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  Seo moz api request problem [401 error_message Your authentication failed]
  

  Hello Team, I have moz pro account. I'm getting following error for seomoz call using your API: {"status":"401","error_message":"Your authentication failed. Check your authentication details and try again. For more information on signed authentication, see: http://apiwiki.moz.com/signed-authentication"} The link that we are using is:
      http://lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/url-metrics/ And following bits are requested during the call: 68719476736 34359738368 32 2048 16384 The error is intermittent. It comes and goes. There were no issues with results 3 days ago. I suddenly started getting this error. Could you please investigate into it and let me know the cause of issues and its correctiveness. It will great if you can provide us a support email Id for immediate response. Thanks,

  API | | eBrandz

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  How can improve my keywords ranking?
  

  My keywords are not in top in 50.So, what kind of activity we do to get in top in 50 rank?

  Keyword Research | | surabhi6

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  URL parameters affecting link juice
  

  I have a couple of quirks in my online shop that I'm ironing out. One of them is adding some URL parameters to product links.ie: website.com/product.html?&cat=0&featured=Y If someone links to this URL, will I get the link juice as if it was website.com/product.html ? I have URL parameters in Webmaster Tools and robots.txt set up to ignore them so they're not in the Google index, but I have found a few websites that have linked to us using these longer URL's and I'm wondering whether to write to them and ask them if they mind changing them or not.

  Link Building | | sparrowdog

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  Best strategy to handle over 100,000 404 errors.
  

  I recently been given a site that has over one-hundred thousand 404 error codes listed in Google Webmasters. It is really odd because according to Google Webmasters, the pages that are linking to these 404 pages are also pages that no longer exist (they are 404 pages themselves). These errors were a result of site migration that had occurred. Appreciate any input on how one might go about auditing and repairing large amounts of 404 errors. Thank you.

  Technical SEO | | SEO_Promenade

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  Videos perform poorly on facebook...why?
  

  I have a facebook page with 42,000 Real fans. Images, screenshots, links, questions, etc all perform well. But videos get 0 interaction. If I get 5 likes that is saying something. Why would facebook not send out my videos to people? Is there a way to increase them? It is very frustrating to post our youtube videos to get no response. My fans are most 13-30 yr old gamers, so videos should be right up their alley.

  Social Media | | Atomicx

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  Date of page first indexed or age of a page?
  

  Hi does anyone know any ways, tools to find when a page was first indexed/cached by Google? I remember a while back, around 2009 i had a firefox plugin which could check this, and gave you a exact date. Maybe this has changed since. I don't remember the plugin. Or any recommendations on finding the age of a page (not domain) for a website? This is for competitor research not my own website. Cheers, Paul

  Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | MBASydney

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  Should we nofollow footer social links?
  

  Like most sites today we have a whole raft of social links in our footer, these are on every page of the site and link out to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc Should these links be nofollow to avoid juice leaving our site or would you recommend allowing them to be followed to increase the power of these social sites? Is there a definitive Yay or Na on these social links?

  Technical SEO | | Twist360

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  Your search - site:domain.com - did not match any documents.
  

  I've recently started work on a new clients website and done some preliminary work with on-page optimisation, and there is still plenty of work to be done and issues to resolve. They are ranking ok on Bing, but they are not getting any ranking on Google at all (except paid) - I tried the site:domain.com search and comes up with no results... so this confirms that something is going on with the google search rank! Can anyone shed light on what can cause this or why this would happen? My next step is to look at their webmaster tools (haven't had access yet), but if anyone has any tips to resolve this or where to look, that would be great! Thanks!

  Algorithm Updates | | ElevateCreativeAU

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  Is the Search Love Conference worth the money?
  

  Hi, Thinking about going but just gathering a few opinions first. Well, is it any good? Worth £1,000? Anything to share? Info here: https://www.distilled.net/events/searchlove-london/ Thanks

  SEO Learn Center | | YNWA

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  Anyone know of any forums for agencies or those individuals engaged in Internet Marketing, SEO, Integrated Marketing, etc.?
  

  Moz.com is the best forum I have been a part of. There is a local forum I really like but spend less time on (we have staff who live on it.) I am interested in a forum where everyone is agency related. Does anyone know of a good one? If not, would anyone have an interest?

  Industry News | | RobertFisher

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  Is it okay to copy and paste on page content into the meta description tag?
  

  I have heard conflicting answers to this.   I always figured that it was okay to selectively copy and paste on page content into the meta description tag.....especially if the onpage content is well written.    How can it be duplicate content if it's pulling from the exact same page? Does anybody have any feedback from a credible source about this? Thanks.

  Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | VanguardCommunications

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  Multiple domains for the same business
  

  My client purchased over 500 URLs for targeting various customers and ranking for different keywords. It is for the same business though. What is the best strategy to deal with this kind of approach in your opinion. They use different meta data for each of the URLs starting with brand name in meta title. Are there any other points to keep in mind when developing strategy for all those URLs. Is this  a good approach?

  On-Page Optimization | | alicaomisem

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  Switching from .co to com?
  

  I have a site that does pretty well on a .co domain, but would like to switch to over .com (we own the .com already). If we were to transfer .com and 301 redirect all the .co pages over to their .com version, would we suffer at all? What would you guys recommend?

  Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | StickyWebz

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  Reverse IP Lookup
  

  I have a client that has over 90,000 incoming links from a single IP address. I can't figure out who's linking to them. I've used several different reverse IP lookup tools and can tell that the server is in Europe and ISP is AT&T Global Network Services Nederland B.V.. (http://www.ip-adress.com/reverse_ip/194.196.0.36) Says there's 0 hosts on that IP. Any suggestions?

  Technical SEO | | DonnaDuncan

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  Thumbtack Blatantly Violating Google TOS?
  

  Hi, We have a business registered on Thumbtack so we receive their newsletters. I'm aware that review sites offering a "badge" or verification logo which links back to your profile is nothing new. But the email I received from Thumbtack is a fairly blatant attempt to game Google for popular keywords. I was just curious on your thoughts about this. I believe it was Overstock who did something like this and got slapped by Google pretty hard for a while. Could Thumbtack be heading down the same path? Image: http://i.imgur.com/FWPnmEP.jpg

  White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | kirmeliux

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  What to do with removed pages and 404 error
  

  I recently removed about 600 'thin' pages from my site which are now showing as 404 errors in WMT as expected. As I understand it I should just let these pages 404 and eventually they'll be dropped from the index. There are no inbound links pointing at them so I don't need to 301 them. They keep appearing in WMT as 404's though so should I just 'mark as fixed' until they stop appearing? Is there any other action I need to take?

  On-Page Optimization | | SamCUK

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  Backlinks from non-relevant site
  

  There's a forum I used to participate in that allows you to include a link to your website in your signature block.  I have over 500 posts in the forum so that provides a lot of backlinks to my website. However, I recently decided to remove my website link from my signature for two reasons: The forum is 95-99% dead.  Hardly anyone uses it anymore.  BTW, the website that houses the forum is still popular within is niche (articles, etc).  Just the forum appears to be dead. The website and its forum really have no connection whatsoever to my business.  I'm in a completely different niche. However, I have no idea if I've made the right decision. Will removing my signature and the backlinks hurt my site?  Or will it help it since the other site really isn't related to mine? Thanks for any thoughts on this!

  Link Building | | emh1969

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  Expired domain 404 crawl error
  

  I recently purchased a Expired domain from auction and after I started my new site on it, I am noticing 500+ "not found" errors in Google Webmaster Tools, which are generating from the previous owner's contents.Should I use a redirection plugin to redirect those non-exist posts to any new post(s) of my site? or I should use a 301 redirect? or I should leave them just as it is without taking further action? Please advise.

  Technical SEO | | Taswirh

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  Google Shopping Feed being blocked by robots.txt
  

  I had created a manual Google Shopping Feed that was working fine, and then someone well meaning put a block in my robots.txt file so Google couldn't read the images folder. because of this, Google now won't accept my feed. I changed the robots.txt file to allow them to read the images again, but it's been 3 days now and I'm still getting the error saying my products are disallowed because the robots.txt file won't let them scan for images. Does anyone know how long it will take for Google to see it again?

  Paid Search Marketing | | sparrowdog

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  Google Analytics shows most referrers as "Direct" -- What are some better tools?
  

  Very often Google Analytics will show 50-90% of our referrers as (direct) which is not very helpful. Are there other tools out there that will provide a clearer breakdown of what other websites are sending us our traffic? Specifically, I want to be able to be able to tell who are the top traffic referrers to my top performing pages on my site for the last 30 days. (I want to be able to study this on a per-page basis.) Thanks in advance!

  Reporting & Analytics | | Brand_Psychic

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  Custom hreflang tags in WP & using with Yoast
  

  Hi My clients dev has added custom fields for adding hreflang tags to head of pages such as: "Rel Type", "The URL", and "Language Code" Am i right in thinking that until a different language/country version of the site is created these can remain empty or should they still be populated once added say with some sort of global reference or best left blank since will leave the head content global by default ? Also how important is it to add charset to the language code ? since seems optional ? Also this set up is on WP multi-site with Yoast and devs asked me the below: _One thing to note is that Yoast generates its own "canonical" tags - so if _
  _you are going to use hreflang tags and canonical tags then you don't need to _
  _add a canonical using the custom fields I have set up - Yoast has that _
  sorted. _But if you are going down the route of NOT having any canonical tags - and _
  _using a x-defult for the hreflang tags, I will need to try and suppress the _
  _Yoast canonical tag so you can do this. Much depends on your approach and _
  what you think is best. So how do i know if using canonicals or x-default, i take it best simplest to leverage Yoast and hence not add canonicals to custom fields ? Isnt x-default just for indicating language selectors/redirector not specific to 1 region? So long as havnt got those then good to proceed with Yoasts generated canonicals ? Cheers dan

  Technical SEO | | Dan-Lawrence

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  Suspicious external links to site have 302 redirects
  

  Hi, I have been asked to look at a site where I suspect some questionable SEO work, particularly link building. The site does seem to be performing very poorly in Google since January 2014, although there are no messages in WMT. Using WMT, OPenSiteExplorer, Majestic & NetPeak, I have analysed inbound links and found a group of links which although are listed in WMT, etc appear to 302 redirect to a directory in China (therefore the actual linking domain is not visible). It looks like a crude type of link farm, but I cant understand why they would use 302s not 301s. The domains are not visible due to redirects. Should I request a disavow or ignore? The linking domains are listed below: http://www.basalts.cn/
  http://www.chinamarbles.com.cn/
  http://www.china-slate.com.cn/
  http://www.granitecountertop.com.cn/
  http://www.granite-exporter.com/
  http://www.sandstones.biz/
  http://www.stone-2.com/
  http://www.stonebuild.cn/
  http://www.stonecompany.com.cn/
  http://www.stonecontact.cn/
  http://www.stonecrate.com/
  http://www.stonedesk.com/
  http://www.stonedvd.com/
  http://www.stonepark.cn/
  http://www.stonetool.com.cn/
  http://www.stonewebsite.com/ Thanks Steve

  White Hat / Black Hat SEO | | crescentdigital

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