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I just recently added it to the footer and elsewhere as a potential fix. Previously it was only linked through the logo. That said, all other pages show fine in WMT. I guess I'm in another wait and see period... can't say it's not frustrating

Ok, so... Google Webmaster Tools Internal Links are not showing any links to my site's homepage.

I only link to the homepage by wrapping the logo with the link throughout the site. Does Google need these to be text links to show them?

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Site is here:
http://goo.gl/4C8GKc

Could CDN image source be affecting it? Lost... please help!

It finally updated.

The update ran parallel to Google's caching schedule and all the stuff I did in webmaster tools as well as linking/pinging/etc... didn't have any affect.

Google's a just a fat donkey... you can crack the whip all day long but that ass ain't gonna move till it's ready to.

You can either 301 them to the homepage... or as you mentioned just let them 404 and they will eventually be removed by Google. You can also submit them to Webmaster tools for removal. Best practice will be to 301.

Issue: I recently discovered that my site was accessible by both HTTP and HTTPS. The site has used a rel canonical tag to point to the HTTP version. Google+ was pointing to HTTPS though. The title, description, and URL shown in the results for the homepage is HTTPS, other pages are HTTP, etc...

Steps taken to Resolve: This week I did the following...

1. 301'd all non-checkout pages to the HTTP version
2. Switched Google+ URL to HTTP version and added new post with an HTTP link to the homepage.
3. Used webmaster tools to recrawl and reindex the site
4. Resubmitted XML Sitemap

No luck... the site is still not updating... any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks all!

Site is Here

I'm looking for a way to track the rankings of a single keyword per domain for about 100 domains. What would be the best way to accomplish this? It's just internal tracking in excel right now, which I'm fine if it stays that way. I would just prefer not to have to hand update it every week.

My initial guess is Moz API? If so, are their sample scripts? If not, then is there another tool that can handle this better?

example:

Domain             Keyword           Rank
acme.com         ACME                 3
cars.com           cars                    2
etc....

Hi, saw this post on my Google alerts and thought it might be helpful to respond.

Link building has a bad connotation thanks to spamming black hats, outspoken link critics, and a myriad of other players in the market. You can follow that advice and still be quite successful with your website. However, link building done properly can be a powerful tool for your website growth and will make building your brand online easier. You can do link building yourself or you can work with a company like ours to develop a clean and professional offsite reputation with valuable links.

As a business owner or marketer you will at some point want to mention your website online. This helps the search engines recognize the relevance of your site and the popularity of it. It's a powerful variable for your rankings and if done right should also drive quality referral traffic. There will always be some form of offsite ranking variable and at the end of the day that's what we strive to provide for our customers.

You don't need to take my word for it though. Take a look around the web for natural link building experts and you will find some of the most prominent SEOs such as Eric Ward (http://www.ericward.com/) who showcase the real power of link building.

Best Regards,

Patrick A.

PS - Irving, you're spot on regarding the potential downsides of improper link building. However "Any link building company is being flagged by Google these days" is false.

PPS - Keri, we've removed the logo. We are big fans of SEOmoz and use a variety of tools to regularly to help our customers. Our apologies for any confusion.

I believe sometime in 2011, Twitter started clamping down on third-party apps. One example is that TweetDeck had a feature that allowed you to post a tweet that was longer then the standard 140 characters. That feature no longer exists, as many third-party apps had to meet the requirements that Twitter asked for. Basically, Twitter wants any app to behave like the Twitter site so in hopes more users start using the Twitter site.

Twitter is making the API rules tighter yet. 3rd party apps can't go over 100k users, unless they have permission from Twitter. http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2012/08/17/twitter-4/

As far as TweetDeck goes, I use it and I love it. Twitter now owns TweetDeck, so if you prefer TweetDeck over the Twitter site, use it all you want, Twitter won't mind

I had a similar issue. I was getting a lot of warnings regarding duplicate content and missing meta descriptions on tags and media. I used "noindex" for the tags and media to fix the problem. Since your url is an image, I would think that the noindex would also address your issue. I hope that helps, best of luck.

Hi, I would suggest checking your site for duplicate content. Sites with duplicate content and "over optimization" were hit hard with the Google updates.

I highly recommend you create a Campaign on SEOmoz. Once it crawls your site, it will give you detailed information on all of the errors and warnings for your site, duplicate content, too long of title tags, missing meta descriptions, broken URLS, etc.

You can also use the "On-Page Optimization Tool" under "Research Tools." You can check each URL on your site with a keyword.

Between the campaign option and the On-Page Optimization Tool, you should be able to figure out where some problems are. Best of luck!