Recent content by MrOctopus

I run a marketing agency offering SEO services. Looking to bring in an SEO consultant to review our current SEO strategy/practices, and ensure they're cutting-edge (no black hat). I am NOT looking to outsource SEO. I have a team already in place to follow processes, I just want a know-it-all...

Dedicated server, so perhaps not a fair comparison ;) I recently upgrade from a VPS due to stability issues, and managed to score a really good deal on a dedicated box. It's not just for my own sites though, I sell hosting to my clients.

You can change the wp-admin URL to something else, it's a fairly straight forward thing to do - the process is explained on the WP Codex page about hardening.

$120/year? That's not the cheapest, but it's far from being unreasonable... My hosting costs me $3000+/year, want to swap? :D

I do all of my client reporting at the start of the calendar month, and one client in particular I track the SERPs ignoring and not ignoring Google+ Local. The results for December were interesting though. All his Local listings went up (despite us not working on them), and all his Organic...

Using the Author Profile rich snippet is legal, and it does have a great effect on CTR. Faking Review rich snippets is against the rules though, and they've really cracked down on it of late. I use ASCII symbols in my actual META description though, and I find it improves CTR as well. e.g...

Ahrefs is fantastic. Very quick, and very detailed. But no tool will give you a 100% representation of your backlinks.

I've just noticed that pretty much all of my and my clients websites have had positive and negative shifts suddenly. Nothing too drastic, nothing more than 5 spots up or down.

You can't go direct to that URL, use scrapebox with that footprint. The actual URLs are like: https://sourceforge.net/project/project_donations.php?group_id=XXXXXX

Yeah I suppose donations could be considered white hat... Although I played a little later last night and found some free ways. You can leave Reviews and post in Forums, but none of these are high PR. The donations are still the juicy ones. I also had a realisation that it could take a long...

I'm interested in knowing more... WordPress dev here + on/off site SEO

I kind of stumbled across a technique tonight that I want to share with you guys. Firstly a couple of disclaimers: This method does cost money (albeit small amounts) I haven't tested this method, so you can call it a theory if you like What we're aiming for: a high PR page with full control...

Yeah I've got an ahrefs subscription (love it). I guess I'm not sure of how best to use it to look for and identify bad links though. For example, one of my sites (site A) got hit by Penguin when it first rolled out and I've never worked to recover it. That site links to another one of my sites...

Does any know of a tool that can be used to audit backlinks? I suspect that it's largely speculative on what makes a good or bad link, so maybe nothing exists. But I had in mind there might be a tool that will check if a URL linking to you is indexed or not, and perhaps make some judgements on...

One of my money sites dropped about 6 spots from #1, but I'm not shocked. Diverse anchor text, but it is ALL to the homepage. none of my other sites were hit (yet)