I agree with Jesse & Greg on this one each of them have come up with very clear simple answers to your question.

the idea of analyzing click impressions through Google Webmaster tools when you have access to Google analytics and your end goal is to find out if you are doing better in the SERPS

tells me you should be using one of the tools below. They will tell you exactly what has gone up and what has gone down.

https://moz.com/researchtools/rank-tracker

https://serps.com/

http://authoritylabs.com/

You may also utilize tools such as

http://www.semrush.com/

while it is not perfect it will give you a good amount of insight into the keywords you do not already know you might be ranking for.

I hope this helps,

Thomas

you are correct you should only have one canonical tag on a page Max

Because you're using WordPress Yoast SEO plug-in I can tell you that it automatically adds canonical URL for you when you are modifying thing that should be pointing somewhere else you have to go into the advanced area in the photo below.

So all of these URLs would show the same content:

• http://example.com/wordpress/seo-plugin/  you would want to point them all to the first URL  via canonical
• http://example.com/wordpress/seo-plugin/?isnt=it-awesome
• http://example.com/wordpress/seo-plugin/?cmpgn=twitter
• http://example.com/wordpress/seo-plugin/?cmpgn=facebook

for more information on how to use that plug-in and remember only one per page and if the page is duplicate content pointed to the page that you want Google to assume is the owner of that content.

If you get stuck ask me or reference this below.

https://yoast.com/rel-canonical/

All the best,

Tom

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I have googled it for you and I definitely think you should contact your web host. Here's what comes up https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/594

The only way to make your domain look Safert Google is to register for a longer period of time and by doing that you can simply add going to where you purchase your domain and add years if it's a business like yours I would add five years because you wanted to exist right I'm glad I've been of help to you. All the best, Thomas

the complete block is here

Required robots.txt code:

Baidu (CN) 
Info: http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.htm

Required robots.txt code:

User-agent: Baiduspider
User-agent: Baiduspider-video
User-agent: Baiduspider-image
Disallow: /

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067357/Bye-bye-Crawler-Blocking-the-Parasites

http://forums.oscommerce.com/topic/382923-baiduspider-using-multiple-user-agents-how-to-stop-them/

Look at your source code on these pages use command-F (on Mac) or control F (on PC) to search for the term "canonical" if you do not see it more than once on the page it should be no issue.

"the only difference I can see is the first one uses '...'  and the second one uses "..."

The canonical link? If there are two canonical bags on the same page make sure to remove the one that is not pointing to your preferred page or make sure the canonical is self-referencing. But make certain there are no more than one canonical tag like this below

Look for

Also, I would use

• https://www.deepcrawl.com/  allowing free site crawls right now
• and/or
• https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/  free up to 500 pages.

Just to confirm you do not have duplicate canonical's both tools will let you know for sure is will checking the source code of the page that is flagged.  if it does not have duplicates I would report it to The Moz they are awesome at getting back to you and answering these types of issues if there is in fact only one canonical per a page.

I hope that helps,

Tom

prior to changing domains you want to do exactly this

with rel=canonical without using 301 redirect :
Old   :   kanin.com (leaving) New  :   kangarokanin.com (promoting)

** that will get Google on the same track but you really don't want take long before implementing the 301 redirect maybe 24 hours.**

it is like real estate location location location.

Guest posting is not at all a black hat tactic in fact it's something done on SEOmoz through YouMoz every day and that is 100% legit and if it is done in a manner such as is done on this network of course it is fine for you to go out and give your opinion on something on someone else's website. Do not try to use tricky anchor text do not do anything that would be sketchy and you will be all set.

The people getting bad juju from guest posting are the ones giving bad guest posts within content and no purpose but for the link or doing it from a site that Google thinks is less than okay.

I hope I have been of help to you,

Thomas

If you want more information yes  Apache server does make

Most Apache web servers have set the following pages as the default page with a directory.

default.htm default.html index.htm index.html index.php

If using WordPress you could see index.php because WordPress

Uses a PHP Database regardless of what your friend told you ideally you should have

Properly 301 redirected static links when talking about links that are going to be seen by Google.

this

Means WordPress websites ideally should not contain publicly visible index file of any kind.

To cut to the chase I have cited this response from Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s web spam team. to Yoast

Referenced from http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-url-permalink/

I emailed Matt and asked whether it makes sense to add .html for systems like WordPress. His response:

In general I wouldn’t. My WP has urls like http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/remove-result/ and that’s pretty ideal.

So. Case closed.

Should I add .html to my permalink structure?

A good collection of resources. Are posted as links below this line.

Use Yoast http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/

Is an excellent source of WordPress knowledge I strongly recommend using the Yoast WordPress seo tool the reason a side from being one of the very best Word press plug-ins that enhance your Word press site this one uses

http://yoast.com/change-wordpress-permalink-structure/

http://yoast.com/wp-content/permalink-helper.php

If you need to make changes to your link structure A great

resource I understand redirects is the link under this line

http://24ways.org/2013/url-rewriting-for-the-fearful/

If you need to redirect an index tag using Nginx

http://winginx.com/htaccess

http://moz.com/blog/htaccess-file-snippets-for-seos

http://codex.wordpress.org/Linking_Posts_Pages_and_Categories

On-Demand Crawl, built on the new Site Crawl engine, with a UI that's focused on quick insights

That is a huge plus!

Thanks, Dr. Pete hope you're doing well man.

Tom Zickell

Hey Keri how are you merry Christmas, I believe that 500 errors are almost always server related errors and unless he tells me about the host or Some other maybe strange unique problem with the computers registry I don't have enough to go on. You be interesting to find out what it is all the best, Tom

Hi Marc,

do not move your website to new domain Google has devalued exact match domains so much that it would be worthless. In comparison to your already proven friendly on spammy domain if you simply change your title tag to say "paddleboards" and not surfboards you will get the attention from Google you're looking for.

Don't get caught up trying to do the same thing with 2 domains  because Google gives credit to domains that are older and have stated malware and spam free. The advantage you will have from inbound links and a solid reputation will get you ranked for paddle boards in no time if you follow these instructions below.

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/title-tag

http://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2009/08/05/seo-title-tag-formulas

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2154469/How-to-Write-Title-Tags-For-Search-Engine-Optimization

Don't forget to write content in your blog I hope you have a blog. If you don't start one but wright content about paddle boards

I hope I've been of help,

Thomas

You have to do a street for 301 redirect to your site from the purchase domain. You may get some links this way it might not be the most ethical way of going about it

This is what you have to look for when you're assessing a domain brother chores or somebody else's

• the quality of the domain
• the quality of the page
• the position of the link on the page
• number of links pointing at the page where the link is found
• social signals of the page.

If you purchased this domain and redirect it to yours you will game everyone who types in that Tomine and all the back links from that company you should make sure it has no negative back links prior to doing so

Other than what I stated above and you were coming benefiting from having that domain 31 redirecting to a meeting giving it everything it has almost 90 something percent of it

You really have to establish rather not to high-quality domain before you 301 redirect to what you've established outside while you come in you want to purchase it the purchase then 301 redirects to your website

Two relative pages only you can use this tool to assess the back links it's very good

http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/competitor-backlink-analysis-in-excel/

so as

http://seogadget.com/categorising-your-links/

Of course is use

ahrefs

majestic SEO

&

OSE

To check the demesnes back links if it has that links pointing that is no good to you and all. You want to make sure you're redirecting a domain that's high-quality. You really do not want more than one domain and a competitor is really somebody that you could just get rid of right now however if you should choose 301 redirect to be very careful

If you need help with this I strongly suggest using a recommended search engine optimization partner Moz

I hope this is of help to you sincerely,

Thomas

I am just telling you that I think Anthony's answer is one of the best ones out there.

Load time matters a lot you should look into what your visitors are seen by using RUM speed testing you can see exactly what any visitor had to deal with speed wise for free up to 20,000 hits a month

https://www.pingdom.com/free/

remember to add the RUM code to your site if you want to measure this.

that data can tell you if you need to switch hosting companies optimize your website code or if you're having no trouble at all.

Social signals from Google + tend to be more powerful than those from twitter and Facebook however definitely do not leave out twitter or Facebook or LinkedIn for that matter. All social traffic is a positive.

Have a good strong look at your analytics using a product like kiss metrics or mixed panel ( kiss metrics & mix panel is able to do  track individuals) mixed panel has a free tier

looking at where people click on your website when it's visiting is extremely valuable. Crazy Egg is a fantastic tool to find out whether or not for UX for site layout is what's best for the visitor you can then use A/B testing with a tool like

Visual Website Optimizer  to find the perfect layout to have your customers convert or sign-up do it ever does he want them to do.

You can save money on these tools using http://moz.com/perks

I hope this helps,

Thomas

I think everyone is giving you a good idea about domain authority and I am going to try to answer your question best I think I can about what you're asking whether building internal links is going to help drive traffic to your site or increase page authority/domain authority which are different things just call them page rank for right now.

Majestic and Link  Research Tools have some amazing information out there but I don't want to bog you down I want to help you strengthen your internal site structure.

So does  Bill Slawski   https://www.seobythesea.com/2020/04/pagerank-2020/

• https://www.hobo-web.co.uk/optimize-website-navigation/
• https://ahrefs.com/blog/internal-links-for-seo/
• https://www.oncrawl.com/oncrawl-seo-thoughts/top-20-seo-link-metrics-that-influence-a-links-quality/
• https://www.oncrawl.com/oncrawl-seo-thoughts/how-to-optimize-your-internal-linking/
• https://www.oncrawl.com/oncrawl-seo-thoughts/alternatives-to-google-pagerank-2/
• http://help.oncrawl.com/en/articles/404228-inrank

I hope this is of help to you.

Tom

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I hope the two links below will give you the information that you are looking for. I believe that you will find quite a bit from the second link and the first link will give you a free resource and finding exactly how many links pages have been indexed as far as how many have not you can only find that using the second  link

http://www.northcutt.com/tools/free-seo-tools/google-indexed-pages-checker/

along with

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2642366

Go to advanced and it will offer you a show all

You have switched your title tag to have

URL http://www.islesurfboards.com/ 30Page

Title Isle Paddle Boards & Surfboards | San Diego, CA Since 2004  that is 58 characters long and starts with Isle not Paddle Boards as it should. You don't need to put your business in the most important spot the 1st spot unless your Federal Express or somebody big like that

your title should read "Paddle Boards | Surfboards | Isle"

that will get you the most Attn: to paddle boards without losing your surfboard or Isle name in your title.

Your description text is too long as well. You want to make that under 150 characters

unlike the description you have may be get the word online out of their

You can cut "to your doorstep."

"Order online today with Free USA shipping to your doorstep."

You could change it to this

Order on our site today free shipping USA

you want to save some space read write the tag so does the real description of everything you do in 150 characters I know that that's not very easy

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"Choose from a massive selection of paddle boards, inflatable paddle boards,surfboards, standup paddles and surfing accessories. Order online today with Free USA shipping to your doorstep.

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187

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you need to blog and to focus on branding. Company to a lot of stories about people using their power boards and loving them use Wistia's excellent video to get links and tell your company story. You can get discount on Wistia from SEOmoz perks if you need something a little less expensive try Vimeo Pro it's $199 a year where the others are around $70 a month for white label Wistia is give you 3 free non-white label but still awesome videos.

Wistia, Vzaar and Brightcove  your site speed was 5 seconds it's not the worst ever but you need to get it down to around 2 in addition you can add a content delivery network to speed up your site and let you host your own video I recommend if you on to be able to make videos just like you can with these hosted video brands above you use CDN77 is as an absurd amount of pops and will speed up your site

Here is a CVS of the info below it not easy to cut and paste but you're doing alright

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vo11h209cz0pnxf/advanced_inbound_links_ose_020313_959003.csv

Domain Authority35/100

Page Metrics: Last index update: 1/25/13

Page Authority Linking Root Domains Total Links Facebook Shares Facebook Likes Tweets Google +144/10066 629 141 75 20 119

Page Authority (PA)44

Domain Authority (DA)--35mozRank (mR)

4.90Domain mozRank (DmR)

4.243.87mozTrust (mT)

5.77Domain mozTrust (DmT)  this type of domain trust takes years to build

Total Links 26,574

External Followed Links 3,660  this is huge number you need to no follow external links

Total External Links 3,680

675Internal Followed Links

Total Linking Root Domains: 66

Total Linking Root domains 116

Times Shared on Facebook: 141

This is done correctly could be extremely valuable. If your company is selling the exact same product this other company is in your information is relevant meaning that your site is relevant with their sites links would be relevant to be very Valuable and I would use a quality search engine optimization firm to do this job I would not just wing it

If you buy there domain and point it at your site you must 301 to your  sites relavent pages not just 301 all to home page.

You could get links for good so that's worth a lot ONLY IF DONE RIGHT

Hope I was of help,

Thomas

this is going to be a really bad thing for businesses as well as individuals in Russia.

Yes I'm sure you could exploit the system for a short period however I believe the idea of the system is to close off Russia from the rest of the world there is very high chance of Vladimir Putin allowing businesses that benefit himself and his friends to use the Internet but aside from that my opinion is in 10 years from now Russia will have its own web and it will not be a pretty picture for those outside of Russia or those inside.

In fact I don't mean to go on but I've read quite a bit about this and I think that it is one of the most unfortunate things that will happen to the population in my lifetime. Putin is trying to get American European whoever to build data centers to spy on his own people I think what is going to occur and this is only based on my opinion is what it would be like to have North Korea if it had data centers and the Internet.

I know Vladimir Putin called Yadex a American spy tool I don't think that he is getting any comfort from the information he's obtained from Edward Snowden.

I believe it will have a enormous impact on Russia the Ukraine and even parts of Europe.  I am a German and the sanctions are not enough Putin was a KGB guy I don't think he is going to lead Russia into enlightenment unfortunately I feel that he will use technology to spy on his own people in order to Keep tabs on what he may consider any threats  to his interest for him keeping power in Russia.

I look at this is one of the most bleak things in the world and it is truly sad. Yes I believe there will be an open market for black hat tactics doing whatever you want pretty much I don't recommend getting involved in it however the choices yours.

I'm really glad that you brought this up is something that easily spoken about more often.

Sincerely,

Thomas

I agree with EGOL 100%

You are wise to be conscious. Be sure is your site hundred percent PHP? To you know what the calendar is made from meaning is it a third-party software? Or is it something you had Bill or had someone built for you a while back?

Try running your site through builtwith.com and it will give you the components of your website if the calendar shows up you can then Google  a way to remove it.

If you don't feel comfortable sharing your URL here send it to me in a private message I'd be happy to have a look at it and give you my best opinion. I am not going to tell you that I am king of coding but I can pick up on these types of things sometimes and I'd be happy to lend another set of eyes.

Sincerely,

Thomas

is your client still showing up at all in Google places? If the answer that is no then Google has found him to an eligible to use Google places. Most likely It was an error that Google made and your site was not indexed with the local URL pointing out it so it hurt it massively in your local search.

If Google is returned places to normal and there's no difference at all to the prior one I do not see why with time your client will not reach the same heights that he had before.

You simply need to be reindexed and Google needs to understand that you are local. It takes time

What doubts?

" I have no google+ account so far and I have no intention to start activities in google+.
Shall I still add rel=author and create a new empty google+ account"

you're missing the bus man time to get on it

Why would you not ever want to use Google+  you need it for local and it's been a stream your stuff anyway which would most likely unless you set it not to. Take away from you in what way? why would you not want more publicity?

you should assign a different Google plus account to each domain. Simply by registering with Google you can do that effectively and then I would actually make a business page for your business on Google plus. I don't know why you don't care to do so it is only getting bigger and Google loves Google so I would strongly recommend you post away on Google plus under 2 different domain names.

I agree that keeping the site map is definitely going to lead Googlebot to your site much faster and you should use Fech as a Googlebot on the entire site

Be certain that you have done a page page 301 redirect for the entire site. After that you can look into using this method of removing Data from Google's Index cache

I recommend not removing this unless  it is doing damage to your site

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663691?hl=en

How to remove outdated content

<a class="zippy index1 goog-zippy-header goog-zippy-collapsed" tabindex="0">Remove a page that was already deleted from a site from search results</a><a class="zippy index2 goog-zippy-header goog-zippy-expanded" tabindex="0">Remove an outdated page description or cache</a>

Follow the instructions below if the short description of the page in search results (the snippet) or the cached version of the page is out of date.

1. Go to the Remove outdated content page.

Sorry about misunderstanding what you said. Yes but I'm building links to your entire site you will increase your domain authority it is not wise to intentionally build all the links to one page even if it is your homepage. And that would not help your domain authority as much as if you did it across your site.

Sorry for the misunderstanding,

sincerely

Tom

http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_ref_filesystem.asp

http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_ref_filter.asp

&

http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_ref_calendar.asp

Tell me if you need any help after this removing that calendar and I will give it a whirl. Sincerely, Tom

I think you answered your own question.

"

"Also the pages that these .edu links are coming from would not necessarily be relevant to my website however the content I am hosting to obtain the links is relevant to the pages the links are coming from. Does this make a difference."

Yes it makes a huge difference if you are getting links from places that are not relevant to you. You are essentially gathering links for no reason but to up ranking and Google will see that especially with .edu

I believe Amazon recently had to deal with Google when they offered kits discounts if they signed up or gave testimonies and gave testimonials using .edu links

I could be wrong on the name of the company might not Amazon on but I know someone tried to do it. They were penalized, and they stopped doing it you should in my opinion not start doing it's fine to get a couple , of .edu's to use but if your plan is to use  a high percentage of thought .edu's and you're not at all related to the subject matter they are linking from Google will come down on you hard.

I wouldn't even begin to do it. It's a scam right? Don't try to manipulate Google it's not worth it really isn't just spend your effort trying to build quality content that people will enjoy and engage them when they do when you do build it.

I agree with EGOL you must A/B test plus use

analytics something like kiss metrics or mix panel in your forms so you can figure out who is actually filling them out. I think it is way too hard to determine without knowing what you're selling. I have a client that sells a very expensive product that is very unique, and almost everything has to be determined verbally. However, I would never dream of not allowing someone to use a form.

You want to track the leads A/B test, and you can do that using one of the analytics programs above for terminating who is filling out what form.

Call rail and many other similar call metrics tools are available to tell you if the best way is to use the telephone or to use a form Or combination of the two.

You will have to then confirm with your client which one is converting is it just getting a lead or is there more value in a phone Lead?

could you not just ask the person for their phone number in the form? Then your client can call them back. I don't really know enough about what you're trying to do to give you a better answer I'm sorry.

All the best,

Thomas

Use a subfolder URL's like http://americanbank.com/

Only purchase new domains to protect company's name do not do it to rank and pressure during geo-targeting ( like you, for instance, you may in some cases THIS IS NOT ONE that I know of need a Russian IP and TLD to rank in Russia) So if you do not need to rank outside the United States just by the .net .org .com 's)

Using a subfolder will increase the domain and page authority as opposed to using the some domain that will be treated somewhat like a new domain by Google. There are advantages and disadvantages to each however if you want to rank you want to use subfolders primarily if you want to separate your site into different branches, and maybe some of them are for landing pages and some are private for content that is sensitive in nature want to use a subdomain.

An example of how much more power you can get out of the site by using a subfolder versus subdomain John Doherty an extraordinary SEO did this to hot pads here's a large photo below

https://twitter.com/dohertyjf/status/563871687247003649

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I am sure you can find similar cases using this

http://topsy.com/trackback?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fdohertyjf%2Fstatus%2F563871687247003649

should not redrect me to  americanbank.com/business (unless for very good reason)

It appears you may be keyword stuffing your URLs. Maybe not intentionally I am not blaming you of anything but be careful Of the word business, it's not needed that many times.

You have a big redirect problem you should not use 302 redirects to the homepage (try it using this https://varvy.com/tools/redirects/ )  you have a very slow page load time as well unfortunately https://varvy.com/pagespeed/

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I only keyed in your URL "https://www.americanbank.com"  the server redirected to what is shown below

Scan for: https://www.americanbank.com/index.php/business
Hostname: www.americanbank.com
IP address: 198.61.143.68

System Details:
Running on: Apache/2.2.15

I checked for malware and what your sites running on my crazy sorry but it tells me a little bit more about your internalstructure

https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/www.americanbank.com/business  I will run your site through deepcrawl.com as well in order to show you more issues.

List of Links Found

/business
/personal
/about-us
/ask-us
/security-center
/locations
https://www.americanbank.com/about-us/mobile-deposit
https://www.americanbank.com/ask-us/hurricane-preparedness
https://www.americanbank.com/about-us/online-statements
/business/loans
/business/loans/term-loans
/business/loans/lines-of-credit
/business/loans/sba-loans
/business/loans/construction-loans
/business/banking
/business/banking/checking
/business/banking/savings
/business/banking/cds
/business/banking/cards
/business/banking/online-banking
/business/banking/mobile-banking
/business/banking/phone-banking
/business/business-services
/business/business-services/ach
/business/business-services/digital-deposit
/business/business-services/merchant-services
/business/business-services/imaged-lockbox
/business/business-services/payroll
/business/business-services/positive-pay
/business/business-services/wire-transfers
/business/business-services/night-drop
/business/business-services/business-bill-pay
/business/investments
/business/insurance http://ipindetail.com/ip-lookup/198.61.143.68.htmlRackspace is an excellent hosting company however if I was a bank I would be on FireHost.com now https://armor.com I need to run your site through https://www.deepcrawl.com or screamingfrog.co.uk/seospiderIn order to get an idea of what's going on. However I can tell you that for things you want to rank for a subfolder is better than a subdomain. Hope I was of help, Thomas

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Andy,

Excellent advice man I think you and I agree that unless he plans to make them into something legitimate or barring the exception he made a customized short URL for his domain.

He should as you said either build them out to be great sites.  using the rules you set that I happen to agree with.

In fact I know of a case where a friend had been taking the precautions you stated and forgot to run a proxy server Google is smart and when they see to Google accounts from the same IP address your ISP provided him he was caught it is a waste of time to try and fool Google today. You can focus on building RCS or in my opinion the rest is a waste of time.

I love experiments the even though sometimes they are a waste of time they are never a  real waste because of what you could learn.

Like Andy said doing experiments you followed the same protocol with a proxy server and do not harm others and don't even try to associate anything with your other sites.

You could sell them sometimes they're worth money I don't know what you have For domains so I can't tell you if they're worth selling.

Andy good to see you man.

All the best,

Tom

Bingo

http://php.tonnikala.org/manual/sl/function.mcal-delete-calendar.php

Why do schools And students alike want your referral traffic?

" While the math example was exactly that, an example, yes the links are highly valuable to the students. I know they provide value to the students because the links are bringing in referral traffic (these links actually take up 3 of the top 5 sources of referral traffic). "

Explain to me how that helps the student? They're not in search engine optimization the kids going to school you're talking about something that benefits yourself sir

With 200 EDU links you will be manually audited and I guarantee most likely penalized unfortunately. Not saying this because I want to be that way soon because Google wants it to be that way it's so clear that if you at all try to abuse any of these things such as a high-profile EDU not only will you most likely be banned from Google you will be made to case study. You came to this form for advice. And you seem to be taking the advice that while I'm not saying anything negative about goes with what you want it to do with what you want to hear and that's not really beneficial to you so I'm going to tell you exactly what I know from researching .edu use and what is going to most likely happen considering that your Telling us your site is not relevant to what you will be publishing. Thus it is a business to make money off of kids who are in school is it not?

I personally am not putting on trial I'm not trying to make it sound as bad as I might've made it sound but I don't care I'm just trying to prevent you from getting a whole Lotta trouble

Just an update. Please Google link schemes or may I add links to benefit myself in any way using dot EDU & .Gov I believe you'll find a long list of people that felt similarly to the way you felt unfortunately Google does not like people benefiting off of other people like schools government institutions.

Ask yourself this question

Will you be creating content that will not be required to be linked to for any such reason whatsoever in order to access it?

Does your content benefit you in any way shape way or form?

Why do you believe that you should have the right to benefit from this content and cools private search index where they a private corporation get to choose who benefits and who doesn't mean at the end of the day why would it be best for them to go to you instead of you releasing it directly to the school?

Lastly if you are going to be releasing content and it would benefit people in school today. You should be working hand-in-hand with the school itself and releasing the content with the administers approvals not talking to us about how you can get link juice from the dot EDU which by the way will not give you anymore Link juice then a.com.org.net domain but for the fact that.EDU use DOT com guys are regarded so highly they're given a lot of authority meaning they make wise decisions into who and why they link to somebody to if you were to make links from authorities as highs the Edus  you do use you would get the same thing so if this content is that valuable ask you again and unless it is as relevant you don't Benefit at all from thinking from it.

Another thing that alarms me you seem to think that because.ED use might not lose their link power or link juice. Over time and I might be inclined to agree with you on that however Google doesn't care about that they care about your site they can take away the links pointing to your site that are dot EDU's and give you know power from them I want you to understand that take Your site and eliminate it from Google if they want to do that doesn't hurt the dot EDU links but it will hurt your business because it will not exist on the web.

I just want this to be clear. And I think you know as well as everyone else that from what you've said that you're worried about putting this out there if it was 100% legitimate you would not be worried about it and you would post it so I think you've answered your own questions again sir and I urge you to either ask with your last private question to SEOmoz for advice That would be the wisest thing to do. This is the last month and you have into the 15th ask for free do it and you will know the answer. My honest belief is you will not do very well creating a company that is creating content for schools so that you can get link juice from the content you make targeted to get benefit off of edus

do not purchase any form of likes thumbs up whatever's on any social media network.

I have gone to twitter and seeing peoples profile that have a bunch of questions like "how do I remove myself from following this person"

obviously anybody that is going to sell you a likes, or any social signal is a very black hat method that should be avoided at all cost.

As was shown by other people Google will definitely penalize you it's not a question of if it's when.

Don't go down that road.

All the best,

Thomas

Think CRAWL BUDGET

the crawl budget is the number of requests made by Googlebot to your website in a particular period of time. In simple terms, it’s the number of opportunities to present Google the fresh content on your website.

See this to understand

https://www.deepcrawl.com/knowledge/best-practice/optimize-crawl-budget-tips-examples/

If you ever repeat a URL path more than twice, the URL will not be indexed. For example, this URL would not be indexed in Google.

example.com/path/path/path/

Even if the repeated paths are broken up by another unique path, the URL will not be indexed. e.g.

This URL would not be indexed.

example.com/path/path/unique/path/

This is because Google thinks it has hit a URL trap.

URL traps occur most often when a relative link includes the same path as where the page is located. Relative URLs are added to the end of the paths of the URL which contains the link.

For example, if you had a page like example.com/path/page.html, which included a relative link back to itself using “/path/page1.html”, the actual URL of the link is example.com/path/path/page1.html. If this page is returned by the server, it will contain another relative link to “/path/page1.html”, which is actually the URL example.com/path/path/path/page1.html. And so ad infinitum.

See https://www.deepcrawl.com/knowledge/best-practice/never-repeat-pathnames-in-urls-more-than-twice/

Build Your Universal Navigation

1. Identify why visitors come to your site. You probably have a pretty good idea of what people want already, but check your web analytics:
   1. What search terms do visitors use before they get to your site? Keywords used by incoming visitors tell you what your visitors were looking for before they clicked through to your site. Follow up to see which pages they visited - did they find what they were looking for?
   2. If you’re tracking internal site search, what search terms do visitors use once they’re on your site? On average, only 10% of visitors use site search. So, it’s safe to assume that most people only use site search if they have a hard time finding what they want with your navigation. What terms are visitors searching for? Do you have that page? Is it hidden?
   3. What pages on your site get the most traffic? If those are the pages that you want to get the most traffic, keep those in mind as you build your navigational structure to make sure they're easy for visitors to find. If they aren't particularly high conversion pages, what's a similar page that you can steer those visitors to?
   4. What are your top exit pages? If they’re locations or external contact information, that’s probably something a lot of your visitors are looking for. You should include that in your top navigation.

Divide your products/key pages into categories.

1. Usability experts recommend “card sorting”: put your products on cards, lay them out on a flat surface so you can see them all, and cluster similar items together. There are also a few websites out there that will let you sort cards without taking up so much floor space:http://www.optimalworkshop.com/optimalsort.htm andhttp://uxpunk.com/websort/

https://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/site-navigation-for-seo/

Hope this helps,

Tom

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yes please look at these links and I hope this will answer your question.

http://moz.com/blog/finding-and-building-citations-like-an-agency

http://moz.com/local-search-ranking-factors

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/post-penguin-2-0-local-seo-strategies-for-small-business/65280/

I think you will find that you will have all of your answers in getlisted.org a company that was acquired by Moz

https://getlisted.org/

it is addressed in get listed

https://getlisted.org/static/resources/glossary.html

I hope this is of help to you.

Sincerely,

Thomas

Did you happen to get my private message? I believe you are new site is going to blossom. However the tool you and I have both been looking for is been here the entire time.

http://www.seomoz.org/toolbox/pagerank

Please have a chance to read my reply in private message I hope it will be of help to you. Sincerely,

Thomas

The template for look of the website will make no difference whatsoever. Google understands that you are serving different markets with a .com or a dot CO.uk or any other TLD that you find serves a different country entirely

Matt cuts has a video on it explain it you will not be penalized for making a website with three different or more TLDs explaining what you sell or what you do as long as they're targeted for each country answer posted properly meaning the database should be in the country that you are targeting.

welcome to Moz

I'm sorry I jumped to conclusions.

yes you can use the mention tracking tool to highlight mentions of your keywords and then look at the blogs or and are websites that are speaking about them. It does not give you an ability to reach out and ask the webmaster for a chance to guest blog. However there are tools buzz tools in moz.com/perks that would allow you to reach out to the webmasters.

I believe you will find a abundance of high authority agencies/webmasters willing to allow you to collaborate with them if you get on their radar. This is a wonderful place to start.

I wish you all the best,

Thomas

PS the uppercase is not going to be different from the lowercase as google loo at them the same way

All the big guys use co-op like geico extr.

Absolutely my favorite social media tracking tool and the best as far as making domains that are Twitter friendly shareable and your own.

http://Totally.awe.sm  is the website if you want to purchase a domain that is 3 or 4 letters and matches your brand I would suggest domainr.com as it will find the domain you're looking for.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/social-authority-api

Namecheap is currently having a sale on .PW I saw this 3 days ago so please don't hold me accountable if it's not still for sale however it was only $3 a domain. Regardless SEOMoz pro perks allows us to purchase domains for $5 from name cheap you can find that at the bottom of the page.

Totally.awe.sm integrates with kiss metrics, mix panel, and of course Google analytics you will see all know all and be like Yoda to on twitter.

I hope I have been of help,

Thomas

send Dr. Pete the information that I gave you in the PDFs after running it through all this it different tools showing what links go to which domains and I bet he will have a handle on it in no time.

All the best guys,

Tom

Yes you can

Robots.txt Wildcard Matching

Google and Microsoft's Bing allow the use of wildcards in robots.txt files.

To block access to all URLs that include a question mark (?), you could use the following entry:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*?

You can use the $ character to specify matching the end of the URL. For instance, to block an URLs that end with .asp, you could use the following entry:

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /*.asp$

More background on wildcards available from Google and Yahoo! Search.

More

http://tools.seobook.com/robots-txt/

hope I was of help,

Tom

Nice!

Yes this will check it 2 times a day if needed

UPDATED

Take a look at MozCast.com just to give you a slight idea of how much Google’s algorithm is constantly changing in the last couple of months we have seen substantial algorithm updates.

August 1 saw a significant change all the way through September 11, Google Birthday Update: Google Confirms Small Algorithm Update On September 27th, Again On October 8th & 9th? They are not slowing down

Even after that, they are happening consistently. Inside of your Moz campaign dashboard under rankings, you will see a correlation of algorithm updates. If this happened to your number one, I’m sorry to hear this sincerely. Number two I have good news if you work hard enough on your site there is a good chance, and I’m basing this on five sites that lost over 50 to 70% of their traffic and returned back to getting more and more traffic after making changes. This is not always the case obviously these are unique circumstances however it sounds to me like in less you forgot to remove a robots.txt file that said no index or a no index tag something similar to that or do the considerable site rebuild domain migration that you have positively been affected by Googles algorithm updates.

The last two are

1. https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-algorithm-ranking-update-26489.html
2. https://www.seroundtable.com/google-birthday-algorithm-update-26453.html

Use

• https://mozcast.com
• https://www.semrush.com/sensor/
• https://www.rankranger.com/rank-risk-index
• https://www.accuranker.com/grump/
• https://www.advancedwebranking.com/google-algorithm-changes/
• https://serpmetrics.com/flux/

(Disclaimer)
I was using voice to text for this I DID update it within approximately two days so that it makes more sense please if you have any questions asked them to me I have dealt a lot with algorithms.

I have a good idea of what you need to do once I get an idea of the site.
I’m not saying I can fix everything I’m typing that I can definitely tell you some things that you could probably be doing better or let’s get the basics out-of-the-way and start with a Deep Crawl of the site.

I will help you through this via Moz Q&A. So feel free to private message me your Domain if you don’t feel comfortable posting it if you feel comfortable posting it that would be an in enormous help diagnosing the issue is.

Thank you so much,

Tom

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I can tell you that is probably a very bad investment.

Google's rules are very clear about being transparent with your actions on Google +

https://developers.google.com/+/policies

Google pays attention to names very closely. When you're client or friend

changes the name of the business to his and the name of the other gentlemen to his Google will find out and they will ban the site

http://searchengineland.com/will-google-penalize-chromebooks-advertorials-149452

1. yes it's very much against the rules

2. yes there's a lot of proof of authorship playing a large role (primarily on blogs) but as an individual Google dose grade you and authorship tricks like this one will not go over well. You'll most likely be penalized. I do not have any information about 50 circles compared to the same article with the author with 50,000 circles. I'm sure you can Google that however it does make a difference you have to actually be the person that gained the 50,000 Circle users. Plus the users are going to abandon him once he takes over for the person selling it.

3. There have been quite a few studies done on the impact of social media a.k.a. Google + and all the rest collectively playing a large role or small role in your search engine results. You can type better and to search on Moz and find that.

Lastly if you want to help your friend. Prevent them from doing this here is the beginning of what Google has to say about all this and it gets a little bit worse for people trying to buy their way into rankings

Google+ Platform Developer Policies

Guidelines

To help ensure your application's success as well as to promote a healthy community, we require that all Google+ API developers follow these guidelines.

<dl>

<dt>Put the user first</dt>

<dd>Build something that Google+ users will love.</dd>

<dd>Encourage useful sharing and give users meaningful choices about who they share with.</dd>

<dt>Be transparent</dt>

<dd>Be honest about the intention of your application.</dd>

<dd>Show users what you will do on their behalf and get their explicit permission before you do it.</dd>

<dd>Be clear about what is being sold via your application and post your terms of sale.</dd>

<dt>Respect user data</dt>

<dd>Keep users' private information private, in accordance with your privacy policy.</dd>

<dd>Use any data you collect to improve users' experience.</dd>

</dl>

I hope I have been of help,

Thomas

Hi Dana & Marshall,
I think you're making the right choice moving from Joomla to WordPress. I also think Dana is completely correct about speaking to an expert about managing your migration. I also believe that you would be best off to add a link saying read more and either allow it to expand the page or bring the customer to a new Page That Way, Google gets the content as well as the customers who choose to read it. I would not destroy the content.

Your links are something you want as few parameters as possible in so to not keep adding / to your links. Use SEOmoz's get local tool to help you optimize your website for whatever city you are interested in optimizing it for.

However and I would like Dana's opinion on this. I have seen fantastic results using CMS to CMS the links are right here.

http://www.cms2cms.com/
http://app.cms2cms.com/wizard/

This is an extremely inexpensive way to move everything over including all the 301 redirects.

Google suggests you check for broken links prior to moving your website.
I suggest if you're running Windows use
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

Xmenu as they suggest however if you're running a Mac or something else and you wish to use a different tool or a web interface here are some suggestions.

Using one of the free tools below if your site is over 500 pages Internet marketing ninjas tool can go up to 1000
if it's less than 500 use screaming frog spider SEO
http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/

Also if you want a web interface as opposed to a download Internet marketing ninjas this web-based where screaming frog downloads for free to Windows, Mac and Linux they do charge if you want to go over 500 URLs.

Internet marketing ninjasIs it
http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/seo-tools/google-sitemap-generator/

When you make the move you're going to want to let Google know this ahead of time. Using Google Webmaster tools
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=83106

Important: In order to use the change of address tool, make sure that you've added and verified both your old and new sites, and read the guidelines on moving your site to a new domain. You should be especially carefully to use 301 redirects to tell search engines about the new location of your pages. In addition, make sure your original site is not a subdomain (for example,http://newsite.example.com).

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=83105

You had mentioned you are changing IP addresses but staying with the same host. Here's Google's information on this.
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=83106

I would strongly suggest using the managed WordPress host unlike Joomla WordPress is a much more popular content management software that's a good thing and a bad thing considering the increasing frequency of forced entry attacks on WordPress and the fact that your website is a business I would strongly suggest a managed WordPress host.

By using a managed WordPress host you will have a site that is protected using extremely powerful combinations of firewalls and other methods specifically to protect WordPress. If your site is ever hacked and this is universal for all of the web hosts I'm mentioning you will get your site fixed for free and if it is ever blacklisted it will be room moved for free almost instantly as they all use http://sucuri.net/
Your site backed up least once a day, have access to download the backup in addition you can have it sent to you as well. Have the increased speed Google and more your customers over will care a lot about. And increased security the hosting companies I'm about to suggest all only host WordPress sites this is a big plus as anything that happens with your site they are going to be able to most likely fix for you this is not the case at other hosts where they just have to keep the server up and running. Managed WordPress hosting is in my opinion the only way to go if you're running a business.

My suggestions are WP engine, Zippy kid, Web synthesis and Pagely
WP engine a great host that is extremely fast content delivery network is available they spread $29 with CDN $49 25,000 visitors a month 24 7 support along with phone support for 3rd level. Pro perks at
SEOmoz offers you the ability to get 4 months of free hosting.

Zippy kid a great host two extremely fast content delivery networks built in base price $25 100,000 visitors a month with that you get managed anycast DNS (DynECT is normally $200 a month), Akismet is free instead of the $5 a month norm, right now they are offering a site optimization by engineers from Google and Net DNA at no cost to anyone who has a site with them. 24 7 support along with phone support for all levels.

Web synthesis a great host from copy blogger they have a very fast server and will help you integrate a content delivery network they suggest using media Temple's CDN their base price is $27 a month with the CDN it would come up to $47 a month for 2,500 page views a day. While they don't offer phone support they do answer tickets very quickly.

Pagely a very good host backed by one of my personal favorites fire host they have a strong emphasis on security as do the others they charge $24 for their base plan of 25,000 visitors a month however if you want there content delivery network you must choose their business plan at $67 a month plus pay for the CDN in additional $25 a month making the total cost just under $100 a month. You can get 30% off Pagely for life using SEOmoz Pro perks.

If you don't mind paying for the content delivery network my choice would be WP engine however if you want that same level of superb hosting & want everything you need and require phone support Zippy kid makes an excellent choice with 100,000 visitors a month and no need to pay for other things like AnycastDNS for spam plug-ins they also offer full git integration along with the complete site optimization it makes an extremely good deal.

Don't get me wrong you cannot go wrong with any of these choices. However I would take into account that WordPress has a database and that makes it slower than pure HTML so using a web host that specializes in WordPress along with a strong content delivery network will make certain your site is extremely fast I find that it is faster in a regular HTML site when using one of the suggested hosts.

I hope I have been of help to you,
Thomas

Does your website happen to have more information regarding Windows OS than Linux OS?

you need to realize that the amount of inbound links that are relevant to your particular category of product in this case and of course the content how well it's written how relevant it is all played a huge part in how Google looks at your website. You obviously have as much authority in Lenox as she do in Windows according to Google because it would rank the same. Or it could be that you simply used bookmark sites which are directories and that is pretty spammy you need to get links that are from other blogs relevant to your particular subject. So if I'm writing about Linux operating systems and link to your blog is a great place to get information and I am an authority in Linux Google will give you little bit more credit in the Linux department. It also could've been that when you publish the posts some of them were not written as well as the others or did not contain as many relevant words. I don't know your domain I don't have any clues to your link index so I can only speculate.

However from what you said about bookmarks I believe that you are using directories and I would advise against it. Try offering to guest blog for somebody and they will do the same for you something like that.

I hope I have been of help,

Tom