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Go buy a new domain as a test site. Try the crazy things. Test what you think matters. Test what you think has NO SHOT at working. Measure the results. You will find over time that much of what you believe is false or doesn't impact things nearly as much as you think. That helps break the...

Run a Screaming Frog crawl and see if you have some malformed backlinks to those pages.

Like all SEO questions . . . it depends. But GeoffM is correct. First you check if the site is toxic. Point it at a page on a site you don't care about and see if the page moves or disappears. Assuming it's not toxic, then you need to determine what to do based on things like: - Did the site...

Great question! I have no idea of the answer but . . . If I had to guess I would say that each subdomain has its own crawl budget. Subdomains are treated as different sites by Google. Likely each subdomain has its own budget based on its size and history. For example LeesNewSite.tumblr.com is...

Here's my 2 cents. (Keep in mind it may only be worth 2 cents!) Google is in the business of collecting data about users to improve advertising performance. They do not care about privacy. Chrome belongs to Google. They use it to collect information that helps Google, not users. Collection of...

I'm Lee. I like SEO. It's not a problem though. It's totally under control. Dreaming about SEO is perfectly fine. A lot of people have those dreams. Perfectly normal to have dreams like that. Just because I spend Sundays doing SEO things doesn't mean it's a problem! I could quit any time...

So far I have no conclusive results. Press releases (and other links) have been hit or miss in Google. It has varied by time period - sometimes looking good and sometime leaving you wondering if links are dead. General conclusion: build a diversity of link types. Press releases are among the...

Cora identifies entities based on sampling zones on the page. So if someone has "find us on Facebook" as an H2 tag, "Facebook" will appear in the entities list - even though it is not related to window cleaner. You have to select the appropriate entities, variations, etc. for your keyword.

What is the impact on rankings? Not all PR services are the same. And your link profile lacks diversity. Consider testing different frequencies, using the same service over and over vs different services, and alternating with non-PR links. You will likely find a dramatic difference among some...

When I worked in direct marketing, there were some focus groups conducted to ask people about "junk mail". They would gather all of the mail received for a week, and the interviewer would grab each piece and ask "Is this junk mail?" The conclusion . . . if we don't like or are not interested in...