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Is there a method to predict the future DA of a site if I know the DA and PA of x sites that will be linking to them in the future? All inbound links will be pointing to the home page.

I have a client who has an opportunity to sponsor a prestigious national organisation. In return, they will get 200+ links from the websites of the organisation's members. Most of which are DA 40+.None of the linking sites have any relevance to my client's industry.1) How likely do you think it is that Google will view these as paid links?2) Do you feel that there is potential harm in gaining this many non-relevant links in a short time-frame?3) The client wants me to quantify the ranking benefits of gaining these links and calculate a potential ROI. If that's even possible, how would you go about that?Thanks in advance

I am performing a site audit and looking at the "Index Status Report" in GSC. This shows a total of 17 URLs have been indexed.

However when I look at the Sitemap report in GSC it shows 9,000 pages indexed. Also, when I perform a site: search on Google I get 24,000 results.

Can anyone help me to explain these anomalies?

Thanks Erika

What I would like to know is how Google charge for RLSA clicks.

Is it priced exactly the same way as it would be for the same search by someone who had never visited your site before?

When a previous visitor to your site clicks on an RLSA ad, is the cost per click the same as if you were bidding on that same Keyword for a new visitor?

Hi David

Probably not the answer you want but... it could be.

It's almost impossible to say for sure without doing a full audit of the site to see exactly what the issues are with the subdomain.

Danny

Cheers Dirk

Didn't know Screaming Frog could do that. Works perfectly!

Screaming Frog is just the gift that keeps on giving

A small amount of Page Rank will be lost for each extra level the page is from the root domain.

So, there may be a small advantage in using the format www.domain.com/first-blog-post as opposed to www.domain.com/blog/first-blog-post

The effect is likely to be more noticeable if the home page of the site is the page with most link authority

I need a tool that will run through a long list of URLs (from multiple domains), look for a specific string in the source code and then produce a CSV showing in which URLs the the string was found.

This is for legitimate research, not for any nefarious purposes

Any ideas of such a tool already exists?

I am working on a project for a client that has two ecommerce sites each with several thousands of products.

Site A has a strong DA, is ranking well on Google for thousands of competitive keywords and generating high traffic and conversions. Site B has a poor DA, ranking poorly and much less traffic. We are considering the idea of merging the 5,000+ product pages from site B into site A.

How can we evaluate whether this would be a wise move with the least risk to site A?

If a business has an unlimited supply of product and an unlimited capacity to distribute that product why would they want to limit their Adwords campaign budget?

If your Cost per Acquisition for a conversion is lower than the Customer Lifetime Value for any given keyword bid, why would you want to prevent your campaign from reaching as many people as possible?

Thanks in advance

Danny

I have a client who has an opportunity to sponsor a prestigious national organisation. In return, they will get 200+ links from the websites of the organisation's members. Most of which are DA 40+.None of the linking sites have any relevance to my client's industry.1) How likely do you think it is that Google will view these as paid links?2) Do you feel that there is potential harm in gaining this many non-relevant links in a short time-frame?3) The client wants me to quantify the ranking benefits of gaining these links and calculate a potential ROI. If that's even possible, how would you go about that?Thanks in advance

Wix is pretty poor when it comes to SEO

Check out this study which should be helpful:

http://www.seotraininglondon.org/best-ecommerce-platform-seo/

I'm glad to see that  KDT is up and running but this tool has never been stable. It has got to the point where we cannot ever rely on it to work. I have very little confidence that these problems will not re-occur.

I have repeatedly asked the question why users are not automatically compensated when such a vital part of the service is not available for extended periods of time. All I get are glib replies such as this one from Peter, "I think when it comes to finding a to compensation plans for our customers in a time like this, it is hard to just come up to a standard convention when it comes to compensating our customers for their time. We usually take care of all of our user issues on a case by case basis".

The only "hard" thing about giving compensation to users is that losing some of your profits hurts your bottom line. There is nothing technically difficult about saying "We will rebate users for every day that our  tools are down". If you can do it for me, you can it for everyone!

The truth is that compensating only  users who complain costs SEOmoz less money. By insisting that this is handled on a case by case basis, what you are really saying is "We are happy to charge users for a service that they have not received".

Which part of TAGFEE does this sound like? It is neither Transparent,  Authentic or Generous. Perhaps your famous acronym should be changed to just FEE. This would more accurately reflect SEOmoz's  current attitude to its users. Do the right thing here guys!

I will be pitching to an established major UK-based fashion brand in a few days. Their brand is well-known within their target demographic and they have only recently starting selling their collection online. They are currently unconvinced of the need to use SEO for any terms other than their own brand names for which they would naturally rank with little extra effort.

Can anyone point me to any research or data that shows consumer trends to research fashion purchases online or trending away from shopping mall browsing habits?

@Chiaryn

I had the same issue and dicovered that the tool is very sensitive to how the URLs are enetred. Make sure that you have removed  http:// in the URLs so that all URLs are in the format www.competitorsite.com

That should do the trick!

Danny

If your customer services team was truly being "generous", you would be automatically compensating all pro users for a service that consistently fails to work. Instead you ask people to contact you privately and refund only those that shout the loudest.

I thought SEOmoz was supposed to be better than this? What happened to to the TA in TAGFEE? You may need to change this to  FEG!

I took a quick look at this domain.

While there does seem to be a few duplicate content issues my hunch is that it is more likely to be due to some technical issues.

I would first go take a look in Google Search Console and check whether Google is reporting any crawl, sitemap or robots.txt  issues.

If that doesn't show any issues then you may need to get a full technical audit by a reputable SEO

You could also use BuzzSumo.com which would also show which posts got shared the most and who by

Do you know know if a tool exists that shows shared common interests?

For example, people interested in Soccer are also interested in Cricket, beer and Scarlett Johansson.

The data might could come from social media or search queries.

Anyone seen a tool that does anything like this?