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    Question about disavowing links/domains using Ahrefs

    I'm using Ahrefs to look at all of my backlinks and referring domains. There is a video I was told to watch by the Ahrefs staff, the link to which is here. I'm going through these, and per the video's instructions, I've located a couple of domains which have more than 50 links to my site, and...
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    Best way to check why my traffic dropped off (30%) over the past couple months?

    So I haven't really been checking up with Google Analytics too much the past couple months, and I decided to clock in and see how things are going with my site. I was averaging 30k visitors per month, and when I checked the latest report it was down to 21k for the past 30 days! I normally post...
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    If you subscribed to only one paid tool (i.e. majestic), what would that tool be?

    I don't have any paid subscriptions at this time, but I'm considering Majestic. Actually, the only reason I'm considering it, is because I have Long Tail Pro, and Spencer Haws uses data from it, so I'm assuming it's pretty nice. I would like to be able to do link research, and I'd also like to...
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    New post submitted to Google and indexed about 5 weeks ago but does not show in SERP

    My site has about 30 posts on it. Most of them rank reasonably for their keyword. I just recently posted a new article on 12/12/15 and it does not show in the SERP at ALL using Long Tail Pro rank checker or whatsmyserp.com. This new post is about 2500 words, not keyword stuffed(non of my...
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    Advice on restructuring my site - cats and tags

    My site has much more content than it once did and I would like to organize it a little better for the visitors and UX. Let's say my site has mainly shoe reviews on it. How would you go about organizing the articles using categories and tags? Right now I don't use tags at all. I've got...
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    Is it possible to cannibalize your PA with too many outbound links?

    I'm just wondering if this is possible, or if it's just theory. Let's say I create a new post on my site. Let's say the post is 1200 words and I've got 10 outbound links to various places, like Wikipedia, other similar sites, etc... Does that somehow negatively affect the PA of my new...
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    So I'd say my mailing list popup is definitely NOT converting. Tips?

    My site gets about 500 visitors per day. I recently(I know, I'm a total idiot for just now doing this) installed a mailing list popup box which displays on exit intent. I set it up 2 days ago and have 2 subscribers. So, by my calculations, that's a 0.02% conversion rate:shock:. I'm...
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    Advantages to cloaking and/or nofollowing amazon affiliate links?

    Just wondering if it's necessary to nofollow and/or cloak amazon links? I don't do either and I'm making money but I wonder if there's room for improvement. I'm asking because I was looking at a plugin called "EasyAzon" and it offers these options as default. Thoughts?
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    Did I inadvertently cause Google to de-index a bunch of my pages?

    In Google Webmaster Tools, for whatever reason, under Sitemaps, it has always read way too many items submitted and way too many indexed. For example, I've only got 26 posts but it would say 144 URLS submitted, 66 indexed. So, knowing this was wrong, I decided to switch my sitemap from the...
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    Safest method to rebrand? [change domain name]

    I've got a niche site(well, it started out that way) and it has become a good bit broader than what it was born as. I'd like to set up a domain name that's a little less specific. For example, let's say it started as blueleathershoes.com Now, it has all sorts of shoes, boots, specialty socks...
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    Could someone critique my current status and monetization methods?

    I've got a site which primarily reviews a type of product - we'll call them "widgets" for this argument. Anyhow, it has a total of 20 articles and each article is monetized using Amazon links. I'm very much an amateur and I can't help but feel that this site could be putting a hell of a lot...
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    Favorite Google Analytics reports you use to decide what new content to create?

    I've got a site which gets almost 12k visits per month. I haven't added any content in months and I'm getting back in the saddle now and would like to do so. Rather than just whip up some material which is thematically similar to the site, I got to thinking that there is certainly a more...
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    updating a post for better on page SEO and content - was this a bad move?

    I recently had a post on one of my sites and it was a "top 10 <item name>" style post. There wasn't a ton of good information on that page, it was basically just a tablepress table with some affiliate links in it. Anyhow, it managed to land around 11 for my target search term. Yesterday, I...
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    Google Docs online rank checker? Where have I seen this?

    A while back, I came across a Google Docs spreadsheet which would track your serp rank automatically. You just entered in your domain and then however many search terms you wanted - one on each row. The live spreadsheet had a script that was built into it which would allow it to run itself...
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    Lsi generators

    What's the preferred Lsi generator right now? I can't seem to get 'lsikeywords.com' to work. Just use the GKP?
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    Donating for a link

    I've recently read on someone's blog that they donated money to a cause and got a link on that site - a "contributors" page. Apparently, that "contributors" page was PR5. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
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    Do YOU consider this a genuine low-comp keyword?

    Looking for some input on this. Right now, I've got one affiliate site which does fairly well. I've been adding "filler" articles which has slowly but surely increased traffic over the last 6 months. I went on a search to find a low-comp keyword (something with sub 1000 local search volume)...
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    WP: Should I noindex my blog page?

    This may end up as a stupid question but for the time being, it seems reasonable. I am already noindex,nofollowing my categories and tags using Yoast SEO in Wordpress. I assume this is a solid measure to prevent Google from confusing duplicate content. My site uses a static page for landing...
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    Decent link service recommendation?

    I hired Layered Links (link versity I) for one of my sites to give them a shot. Now that the delivery is complete, they gave me a spreadsheet of exactly EVERYTHING they did. I must say, even as a noob, most of what they've done doesn't seem penguin 2.0 safe. I'm seeing almost no relevance...
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    How bad is it to change the title of your main piece?

    So I'm curious. My site: primary keyword article is my landing page - 2380 words - primary keyword used 9 times, article extremely well written (by myself) secondary keyword articles -500 words - outsourced ALL of my keyword choices target very low competition serp results. somehow, my...
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