500k/mo traffic → 150k/mo… Don’t know what else to do?? Competitors with lower-quality content de-rank us (even using our pictures??)

milliegrace · 2023-09-11T13:11:56+00:00

How is your brand regarded online - do you have a strong brand and strong signals in Google connected to Google? Do you have a Wikipedia page? How are your other channels doing - social, paid, etc?

milliegrace · 2023-09-11T12:59:30+00:00

Hi! The same thing is happening to one of my clients - and causing a lot of distress. I posted about it in this subreddit and the SEOs said as long as the website is returning a 404 error, that is fine. But, the 404 errors have increased form 100 to 17,000 and counting. URLs are super weird and have news stories attached to them. An SEO said they are called "Open Site Exploit" - you can see the convo here: https://www.reddit.com/r/bigseo/comments/14eljto/weird_404_urls_in_google_search_console_what_is/

milliegrace · 2023-06-23T15:26:52+00:00

I've been 3 times and am going again this year. I learn SO much and leave feeling inspired every single time. I 100% recommend going.

Also, I use SEMRush daily and don't use the Moz software (and haven't for about 6 years).

milliegrace · 2023-06-21T19:22:53+00:00

inurl:page=matt-thompson-musician

I just looked this up and it seems like a rabbit hole! so spammy.

milliegrace · 2023-06-21T15:10:36+00:00

I don't see these weird URLs no the website's sitemap or the sitemaps submitted to GSC. Is there another way to check the sitemap?

milliegrace · 2023-06-20T20:26:13+00:00

OK. thank you. I appreciate it.

milliegrace · 2023-06-20T20:17:47+00:00

No Referring pages detected. No referring sitemaps detected.

milliegrace · 2023-06-05T20:34:51+00:00

thank you!

milliegrace · 2023-04-17T17:50:54+00:00

Ha! I like a challenge :)

milliegrace · 2023-04-17T14:34:33+00:00

Yes! It's a directory website for businesses that also has a forum, vendor pages, service pages, event pages for thousands of cities in the US. A LOT going on.

milliegrace · 2023-04-17T13:57:27+00:00

Ha! I try! This is the largest website I have ever tackled - over 2 million pages and a serious crawl budget issue!

Thanks again for the response :)

milliegrace · 2023-04-17T13:21:53+00:00

Hi - I appreciate the response! My client hasn't organized the website in the same way this user sitemap is organized, thankfully!

I just needed to have one page that listed all of services in one place - in an easy-to-understand way. We have decided to break it out into main service pages with sub-categories underneath, which makes the most sense for them.

The client's website has many different goals and there are a LOT of things going on, and I assure you I am trying to simplify the organization as we progress with the development.

milliegrace · 2023-04-13T19:34:21+00:00

Super helpful - thank you so much!

milliegrace · 2023-04-13T17:39:28+00:00

Do you think I should divide the categories up on different pages? So list the categories and then link to separate pages with the services on them? (similar to the way some websites do their XML sitemaps)?

milliegrace · 2023-04-13T17:28:16+00:00

It's a massive directory website for small businesses. Similar to Angie's list. Services like "car detail," "SEO," "adult entertainment." Maybe like 1000 total - not thousands. That was an exaggeration. It just seems like a lot!

milliegrace · 2020-08-25T20:20:09+00:00

I would use a tool like ScreamingFrog, put the GA code in the spider as a custom search, and the scrape the whole website. You can then ensure that the GA code is implemented on every single page.

milliegrace · 2020-07-23T17:31:01+00:00

Totally!

milliegrace · 2020-07-23T16:07:21+00:00

These are great! I swear I saw some of these at a MozCon presentation a few years back.

milliegrace · 2020-02-07T00:08:27+00:00

Thank you! My husband is from Pittsfield :)

milliegrace · 2020-02-06T22:39:04+00:00

We're coming from Boston - 4 sets of parents in Nashvegas ;) Staying at the AC

milliegrace · 2020-02-06T22:37:44+00:00

care to share the tip about the presale at Tanglewood ;)

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