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  • sfmatthews


    I can't seem to get a reliable answer on this one. It seems to be split down the middle as far as who agrees and who doesn't, of course some of that content is outdated. So, for today, should I be using the meta keywords tag or not? Thanks, Steven

    Keyword Research | | sfmatthews
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  • JaspalX


    Anyone managed to scrape the date from a google serp? I can get title, link etc. but the date just eludes me...please help! Here's an example of the kind of code google is returning: Latest UK News Headlines - Mirror.co.uk <cite>www.mirror.co.uk/news/</cite>
       Cached
        - 
       Similar
     
     You +1'd this publicly. Undo
        13 Jan 2011 – Get the latest News and Headlines from the Daily Mirror newspaper. Read breaking bulletins, front page reports, daily articles and celebrity ...

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | JaspalX
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  • BeytzNet


    Hello, I have an eCommerce website with hundreds of similar products. On some occasions, besides for their measurements they are completely identical. The titles are kept different by using the stock reference and the meta descriptions also use their measurements. However, I'm gettingDuplicate Page Content errors by the MOZ crawler. This is more than understandable since the products are very similar -
    WHAT SHOULD I DO??? I noticed a similar situation in BlueNile (the diamond ecommerce site) - They have numerous almost identical pages, see example: http://www.bluenile.com/round-diamond-1-carat-or-less-ideal-cut-g-color-vs1-clarity_LD02424873 http://www.bluenile.com/round-diamond-1-carat-or-less-ideal-cut-g-color-vs1-clarity_LD02430168 For some reason, they did on each page a canonical to it's self... I wanted to add... It is impossible to add different descriptive texts due to the amount of products and to the rapidness they are sold (each product is unique - similar to the diamonds in the BlueNile example).

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | BeytzNet
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  • dan1el


    Hi SEOMOZ'ers I am trying to find high quality directories to submit links, finding it really hard to find them!! Has anyone got any advise for seeking out such sites!  I have tried the tool within SEOMOZ but to be honest did not really work that well! thanks Daniel

    Link Building | | dan1el
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  • asystematic


    Hi! I have question about link footprints. What should be taken into consideration? Is it real issue when your backlinks have heavy footprint? Thanks for answer..

    Link Building | | asystematic
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  • JamesMio


    Drawing up sitemaps is one of those tasks that seems to take me twice as long to do electronically that it does on paper.  Unfortunately, sitemaps scribbled on sheets of A4 paper aren't much good for sending and sharing. So, Mozzers, what tool or software do you recommend for drawing up sitemaps quickly and easily? So far I've tried using Visio, Excel and Word but if there's a dedicated tool out there, that would be awesome. Thanks in advance, Cheers
    James

    Keyword Research | | JamesMio
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  • jenadams


    I'm needing to get SERP reports on a daily basis for about 120 keywords.  Can anyone recommend an inexpensive and accurate service for doing this? I need something more regular than once a week as many of our keywords are highly competitive. Thank you

    Keyword Research | | jenadams
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  • seoug_2005


    I am searching from india. what is the way so that i can search as if i am searching from US ? OR UK ?

    On-Page Optimization | | seoug_2005
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  • seoug_2005


    What is the code to redirect www.xyz.com/abc where abc is a folder  to  www.xyz.com/abc.html

    Technical SEO | | seoug_2005
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  • Tabea


    I wonder If links embedded in JavaScript from an external Website pass link juice to the linked page and thus have a positive effect on google rankings. I read that JavaScipt is craweld. Does it mean that also the link juice is passed? I'm looking forward to your answers.

    Link Building | | Tabea
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  • skgppa


    I just got a contract for a site. After I analyzed their website, I noticed that they have over 700 pages indexed. However, their internal linking structure sucks. It's basically all 700 pages in one directory. What do you recommend? I redirect all the internal structures to their new locations, or would it be better to redirect all those internal pages to their main domain name, and build a completely new seo-friendly structure? Redirecting their current pages to each individual page is gonna take a lotta time, and I don't think they're gonna pay for it. :l

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | skgppa
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  • JonathanLeplang


    Hello mozers, I was wondering if it was too soon to use HTML5 and CSS3 to developp my customers' website? Which navigators and which version of them support HTML5 perfectly? Thank you for yours answers, Jonathan

    On-Page Optimization | | JonathanLeplang
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  • younus


    Hi, I am using a Header template designed in jQuery, its having a small script. i woud like to know is there any bad impact on the website if I use Jquery. Thanks.

    On-Page Optimization | | younus
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  • vijayvasu


    hello, what would the effect be of acquiring 10- 20 Pr 8 - 10 links to website that is on the  first page of goolge. would it make a huge difference? thank you  Mozzers 🙂 love and respect V

    Link Building | | vijayvasu
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  • vijayvasu


    Hello Mozzers! Hugs. Question. How seriously do search engines take the grammar on web copy. Our Fab copy writers are writing  copy for a site and also using Grammarly to check the copy. Thank you, Much respect, V

    Algorithm Updates | | vijayvasu
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  • ClaireH-184886


    my site is www.in2town.co.uk   Hi i hear a lot about having a linking structure in place and a linking stragedy but i am not really sure what i need to do even though i have spent months reading about it. What i have been trying to do is to link as many of the pages within my site to the home page and i am now looking at linking pages in my site to around my site to different pages, just like <cite>en.wikipedia.org</cite> So when i have a story on cheryl cole, i will make sure that i link from that story to another story i have on cheryl cole etc. But i would like to know what else i need to do. For my home page i want to rank for the following keywords Lifestyle magazine Lifestyle news celebrity news celebrity gossip showbiz news soap spoilers I would also love suggestions for other keywords i should be aiming for, for the home page. I find it hard as my site is a magazine site, so i do not have many places to put a description of each page of the site, so i would love some help on this and advice what i can do to let google know what my site is about. If anyone can help with putting a linking stragedy in place and what things i should be doing to increase my ranking for important keywords, then that would be great many thanks

    Technical SEO | | ClaireH-184886
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  • ClaireH-184886


    Hi i have just checked my google back links for my site www.in2town.co.uk and it has said that i have only five, not sure where these are from as the tool i was using did not tell me. But i have looked at my compeditors and they have a few hundred and some have thousands so i am just wondering what i need to do to compete and get more backlinks. I have been writing articles for other sites, free article sites hoping to get some traffic as well as backlinks, for this has not worked out. i just done a report now and i have got the following information DMOZ Directory ? NoYahoo Directory ? NoDigg 0 Yahoo Indexed Pages ? 0 Bing Indexed Pages 0 I would really like to know what steps i need to take as i feel that i have done a lot of good work but my back links are not improving. any help would be great

    Technical SEO | | ClaireH-184886
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  • mzube


    I own a store www.mzube.co.uk and the scam always says that I have duplicate page titles or duplicate page. What happens is thn I may have for example www.mzube.co.uk/allproducts/page1. And if I hve 20 pages all what will change from each page is the number at the end and all the rest of the page name will be the same but really the pages are if different products. So the scans think I have 20 pages the same but I havent Is this a concern as I don't think I can avoid this Hope you can answer

    Moz Pro | | mzube
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  • seo_plus


    Is there a way to use KDT and include my own URL in the process so that I can see (and show my client) how things look competitively across all these nice dimensions? All is well if my client's site is in the top 10 - but if it isn't, how can I get the same set of metrics on a specific URL as it pertains to a specific keyword? Do I somehow to remember it used to do this? Or am I imagining things? I can't seem to get it to work this way. Thanks,

    Moz Pro | | seo_plus
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  • shawn81


    I have a lot pages on my site and I'm wondering if there is a tool out there that will find all the pages with the highest pagerank for me? Also, it would be helpful to find that on competitors sites as well. Any ideas?

    Competitive Research | | shawn81
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  • Uramark


    It would make our work so much more efficient! 🙂

    Moz Pro | | Uramark
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  • ocelot


    Hi I am looking for the best way to generate an XML sitemap for webmaster tools for my website http://www.cheapfindergames.com.  I have come across http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ but it only allows up to 500 links. Is there a PHP script that any experts could share that would create the XML map that I could upload please? Many Thanks

    Technical SEO | | ocelot
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  • tylerfraser


    What is the htaccess code to redirect everything in a directory to a file? Thanks!

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | tylerfraser
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  • dean1986


    HI there, im new to this forum but im doing SEO quite a while. I lost touch with the whole SEO community while building my business's so I said i better get back in touch before I lose my most valued skill. I set up a gift website 3 months before xmas. We decided to focus on the following keywords starting out, gifts, gift ideas, gifts for him, gifts for her and christmas gifts. We have managed to rank No.1 for gift ideas, No.2 for gifts. For "christmas gifts" we could not get it onto the first page, it was hanging around the 12 and 13 spot  for weeks, so we decided to stop linking to the page with anchor text "christmas gifts" and use related keywords, the result, we shot to NO.1 within 2 weeks. I now have the same problem with "gifts for him" and "gifts for her" except, i have tried everything but we are still hanging around 4-6 spot on page one, I cant get them into the top 3 and cant understand it. Ive done the following to try give it a boost. Increase the variation of the anchor text Decrease the amount of keywords in title tag Link to it from high PR pages Im really lost and its really bugging me the fact all the other keywords are ranking so well. The only thing I can think of from my research and perhaps someone might be able to give me some advice on this (Backed up by past results) is we have not once linked to this page with the actual URL, 100% of the links are varied anchor text. Would perhaps linking with the plain old URL help it, its really bugging me as we did so well with everything else using 90% white hat, 10% grey hat seo. Please help. Thanks Also, we have not done any social media linking to it.

    Link Building | | dean1986
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  • thefaizal


    Background STORY: I'm a wordpress theme designer,  and i have a 3 years old  wordpress-based site in english language with more than 100 post. Let's just called this site "olddomain.com" (generic brand name, didn't have keyword on it) Almost all of content are just showcase post and download link for my Free Wordpress Theme Download. So the site is lacking in terms of quality article content. I never doing any SEO work (keyword targeting,etc)  for this  "olddomain.com ", but the site backlinks is growing viral since the beginning, perhaps due to the nature of a "freebie" site. Using the OSE, it showed 12,850 Total Links from 349 Linking Root domain. Back when Y! Site Explorer still exist the number of linked domain is around 64,000+ links, and google webmaster tools show the number of 655,000+ Links.   It's now has PageRank 5 (for almost a year) , with Home Page Authority 62/100 and Domain Authority 55/100. But in terms of traffic and revenue, the site is doing pretty bad. I only got less than 3000 visit per month. Revenue less than $10/month from adsense, and generated less than $1000 over the last 2 years from premium wordpress theme affiliate program. Some people told me that i have to  add more  article to attract traffic. but the thing is, i don't really good on writing english article, It's not my native language, so i can't really express my thought. I  know i can outsource article writing, but i feel more comfortable and affordable if i write from my own mind. RECENT STORY: For the last 3 months i  also learn more about SEO and internet marketing , and  recently doing some local keyword research in my native language (Indonesian) with google keyword tools combine with SEOmoz keywords analysis. I found more than 100+ of Indonesian keywords in multi-niche with more than 3000+ Exact local search/month. And after using SEOmoz keyword analysis, almost all of them are in relatively low competition level under 40% . So The Potential is HUGE. MY IDEA: I want to create a new multi-niche informational content-rich website based on the keywords i found on my language. Something like about.com, squidoo, or hubpages. My question is : 1. Should i completely start that  site in a "newdomain.com"  completely from scratch (No Pagerank, Backlinks, PA, DA) ? or I just use my existing "olddomain.com" which already got the link advantage (Pagerank 5 with thousands of backlinks) and just  recreate the site-structure and put the new article content on it, although it's on different niche and different language . 2. What's the effect for search engine if you changing your site content to different niche (from wordpress theme to Multi-niche Informational website) and also to a different language (english to indonesian) Best Regards,
    Faizal

    Branding | | thefaizal
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  • simonsw


    Hi all, I am looking to find an actionable, easy to use, link building template to be used by myself as well as across office/clients. Key subject areas for link building have been defined but I am keen to apply a template to past and future link building opportunities as I build on the link building tactics I have a number of link building targets e.g. form competitor analysis, existing links from websites and looking to reach out to amend their anchor text, prospect websites Does anyone have a good insight into categorising the different link building targets by sector? Many thanks Simon

    Link Building | | simonsw
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  • Vahe.Arabian


    Hi, How do you capture as much brand results as possible in search results? I know Mike from Koozai recently did a video about brand reputation, but this is slightly different. The current issue i'm having that the client's brand name is also a specific geographic destination, hence the confusion in SERP's. This means non-related industries are eating up the client's potential market share and traffic. My objective would obviously be to capture as much traffic as possible for brand related keywords for the site, so that we can focus more on long tail product terms. Any help would be appreciated. Obviously re-branding is out of the question. Regards, Vahe

    Branding | | Vahe.Arabian
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  • JBidigital


    I have all my key phrases in excel (csv) and would like to upload all of them to get the traffic that they generate on Google UK. Is there a way of doing this?

    Moz Pro | | JBidigital
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  • Bretly


    Hello there, i would like to ask some basic tips.. regarding found common errors & Warnings. list : Tittle Element Too Long
    Duplicate Page Content
    and Duplicate Page Tittle. how could i fixed this one? any help would be greatly appreciated regards,

    Technical SEO | | Bretly
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  • sprynewmedia


    Anything in this that would have caused Rogerbot to stop indexing my site?  It only saw 34 of 5000+ pages on the last pass.  It had no problems seeing the whole site before. User-agent: Rogerbot Disallow: /default.aspx?*
    //Keep from crawling the CMS urls default.aspx?Tabid=234.  Real home page is home.aspx Disallow: /ctl/
    // Keep from indexing the admin controls Disallow: ArticleAdmin
    // Keep from indexing article admin page Disallow: articleadmin
    // same in lower case Disallow: /images/
    // Keep from indexing CMS images Disallow: captcha
    // keep from indexing the captcha image which appears to be a page to crawls. general rules lacking wildcards User-agent: * Disallow: /default.aspx Disallow: /images/ Disallow: /DesktopModules/DnnForge - NewsArticles/Controls/ImageChallenge.captcha.aspx

    Moz Pro | | sprynewmedia
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  • vernonmack


    Our client has an ampersand in their brand name.  The logo has "&", their url is spelled out.  I'm trying to get them to standardize the use of the name for directories/listings.  Should we use "and" or "&"?

    Technical SEO | | vernonmack
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  • pbhatt


    1. If I give a sales rep a unique tag to put at the end of a URL for tracking purposes, will Google index the "www.mysite.com/service.html?unique-tag" version of a page and display it in search results? 2. Would a tool like Xenu be able to find that version of a URL? Reason for questions: If I give my sales people tags with their names in them, I don't want competitors poaching my sales people by search for all URLs on my domain. Follow up: are there any other potential issues that I should think about? Thanks!

    Affiliate Marketing | | pbhatt
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  • WillWatrous


    I changed /tulsa-cleaning-services/ to /services/ because the URLs were getting too long. Now I'm getting an error for Appropriate use of Rel Canonical. I used a 301 to send old links to the new location. Any ideas? Thanks! Will www.americancarpetclean.com

    Technical SEO | | WillWatrous
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  • znotes


    Would you rather have someone +1 your homepage or add you to their Circles? Which one will help you out more in the SERPs ?

    Social Media | | znotes
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  • SamCUK


    My site has over 80 canonical warnings. The report states the url is for example http://www.musicliveuk.com and the 'tag value' column says http://www.musicliveuk.com/ Is that a good thing? I'm new to seo and am running my site on wordpress with all in one seo pack. Does this mean the seo pack has automatically added canonical tags to my pages? If so why is it showing as an error? I am also getting lots of 301 permanent redirects and I haven't set any up manually. I'm getting them for every page on my site from the normal url to a url with a slash at the end.

    On-Page Optimization | | SamCUK
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  • continuumphoto


    I've been working on posting more content on my blog and now I need a workflow to help me get more exposure on my posts.  Currently this is what I'm doing: 1- Write Post 2- Add it to my favorites in Stumbled Upon 3- Post it to Facebook 4- Pin it in Pinterest I would love some more ideas.  My goal at this point is to gain greater web exposure.  I would love to be they type of blog others actively follow.

    Social Media | | continuumphoto
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  • tinarose


    Our twitter username was recently changed. How do I edit this? I see options to add comparison accounts and remove the name, but I don't want to lose the data.

    Moz Pro | | tinarose
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  • GrouchyKids


    Hi All... I know its important to get citations the same in terms of company name, address, phone number and URL but how dissimilar can they be before this causes problems with Google Places? One of my clients has citations with very minor differences to the correct address i.e.: 2a such and such a road when it should be: 2 such and such a road I cannot see duplicate listing for the company. Anyone got any ideas / experience of this? I don't want to suggest changing them all if its not nessasary? Cheers in advance. Justin

    SERP Trends | | GrouchyKids
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  • joemas99


    I have about 4000 you tube video urls that I need someone to submit for comment links, and profile links, and other links above pr2 and above. (will consider lower pr too). The ones I see when searching, don't seem to be able to understand how to use their submitters. Yes I know PR most likely will not be passed, but at least the vid will rank better with higher pr. My pr4 vids do. It seems to be that you tube vids are easier to gain pr. When I do a link search for pr5 vid urls, it doesn't seem to return links that justify the PR, so any info on that is appreciated. Any comments about how I should not do this or any form of this will not be appreciated. Thanks

    White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | joemas99
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  • UnderRugSwept


    Our site has about 1000 pages indexed, and the vast majority of them are not useful, and/or contain little content. Some of these are: -Galleries
    -Pages of images with no text except for navigation
    -Popup windows that contain further information about something but contain no navigation, and sometimes only a couple sentences My question is whether or not I should put a noindex in the meta tags. I think it would be good because the ratio of quality to low quality pages right now is not good at all. I am apprehensive because if I'm blocking more than half my site from Google, won't Google see that as a suspicious or bad practice?

    Algorithm Updates | | UnderRugSwept
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  • iheartkelby


    I was just in here yesterday asking a question, so I appreciate everyone's patience with this newbie! This is a totally different site that I have a question about so here goes: I have a site that has started to receive large amounts of traffic from an image search. My intention was to use Amazon for products based on my website theme. I haven't been getting traffic from my intended keywords. Now I rank #2 for an image search, loads of traffic! GREAT! But what next? These ppl. aren't looking to buy stuff, they just want the image. Fine, it is a public domain image. I thought of adding some more informational articles and using adsense to bring in some cash. Any opinions on the best way to go with this site?  I only have 3 articles up so it could go in any direction from here. Thanks!!!

    Conversion Rate Optimization | | iheartkelby
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  • wmwmeyer


    I got handed a website running on Joomla without the SEO friendly URL check box selected so our URLs all look like this www.rotaryvalve.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22&Itemid=37 . I am hoping to rework this website in the near future here and plan on changing the URL structure across the website so there are some actual keywords in the URL. When I did this I was thinking of just doing 301 redirects to the new pages and hopefully the hit from the search engines wouldn't be too bad. Can anyone speak from experience as to what the best way to go about doing this would be so I don't end up falling back ranking wise. Would change the URLs end up helping me or hurting me? Thanks

    Technical SEO | | wmwmeyer
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  • Trendymobiles


    Anyone can provide qulaity backlink link with High PR

    Link Building | | Trendymobiles
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  • nicole.healthline


    We have several old pages on our site that we want to get rid of, but we don't want to 404 them since they have decent traffic numbers. Would it be fine to set up a 301 re-direct from all of these pages to our home page? I know the best option is to find an equivalent page to re-direct to, but there isn't a great equivalent.

    Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | nicole.healthline
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