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  Redirect ruined domain to new domain without passing link juice
  

  A new client has a domain which has been hammered by bad links, updates etc and it's basically on its arse because of previous SEO guys. They have various domains for their business (brand.com, brand.co.uk) and want to use a fresh domain and take it from there. Their current domain is brand.com (the ruined one). They're not bothered about the rankings for brand.com but they want to redirect brand.com to brand.co.uk so that previous clients can find them easily. Would a 302 redirect work for this? I don't want to set up a 301 redirect as I don't want any of the crappy links pointing across. Thanks!

  Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | jasonwdexter

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  Can anybody help me to remove my website link from wikipedia Spam list ???
  

  My website www.giftbig.com went to spamlist on wikipedia. Can anybody help me to remove it from spam list. I can do all you need to remove from there. Please help me out on this.

  Industry Events | | joydeepdas

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  Domain Alias SEO
  

  We have 5 domain alias of our existing sites
  All 5 domain alias are domain alias of our main site. It means, all domain alias will have exactly same site and contents
  Like Main domain: www.mywebsite.com
  DomainAlias: www.myproduct.com,  www.myproduct2.com,  www.myproduc3.com
  And if anybody will open our site www.myproduct.com, it will open same website which I have in primary site what can i do to rank all website without any penalty....i s there any way? This is domain alias of in hosting industry Thanks

  Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | unibiz

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  Pipe ("|") in my website's title is being replaced with ":" in Google results
  

  Hi , One of the websites I'm promoting and working on is www.pau-brasil.co.il.
  It's wordpress-based website and as you can see the html's Title is "PauBrasil | some hebrew slogan".
  (Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/2f80EEY.gif)
  When I'm searching for "PauBrasil" (Which is the brand's name) , one of the results google shows is "PauBrasil: Some Hebrew Slogan" (Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/eJxNHrO.gif ) Why does the pipe is being replaced with ":" ?
  And not just that , as you can see there's a "blank space" missing between the the ":" to the slogan.
  (note: the websites has been indexed by google crawler at least 4 times so I find it hard to believe it can be the reason) I've keep on looking and found out that there's another page in that website with the exact same title
  but when I'm looking for it in google , it shows the title as it really is , with pipe. ("|").
  (Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/dtsbZV2.gif) Have you ever encountered something like that?
  Can it be that the duplicated title cause that weird "replacement"? Thanks in advance,
  Kadel

  Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Kadel

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  How Can You Get the Most out of Attending Mozcon?
  

  Do you have any suggestions or tips for getting the most out of attending a Mozcon conference or marketing conferences in general?

  Industry Events | | Charlessipe

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  Longtail keyword definition seems fuzzy?
  

  So we all know about longtail keyword vs. short tail. However, it seems that the definition is a bit inconsistant. Some people say longtail keywords are keywords that get very low amounts of traffic, others that they are key phrases with 2 or more words. And others add to this that they have high conversion rate but describe specific features, product, service, model # etc. In an ideal model I suppose all of these things would be true. As keyword length increases, traffic tends to decrease, keyword is more specific pointing at features, model#, specific product etc and therefore the conversion rate is a bit higher as well. However, the data isn't a perfect curve. I will see keywords that get 18,000 searches but have 4 words. And then I will see single word key phrases that get <10 -20 searches a month. What am I to consider these? Its like they fit half the criteria. Any comments on this would be helpful and appreciated. I suppose the real question I am after is - it seems like the real definition of a long tail keyword cant be any of the above traits of a long tail keyword. How do you really define a long tail keyword in all circumstances (without it being this subjective idealized definition based on a perfect model) and where would the keyword circumstances (lots of words but high traffic, and low traffic but 1 word) fall in the graph? Center?

  Keyword Research | | eastco

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  Removing inbound links
  

  How can I remove inbound links?

  Moz Pro | | barryfearon

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  Noindex/nofollow on blog comments; is it good or bad ?
  

  Hi, I changed the design of one my wordpress website at the beginning of the month. I also added a "facebook seo comments" plugin to rewrite facebook comments as normal comments. As most of the website comments are facebook comments, I went from 250 noindex/nofollow comments to 950; URL's are ?replytocom=4822 etc. Moz campaign noticed it and I'm asking myself : is it good to have comments in noindex/nofollow ? Should I do something about this ? Erwan.

  Moz Pro | | johnny122

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  Do Parent Categories Hurt SEO?
  

  I have parent categories and subcategories. Will it be harder for the subcategories to rank well because they have a parent category? The URL is longer, for one. I am just wondering if I should not have parent categories. I have one category page doing really well and I am trying to boost the others (most of which are subcategories) and this is a concern for me. Thanks! Edit: I also have a category that has 2 parent categories. I want it automatically in those 2 categories and one of its own. By itself it is very important keyword. Is this ok or should I have it be a parent category?

  On-Page Optimization | | 2bloggers

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  Google Analytics: how to filter out pages with low bounce rate?
  

  Hello here, I am trying to find out how I can filter out pages in Google Analytics according to their bounce rate. The way I am doing now is the following: 1. I am working inside the Content > Site Content > Landing Pages report 2. Once there, I click the "advanced" link on the right of the filter field. 3. Once there, I define to "include" "Bounce Rate" "Greater than" "0.50" which should show me which pages have a bounce rate higher of 0.50%.... instead I get the following warning on the graph: "Search constraints on metrics can not be applied to this graph" I am afraid I am using the wrong approach... any ideas are very welcome! Thank you in advance.

  Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | fablau

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  Google Keyword Tool is Being Sunsetted
  

  I was reading this article http://adwords.blogspot.de/2013/05/introducing-keyword-planner-combining.html that says that Google is going to be sunsetting it's popular keyword tool.  As an SEO specialist, I use this tool daily, so I'm concerned about it's impact on my keyword research efforts. I reviewed the keyword planner (albeit quite quickly) and it doesn't seem to work as efficiently for SEO keyword research.  I'm curious to get others thoughts on the following: The new keyword planner tool Will the new keyword planner tool be effective for SEO keyword research Are there other tools that you've used that have provided good keyword research data (and are they free or paid)

  SERP Trends | | TopFloor

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  Best way to handle pages with iframes that I don't want indexed? Noindex in the header?
  

  I am doing a bit of SEO work for a friend, and the situation is the following: The site is a place to discuss articles on the web. When clicking on a link that has been posted, it sends the user to a URL on the main site that is URL.com/article/view. This page has a large iframe that contains the article itself, and a small bar at the top containing the article with various links to get back to the original site. I'd like to make sure that the comment pages (URL.com/article) are indexed instead of all of the URL.com/article/view pages, which won't really do much for SEO. However, all of these pages are indexed. What would be the best approach to make sure the iframe pages aren't indexed? My intuition is to just have a "noindex" in the header of those pages, and just make sure that the conversation pages themselves are properly linked throughout the site, so that they get indexed properly. Does this seem right? Thanks for the help...

  Technical SEO | | jim_shook

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  Do footer links pass less link juice?
  

  One of my best inbound links for PA and DA happens to be a footer link, curious if it's less valuable or has any value at all.

  Link Building | | Theskimonster

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  Correct linking to the /index of a site and subfolders: what's the best practice? link to: domain.com/ or domain.com/index.html ?
  

  Dear all, starting with my .htaccess file: RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.inlinear.com$ [NC]
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://inlinear.com/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./index.html 
  RewriteRule ^(.)index.html$ http://inlinear.com/ [R=301,L] 1. I redirect all URL-requests with www. to the non www-version...
  2. all requests with "index.html" will be redirected to "domain.com/" My questions are: A) When linking from a page to my frontpage (home) the best practice is?: "http://domain.com/" the best and NOT: "http://domain.com/index.php" B) When linking to the index of a subfolder "http://domain.com/products/index.php" I should link also to: "http://domain.com/products/" and not put also the index.php..., right? C) When I define the canonical ULR, should I also define it just: "http://domain.com/products/" or in this case I should link to the definite file: "http://domain.com/products**/index.php**" Is A) B) the best practice? and C) ? Thanks for all replies! 🙂
  Holger

  Technical SEO | | inlinear

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  Language Detection redirect: 301 or 302?
  

  We have a site offering a voip app in 4 languages. Users are currently 302 redirected from the root page to /language subpages, depending on their browser language. Discussions about the sense of this aside: Is it correct to use a 302 redirect here or should users be 301 redirected to their respective languages? I don't find any guideline on this whatsoever...

  Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | zeepartner

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  Would it be better to Start Over vs doing a Website Migration?
  

  Hey guys /gals I have a question please.  I have a computer repair business that does extremely well in search and is on the front page of google for anything computer repair related. However, I am currently re-branding my company and have completely redesigned every aspect of the UI and the SEO Site structure as well as the fact that I have completely written vastly different content and different title tag lines and meta descriptions for each page. So basically when doing a migration we know that we want to keep our content, titles, headlines and meta descriptions the same as to not lose our page rank. Seeing that I have completely went against the grain in all directions on a much needed company re-branding and everything is completely different from the old site is it even worthwhile 301 redirecting my old urls to the new ones that would (best) correspond with the new? In the plainest English, would I do better at Ranking the New Website QUICKER without doing 301 redirects from the OLD to the NEW? In an EXTREME instance like what I have done, would the Domain Migration IMPEDED me ranking the new site seeing how nothing is the same? I have build a Rock solid SILO Site Architecture on the New site which is WordPress using the Thesis Framework and the old domain is built on JOOMLA 1.5 Thank fellas Marshall

  Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | MarshallThompson

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