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Moving 5 Domains to 1: An SEO Case Study
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Advanced SEO
Should you change domain names for SEO? It's a tough question, usually asked way too casually. I merged 5 domains into 1, and this is what happened.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Advanced SEO
Should you change domain names for SEO? It's a tough question, usually asked way too casually. I merged 5 domains into 1, and this is what happened.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to On-page SEO and Advanced SEO
Last year, Google introduced answers boxes scraped from the index. I didn't like one of mine, so I tried to change it. Months later, something finally happened.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Productivity
It's that time again - time to repeat the insanity of setting audacious marketing goals for next year with no plan for how to achieve them. How can we go from looking backward (lag) to charting a path forward (lead)?
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Advanced SEO and Search Engines
Google has confirmed that Penguin 3.0 has/is rolled/rolling out, so why didn't MozCast detect anything? We dive deep into the data to find out if Penguin 3.0 just wasn't very big after all.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
Around September 25th, there was a significant jump in Google answer boxes, most or all of them coming from the new style answers. I dig into the data, examples, and an experiment with the Knowledge Vault.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Local SEO, Advanced SEO and Search Engines
In the month between June 28th and July 28th, Google made four major changes: (1) dropping authorship photos, (2) doubling In-depth, (3) removing many video snippets, and (4) the "Pigeon" update.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Mobile
We've been hearing that mobile will change everything for years. This post is about why I think that time has finally come, and why marketers need to pay attention.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
Preliminary analysis of the Panda 4.0 and Payday Loan 2.0 updates, major algorithm flux on May 19th, and a big one-day rankings drop for eBay.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Basic SEO
Once your site is launched and indexed, it's time to sand off the rough SEO edges. Part 3 in the "Starting Over" covers how to do a quick, early SEO audit.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Basic SEO
After months of building and planning, it's understandable to want to finally pull the trigger, but launch is important and rushing it can delay real success. This is the story of how I got Minimal Talent off the ground.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Content
As a marketing bloggers, we sometimes get separated from the day-to-day of actual marketing. This is the story of how I started over and got back in the trenches.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
Google's latest Knowledge Graph expansion is built on search, and with it, your data. See how this expansion impacts answer boxes, knowledge panels, and Google's relationships with webmasters.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
Google's 2014 redesign had a big impact on search result titles, cutting them off much sooner. This post includes a title preview tool and takes a data-driven approach to finding the new limit.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
Google's SERP and ad format redesign may finally be rolling out, after months of testing. Before we lose the old version forever, here's the before-and-after of every major vertical that's changed.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
Before the holidays, we spotted a significant drop-off (roughly 15%) in searches display authorship. I take a deep dive into that data, including 30- and 60-day views, an analysis of authorship counts, and queries that lost out.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Technical SEO
Late last year, a swath of new TLDs went on sale for a cool $185K each. What you might not know is that many of those TLDs are about to be resold as publicly available domains. Here's what you need to know about the coming domain gold rush.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
I'm pleased to announce the MozCast Feature Graph, a three-in-one tool tracking changes to Google's SERP features. The Feature Graph tracks the presence of features, 30-day histories, and lets you find SERPs with any combination of those features.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
MozCast measured a substantial one-day temperature spike on November 14th. This spike coincided with large-scale DNS errors, but the cause of the changes is unclear. Webmaster...
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
Sometimes, Google seems to be changing so quickly that it's easy to rush to conspiracies. This post is an attempt to make six data-driven predictions about how Google might change in 2014, including two conceptual screenshots.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
As SEOs, we spend too much time living in fear of Google. Like any company, Google has weaknesses, and it's important for us to have perspective about their future (and how it impacts our own future). Here are six things that I think Google fears.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
My ill-advised attempt to illustrate the Google algorithm and all its major parts. Inspired by a bad joke on Twitter that led to some very useful discussions.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
Have you ever wondered what a Google result would look like if they put all of the SERP features on one page? Wonder no more. I present to you Mega-SERP, sponsored by my obsession with tacos.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Technical SEO
Which rank-tracking method is the most accurate? I set out to answer that question by comparing rankings for 500 keywords across four methods: (1) Personalized, (2) Incognito, (3) Crawler, and (4) Google Webmaster Tools.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
On July 19th, there was a major Google update that almost all of us missed. Overnight, the number of queries with Knowledge Graph entries jumped 50% to just over a quarter (26.7%) of the searches we track.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
Google has officially launched their latest feature, in-depth articles. We pulled some preliminary data on how widespread in-depth articles are since launch, what kind of queries they appear on, and which sites are getting the most out of them.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
Google's Knowledge Graph has exploded over the past year, and it's driving more and more direct answers in organic results. I explore 101 answers boxes, and demonstrate how these are intimately connected to the Knowledge Graph.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
On June 21st, Matt Cutts hinted that Google was rolling out a "multi-week" update. We saw massive MozCast spikes on multiple days, and now that the weather has cleared, I thought it was time to do a deeper analysis.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Local SEO
Blended results blurred the line between organic and local SEO. I share a hack to tell how Google counts organic results in a blended SERP, and how understanding how the two algorithms overlap can help you improve both your local and organic strategy.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
On the morning of June 26th, MozCast registered a record high temperature of 113 degrees. This is an initial investigation into the possible algorithm update, and a potential partial-match domain (PMD) connection.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Marketing Industry
SEO has died a thousand deaths, but somehow it never seems to take. This is a post about why I think we underestimate what search is, and how SEO will continue to evolve long into our future.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Tools
You may have heard that Google Reader is going away as of July 1st, 2013. I'm in search of a replacement, so I'm trying a new RSS reader every week until I run out of readers or go crazy. I also tell you how to export your Google Reader data (before it's too late).
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
Penguin 2.0 (4) rolled out Wednesday, and initial reports suggest that the impact was less than many had feared. I explore MozCast data, including industry categories, and the Big 20 sites (by SERP share). I also discuss the unconfirmed May 9 Google update.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Advanced SEO
Data is everywhere, if you know how to access it. APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are a powerful tool for data-driven content marketers, and this post is both an overview and mini-directory of the API world.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Analytics
This is an ode to a data visualization I found on my box of tea. It's a perfect reminder of how we sometimes get carried away as marketers, especially as our tools make visualization easier.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Technical SEO
In light of Google's recent post on common rel=canonical mistakes, I explore the most commonly asked questions we get in Q&A regarding canonicalization.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to User Experience (UX)
In my quest for a better Amazon review, I discovered a few things about search. Join me on an exploration of Social, Sentiment, and Semantics and the changing face of search.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Advanced SEO
Debates over black-hat vs. white-hat SEO conjure up images of cartoon cowboys and villains, and probably aren't much more useful than children's TV. I think it's time to ask some better questions, and really dig into the strategic and tactical implications behind the hats.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
The evolving AdWords landscape impacts more than just PPC - on-page ads effect ranking position, CTR, and ultimately SEO success. We looked at 10,000 queries to find out where ads appear, how many of them there are, and how often they show up.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
We measured 10,000 Google SERPs to find out where #1 really ends up. It turns out that the top position actually covers a lot of land, and can be impacted not only by ads but many new search features. Post includes a full visualization of the data plus screenshots of the worst-case scenarios.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
Everything you ever wanted to know about Google's 7-result SERPs, plus 10-12 things you probably didn't want to know. I try to answer the big questions, like are 7-result SERPs connected to expanded site-links (hint: yes).
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
I'm a big fan of using simple tools well, and one of those tools is the site: operator. Here are 25 site-operator combos for your SEO detective work, along with a real-world case study, and an original experiment on the accuracy of site:.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
Between December 13th and 14th, we measured the largest Google SERP flux on record since MozCast began recording in April. This is the story of what happened and an exploration in just how complicated the algorithm has become.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Advanced SEO
I was going to write a long list of SEO tips for 2013, but I realized that I can sum them all up in just one point. Actually, just one word. No, I'm not going to tell you right here in the teaser. That's why it's a teaser.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
How does chasing the algorithm fit into search marketing in 2013, including the emerging trends of content marketing and #RCS? I explain why I've become a bit obsessed with the algorithm, why I firmly believe in content marketing, and how they fit together.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Advanced SEO
If you watch your rankings closely, it's hard not to sometimes feel like Google is messing with you. Are they just injecting random change to keep SEOs busy? I try to put this to the test with two experiments.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
If you follow the Google algorithm, you've heard the name Barry Schwartz. I've had the opportunity to get to know Barry a little while working on MozCast, so we interviewed each other about the current and future state of the algorithm.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Technical SEO
Recently, we've heard Google use the term "X% of queries affected" when announcing algorithm updates. This post explores what that deceptively simple phrase actually means.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Advanced SEO
There's a new tool in the SEO utility belt - Google's link disavow. Like all powers, this one comes with responsibility. Learn how to tell if disavowal is a good fit for you and how to use this power wisely.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Content
Over the last year, I've really started to see the impact of big content - ideas that take real effort and break the mold of typical articles, infographics, etc. I make the case for Big, why it's about more than just quantity, and how you can keep costs and risks reasonable.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Moz News
Google announced an "upcoming" algorithm change targeting low-quality Exact-Match Domains on 9/28. Data from MozCast indicated the change did hit on 9/28 - I break down the data, along with some of the sites impacted.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Moz News
The Google algorithm is too complicated to be understood in just one number, so we're happy to announce five new "top view" metrics on MozCast, including: Domain Diversity, SERP Count, EMD Influence, PMD Influence, and the "Big 10" domains.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
Even in 2012, Exact-Match Domains (EMDs) seem to carry a lot of influence, and people are eager to snap them up. I explore the data to see if this influence is really as strong as it once was (or as people believe it is).
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
Rumors are that Google SERPs have been more "crowded" (fewer domains) lately, and that some SERPs are showing less than 10 results. Thanks to the Mozcast data set, I've been able to show that both ideas are much more than rumor.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Content
If you've ever slid through a job on half your ass, this post is for you. This is the story of why we do half-assed work, why we're cheating ourselves, and how we can stop it.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Moz Tools
Algo got you down? We're happy to announce MozCast, the daily Google weather report. Find out how big that Panda really was, and when you'll need an SEO umbrella.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Advanced SEO
Google's Penguin update has caused near-hysteria over negative SEO. While negative SEO is very real, it's also very rare. Learn how to spot the warning signs and when to worry.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to On-page SEO
Before you can remove duplicate content, you have to understand which URL is actually canonical. I provide five cases to show how the problem is more complicated than you might think.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
On the morning of June 5th, just as the sun was coming up over the horizon, I saw something in the woods of Mountain View. I swear I wasn't drinking. Well, not much.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Marketing Industry
Every few months, the media likes to accuse SEOs of being nothing more than snake oil salesmen. I'll let you in on a secret - no one would sell snake oil if there was no one begging to buy it.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Advanced SEO
I recently survived a milestone - I've answered more than 1,000 SEO questions since our Q&A relaunch. These are 9 lessons that I've learned from those questions.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
In the aftermath of Google's Penguin update, there's no shortage of panic. Like any algorithm update, you need to assess the damage - here are some dos and don'ts to keep you from making a bad situation worse.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
It can sometimes feel like big brands get all the breaks in SEO. While Google may play favorites, the rise of big brands in search was inevitable. Here's why, and what you can do about it.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Advanced SEO
People are always asking me whether they should spend their money on on-page SEO or links. The short answer: "It depends." The long answer: read the post and find out ;)
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Technical SEO
Since Panda, more and more people are trying to get a handle on their indexed pages. I discuss a common mistake in de-indexation - blocking crawl paths to the pages you want out of the index.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Basic SEO
You're entering the field of SEO at an amazing time, where there seem to be more jobs than people. So, why aren't you getting hired? I offer you some fatherly advice.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Analytics
There's been a lot of talk lately about whether user data from analytics is a ranking factor. I argue that Google and Bing don't need to tap into analytics - they have 2 powerful user metrics in their own log data: (1) CTR and (2) Dwell Time.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Consulting
I'm a reluctant Capitalist by nature, and it's taken me a long time to listen when people told me "You're not charging enough." Here are 6 reasons why you need to listen, too.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
Google recently launched a radical form of social search personalization and yet another way to shut off that personalization. This is a head-to-head comparison of 4 major methods to de-personalize search results, including Google's new toggle switch.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Moz News
A correlation analysis of the top 2011 posts of the year. We examine social factors, community factors, and on-page factors. Social tops the list of traffic drivers.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
Just when you thought you could count to 10, along came Google. I explore the new math of modern SERPs, and what it means for your SEO efforts.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Link Building
So, you're stuck with a bunch of bad links that your "friend" built - what do you do? Here are 6 tips for how you might shake loose a link-based penalty. Bonus: my proposal to Google for a new Robots.txt directive.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Social Media
Your epic blog post is finally done, but you can't publish it until morning. Now what? Here are 5 ways to get your social network in gear before you send that link.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Technical SEO
In a land ravaged by pandas, one man will teach you everything you need to know about duplicate content. Learn how to spot duplicates in the wild and stop them in their tracks.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Content
Great content just magically creates traffic, wealth, and fame, right? Not always, sadly. Here are a few ways to put great content into motion and market your marketing.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Advanced SEO
Last week, a leaked copy of Google's quality rater guidelines appeared. I pulled 16 insights from the document that help you understand how Google thinks about quality.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to On-page SEO
Are you constantly fine-tuning your URLs for SEO? Here's 5 scenarios where you might need a change, and a lot of reasons you might not.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Analytics
The old 10-result SERP isn't what it used to be. We put some of the lastest SERPs to the test with start-of-the-art eye-tracking data, including expanded sitelinks.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Analytics
Tired of infographics? How about a Mathographic? We dive deep into correlation analysis here on SEOmoz, so I thought it might be a good time to review the basics.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Technical SEO
You may have noticed bulleted snippets popping up in Google SERPs. Here are 5 examples in the wild and some tips on how to get them.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Social Media
Are Likes, +1s, and Tweets really driving traffic? I ran a couple of correlation studies to find out. The impact of Google +1s may surprise you.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Content
Content marketing is hard, and we're not all designers. I'm not a designer, but I sometimes play one on the web. Here's a few tricks for how I pull it off.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Public Relations
We're happy to announce the Google Algorithm History project, an archival document tracing named algo updates from 2003 to the present.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Social Media
Sometimes, social media can be anything but social. In honor of Mozcon, I offer 5 tips for turning online connections into IRL relationships.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Paid Search Marketing (PPC)
We Bing PPC campaign managers have coasted too long on broad-match keywords, but the new quality scores may change all of that. Narrower match types may even turn out to be a magic wand on performance.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Social Media
Just when you thought you had your social media addiction under control, along comes Google+. Here's how to manage it in 15 minutes a day.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Public Relations
Google made $58.8 Billion in revenues in 2013. This post is based on Google's 2010 revenues of $29.3 Billion, and it attempts to illustrate just how much money that is.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Technical SEO
In a follow up to my catastrophic canonicalization experiment, I take on 6 new, extreme challenges. Some work, some don't, and we all learn along the way (except me).
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Technical SEO
A visual guide to the HTTP status codes that really matter to SEO (200, 301, 302, 404, 501, 503). Half infographic, half cheat-sheet, half man, half bear, half pig.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Blogging
I step back from the black-hat/white-hat debate to look at the broader picture of marketing ethics. Bonus: 5 crudely drawn illustrations.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Technical SEO
The Panda update hit hard, and we've heard a lot about thin content. Here are 7 definitions of "thin" and what to do about.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to On-page SEO
Sometimes, in the midst of massive link-building and social media campaigns, we need an easy win. Here are a few simple on-page changes that can have real SEO impact.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Technical SEO
Sometimes, you just need a desktop crawler to get the job done. In this post, former champion Xenu takes on newcomer Screaming Frog.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Social Media
Came across a great analogy recently - your social media profiles are your embassies in distant lands. Here are 6 ways to build those embassies.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Keyword Research
Ever wondered how to find ALL they keywords that you rank for? Turns out, it's a lot harder than you might think.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Keyword Research
In SEO, nothing is quite as frustrating as pouring time and money into your chosen keyword and finally breaking into the Top 10, only find that you still have no visitors.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Link Building
There was once a directory called DMOZ, which shone forth like a beacon of glorious link-light. From all across the realm, downtrodden webmasters would travel to pay homage to the ones called Editors.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Technical SEO
Sometimes, you may wonder where Google gets your search snippets. You can't always control what Google uses, but you can nudge them in the right direction.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Search Engines
There's a long-standing debate in SEO about the maximum number of links that you should place on any given page. If you use the SEOmoz PRO Campaign Manager, you may have seen a warning that looks something like this:[image 1]Digging deeper into the "Too Many On-Page Links" warning, you'll see the message:You should avoid having too many (roughly defined a...
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Local SEO
Back in October, Google added the ability to easily change the location from where you search. We ran an experiment to see if this is a reliable tool for Local SEO.
- Posted by Dr. Peter J. Meyers to Public Relations
One of the things we struggle with as SEO content providers is what level to target content at. People are always looking for more "advanced" content, but that word can have so many meanings.
Ah, got it. Unfortunately, the short answer is that they really haven't settled down. I'm seeing gradual improvement in rankings for "Dr. Pete" as a keyword, even within the last week. I've only posted one new piece of content on the site (and that performed low-average at best), so this still seems to be Google processing and interpreting the signals.
Sorry, when you say how long did it take - do you mean to physically enact the change or to see results?
Haha - great analogy. And, even if you swap out the idol just right, that giant boulder is still going to be right behind you :)
I feel like Google has been kind of sending mixed messages about the Change of Address tool lately, and their documentation basically says to go through this entire process before changing your address. I'm starting to see it as a clean-up step at the very end, but not something you want to do too early. Part of the problem is that, if you do it before you're actually ready, it can be really hard to troubleshoot what went wrong.
I know SEOs who swear by this technique (setting canonicals in anticipation of 301-redirects), but I honestly haven't seen much concrete evidence either way. The theory is that the canonicals will give the search engines a heads up that the change is coming, get that process started, but still let users land on the old site temporarily.
To do this, though, both sites have to be active, and that can create some strange situations from a business and traffic standpoint. Plus, once the new pages are ranking, users are going to be finding those in search. So, in my mind, you're sort of half-live at that point and you can't really control who's going to the old site and who's going to the new site.
I get the theory, and I can see how it might provide an SEO boost in some situations, but I have a hard time coming up with a situation where I"d use that approach.
Absolutely - this case study focused on basic SEO factors, like ranking, but any major domain change should look across a wide range of metrics. If you're suddenly taking off on new keywords, but your bounce rate spikes and your conversions plummet, it's not exactly a victory.
This is a very tricky topic. Mass 301-ing a ton of pages to non-identical pages can set off warning flags at Google. Ideally, if the authority is significant, you'd be 301-redirecting to identical or at least equivalent pages. In other words, the searcher should land on something that matches their expectations. Typically, this won't be the home-page.
If a page has a ton of inbound links and simply has no equivalent on the new site, then a 301-redirect to the home-page is better than losing the links. The trick is that this should be done in moderation. Redirecting a few or even a few-dozen pages? Fine. Redirecting thousands of orphaned pages to the home-age? Not so fine.
It's impossible to say without specifics, and I'm guessing John's statements were made in a specific context. There are many cases where an explosion of 404s could be a bad thing. It could signal any number of technical issues, for example.
If the 404s are deliberate, than the main SEO concern is whether or not those 404s are cutting off inbound links and blocking them from passing authority to other pages and the overall domain. If you cut off enough paths, your home-page could absolutely be affected.
In general, though, I'm not aware of any specific rule or penalty that says "X% of 404s = bad". Letting a lot of thin content 404, could, for example, help your rankings, and there are plenty of good reasons to 404 pages. The devil is definitely in the details on this one.
I think that's a very smart thing to do, and almost nobody wants to take the time to do it. We're naturally very averse to cutting out content, and I think a periodic audit can really help you prioritize and clean things up.
The new domain and targeting were purely a branding decision for me. No one really knows my old consulting brand, and it didn't reflect what I do. Now that I'm employed full-time, I wanted to clean up the old stuff but still have a presence and a place to post occasionally. Since everyone knows me by "Dr. Pete" in the industry, that was the natural choice.
I thought it would be interesting to document the journey, from an SEO perspective, but the reality is that I didn't have a big stake in the new name or keeping all of my old traffic. This is a little bit of a restart.
Interesting - thanks. Yeah, I have to admit that, especially with running MozCast, I'm so deep into Google these days that I've got almost neglectful about keeping up with Bing. My main fear is that people still treat EMDs like magic, and it's a lot more complicated than that, especially if you're weighing a change against real revenue and risk.
It depends a lot on the type of penalty and circumstances. It used to be that a 301-redirect to a new domain could clean up a lot of things, but too many people abused this tactic. If you have a link-based penalty (like Penguin) and you 301-redirect the entire site (and all of the bad links), you might see a brief period of recovery, but eventually the penalty is coming back. You haven't really changed anything.
Likewise, if you're being penalized for on-page problems and you simply up and move to a new domain without any clean-up, the penalty is coming back. Again, nothing really changed.
If a domain change becomes an opportunity to clean up bad links and problem areas on the site, then the domain change could cause Google to re-evaluate your site and potentially clean up your problems. This might especially help with a manual penalty, where you could file reconsideration and explain to Google the steps you took. A major clean-up would at least show your positive intent.
I hope the message here is that there are always going to be risks, and the SEO benefits are never guaranteed. It's always a risk/benefit analysis.
If you had a site with very few links, very little traffic, and it was on BuySomeGreatWidgetsHere.net, and you could get BuyWidgets.com for $10, then sure - go for it. If you've got an established site that's generating revenue, though, and you're hoping that a slightly "better" (and even that's subjective) domain will work magic, you're potentially risking a lot for a small chance of benefit.
There are, of course, situations where domains can be more powerful, such as international targeting. That's why I don't like to make generalizations. The message here is to be very aware of the risks.
Unfortunately, it looks like Google has gone back to truncating some title tags before they're displayed, and not with the CSS. That one is being pre-cut by Google. Since it's server-side, that's a bit tougher to evaluate. Notice this one, too:
"Content Marketing Information and Helpful Resources"
It gets rewritten by Google as:
"Content Marketing Information and Helpful ... - Marketo"
They're actually truncating it and then adding "- Marketo", but the truncation happens in the middle. Looks like they've made some changes.
It really depends on the situation, and I don't know what your site looks like or what your goals are. At the time this data was collected, 55 characters was "safe" in 95% of situations. I think it's a reasonable limit.
This can be really tough to diagnose, and keep in mind that titles are somewhat dynamic. So, for example, if Google doesn't find your title to be a good match to the query, they may start looking for other text (including the logo alt text). In other cases, they can still pull titles from DMOZ and other odd sources.
Yes, this style of answer box is coming directly from indexed pages. It's a combination of authority and matching the question well. At the moment, they don't just accuracy very well, but I think your "reward for being accurate" statement is very aligned with where Google wants to be over the next 2-3 years.
Interesting - I don't have a lot of before/after data on rankings, unfortunately, but we are starting to dig into some of that.
We're working on take a SERP where someone else has their URL in the answer box and trying to replace them - that seems like the logical next step. It's a bit hard to force an answer box to exist. Right now, Google has to decide that the query is the kind that can be "answered", in this sense. If they don't think the query can be answered, I doubt you can force that.
So far, every 2nd-generation answer box I've seen comes from an organic result on page 1, so yes - it does take a fair amount of authority. After that, it seems to be a pretty crude matching process right now. Your title/text have to be well aligned with the question. I suspect that will get more sophisticated over time.
I suspect Google is creating a second database for these index-based answers, and maybe that data just isn't getting updated very often. Unlike your experiments with the core Knowledge Graph, it doesn't seem like Google should have to validate the new answer against other sources, but I suppose that's possible, too. They may have some time period or process for determining if the new answer is trustworthy.
Feel free to get in touch with Dr. Pete ;) - email@example.com. Definitely interested in meeting up with as many people as possible when I'm there, although I haven't finalized my schedule yet.
Sorry, it's tough to say without knowing more about the site and articles. What would the duplicates be? Would they be duplicated on your own site or other sites? I'm not aware of a limit to canonical tags (it won't be "duplicate" if you use rel=canonical), but I can imagine that there might be a point where it could look like a quality issue.
Re: (2), I think Google has routinely taken a "let us handle it" approach to duplicate content, and yet I've seen many cases, even before Panda, where such content did considerable harm. Post-Panda, it seems incredibly disingenuous for Google to make that claim. It strikes me as nothing but a CYA tactic, to be brutally honest. They're punishing people for their inability to handle duplicates, IMO. The simple fact is that duplicates cost them a fortune and, perhaps understandably, they'd rather we clean out our own thin content than have to do it for us.
In my experience, these kinds of geo-targeted, thin-content pages are exactly the type that have been clobbered in some of the Panda updates. Of course, that's a broad generalization. If those pages have unique content, represent legitimate routes (and your unique service), are a reasonable proportion of your indexed pages, and if you have the authority/links to back them up, they could be perfectly fine. The devil is in the details.
Unfortunately, I'm not very well versed on Google Search Appliance. My general experience is that it's hard to modify its default behavior. If it honors canonicals, you may have a rough time reversing that. So, basically one version is for customers (behind a paywall?) and one version is for prospects? You could NOINDEX the customer version - it'll cut off some internal link equity, but then only the public version would be eligible for ranking.
Short answer is, unfortunately, no. Google doesn't have a way to control indexation or canonicalization of just part of a page. There are tricks (like JavaScript-based content), but those are tough to implement and the results can be unpredictable.
Unfortunately, it depends on the situation. A canonical tag could help prevent some problems, but it probably won't solve the error in Google Webmaster Tools. You may be including a version of the URL that redirects to another version. Generally, you'd only want the canonical version (the target of the redirect, most likely) in your XML sitemap. I could be a warning you can safely ignore, or it could be a sign of something more serious. Honestly, it's hard to tell without more details.
This appears to be a 302-redirect. If your goal is to consolidate the URLs, that generally won't help. Be wary of your internal links, too - sometimes people 301/canonical to their "preferred" URL, but then all of the internal and inbound (external) links go to another URL. Mixed signals can be a problem.
Unfortunately, Pigeon took away all of the old/easy ones. Read this post. Warning, it's complicated (but it's the best we've got) - http://moz.com/ugc/geolocation-the-ultimate-tip-to-emulate-local-search
Yes, definitely. We all want to reach certain traffic/ranking/revenue/etc. goals, but there are so many variables in that process we're helpless over. Ultimately, it has to boil down to actions that we can either take or not take. I think so many people avoid putting that on paper because it demands a lot of accountability.
Yes, absolutely - I've heard that framework from a couple of people. i think it really puts the focus on the most difficult part. Sometimes, we adopt new-and-exciting frameworks and think they'll magically do the work for us, but that's never going to happen.
Yeah, it's funny - fitness is what ultimately turned me on to changing my approach, too (especially after my kids were born), and yet it wasn't until this year when I really pushed to move that thinking into my work. We're so used to a certain kind of business objective and process that we tend to fall back on those old habits, even if we've seen this process in action.
I think it's easy to say "that's just common sense", but in my experience, this is rarely how things happen. Most companies are obsessed with objectives, and usually fail to take those next steps. There are, IMO, a couple of very good reasons for this:
(1) Frankly, it's hard. We're really bad at breaking down objectives into specific key results, let alone achievable actions. Everyone feels good about step one - it's exciting to lay out big numbers and audacious goals. Taking that next step is daunting, though, and most organizations don't focus on it or prioritize it. If everyone is breathing down your neck for objectives and then walks away, most people won't take that next step.
(2) We don't want the accountability. The great thing about big, sweeping objectives, even quarterly ones, is that we can ride out most of the quarter under the illusion that we're doing fine. If March 1st comes, and we're still way behind, we imagine we can pull off that heroic effort and pull it all together in a month, like we're starring in our own movie. Lead goals requires ongoing accountability, and that's uncomfortable for many of us.
Yeah, it got updated a couple of weeks ago (sorry, probably should've added a note to the post). It does not look like this is in real-time. I suspect it's an occasional mass-update, but it's a bit hard to tell right now.
Wow, that's wild. I can't seem to replicate it by creating a similar search history, so it's tough to tell if this one case is just a freak coincidence, but it's hard to dismiss the possibility. Definitely worth keeping our eyes open.
Yeah, it's tough - if there has to be a box, you'd rather be in it than your competitors, but, all else being equal, it might be better if there was no box at all (from a CTR standpoint). Many of these answers are making the organic results nearly irrelevant.
At this point, it's seems like getting chosen for an answer depends on a mix of authority and on-page signals, but the on-page signals are probably more important than they are for general SEO. Google seems to be looking for pretty exact matches on the query keywords to generate this kind of answer.
The tougher question is: what causes Google to put an answer box on a query at all? Some of these are obvious, question-style queries, but others aren't quite so clear.
That's a fair point - the kinds of questions Freebase can answer are naturally the structured, factual questions. The kinds of questions Google needs to extract from the index are naturally more ambiguous questions. So, this may not be deliberate on Google's part, so much as just a side effect of these two, unique data sources.
Now, I'm trying to find exceptions to that rule... :)
As far as I can tell, they all come from page 1 SERPs, but since ranking is calculated in real-time and these answer boxes don't seem to be, it seems like the data has to be extracted and stored and *then* the site has to rank high enough for any given, relevant query to surface that data. That's just speculation right now, though.
I can't help feel there's a lot of spin in that (Google's, that is) statement. It seems like answers that come from properties they own (like Freebase) don't get links. Answers they scrape from 3rd-party sites get links. Of course, that will probably evolve.
I did not take even 1% offense at your comment. It was a lot of analysis to basically say "Yep, I still think not much happened." I viewed that as a "show your work" project, even knowing the actual answer on the exam would be the same.
We saw big hits to the Top 10 in Penguin 1.0, but it seems like the refreshes have been more subtle, and it's a fair point. We don't have a lot of very-long-tail data, and I haven't seen big difference by volume or query-length in the past, but it may be worth looking over the past week. I haven't done that breakdown. I decided infinite graphs might be too many :)
It's a valid point, and we've seen that on rare occasion with other updates. We've chosen to focus on the top 10 and the highest impact rankings, but there are definitely updates that hit farther down the chain. Interesting to note that SERPmetrics splits out the Top 10 vs. Top 100, and they don't seem to be seeing an impact across the board in the Top 100.
It does include highly competitive terms, but once you isolate them enough, not much data is left for analysis. I haven't seen a clear relationship between either volume or competitiveness on temperature, but that's generally over time (not analyzed for any given day).
This is what's tough, from a prediction standpoint. We don't know what the "right" answer is to compare our answer to. We get the occasional "yes"/"no" about whether there was an update, but Google claims 600+ change per year and maybe we get a dozen yes's each year. Plus, except for % of queries, they don't tell us how big any change is or what the baseline is. I don't want to ever say "I'm right, because I said so" or celebrate because my number matched what Google said on just one day, but at the same time, there's not a good benchmark for success here.
Yeah, it's tough to say. I think Penguin was definitely punitive and was meant to send a message, but my gut feeling is that the collateral damage went beyond what Google expected. This isn't their usual method, and maybe they overshot. Speaking to their intent is nearly impossible but a lot of signals went haywire after Penguin 1.0. The ripple effects were huge.
My suspicion is that this is the start of smaller, more frequent, Penguin updates. So, in a way, while this one may seem small, it's the start of a new process that's going to have a bigger impact over the course of the next few months.
I've divvied it up by volume and competition in the past (since I have that AdWords data, although it's a little outdated), and the signs weren't terribly clear, unfortunately. The data set in general tends to lean a bit commercial.
It's interesting - people's knee-jerk reactions to Google's announcements is exactly what got me interested in building MozCast (before I even knew what it would be). Google was launching 500+ changes per year (over 600 now), and yet we only named a handful, or waited for Google to name them, and then made huge decisions on the tiny amount of data they handed us.
So, in many ways, I see this data as a counterbalance to that. I actually welcome the other, similar tools that have come along, because I think they all add to that information and help us not just take Google's word for things. Way too many decisions and dollars have been spent over-reacting to Panda and Penguin, or reacting the wrong way.
That said, the same warning definitely applies to this data. If you see your traffic drop 40% and then you look at MozCast and say "Sunny day - I guess we're good to go!", then that's a terrible way to run your business. I hope what people will do is add this data to what Google is saying, what people like Barry are saying (interpreting Google and chatter the best they can), and what their own data is saying, to ultimately make better decisions.
What I'm about to say is mostly opinion, but I believe that Penguin 1.0, because it was punitive - most updates focus on maintaining quality over punishing guideline violators - went wrong, and went wrong much more than Google expected. They can test updates all day long, but once it goes out into the world, it's still going to be a different animal.
They've shown unusual caution with subsequent Penguin updates, many of which seem to have been small, and what we're seeing after waiting a year is underwhelming. All of this says to me that Penguin is an animal that has gotten out of Google's control, and they're still struggling with how to cage it.
There's been a weird pattern of reports with this Penguin indicating that it hit outside of the US before it hit the US, which is very rare. Unfortunately, I can't validate that, but I'm hearing from a lot of folks in the UK and Australia.
I share your frustration that this data isn't particularly actionable. I wish I could say more about Penguin with certainty, but I can't at this point. I don't mean the post to sound defensive - I'm sincerely interested in finding out why the data says what it does, and I basically dropped everything for two days to do that. This is a problem that matters to me.
As for the sample size, I disagree, for a number of reasons. Yes, 10K is a lot less than billions, no question. However, the exact sample size is just part of the picture. A big question is "Is the sample representative?", and we've taken pains to make this sample represent a large swath of queries and industries. A good political poll, carefully conducted, can make reasonable predictions about all voters in the US based on only talking to a thousand people - the trick is finding the right people and asking the right questions.
When we originally launched MozCast, we talked about using customer data. Anonymity issues aside (I think those can be addressed, if you're careful), the problem is that customer data is inherently biased. It also changes - people can add or remove thousands of keywords on any given day. Plus, at that scale, our system are collecting rankings all the time, so there's not much consistency to the process (I can't get a clean 24-hour window, for example).
So, we opted to create more of a laboratory and control the conditions. More data could help cancel out some of the noise, but it would also be qualitatively different data that naturally had more noise - it's hard to say which is better. It's interesting to note that the noise really didn't go down that much when we went from 1K to 10K keywords. Some problems were solved (the old data set occasionally got caught up in a Google test, because it didn't hit enough data centers), but this is more than a numbers game. It's also important to note that the 10K unique queries we use represent millions of searches a day, as many of them are high-volume terms. Comparing the 10K to 6B is apples and oranges. Google thinks in terms of total searches, not unique queries.
I'd also argue that our track record is solid, and many people have commented that MozCast has helped them figure out if a problem was algorithmic or something they had (or hadn't) done. This is a work in progress and an open platform - flaws and all. It is *not* part of Moz's paid offering for that reason, and we don't have a paid version. My hope is that putting this information out there helps us collectively solve these problems better.
Finally, there's a lot to MozCast that goes beyond flux, and that's where much of my focus has been. Even if we knew the temperature were accurate the vast majority of days, it's mostly a gut-check. It's not always actionable to know that Google made a change, when they make 600+ changes per year. That's why more of my work has started focusing on things like the rich feature graph and detecting new features Google is testing. That work is also based on MozCast data, and has made what I feel are a number of important discoveries in the past year.
Historically, Penguin was a big, one-day hit, too, so that expectation is grounded in reality. I think we're going to see more and more rolling updates, though.
I think this is what we need to sort out - is this the Penguin we all hoped for and expected? I believe the answer to that is "no". There seems to have been a Penguin update, and the impact of that update for some individuals and possibly niches was large, but it's not on the scale we'd expect after a year. The question is, then - what does this tell us about Google's intent or capabilities? Trying to understand that is how we prepare for the next Penguin.
Happy Birthday, Moz! It's been almost 8 years now since I joined the community, watched it grow up, and even saw some of my fellow community members build their own successful companies (our friends at Distilled, SEER, and Builtvisible, to name a few). I've gone from wide-eyed commenter, to contributer, to contractor, to employee, and every step has been better than the last.
On a per-query level, I completely agree - there are queries decimated by answer boxes, for example, where a standard CTR curve is useless. I don't think we can build a model at this point that would accurately reflect all of the diversity of SERPs, and it's only going to get worse.
My argument is that - across a large number of SERPs, even a poor CTR curve, or some kind of CTR*Volume estimate, is preferable to counting rankings as 1-10+. We know that CTR curve will be lacking, and we know the volume estimate will be lacking, but in aggregate, we'll know more than we did, IMO.
This is a topic of intense debate within Moz, actually.
Interesting stuff, and I really like the breakdowns. I know CTR curves have gotten a lot of flak recently, and many of the criticisms are fair, but I'm more and more haunted by a question: "Compared to what?"
Yes, there are many limitations to generalizing a CTR curve, BUT (and it's a big one) the problem is that we all already have a CTR curve in our heads, and for many SEOs, that "curve" is a straight line. When we count rankings as 1, 2, 3, etc. we treat them as falling on a CTR line. To me, even a best guess at a curve is closer to reality than the way we've counted for years. Is it imperfect? Oh, yes - absolutely, but it's much less imperfect than the thing we've all just come to accept and live by professionally.
This is a value we share at Moz, not just Erica's personal opinion, and we've always believed in expressing our company values. We're proactive about gender equity in many aspects of operations, including speaker selection for MozCon, because many of us believe that we can only address these problems by being proactive.
I'm not sure I'm adding anything that hasn't been said, but I do feel that the ultra-clickbait comes with a price, eventually. We can't argue with Upworthy's, Buzzfeed's, etc. short-term results, but we're all tiring of it, and sites like The Onion's Clickhole show that that fatigue has reached the masses (and not just marketers).
I guess there are two points I've tried to juggle:
(1) It depends on your goal. Our goal at Moz is specifically to build credibility, because our product sales cycle is built on credibility and on trust gained through multiple touch-points. Buzzfeed's goal is to attract pageviews (at least for now). So, what works for them, even in the short term, may not work for others.
(2) It's rarely all or none. I definitely feel like I've under-invested in headlines over the years. Even usability research suggests that people focus on just the first few words, and that crafting a compelling headline is important. While it's true that you can damage credibility with wild promises, it's also true that you can't gain credibility if no one ever reads your work.
I learned this lesson to some degree when I wrote "Top 1 SEO Tips of 2013". It was clear to me, after the fact, that the title (and the deliberate play on the plural "tips" with just 1 tip) was a large part of that article's success. I also hope that the content and message were valuable, of course. I wouldn't want to ever just rely on a gimmick, but the reality is that another title would've exposed that message to less people. So, I think it's always a balancing act for most of us.
As mentioned in another comment, I think you may be referring to the authoritative one-box, which local SEOs typically don't consider a "pack" result. When a map pin and address is integrated in an organic result, that's generally called a "one-box". Packs are stand-alone and visually separated from the organic results. Granted, that's just a naming convention, and I apologize if I didn't explain it very well.
It's a fair question, and many people share your frustration, but I think part of the problem is how we look at SEO. For too long, we've thought of SEO as something you just "do" and then ride out for months or years (or, in some people's minds, forever). Every form of marketing is changing, and even if the medium is stable, its effectiveness changes, your market changes, your customers change, etc.
I think it's a bit like the stock market. The market is risky and unpredictable. On the other hand, there's a lot of opportunity, and there are many degrees of risks and payoffs. What if you invested in authorship two years ago, and now it's gone? Some people did and are pissed at their SEO. What does the data say, though? If that investment yielded two years of positive results (and authorship isn't a huge investment), then the ROI was probably good. It sucks that the rules changed, but it was still an opportunity and money well spent.
So, the question isn't to-SEO-or-not-to-SEO. The question is what risk/reward trade-off are you willing to accept. No form of marketing is guaranteed or risk free. Even producing "good" content is a target that will move a lot in the next 3-5 years, and the ways we share and promote content will evolve dramatically. That investment today isn't going to pay out forever, and good SEO will still help you get the most out of that investment, from a traffic standpoint.
I think you also have to ask, as in all things: "Compared to what?" In most forms of marketing, you have to keep paying in every time. You want to direct mail? Great, but you'll pay each times. PPC can have great returns, but you pay every month. From that standpoint, I think SEO is often still a great investment with fairly long returns. We just can't expect those returns to last forever or nothing to change.
Here's the tough part (replying to Cory below as well). These answer boxes, once they're fine-tuned, are arguably good for search users. Once you factor in mobile, Glass, and smartwatches and the limited screen space, these answer boxes become essential.
The problem is that "good for users" has become a convenient battle cry for Google that seems to correlate (r=1.0) with "good for revenues." I think this future exploits the people who provide the content. If Google pushes hard enough, they're going to tip the balance. If they go all answer box, why shouldn't we robots.txt block them? It doesn't matter if that's good for users - it matters that they're using everyone else's property and not paying rent.
I probably should've said that there's a special kind of "1-pack" local SEOs refer to as a "1-box" or "authoritative 1-box". It looks like an organic result with an embedded pin, and it was the first kind of local result to pop up a KG entity (I think). These aren't considered "pack" results, but, admittedly, that's more of an industry naming convention than any kind of objective reality - they are 1-packs, in a sense. We track them separately in MozCast.
Interesting - yeah, I haven't looked at local intent in the organic results post-Pigeon (for obvious reasons, that's a LOT tougher to quantify).
I think real estate is in trouble. I look at what's happened in travel, hotels, and insurance, and I see Google making a similar move in real estate. There's unified data (MLS listings), and if Google bought access to that data, they could start providing listings right in an answer box. They could even treat that as a paid feature. So many real estate sites are just churning out MLS data, anyway, with no value add (I'm not criticizing them - it's the nature of the business) that Google probably considers the results low quality anyway. It would not surprise me if they made a big move in the next 2-3 years.
Meanwhile, Zillow and Trulia are probably going to merge, and, in our data set. Zillow is the #21 domain (ordered by most rankings across our 10K page-1 SERPs) and Trulia is #42. That's two big players that will soon dominate results even more than they do today.
If I were in real estate, I'd look hard at diversification. Banking on Google could be very dangerous in the next couple of years.
Wow, yeah that's interesting for such a big brand - many people are probably searching for a local "Kentucky Fried Chicken". Looks like "KFC" returns local results (which makes sense).
Yeah, I haven't been able to spot a rhyme or reason. Clearly, Google is trying to parse out geo-keywords in a more sophisticated way and use them for localization, but there are still kinks in the system. Does Pigeon work better on balance? Possibly. Does it work better for these cases? No.
Sorry, I thought people were familiar with the In-depth Article feature by now, and I probably glossed over it. I did a write up here a while back:
Essentially, they're an alternative type of news result, usually reserved for general queries. When Google doesn't know exactly what you want, and they think you might want a deep dive into a topic, they'll provide a block if "in-depth" articles.
My opinion is this - Google has an unspoken agreement with webmasters, and it goes something like: "We'll make money off of your content, but in return we'll send you traffic." That's fair, in theory, and many of us have done well by it. Now, though, Google is making $60,000,000,000 off of that exchange, and they're becoming more interested in how to protect/grow that number than honor the agreement. I think these scraped answer boxes are crossing a line, personally.
Sorry, it's been quite a while. The only division I'm seeing/remembering is against the maximum value for the metric you're weighting ("Visits", in the spreadsheet). If the maximum value for that column was zero, then you'd basically have no data. Happy to dig deeper, if you can help me understand what you're seeing.
I can't do the thought exercise real justice, in a deep way, but I'm going to try. These will probably be more strategic than tactical.
A - Local ice cream shop with several locations
With local, we've obviously got to cover the bases. Are the locations all correctly submitted to Google? Are they available in Google Maps and Apple Maps? By extension, are they available via voice searches and Siri. This is mission critical for a pure local business like an ice cream shop.
Ideally, they'll want Knowledge Graph entries with easy access to phone, address, and hours, and probably click-to-call. Again, these are the basics, but many local businesses don't do them.
Why not let people pre-order on the way. Ice cream is an on-the-go and often impulse buy, so let people easily browse, mix, and order flavors on their way to the shop. What about letting people create flavors (within reason) from their phones? Make it social - the most popular flavors gets featured, maybe the "winner" of that month's flavor gets a price.
B - Online retailer of custom t-shirts
Let's take the Instagram model. Focus on photo-based shirts. Let people create shirts directly from photos on their mobile camera. It not only makes the process easier, but it encourages one-up purchases that are often impulsive or vanity-driven. I just took a great picture of my kids - let's make a t-shirt? The next day, that idea may seem stupid, but if I can reduce friction, I've made a sale that wouldn't have happened.
C - Manufacturer of parts for industrial equipment
I know someone in this industry, and parts management and ordering can still be surprisingly low-tech. Equip mobile phones with simple scanners or decent software tied to the camera and let people photograph parts or scan part numbers. Let them order multiple parts from just a picture of the entire piece of equipment, or show them those parts based on that equipment.
It sounds obvious, but the last time I ordered parts for a fridge (and this was GE - a big company and UX leader) I had to read through multiple PDFs, reference part numbers, and type them in to order on a separate screen. What if I could've just scanned the serial number and the sections and parts all popped up in an easily selectable and orderable format? This could steal real market share.
D - Maker of HR software
So many HR tasks, like filing sick leave, reporting vacation time, finding insurance forms, require a ton of hand-holding and manual intervention. Making software simple and mobile, instead of pages of downloadable forms, lets employees handle these mundane tasks when they have a chance. I'm on the train home, and I remember I need to file a reimbursement - put it at my fingertips. This is an entire industry based on reducing friction.
E - Law office helping companies with regulatory issues
Similarly, regulatory compliance is mostly a huge pain in the ass. Make forms mobile and pre-fill complex templates with company information and personal accounts, leaving just a few fields to go. Allow simple attachments of photos and documents. File directly to a cloud/central server and provide quick, automated audit feedback to fill in missing data (instead of having a person to review and reply days or weeks later, leading to weeks or months of delays). Again, mobile isn't just a different interface - it's a different modality, mindset, and opportunity.
Obviously, these are just ideas, and I don't want to oversimplify these industries. Someone could do none of this and still grow, or they could lose market share very slowly and not notice until it's too late. If everyone and their competitors fails to take the opportunity, maybe not much will change. Still, the opportunity is being lost, and that's money on the table. Eventually, someone will come along and take advantage of the new modality.
Can or will everyone do it? No. This isn't a matter of some tactic that everyone can follow. This is a matter of deep, strategic innovation that can change industries.
I think the problem is that we want this to be tactical, and it's not. This isn't a technical SEO situation (outside of responsive design) where we can just add a few tags or tweak a few things. This is a broad strategic question, and I can't answer it in a one-sized-fits-all-way, or even without deep knowledge of an industry.
Let's look, though, at what mobile has already disrupted, or will soon:
(1) Social Media
Your comment about Facebook is telling, I think, because it's what we're all seeing with 20-20 hindsight. I can use Facebook on desktop and mobile, and other than a UI difference, what does it matter? Maybe mobile adds a bit more traffic, but that's not revolutionary, right? Let me give a few examples why I think it's not right at all.
Twitter is born for mobile. The 140-character limit and mostly texts posts make updating and reading on mobile a breeze. That's not just about extra traffic - it's about critical mass. If I had to go back to my office to check Twitter on my desktop after the end of the work day, I wouldn't bother. With mobile, I can follow conversations while I make dinner, check push notifications at a stoplight, etc. This makes the entire experience sticky. Without that, I might not just use Twitter 20% less - I might not have adopted it at all. That's speculative, so let's dig deeper...
Where would Instagram be if we still had to have our film developed or even take our digital camera home and download pictures? The mobile phone/camera tie-in made Instagram possible. It wouldn't just have 20% less traffic without mobile - it wouldn't exist at all. Facebook found Instagram so disruptive that they paid $1B for it.
Would FourSquare exist if you had to return home, login to your PC, and enter your location by hand? No. It's an entire social network that only exists because of mobile.
(2) Downloadable Music
The adoption of digital music, as inevitable as it seems, was inherently a mobile phenomenon. It took the iPod, with it's promises of holding hundreds of albums in one portable device, to really change the system. Even with portable tape/disc players, we still paid by the album and bought physical media.
Now, years later, look where we are. Mobile phones have almost completely supplanted dedicated digital music players - we all have them, we all have headphones. To say that you can play iTunes, Pandora, etc. on your desktop misses the point that, until our music went mobile, the digital download revolution didn't really begin. After mobile, it's rewriting the music industry.
(3) Payment Processing
This one's coming soon - our mobile phones will almost undoubtedly be our payment gateway. The future (I'm sure this will ruffle a few feathers) isn't Coin - it's not some specialized device that may or may not be widely adopted and just adds another thing to our wallet. The future of payment processing is ubiquitous, convenient, secure access to our money via the mobile devices we already carry. This will revolutionize not just payment processing, but e-commerce.
The problem is that, after these transitions occur, they almost seem inevitable, and mobile just seems like the platform. In all of these cases, though, I think mobile was the driver, and there's more to come.
I don't think it will happen overnight, but I think there's a place for wearables even if they don't replace desktop functionality. Smartphones are much more functional than they once were, but there's still a lot you can't do on them that you can do on a desktop, laptop, or even tablet. Their interfaces have been refined and we've learned to get enough functionality out of them that they've achieved mass-adoption. They didn't replace desktops or laptops for any of us (or very, very few), and yet we still have them.
What I think is different about 2014, is that the hardware/software has evolved to a point where a smartwatch can be much more than just a digital watch with a few extra features. Google Now is maturing, and is pretty useful, in some circumstances. Screen resolution is at the point where a smartwatch can be functional in interesting ways. People are going to design custom apps that fit the format. I think we're at a point where critical mass is close.
The other interesting thing to me is that smartwatches may propel the technology forward. The kind of miniaturization that's necessary and the improvements we'll need to battery life will help lower costs on components and make other wearables more feasible and affordable.
It's an interesting theory, and I do suspect that authorship didn't play well with mobile, but I think there may be a mix of problems with authorship. It's certainly possible that it was impacting ad CTR. It's also possible that, as Google suggested when they first tweaked authorship, it was getting used/abused to the point of giving people a false quality signal. In other words, it was easy to get authorship even when the site might not in any way deserve that extra authority boost. I suspect Google is trying to balance that out and just found authorship was too prevalent.
It's frustrating - both from a product and research perspective - because we don't have the data we really need (and Google isn't eager to supply it). I suspect that mobile has a wide-ranging impact - having very little impact for some businesses and quite a bit for others. A lot of that impact would be seen in the difference between desktop and mobile CTRs, which we don't have access to. So, I'd suggest a few things:
(1) Look at your overall desktop/mobile/table traffic mix. In Google Analytics, that's under "Audience > Mobile". You can further split that by "Source" (under [Secondary Dimension]) to get a sense for how your search traffic is split. It doesn't reveal the entire richness of multi-device search, but it's a start. For Moz, we're only about 8% (mobile + tablet). It makes sense - our site isn't mobile-friendly, and as a SaaS and content provider, we're not in any way a local business. If that number is more like 20%+, though, I'd start taking things pretty seriously.
(2) Ask yourself if you're in any way a local business.That could mean you have a storefront, or it could mean you deal in local information. If anyone is going to look up information about you on the go, take mobile seriously.
(3) Finally, take your money terms and at least look at them on your phone. Is the layout dramatically different? Are you getting knocked off the first page? Is a Knowledge Graph box or some other entity dominating? Just make sure you know the state of things, as they stand today, so you can make informed decisions.
I'm not really clear why weighted averages is a problem - yes, these aren't completely apples-to-apples metrics, but the whole point of taking a relative metric for each one (ratio of performance to the average for a time period) is to create some equivalency. After that, we're performing a weighted average of those somewhat equalized metrics.
Is that perfect? Of course not. This isn't a proposal for the ultimate, final content metric - it's a discussion about how we can move forward and test some alternatives, and it's a work-in-progress. As Cyrus said, this approach has given us additional insights and helped us spot posts that we might have overlooked based on any single metric. It makes us stop and say "Why?" when the 1Metric doesn't match our expectations, and that's useful. It absolutely takes that level of human intelligence, of course, but this score gives us a starting point, and that's been incredibly valuable.
I'd also argue from my experiences with other metrics in noisy data, like MozCast temperatures, that what the "ideal" math calls for often doesn't make a ton of practical difference. I have MozCast metrics that are much more sophisticated than the original SERP "flux" metric, but I still use that original metric for reporting. Why? Because, ultimately, those more advanced, rigorous metrics show a day-over-day pattern that's almost identical to the simpler metric, and the simpler one benefits from face validity and easy of explanation. I still collect the other metrics, and if I showed them both to five statisticians, 4 of 5 would probably be sure the advanced one was better, but the actual data hasn't born that out.
In many ways, 1Metric is similar - we're looking at relative values across pieces of content. As long as it consistently flags better from worse, we're on the right track. From there, it's about refinement.
Edit: I just want to add that we did have a bit of internal debate before building this, because clearly any first attempt wasn't going to be perfect. Ultimately, though, we decided it was better to roll out a model and test the insights it provided than argue for six more months about what was theoretically ideal. This is new ground for all of us, and I think we all have a lot to learn. That's going to require experimentation.
I believe it has to do with a mix of browser and location. At first, Google encrypted just signed-in searches, then Chrome, etc. They didn't roll it out across all Google ccTLDs (countries, essentially) at the same time. Actually rolling out globally across all platforms is technically challenging, and I'm not sure what's left at this point. That number (20%) varies wildly by site - some people see data for <10% of keywords at this point.
Very happy to see this go live - I was playing with some small accounts this morning, and it's nice to see data and insights even for those. I'm already seeing some places where I need to fill in the blanks on keywords I'm tracking and writing around.
Note to everyone - if you're not seeing much data, check on the "Include Pages Without Estimated Visits". It'll give you a sense of where you can start filling in data.
I'm seeing weak recovery at best from eBay at this point. The pages they lost on were classic thin content, so they won't be able to "fix" them. They're going to have to try to get other pages ranking in their place, and that may be an uphill climb.
I would not follow their lead on search result pages, generally speaking, or really any big brand. Sites with massive authority can get away with a fair amount of bad on-page SEO and site architecture, because they have the link profile to support it. Even if you're a mega-brand and have that kind of authority, you're better off consolidating that power on your money terms.
Of course, the trick is that it's all a trade-off. Spinning out those result pages let eBay rank on a ton of long-tail terms, and they had the authority to spread around. I'd argue, though, that, even without a penalty, that tactic may have been diluting other more critical terms. I'd hard to say, but it's definitely a gamble. It takes deep knowledge of the site in question to calculate that risk.
Pretty small, IMO. The way their loss was targeted is suggesting more of a manual action, and it's very likely due to the thin content itself. Plus, while the ranking loss coincided with the timing of eBay's announcement, the actual breach apparently happened a couple of months ago.
There seems to be growing evidence that eBay's situation was a manual penalty and not caused by Panda 4.0 (or, Panda was at best part of the problem). The very targeted way that certain kinds of pages fell out of the index looks more manual than Panda-related, and insiders are saying that Google took action against eBay. I can't confirm that with confidence at this point.
Their search losses are significant, but that's just one piece of their marketing, and we don't know what the timeframe will be like. If this drop lasts long enough to impact quarterly earnings, then we'd likely see real fallout. I'm not sure that's likely, though. If the mainstream press picked up on it, that could, of course, have an impact, too. The mainstream press tends to just hear "blah blah blah" when we talk, though :)


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Forming a Central/Northern AZ. forum???
How many gardeners who live in central/northern Arizona would like our own Arizona forum? We don't experience the same weather as southern Arizona so why not form one for us?
I know I would love it!! Just curious on if there were enough of us to ask GardenWeb to make us our own forum? Love to hear from you
A great idea Beca...I hope you get some responses.
Zone 5-8, up to 7,200 ft elevation. Some things that won't grow in the valleys should grow well up there. And it will be interesting to hear of others trying to grow things that others would dismiss as impossible.
When I had moved to Nevada in 2006...I noticed there wasn't a forum for it....so I asked GW about it & kept posting asking others in the state to ask for one. Nevada finally got a forum. So it can be done "if" we all continue to keep posting asking for it to happen.
GW: please give us a central/Northern Az. forum!!!
I don't think the admins read every post. Why don't you try to contact them through the Contact Us link at the bottom of the page, and send them a link to this thread? ;-) I generally am able to get their attention when I use that method.
I'm in the Valley, and as a devout xeric gardener, post largely in the succulent forum, but I do have an idea for you, that may get more traction. How about a high desert forum, inclusive of northern AZ, all of NM, as well as much of NV and UT? Does NM have a forum here? I don't even know, but if does, expand/rename that forum into High Desert Forum. That would give you a larger community of like-minded gardeners than just N. AZ.
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Hey GermanStar you are so right!!!!!!! I love that idea about a High Desert Forum!! It would help most of us living in areas like that. I was also looking around to see if there was a forum in NM too (nope)...weird. I wonder why not? I am going to check out the Utah one after this....maybe other states too and do a posting to check out others thoughts? Maybe someone will join in with us??? I did hear back from GW saying "as they build new message boards they'll take my suggestion into consideration." I will send a new email asking about the High Desert Forum instead of just No. Az. Thanks
As sleepy as the Utah forum is, I can't imagine they would resist or "take under consideration" a request to rename and thus expand it. It's dead weight right now, and you'd be offering to breathe life into it. Make a good case with a comprehensive public letter here and in other forums like the Utah and Nevada forums, asking other members to endorse the idea before passing it onto the brass by directing them to the actual thread(s) with the letter and endorsements. Needless to say, the more the merrier. I think it would be a great addition that fills a real void here.
Don't be too hasty to assume that this would actually be a good idea. A good forum really needs a LOT of traffic, both from regulars, and from people surfing around (like me on the Arizona forum).
Judging from the only moderate amount of traffic on this forum, I would predict a VERY SLOW forum if you made it specific to C/N Arizona, the less populated part of the state.
For some background... The only regional forum that applies to NM is the Southwest Forum, which is utterly dismal these days. In the past I have received some nice replies to posts, but very few posts ever generate much of interest anymore, and get very few replies. Maybe the problem is that it is too general? Or maybe there is too much overlap? (because of the Arizona, Utah, Colorado forums, etc..).
In any event, having a forum with a focus that is pertinent to your location/interests is only half the battle -- it has to generate enough interesting conversations on an ongoing basis.
Hence the High Desert Forum suggestion... The Utah forum has had two posts this year. In general, I agree, this place would benefit from consolidation, rather than further division. For example, we have Southwest Forum, Succulent Forum, Arizona Forum and Xeric Gardening Forum, all with substantial overlap, yet none adequately address the unique high desert environment, IMHO. Why a Utah forum, Arizona forum, Nevada forum, and Southwest forum? We might all be better served by High Desert and Low Desert.
Yeah GermanStar, I'm starting to see your point... Where I live is not technically the High Desert, but close enough I guess.
Still wish I had a forum specific to growing food in the arid high elevation climate, but would it be any better than or see a quarter of the traffic of a combination of the regional forums and the topical forums like the Vegetables, Fruit and Orchards, or Composting?
I too would be interested in a forum addressing food growing in the arid high elevation climate. I am at 7000 feet in Parks, Az and dealing with rocky acidic soil and forest creatures. In Phoenix, I have city aklaline soil so there is a world of difference in what I do in either garden.
I think you got some good points, so in my opinion someone needs to write up a proposal about making a high desert forum and a low desert forum, by�getting�rid of the Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Southwest forums. But before you do that you need to go on those forums and post in them and ask what their opinions are. and after you have all of that information send it to the garden web admin, and hopefully they will take all of that into consideration and build us a forum off what we want.
Yeah for some interest on this posting!!!!!! I really think GW needs to rebuild two desert forums: a high desert forum and a low desert forum.
Two totally different forums for two different gardening desert locations. It would take care of the many other forums and I personally think everyone would be interested. Soo let's keep posting and talking here.
I will post to the other forums and see what they think.
I'd love a Northern Arizona forum. I'm having a terrible time trying to figure out what works here. My biggest issue is mice eating my garden. I've gone thru 5 large boxes of D-con in the last week and a half. We also have to haul our water and catch rainwater for our garden.
I hate to use D-con. So I just picked up a Molemaz Sonic spike at Home Depot. It's a solor powered contraption that emits a sound like a litttle rodent critter in distress. Costs 30 bucks. It's supposed to scare away other rodents, primarily moles and gophers, but also rats and ground squirrils and probably mice too.
Will it work? Who knows? And I may yet have to resort to a more lethal option It's just that, with D-Con, other critters who eat the dead and dying mice/rats/squirrels/gophers will probably also die. And I hate that.
As far as a forum for the High Desert. GREAT Idea.


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I have Tiny Tim, Red Robin and Container Choice. I grew both Tiny Tim and Container Choice last year and would not recommend either because of poor flavor.
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