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  • BeytzNet


    Hi All, Up till now I've been registered only to Google WMT. Do you recommend using at the same time Bing's WMT? Thanks

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | BeytzNet
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  • caroline1977


    Does Google mess with my rank readings? They look different on different PCs and using different browsers. How do I get a true reading of rank of my clients keywords?

    Link Building | | caroline1977
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  • Feily


    We have over 20 websites that sell property. Each website is targeted to a different country. People advertise to sell their property. The websites are not getting to page 1 for the terms we want probably because of duplication issues. If we compare one website with another country website on www.duplicatecontent.net we find it is nearly 70% between one and the other. So we trying to understand why this is. If someone wanted to sell a property in Spain we would create an advert for them but rather than putting this on the back-end of the Spain website it goes on a separate website that does on all countries. We have tried to put nofollow tags so that the country specific website gets acknowledgement of being the original website but the rankings for key-terms will not rise and the duplication % remains nearly 70%. Can anyone suggest the best way forward?

    On-Page Optimization | | Feily
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  • ocelot


    Hi I have written 2 articles for 2 seperate businesses and markets. One article  is a Top 10 tips on choosing a conservatory How would I go about promoting and seeding this around related home improvement websites around the UK, use stumbleupon? 2. I also have recipes for a restaurant which I need to seed and promote online in order to gain links and promote the restaurant.  Again which methods are best in finding sources to list these recipes and to related blogs etc Many Thanks

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | ocelot
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  • loopyal


    Am I just unlucky or are others seeing this too? I have several google alerts. For the past 6 months, google keeps sending crap along with good stuff. its a bit like their search results. There are three types of Alerts they send that I'm not impressed with. 1. Alerts that are from unintelligible splogs that take real news stories and rewrite them with unintelligible garbage that makes no sense at all. Sometimes, they serve up new alerts from the same splogs I saw several months ago, that I felt sure they would have zapped by now. 2. Old stories, that have been around for months. I just received one that was from January, from TechDirt, a big site that must get a huge amount of attention from google. 3. Irrelevant stories because they love to show how smart they are by splitting my alert keyword text into multiple words, but it gives useless results. This is the kind of stuff that crappy search engines like AltaVista used to do. Is google reverting to the childhood of search with all these changes?

    Algorithm Updates | | loopyal
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  • Prestige-SEO


    Hello, Just a quicky, is there anyway I can do a crawl report for something in a campaign so I can compare the changes? I know you can do a separate crawl test, but it wont show the differences,and the next crawl date isnt untill the 28th.

    Moz Pro | | Prestige-SEO
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  • photogaz


    Looking at the over-optimisation list it pretty much seems to me something that everyone is doing so are we suddenly going to find the best results actually de-indexed. Maybe Google will slowly shut off indexing stage by stage so everyone changes. What are your thoughts?

    Technical SEO | | photogaz
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  • photogaz


    With the new over optimisation penalty coming in, I was wondering if you're going to update your online tool to take this into account?

    Moz Pro | | photogaz
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  • debi_zyx


    Hi All! So yes, I know that you can see/filter the language that the computer or browser was set to (en-us, ru, fr, etc.), but if you look at the keywords used by visitors falling under "fr", some are in English. Is there any way to get, say, just the keywords in Russian - regardless of what the visitor's browser language was set to? Thanks! Aviva

    Reporting & Analytics | | debi_zyx
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  • Stefan-Thorpe


    How do I start to target a national audiences? I currently get most of my hits from The US and Australia? But I see no reason why I don't get vies in Canada and The UK.

    Search Behavior | | Stefan-Thorpe
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  • JustDucky


    Has anyone observed the effect on G organic traffic when a site which has little or no location information suddenly registers with the reputable "local" directories? I am especially curious about results observations based upon G's behavior during the past several months. It might be a hosting problem (the host is performing some non-routine mantenance) or possibly even a HUGE change in G's algo but I've observed a huge drop in my traffic after claiming a couple of the local listings earlier this week.  Until then, I doubt G had associated my site with my city. A couple of other explanations are possible but the timing leaves me to doubt it's a coincidence. T.I.A.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | JustDucky
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  • Bucky


    Hi, When will your On-page Optimization Tool be updated to reflect the Over Optimization Penalty which is coming. I would think that grading out at an 'A' will have adverse effects.

    Moz Pro | | Bucky
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  • dbuckles


    I asked our developers to implement a WordPress blog on our site and they feel that the technology stack that is required to support WP will interfere with a number of different .NET production applications on that server. I can't justify another server just because of a blog either. They want me to find a .NET blog solution. The only thing that looks decent out there is dotnetblogengine.net. Has anyone had any experience with this tool or any others like it? Thanks, Alex

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | dbuckles
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  • jimmyboy


    With Fire Fox I get a ranking of 3 for roof coating and get a page 6 with Chrome and IE. Not sure what is going on with that.

    Keyword Research | | jimmyboy
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  • sansonj


    How important is word count? I am using seomoz to make sure I get an A, but it does not include word count.  I am in the middle of restructuring my website and I did not know if the word count is way too low. I am using the key phrase the recommended amount of times http://azbestlistings.com/mesa-az-homes-for-sale-mesa-real-estate What is your formula that works?

    On-Page Optimization | | sansonj
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  • nyanainc


    Hi, I just want a confirmation about my indexing technique, if is good or can be improved. The technique is totally whitehat and can be done by one person. Any suggestions or improvements are welcome. I create the backlinks ofcource first 🙂 I make a list on public doc from Google. On the doc are only ten links. After I digg it , and add some more bookmarks 5-6. I tweet the digg and each doc.  (my 2 twitter accounts have page authority 98) I like them in Fb. I ping them thru ping serviecs. Thats it. Works ok for moment. Is anything what I can do to improve my technique? Thanks lot

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | nyanainc
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  • FrederikTrovatten22


    I guys.. I have a very annoying issue.. My Wordpress-blog over at www.Trovatten.com has some indexation-problems.. Google Webmaster Tools data:
    GWT says the following: "Sitemap contains urls which are blocked by robots.txt." and shows me my homepage and my blogposts.. This is my Robots.txt: http://www.trovatten.com/robots.txt
    "User-agent: *
    Disallow: /wp-admin/
    Disallow: /wp-includes/ Do you have any idea why it says that the URL's are being blocked by robots.txt when that looks how it should?
    I've read a couple of places that it can be because of a Wordpress Plugin that is creating a virtuel robots.txt, but I can't validate it.. 1. I have set WP-Privacy to crawl my site
    2. I have deactivated all WP-plugins and I still get same GWT-Warnings. Looking forward to hear if you have an idea that might work!

    Technical SEO | | FrederikTrovatten22
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  • theBREWROOM


    Hello fellow SEO'ers! I have a question regarding the overall SEO implications of using a single page to describe the services/products offered at two different locations. The locations are in two different states/cities. I have tried to explain to the client that I working with that this is essentially splitting the page in two from a search ranking perspective. I have a feeling that Google sees this page as partially dedicated to one city, and partly to another... meaning that it won't rank as well as it could for either city. Is my thinking correct? Seems logical. The client has done this site-wide for every service/product that they offer in their facilities. I'm offering some title/description recommendations for the entire site right now, and I'm going back and forth with myself whether to include the city names in the titles and descriptions at all. Let me know what you smart folks think. I appreciate it. Sam

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | theBREWROOM
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  • journeybeyondtravel


    Hello Everyone, I hope this is OK to post here. I run a travel website and we operate tours abroad. We are slowly expanding after nearly 10 years in the field. I started the company from scratch and currently do my own website design and SEO work. However, over the last couple of years I've lost the SEO connection due to being so darn busy. I started account here with SEO Moz in order to get the ball rolling again. We continually rank high for keywords, publish superb content by great writers, and overall are doing fine. I would just like to ensure this keeps happening and that we have an expert on board to help us in sustainable organic SEO practices. What I'd like to do is hire an SEO expert to help with our site. It might be part time (10 or so hours per week, perhaps?) Anyhow, I would like if this person used SeoMoz and really had their fingers on the pulse of the SEO world. I want all white-hat SEO, help with page optimization, internal link structure, and help getting quality external links. I know that over optimization is something that is now on the forefront of SEO work, so of course keeping this in mind helps. I would like to be kept up to date (perhaps weekly overviews of data and how we are doing) and am willing to make changes as quickly as needed on the site. I would like to see how we rank with competitors and what we need to do to stay on top - for the long term (no short sighted decisions). I want to learn as we progress, not because I want to do the SEO work myself, I just enjoy knowing what is going on. I will not micromanage. I am too busy for that : ) I am not sure what amount SEO experts are paid, but I have a slightly flexible budget. I really want someone will communicate when needed and is thorough in their responses. Attention to detail is a must. I would prefer an SEO expert located in the US but who also knows how to access / think about markets abroad (Canada/UK/Australia). I suppose we can discuss pay once I have a shortlisted group. I am looking to hire and work with someone starting pretty much immediately (even in May). For starters, I suppose our budget might be $500 to $1500 per month. For the first month or so, we might offer payment on a stipend basis just so we can ensure whoever is hired is the perfect fit. It would be great if this person had worked on travel sites before or has at least traveled abroad a few times. But, no worries either way. Thanks so much! Thomas at jbt@journeybeyondtravel.com

    Moz Pro | | journeybeyondtravel
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  • sherohass


    I have a travel booking website which reserves flights, cars, hotels, vacation packages and Cruises. I encounter a huge number of Duplicate Page Title and Content error. This is expected because of the nature of my website. Say if you look for flights between Washington DC and London Heathrow you will at least get 60 different options with same content and title tags. How can I go about reducing the harm if any of duplicate content and meta tags on my website? Knowing that invariably I will have multiple pages with same content and tags? Would appreciate your advice? S.H

    Reporting & Analytics | | sherohass
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  • sherohass


    I need to identify a tool within SEMOZ that can automatically generate Keywords and Meta tags.

    Keyword Research | | sherohass
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  • Webpresence


    Hi all Mozers, I have a couple of questions re the backlink reports in Open Site Explorer. In the introductory video Rand suggests that you can indentify backlinks that are a) Having a positive effect, and b) Having a negative effect on SEO campaigns. Do you identify such links using the domain/page authority of the linking page? Also, we know we have more links than OSE is reporting, does this mean that the links that are not reported are not helping our SEO campaign? Many thanks in advance, much appreciated. Lee

    Link Building | | Webpresence
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  • Feily


    Do I just find blogs websites that are in the same topical area and ask them can i link back?

    Link Building | | Feily
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  • ArtiKalra


    While link building, should I link to index page of my website i.e www.mydomainname.com/index.html or should I link to root domain i.e www.mydomainname,com Also I see duplicate title error for index page and root domain in error statistic. How can I get rid of this.

    Link Building | | ArtiKalra
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  • klkirby


    I thought it was here before but now the seomoz folks don't seem to be responding in this forum. Is there another place to go to get seomoz to answer a question?

    Technical SEO | | klkirby
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  • lbecarelli


    Hello , i don't understand  "Accesible to Engine" - critical factor - that  indicate: <dl> <dt>Crawl status</dt> <dd>Status Code: 200
    meta-robots: None
    meta-refresh: 0; URL=/shop/searchresult.seam
    X-Robots: None</dd> <dt>Explanation</dt> <dd>Pages that can't be crawled or indexed have no opportunity to rank in the results. Before tweaking keyword targeting or leveraging other optimization techniques, it's essential to make sure this page is accessible.</dd> <dt>Recommendation</dt> <dd>Ensure the URL returns the HTTP code 200 and is not blocked with robots.txt, meta robots or x-robots protocol (and does not meta refresh to another URL)</dd> <dt>My data</dt> <dd>This is the content of my index and home page:</dd> <dd>and this is my file robots content:</dd> <dd>User-agent: *
    Disallow: /shop/debug.seam
    Disallow: /bhimg/
    Disallow:/shop/cart/
    Disallow:/shop/G10/
    Disallow:/shop/help/
    Disallow:/shop/img/
    Disallow:/shop/jQueryUI/
    Disallow:/shop/js/
    Disallow:/shop/layout/
    Disallow:/shop/myShop/
    Disallow:/shop/newUser/
    Disallow:/shop/shop/
    Disallow:/shop/staticPages/
    Disallow:/shop/stylesheet/
    Disallow:/shop/error.seam
    Disallow:/shop/login.seam
    Disallow:/shop/login.seam
    Disallow:/shop/test/
    Disallow:/shop/utility/
    Disallow:/shop/zoomifyer/</dd> <dd>Tks for any reply.</dd> </dl>

    Moz Pro | | lbecarelli
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  • JohnScottDixon


    If you had to choose: A)  100 links contained in posts on 100 PR2* blogs, all on separate IP addresses, where none of the posts had associated social signals, or B) 100 links contained in posts within a single PR2* blog (single IP address), where each of the posts had 20 associated social signals, Which would you choose to increase your SERP performance? *I chose PR2 so that PageRank would not be a factor in the decision.

    Link Building | | JohnScottDixon
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  • Mcarle


    I have looked & looked but I can not figure out how to set MY timezone on SEOMOZ? The dates are all wrong in my reports ... **Organic traffic data ** Last Data Update: 04/16/2012 Crawl Diagnostics Last Crawl Completed: Apr. 20th, 2012 Next Crawl Starts: Apr. 25th, 2012 Keyword Rankings "Your keywords are updated weekly on Saturday. The last update was April 19th, 2012." Yet today is Friday the 20th 2012??? It seems like each segment of the information is updated on a differing date?

    Moz Pro | | Mcarle
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  • mageclub


    Hi. We have two websites, where we develop extensions and templates for various CMS. Thats like , we have around 500+ specific products pages now and we have optimized each and every product page with natural SEO techniques. No over at all. Im very specific about it. But I want to know, how to make a link building plan for those sites. Can anyone help ?

    Link Building | | mageclub
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  • mageclub


    I was just watching the Whiteboard Friday video and it was informative and good. Thank god, we always tried to stay natural and all of our websites are perfectly not in danger. Anyways, I do have few questions : He said about internal links on inner pages. One of our site has a sidebar with a list of 10 items, which are our main services and we want users always to have a access to it, so we have placed it on the sidebar and it appears on all pages. Is it wrong ? About the links, we have a list of social bookmarking sites, like 450 sites, and all of them are PR2-PR5 sites, etc. We submit each of our product to those sites . Is it wrong ? And how to know, which is a low quality site and we should not submit the link there ? We receive like 10+ link requests per day and we place their links and they place ours on resources page. Is it wrong ? We write eZine article for all of our products/keywords and submit. Is it wrong ? Looks like, the old school link building method are going to go down the pit hole by Google. Whats the new way to build links ? This is making me crazy.

    Whiteboard Friday | | mageclub
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  • Charlessipe


    Let's say you get a ton of traffic and top ranking for a plural version of a keyword but almost 0 traffic for the non-plural version. Is it a good idea to try to allocate resources to the non-plural version?

    Technical SEO | | Charlessipe
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  • MaartenvandenBos


    Hi Mozzers, I got a question about new website from a new costumer http://www.eindexamensite.nl/. There is a 403 forbidden error on it, and I can't find what the problem is. I have checked on: http://gsitecrawler.com/tools/Server-Status.aspx
    result:
    URL=http://www.eindexamensite.nl/ **Result code: 403 (Forbidden / Forbidden)** When I delete the .htaccess from the server there is a 200 OK :-). So it is in the .htaccess. .htaccess code: ErrorDocument 404 /error.html RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^home$ / [L]
    RewriteRule ^typo3$ - [L]
    RewriteRule ^typo3/.$ - [L]
    RewriteRule ^uploads/.$ - [L]
    RewriteRule ^fileadmin/.$ - [L]
    RewriteRule ^typo3conf/.$ - [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
    RewriteRule .* index.php Start rewrites for Static file caching RewriteRule ^(typo3|typo3temp|typo3conf|t3lib|tslib|fileadmin|uploads|screens|showpic.php)/ - [L]
    RewriteRule ^home$ / [L] Don't pull *.xml, *.css etc. from the cache RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^..xml$
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^..css$
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^.*.php$ Check for Ctrl Shift reload RewriteCond %{HTTP:Pragma} !no-cache
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cache-Control} !no-cache NO backend user is logged in. RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !be_typo_user [NC] NO frontend user is logged in. RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !nc_staticfilecache [NC] We only redirect GET requests RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} GET We only redirect URI's without query strings RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ We only redirect if a cache file actually exists RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/typo3temp/tx_ncstaticfilecache/%{HTTP_HOST}/%{REQUEST_URI}/index.html -f
    RewriteRule .* typo3temp/tx_ncstaticfilecache/%{HTTP_HOST}/%{REQUEST_URI}/index.html [L] End static file caching DirectoryIndex index.html CMS is typo3. any ideas? Thanks!
    Maarten

    Technical SEO | | MaartenvandenBos
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  • jgmayes


    I have noticed that when I run the open explorer on my website that I get a different list of linking domains depending on if the back link used www or not. I always ask and specify to use the non-www but many people do not pay a lot of attention to that? I have set up 301 from www to the non-www as the non-www is my primary URL. How do i get credits for the 50+ that are pointing to the www?

    Link Building | | jgmayes
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  • TSpike1


    Would it be wise for me to start implementing onsite optimization changes on a website, such as the changing urls, adding in keywords in meta tags, meta descriptions, etc if the website is about to get a totally new design. For example if I wanted to change the url structure and onsite optimization features would the changes still be on the new website.

    Technical SEO | | TSpike1
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  • Charlessipe


    I spend a lot of time on SEOMoz and would like to get some other perspectives on SEO. Do you have any recommendations of other good SEO forums? Thanks!

    SEO Learn Center | | Charlessipe
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  • jdrrocks


    Regard today's White Board, I'm wondering how quickly one should start changing title tags, page content, footer links, etc. on sites? I operate a few different sites and some of them definitely have things that need to be changed. Would it be weird or trigger something in Google if all the sites were changed in 24 - 48 hours? Thanks for your help!

    On-Page Optimization | | jdrrocks
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  • fxtrader1979


    When I first setup my site the domain was learnbonds.com.  I moved hosts a couple of months ago and as part of the process I asked them to make the site show as www.learnbonds.com  which they did. Now however when I goto www.learnbonds.com in open site explorer it says there is no data.  When I enter learnbonds.com into open site explorer it gives me data but says that the site has been redirected to the www. version which shows no data. Also in google webmaster when I try to set the preferred domain as the www. version it gives me the following message: Part of the process of setting a preferred domain is to verify that you own http://www.learnbonds.com/. Please verify http://www.learnbonds.com/. I am concerned that this is hurting my SEO and would appreciate any advice you can give. Thanks Dave

    Technical SEO | | fxtrader1979
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  • McTaggart


    Hi, Question 1) I have gotten in the habit of putting e.g. Pizzas Birmingham, Pizzas Coventry, Brand name, for pizza outlets that straddle 2 towns / cities (which is often the case) - in title tags. I tried, for example, Pizzas, Birmingham & Coventry, Brand Name - and it didn't work as well. PS The Brand Name includes the word Pizzeria, not Pizzas. Both towns / cities will be key markets when I use the above format. But could this be seen as an over-optimization I'm thinking? Question 2) In one of my title tags, I have Pizzerias, Restaurants, City, Brand name which is working well, but that's 4 elements - is that too many? Is that an over optimization signal? Thanks in advance for your help

    Whiteboard Friday | | McTaggart
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  • ivan.precisodisso


    I'm trying to track page load time of the visits on my site and GA only says to me that it's equal to zero and page load sample is aways zero too. I've made a research, and I found that GA is used to track page load time automatically, isn't it?

    Algorithm Updates | | ivan.precisodisso
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  • kerplow


    I am trying to do some spring cleaning for a client and hoping to prune any unnecessary domains. Is there a tool that will check, in bulk, these domains through Open Site Explorer? I've looked through all the different Excel spread sheet apps and google doc apps but they are incredibly buggy if they work at all since SEOmoz changed their data limits. Maybe a new tool has been updated in the last few months that I am not aware of. Thanks!

    Moz Pro | | kerplow
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  • Stevej24


    We started using SEO MOZ campaigns and crawl diagnostics  for our site in November 2011. At that time, our bounce rate was 57.58%.  From there, it has consistently dropped. Dec. 57% Jan. 24.86% Feb. 14.61% March 17.48 % April 12.35% We started out with 1,000's of errors showing up in the crawl diagnostics, down to under 50.  could this be associated with the bounce rate drop?

    Reporting & Analytics | | Stevej24
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  • musicforkids


    I made two separate campaigns before I understood the meaning of "subdomain". I make one campaign for my www.com and another for my .com. I now realize I should have made the .com the domain and the www. the subdomain in the same campaign. Is there a way to edit this? Thanks!

    Technical SEO | | musicforkids
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  • sansonj


    I see in the matrix the term branded keywords. What what is a branded keyword?

    Reporting & Analytics | | sansonj
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  • Grumpy_Carl


    Could anyone help out with a bounce rate query please. A website of mine, an affiliate website offering product reviews, has a bounce rate of 82%. I am puzzled a little as to how this is calculated. Is it only a bounce if the user goes from the search engine to my site and then back to the search engine? Or would search engine to my sites to the affiliates site via the link on my sites also count as a bounce? With a site of this nature the goal would be to get as many people visiting the merchant as possible and so a high level of bounce from me to them would be ideal Thanks, Carl

    Reporting & Analytics | | Grumpy_Carl
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  • DeliaAssociates


    I don't use drupal very often, so I'm looking for some help.  We manage two sites in drupal, and the way they are set up, it creates a new thank you page every time someone fills out a contact form.  The thank you page displays the information that was entered, so I assume it is necessary to create a page to do this (this was set up before I came on board). What I'm trying to do is track conversions in analytics by thank you page, but because a different node is created for every page, it makes things really difficult. My guess is that there's some kind of module or shortcut that could make this easier.  Do any of you know of something, or preferably, is there something you're using that you'd endorse? Thanks for your help. -Adam

    Reporting & Analytics | | DeliaAssociates
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  • GRC


    Hello, Just wanted to see if there was an update on the horizon. The last update on my campaign shows 2/28/12. Am I not setting updates correctly on my dashboard? Thanks!

    Competitive Research | | GRC
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  • AlexanderAvery


    I just finished watching WBF where Rand took a moment to identify some of the potentially harmful SEO practices that could be penalized in the upcoming algo update targeting over-optimization. (Great post BTW!) One of which was using low contrast, exact match footer links to inner pages. But I couldn't help but notice something similar being done on the SEOmoz site. In the attached image, I compare this to a site I've done using a similar practice. What are your thoughts on footer links found in this example and how should we, as SEOs, handle footer links in the future? footer-links.gif

    On-Page Optimization | | AlexanderAvery
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  • Junction


    I entered a new site into my dashboard 2 days ago - everything looked kosher, there were a few hundred pages crawled and a whole bunch of errors. I came back this morning to start work on the site and SEOMoz has crawled the site again, this time returning only 1 page and 0 errors. I haven't even logged in to the site since the first crawl, so I couldn't have broken anything. Has anyone seen this before?

    Moz Pro | | Junction
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