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The "dance" results you are seeing can also be contributed to where you are checking the positions from, platform (o/s, computer type, laptop, mobile etc), the country/city you are in when checking, whether you are signed in to Google etc.

Clear cookies/cache/ip address each rank check and try to replicate the same variables at all times, this might give you more stable feedback.

All the best :).

Good luck with this George, google places is a tiresome part of Google many have lengthy issues with.

Try anything and everything, you can stop when it finally works.

I've see similar concerns from others, it seems "rogerbot" does ignore certain things that other bots consider.

Don't worry about it, if it's not being flagged in WMT it shouldn't be an issue.

Take Roger as a guide rather than an iron fist bot like googlebot.

Hi Will,

I would be more inclined to put them on their own sub domains.

All the best

I would say stop the guest blogging link building, pretty sure I read somewhere it's frowned upon if you have a lot of links coming in from blogs, especially if the blog is not related to your theme/products.

Reason being I believe is that people can easily set up automated linking systems to take advantage of blogs. Especially don't be pointing links to your site from a page if it is blatently being used by link spammers even if it's relative to your site, G will see these spammers and your link will be getting mixed in with the crud.

Make sure there is no overo-ptimization on your site either.

Hope this helps, all the best

You basically have to change up the phrases a lot, don't just stick to specific phrases because G is getting good at filtering out blatent over use of phrases and keywords and will penalize, try and think of ten ways to say the same word or phrase then scatter that throughout your text. Of course it is better to have a targetted phrase or keyword per page only, don't expect one page to rank highly for 5 different kw's or phrases, so you may need to devleope more pages/content. Hope that helps, all the best

Hello,

It is generally used when you have two or more pages with very similar or the same content.

It basically tells the bots that you know th othr pag has similar content and it is bing don on purpose.

You use it in the link from the first similar page to the second simliar page, take a look here for a full explanation.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394

Hope this helps, all the best

When that happens it's usually about relativity IMO, G sees the other page as more fitting to the search term but it can also be over optimisation, carefully with your keywords, don't over do them if you can avoid it.

I'm sure there are other considerations like linking but thats what I have found previously.

All the best.

I respect Francisco's response however if it were me I would go for the longer url as the main one and redirect the older one to it. If you are building links you shouldn't be doing it to a url that get's redirected, of course that is just my opinion, but hope I could give you something to consider.

All the best

Mark's suggestion was quite good and yes I would say if the site isn't written properly (putting caps where they should be) google might see it as a sign of poor quality content.

All the best.

I would say not to worry about it, the reports should not be taken to the point of where you should fix every single error or warning, just take it as a sign of potential issues, if they are not a big deal in terms of real world seo, then don't sweat them.

All the best

A simple 301 to the new site should suffice

All the best.

If the page no longer has any value for your site or your users then I would suggest to remove it.

All the best

Hi,

Google does penalize for site downtime, in its eyes it means your site is not stable but you can recover from it, exact time is possibly a few months, just try to make sure you do not have anymore downtime if you can.

Regarding the OSE and links, it is quite slow to update, if it show you no longer have a link that you know you had, simply go and check on the site to see if it's still there, if it is you don't need to worry, OSE will eventually re-crawl it and find it again.

Site links are a sign that google trusts your site, if your site has big downtime like 1.5 days, it is not exactly a trusted sign for google, so the site links may have been removed for that reason.

All the best

The canonical tag only really tells the spiders there is similar content on the page that you've used the tag for, I wouldn't say that is passes any real "juice" as you call it.

You should probably restructure your links if you want the full benefit.

I would say for sure number 2. Re-write/word the pages and use it as a chance to put some more fresh content in as well.

All the best

It's a bit hard to say really without having experienced the exact situation/problem/solution so unless you think you are getting penalized for it I would probably leave it alone, after all many say that S.E's only count one link per page if there are multiple identical URLS.

All the best.

I'm not sure if D/A has a great deal to do with bounce rates.

If the new site is going to be the new kid in town, you should get good signals if the users go from the original to the new one anyway.

Just let them know you will comply, but they may notice a slight decline in ranking until the new site is fully established and the old one properly redirected.

This way your letting them know and covering your behind should things decline in anyway.

In the end you got to do what the customer wants.

All the best.

I would say most likely yes. US sites still show internationally so if your main target audience is in the U.S I would keep that as the target rather than risk anything. All the best.

Have not experience that lately, although I would assume it's possible just a WMT glitch.

Have you tried asking on the google forums?

All the best.

I have heard of this before recently, I think possibly the moz crawler all or sometimes now just ignores the disallow because it is not a usual S.E crawler.

Hopefully one of the staff can provide some insight in this for you.

All the best.

You may get some movement in serps from this, it seems that some believe 301's are just as good as passing ranking value, but others believe you only get about 80-90% percent of the original value.

Either way, it shouldn't be a huge difference.

All the best.

It depends how you have created your site and if you are using a website builder for example or if you have access to the individual files on the server.

Sometimes website builders and the like make it impossible to give each page a unique title, but it is very important that you do it. You will need to get into each html file and change it in the Title tag which will be at the top of the code for the page.

Basically Google and other search engines will calculate the total number of words on a page and say for instance 20% of those words are written EXACTLY the same it will be classed as duplicate content.

Basically think of copying a paragraph, and pasting it on another page = duplicate content.

Hope that helps, all the best

Hello,

301's are done in the htaccess file of your server/where your website files are located.

All the best

The seo moz stats for a site is not the exactly same as what google uses to determine authority/trust so just because one seems to have more authority does not mean google thinks it is more relevant.

Hence why even some new sites with minimal back links can outrank some very trusted sites on the same topic.

Welcome to the wonderful world of seo, strap in and get comfortable because it's a never ending journey.

All the best

Hello Alan,

I'm from QLD and on a very poor wireless connection, it took about 6 secs for the page to physically load and about another two for the rest of the non physical loading/communication with the server/s.

A very decent load time IMO, and it would really depend on the speed of the connection that the end user has, but there are websites and tools that measure your speed against most of the other sites on the net.

All the best, I hope I was of some assistance

And is your robots.txt file inline with the on page directives?

If all is good I would just put it down to a moz error, sometimes you just need to be aware of the issues and warnings rather than act on them.

All the best

Probably a minor thing. The Seomoz issues and warnings are not always something that needs to be addressed, just take note and decide for yourself if it is a real issue.

All the best

How about:

Cheap Inkjet printer cartridges & laser toner ink cartridges

It is hard to figure out a non spammy title when you want to advertised many similar things in your title. But the above seems ok and naturally written to me.

All the best

Not an expert here but redirects are never as good as straight forward links IMO.

In your position I would probably make the landing page more easily accessible from the top of the homepage and direct users to visit the page that way.

It's a very valuable link, so probably best not to test the waters when they are unknown.

Just my opinion of course and one of the ways we learn about seo is of course to experiment, but do consider all aspects before making any redirect changes, pros/cons etc.

All the best!

It is not wise to continually repeat your keywords in the title tags, it looks spammy and can do more harm than good.

Each page should be about a different subject so they should be titled as such

All the best.

Matthew's correct, it may or may not help you in G ranking and it seems like if you do major changes like sitewide for instance you may even get a kick down for sometime until G knows you are finished making the changes.

Usually changes can be seen in Serp within a week for most sites, but it can be longer for some.

We've also found that if you rank well on yahoo for some reason it's not the same on G, and vice versa. Could just be us, but it makes sense that S.E's wouldn't want to show the same results as each other.

All the best!

Yes you're correct.

All the best!

Yes thats why it's there.

If google chooses to take action about your report they will simply ignore the links for good when calculating your ranking.

You can use the rel canonical tag but you are better off redirecting one to the other.

All the best!

Redirections are not entirely positive from a (google) SEO viewpoint.

Limit it as much as you can. Think about redoing things and starting from scratch if you are not too far into it.

Best of luck.

Probably bad in terms of potential duplicate content issues. Unless of course you have more DA than the social media networks........yeah, thought so

PPC and organic ranking does NOT go together. Read as little or as much into that as you want.

To be honest OSE has to be one of the slowest methods for finding new links.

If they were on par with some others they would surely get more revenue/subscriptions.

Seomoz, pick up your game, there are other link explorers that only need a few days to pick up new links, why do you need months and only update on certain days of the month?

Do us all a favour and make OSE our favourite tool!

You may or may not have issues, but the general consensus is that if you place the rel canonical tag to the mobile page you should be ok, perhaps try it on one or two pages and then leave it for a month or so and watch your ranking trends.....

Also you could try and ask this question on the G webmaster forum to try and get a reply from a G employee.

Best of luck for today and forevermore!

Agreed with Matt. It's not about "too many" but more about too many crappy links.

If you get deemed with too many shite links, chances are the rest of your good links will also get devalued.

Best of luck

Alexa is truly useless in terms of any real world reporting.

Forget alexa, at least until they start showing traffic ranks for sites without the need for the toolbar.

Good luck

Sorry we can't be of any help, but +1 to this.

Anyone?

Mix and match Mark, mix and match, especially for highly competitive KW's.

350 external links?

It was read somewhere, that you should not have anymore than 100 external links on a page.

Why on earth would you even need close to 100, let alone 350?

Hello, You will not rank well on G without backlinks, sometimes new sites do get a temp boost early in their life because of the fresh content. The same content in another language can trigger duplicate content issues, also look into your directory/url addresses because the content should be relative to the directory name etc. Hope you figure it out, if worse comes to worse you can also roll back your changes and observe ?

Standardising would be preferred, however as long as the font/text is easily readable you shouldn't be getting any penalties etc.

Have you done maps verification?