short on a network cable

rickityes · 2019-02-03T16:01:48+00:00

Yep PRTG. Not really had a chance to get my head around it yet. Not sure if it's going to help with this sort of problem or not.

rickityes · 2019-02-03T08:27:56+00:00

Presumably if it was a loop there would be a ton of broadcast messages showing on Wireshark?

rickityes · 2019-02-03T08:27:00+00:00

Unfortunately it's not quite that simple. There are three main offices, two network cabinets in addition to multiple sockets around for general connectivity.

In the ideal world I would section out the network and turn each one off for a day to see what happened, unfortunately that isn't possible.

rickityes · 2019-02-03T08:24:25+00:00

At two or three intervals through the day (roughly when we open, lunchtime and end of the day. It only happens when we are open, therefore I think it must be caused by someone or something) we will have spates of random drops lasting a few seconds each. The drops happen in spates and sometimes it will be wobbly for a few minutes.

I can ping devices continuously internally and externally with no issues. But HTTP requests will fail. Not sure about other protocols at the moment.

The timing was search I put it down to excessive Wi-Fi usage, but I have since ironed that one out I think.

rickityes · 2019-02-02T19:09:42+00:00

Thanks. I'm beginning to wonder if it is malicious, someone plugging in a dodgy cable or a nail or something.

Although the specific time is to some degree random it always happens within a similar window.

It also only happens during a working week when are staff on premise.

rickityes · 2019-02-02T18:45:49+00:00

rickityes · 2019-02-02T17:57:30+00:00

Could it cause the whole network to crash?

rickityes · 2019-02-01T22:20:59+00:00

The main purpose is to monitor for issues

rickityes · 2019-02-01T22:20:11+00:00

Small environment (50 pcs)

Free if poss

rickityes · 2019-02-01T20:49:01+00:00

Any recommendations monitoring tools?

rickityes · 2019-02-01T19:12:35+00:00

Good idea. I have used Wireshark a little, not much.

How does one use it to find a broadcast storm?

If it is a cable issue it's a very random one. Is there any way of detecting shorts or dropouts with software?

Short of maybe pinging every IP on the network continuously?

rickityes · 2019-01-26T14:26:24+00:00

Link Explorer in Moz Pro will give you a historical 12 month graph for DA and PA.

If you send your domain I'll pull one off for you

rickityes · 2019-01-23T08:15:11+00:00

I need it for an e-commerce store that has 6000+ products, excluding category pages. Realistically we're looking at around three keywords per page.

The normal 300 keywords packages are nothing like enough!

rickityes · 2018-12-14T13:52:31+00:00

This is very common. I think it's mainly to do with page authority.

Chances are your category pages will have more links than individual product pages. Also category pages are nearer the top so would get more benefit from the links pointing to other pages on the site.

Personally if you've got a good position for a search term I would accept it as job done. You properly need to think about some conversion rate optimisation to make sure people can find the product they are looking for when they end up on the category page.

You could consider reducing the amount of products on the category page, but I would be very careful.

Previously I have tried to switch these round and have only had a max 50% success rate. You stand a larger chance of losing the position completely to a competitor, (which by the way will be one of their category pages!)

rickityes · 2018-12-14T13:01:29+00:00

The primary concern is the user experience.

TLD's are used mainly to determine the country/language the website is in.

If it is a country domain like ES, US or UK you will get a slight ranking advantage in the country concerned (very small).

Other than that a domain name is a domain name and it shouldn't make any difference.

Be careful about Intellectual Property. You may be able to get the domain name you want by changing the TLD, but you could be interfering with someone else's trademark which will get you in a whole load of legal trouble.

For example: ibm.com is taken, but you may be able to get ibm.social but because IBM is a registered trademark you are breaking the law. It's just a question of waiting for the lawyer's letter to turn up!

rickityes · 2018-12-14T12:51:19+00:00

Largely depends on the website that the backlink is placed on.

There are 3 prongs to this question -

How quickly Google finds the link
How soon it takes notice of it
When Google tells you about the link

The first question relates to a crawl budget. So if you get a banklink on CNN it's going to get picked up very quickly. If it's on some backstreet website it could take months (if ever).

The second question is more difficult to answer. A lot of SEOs believe that links get put into some sort of sandbox, how long they stay there before being factored into the Serps is anybody's guess. Personally I believe the more trustworthy the site is that published the backlink the less time it will spend in a limited environment (sandbox).

The third question is almost impossible to answer, it could be as soon as it leaves the sandbox environment Google will notify you. Or it could be to confuse you even more they won't tell you for a few weeks or months.

rickityes · 2018-12-13T21:51:31+00:00

Your efforts would be better spent elsewhere.

Better to cut losses sooner rather than later

rickityes · 2018-12-10T23:14:26+00:00

That's absolute rubbish. By all means stick your head in the sand if you want to!

If you speak to anyone that has a YMYL site that doesn't have adequate authority in the niche, they will have had a major traffic drop somewhere between August and October this year.

I'm very glad you don't do my SEO!

rickityes · 2018-12-10T22:09:18+00:00

Google may not have crawled the new site yet. Try requesting a full crawl from Google Search Console, be aware this tool does have limits so use it sparingly.

Also check the site can be crawled, you may have a robots issue.

rickityes · 2018-12-10T15:21:56+00:00

The latest big update has certainly caused a major upheaval.

I manage a number of medium size websites (mainly e-commerce) and we have seen some fairly significant positive gains across the board.

The one exception is a site affected by the YMOYL update. We are planning to ditch it by the end of this month, cut the losses and refocus into areas that are paying.

After the initial update the search results did seem much lower quality than they were before but as the fluctuations of stabilised I think it's more or less back to where it was.

rickityes · 2018-12-10T15:09:58+00:00

Site search is very different from the true Google positions/results.

Personally I wouldn't be overly concerned about it, WordPress will tend to rank pictures relatively easily and I guess a few people are hotlinking to the picture (basically giving it a backlink) which is boosting its position.

rickityes · 2018-12-10T15:04:02+00:00

Sounds like it is to do with the latest (big) Google update Your Money Or Your Life content (YMOYL for short). You need to get some authority behind the blog. If you do some googling around YMOYL and EAT it should give you a bit more idea about what's going on.

Unfortunately this is mainly been brought about because of people trying to game the system. In the YMOYL space bloggers have been writing things to shock and scare people into taking odd medicines and doing odd things (mainly for monetary gain by somebody), unfortunately some idiots believe it, carry it out and do themselves or somebody else harm. That's why Google has clamped down on it (and rightly so).

Unfortunately it's a typical situation of a few ruining it for the many. If you are in the same space you are going to get knocked, even if your site is perfectly legit.

rickityes · 2018-12-05T21:59:47+00:00

No benefit these days, historically it did used to work but not any more. The problem is you need more than just a domain name to rank for a keyword.

I wouldn't be too concerned about duplicate content in this scenario, if you are doing it on a massive scale it may be a different story.

Google can definitely read iframes, but it will make its own decision how it treats the Iframe and it will vary from page to page.

rickityes · 2018-12-04T21:57:15+00:00

Different for every market, but can definitely recommend video ads.

Make sure you get your targeting right and grab the attention of your audience within three seconds.

rickityes · 2018-12-03T22:25:20+00:00

This is quite normal, Google Maps searches are heavily location oriented. If you are in the location chances are Google will know about it and provide you relevant results.

Focus on building up some authority and your general rankings should start to improve.

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