Issues I found so far: Blog Active Item in Navbar is wrong. Active should be on the item blog not feed. Leaderboard has several issues. Mobile Navbar is bad designed M...

In general I would say: Websites in the same niche which are not spam definitely increase your rank However much more important is your own content. If your site in gener...

It’s helpful to think of technical SEO as the foundation of your search engine optimization strategy. “Technical” just refers to all the base code and page structure that...

I would delete the post and give them a warning, 2nd offence would ban the profile. Maybe they would contribute in a more positive way in the future. Good idea, but thi...

Google Webmaster Tools is now called Google Search Console

For keyword research I like Ahrefs, for site audits I like SEMRush.

I would delete the post and give them a warning, 2nd offence would ban the profile. Maybe they would contribute in a more positive way in the future.

Some of those sites might increase their power over time, if so the link would be even better for you.

What keywords are you trying to rank better than them, are they included in your home page title tag?

It is better to have blog posts within your own domain rather than a subdomain.