Try http://www.webpagetest.org/ , https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights , http://tools.pingdom.com/ , http://www.gomez.com/ , http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/09/how-to-speed-up-your-site-with-yslow-and-page-speed/ & if you need a fast host use a managed Wordpress host (WP Engine, Zippy Kid, WebSynthesis or Page.ly) if your not on Wordpress I like FireHost, Liquid Web, Pair Networks, & Peer1) Remember DNS matters (DynECT DNS, UltraDNS, Verisign DNS, AWS Route 53 & DNS Made Easy) there great Uses a CDN. If you want speed Get a good CDN for less ( MaxCDN $39 per 1TB & 24 POPs, CDN77 $40 per 1TB 50+ POPs, AWS CloudFront pay per uses about the same $50 1 TB & CloudFlare base Free 22 POPs going from $0 , $20 to $200 a month NOT A TRUE CDN if you ask me ) Fast CDN's can cost $100 and way up a month This is dependent on traffic and other things concerning your particular website I hope I was of help. Sincerely, Tom
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RE: How fast is my front page?
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RE: Mobile Website Creator - Any Advice & Recommendation?
It's nice sight that you posted. please have a look at this Wordpress based mobile https://www.zippykid.com/ It has all the functionality of the desktop site and works beautifully in mobile and has the convenience of WordPress website I have a relationship with the Developer and if you really want a high-end mobile site this is the way to go in my opinion. Please let me know if I can be of any assistance. Sincerely, , Thomas
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RE: Canonicalising To A 301?
I agree with everything Dr. Peat said. Those are all extremely Likely reasons for your site showing a Forward / or not and strongly agree with Dr. Peat you should follow tip and match the correct rel="canonical regardless of anything. Even if you think the URL is An exact match one you have told Google you want to have rel="canonical Happy New Year! Tom
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RE: Can we publish two guest posts on one domain with same pen name but different linking website?
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
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RE: Mobile Website Creator - Any Advice & Recommendation?
It is extremely important to have a mobile version of your website especially the website is not something that you just do for fun but in something you do for living
Most websites are being or look at using either using tablets for mobile phones smart tuna 50% or higher
I have used Kannon at globalKtech and they are truly masters
http://globalktech.com/contactus.php
Click-to-call click to call you mean the number on the site and it clicks number & it calls? Yes that should be standard
Text your business
allow people to use text messages to get a hold of you if necessary however I don't know the text is all that important but push notifications are extremely important is which is the form of text messaging
Mobile Map with directions
if your current website does Nardi have a Mac the mobile one will increase your local traffic quite a bit and give Google another search engine's another way of finding you locally which could be added regardless but yet you nice thing to have
Regardless and be a good thing to have. Currently people are still using Google to search on Apple devices and Google maps is the most downloaded app on the iPhone so I would not start thinking of Apple as a search engine quite yet over I would not ruling out for the future yes it would be a very nice thing to have them
Ads Free & Customizable Footer
Yes if it is your own business I would have it be at three you want a professional and of course you want to footer to represent the company
Your Own Mobile URL (m.yourcompany.com)
Ideally if you have your site done right you will not need a subdomain in order to have it looks like your site will be responsive meaning it will work on all devices and he easily accessible without a subdomain
Email support
Email should be exactly the same as it was.
Bandwidth: unlimitedIf you're speaking about the hosting it should be exactly as it was your speaking about the phone it should be up to the user
Page limit: unlimited
That would be alright although you don't want to have you have a website and something over 40,000 pages you might want to move to a app.
Mobile Site Analytics
Currently Google analytics, kiss metrics and I believe all major analytics companies all cover mobile devices
I hope I have been of help to you.
sincerely,
Thomas
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RE: Best Way To Clean Up Unruly SubDomain?
PS
DO NOT "
2. Remove all URLs from the index via the Removal Tool in WMT"
This is my opinion and I believe it is shared with many other people as well and search engine optimization community by using the Google disavow link tool or revoke links tool you are essentially consenting to doing something wrong do not do it
do not unblock 100% of your robot text only allow the links that you wish to have seen by Google. Just think of them as a parameter on the end of the link but a subdomain. It will be indexed and site map accordingly.
Sincerely,
Thomas
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RE: Best Way To Clean Up Unruly SubDomain?
You may now continue to use subdomains. And they will be ranked just as high as non-subdomains.
You have to do exactly what you stated but the opposite you have to remove the robot text that is blocking subdomain from being indexed by search engines
Once there is a site map and the robot text is fixed to allow search engine's to crawl the subdomain it will be ranked appropriately and should not have to take any more action.
I hope I've been help.
Sincerely,
Thomas
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RE: How can I see the SEO of a URL? I need to know the progress of a specific landing-page of my web. Not a keyword, an url please. Thanks.
You want to know no if there is a way of grading a landing page vs grading a keyword?
Absolutely you can use the campaign who in seomoz and you can find the individual pages and find how well the page is ranked for that keyword.
If the landing pages rank very high for the keyword and is not optimized well keyword then it is most likely something other than the landing page
However if the landing page is optimized well for the keyword is most likely because of your good work with the landing page
It is pretty easy to determine as long is the keyword is not a exact match domain even still you can use the on page SEO and link tools to determine how well the page is made.
I hope I have been of help.
Sincerely,
Thomas
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RE: Canonicalising To A 301?
PS not all of your webpages shows no forward /
http://www.zando.co.za/Nike-Brazilia-Duffle-Bag-Purple-47577.html
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RE: Canonicalising To A 301?
Best practices states that you should put the URL is it shows in browser. So if there is a / the rel="canonical should have / hope that that helps
should be
all the best,
Tom
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RE: Ranking report not accurate
If you want me to doublecheck give the search term and the URL and I will tell you exactly what I get off of my phone when I search on Google
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RE: Ranking report not accurate
Even using incognito does not Help much especially if you're still logged into Google are you check that? Even if you are not logged into Google take away all variables. For instance type in pizza I guarantee you will find a Google give you closest pizza place regardless of whether or not using incognito so I would trust in what SEOmoz says more than what your own computer tells you. You can also double check is another third-party software's semrush.com , SpyderMate, Raven tools, Majestic Seo, there are so many different tools out there that will give you a rank and the rink should be based on what the normal find further so many variables to using your own computer that I would trust anything SEOmoz tells you over your own computer unfortunately our own Google systems let us down for Giving the correct answer when trying to write for the entire United States it would be actually unreasonable from multiple different reasons for Google to give you the same answers that might give me because were in different areas and our search habits are different. If you have a client and has been using the same Google acount or computer so that you're logged into Google and you're constantly checking Their rank and clicking on their pages start your choice for whatever search term you used over and over again Google will favor them every time And take into consideration exactly where you are in the entire United States Sincerely, Thomas
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RE: Phrase duplication within Title Tags
Hi Keri, I agree with you on that in after reading them they did not make on sense I'm using voice recognition system my spelling is horrible so it meant metadata but obviously I did not take the time to correct that. However I just thought it was strange that absolutely everyone of them got a thumbs down I mean By all means if the person would like clarification I would be more than happy to give it to them. However I believe I gave three answers entirely and I got three thumbs down it just seems excessive. I'm not mad I though I just thought it was really was Kind of excessive Also something that I've yet to have seen before . But I will take time to make sure that there are no more blatant mistakes like that Understandably would confuse anyone. The reason I sound even worse right now is I am on a trip for the holidays to visit my family and don't have my regular voice recognition system some actually doing this use my phone. Thank you for taking the time to at least answer my question, I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and have a happy new year, Thomas
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RE: Does spinning content work any longer?
When you say mix things up "keep your content unique" that kind of makes sense to me. However when you say to me that you're actually spinning content between 15 other clients I don't know if you host or not or what c blocks? However Google will only take only need one lead to you before they figured out What I'm getting at is you might not get caught today my not this year but eventually Google will figured out their only spending more and more time trying to eliminate this type of stuff you have to have valuable content actually matters to rank. And I say that I mean rank in the future and stay clean don't do things that manipulate the system try to build something that's actually worth something that's what Google wants that's what people want to win. go to copy Copyscape.com type in your website and see what they Will call you for no cost and that is some a very simple one that is nothing compared to what Google has.
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RE: Does the root domain hold more power then an inner page?
I think what they're talking about is possibly duplicate content. Meaning that you might have a title tag something similar to that where you stating that you have named let's say for example Domain example.com and your title tag is "tag1". Then you have an additional webpage that is not your homepage stating that he .example.com/tag1 The title tag of "tag1" webpage.com
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RE: Q&A Forum Slow Performance
Hi Chris yes we used to be hosted 100 percent on Amazon and I'm talking about much the form but the tools everything and now it's a hybrid system so everything runs smoother and much more quickly I'm speaking in general about the entire monster. Not just the forms. I guess there was issue with the hard drives burning out and all sorts of stuff
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RE: Q&A Forum Slow Performance
I do agree with you man I think that it was though a smart move when they switched hosting from Amazon from what I understand there was quite a bit of trouble with the system there and now that were with I believe wow host we are getting very high-quality uptime and decent service in my opinion. Good things come to the come to those who wait So says Folgers I believe for some commercial
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RE: Does spinning content work any longer?
Yes a few years ago used to work like a charm. However now you must be very very careful and definitely do not recycle or/spinn content when you do that you will definitely be picked up a Google algorithm and penalized severely. Just think of everything that you've achieved with it in the negative that's what you do essentially get. Don't try it and my best advice is used fresh content that has been written by a real human being to Try to trick Google is a waste of time these days. I hope I've been of help sincerely, Tom
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RE: Q&A Forum Slow Performance
Hi Chris are you saying that most of the other sites on the network just fine? And that the only time you're really Experiencing here this when you actually hit the reply button or using Q&A form? If that is the case is most certainly site rather than your connection or your computer set up. Try using it on your smartphone or another device and see what you think. I think that all in all What SEOmoz has created here is much more complex and better then the regular bulletin board so there has to be on more loading time when anyone responds or posts to Q&A there's probably a lot of Java or other stuff going into effect taking up time. But the wait is worth it all the best, Tom
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RE: Phrase duplication within Title Tags
I want to see what SEOmoz has to say about all the thumbs down and somebody getting a thumbs up for their Their initial question that's awfully odd I believe there's manipulation going on here and I really don't appreciate when I've tried to help somebody that they somehow have no clue as to what's going on with a thumbs-up or thumbs down I know at the risk of getting more thumbs down and posting this however I believe that what I'm saying needs to be heard by a SEOmoz admin Thomas Zickell
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RE: Phrase duplication within Title Tags
Try using http://marketinggrader.com It will give you a very thorough explanation as to what is wrong with your tags what it's not Tom
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RE: Phrase duplication within Title Tags
PS never use the domain to start your title tag if my title of my site is "example.com" I do not want to start out my title as "example" is a wonderful website I want to say wonderful websites made by example same same thing with All description info your boxes data
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RE: Phrase duplication within Title Tags
Hi Jay, I know you're talking about you're probably using WordPress correct? It is very common however unless you go over 5% of the volume is the rule but really the rule is created content Mathas more of the secondary way of just knowing if your way out of bounds but you do not want to put the same word in so that it takes more than 5% of the content if that makes any sense you might want to download scribe content by copyblogger excellent plug-in you can use it (I love it) Tom
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RE: Crawl Diagnostics Report 500 erorr
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
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RE: Big changes in site titles
if the site titles are leading people to something you don't sell or they are duplicate you definitely could lose traffic. You want to start seeing what happened to that right away I wish you the best of luck please try all the tools that your disposal here on SEOmoz if that does not work try doing a full site analysis with Alexia
sincerely,
Thomas
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RE: Serps drop on 21st
outstanding low hanging fruit is simply keywords that you rank for or come close to ranking for however you probably were not yet aware of them?
they are ones that are prime for link building built links designed for those keywords in the pages that they're on more than the actual words these days.
Did you see some of the issues if you did an audit do a complete audit on your website use every tool. And then when you are scrolling over the issues shown it will give you much better look into what's actually happening. Also set it up with your Google analytics account.
what methods are using to currently build links? have you thought about using video? if so Wista.com offers free 3 free videos they are very powerful and the way that Google treats them also you may want to use the Raven schema WordPress plug-in it rocks and is free.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/schema-creator/screenshots/
I am going to give you my phone number in the private thing you may call me at any time I have to go and get lunch.
I hope this is been helpful & I hope to hear from you soon.
Thomas
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RE: Using Seomoz for Site Evaluation am I up to par ?
errors can happen in fact I had a website that was knowing less than 2 months old and it was the Moz.org rank 5 slowly it went down to 2 half. However I did have very strong links going into it beginning I switched hosts and did not thrill and redirect correctly stupid me lost on now one. It's of course possible Moz.org**/com each of them** rocketed to stardom however for completely good reason. The reason I did so well I had 35 links from relevant content all follow going to my new domain. I then worked with some of the copy blogger guys and it is possible.
what's the URL?
I hope I helped,
Tom
PS from Moz bar gets its info correctly from here have you checked it?
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RE: Serps drop on 21st
use check my private message I have been doing quite a bit of work and I apologize for not getting back to you. Although I've got a good amount of information on your website and your competitors.
we need to make some changes and they're not the bad ones or hard to do. Look for my immediate message in 5 min. as I will give you my phone number if you can call me
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RE: Serps drop on 21st
If I can give my honest opinion it would be that you should have more links to your website I'm not seeing you build that There's anything wrong with the links that you have built believe me I'm not. However you need a full link campaign you need full on page search engine optimization on and off page search engine optimization you need the works man and that will get you So you are in the clear. If you would like I will take more thorough look into your website and give you exactly what I think is wrong. What is this your business your source of income? If it is I would take using a professional verse seriously. Would you be kind enough to send me a couple of the competitors are speaking of that are ranking so well and if you need to do so you can send them to me in a private message or you can send them to me here I'll respond either way. That way we can figure this out alright ? sincerely, Thomas
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RE: Its been over a month, rogerbot hasn't crawled the entire website yet. Any ideas?
Hi TJ,
Did that answer your question? if so I am very happy. Please let me know if there's anything else I can do to assist you in fully answering this question. thank you for the kind words.
Happy holidays,
Thomas
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RE: Serps drop on 21st
Regarding your link building is wonderful that it is 100% unique however is it from sources that you know are 100% okay with Google? sometimes we work hard on something and unfortunately we believe that Google will agree that our hard work is worthy of their praise. However in please don't take this wrong way your business seems it may sometimes trick Google into thinking it is something negative when it really is not you know I mean? I would go back and recheck your links I have of suspicion that some of them might not be seen as an authority by Google.
Very best of luck
Respectfully,
Thomas
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RE: Should i Noindex my privacy policy page?:
Hi Marisa,
Thank you for the kind words. It seems not many people seem to understand the point system. I am not blaming anybody to this point it out
hope you're doing well
your friend,
Thomas
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RE: Its been over a month, rogerbot hasn't crawled the entire website yet. Any ideas?
If you have a stop at 308 that is normal Roger likes to take breaks or smaller amounts of websites in the beginning only indexes he will be back way to make sure is by following the directions below.
Have you requested that Roger check your site by going into campaigns then selecting reports then selecting weekly?
Make sure the above steps of been done. Roger is going to town on mine so I don't think you leave you out of the party.
Respectfully,
Thomas Zickell
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RE: Should i Noindex my privacy policy page?:
you should definitely allow Google to index your privacy page. The reason being is Google wants you to have a privacy page and if they cannot index it it will not realize that your site has a privacy page best you must allow them to index it.
I hope I've been of help,
sincerely
Thomas
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RE: I need to know more clearance on rel=canonical usage than 301 redirects ?
The thumbs up Dr. Pete,
You definitely explain that much better than I could. And completely agree once the 301 in place there should be nothing else associated with it.
Teginder
I thought I would send this link with a screenshot from Google searching for staplers Google I noticed in your screenshots you are logged in to Google I just wanted you to know if you're constantly searching for staplers and your URL Google will modify the search to suit what it thinks is your needs. Hence I did a very unscientific incognito check allowing Google to give me a less biased search result. to make it more useful high logged into SEM Rush and searched staplers and received what you can find inside the CVS file for the top 10 organic results. So you know this is what came up In the photographs is different from what SEM Rush and Google are telling me.
https://blueprintmarketing.sharefile.com/d/scdb1ed7e9464929b
The very best of luck with your new website.
Sincerely,
Thomas Zickell
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RE: I need to know more clearance on rel=canonical usage than 301 redirects ?
The thumbs up Dr. Pete,
You definitely explain that much better than I could. And completely agree once the 301 in place there should be nothing else associated with it.
Teginder
I thought I would send this link with a screenshot from Google searching for staplers Google I noticed in your screenshots you are logged in to Google I just wanted you to know if you're constantly searching for staplers and your URL Google will modify the search to suit what it thinks is your needs. Hence I did a very unscientific incognito check allowing Google to give me a less biased search result. to make it more useful high logged into SEM Rush and searched staplers and received what you can find inside the CVS file for the top 10 organic results. So you know this is what came up In the photographs is different from what SEM Rush and Google are telling me.
https://blueprintmarketing.sharefile.com/d/scdb1ed7e9464929b
The very best of luck with your new website.
Sincerely,
Thomas Zickell
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RE: I need to know more clearance on rel=canonical usage than 301 redirects ?
Hi Teginder, When you apply the 301 Redirect to the new webpage Google will actually no longer index it it will believe that it has just become a part of the pages just pointed at meaning you literally could set the rel tags but that's all you'd have to do you definitely do not need to worry about. I hope I was of help Sincerely , Thomas Zickell
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RE: Can anyone suggest a good SEO company ?
Nick I consider myself to be an honest guy and I can tell you I do not know as much about search engine positioning as Ryan he is a better choice and rather his website tells you that he likes the cat in the hat or everything about links he is a true authority that knows what he's doing. If you were to hire me I would work with somebody similar to him as there are only a few greats and I listed them.
don't get me wrong I would love to take you on as client however I think I said this earlier I would use one of the companies I have listed and the two posts. I can really think of of going with me the only benefit is I will get it done in a way that is top notch just as Ryan will get it done in a way that is top notch.
I hope you understand what I'm saying and don't think that I know nothing I believe I know quite a bit I am telling you however I reach out to people that know more than I do when I do any job because synergy makes me a better search engine optimization professional as well as get your job done right.
However if you're lucky enough to stumble upon one of the greats as you have with Ryan here you might want to capture lightning in a bottle.
Sincerely,
Thomas
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RE: Can anyone suggest a good SEO company ?
Hi Nick,
If you want I can put you in touch with a gentleman from one of the companies listed above that has some of the best link builders available would you like me to do that?
Tom at http://www.blueprintmarketing.com/contact/
Dan from evolvingseo.com
rob distilled.net
steve Portent.com
Ryan at www.vitopian.com
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RE: Looking For URL Anchor Text Metrics Definitions
David,
t'm going to answer this question 1st part last last part 1st.
if you see what appears to be a highlighted purplish glow in the comparisons regardless of whether it's about anchor text or not it that symbolizes has a better position in the search engines or it's the preferred choice is more optimized in other words or winter of the comparison
you are having trouble because you're seeing cut off anchor text? use open site Explorer look for the tab that says anchor text there are so many other ways to find what find your asking please use the links below
http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test
http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/
http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo
I hope I was of help
Tom
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RE: Keyword Analysis Tool
The large number that says linking is both in the domain and out of the domain.
You want to look at the amount of C blocks pointing at your domain along with the amount of inbound domains and remember they only count the relevant to your sites subject.
I have no idea what you're trying to accomplish so I cannot tell you what a good number to go after is how bout this I will get 200 unique domain links that are all relevant to your industry from high authority sites then the sky is the limit as far as what's attainable look at Google's profile or Amazon don't think that there a large company so that they're cut out of different cloth than you it's not the case those companies were founded by people you're a person don't set limits go for it if it's what you want.
You want to pay attention to the bottom 3 lines and the link numbers and of course the circles showing follow or no follow if you have all no follows will you Have a problem.
May I suggest you internalizes this document http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo it's a valuable piece of writing regardless if you are a beginner or not it's always a good reference and something everyone should read.
So get your moz trust & rank to a +5 at least and answering no that will not be easy but if you want to set a goal try that.
I hope I was of help to you,
Thomas
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RE: I need to know more clearance on rel=canonical usage than 301 redirects ?
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.**
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RE: Flickr v. On-Site Images
Hi Brian,
I pride myself on my work and I'm sure you do as well stick with the small cost of stock photos. I recently found a companys similar to I stock photo for much less money. Give a look on Google for some of those. If I had the name which would just look for I would give you it but I can't seem to find it. However I stopped window has decent prices as well.
there are too many variables using Flickr images that are not taken by yourself, your client or a professional you hired for the job. My opinion is stick with stock and just so you know it's been proven that illustrations are far more effective than photographs. So you might want to throw some those things well.
I hope I was of help to you,
Thomas
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RE: Best solutions when homepage won't rank in Google?
Hunter
your link profile is not okay I am not trying to be negative but this is not good these are your inbound links link exchanges trading links and link directories that are "guaranteed to perform number 1" are junk Google is penalizing you for this is unfortunately worse than having no links it is a pickle being put into the situation as to what to do you can remove them or not the general consensus I go with is leave them but build quality links it's not easy it's not cheap but it works and it's the only thing that works if you have not been penalized severely for the way your site is set up and these links I put bad and very bad next to the ones that are really awful some of these are legit but maybe 5 of them you need to simply think about what you want to do with this website do you want to fix it up and actually have it working correctly Google is looking for you to build the brand along with provide content that is truly good if not great they want you to be the best that whatever niche you are in and links like this tell me this is a bad link profile but with a lot of help you can change all this. I would question whoever has been giving you advice and I would like to see what SEOMoz has to say I believe they can shed more light on this and I and I do not want to sound like I am saying negative things all the time when I really just want to be of help. So I am asking for SEOmoz to tell us what they think maybe shed some light on this
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RE: Best solutions when homepage won't rank in Google?
Hi Hunter,
your homepage is redirecting too many times and I am not inside the website so I cannot tell you with 100% accuracy as my scan is still taking place however I am 99% certain the answer is your FAQ page has more links going to it or more page authority or trust. You are absolutely correct when you say the competitors homepages will be the 1st ones found in they should be especially in Google what you're saying is extremely odd I agree with you on that however there is a logical explanation for it search engine optimization is not voodoo there is something wrong with your homepage if not many things 1st let's talk about rel=canonical it is vital to tell Google what you believe is your homepage content so if you want www.leatherhidestore.com to be here homepage telling Google using leatherhidestore.com
will drastically improve your sites ability to place the homepage
in 1st place in Google you have to understand if you have tons of duplicate content including descriptions and titles on your homepage you're being penalized plus you don't have very much content on their you really should have more text like I said before I would be happy to go over this with you if you would like you may ring me and I will tell you at no charge what I believe you should do.
I think you will find the information here interesting
http://marketing.grader.com/site/www.leatherhidestore.com
along with this
http://searchengineland.com/canonical-tag-16537
like I said I can tell you how to fix your site if you wish to chat with me about it I'm more than happy to do that but my advice regardless of what you do is use a search engine optimization specialist not just the developer we are far different from developers and they do their thing we do ours if you want to rank you need to make some adjustments to your site.
Respectfully,
Thomas
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RE: Best solutions when homepage won't rank in Google?
Hunter I don't mean to keep sending you messages man but I think this might help as well it is dealing with a lot of the issues you are dealing with now
http://searchengineland.com/8-canonicalization-best-practices-in-plain-english-44475
What about rel=canonical?
The canonical tag is a neat little gadget that’s supposed to let you tell search engines the correct URL for any page. So, by adding to any page, I could tell visiting search bots to index just that version, and to direct all link authority to that one URL. It sounds ideal.
You can avoid the heartbreak of bad canonicalization, or at least minimize it, by doing a few simple things:
- Use 301 redirection to ensure that your home page is only found at one URL. If you don’t know how, read Stephan Spencer’s column about rewrites and redirects.
- Link consistently to your home page from within your own site. Use a single URL for your home page. Don’t mix in instances of ‘www.iansnerdvana.com/index.html’ with ‘www.iansnerdvana.com’. If you aren’t doing this properly right now, a quick change may have a big impact on SEO.
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RE: Best solutions when homepage won't rank in Google?
Hi Hunter,
your the homepage is redirecting to www.leatherhidestore.com/servlet/StoreFront then back again
"Oh Hey! It looks like that URL redirects to www.leatherhidestore.com. Would you like to see data for <a class="clickable redirects">that URL instead</a>?" without the/ however the storefront URL is better off without /servlet/ if it can be helped. The amount of linking root domains and see box along with the moz score and moz trust will make it so search engines continually gravitate towards www.leatherhidestore.com/servlet/StoreFront you have very complicated redirection problems and that's not a bad thing because those are easily fixed most of the time. Did you work with your search engine optimization consultant when you were working with their developer or was it pure developer doing the SEO? here some information Below I'm sorry about the format it's in however it gives you some very clear data on some of the problems with your site. one thing I might recommend if you have not found the data useful here is a full site analysis with recommendations on what to do next you can find that for $200 here I strongly recommend it whether you go with a SEO to fix this or you try to do with the developer however I do not know your developer but from the site I can tell you your return on the investment will be much higher if you use somebody that understands search engine optimization take a look at usinghttp://www.alexa.com/siteaudit now please understand it will not give you all the answers or SEO your site for you however it's a step in right direction like I said if you would like to talk I may know I can tell you quite a bit about your site.
| Total Links: | 2,692 | 900 | -- | -- | -- |
| Followed Linking Root Domains: | 46 | 33 | -- | -- | -- |
| Total Linking Root Domains: | 51 | 35 | -- | -- | -- |
| Linking C Blocks: | 45 | 32|
www.leatherhidestore.com/servlet/StoreFront www.leatherhidestore.com <a class="external seoquake-nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">+ Add URL</a> <a class="external seoquake-nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">+ Add URL</a> <a class="external seoquake-nofollow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">+ Add URL</a> Page Authority: 42 38 -- -- -- Page MozRank: 4.71 4.15 -- -- -- Page MozTrust: 5.83 5.61 -- -- -- Internal Followed Links: 870 835