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I don't know how they're creating themselves? It's like 1 post has several of them?!
(etc etc.)
And btw... I don't intentionally have a slideshow set up, but I do have Next Gen on my site?
I have a whole bunch of them and I have no idea how I created them. I just make titles, that's it. Nothin' fancy.
I sent your first message to my webmaster and this is his response.
"Many browsers will automatically add the "/" at the end of a URL. That is out of our hands and something that has very little affect, if any, on how the site performs in search engines."
No sure what to say to him?
positive thinking
?
But ya... I think Egol is right. What are his objectives?
Hi Alan
Thanks for the response, but (sorry) I still don't get it 
Can you tell me how/where you see this? That might help me understand the issue.
Thanks so much for taking the time to answer my question(s). I really appreciate it!
Hey Alan
I just realized I read your initial response incorrectly. I was reading it on my iphone 
Anyways - I'm not actually sure I understand what you're saying about 301's redirecting to a trailing "/" Doesn't that just mean it's being redirected to the home page?
Where do you seen them - and how do you seen them? How could I see them? What do I tell my webmaster so that he'll understand how to fix it?
Thanks! I already noticed the 302 redirects situation. Trying to get web ppl to fix that up. Was just at a seminar by CEO of searchenginepeople.com and he was saying off page factors acct for 70% of googles search ranking factors. Explains why those crappy sites would get ranked just cuz they have a lot of links. Still crazy though considering their song and dance about duplicate content and meta stuffing.
The site I am writing about is easendtorontohomes.com
I don't get it. I see that some of my competitors have more inbound links and have been around longer. Their SEOmoz trust etc is also higher.
But I don't get how many could possibly be ranking higher since they're sites are all template based site via Web Tech Design and the content is duplicated from one to the other.
The other weird thing is that they do everything wrong - they stuff their keywords tag, some of them use the same keywords/meta data on every single page, some of them don't even have meta tags, some of them don't even have a blog with ANY original content.
Apart from listings EastEndTorontoHomes.com has TONS of original, well-researched, and keyword rich content.
I just don't get it. Is it possible that google has some sort of relationship with that company? Or am I totally missing something?
Some of these sites include:
YA, but where does SEOmoz get the data for that App from? Just because SEOmoz updates it every week doesn't mean it'll be up to date?! Right?!
I've used Open Site Explorer here at SEOmoz for the first time and I'm confused by the results.
I'm wondering how dated the results are? And, what are they based on?
For example, I'm certain my facebook shares and like are higher...same with the twitter links. It seems kind of old?!
One of my competitors who gets about 2x more traffic than me DOES have great backlinks. I know that. BUT, it's odd that her facebook and twitter results are what they are compared to mine - they're WAY higher in site explorer AND her links seem on par with her facebook page whereas mine don't. Whereas mine seem WAy Way lower than what they are in reality.
She barely tweets and facebooks any more. Maybe once per month. She started out gangbusters, but doesn't do it much any more.
That's kinda why I'm wondering if it's based on older stuff and not updated often? Anyone know?
Hootsuite is fabulous for doing just that. I've been using it for more than a year. There's a paid version and a free version. If you're the only one working on it, you have fewer than 5 social networks, and you don't care to see link reports the free version is fine. the paid version is $5 per month.
positive thinking
?
But ya... I think Egol is right. What are his objectives?
What business are you guys in?
My opinion....
Linked In if you need to make contacts/relationships with other vendors. It's the most professional way of doing this. But I don't use linked in so I can't say much.
Facebook is a must IMO
Twitter if you want to make contacts and relationships with other vendors. I've made some good relationships here... it's easy and candid.
Re Google +1. I think you might have a google +1 account automatically if you have a google account. I'm not sure if you're +1's are automatically related to that account though? I haven't been paying much attention to google +1 stuff
Hootsuite is a web-based application. Tweekdeck is something you have to download to your computer.
There are a few others but I can't remember what they are right now.