Post: #26

(11-13-2012 05:55 PM)Beyond Borders Wrote:  

(11-12-2012 05:22 AM)BrownBear Wrote:  My earnings have increased almost two fold after the latest update. I'm glad to have schramko as my mentor, he's got great information.

Did I miss something? Who is schramko?

Australian version of Frank Kern, a guru -
superfastbusiness.com & freedomocean.com/

He used to work at Morrison's Mercedes-Benz, Chatswood near Sydney and turned into an internet marketing GURU.

Post: #27

Hey Guys!

I'm possibly looking to outsource some off-site SEO at a reasonable price - I should be able to handle on-site variables on my own. PM me if you're offering this or know a good provider.

Right now I've got at least two landscaping companies who are on board. Small companies with a light handfull of employees.

I'll want to see recent examples of rankings with solid competition.

Beyond All Seas

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes
frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Kipling

Post: #28

I got fucked by DMCA letters a few days ago, lost 8 sites. That's what I get for not being careful.

Post: #29

(11-17-2012 06:08 AM)BrownBear Wrote:  I got fucked by DMCA letters a few days ago, lost 8 sites. That's what I get for not being careful.

Ouch - moneymakers?

Beyond All Seas

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes
frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Kipling

Post: #30

this and that, mainly school/homework related sites. Completely devastated, can't do anything right now

Post: #31

(11-16-2012 12:14 AM)Beyond Borders Wrote:  Hey Guys!

I'm possibly looking to outsource some off-site SEO at a reasonable price - I should be able to handle on-site variables on my own. PM me if you're offering this or know a good provider.

Right now I've got at least two landscaping companies who are on board. Small companies with a light handfull of employees.

I'll want to see recent examples of rankings with solid competition.

No SEO pros on here...? Huh... No worries - found a new provider elsewhere. Cheers.

(11-17-2012 03:16 PM)BrownBear Wrote:  this and that, mainly school/homework related sites. Completely devastated, can't do anything right now

Bummer deal, Man. At least it didn't devastate your income or anything though. Any chance of getting it back?

Beyond All Seas

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes
frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Kipling

Post: #32

(11-16-2012 12:14 AM)Beyond Borders Wrote:  Hey Guys!

I'm possibly looking to outsource some off-site SEO at a reasonable price - I should be able to handle on-site variables on my own. PM me if you're offering this or know a good provider.

Right now I've got at least two landscaping companies who are on board. Small companies with a light handfull of employees.

I'll want to see recent examples of rankings with solid competition.

I run a Private Blog network. Definitely helps with rankings and its small enough that it hasn't run into problems with Google.

I'm not going to go on some spiel on how its Panda proof or some bullshit. Its a small blog network with a fairly small number of clients, the content is readable and well spun, and the PR varies from PR1-6. All the blogs are on different c-class IPS(as you would expect) and they don't interlink(aka this isn't an artificially propped up network, these blogs have solid links).

Rankings wise, they are fairly powerful. I got a mid comp 27k exact keyword search for one of my clients from no. 16 to no. 8 with 40 blogposts.

Anyways PM me if you're interested.

Post: #33

Google is not indexing my site.

I used to appear at #1 or 2 on at least 5 specific searches, and now its not even in page 20, its just not there. Even typing the exact post title on Facebook gets me nothing.

Any advice on what should I be looking for or what should I change to get it back? I understand this will set me back but I need to appear on google...

Post: #34

(03-20-2014 07:01 PM)germanico Wrote:  Google is not indexing my site.

I used to appear at #1 or 2 on at least 5 specific searches, and now its not even in page 20, its just not there. Even typing the exact post title on Facebook gets me nothing.

Any advice on what should I be looking for or what should I change to get it back? I understand this will set me back but I need to appear on google...

When did you notice this happening?

site:domain.com

If that doesn't yield any results, Google has likely deindexed your website or there's a larger problem with your website and their ability to crawl and indexed your content.

Have you verified the website in Webmaster Tools? If so, do you have any manual action notifications in your messages? If it's not verified, go through the verification process and if they have taken manual action, you should see a message in there.

Typically, an algorithmic penalty as a result of deindexed links pointing at your website (penguin), you'll see -15, -30, or -50+ in search placements. Not on page 20 means you have been deindexed or have a website issue.

If it's an important website and you plan on submitting a reinclusion request, I suggest listening to this: http://marketersbraintrust.com/penalty-removal/ and implementing what's covered.

That will get you far enough, although it depends on your content, link profile, and a litany of other factors.

Good luck.

Post: #35

site:domain.com throws a few archive and category pages.

This has been going on for a couple of weeks, had a ton of work and couldnt really take action.

Not a big site, but important as its my main source of income. I was getting around 600 hits daily from google alone.

I checked webmaster tools last week, took the actions suggested there, site is still deindexed.

Installed the newest version of wordpress (the one I had was REALLY obsolete) and a "SEO" plugin, didnt helped a bit.

Post: #36

(11-20-2012 11:41 PM)Saladin Wrote:  

(11-16-2012 12:14 AM)Beyond Borders Wrote:  Hey Guys!

I'm possibly looking to outsource some off-site SEO at a reasonable price - I should be able to handle on-site variables on my own. PM me if you're offering this or know a good provider.

Right now I've got at least two landscaping companies who are on board. Small companies with a light handfull of employees.

I'll want to see recent examples of rankings with solid competition.

I run a Private Blog network. Definitely helps with rankings and its small enough that it hasn't run into problems with Google.

I'm not going to go on some spiel on how its Panda proof or some bullshit. Its a small blog network with a fairly small number of clients, the content is readable and well spun, and the PR varies from PR1-6. All the blogs are on different c-class IPS(as you would expect) and they don't interlink(aka this isn't an artificially propped up network, these blogs have solid links).

Rankings wise, they are fairly powerful. I got a mid comp 27k exact keyword search for one of my clients from no. 16 to no. 8 with 40 blogposts.

Anyways PM me if you're interested.

Update on this.

Still doing this but for 1 private client.

He runs a big agency, has sent me over 20k$ in business already so clearly working extremely well. His is one of the biggest SEO agencies in his country(A first world country).

I can set up a private network for anyone interested.

Post: #37

(03-21-2014 12:57 AM)germanico Wrote:  site:domain.com throws a few archive and category pages.

This has been going on for a couple of weeks, had a ton of work and couldnt really take action.

Not a big site, but important as its my main source of income. I was getting around 600 hits daily from google alone.

I checked webmaster tools last week, took the actions suggested there, site is still deindexed.

Installed the newest version of wordpress (the one I had was REALLY obsolete) and a "SEO" plugin, didnt helped a bit.

Have you been building links to your site?

Post: #38

(03-21-2014 12:57 AM)germanico Wrote:  site:domain.com throws a few archive and category pages.

This has been going on for a couple of weeks, had a ton of work and couldnt really take action.

Not a big site, but important as its my main source of income. I was getting around 600 hits daily from google alone.

I checked webmaster tools last week, took the actions suggested there, site is still deindexed.

Installed the newest version of wordpress (the one I had was REALLY obsolete) and a "SEO" plugin, didnt helped a bit.

What suggestions were in WMT, specifically? Clarity is critical in these situations when asking for help and we can't see your website.

If you're only seeing a few category and archive pages, it sounds like manual action based on links or another element they didn't like (cloaking, doorway page(s), etc), which is why your main pages/posts aren't indexed. Tough to say without looking at it though.

Also, you don't want WP archive pages getting indexed. It's bad SEO from a technical standpoint and duplicate content on your own website, which doesn't help your situation.

I wouldn't build links at all, especially if you're going to be submitting a reinclusion request. Terrible idea until you're back to where you were.

Post: #39

Wordpress is overrated.

- Slower to load
- Duplicate content
- Constant updates
- Potential to get hacked

Post: #40

(03-23-2014 09:48 AM)zoom Wrote:  Wordpress is overrated.

- Slower to load
- Duplicate content
- Constant updates
- Potential to get hacked

Thanks for the insightful contribution, but I disagree.

These problems are related to the webmaster, not the CMS, although shitty hosting can fuck with load speeds.

If your website is running on WP and loading slowly, it's your technical optimization or hosting, not the tech itself. For local businesses, you can optimize insane load times for geo-specific searchers with ease. In competitive local markets, this stuff matters more than most people think.

Duplicate content is on the user and a non-issue if you know what you're doing. This is WP 101.

Constant updates are important and make it more difficult for you website to get hacked, typically. Why would you want your business running on something that isn't updated regularly?

Any widely used CMS is subject to being hacked. You hear about WP being hacked because it's the most widely used and people sometimes use old, crappy plugins that haven't been updated in years. Joomla and Drupal are widely used, but most people running a biz on those CMS' know what they're doing and make sure their shit is updated. If you were hacking websites for fun, would you target people using C5 or WP? It's a no brainer.

Additionally, when you're operating at scale and dealing with hundreds of web properties to rapidly move the revenue needle, it's important to have systems in place to effectively delegate tasks and get shit done. WP is fast, open, cost effective, and large-scale setups can be 100% outsourced.

Post: #41

(03-23-2014 09:48 AM)zoom Wrote:  Wordpress is overrated.

- Slower to load
- Duplicate content
- Constant updates
- Potential to get hacked

I second that. Especially the load time and security issues made me move to another solution.

Nowadays I use a DB less CMS. Easy setup and blazing fast.

Post: #42

Just curious if anyone uses .blogspot blogs and goes for quantity over quality and makes any money. I started out onBlogger tried making the switch but not a huge fan of wordpress. I know i dont truly own my site in blogger but does seo really suffer that much using blogger instead of wordpress? I used to make like 350 a month now im down to maybe 150 but i dont dedicate nearly as much time to my sites now that my ecommcerce site is making me money and keeping me busy but i like to keep a few diff income streams comming in so was gonna start dedicating more time to it

Post: #43

I havent been building links. The blog has been up for about 7 years and has around 30 people linking to it. (I know this is NOTHING)

The site is http://www.hombresocial.com, its about game and pickup in spanish.

Webmaster tools say google cant crawl hombresocial.com, and states an "increase in server errors" for http://www.hombresocial.com, last crawled in 2/18/14.

The 2 predominant items with errors are "missing: author" and "missing: updated". Its a single author blog, so I dont know wtf. Using the structured data testing tool live throws "Invalid URL or page not found" for those items.

Post: #44

I think im understanding now what is wrong, but still dont know how to solve it. Any thoughts?

Post: #45

When I go to google and type site:URL I mostly see desafio.hombresocial.com. Is that supposed to be your subdomain?

https://encrypted.google.com/#q=site:hom...om&start=0

Do you have sitemap for your blog? Did you submit it to WMT?

Post: #46

(03-24-2014 12:47 PM)zoom Wrote:  When I go to google and type site:URL I mostly see desafio.hombresocial.com. Is that supposed to be your subdomain?

https://encrypted.google.com/#q=site:hom...om&start=0

Do you have sitemap for your blog? Did you submit it to WMT?

I'm no SEO expert but I was also going to guess there's no sitemap.

Post: #47

desafio.hombresocial.com is the subdomain of a challenge we did last year... its a diferent instance of wordpress in a subdomain in the same server, traffic there was so low that we discontinued the updates after 8 weeks.

As for the sitemap, I have no clue about, so Im going to guess thats it. Looking into it, thanks guys. Will keep posting for feedback.

Post: #48

(03-24-2014 01:50 PM)germanico Wrote:  desafio.hombresocial.com is the subdomain of a challenge we did last year... its a diferent instance of wordpress in a subdomain in the same server, traffic there was so low that we discontinued the updates after 8 weeks.

As for the sitemap, I have no clue about, so Im going to guess thats it. Looking into it, thanks guys. Will keep posting for feedback.

I do most of my sites on blogger and very easy to use platforms or hire out the design/programming type stuff so I don't know that much but I have played around with sitemaps and its relatively easy to do in teh google web designer tools thing. Otherwise you could probably pay someone on Fiverr a couple bucks to set it up for you

Post: #49

Google can and will crawl your website without a sitemap, but it's best to submit one. Most of your posts aren't included in index.

A quick search for the error responses yields numerous like cases: here, here, and here. This is likely related to your theme or how a plugin is delivering certain markup, especially if it's not validating in the G's rich snippets tool.

I would suggest upgrading your theme in the near future if you have the time and budget.

Also, you need to fix your duplicate content issues. This should help you and I'd suggest you read or reread the Yoast guide as well. It's not quite the "definitive" guide, but it should cover your bases are far as this website is concerned.

If you want to check what websites you have links from, WebMeUp's tool is currently free. This isn't the best by any means, but it does a significantly better job of finding shit links that majestic, ahrefs, and open site explorer miss (important if you're dealing with a penalized website or reinclusion requests).

If you're getting subscribers, you can probably increase that metric by making the opt-in field float, so it's always visible as readers are reading/scrolling. I'd also make that more attractive with a stronger call to action. If not, do something with that white space.

Post: #50

Seems the digital nomad-type threads have died a bit.

So dropping some info and a question.

1) Info - Tips for sites with large page numbers

Talking with people who run sites I've come across various ways that they've lost tons of money by doing often quite simple things. For me it's been trying to index too many pages in Google.

There are two big problems with trying to index a lot of pages:

i) Google only allocates a certain amount of resources to crawl your site. You can find out in Google Search Console (formerly Webmaster Tools) how many pages Google has crawled and is crawling per day. Work out how many pages Google crawls in three months. That's roughly the total number of pages you want Google to be able to crawl. N.B. that is only relevant if you have more pages than Google is crawling in that period. If Google can't index all the pages within three months it seems the likelihood of them dropping lots of pages from the index is high.

ii) If your site is new or has low authority, indexing a large number of pages can either lead to your site getting sandboxed or seriously diluting the weight of the pages. For a new site (less than six months old) if you suddenly add a lot of new pages, 10,000s+, there is a good chance you are going to get sandboxed and loose a lot of your revenue as a result. When my site was new I quickly found Google really didn't like it, partly due to thin pages. When I tried to throw in about 200,000 pages after 6 months I still got sandboxed and has to resort to meta noindexing most of them for about another six months until the site got some authority. This probably lost me $3,000+.

I made a similar mistake much later. By this point my domain had a lot of authority, a low 8 figure number of pages with about 8 million indexed. After a lot of requests and thinking I'd make more money I translated the site to several other languages and sent them off into the index. This took me up to about 100 million pages. It had very little effect on traffic, but resulted in Google only indexing about 23 million pages, or about 25%. As a result Google was indexing my much lower grossing pages and dropping my mainstay of English pages. On AdSense CPM for Portuguese was about $0.16, while about $2.50 for the US and around $5 for wealthy countries like Norway and Luxembourg.

But with that said I was earning all my living expenses+ from AdSense from all this non-English traffic.

This comes back to the issue of the maximum number of pages Google will crawl on your site. You can exclude those pages with meta noindex, but the issue is Google will crawl those pages, again and again and find the noindex tag.

What you need to do is identify the maximum number of pages Google will index in three months; then identify your most profitable pages; and put all the least profitable pages outside of the number Google will index in three months in a folder that is excluded by robots.txt. That way Google is crawling and indexing the maximum number of your best pages, rather than wasting resources constantly finding a page is blocked by meta noindex.

a) So if we have a site: domain.tld with 20 million pages
b) But Google is only crawling 2 million over three months
c) Identify the 18 million least profitable pages and put them in a folder, e.g. domain.tld/place/[id] => domain.tld/noindex/place/[id]
d) block the /noindex/ (or otherwise named) folder in robots.txt
e) check in the Google Search Console the block is working correctly

When I increased my total number of pages to 200 million, I knew this was going to have a negative effect, but after working 100 hours per week for the last month to add them and generally 60-80 prior, I took a complete computer break.

When I came back I found that my daily traffic had dipped from about 60K per day on average to about 40K per day on average. The main reason for this is because Google was indexing even more of my non-English pages over my mainstay of English pages. For roughly every ten pages Google indexed, it would only index one or two (fairly randomly) in English. What I needed was to have all my English pages indexed and just the most profitable pages in foreign languages.

After initiating the above method of blocking less important pages with noindex traffic very quickly shot up from 40k per day, far past 60k per day and all the way up to an average of around 150k per day.

So when you're adding a lot of new pages, be careful, drip them into the index in moderation. If you have good authority you may be able to dump 10 million pages into the index overnight and get more traffic and revenue. But if you don't Google will end up guessing which pages are most important and end up not including lots of higher earning pages in the index.


2) Question - Does anyone have much experience with services like Cloudflare? I am specifically interested in premium DNS, speeding up HTTPS handshakes and CDN (having all the static content loaded via subdomains)?

I've checked my site's performance on these speed checkers and it comes up as something like 97% faster than other sites. The only issue is my static resources are delivered with cookies. The actual server side generation of pages is between about 1 and 60 milliseconds, depending on complexity. Though I also have full HTML caching bypassing the server side entirely - currently disabled, but will turn it back on soon after some changes.

The big issue I've noticed is that the DNS lookup and HTTPs handshake of my site can take up to around 200ms from a relatively close server. When loading Cloudflare sites I've noted that they can do DNS and HTTPS in about 30 milliseconds.

Does anyone use any of these optimising services like CloudFlare? What would you recommend and how would you say it affects SEO?