Hi Eslam,

Image links pass page rank and have value but text links are an authority over image based links. While search engines will utilize alt and title tags to identify the content of the image your anchor text is still King.

Remember a search engine spider can download an image file, but it can't see it like humans can. A search engine spider however loves and reads text.

Hope this helps

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Hi,

Page rank last updated on December 2013 & John Muller says "we’re probably not going to be updating it going forward".

So I would like to suggest you to check MozRank ( moz version of PR) instead of PR & PA ,DA.

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Hi,

I am sharing answer given by Miriam Ellis (a moz staff) on exact query.

"In order to qualify for local inclusion, avoid penalties and prevent merging, your client must be able to answer yes to the following 3 points.

1) Does the business have a unique, dedicated physical address (not a virtual address, P.O. Box or shared address)?

2) Does the business have a unique, dedicated local phone number in the city of location (not an 800 number, not a call tracking number, not a shared number)

3) Does the business have in-person transactions with its customers, either at its own location (like a restaurant) or at the customers' locations (like a plumber)?

If the business does not meet any one of these 3 criteria, it does not qualify for local inclusion. I don't know where your client is at on points 2 and 3, but if they can't say yes to point one, Local SEO will be nothing but problematic for them. Here's why:

If 2 or more businesses share an address, suite address or phone number (or even if their names are too similar), Google will frequently merge the business details of the listings. This means that Joe the Barber can end up with Jim the Plumber's business name, phone number or reviews showing up on his listing. Merging is one of the most difficult issues to deal with in Local, and one to be avoided at all costs.

Here is a Google help file on this issue: http://support.google.com/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=175290

Your client's best hope is to:

1. Secure a unique suite number in the building at which he/she works and at which mail can be received.

2. Search for all citations of the business web-wide to correct any existent citations so that they include the new suite number.

You can check full post here @ http://moz.com/community/q/local-seo-how-to-handle-multiple-business-at-same-address

Hope this helps

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Hi,

Back in the days the trailing slash suggested "this is a directory" in contrary to "this is a file". Browsers would react slightly faster – or at least that's what I was told – when they were indirectly told "look for a file called index…". Today that trailing slash is next to obsolete.

Today it is considered good practice to either always or never have that trailing slash – otherwise it could be considered duplicate content.

But as far as I know neither theory has any impact on SEO.

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I'm fully agree with Moosa and he explained very welll.

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Hi Entertainment,

I am sharing an old post & an article by Matt  some quotes from moz staff & SEO Expert on this.

http://moz.com/blog/going-beyond-moz-metrics-to-answer-why-is-this-site-outranking-me

http://moz.com/community/q/high-da-pa-and-a-grade-at-page-level-not-ranking-in-serp-why

Keri Morgret said that on the same issue "Google uses their own algorithm, and we haven't been able to convince them to use Moz Metrics for ranking or to give us access to an API for their algorithm."

Hope it helps.

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Hi Tom,

There is a way to make text bold in Google+ page comment or review section. To make comments or review bold  use a * before and after

I hope it helps you . To know more on this like how to make italic / Italic & bold Please check below URL

https://plus.google.com/103400392486480765286/posts/QBmgLCtmoo1

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Hi Monica,

I presume you already check all the options before posting this question. I have concluded this by seeing your others posts/reply in this community.

Now here is my answer

To prevent your PDF file (or any non HTML file) from being listed in search results, the only way is to use the HTTP X-Robots-Tag response header, e.g.:

X-Robots-Tag: noindex

robots.txt does not prevent your page from being listed in search results.

What it does is stop the bot from crawling your page, but if a third party links to your PDF file from their website, your page will still be listed.

If you stop the bot from crawling your page using robots.txt, it will not have the chance to see the X-Robots-Tag: noindex response tag. Therefore, never ever ever disallow a page in robots.txt if you employ the X-Robots-Tag header.

I hope it helps but not very sure.

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Hi Ethan,

I will say yes & no. Please watch below Matt cutts video on the exact issue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsSwqo16C8s&noredirect=1

I hope it helps.

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Hi Swendt,

I presume you know that the meta description is not a ranking factor in Google but indirectly yes because meta description is mainly used to increase CTR. If CTR would improve ranking will also improve.

Now coming to your question

If your business name is a single word like Microsoft then I will go to second option with first alphabet in capital & if your business name is two word keyword like 'Wall Street' I will go for first option.

I hope it helps you.

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Hi Eric,

I am sharing one article on how site can have structured URLs. This article explained exact issue that you have mentioned in your question.

http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/structured-urls/

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Hi James,

Yes you can do it by using 301 redirect. I am quoting moz on this issue

"A 301 redirect is a permanent redirect which passes between 90-99% of link juice (ranking power) to the redirected page. 301 refers to the HTTP status code for this type of redirect. In most instances, the 301 redirect is the best method for implementing redirects on a website."

So it would be best  idea to use 301 redirect in your case,  maximum link juice will pass you don't have to worry about ranking

Second thing I would like to suggest you choose preferred domain from webmaster tools by following steps

Log in to Google Webmaster Tools and follow these steps:

1. Click on your site on the Webmaster Tools home page.
2. Click on the gear icon and then click Site Settings.
3. Find the Preferred domain section and select the option you want.

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Hi,

If you are using the same content on both website then that could be the major issue but If you are not using the same content then your site ranking is not down due to exact domain name with different extension.

Second, to clear up something "Google has no way of knowing that your domain is a 'new version' of the old one, unless you tell it. The method for this is a 301 redirect but as you are saying that your site's ranking went down due to algorithm update so there is no point to redirect old website to new.

You can do one thing put a splash page on old website like

"Old website has moved to new website

New website formally old website

& provide a 'click here' link to reach new website (*** No 301 redirect in your case**)

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Hi,

The best way I find to see what the search engines thinks is the best page from your site for a term is to do a site search with the term you are checking.

E.g.

site:yousite.com + Term

In your case : yousite.com + used widgets

This shows you the pages in order that Googles ranks them. Also its a good way to identify duplicated title tags.

Now there is an article published by Rand Fishkin on this issue to know what could be the possible reason to showing wrong category pages and how you can correct them  .Please check once below article

http://moz.com/blog/wrong-page-ranking-in-the-results-6-common-causes-5-solutions

I hope it helps

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Hi Anna,

I have read your query & all of replies very carefully & now I m replying you point by point.

"In short: I believe that GA is counting some of my PPC sessions as organic (not provided). Has anybody come across this before? "

My comment - Not provided keyword is a keyword without keyword referral data.

****There are two types of keywords referral data: organic keywords referral data and paid keywords referral data. ******

The organic keywords referral data tells you which search term was used by a person to visit your website after he/she clicked on an organic search engine listing on Google.

The paid keywords referral data tells you which search term was used by a person to visit your website after he/she clicked on a paid search engine listing on Google. These paid search engine listing are the PPC ads you see on Google.

But since Google doesn’t hide the paid keyword referral data, your web analytics tools like Google Analytics will continue to report the keywords which generated traffic, sales and conversions on your website through Adwords reports.
So IMO your assumption is wrong"I believe they are being counted as organic because of the following:

• the website is brand new and does not rank for anything but their branded terms
• the few keywords showing up in GA are the terms we target our PPC towards"

My Comment - I believe you are doing guess work. This is not possible."- the amount of sessions of Paid Search (in channels) and  AdWords sessions don't match up (The number of actual PPC clicks is substantially higher than the Paid Search sessions)"My comments - Please visit below URL you will know hwy there is discrepancy in session datahttps://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1257084?hl=enNow here is some methods to resolve the issue.I presume auto tagging or manual tagging you are using either one. I hope you are not using both. 1>Install tag assistant to check whether tracking is correct or not2>Hit & trail methodRemove auto tagging or manual tagging whichever you are using for some time after that search any keyword and click on your adWords Ad .After landing on your webpage append this (?utm_source=Anna&utm_medium=paid at the end of url and click enter . Please repeat this search for 3-4 times and you can check after 24 hour whether this data going in organic or paid.*I am running Adwords & Bing campaign since last six years I haven't face this scenario ever.sorry for the long answer it was just to explain you.I hope it helps you.Thanks