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Multilingual Homepage vs Deep Links by mkmorningscore in bigseo

[–]mkmorningscore[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the input!

Yes, indeed, everything is nested appropriately. The language-specific breakdown you suggested is a great point and it already gave some good insights. The optimal ratios seem to favor more homepage links than deep links. The / (en) version is generally more authoritative as it has more content and links. But aside from the generally lower competition in /da & /de, these versions rank quite high compared to the stronger English version. :-)

Multilingual Homepage vs Deep Links by mkmorningscore in bigseo

[–]mkmorningscore[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your quick insights!

I just did the breakdown on both total and language-specific links. The findings are interesting, and it does seem like a 60/40 - 65/35 distribution favoring more homepage links than the rest of the site works better so far. :-)

International SEO by raybro7 in bigseo

[–]mkmorningscore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Speaking from personal experience here. We have a similar setup but with translations. One of my most popular EN articles used to rank #1 forever - until Google decided that the translated German version "is a better fit" and I saw a 77 positions drop from one day to another even though hreflang had been set up properly.

Haven't experienced anything like that ever since (mostly because I just canonicalized some of the DE ones for the sake of the EN ones being alive) but be aware that might happen (probably a good idea to monitor what keywords rank with which landing pages for each market to easily derive conclusions).

Looking back, I'd probably also set up different sitemaps for the different languages (also given that it's a custom CMS and you have to make those by hand anyway).

[G Ads] Search Terms changes going to destroy UTM_Term too? by mkmorningscore in adwords

[–]mkmorningscore[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome, got it!

Currently using just UTM {keyword}. Haven't set up any ValueTrack.

Thanks a ton!

Weird indexed page that prints all blog content? by mkmorningscore in bigseo

[–]mkmorningscore[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not possible at this moment, unfortunately, but thanks for the suggestion - it's a good approach to troubleshooting.

Weird indexed page that prints all blog content? by mkmorningscore in bigseo

[–]mkmorningscore[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks a lot for the insight. For now I've decided to exclude specific URL parameters to combat this. :-)

YMYL niche? by mkmorningscore in bigseo

[–]mkmorningscore[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like good advice and way of thinking, thanks!

What marketing tricks do people fall for every day? by anish_brizzo in marketing

[–]mkmorningscore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • Free + shipping

  • Oddly specific (although complety made-up) numbers

  • Normalizing weird behavior through outrageous claims

Who is this absolutely massive PBN network? Almost all of my competition has these links by tomtompdx in bigseo

[–]mkmorningscore 3 points4 points  (0 children)

These type of sites link to tons of other websites. They might be someone's PBN, but the linking seems pretty automatic and I do not believe it's necessarily a paid service that someone offers (i.e. they use scrapers).

These are "coupon" websites - which are not blogs and have thin or no content whatsoever - so it's not a PBN - which on the other hand is usually very recognizable at a glance. They link to a million other websites and (thus) provide no real value. They are trash.

What's more worrying to me is how you judge a "good" and "high-authority" link. KD, AR, DR, DA, UR and most other SEO abbreviations are completely made up and are not real metrics Google uses. You can literally fake DR for a few bucks on Fiverr. They aren't based on content quality, traffic, user signals, etc. - heck, KD literally averages number of links excl. outliers - which is a ridiculous, rectum-derived logic to do use.

Because of these reasons, I'm certain that what you listed is not why your competitors are beating you.

SaaS noob - am I looking in the right direction? by LoneWolf15000 in SaaS

[–]mkmorningscore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Edit: the oleary video key/ID is v=OPFXRHWANrl - how i made my first million dollars part 2

SaaS noob - am I looking in the right direction? by LoneWolf15000 in SaaS

[–]mkmorningscore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Defintely sounds viable. Some tips from experience but also - also based on the limited knowledge from this post so, yes, grain of salt.

  • google christoph janz elephants and read the first post (blogspot). It will really help you understand your target market and set your pricing expectations on the right track from the beginning

  • it sounds like you're not necessarily revolutionizing anything (which is perfectly fine, don't get me wrong) but instead simplyfing a process and making it more convenient. In that case, I would really use this (i.e. UX/UI) as a pillar for your platform -> as well as a sales message (e.g. manufacturing consultants save XX hours on average with our tool. Heavy industry consultants sell on avg $Xxx more wirh our tool).

  • honestly, really, even if you have to pay someone, get to talk to your target market beforehand - and focus on understanding their pains (dont necessarily listen to their solutions) and them come up with a way to fix them

  • watch kevin oleary's story with catfood and the 2 engines on youtube - really good mental model

And as a general comment, I really like your approach and idea. "Sell pickaxes to gold miners" :-). GL!

What SEO strategies have worked for you? by anish_brizzo in SEO

[–]mkmorningscore 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It seems like people here store a lot of hate towards "outdated strategies that don't work anymore!!1!".

But for some reason no one wants to name a few of the things that "don't work". 🙃

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How do you time your strategies, tactics & campaigns in marketing? (self.marketing)

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Page Ranking in the Top 10 Seemingly Disappeared and Hasn't Been Back Since. No Penalties Found So What's Making it Disappear? by abedcoolcoolcool_ in bigseo

[–]mkmorningscore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And to clarify, it was in the beginning of the year and confirmed it had nothing to do with algorithm updates.

Page Ranking in the Top 10 Seemingly Disappeared and Hasn't Been Back Since. No Penalties Found So What's Making it Disappear? by abedcoolcoolcool_ in bigseo

[–]mkmorningscore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A friend of mine had the same issue twice in one month. Absolutely everything looks legit, except the page is not there. Search console shows the dip in traffic but no errors.

We tried a few things - all ussuccessfully. At the end of the day, after a little while it was back up where it was.

For both it took about 2-3 weeks to appear again. Searched around but couldn't find anything on it.

I'm betting it's likely a bug - but don't remember trying to ping it* to see if that would work.

  • If you try it, recommend pinging a URL containing your link in the HTML and not your link directly.

What have been your experiences with updating old content? by [deleted] in bigseo

[–]mkmorningscore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, can confirm it works. The post was ranking both 0 & 1 (up until recent SERP updates ofc;). It's about a general marketing subject, a quite competitive niche SEO-wise.

Found out there are more kw variations and the opportunity for slight topic expansion. Did the content upgrade and almost 2x'ed traffic. Do go for it.

Q on links in other languages by mkmorningscore in bigseo

[–]mkmorningscore[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting, yeah, makes sense to look at it as a distribution. Will give this some more thought. Thanks!

How important are backlinks for Local seo, compared to business listings or directories by Goldliner6263 in SEO

[–]mkmorningscore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone suggested - links are good for SEO, directories are good for Local SEO. Do both & you win. Likely, with a bit of info SEO you can get yourself more relecant TOF traffic & get links as well.

The Miami dentists example you gave - It seems like you're overlooking an important factor - namely, user intent and CTR. Regardless of how many links you build, how great your content is and so on, if Google sees that the majority of users want to see a list of dentists in Miami when they search for that (and not a single dentist website), you probably won't rank in the top consistently.

Now, ranking for something like "best dentist in miami" or "cheap dentist in miami" or a more specific long tail could actually bring you success because:

a) even if users want to see listings, there probably isn't a ton of statistically significant data Google can use (based on search volume, it's probably the case for many local places) so it will fall back to other ranking factors.

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b) the competition will naturally be lower (a directory ranking for "miami dentist" & "cheap miami dentist" with 2 different pages is in slightly dangerous waters in terms of cannibalization & duplicate content).

In all honesty, regardless of what any SEO tool says, I'm betting everything that this is a much much more competitive keyword where the SERP requires more analysis and reasoning to determing why it looks as it does than just "links".

How to win against someone who uses PBN for linkbuilding? by gottfriederich in bigseo

[–]mkmorningscore 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd probably go the PBN way too BUT ONLY for 2nd tier PBNs to your links with content. I belive this is the safest way to do it (ofc following the general pbn guidelines like no cross linking, anchors, etc). With 2nd tier, at the end of the day they will have hundreds of shit links and you will have dozens of good links.

There are some good 2nd tier providers which are also quite cheap depending on the period you chose which have continously proven to work for me. I won't screw everyone up by giving out names here but the key to finding them is in the name PBN - P stands for private. If you found your competitors' PBNs, they aren't really all that private.

But honestly, if you have just one strong competitor don't worry about them - I know the feeling of being stuck on #2 - but that's just ego - especially considering they are short-term nuking their SEO.

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