jan 23, 2023

Which one is the best SEO technique for Real Estate Agency?

jaap replied to thread Which one is the best SEO technique for Real Estate Agency?

Content. What is your visitor's search intent? Fulfill it!

Social Bookmarking Issue, Please Solve this Issue

jaap replied to thread Social Bookmarking Issue, Please Solve this Issue

Bookmark sites you find on expert-seo-training-institute.in/blog/social-bookmarking-websites-list/2/ Some should work?

Oct 28, 2022

Need no follow links

jaap published thread Need no follow links

For a Dutch shop, I need no-follow backlinks. The owner's link profile is a mess.

Should be placed drop by drop, about 15 monthly. Is anybody familiar with a service like this?

DA mix between 20-40 will do.

Oct 26, 2022
Oct 14, 2022

Migrating a page to different domain on multiple pages and keeping the authority

jaap replied to thread Migrating a page to different domain on multiple pages and keeping the authority

My advice is don't split. Make it cornerstone content. Create perfect navigation. Support the article with some good backlinks and a link from the homepage.

(Did you spy on your top 3 competitors for the main keyword(s)?

My blogging website pages not indexing on google

jaap replied to thread My blogging website pages not indexing on google

Disavow the URLs of the questionable pages or domains that link to your website.

Image elements do not have explicit width and height.

Speed Index 9.7 s (For UX much too slow)

Did you think about how to deal with internal links? Don't see a good structure. Perhaps it's automatized?

Oct 11, 2022

Migrating a page to different domain on multiple pages and keeping the authority

jaap replied to thread Migrating a page to different domain on multiple pages and keeping the authority

A long text doesn't mean you should break it up into pieces. What is the benefit you try to achieve with this?

What a long text need is an index after the introduction. So visitors will find fast the needed information.

After publishing you give the old page a 301.

How to speed up the success rate of this SEO forum by 5x?

jaap replied to thread How to speed up the success rate of this SEO forum by 5x?

Ignore my last post here, found the button last posts :)

Oct 6, 2022

How to speed up the success rate of this SEO forum by 5x?

jaap replied to thread How to speed up the success rate of this SEO forum by 5x?

Blog posts can be a good option if they are moderated by @ms before publishing. So no spam links etc. Content should be high quality and really add something. This way you can create a knowledge base worth visiting.

Good point @binayjha

Why does some lower Authority Score websites rank higher?

jaap replied to thread Why does some lower Authority Score websites rank higher?

Relevant excellent content is King. Also, optimize your title and description tag. CTR is an important factor to rank higher A high CTR shows SE you offer relevant content if you don't spoil it with a high bounce rate :-).

What is the first things you look when taking over a website?

jaap replied to thread What is the first things you look when taking over a website?
  1. Technique
  2. Content
  3. Popularity

Some tools/info to start:

Jul 20, 2022
Jul 8, 2022

Web 2.0 Backlinks is valuable for website?

jaap replied to thread Web 2.0 Backlinks is valuable for website?

Any backlink is valuable in SEO. @binayjha No way

Jun 27, 2022

Twitter and Google ranking

jaap replied to thread Twitter and Google ranking

When Google sees your website's strong social signals, it rates your website as a reliable resource for the search keywords your content is vying for. Twitter is a top choice for a social media platform to boost your website because of its active users' wide range.

https://semupdates.com/how-twitter-helps-boost-your-websites-seo/

May 18, 2022

On Page SEO Audit Tool

jaap replied to thread On Page SEO Audit Tool

The result I got:

Request Timeout This request takes too long to process, it is timed out by the server. If it should not be timed out, please contact administrator of this web site to increase 'Connection Timeout'.

May 6, 2022

Will tip you if you can answer this: How can I get REAL visitors to my Tumblr link?

jaap replied to thread Will tip you if you can answer this: How can I get REAL visitors to my Tumblr link?

There are many ways. Question is: "what for you need them?"

  • Sales
  • Interaction
  • Or anything else
Apr 28, 2022

SEO Help Required for My Website

jaap replied to thread SEO Help Required for My Website
  1. seo competitor analysis
  2. content gaps
  3. siloing
  4. internal linking

Which is the best way to get the knowledge panel schema for my website ?

jaap replied to thread Which is the best way to get the knowledge panel schema for my website ?

Make a better and more accurate description of the subject than the current one

How to setup RSS feed for the website?

jaap replied to thread How to setup RSS feed for the website?

Need more details, which CMS?

Apr 27, 2022
Apr 17, 2022

maximum and minimun how many keyword on target per page?

jaap replied to thread maximum and minimun how many keyword on target per page?

It depends,

text size synonyms subject competition etc.

Apr 16, 2022
Mar 18, 2022

switch from woocommerce to blogging

jaap replied to thread switch from woocommerce to blogging

Everythng affects SEO.....

Redirect (301) indexed store URLs to relevant content on your blog.

Continuous backlink spam

jaap replied to thread Continuous backlink spam

If you do SEO for a business, you should know? Disavow the links.

Mar 14, 2022

How to increase more traffic?

jaap replied to thread How to increase more traffic?

-Content

  • Relevant high DR backlins
  • Siloing
  • Guest posts
  • Social marketing
  • Google Core Web Vitals
  • etc, etc, .... Like @reepress told already, if you have no knowledge get it or buy it.
Feb 17, 2022

Will it be useful to break keyword in building links?

jaap replied to thread Will it be useful to break keyword in building links?

Beter then breaking words is using synonyms. Why not use FE retrieve deleted emails and restore emails?

Update old articles or create new ones?

jaap replied to thread Update old articles or create new ones?

Rewrite your articles and link to other relevant articles. If dwell time improves, your rankings will too.

Increase amount of traffic

jaap replied to thread Increase amount of traffic
  1. Your performance in Lightspeed is 63, improve it.
  2. Improve internal linking
  3. Make your blog articles more in dept
  4. Explain the problem you solve and give the best answer so you appear in Featured Snippet results.
Jan 31, 2022

sub-directories in my website

jaap replied to thread sub-directories in my website

For the best results, use siloing.

Jan 8, 2022

KW Research

jaap replied to thread KW Research

Depending on your target audience.

Dec 21, 2021
Dec 8, 2021

Should I move to M.dot sites?

jaap replied to thread Should I move to M.dot sites?

It's more work, m-Dot site has its own URL. So it does not share link juice the way a responsive design website would across multiple devices. Updating will also bring more work, content must be modified in two places, the mobile version as well as the desktop version. However, m-Dot site can improve your mobile conversion rates.

Dec 6, 2021

Where to add more contents to hompage to make it not "thin contents"?

jaap replied to thread Where to add more contents to hompage to make it not "thin contents"?

You don't have to agree. I've several nr. 1 postions with pages like this.

If your page is technical optimised, gives the best answer to a question and has enough good backlinks it works.

Dec 5, 2021

Where to add more contents to hompage to make it not "thin contents"?

jaap replied to thread Where to add more contents to hompage to make it not "thin contents"?

If you can explain in 10 words what you offer on the homepage, 11 words are too many. The visitor's intention is to find the right information. If you offer it, it will be good.

Just make sure that visitors from the homepage click through to the next page for more information, or for the product. To avoid bounces.

Google will then see that you have a low bounce rate and will rank you higher in the search results.

The only drawback of low content is the low dwell time.

200 redirects for keywords instead of 301s

jaap replied to thread 200 redirects for keywords instead of 301s

200 Code informs about successful processing of the request. 200 Isn't a redirect, but a response that the page works correct.

Nov 28, 2021

What are some of the best practices to be followed for successful LinkedIn marketing?

jaap replied to thread What are some of the best practices to be followed for successful LinkedIn marketing?

How can I improve my marketing strategy on LinkedIn? These 7 tips will help you do just that. Turn your company page into a lead generation page. In order to make leads from LinkedIn, you have to be intentional. ... Create a Showcase page. ... Use Advanced Search. ... Save searches. ... Search Groups. ... Start groups. ... Publish content.

https://neilpatel.com/blog/linkedin-strategies-b2b-marketing/

Zero Traffic

jaap replied to thread Zero Traffic

With this amount of visitors it's a new website I suppose? Just go on with adding high quality content. Check Google Search Console for mistakes. Check your site speed with https://gtmetrix.com Add a lot of quality back links And your vsitors will return and grow

Nov 23, 2021

What is black hat SEO

jaap replied to thread What is black hat SEO

Black hat SEO refers to a set of practices that are used to increases a site or page's rank in search engines through means that violate the search engines' terms of service.

  1. Invisible Text. Invisible text is any text that search engines can read, but users can not.
  2. Doorway Pages. Doorway pages are pages on a website that are loaded with keywords but have poor page content.
  3. Keyword Stuffing.
  4. Code Swapping. Code swapping is submitting a text-only version of a web page to the search engines in an effort to gain high rankings for that page. Once the desired positions within the search engines are achieved, the search engine-friendly text page is swapped out for a content page designed for human visitors.
Nov 11, 2021
Nov 4, 2021
Oct 1, 2021

how i rank my website

jaap replied to thread how i rank my website

Perhaps thin content?

Sep 18, 2021
Sep 15, 2021

Issue with URL Parameters

jaap replied to thread Issue with URL Parameters

The question do you want and even more important, your visitors duplicate titles and meta descriptions? UX is to impotant to ignore.

Google will index the best result, so probably only 1.

It's very bad practice to keep your current situation.

Sep 3, 2021

Issue with URL Parameters

jaap replied to thread Issue with URL Parameters

Sorry don't understand the question.

Is it about dynamic links or content?

Can anyone recommend good topics for my blog?

jaap replied to thread Can anyone recommend good topics for my blog?
  1. what to include in my website blog?

Information your readers want, and beter then your competitors

  1. should I direct all my posts at Honduras or should I aim to target people outside the country?

How Hondurans living abroad find your site?

Issue with URL Parameters

jaap replied to thread Issue with URL Parameters

There's no way to edit the meta data for a dynamic link, right?

Right!

Sep 2, 2021

Issue with URL Parameters

jaap replied to thread Issue with URL Parameters

Looks to me like a dynamic link, generated after f.e. a search. This generates the query string.

Aug 26, 2021

Help! Image SEO for ecommerce?

jaap replied to thread Help! Image SEO for ecommerce?

If you use multiple product photos, this is a good way to use different synonyms in your ALT texts. In this way you not only make it clear to the search engine exactly which product you offer. This also improves visibility in Google image search.

Aug 18, 2021

category pages v pages

jaap replied to thread category pages v pages

@ms point 1 I really would advice you to compare the bounce rate of the two pages too. With UX in mind the dwell tima is another factor to check.

Point 3 Agree, optimize both for different keywords. Link from the smaller to the bigger page with the keyword you want to optimize.

Or if you want to make the smaller more important vice versa

category pages v pages

jaap replied to thread category pages v pages

Not an easy question. For a good answer somebody has to reserve at least an hour. Depends of many factors.

Aug 15, 2021

cms trouble to enter

jaap replied to thread cms trouble to enter

You can simply go to the login screen and click on the 'Lost your password' link. Clicking on it takes you to password reset page where you can enter your username or email address to reset the password. After that WordPress sends a password reset link to the email address associated with that user account.

Otherwise add a new user via phpmyadmin

Aug 14, 2021
Aug 13, 2021

Non-user friendly product urls

jaap replied to thread Non-user friendly product urls

The navigation must have a clear structure. Look at the users and search intent and adjust your URL structure accordingly.

  • Are the keywords included in the URL?
  • Do the most important search terms appear in the URL?
  • Can the URL be shorter?
  • Are there other URLs that also have these search terms?
  • Don't do keyword stuffing
  • Is the URL clear ?
  • Is the URL no more than 3 layers deep ?
Aug 11, 2021

Keywords for a New concept

jaap replied to thread Keywords for a New concept

The results of my link are not comparable at all?

There are a number of similarities, through which some research on these websites can give you more insight.

Otherwise, you'll need to do a complete keyword research.

Duplicate content or shared pages

jaap replied to thread Duplicate content or shared pages

My first thought. 1 landing page for both. And a link to both product pages.

People like to compare things. So make the landing page content ricc with all the details and the differences.. And explain for which applications each printer is the perfect choice

Aug 10, 2021

Keywords for a New concept

jaap replied to thread Keywords for a New concept

See what your competitors are doing

Are gambling links relevant to a videogame website?

jaap replied to thread Are gambling links relevant to a videogame website?

Did you check the spam score and toxic score of this sites? They are really famous for it.

The relevance between gambling and gaming is discussable.

Aug 9, 2021
Aug 6, 2021

confuse about my web

jaap replied to thread confuse about my web

Create and submit a 'disavow' file to Google to ignore those links.

Aug 4, 2021

SEO link strategy for five article posts I purchased

jaap replied to thread SEO link strategy for five article posts I purchased

Absolutely agree,

Common mistake is to link mainly to the homepage. Relevance is very important. A sudden grow of high authority backlinks is bad. They'll be useless, because they'll be considered as paid ones.

Jul 29, 2021

How do create a quality back links

jaap replied to thread How do create a quality back links

By publishing high quality content worth sharing.

My website URLs not indexing?

jaap replied to thread My website URLs not indexing?

You've 68 indexed pages

Your internal ranking probably needs to be optimized. Another possible solution is siloing.

To give a more accurate answer, a complete analysis of the website is needed.

Can you place your robot.txt fil here?

Jul 25, 2021

SEO URL title is it important

jaap replied to thread SEO URL title is it important

> I cannot use the camp sites name as they will not all be unique.

In fact I would try really (almost) anything to have good looking URL's. Not only for SEO but also UX.

If there are 3 campsites with the same name, why not make your URL's like: website/the-pilot-inn-kent website/the-pilot-inn-derby website/the-pilot-inn-boston

Jul 23, 2021

SEO tool recommendation for Small and Medium enterprises at affordable price

jaap replied to thread SEO tool recommendation for Small and Medium enterprises at affordable price

Wel with fewer than 10 installations on Wordpress it isn't the most populair option. Don't know the quality.

SEO tool recommendation for Small and Medium enterprises at affordable price

jaap replied to thread SEO tool recommendation for Small and Medium enterprises at affordable price

There are plenty of tools to choose from, free and paid. All with various options and the corresponding prices. I once made a small overview of both free and paid SEO tools. Maybe there's something in there for you.

Jul 21, 2021

hreflang tag for very unique international website

jaap replied to thread hreflang tag for very unique international website

If you have several alternate URLs targeted at users with the same language but in different locales, it's a good idea also to provide a catchall URL for geographically unspecified users of that language.

For example, you may have specific URLs for English speakers in Ireland (en-ie), Canada (en-ca), and Australia (en-au), but should also provide a generic English (en) page for searchers in, say, the US, UK, and all other English-speaking locations. It can be one of the specific pages, if you choose

Source and more info

First campaign and badly chosen keywords

jaap replied to thread First campaign and badly chosen keywords

Studies have shown that organic searches are 8.5x more likely to be clicked while paid search results are 1.5x more likely to be converted through the search engine. Question is if your organic searches generate a healthy conversion? If not, first fix this.

A low organic conversion rate will make your ads to expensive. Also focus on long tail, this may avoid schoolboys to find you..... Long-tail keywords are longer and more specific keyword phrases that visitors are more likely to use when they're closer to a point-of-purchase.

To protect your budget you can also consider a tool like Clickcease.

Jul 15, 2021

How can I get people to participate in my Expert Round-up Post?

jaap replied to thread How can I get people to participate in my Expert Round-up Post?

Why should an expert take time to add content to your blog? Are there good reasons for this? If you can find this reasons then perhaps you can find somebody.

Jul 1, 2021

Submitting of large sitemap dropped my rankings

jaap replied to thread Submitting of large sitemap dropped my rankings

Another reason can be a sitemap bug.

Jun 25, 2021

To find the best way to create quality backlink

jaap replied to thread To find the best way to create quality backlink

This depends on your niche. Some niches can write perfect content, which will be linked by others. If your niche is very commercial, this method often does not work. Then you can consider buying links. Guest blogging is also a great way to get more backlinks.

A first good move is to spy on your competitors, and see where their backlinks are coming from.

Keep your back links relevant!

Selected keywords you rank with a anchor. Use synonyms for a lot of diversity.

Jun 21, 2021
Jun 17, 2021

Is it a good thing that I take this domain name in my niche?

jaap replied to thread Is it a good thing that I take this domain name in my niche?

When you've found a correct domain name, check if it's indexed by Google by doing a Google search for “site:www.examplesite.com”. You can also search for “www.examplesite.com” to see how often Google encounters this domain name on other websites. Check if the domain name has a “spam” score. You can check this with the free tool opensiteexplorer.org. The higher the spam score, the greater the chance of inbound links from spam websites. Check in Google if there has been negative publicity around the brand.

Jun 15, 2021
Jun 14, 2021

No rankings from 6 Months

jaap replied to thread No rankings from 6 Months

It always depends on many factors. You cannot successfully compare one keyword with another that has a good position in the search results. Where one word has only little competition, this can completely differ for another word, so that the approach for ranking will be different.

Quick solutions are often fairytales. Seo is a long road without end.

SEO problem

jaap replied to thread SEO problem

common sense

Jun 13, 2021

my website is rank 25.how to rank top 5

jaap replied to thread my website is rank 25.how to rank top 5

At least I can't answer questions that contain so little information. It's like someone asks me, I drive an old Volvo now, how can I drive a Maserati?

In general, you rank higher if you offer more value to your visitors than the competition. Because there are hundreds of ranking factors, it is impossible to give a comprehensive answer to your question. This requires a thorough analysis of the website, keywords, competition, technology, etc.

Jun 10, 2021

No rankings from 6 Months

jaap replied to thread No rankings from 6 Months

Your "supplements to boost immune system" is in 3 alt tags only. Google can consider this as keyword stuffing. Try to add it also in your decscription. and in one H2 tag. If this is the main keyword for the page, add it in your meta tags too. Then link from another page with the exact text to your page. And if possible with some varitions from other pages.

A few backlinks from relevant high authority domains will do the rest.

No rankings from 6 Months

jaap replied to thread No rankings from 6 Months

To start somewhere let's take your long tail key word "supplements to boost immune system". Which page should rank for this?

Jun 8, 2021

Buy free domain and redirect to main domain. Is it safe?

jaap replied to thread Buy free domain and redirect to main domain. Is it safe?

It depends... Carefully look at the history of the new domain first.

Jun 6, 2021

Why is My article not ranking?

jaap replied to thread Why is My article not ranking?

Compare with your competitors. F.e.

https://theinterviewguys.com/low-stress-jobs/

has 1294 backlinks from 56 domains (DR 56). Your site has 21 backlinks from only 13 domains (DR26).

More relevant back links are needed for sure.

Promising a client to rank soon is a challenge if your competitors are for long time ranking on a keyword. So use also an internal linking strategy to speed up things.

Why is My article not ranking?

jaap replied to thread Why is My article not ranking?

Try to improve your technical seo. Lighthouse gives points to improve.

With Google's mobile first in mind f.e. your CLS is much to high. UX is a major ranking factor, so improve your performance first.

Jun 2, 2021

51 links on this page have no anchor text

jaap replied to thread 51 links on this page have no anchor text

Should be visible in the source code. Otherwise provide a link to the page.

Jun 1, 2021

51 links on this page have no anchor text

jaap replied to thread 51 links on this page have no anchor text

If you know what an anchor text is? Solving shouldn't be too hard?

Otherwise read first about anchor text

Can PageRank drop significantly after server error?

jaap replied to thread Can PageRank drop significantly after server error?

Can PageRank drop significantly after server error? Yes, it's the perfect recipe for a 100% bounce rate.

A signal for Google your content isn't what people are looking for. So your rankings will drop.

Recovery takes serious time. Change the publication date of some articles to today. Giving 1 or 2 articles a lift in this way every day can contribute to a faster recovery.

May 31, 2021

URLs for ecommerce site

jaap replied to thread URLs for ecommerce site

A semantically accurate URL is the best. There's nothing wrong with yours. ![SEO best practices for URLs](https://moz-static.s3.amazonaws.com/learn/seo/URLs-page/Anatomy-of-a-URL-cheat-sheet_170316_122433.png?mtime=20170316122435 "SEO best practices for URLs")

May 30, 2021

How to Fix 406 Issue from my website?

jaap replied to thread How to Fix 406 Issue from my website?

Did you check your robot.txt?

May 28, 2021

E-commerce Website Ranking Drop Reason

jaap replied to thread E-commerce Website Ranking Drop Reason

There can be many reasons.

  1. competitors
  2. technical
  3. changes on webshop
  4. drop in speed
  5. Google penalty
  6. etc, etc. It can really depend on to many factors to give any reasonable answer with the given information
May 26, 2021
May 24, 2021

Tried Everything, Google Will Not Index WordPress Site, (DNS Issues Highly Likely)

jaap replied to thread Tried Everything, Google Will Not Index WordPress Site, (DNS Issues Highly Likely)

You told it shows up around page 10. So it's indexed.

A new domain, 94 days old with a DA 1 and a PA 1 needs time and work. Don't expect fast results.

Ohter simple sites you made, rank probably beter because of less competition.

It all depends on many factors.

May 23, 2021

Tried Everything, Google Will Not Index WordPress Site, (DNS Issues Highly Likely)

jaap replied to thread Tried Everything, Google Will Not Index WordPress Site, (DNS Issues Highly Likely)

In your https://gro-usa.com/page-sitemap.xml are 2 links. Your https://gro-usa.com/post-sitemap.xml is empty.

Add more informative, high-quality content for you visitors. So there is a reason to index your site. And relevant back links will do the rest.

May 22, 2021
May 21, 2021

HTTPS Coverage

jaap replied to thread HTTPS Coverage

There's a tweet about your issue from John Mu. https://twitter.com/JohnMu/status/1387874087045844996?s=20

Unfortunately there's a bug there in Search Console. When we we show "Failing / Insufficient HTTPS coverage" in the Page experience report, that can just mean we don't have the full data (instead of saying "not enough data" we incorrectly say "failing"). We're fixing it.

May 20, 2021

Looking for a reviews service?

jaap replied to thread Looking for a reviews service?

Why not use Google reviews?

SEO - new webshop

jaap replied to thread SEO - new webshop

Start with proper meta descriptions. Back links should be of high authority and relevant. For a new site you can start with adding your link to some good directories. Start blogging about your products. Use H1 tag only once per page. What's the bounce rate? Use f.e. hotjar the see what your visitors do and don't Don't try to sell, but to inform visitors. etc, etc...

May 19, 2021

Do covid effect keywords rankings

jaap replied to thread Do covid effect keywords rankings

Covid effected rankings.

May 12, 2021
May 8, 2021

Double Meta Description

jaap replied to thread Double Meta Description

I would contact the developer of Oxygen for this.

h1 and title tags have duplicate content

jaap replied to thread h1 and title tags have duplicate content

Make sure the h1 tag and title tag are not the same

May 7, 2021

Indexed, not submitted in sitemap

jaap replied to thread Indexed, not submitted in sitemap

The “Indexed, not submitted in sitemap” status indicates that Google's indexed URLs that aren't included in your XML sitemap

Page is not mobile friendly error

jaap replied to thread Page is not mobile friendly error

Content wider than screen, make it smaller. Maybe images? Text too small to read, make the font 16px to read easy on mobile Clickable elements too close together, move them further apart.

It would be easier if you provide us with an url.

May 6, 2021

Key landing page keeps fluctuating by over 80 positions!

jaap replied to thread Key landing page keeps fluctuating by over 80 positions!

So it' not clear for Google where the page is about. Make it more clear in tags and content. Try to add some internal links from other pages with the keyword.

Double Meta Description

jaap replied to thread Double Meta Description

If the page source is showing a double meta description, it's there. Find a way to remove one.

Is there any importance for Domain age for getting better ranking ?

jaap replied to thread Is there any importance for Domain age for getting better ranking ?

Relevance is more important. Ans using an old domain, beware of the spam score.

Core web vitals CLS not improving in origin summary

jaap replied to thread Core web vitals CLS not improving in origin summary

Visit you website in Chrome Right click >>> Inspect Click hamburger left to close button Then>>> More tools Rendering

You'll see the where the lay-out shifts.

Siloing for Webshop

jaap published thread Siloing for Webshop

There are many opinions about siloing. My question is whether it is the best way of navigation for a webshop. For visitors and search engines? Or are there better solutions

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