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It could be cache
Try
http://codeblow.com/questions/getting-rid-of-index-html-from-url-and-adding-www-with-a/
try RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Redirect 301 /index.htm http://www.mydomain.com
We obviously need dates exact dates are the best approximate dates are great. Are you running the site through a Moz campaign that tracks keyword rankings? If so please look at those in correlation with the updates that are posted.
They will carryover in whatever form Google has ranked the page. However if you're talking about showing up as a thumbs up or a tweet account no it will not show up you will have to earn those again.
just to be completely clear agreed with Dana if you currently believe that a link like the ones you have below.
"NOTE: Currently, ALL Silo Menu Themes have - wilmington-nc/ incorporated after the targeted Keyword
http://www.pcmedicsoncall.com/virus-removal-wilmington-nc/malware-removal/
http://www.pcmedicsoncall.com/virus-removal/malware-removal"
The first link is way worse. Do not do that at the town to the end of every link that is one of the worst things that you could possibly do I urge you not to do this.
please know is not normal for CMS and please know I don't know if you do or not I just am getting this from reading your post in the photographs.
http://www.pcmedicsoncall.com/virus-removal/malware-removal"
Should be simply http://www.pcmedicsoncall.com/virus-malware-removal/ do not add another layer for Google bot to have to fight through in many cases it will not travel that far to index your website. Thus leaving you in the lurch.
You should never put your categories in the link than put another / if you can help it is extremely easy to bypass that in WordPress and simply use WordPress SEO plug-in click do not show categories in links. I do think if you move the website correctly you can recover in a short period of time under 3 months sometimes. I'm basing that on myself moving a site from HubSpot's CMS to WordPress and seeing only one month of dip in the serps please keep in mind I worked extremely hard to make sure that everything that the new site needed that it had it and more Moving from one CMS to another without properly 301 redirecting your links is shooting yourself in the foot even if you know how to Move your site itself if you don't know the SEO part I would do what you're doing right now and ask for help. If you want to speak more on this I would be more than happy to speak with you. Sincerely, Thomas
I would strongly suggest that you focus on your one domain and do not worry about doing things like purchasing domains with exact match names. it would be one thing if you already had an exact match domain however I guess you don't.
that is not a bad thing. Google has devalued exact match domains greatly in the recent past and will continue to do so in my belief.
Focus on building your brand and not on a get to the top quick scheme.
Don't buy domains spend the time and money on building content that is relevant and engaging that way when people come to your site they will be interested and want to purchase instead of clicking away when they go to whatever your exact match domain name is and realize that that's not what they want.
I hope I've been of help,
Tom
HiI know there are two crawlers that Moz uses Roger bot and open site Explorer uses dotbot
Make sure there is no forward slash "/" after e.g. (Disallow:/)
Mozused to have an awesome writeup on it but it just forwards to Moz.com/help now it could be that they have another great write up but the URL changed. For now here's the information
User-agent: rogerbot
Disallow:
User-agent: dotbot
Disallow:
User Agent Analyser
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DotBot/1.1; http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/dotbot, help@moz.com)
http://www.useragentstring.com/Dotbot1.1_id_16014.php
https://udger.com/resources/ua-list/bot-detail?bot=rogerbot
http://www.botopedia.org/user-agent-list/crawlers/item/369-rogerbot-seomoz
hope this helps,
Thomas
I hope you're well I hope you don't take this as criticism I thought I would go over everything and see what I could find I found a lot of things very quickly.
It looks like the algorithm that hit you is April
There are tons of very hard to understand what you're selling e-commerce options but no descriptions and no really industry-leading or content that would answer customers questions.
I hate to be the one that says this but there's some good news and some bad news I have just gone over this very quickly so please don't kill me for my observation. I believe that you were hit in April most recent hit In April I believe it was because of extremely poor backlink to domain ratio in addition to content that lacks authority and PR You have Latin still on the theme of your website. This is never a good thing. It tells Google your sites not ready and not to rank you for lack of better words
this is on your homepage and look at what it does and look at where it sends you
The left-hand of the site's navigation is extremely confusing and no one's going to be happy when they click on it. Even the people doing an advanced search they can just type in the word and you could use something like "elastic search" or "Apache Soler" this is taking the theme and having a developer or maybe no developer chop it up and ruin the site architecture if there was any please don't take this as me being harsh. The site is obviously going to be hit by Google's algorithm it is not up to par with what would rank in the top 10 or 3 I know this is not what you wanted to hear but it's just the beginning of what you need to be doing.
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You have a 302 redirect on your homepage I would strongly suggest changing it to a 301 and getting rid of redirect chain 302 http://www.orthopedicjobs.net/ 64.111.127.175 server_redirect temporary
I know Google has said 301 / 302's what's the difference wi there is a different one that will keep you from getting ranked as Google will treat a 302 as a no Index for a considerable amount of time.
Status Code URL IP Page Type Redirect Type Redirect URL
301 http://orthopedicjobs.net/ 64.111.127.175 server_redirect permanent http://www.orthopedicjobs.net/
302 http://www.orthopedicjobs.net/ 64.111.127.175 server_redirect temporary https://www.orthopedicjobs.net/
200 https://www.orthopedicjobs.net/ 64.111.127.175 normal none none
Referring Domains 26
Lost 1
Analyzed Backlinks 1,360
for review 1,360 100.0%
Ok, so what I see here is Almost every single backlink comes from the same place. medexplorer.com when you have 26 domains pointing at your site and 1300 backlinks Google is going to think you are definitely not getting them organically. The thing you need to understand is I I would rather earn one backlink from a reputable relevant domain then spend the time trying to earn the second from the same domain. Once you have the link, in general, it is a very good thing and adding more links from the same domain is not productive in many cases.
you just moved to HTTPS last month in September I can tell from builtwith.com
Obviously, if we're talking about the Guardian New York Times Wall Street Journal yeah you want to have as many links as possible because they're all going to be unique relevant stories. But overseeing is industry links with query strings possibly causing those URLs to look like they're not the same URL because they lack a canonical
First, review your most toxic backlinks, which can trigger Google penalties:
If you 100% agree with toxic estimations, add a link to the Disavow list to generate a .txt file and send it to the Google Disavow Tool
If you prefer to reach out to the website owner first, leave the link in your Remove list
If you know for sure that the link is not harmful at all, simply whitelist it in one click
Click on a backlink’s URL to review it in the quick Page Preview mode to make sure the link isn’t suspicious, and make your decision based on more data.
if you would like for me to help you more I am more than happy to just tell me the word.
Authority Score is calculated based on:
Domain Score 2
Trust Score 0
Backlinks 2.7K
Referring Domains 22
Monthly Visits 4.2K (not bad for this)
Keywords 160
I hope I was of help,
Tom
I would strongly advise against buying +1s
anything against Google's terms are going to come back and bite you really badly.
Especially something as close to Google as its own social network I would not waste your time or money on trying to trick Google into getting ranked.
Spend the time and the money on legitimate ways of getting ranked.
Sincerely,
Thomas
I'm not in any way stating to you that putting your location in a URL is going to hurt your search engine optimization efforts in whatever area you target.
I'm not telling you to go after the hardest words in your industry to go after. The Way, Google works will aid you if you use it correctly by implementing the things I'm going to speak about.
You might not rank for he Phrase "Computer Repair" as well as "Laptop Repair"
nationally ever. However if you type in Pizza to Google from your computer preferably in chrome browser using incognito this keeps your search history from changing the results.
I guarantee you will see a lot of pizza places near you. But dominoes, Pizza Hut etc. all those guys will rank right around the same as local pizza parlors. This should be the case for services like yours that are correctly added to local databases as getlisted.org will help you do.
please look at the attached photo below. I live in Winter Park Florida so the results are what I would like. Google as made the search custom tailored based on my IP address from my Internet service provider they know where I am. That's where being in all the http://getlisted.org in combination with Google+ incorporating Google places linking to your site correctly and using rich text snippets will get you in that list that you see. You can see the big guys are all advertising however you can also see that the smaller companies our ranking for the key words that are obviously extremely hard to rank for nationally.
another method his long tail keywords. Any keyword that you have mentioned along with anything that you can think of that somebody would in real life type into Google. So if you specialized in Xeon processors (I'm using this as an example) you might want to list the processors names and make in your website so you can be found for words like
"computer repair Mac Pro Xeon processor"
if you are listed in the locals you should come up in computer repair.
What I should've done is gone into in more detail because SEOmoz does not seem to have an easy to find the link to what I referred to as get local in fact I mistakenly I told you the wrong name for the service. Which you get for free with SEOmoz it is called Get listed and the URL is here
The power comes from being listed in all these local high quality search engines or directories like the Yellow Pages anything found and get listed.
Normally I hate directories however in this case you can safely use anything and get listed
I must ask you how many other websites of you ever seen that have the location at the end of their URL? the reason is because your title tag, H1 tags and inbound links from highly credible sources stating that you are in whatever city you claim. Along with content that may include a map I know for Bing and Yahoo downloading the Geo-coordinates using Google Earth will affect your ranking. However, that is just for Bing and Yahoo not Google when you list your address on your contact us page I would recommend having a map. I would recommend using Google's structured data tool however I would use this to illustrate my point of how you would highlight your address and information and it will create micro data for you
You will see there is a local part to this.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/markup-helper/u/0/
Here is why it is important to Google and how much it will actually help
htttp://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99170
this is a fantastic plug-in that allow to do everything they're talking about creating Rich snippets inside WordPress.
http://raventools.com/blog/schema-wordpress-plugin/
What I'm getting at is while I do believe you it most likely does bump up your efforts because Google considers everything in the URL and takes in and consideration.
What Google takes into consideration as well and more so in certain cases. Is your title tag in fact your title tag may outweigh your URL in many cases.
Now I would not go around putting anything on the URL every time unless that is my company name. And I would not worry about that because it's in your URL or domain
I would simply optimize your website by getting a Google+ account this is one of the most important things you can have. If you use it correctly with and authorship plug-in and give Google your address of your business. You will start ranking for longtail keywords that include your city or town In your Google + business page that you should create and use your personal page that will make you create as the author page
a fantastic resource for authorship information is in the link correctly below I recommend using Yoast's plug-in as he is known for making very high quality code and the plug-in does much more that will help your new website.
http://raventools.com/blog/ultimate-list-of-relauthor-resources/
http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/
I also want to show you what I mean. Using googles Structured Data Testing Tool that you can check any website with using this URL
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets
I have taken the liberty of putting my own website through the data testing tool and you will see below by having and authorship as well as a business places account with Google+
this is what the search engines see.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?q=www.blueprintmarketing.com&html=
If I can also ask you did you choose thesis 2 I'm not say anything negative about the framework however I have had better luck with Genesis personally and many others have as well. I want you to no that if you have it set up already the way you like it then keep it however if you read this blog talking about the two frameworks I believe you will see why I brought it to your attention.
http://chrislema.com/genesis-and-thesis-comparison/#/
please accept my apologies for not answering your question is thoroughly as I should've. And I in no way shape or form am questioning your methods that you know work.
What I'm doing is adding to that list of things that work and what I know work very well for somebody who been in search engine optimization for about the same time you have been working on this as well. I have the greatest respect for somebody that knows what works and you do. However now Google has changed things and this is the better way.
If you would like I would be more than happy to give you to completely free phone analysis of your website and explain anything that I did not do a good job of explaining here. I will send you a private message with my information.
Respectfully,
Thomas
Is absolutely normal Google bounce around a little bit especially in higher numbers. If you are anywhere in and above five you should expect fluctuation and it's the algorithm is so so complex that if you updated your site one day Google bot might not indexed it or it could've indexed it and seeing something that didn't like. Remember your competitors for those keywords are also being judged. So it's trying to figure out exactly where you fitting. And I wouldn't worry too much about it. Just keep holding quality content and you'll be alright the one thing that you can do and it's the right thing to do so I hope that answers your question and expect fluctuation from Google from time to time.
When Google gives you a break that you stay at a rank for a while I think it is uncommon for somebody that is not watching to actually see the fluctuations because when you login to your Google account Gmail or something like that you see a different ranking than what I would see maybe you'll see a higher ranking and I will because you're searching your on-site more often than I am us Google will tailor the results to you if you are working. When you go on SEOmoz and see the real Rankins then it can be frustrating. However fluctuation is normal part of the game and it's something to be expected rankings also highly dependent on geographic placement however if you keep creating what Google wants witches he could user experience or the best they will keep cranking you hire and all you may fluctuate always feel fluctuate less and less and hopefully be in first place. I hope I've been of help sincerely, Thomas
if you just started your campaign it is absolutely normal for her to stay gathering data for up to two days.
If you're worried that your website is actually down please verify that using one of the two urls below
http://www.isitdownrightnow.com
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com
if you are server was crashed because of a cheap server use a better one I like armor.com
Tom
Please let me know you would like more questions answered or if I did not answer the question in full.
Respectfully,
Tom
Patrick,
are you saying you disagree with me because I am not for doing this and you believe it is a good idea? Simply because somebody has 100 +1s will not take a difference if somebody has landed on their page they will not be deterred in my opinion by the lack of close ones shown in fact you do not have to show how many posts once you have nor how many Facebook likes or twitter posts.
I disagree with your advice to purchase a small amount of +1's if caught your site is sunk it will not be something Google goes lightly on and I am confused Patrick you say you would never engage in blackhat tactics well buying rather it be +1's, twitter followers or Facebook likes is against Google's terms therefore it is black hat
this idea is 100% black hat regardless of using a small amount or not don't do it why would you want to start off with a contaminated site I hate to use the decisive words however that is exactly what it would be.
Spend your time and money on content and building something people actually want to come and visit not by trying to trick them into visiting your website.
Can you honestly tell me that if you were the first person to see a site and you liked the content that was there that you would actually leave because of lack of +1's ? I have never done that ever and would never do that simply because if it's quality content and meets your needs than You have accomplished a lot more than most people have.
Do not take your money and time and do something against Google's terms of service with it.
I hope you see where I am coming from and you will not hear crickets if you do not have X. amount of favorable social media likes in fact turn that off on your site that's where I would recommend just make a very nice looking button for each of the big social media players Facebook, twitter Google+ and linkedin
obviously rather to use linkedin facebook sometimes depends on what you're actually doing with your website.
Here are examples of websites that look fantastic and utilize their own social media buttons that do not show how many likes they have or shares
http://demo.studiopress.com/minimum/
&
http://demo.studiopress.com/quattro/
both offer easy to find social media buttons that blend in to the theme itself. Neither rather one that is very prominent or the other which is in any appropriate place but not taking over the website show how many times they've been clicked. This is a choice you can make when putting buttons on your website via whatever social media system you choose.
Sincerely,
Thomas
Hi Marshall,
I do not see a spammy link structure in fact if that is your top ranking URL it can be re-created using word press so it is exact. I believe that the reason that URL is so powerful is because of the great content you put in the page. Not because of the URL structure
I believe you would rank as well if not better if you were to use a single parameter however it seems that it is really up to you as I think it would be faster when the bots crawl your site to have one parameter
Remember if you 301 redirect that link into another that is identical or change the structure you will still be sending all that page rank to the new URL as long as the new URL has all the things needed to rank for local you will rank regardless of the URL structure.
Here is some more information and take a look at the way the URL is made.
http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/#structure
This is working well however you can build a two parameter link using the site structure that shows simply
http://example.com/%postname%/.
I have some news.
I should've remembered this off the bat, but WordPress will not allow you to redirect a link and not follow it's designated perm link style. the preferred method is to have
http://example.com/%postname%/.
it is clean and you are talking about having very long pages that would be a way to make more pages and also keep your keywords in the URLs
you may opt for
http://example.com/%category%/%postname%/.
however this would make every single link have a category or two-stage parameter
this tool may come in handy if you have some difficult URLs
http://yoast.com/wp-content/permalink-helper.php
you cannot pick both. Without a custom plug-in however from what I've scene and what I've read this is not ideal.
You want to make a decision and stick with the link style.
http://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-url-permalink/
Out of the box, WordPress is a pretty well optimized system, and does a far better job at allowing every single page to be indexed than every other CMS I have used. But there are a few things you should do to make it a lot easier still to work with.
The first thing to change is your permalink structure. You’ll find the permalink settings under Settings → Permalinks. The default permalink is ?p=, but I prefer to use either /post-name/ or /category/post-name/. For the first option, you change the setting to /%postname%/:
To include the category, you select “Custom Structure” and change the value to/%category%/%postname%/. If you previously had ?p= as your permalink WordPress will take care of all the redirects for you. This is also true if you change from/%postname%/ to /%category%/%postname%/. If you change from any other permalink structure, you might want to consult my article on changing your WordPress permalink structure and the tool that you’ll find within it.
P Now you can pick from a group
http://yoast.com/wp-content/permalink-helper.php
but I do see one that could possibly be broken into new pages instead of adding on a parameter. And last were talking about tagging a page or using a category in the blog.
http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
Awesome tool.
Pttp://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1235687&topic=2371325&ctx=topic
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seomoz-for-local-optimization
I will send you my info now and please except my apologies for taking so long and getting back to you. I got four phone calls and row and had to take them.
Sincerely,
Tom
Here is some more information on how Google picks its top references it's really not a lot to go on unfortunately however the Google algorithm is so so complex that it will do things we could never predict sometimes
http://www.seowizz.net/2010/12/google-top-references-rolling-out.html
http://searchengineland.com/google-testing-top-references-refinements-in-search-results-59351
http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-pagerank
I hope this is been of more help,
Thomas
You asked "how often Moz crawls a site" I'm assuming you are asking about a campaign that would be once a week per a campaign & depending on the size/ number of pages of the site
See FAQ
https://moz.com/help/guides/moz-pro-overview/crawl-diagnostics
There are methods you could either create another campaign however my advice would be to use Moz simply crawl test it will let you crawl your site for issues immediately.
https://moz.com/researchtools/crawl-test
That should take care of it, however.
If for whatever reason that does not help some tools are free if your site has less than 500 pages you can use https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
Although to get what you want you most likely will have to spend money.
It sounds like crawl test will do what you want. If it does not still needs to be crawled.
Third-party tools like Screaming Frog SEO Spider Pro and deepcrawl.com Are instant and very helpful Additions to the fantastic tools Moz already offers.
I hope this helps,
Tom
Hi Jesse,
I agree with everything Jesse has said in fact doing the exact amount of time you're going to put into purchasing or the what the money would cost putting that into paying a firm or someone on O desk to actually go in and post your blog articles to Google + along with the other relevant social media networks will far outweigh starting off with a big negative.
if you think about it Google will figure out very quickly that somebody who just put a website online did not accumulate 100 +1s in the first hour of being online or however quickly they show up. It will be too fast and it will be from the same network or IP address Google is not dumb they have figured this stuff out long time ago and people selling it are sharks trying to take advantage of people.
stay away from anything Google says is a bad way to go and you will be starting a website in the best possible manner.
Thank you Jesse very good points.
Sincerely,
Thomas
yes I believe I can help you. If you're using regular WordPress comments do this
here is some more info if needed but let me know as I understand WordPress pretty well.
The plug-in is something I use on quite a few clients sites.
I really like it because of its ease of use and the way it looks. However you can do the same thing with schema but for the money it is a great buy you can do everything that is needed to provide your business hours, address, phone number and it codes it perfectly allowing you to work on other things.
I agree with Miriam,
you must have a brick-and-mortar address and do face-to-face business in order to have a Google local listing.
Nice work finding that information. In addition you may want to look at
getlocal.org now owned by Moz has a lot of local knowledge.
For citations check out Whitespark.ca
you can get a discount from Moz.com/perks
hope this helps,
Thomas
Do you have a +5 page rank? Where is your reach or audience? If you have a chance to strut your stuff in front of bigger audience do it if you will get the credit from your larger competitor it will only help you immensely I would do it and do it well. It is a complement that you are being asked to guest post I feel you should do it and don't look back. You will generate more power to your site then you will take away by simply giving them an article that they will probably get from somebody else if you don't write it.
I hope I have been of help to you.
Sincerely,
Thomas
I personally trust Moz
while Google will tell you there's no direct relation between plus ones and higher rankings I think they are just trying to tell you not to expect a simple +1 to make you go up in the serps however if you have enough of them there's no way in my opinion Google could not care or not take that into account.
There may be an an indirect method in which plus ones are getting sites that receive many of them higher rankings.
I hope that sheds someone on my opinion.
All the best,
Thomas
Hi Jeremy,
Good thinking I was going to post this along with it however I was having trouble with Imgur but you bring up an excellent point both of those two things should be done.
I have posted a photo below of what you were talking about and condensed this response into both the poster myself and your post to make it easier for people in the future who have the same problem.
Using comment pagination in WordPress?
This feature should just be disabled (under settings -> discussion)
Settings > Discussion. "Break comments into pages with ___ top level comments per page and the ___ page displayed by default"
Great job and thumbs up to you for your answer making this complete.
All the best,
Thomas
Please forgive my 1st comment I the button too early and use the dictation software so I save it to one page then paste to another I am sincerely sorry I got this part on there without the entire thing.
Send me the domain either privately if you can or through this chat I would be more than happy to look into it for you. I can tell you I have made the no follow no index mistake myself showing a intern something on our own site and talk about it here below.
However if you are still getting problems you may want to download
screaming frog SEO spider
it only will check for 500 links for free however it gives you invaluable insight
It is a download and works on Mac, Windows and Linux
http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
if you want to try something web-based
http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/tools/
http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/broken-links-tool/
http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/seo-tools/robots-txt-generator/
http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/seo-tools/google-sitemap-generator/
I would also not hesitate to use their DNS tool to check that everything there is okay
Another tool or tools I would strongly recommend and you can access for free are the excellent Internet marketing ninjas
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if you are talking about just the index and no follow
I can now happily say I have done this identical thing.
I have done the exact same thing. I can tell you I was showing somebody how to use the WordPress SEO plug-in when I got distracted and simply did not change the settings back to follow and index. So approximately 2 to 3 days later I noticed a huge loss in ranking year for the company brand name.
(Luckily this was mine not a clients)
It took approximately two days after I changed the settings back to normal follow and index them submitted my entire website to Google's Webmaster tools even clicking yes when asked the index all large change
before I knew it all the rankings had returned back to normal literally the keywords I was tracking returned within the normal fluctuation I see as they were in many cases sometimes better & sometimes little bit worse what I had feared they never would come back at all.
Sincerely,
Thomas
Believe me when I say I was extremely thankful for this and don't see why you will not get the same results with your site.
I hope this is a simple a mistake of just that one problem like mine that's the only thing I can give you a testimony of. I would say you have nothing to worry about. But remember to tell Google Webmaster tools I also did tell Bing but that's up to you
David I just looked that the domain I tried to advise you to buy. Obviously someone else has that and they are not in the United States.
I did not realize that you actually built an entire website and everything around this new domain. Obviously if this is your choice you should take down the older domain after you 301 redirect page by page everything to your new domain. by running two domains you are only hurting yourself.
Simply make a choice about the name of your business I realize why you have gone to such great lengths to change it now. However the reason that you did it is wrong you should not ever change the name of the business that is not tainted for another reason simply for ranking well in Google it goes against everything Google wants you to do.
If you are set in doing this which it appears you are you must rename your business
http://www.cabinetsbayarea.com/
that is a very easy to detect as a exact match domain meaning it could come back to bite you bad
Someone also has
you have
if you like you can also go with your full company name
I would purchase them and redirect page by page from the
you are currently using. You have a choice at least. You do not want people confusing you with
sincerely,
Thomas
If you are using a pen name or a company name to right under your doing it on one or two websites that you were writing unique content and when I see unique content and unique each site that is 100% fine if you are writing the same content on each site then you will have severe problem regardless of if you link yourself to it using a pending. I hope that answers your question and yes you may use the same name.
Sincerely,
Thomas
According to this tool which uses OSE as well as ahrefs you have that many +1's
you also have a total of 400 links pointing at your site or linking to other pages in your site.
Either you purchased a domain that was not new so you bought it at an auction before it was reregistered for the first time.
Or one of the 499 back links that show up as followed could be one your total back links equal 499 links
And you're non site wide back links equal a surprising 499
https://serps.com/tools/mse_report
Your anchor text shows somewhere around 470 and when I clicked on one of your back links it took me here
http://www.proactive.ir/forumdisplay.php?f=41
You only have
1,113 +1's on SERPS
Download and run screaming frog SEO spider
http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
it is wonder percent free and runs on Mac, Windows and Linux
the only cost is incurred when you go past 500 pages.
However this tool will allow you to change 302 into 301 if needed. If using the paid version.
You can also use http://Internetmarketingninjas.com/tools/
look for broken link checker and site map creator.
It will give you a good idea of what's going on your site and it costs you nothing. unless you are using a very unique set up like a reverse proxy or you're setting up your own load balancers you probably should not of the 302 although some people think it's wise to use it on Loggins and in some cases SSLs always found that logins
see if you have any of the things below and run your site through the tools above they will tell you what you need to do. If you need more help let me know,
Thomas
unique circumstances below
http://moz.com/community/q/using-a-302-re-direct-from-http-www-to-https-www-to-secure-customer-data
https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/VCLExampleRedirectInVCL
http://community.jaspersoft.com/wiki/f5-load-balancer-and-tomcat-302-error
https://support.cloudflare.com/entries/22576178-Is-there-a-tutorial-for-PageRules-
I think Tom gave you excellent advice.
I generally do not think about spam links if there part of my website and a legitimate part in the footer. For instance I link my terms of service and by privacy policy there however I would not walk them because Google and moreover some states particularly California have extremely strong policies on advertising and tracking people that go to your website and what you have to disclose.
I would not use the footer for more than 2 to 3 links but that's just me.
As Tom said if you think it is possibly something Google might not want no follow the link.
this will at least confirm Tom Roberts answer is correct,
Thomas
#1
As long as your website is targeting the right country and using the right language using schema will not harm anything it will improve it.
you can use this tool and the one below it to create a organization or corporation schema
http://schema-creator.org/organization.php
http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/address/doit.php
Address structured data code
A. Check that your address is correct
Whitehouse
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
United States
B. If address is correct copy the code below
<div itemscope itemtype="http: schema.org="" postaladdress"="">
Whitehouse
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington,
DC
20500
United States
</div itemscope itemtype="http:>
http://www.microdatagenerator.com/
http://www.html-5.com/microdata/schemas/
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/metadata-0.2.0.0/docs/src/Text-HTML5-MetaData-Schema-NGO.html
Local SEO will not take away from a multinational corporations ability to rank. It will just give you stronger rankings in or around your headquarters in addition to depended on the type of business you have your shops and/or offices. Local schema
http://schema-creator.org/
http://www.microdatagenerator.com/local.php
Local Business Information: Copy and paste into a notepad before putting on your page:
,
Phone: You can simply keep the local part out and keep the company's various or single addresses up to par with http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/address/doit.php
#2
Schema and the knowledge graph which requires schema will be instrumental in so many different parts of the website that as long as it is in a natural Spot. For instance if your company has the address listed at the footer of every page it is not spammy use schema similar to the feed the bot postal address schema it is telling the truth and it is doing a good job at it.
You even lose the local part.
The thing is that there are so many new things that are being used when using schema for instance using it in the CSS is not wrong at all many people do that with their logos in order to get them more recognition.
http://www.microdatagenerator.com/organization-logos-schema/
The only time you would be abusing using schema would be the same way you would do anything black hat by looking at it as something that you can try to take advantage of the natural flow of the site and trying to trick Google is only sure not doing that you are not going to be in hot water. Good examples are video, events, reviews, authors all of them can use schema
http://www.microdatagenerator.com/thing-generators/
http://www.microdatagenerator.com/image-object-schema/
Knowledge Graph
is based partially on schema and will be used very frequently more & more in the future.
Sincerely,
Thomas
"HOWEVER...I'd also buy the keyword.com/net/org domain if it's available and I'd probably create a blog on there that will eventually link to your main site. Doing this will get you some additional traffic but also prevent a potential competitor from grabbing an EMD and outranking you in the short term. "
Phil I wanted to clarify something with you. I have added the link below from search engine land talking about exact match domain penalties I believe you will agree with me that you want to focus on one domain and one domain alone it's all right to 301 redirect your other brand ( Meaning identical domain to your brand name but with .net .org) domains to the same domain that will be your brand/regular domain.
You and I both know exact match domains still work but honestly if you look at the trend there dying any new exact match domain will get nothing because Google will index it for the 1st time and when the algorithm has to make a decision on if firewood.com will rank for firewood I bet it will. However one day very soon it's going to drop. And 100% of that content that could've been put on the original domain with the new brand name associated to it will be unavailable as you do not want to take the content that has been indexed on a different site that was possibly penalized and Google knows was linking to your site and put it on your website.
I would say the smart thing to do would be put the content on the site you want to rank do not create what Google will call a link network by buying exact match domains and having them link to you is violating googles rules now I'm not saying you're going to get caught, but my money would be on Google.
It's a $40 billion a year in revenue company if anyone thinks that they can beat them at their own game now that they're stepping up this increased anti-spam anti-manipulation effort I have had to take on clients that literally have not done things that I would've considered all that bad and Google has penalized them they are now having to spend quite a bit of money with no assurances that they will ever be listed at their former rank Ever again.
today you have to earn your place I would not ever create a blog on an exact match domain that I own because even if you private the Whois, and even if you don't run on the same server there is authorship and you're not going to get a domain to rank without authorship of a blog. Yes you could make up a name but he would have to make up a Google + account and build authority for that exact match domain to have it be worth anything. I understand that you might get a couple people linking to because they clicked on that and then you might have a giant banner saying click here and it would have to link to the real site.
My opinion is if you find exact match domains feel free to purchase. However do not ever use them just take them off the market if you feel that their threat to you. However I can assure you that they're not know the long run.
now if you are just saying buy .net, .org & .co I am 100% with you should do that for the brand domain you choose as your company name.
The only reason I recommend .co is I was too dumb to buy myself and had some guy tried to sell it to me for 4 grand after I bought my domain through an auction.
I want to let you know that there are many ways of getting the domain you want even if the registrar shows it's not available however you want to check it out and make sure there's no bad links pointing to it.
Here is a little bit about how exact match domain works that Google and the penalties put on people only from time to time that's why we see some people get away with exact match domains and others not.
Another reason I would focus on building strong content on one site do not waste your time with other sites and please remember this if you purchase your domains and their .net .org etc. from a registrar that allows you to "forward" the domain to the new site.
At a cost of up to $75 a year depending on the registrar I know quite a few do it. The bad part is even with that they Do not do that most of the time it is a simple link not a 301 redirect you want to be sure that you're using a 301 redirect.
I would simply use something that you know you can control all your domains from and has a tier 1 provider sending your queries out. it sounds crazy to pay for DNS but this is saving money if you use the less expensive options I'm listing below.
The best way to do that is used a quality hosted Anycast DNS service you can use DynECT my favorite, but expensive 10 domains costs $30 a month.
Or use a much less expensive service.
DNS made easy excellent extremely fast, and you get 10 domains for only $25 a year
There are two free options one is hurricane electric the others cloudflare both are better than standard DNS by quite a bit hurricane electric is more techie cloudflare is very simple I put more DNS information at the bottom if you care to read it
I would use DNSmadeeasy.com if you don't use Dyn.com as they give you customer support and are truly very high quality.
**Last week, Google announced the EMD Update, a new filter that tries to ensure that low-quality sites don’t rise high in Google’s search results simply because they have search terms in their domain names. Similar to other filters like Panda, Google says EMD will be updated on a periodic basis. Those hit by it may escape the next EMD update, while others not hit this time could get caught up in the future. **
EMD is more likely hitting domains like online-computer-training-schools.com, which is a made-up example but hopefully gets the point across. It’s a fairly generic name with lots of keywords in it but no real brand recognition.
Domains like this are often purchased by someone hoping that just having all the words they want to be found for (“online computer training schools”) will help them rank well. It’s true that there’s a small degree of boost to sites for having search terms in their domains with Google, in general. A very small degree.
But such sites also often lacked any really quality content. They were purchased or created in hopes of an easy win, and there’s often no real investment in building them up with decent information or into an actual destination, a site that people would go to directly, not a site they’d just happen upon through a search result.
Some of them lack content at all (are “parked”) or have content that’s taken from other sites (“scraped”). Google already went after parked domains last December (and made a mistake in classifying some sites as parked in April). It’s already been going after scrapers with Panda and other efforts.
Extended DNS information if you care
or use cloudflare.com rather not I would turn on the orange cloud would depend on what hosting company I was using and what site architecture was building my site with. Regardless you can use cloudflare's and Anycast DNS with unlimited domains for no cost. When you turn off the orange clouds next to the a records and came records it is just a very fast DNS system.
Sorry for the extremely long-winded response.
I'm sure you meant brand domains point those that your new one not to buy an exact match and create content on it.
I hope this is of help,
Thomas
I would add some more floating share buttons rather it's a bar down the left side or buttons below the actual post.
I would switch from YouTube and Vimeo
to Wistia it is by far the better way to get links. You can allow people to share the video which will point back to you in addition it will rank in Google because of its site map and schema.
You can also send it to ask for an e-mail at the beginning in the middle or the after somebody has watched a video. This is very helpful as you can get quite a large e-mail list from it.
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Hi Nick,
My hart goes out to you and your company for having to deal with this. However I do believe that you should use a 302 redirect along with a no flow just to be certain. Here's some more information.
http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/11285/SEO-Are-Nofollow-Links-Still-Valuable.aspx
http://moz.com/blog/nofollow-is-dying-the-impact-of-microblogging-and-nofollow-on-seo
Google lists the three main intended uses of nofollow as:
Leaving aside for a second the ability / likelihood of webmasters using nofollow correctly (which means that the search engines need to work even with broken implementations just as they often rank HTML code that doesn't validate), there are two big uses of nofollow that are breaking the model:
"Silo-isation"
Disregarding the fact that I just made that word up, there is a very real trend of powerful sites nofollowing all (or nearly all) outbound links even though they are the very definition of editorial links. The site owners have presumably seen the ranking power achieved by Wikipedia nofollowing all outbound links and are trying to form their very own black hole.
Lack of trust
My understanding of the original intent of proffering nofollow as a solution to the problem of linking to untrusted places was that it was mainly intended for situations like blog comments, profile links, etc., where users of your site could create links to wherever they pleased.
This is definitely valuable (as anyone who has ever had to moderate blog comments can attest) but what about once you do trust the commenter? Since so many sites have no mechanism whereby that nofollow is ever removed, we end up in a situation where people are creating huge amounts of really valuable content and the links they create are nofollow.
Sincerely, Thomas
Unfortunately, I would tell him that it will violate googles guidelines if he is trying to profit in any way by linking them together and not give a better user experience he is going to be penalized. It is essentially a link farm unfortunately he would have to put everything on separate C blocks with separate who is it the list goes on and trust me you don't want to do it. He should focus the attention on whatever the web shop sells allowing it on one domain per a subject or group of subjects, but say I sell outdoors gear will I can put camping and canoes and whatever else on that domain I would mark it as a separate site entirely never interlink sites that you know or not directly relevant to each other.
It really is a shady way of doing it unfortunately I would tell him that Google's guidelines are pretty clear about this type of stuff and advice he can demonstrate how this would better the and user not himself in any way then he should of course continue working with you and you'd be happy to help them build the correct way either naming it one company or keeping the domains separate for separate web stores that do not have any relevancy to Eachother.
I hope that helps,
Thomas
I would check out LocalU
http://localu.org/blog/a-guide-to-google-mobile-local-pack-results/
I hope this helps,
Tom
Thank you Cesar.
I appreciate that my grammar is terrible I was born in Germany and English is my 2nd language I am using a dictation software to write this so I apologize to everyone who has to read my writing sometimes it can be a little bit off to say the least.
Any help is very welcome, and thanks so much I appreciate that.
Sincerely,
Thomas
You can do that using http://totally.awe.sm/ , bit.ly pro or Bilty free if you don't mind not having control of what appears after the / you will need different TLD and the same name for your domain. if example.com is your brand domain then example.co is your shared domain.
I would recommend against using your websites domain name to create a lot of shared links that will not be part of your website. Even if they will look like example.com/fbshare or example.com/679a43054
You will need a new domain of your choice of course.
Sorry if I was not as clear in the beginning.
I misread your question.
Sincerely,
Thomas
Hi Johnny, I want to tell you that I agree with what Chris stated above. If you're looking for someone to confirm that. You want to also make sure you do not have over 100 to 150 URLs or internal links on your site. This will hurt Google indexing of the website.
I also use a tool to make internal links. And if that is what you are speaking of. It's called http://scribecontent.com. You can use it not only on word press but on all sites. I have found it to be extremely useful please be cautious though it how many links you built internally so that you do not create a page that cannot be indexed correctly.
http://www.distilled.net/u/search-engine-basics/#crawling
I hope I've been in help,
Thomas
PS
I had recently been approached by a person who essentially had done exactly what you're describing, but they only used about 20 domains. Regardless they were penalized so hard they were delisted from Google. Unfortunately for that person when I told them the cost to fix it the gentleman was shocked that it would cost a minimum of tens of thousands of dollars to have the penalty lifted from his website and what you're describing is exactly what his being proposed to to do.
in the end I could not get the person to agree to not build another like scheme I'm being serious so I bowed out and let the client go I don't want my name associated with that type of work and honestly when a client won't listen to you it's not really going to end up being worth your time.
I'm not saying that the guy won't listen to you.
If you want me to tell you the best way to link them together separate whois separate c blocks entirely separate hosting this is just the tip of the iceberg and it's going to get caught either way. I honestly would tell the client the truth you don't want to start with a bad foundation. He will make more money having a higher ranking on a legitimate domain that's not a link scheme that will someday fall down.
I would hope that the person would understand.
All the best my friend,
Thomas
I have the same ( I never do local but was talked into it same type of law business)
_ "but not important enough to risk ranks."_
He needs to understand today Google will not hurt you for moving to https if done correctly see the guide below under to fix use.
As you see now "Not secure" is only on forms In July 2018 all non-https sites in Google Chrome will show up as "Not secure.” This warning will show for all HTTP websites. That will cost someone in Law a lot.
See photo 1 will be in July 2018 & photo 2 sometime after. 3 is google
To Fix this use
Google’s announcement was firm about their goal to warn users of insecure sites, with the intent of further shepherding more web publishers into upgrading to HTTPS.
“Chrome’s new interface will help users understand that all HTTP sites are not secure, and continue to move the web towards a secure HTTPS web by default.”
Cite: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-sets-https-deadline/236225/
Hope this helps,
Tom
I agree with you however if you're going to put a lot of the time into the website I would put it all into one.
However I do not disagree with you that is something that could be done, but I believe it would cost more money. To have an exact match that I believe Google is going to take away all the power from in the next year.
However having a high-quality exact match domain linking to you is definitely a plus.
I am glad we agree.
All best,
Tom
Hi Dan
"if i have multilingual sub sites (Wordpress Multi User envrionment) then I should enter the language specific social accounts into the appropriate language sub site Yoast OR as per the sentence at the top of Yoast page: "...pick the main account associated with this site and please enter them below", just put the main social accounts in here. Im trying to work out if when they say main here they mean the original main English social account ? "
When using multilingual or geo-targeting a.k.a. Hreflang there is an additional plug-in you will want to use ( I like wpml)
See: http://wplang.org/hreflang-attributes-wordpress/
I like: https://wpml.org/documentation/plugins-compatibility/using-wordpress-seo-with-wpml/?
Yes you also want to add a notice of these alternative pages via OpenGraph:
More on that for instance on the Facebook developers pages.
&
this is the accounts page you are discussing?
http://i.imgur.com/fxsPr5H.gifv
https://neonbrand.com/seo/ultimate-guide-setting-wordpress-seo-yoast-plugin-version-221/
http://kb.yoast.com/article/219-getting-open-graph-for-your-articles
https://yoast.com/social-media-optimization-with-wordpress-seo-by-yoast/
This is a great new section to version 2.0 of the Yoast SEO plugin. He’s really brought together all the social requirements together in one place. It’s really self explanatory, just make sure you fill out as much of each tab as possible.
Get your social accounts setup! Then come back here and plug in the URL’s (or in Twitter’s case, the username… come on Yoast-onians, be consistent!
I'm sorry it's taking me so long to get back to you on this. However you told me you say you're using the removal tool in Google Webmaster tools?
I want to be certain you're not using the link disavow tool as a removal tool is that correct?
"Google updates its entire index regularly. When we crawl the web, we automatically find new pages, remove outdated links, and reflect updates to existing pages, keeping the Google index fresh and as up-to-date as possible.
If outdated pages from your site appear in the search results, ensure that the pages return a status of either 404 (not found) or 410 (gone) in the header. These status codes tell Googlebot that the requested URL isn't valid. Some servers are misconfigured to return a status of 200 (Successful) for pages that don't exist, which tells Googlebot that the requested URLs are valid and should be indexed. If a page returns a true 404 error via the http headers, anyone can remove it from the Google index using the webpage removal request tool. Outdated pages that don't return true 404 errors usually fall out of our index naturally when other pages stop linking to them."
"
"Content removed using the URL removal tool will not appear in search results for a minimum of 90 days or until the content has been removed from the Google index. However, if you've updated robots.txt, added meta tags, or password-protected content to prevent it being crawled, the content should naturally have dropped out of our index, and you shouldn't need to worry about it reappearing after 90 days. You can reinclude your content at any time during the 90-day period by following the steps below.
Pending requests are usually processed within 3-5 business days."
Hi Keri,
Thank you for updating me that's really good to know.
I apologize for the mistake. Please know that I I've seen EGOL answer so many questions so well over the years that I actually believed he was the Content director here.
My apologies and fantastic job EGOL & Keri you've each always had allot of wisdom in your replies and comments.
All the best,
Thomas
PS you can use https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/ or Let's Encrypt for free SSL certs but if you buy this has very good pricing for paid SSL certs. https://www.ssl2buy.com/
Hi Dana,
I agree I think you should get as many people as possible to weigh in on this. It's an important issue and I would be very happy to see more people away and is well with their opinions or what they've learned in the field I think this is a very important topic to a lot of people and should get quite a bit of attention. Hope you're doing well
Sincerely,
Thomas
I agree with Laura. I want to add this that the years of studying and working on websites will never be replaced by reading an article and winging it. Unfortunately it really depends on the amount of work needed to get you the ROI you want and your willingness to understand Time is a very serious thing in SEO .
Different company both are different prices for good reason many companies that do not charge a lot unfortunately for the consumer for people that will say yes to any job and by doing so they are doing you a huge disservice because you will not Achievers what you wanted.
Frankly Google asks a lot more from a site owner these days and therefore we have to be more proficient and more up-to-date one thing to keep in mind is most people are reasonable. I do believe that you get what you pay for I would like to hear more about this job just as a exercise for everyone on the site. You might find the perfect Agency or and/or people
Please forgive my writing I am on a cell phone using voice recognition
Tom
I verified your results using your URL you have approximately 273 links in one page of your website. This must be changed immediately
I tested your site273 links found on http://www.in2town.co.uk/ http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/linkcount/result.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.in2town.co.uk%2Fhttp://www.feedthebot.com/tools/spider/test.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.in2town.co.ukThis was simply to test if you were showing up using the author tags or any Rich snippets this is crucial to rank today and you can see the results yourself with the website. I would recommend a SEO as well as a developerGooglehttp://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.in2town.co.ukIn order for you to succeed with Google. If you need help beyond this I am more than happy to assistance sincerely, Thomas
Hi Wesley,
I am glad to be of help. Hopefully there's a way you can still work with the gentleman and do something that will still generate a good ROI, but does not use the tactics he originally wanted to.
I wish you up when you speak with him.
I'll all the best my friend,
Thomas
