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IF you click on the "fiter" button on the "just discovered" tab in OSE, page returns message "no links found."

This is weird because that message displays even when you didn't actually filter for anything, but just clicked on the button.

Hi David,

I think that wildcard is correct, because we want to disallow all pdf files.

This is the same robots file as our other domain, avantcredit.com, and I was able to set up that campaign successfully on Moz.

Is there anything else that could be causing the issue?

Hi David,

I am receiving a 200 response. URL is springcoin.com

Thanks in advance!

I have a new url, and I'm trying to create a new campaign for it.

But in first step when i enter the domain, an error message pops up saying the url is invalid. could you help?

Thanks everyone!

My site is very new (~1 years old), but due to good PR we have gotten some decent links and are already ranking for a key term.

This may be why someone decided to start a negative SEO attack on us.

We've had less than 200 linking domains up until 2 weeks ago, but since then we have been getting 100+ new domains /day with anchor texts that are either targeted to that key term or are from porn websites.

I've gone through the links to get ready and submit a disavow... but should I do it?

My rankings/site traffic has not been affected yet.

Reasons for my hesitations:

1. Google always warns against using the disavow, and says "you shouldn't have to use it if you are a normal website." (sensing 'guilty-until-proven')

2. Some say Google is only trying to get the data to see if there are any patterns within the linking sites. I don't want the site owners to get hurt, since the villain is someone else using xrumer to put spammy comments on their site.

What would you do?

Thanks Kate! This is really helpful. I guess we will go with no hreflang tag, and just .com  and .co.uk sites

yea i don't see why it would be a bad thing.

hmmm not sure what's going on, so would help to get more granular details.

I would suggest downloading the latest links from GWT, and actually looking at the urls that is linking to you.

The "Just Discovered Links" tab on OSE is really good too. I'm using my ahrefs tool less and less.

I would run this every week, since this tab only goes so far back.

Are all of your links directing to the www version? Then this is what would happen. If you've rel=canonical'ed to the www version, and build links to the non www version, you will essentially build all link juice to the non-www and redirect it to the www, in this process you lose some link juice like you do in 301 redirects.

yea i don't see why it would be a bad thing.

I know if you click on 'download latest links' you can get the actual page that links to you, not the domains. However, I'm not sure how to get the full profile.

The title says it all - if i have duplicate content on my US and UK website, will adding the hreflang tag help google figure out that they are duplicate for a reason and avoid any penalties?

I'm thinking of hosting a giveaway, and promoting this to bloggers. Thinking of how to go about this, I've run into a sort of a road block. I'm thinking the best way would be to attach a flyer detailing the giveaway so that bloggers have easy access to the information. However, I fear that a lot of them will just copy + paste from the flyer straight to a blog post - which will create a lot of duplicate content.

Anybody in the community willing to share their experiences and how they were able to go around the duplicate content issue?

Hi,

I wouldn't block these pages from being crawled by search engines. Category pages are great for making sure more link juice flows to your deeper blog pages and making sure they get indexed. I believe author links give authorrank to the corresponding blog post too. I'm not sure about what you mean by 'read more' links. May I ask why you are concerned that these pages hurt SEO?