Google likes to share the results between domains, but that is only one consideration, all other things being equal you would expect to get a mix of domains, but if the pages win out in other ways then there is nothing to stop them ranking
Posts made by AlanMosley
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RE: How many serp results for a domain.
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RE: Why Google Cache is not showing ?
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RE: Why Google Cache is not showing ?
I just went to your site it was down.
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RE: Risk Using "Nofollow" tag
If you use nofollow, then every link pointing to those pages will throw away their link juice, you don't want that.
Follow means that link juice will flow though the links back to your indexed pages. Telling google not to index is doing them a favour as they don't want duplicates I don't think there any concern. -
RE: To create extra pages, or not to create extra pages?
There is a case for more pages, depending on how you structure your internal links you can boost your home page rank by simply having more pages on your site see http://thatsit.com.au/seo/tutorials/a-simple-explanation-of-pagerank
I would also mark up your questions and answers with schema.org http://schema.org/Question
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RE: Nofollow links & nofollow blog comments - Should I remove
It would look unnatural, and you have a point about what may count in the future
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RE: Multi Domain SSL Certs re HTTPS migration
I cant see how it could affect rankings and I have never heard of such a thing
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RE: Nofollow links & nofollow blog comments - Should I remove
do you have any actions against the site in GWT?
if not I would not worry
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RE: Sudden traffic down after mobile site
Do you have analytics ode on both desktop and mobile sites?
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RE: Sudden traffic down after mobile site
How are you handling the google bot useragent, or bingbot?
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RE: Blog snippets on homepage a potential detriment to rankings?
I think you still need static text to support that specific area as well. but the blog text should be fine on the home page
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RE: Which version of the homepage on the sitemap?
No its not. one should redirect to the other.
but I think your problem is that you have links within your site that point to both, this is why the auto sitemap generation generates both.
find the internal links and fix them.
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RE: Meta tags - removal
Yes put back the meta tags, and wait.
but I am not convinced that your drop in visits was cased by this. -
RE: How to properly 404 pages from a subdomain
That's all you need to do, is remove it via dns
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RE: Should you "rel=nofollow" picture links if you also have anchor text going to same page?
first lets separate PageRank for relevancy
Relevancy is passed once to a page, if you have 2 links to the same page then the link text from the first link will be used,
if that link is a image link then alt text will be used, but most say alt text does not have the same power as link text, so having the text link first on the page would help.
I don't no if no-following a link will move the relevancy to the next link, I think you may just lose the relevancy
PageRank is passed though all links, even no followed links. a no-followed link will use the same PR but it jus goes nowhere, it is wasted.
So links such as
page1
page2
page3
All links will pass relevancy and PRpage1
page1
page2
page3
all will pass PR split between al links, but the second link to page1 will not carry relevancy -
RE: Blog snippets on homepage a potential detriment to rankings?
I did not think you had a problem until you mentioned very little static content.
I would get your static content up, just having the keywords is not enough, only a small amount of hits come from exact match keywords, by far the most hits come from the long tail, having plenty of supporting text helps you get the long tails.
Are the blog posts relevant, would they be supporting text? or would they confuse the message that you are trying to rank for.
I mean if you page is about cars and you have blog posts about dogs and cats, then you have a problem. but if the blogs are about cars then this can help. but I would still have plenty of static content as well.
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RE: Redirect URLS with 301 twice
If the p pages were only there for a small amount of time, then just forget them, as they wont have any links pointing to them.
don't worry about the SERPS they will go way soon.
but I would have renamed the HOME folder to a keyword. so that you get a keyword into your url.
is a better url than
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RE: Updating inbound links vs. 301 redirecting the page they link to
I agree, never redirect when you can fix the link.
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RE: To Subdomain or Not Subdomain?
I would not say I am convinced, but that is the only tested evidence I have seen. plenty of antidotal evidence, but the first test.
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RE: Panda 4.0 Update Affected Site - What should be a the minimum Code to Text Ratio we should aim for ?
Egol as always gives a common sense answer.
I would not worry about a ratio, unless it is really bad. Search engines have a limit on how much of a page they will crawl, as there is no limit on how large a page may be, but unless you have a huge amount of code before content I would not be concerned.
From Bing
The page contains a large block of embedded script code. Search engines will ignore script code, but large quantities of script will force the actual text content of the page further down in the HTML. Since search engines may analyze only the first 100 KB of a page, it is possible that the script block may prevent search engines from indexing any page content. -
RE: To Subdomain or Not Subdomain?
I would go subdomain, there has been much said about subdomains v subfolders where most say subfolders are best, but when asked no one has ever been able to provide evidence of this, in fact all I have seen said by google is that there is no difference.
So with subdomain you should benefit from shared authority, as well as separation in appearance.
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RE: Is it ok to redirect an old URL to new URL with anchor tag?
You mean do a 301 redirect with a #?
I have never tried it, if it works I don't think it will be a problem. Both a 301 and a link both end up as a request for a page, so if its ok for one it will be ok for the other.
Unless search engines have written some code to treat them different and I cant see why they would, technically speaking they will be treated the same, it is after all simply a request
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RE: Will adding 1000's of outbound links to just a few website impact rankings?
do you have any evidence that linking out can improve domain authority, I don't think it can.,
Matt cuts once said that it can be beneficial to link out, well of cause it can, but can it make you rank higher?
The evidence shows it can make you rank lower, not higher
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RE: Will adding 1000's of outbound links to just a few website impact rankings?
Yes there is hard data, google released and patented there PageRank algorithm,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
This page is a simple explanation
http://thatsit.com.au/seo/tutorials/a-simple-explanation-of-pagerank
A no-follow will not save any PageRank,, it will only stop it reaching the linked to page.
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RE: Anyone have experience with using HTTPS compared to HTTP and how it could affect rankings?
https is slower, as it encrypts your data, and has to be decrypted at the other end. if you have no reason to use it, then just use http
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RE: Will adding 1000's of outbound links to just a few website impact rankings?
Yes it would. When you link out you lose PageRank.
http://thatsit.com.au/seo/tutorials/a-simple-explanation-of-pagerankTo minimize the lose of PR, you can add more links to your own site on the same page.
If you have a page and you have 3 internal links, and 1 external link. you are giving away 25% of your PR. but if you have 99 internal links and 1 External links you are only giving away 1%.
You are also losing content, and depending on your internal linking structure, you are more than likely going to lower the PR of your home page by removing sub-pages, again I refer to http://thatsit.com.au/seo/tutorials/a-simple-explanation-of-pagerank
Using no-follow will not help you, all link lose link juice.
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RE: How to know if a wordpress theme is coded correctly for Seo
I am afraid that nothing you have said changes my mind, while you have an opinion, I am going by the hundreds of crawls I have made on WordPress sites and the thousands of problems I found on them.
No offence but only someone that can not write code would say tat WordPress could compete with a hand coded site.
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RE: What is the number of links do you require your link builder to attain each week or month? What is a reasonable goal?
It depends how quick you want to get a penalty.
Any link you can go out and get in numbers is very unlikely to be off any value, and may get you penalized now or in the future.
Search Engines are simply not interested in these sort of links.
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RE: Regarding Infinite Scroll
If your scroll, is not that large, them you can load all the html with the page and display it on scroll. this way it is all indexed, but if it is truly a lot of data and you are using ajax to get this data, then you need to ask yourself, do I really need the content indexed.
If yes, then Johns idea is a good one, albeit not necessary a nice looking one, depending on the design
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RE: How to know if a wordpress theme is coded correctly for Seo
Honestly, I find wordpress to be a nightmare for SEO, if you crawl a wordpress site they are inherently bad, themes make things worse and the more plugins the more problems.
I don't know a CMS that is perfect for SEO, but I think wordpress is the worst.
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RE: Help with https// redirects
What sort of web server are they using?
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RE: Exact Syntax for Canonical to PDFs for Windows Server
Thanks Paul
I had a look at the page, but as I can see it uses headers to identify the response, but the actions are rewrite or redirect. There is a custom response you can use,
for a definitive answer I would ask on iis.net http://forums.iis.net/
Or you could place each pdf in its own folder and place the header on the folder
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RE: Exact Syntax for Canonical to PDFs for Windows Server
Thanks for finding that, I see it says url, but I cant see how that is actually done. All it does it create a web.config in the folder you choose, I found no way of doing it ofr the indervidual file, unless you have only one file per forder
here is the web.config, how to test it works?
<configuration><system.webserver><httpprotocol><customheaders><add name="CononicalUrl" value="Link: http:/domain.com/my.pdf; rel=canonical"></add></customheaders></httpprotocol></system.webserver></configuration>
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RE: Microsites vs. one site
I have 3 sites selling the same product,
BUT I got my first site to the top of Bing and Google for all my keywords before I bothered making a second site, and like wise I waited till I was dominating the serps before I bothered with a third.
Get your first site to rank before trying to be tricky.
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RE: Same Alt tag on the images
You are wasting a chance to get more text in your website, alt tags aren't worth much but all the same it a chance to get a keyword or relevant text in your site.
It may also be a bad signal to a search engine and they may no longer trust your alt tags when deciding what the image is about
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RE: 301 redirect of PR 6 domain to PR 1 site, Will it improve my site's seo?
not for PageRank, because as I stated, page rank is only links, but for relevancy yes, it wont be relevant.
You could also be importing problems with the domain along wit the PR,
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RE: Exact Syntax for Canonical to PDFs for Windows Server
I don't think this can be done in web.config. I don't think it can be done at all.
while you can add a canonical header, to a folder using IIS, you cant add if to a file.
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RE: Exact Syntax for Canonical to PDFs for Windows Server
He's on a windows server and there is no .htaccess, you use web.config.
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RE: Does having landing page text beneath the products at the base of the page hinder SEO?
Google had a update sometime ago, to look at content above the fold. I think the idea was that many sites at the time were attacking hits with content below the fold and had only adds above the fold. so yes, you should have content above the fold. At least it is worth more.
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RE: 301 redirect of PR 6 domain to PR 1 site, Will it improve my site's seo?
since the sites structure will be different, you are probably only going to get PR from links to the home page.
PageRank is passed by links, so any links pointing to the PR6 domain can now point to your domain. But there is more than page rank, there is relevancy. If the PR6 domain was about cats, they the link text and linking pages are probably about cats, if your site is about cars then you wont get any relevancy.
as for the mentions of link building, as I stated above, PR is simple links, the PR6 domain much have a lot of good links already.
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RE: 301 Redirects in subfolders
As I said before, if you are changing just the domain, then you can do the whole site in one redirect, but if you have a different page structure and thousands of pages, it would be a waste of time to do any pages that does not have a external link.
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RE: 301 Redirects in subfolders
In this very rare case, they would get a 404, with a link to the home page.
to 301 every page in case it has a bookmark is a waste of effort
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RE: Using Meta Header vs Robots.txt
This sounds like a job for a canonical tag.