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We have over 1,330 pages that say we are "Missing Meta Description Tag" when I spot check all of them have meta descriptions? Can you please explain to me why Moz is picking up that we do not have meta descriptions when we do. Our website  http://www.betheboss.ca

Please help. I would like a accurate measure of meta descriptions that are missing.

Just a follow up to your suggestion.

I created sitemaps for the pages I want removed using the google spreadsheet importXML functions, which saved a lot of time.

It took a couple weeks but all of the pages, and similar pages, have successfully been removed from the index. Even the similar pages I didn't get a chance to put in the sitemap yet (importXML limits the results to 100).

Your suggestion worked!

I can't 404 dynamic search pages.

There are a mix of search pages and old mobile pages.

The search pages I've been testing out having the canonical point to the default search page. I've seen a slight drop in these pages - but I guess I just have to be more patient.

For the other pages the path is no longer there like you were mentioning. I like the idea of setting up the XML sitemap, I never even thought of making a bad/indexed page sitemap. I will give that a shot! Thankfully this will be a quick job with the importXml function in google spreadsheets! Great tip, hopefully it'll work.

6 months ago my clients site was overhauled and the user generated searches had an index tag on them. I switched that to noindex but didn't get it fast enough to avoid being 100's of pages indexed in Google.

It's been months since switching to the noindex tag and the pages are still indexed. What would you recommend? Google crawls my site daily - but never the pages that I want removed from the index.

I am trying to avoid submitting hundreds of these dynamic URL's to the removal tool in webmaster tools. Suggestions?

Yeah I have no idea how I missed this haha - I think because I couldn't see it in the rich snippet testing tool.

Ah I got more information from http://www.seomoz.org/blog/hosting-and-embedding-for-video-seo - I just had a hard time finding the proper information.

Ah yeah - that looks very cool! But it was also showing up in the web search… which I haven't seen before. The formatting is different.

Today I was going through one of my sites and I noticed a rich snippet that had a screenshot of a YouTube video for this page: http://www.betheboss.ca/GoTireFranchise.cfm.

When I click on the video it went to my site… almost like authorship. I have never noticed this before, what markup would make it show up? Schema? And what else have you seen this with? I can't find answers anywhere…

I attached a screenshot.

Sidenote: I looked again and now the rich snippet doesn't show up… bizarre.

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What happens when you are no longer working on a campaign, and your client needs the campaign history?

I don't pay for my account, my employer does. If I ever have to move on what should I do with the account? I would want to keep my seomoz profile and Q&A history. But the campaigns belong to my employer so I would have to change all of the profile settings into his name…

Is there a protocol for this kind of situation?

yeah all of the 301's are done - but I am trying to get around submitting tens of thousands of URL's to the URL removal tool.

Background: I have a newly acquired client who has had a lot of issues over the past few months.

What happened is he had a major issue with broken dynamic URL's where they would start infinite loops due to redirects and relative links. His previous SEO didn't pay attention to the sitemaps created by a backend generator, and it caused hundreds of thousands of pages to be indexed. Useless pages.

These useless pages were all bringing up a 404 page that didn't have a 404 server response (it had a 200 response) which created a ton of duplicate content and bad links (relative linking).

Now here I am, cleaning up this mess. I've fixed the 404 page so it creates a 404 server response. Google webmaster tools is now returning thousands of "not found" errors, great start. I fixed all site errors that cause infinite redirects. Cleaned up the sitemap and submitted it.

When I search site:www.(domainname).com I am still getting an insane amount of pages that no longer exist.

My question: How does Google handle all of these 404's? My client wants all the bad pages removed now but I don't have as much control over that. It's a slow process getting Google to remove these pages that are returning a 404. He is continuously dropping in rankings still.

Is there a way of speeding up the process? It's not reasonable to enter tens of thousands of pages into the URL Removal Tool.

I want to clean house and have Google just index the pages in the sitemap.

I noticed my UK site increased drastically in rankings. Both my Canadian and US sites didn't see much of a change, nothing out of the ordinary… up and down a few spots like usual.

Ah perfect! Thanks for the recommendation on the 302.

I got more out of todays webinar than any other seomoz webinar to date. Great job.

**Discussion Question: **Lets say you have 33 pages of paginated content but someone lands on page 34+, what do you do?

I just setup a variable on my site so when someone lands on a page that is over the page count they are redirected to the last page of the paginated content. My reasoning is the user is looking for the last page, so why not redirect them to it?

Now I just saw in the latest webinar on ecommerce (by Everett Sizemore) that he recommends a 404… should I switch? Why a 404?

Again, what do you guys do when you encounter this situation?

It's not about a single site of mine in particular - just a discussion thread. I'm curious how often most of the mozzers go about changing their title tags when testing them out. And what best practices they use.

It can be a scary thing to change your homepage title tag to get the best results in the SERP while also maintaining your rankings. You obviously want to be irresistible and clickworthy… so how much time do you give before changing it up to test again?

What do you guys do with your old content/news/articles?

Do you just leave them on your site forever for historical reasons?

It goes without saying that you wouldn't delete an article that has links pointing to it. But if there aren't any links, it doesn't rank and it doesn't receive traffic… do you just scrap it?

How say you?

Update:

I would also like to throw in that I have a client who in 2006/2007 used content from another site. What would you do with that content after this amount of time? Bother with it?

Last week I was looking at a competitors site who has a link scheme going on and I could actually check the links for each anchor text.

This week they don't work at all, do you think they're blocking the rogerbot on their domains? Or is there a problem with open site explorer?

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/anchors?site=www.decks.ca

If you're interested in the background, all the links are to instant-home-biz . com which then redirects decks . ca - it's a tricky technique. Pretty much all of the links are from sketchy sites like:

airpr23.xelr8it.biz/

airpr23.anzaland.net/

airpr23.vacation-4-free.com/airpr23.blogfreeradio.net/airpr23.blogomatik.com/http://www.morcandirect.com/mortgages/resources2.php which I thought Penguin was supposed to catch…

I work for a network of sites that offer up country exclusive content. The content for the US will be different than Canada, Australia, Uk, etc.… but with the same subjects.

Now to make navigation easy we have included in the header of every page a drop down that has links to the other countries, like what most of you do with facebook/twitter buttons. Now every page on every site has the same link, with the same anchor text.

Example:

• Penguins in Canada
• Penguins in Australia
• Penguins in the USA

Because every page of every site has the same links (it's in the header) the "links containing this anchor text" ratio is through the roof in Open Site Explorer. Do you think this would be a reason for penguin penalization?

If you think this would hurt you, what would you suggest? no follow links? Remove the links entirely and create a single page of links? other suggestions?

I work for a network of international websites, the site I work on is for Canada.

Our partners in Australia were hit by penguin hard because they hired a black hat SEO guy and didn't know. He was creating profiles on highly authoritative sites and keyword stuffing them. Now, they've completely dropped off the SERP.

This is where the issue occurs, because we are all international partners we are all linked together on the header of every page so visitors can choose their country. Now, because they were hit hard and we have reciprocal links (not for rankings but for usability) will we be affected? It seems like we have, but I just want some opinions out there.

Also, should we go ahead and stop linking our sites between countries to avoid this mess?

It is pretty much covered in this article by Danny Sullivan.

Excerpt: So use the tag? Sure, if you want to take a chance that by overstuffing it, you’ll cause Bing to think you’re spamming. Be safe, be smart, save your time. Don’t use it.

It's getting really hard filtering through the Penguin articles flying around right now so excuse me if this has been addressed:

I know that Google no longer uses the meta keywords as indicators (VERY old news). But I'm just wondering if they are starting to look at them as a bigger spam indicator since Penguin is looking at over-optimization.

If yes, has anyone read good article indicating so?

The reason I ask is because I have two websites, one is authoritative and the other… not so much. Recently my authoritative website has taken a dip in rankings, a significant dip. The non-authoritative one has increased in rankings… by a lot.

Now, the authoritative website pages that use meta-keywords seem to be the ones that are having issues… so it really has me wondering. Both websites compete with each other and are fairly similar in their offerings.

I should also mention that the meta-keywords were implemented a long time ago… before I took over the account.

Also important to note, I never purchase links and never practice any spammy techniques. I am as white hat as it gets which has me really puzzled as to why one site dropped drastically.

Ah thanks for that Matthew! You gave me exactly what I needed for my email…

Now to wait another two weeks for this web developer. (beyond frustrating)

With Google releasing that instructional on proper pagination I finally hunkered down and put in a site change request.

I wanted the rel="next" and rel="prev" implemented… and it took two weeks for the guy to get it done. Brutal and painful.

When I looked at the source it turned out he put it in the body above the pagination links… which is not what I wanted. I wanted them in the .

Before I respond to get it properly implemented I want a few opinions - is it okay to have the rel="next" in the body? Or is it pretty much mandatory to put it in the head?

(Normally, if I had full control over this site, I would just do it myself in 2 minutes… unfortunately I don't have that luxury with this site)

Spec work is terrible and undervalues the industry. I say you get what you pay for. http://www.no-spec.com/

I've been battling with this regularly… there is no transparency so it's really hard to tell.

I have implemented it and this is what I have found, it's inconsistent. haha. I set up Authorship for all of my co-workers to ensure it was done correctly. All mark up is exactly the same and this is how it panned out:

**1. Myself - Authorship/Picture works: **

• I rarely post articles.
• Picture is a professional headshot.
• The article I posted didn't receive much traffic at all
• Was mostly just a test on myself to make sure it worked.
• Don't have an outstanding amount of Twitter/G+ followers.

2. Co-worker - Authorship/Picture works:

• Wrote an article that has received a lot of traffic.
• Hasn't written many articles - but more than myself.
• Picture is professional headshot.
• Doesn't have an outstanding amount of Twitter/G+ followers - but more than me.

3. My Boss - Authorship/Picture doesn't work:

• Writes articles regularly that receive a lot of traffic and show up consistently in Google News
• Originally picture wasn't professional (we recently changed this to headshot - no diff)
• Has a lot of Twitter followers, not a lot of G+ followers.

3. Contributor - Authorship/Picture doesn't work:

• Writes articles for major Canadian National News website - Financial Post.
• Writes articles regularly that receive a lot of traffic and show up consistently in Google News
• Professional headshot.
• Doesn't have an outstanding amount of Twitter/G+ followers.

All articles are shared equally over Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and email. At first it was the picture that made the difference, but I think I might be wrong on that now? There are probably multiple reasons why it works for some and not for others… like their other Algorithms.

So don't be upset, it's not you – it's them. haha.

I created a good navigation but can't replicate it with html or css so I might have to stick to images. What would you recommend as a best practice for images in navigation? This site doesn't need to rank really high, it's mostly for a portfolio.

For the past few years I have been publish press releases on my site for a number of business. I have high traffic on my site.

I noticed that with the Google Panda 2.5 update PRNewswire.com dropped visibility by 83%.

Should I stay away from publishing press releases now? Does Google consider Press Releases to be "content scraping" since multiple sources are publishing the release?

I have an ongoing issue with porn showing up in my crawl error report from Google Webmaster Tools. They show up like so…

_ ads/adtrack.asp?id=monsterselfemp&type=2&redir=//deuxmalio.cn/m.php/BLACK-GRANNY-VIDS-612_

Domain name not found

0008-05-11

I have no idea what deuxmalio.cn is, and it doesn't show up in search. Would this negatively impact my rankings and what can I do about this? I receive A LOT of these, most of which I cannot repeat in this forum.