I'd probably put this down to a lack of local competition to show him how it's done!
Best posts made by AndieF
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RE: How on earth does this rank?
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RE: Webmaster tools
Hi Juan Miguel Callejas Romero,
It looks to me as though those two websites are identical. I would definitely settle on one of those domains and then set a 301 from the 'discontinued' domain to the new one.
If you have a market outside of spain, I'd probably advise you go with the .com. If I'm in the UK and see an .es domain I'm unlikely to click on it. Conversely, if you're exclusively in Spain and as a Spanish resident I see .es in a sea of .com's I'd likely click on that.
In summary: select the TLD which you think will have the best click-through rate (analytics may shine a light on this) and then 301 the other to that domain.
- Andrew
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RE: SEO Problem with PowerPoint to PDF?
Google does index PDF files quite well, and from my experience Powerpoint does a good job of generating PDFS. I don't expect you'll see any problems here.
But how about this... if you uploaded your powerpoint to a service like SlideShare you will probably provide a better experience to many users, you can have an additional social elements and gain one or two decent links from SlideShare. Worth some thought?
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RE: Value of a .edu or .gov link?
Hi Demetrios,
It's difficult to say exactly how it'll affect your DA or PA - like PageRank there's a considerable number of factors and contexts that build that ranking.
Domain Authority is in part built up from your MozTrust score. The MozTrust is roughly calculated by measuring how many sites sit between your website and a trusted website. Educational and Government websites tend to be considered trusted websites, so if they link to you directly the MozTrust there is very high indeed.
Be aware though, you shouldn't build your site's success on the back of one or two trusted links. You need diversity and as many trusted relevant sites as possible to "back your credentials up" to Google and other search engines.
I know that's vague, but I hope it helps. Learn about how MozTrust works.
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RE: First Click Free
Hi Manutx,
First Click Free looks relatively simple to implement. Essentially all you need to do is allow crawlers with the user agent of "Googlebot" or referrers from Google results to go directly to the article instead of a sign-up form, just as it would do with a logged in member.
I can't find any pre-built Wordpress plugins that handle First Click Free for you, but this piece of PHP may be useful if you could integrate it within your single.php template:- http://www.ryancramer.com/journal/entries/first_click_php/
- Andrew
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RE: We have alot of refurbished items, surplus items etc. How should we list them?
Good question. In your situation I've seen lots of people set up an "Outlet" store on eBay.
I think you're right about the duplicate content risk, it would pose an issue. You might want to consider noindex'ing those empty products but that would mean they wouldn't be discoverable on Google itself.
Alternatively perhaps if it's a refurbished item you could add a canonical link to the main product's page, and on that main product page link to the empty page so that people can discover it that way.
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RE: .html extension
Absolutely! You can do a blanket "301 any page with .html at the end to the same page without it" rule with .htaccess to save you time and energy once you've done your renaming process.
This neat little bit of code (found at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5730092/how-to-remove-html-from-url) should do the trick nicely.
<code>RewriteEngineOnRewriteCond%{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-f RewriteCond%{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-d RewriteRule^(.*)\.html$ /$1 [L,R=301]</code>
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RE: What does it involve when creating subfolders, I believe I may have been given false info
It may be a bit of miscommunication on their part Thomas.
While there is likely to be development work for these country specific sites, you shouldn't have to get a new site built for each country, that's most likely insane!
What they're probably suggesting is to launch country sites at yourcompany.com/de/ but then registering domain names such as yourdomain.de which would just redirect to that - not for SEO use but just to protect your brand and for those who try to access it from those domains.
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RE: See which Google TLD organic traffic is coming from in GA
Sure can! Well.. the country in which people search in, but that's probably a good indication.
- Go to Traffic Sources > Search > Overview
- Change the "Primary Dimension" to "Source"
- Change the "Secondary Dimension" to "Visitors > Country / Territory"
Should all be good. To just see organic searches, do the same but with "Traffic Sources > Search > Organic" instead.
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RE: Adobe "Muse" on SEO?
Hey Omid,
I've taken a good look through various websites built with Adobe Muse. These were ones featured in "Site of the Day" on the Adobe website, and so I imagine are considered the best of the best.
I'm not impressed by the quality of the code. Perhaps the most worrying thing for me is that things that are clearly semantically headers are being rendered in
tags.
Additionally there doesn't seem to be any alt text applied to any images on sites I've found running Muse.
They also seem to rely on a large number of HTTP requests and many resource seem to be poorly compressed.
Without knowing too much about the tool, everything I mentioned could be down to individual designers - but the trend is there.
I wouldn't rank their markup too highly, and there's some pretty unoptimised elements on those sites. I think that if your site does well on SERPs with those sites it's probably in spite of your markup.
- Andrew
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RE: Reciprocal links and nofollow tag
You certainly would have the upper hand in theory in that situation, however nofollow is just a rule of thumb and Google's algorithm may be smart enough to figure out it's a reciprocal link.
Ask yourself if the reciprocal link is adding value to your (and their) customers? Is it in relevant content, or is it on a "Links" page? If the link is there purely for SEO, don't bother risking it - I'd say.
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"Powered by SEOMOZ" at the bottom of White Label reports?
I'd like to upgrade to Pro Plus for the white label / own branding option. However, I have just noticed that the "white label" pdf reports still feature "Powered by SEOMOZ" at the bottom of each page.
Is this a mistake?
$2400 / year should be enough to remove SEOMOZ branding completely, surely?
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RE: Tons and tons of nofollow links
Hi Joshua,
Stay calm! Nothing to worry about here. Google ignores (that may not be true 100% of the time, but let's say that it is...) nofollow links - that's the point of them!
You wont gain from them - but neither will you be punished.
On OpenSiteExplorer I can't see any real data there, so I can't look any deeper than that.
Hope that helps!
- Andie
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RE: Changed Blog Name - Duplicate Title Tags - Wordpress
Hi Joshua,
Assuming that both of the pages are the same in all but name the correct practice would be to create what's called a 301 redirect from "german-shepherd-blog" to "dog-blog".
I believe Wordpress handles this for you when you rename a post. However if you're talking about moving your entire blog on a subdirectory, you may need to write a 301 redirect in your .htaccess file.
Once you've implemented a 301 redirect you're basically telling Google, "Hey, remember german-sherpherd-blog, it's still around but now it lives at dog-blog - could you update that for me please?".
It might take a while for them to get to that, and while they do there may be duplication in your search results but if your 301 redirects have been setup properly they'll both lead to the same destination.
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RE: SEO friendly url strategy...
Hi Luca,
It doesn't make a difference to your rankings. However Matt Cutts from Google suggests you go for Option 1, as from a usability perspective users tend to prefer it and so it may improve your click-through rates when you are found.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=971qGsTPs8M
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RE: Why is OSE showing no data for this URL?
Hi Dana,
I think your page is corrupted, I have copied a link to the sourcecode I am seeing http://pastebin.com/BRfFT4RR
It looks like Google Cache is also having problems with this page. Perhaps OSE had trouble too and so skipped the page?
- Andrew
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RE: Do incoming links from my feedburner account help my SEO?
I've looked into this very briefly and it looks as though Google doesn't index the domain http://feeds.feedburner.com/* so they'll not find these links to provide 'juice' your way unfortuantely.
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RE: How to do this 301 redirection
Hey Juan,
On the old domain have this in your .htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
RedirectMatch 301 (.*) http://www.domain.es/$1Then you may want a separate HTACCESS rule to forward all traffic without www. to use it
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]I hope that helps, but I have a feeling I may have missed the point of the question. Let me know if I did.
- Andie
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RE: Best way to present a single image from a gallery?
Hi Michael,
Once users find a tattoo on your site that they like, what would be the next thing?
Perhaps they would like to know the inspiration behind the artwork, or how long it took to produce? How many sessions did it take to get to how it is now? What did the customer think of it? If they had it now, would they change anything about it?
Without knowing too much about it, I would say there's probably a great amount of useful content you can provide your users and it'll go further into converting them than just a picture.
Hope that helps!
- Andrew
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RE: Backlinks for the same IP address
It's definitely not the end of the world. Google knows that this is often unavoidable, especially with hosted website services such as WordPress or Squarespace.
I don't think there's any evidence that Google punishes you from having too many links from one IP address. However, I'd argue that if you have 'too many' from one IP address it might suggest you're going after quantity of links over the quality.
Quality would probably be diverse, having a bunch of sites on one IP address is a signal that perhaps your links are.
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RE: Should i disavow all backlinks?
Google did recently release a "Payday Loan" update to punish quick loan sites, you may have been impacted by that. https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/1314225?hl=en-GB
By all means get rid of any bad links, but be careful not to disavow good links. That certainly wont help you out.
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RE: This page has dropped could really do with some advice please
Hi Tracy,
Looking at sites linking to that page it looks like there's sites such as http://pavementsigns.bravesites.com/ which may have previously been helping you out, but now may be detrimental. That 'bravesites' site in particular has lots of spammy sites linking to it.
Those sites/pages look as if they're created with the sole purpose of making a link back to your main website and so I would consider this to be spammy behaviour, Google likely does too. I think you've gotten yourself into a 'bad neighbourhood'.
Take a look into Google Webmaster Tools to see if Google's warning you about anything here. It may be wise to shut down those pages if you have direct control of them, or disavowing the links if you can't directly influence it.
Also consider whether your competitors are starting to do better SEO recently. This may not actually be a technical issue, but more of a "other people are beating you at the game" kind of thing.
I hope that's food for thought!
- Andrew
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RE: Google Webmaster Tools: Quality Issues on http://www.enakliyat.com.tr/
Invest in content. Ensure that you have a good amount of unique content for each page, push for photography and balance out the ratio of pre-generated content (sidebars, footers etc. that are shared across pages) and the unique content to the page so that it's more favourable.
I imagine that users are making these pages rather than yourself so perhaps you need to take an editorial stance here. One option would be to "nofollow" links to this page by default (or perhaps NOINDEX the page entirely) unless you're satisfied that they're acceptable links.
Alternatively you might want to consider asking more precise questions when users fill out the form so that there's little room for them to write 'bad content' and you can provide more valuable information in a consistent format to your users.
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RE: Duplicate Content?
They'll be seen as a single page because they share the same URL.
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RE: Does Google use data from Gmail to penalize domains and vice versa?
As far as I know Google doesn't use their Gmail spam filtering to affect web search results - that'd be way too easy to game and mess up your competitor's results.
Likewise there is no evidence of penalized domains from affecting Gmail either.
They're too separate mediums and they're two very different types of spam. So no overlap to speak of!
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RE: Time for Google to change the emphasis?
Hi Luke,
You raise some interesting points.
I imagine the main problem here is that the web is meant to be open and shared. In almost all circumstances you should only be linking out where somebody else's website provides good value to your users. Nofollow then becomes useful when you're linking out in things like comments, where you as the site's editor can't actually endorse the quality of the linked site.
By swapping that paradigm around it's assumed that every site is "bad until proven worthy" - but because the web is already built up of billions of links that don't have nofollow it's kind of too late for that mentality to work.
Google does take and act on spam reports which you can do so at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?hl=en if you believe sites are designed to spam.
- Andrew
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RE: Search Term in Contact Email
Hi Robert,
You need to be careful to comply with Google's tracking rules which basically define that you aren't allowed to track with personal information.
7. Privacy. You will not (and will not allow any third party to) use the Service to track, collect or upload any data that personally identifies an individual (such as a name, email address or billing information), or other data which can be reasonably linked to such information by Google. You will have and abide by an appropriate Privacy Policy and will comply with all applicable laws and regulations relating to the collection of information from Visitors. You must post a Privacy Policy and that Privacy Policy must provide notice of Your use of cookies that are used to collect traffic data, and You must not circumvent any privacy features (e.g., an opt-out) that are part of the Service.
If you're happy to have a general overview of what search terms lead to the most conversions you could implement an Analytics Event(https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/eventTrackerGuide) which is fired off once an email is sent and then set this up in conversion tracking in Analytics.
So not quite what you're after, but would comply with the ToS.
- Andrew
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RE: Subdomain or subfolder
If your blog is directly related to your main website then I would say subfolder.
A good rule of thumb for this kind of thing is:
**Sub folder **is better than a sub domain which is better than a separate domain altogether