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Posts made by BlueprintMarketing
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RE: Best solutions when homepage won't rank in Google?
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RE: Best solutions when homepage won't rank in Google?
just to let you know a few things I just discovered you have no sitemap.xml page you have no robot.txt
your ratio needs to be slightly higher your text to HTML ratio is 26 as of now it should be higher so Google may be penalizing you for thin content without a sitemap Google will still crawl your site of course however a site map tells it where you would like it to go robot text is something that is absolutely necessary and keeps the robots from going in places that create duplicate content. This will probably be a pretty easy fix I sent you a private message with my information feel free to contact me
all the best,
Thomas
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RE: Best solutions when homepage won't rank in Google?
Hi Hunter,
I would be more than happy to spend some time analyzing your site talking to you about it and really figuring this out. If you have 1000 duplicate page titles that is something you can change and I'm more than happy to tell you how to fix most of this at no cost. However when I do work I partner with the guys recommended here however if you're interested I'd be more than happy to assess your site get to the bottom of this problem and fix it.
So you know canonicalization is nor complicated or hard to implement especially using a CMS like Magento now given that complexities I can't tell you what's wrong right now and the size of your site but if you want to talk about it and have me analyze it for free I'd be happy to do that for you.
Sincerely,
Thomas Zickell
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RE: What pluggin translator is the newest and the best to install on wordpress. Thank you very much
the 1st link is TTS translation it human is 100% translated I would know that. However the 2nd link provides human translation as well you might want to look into their cost.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gts-translation/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/transposh-translation-filter-for-wordpress/
I hope I was of Hope you,
sincerely
Thomas
PS if you do need to translate a plug-in for any reason which is common in these cases use this http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-translator-lite/
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RE: Can you 301 redirect to a page that has other pages 301 to it?
Sean is correct and I'm glad you mentioned this because I left it out according to your examples if you're really trying to change your URL for a keyword over and over again instead of building new pages it simply is not going to work well for you if you want to rank in Google. Landing pages can come and go sometimes but you want to make a website that keeps its pages if one is not performing well the only reason to cut it would be link juice however you would only truly want to do this after examining a lot of information from Google analytics and then after that most likely rewording the page instead of cutting it to A/B testing make the page work because the older the link the better just like domains
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RE: Can you 301 redirect to a page that has other pages 301 to it?
it would be easier to answer if you posted your URL. However if you are using example.com as your URL and it is never changing yes you can easily through 301 redirect one page into another without any issue.
Sincerely,
Tom
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RE: Can anyone suggest a good SEO company ?
Hi Nick
I can suggest a few I would use myself http://www.blueprintmarketing.com/contact/
I think Dan from evolvingseo.com is a genius
distilled.net outstanding
Portent.com great
Ryan Kent is an excellent SEO himself the gentlemen who posted his company www.vitopian.com is a top-notch SEO
I work with people that are recognized by this community as excellent and would be happy to talk to you about the work you need done.
Sincerely,
Thomas
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RE: Best Strategy to display 8mg Images on Product Pages for Ecommerce
Hi Keri,
that is a fantastic idea for somebody that needs to give that type of an image however I would personally do what Keri said use dropbox, box or my personal favorite share file then the person will be able to download the link of the photo without any issue
However if you're going run this on a website you could seriously slow down your website and that's no good for anyone so make it a download if it is something important like a file that needs to be used or use Flickr they allow you to upload full sized images and I believe optimize them because they're never at-large for new download them.
If you're using WordPress you can check out Zippykid.com go to the help menu type in optimize photo and there is a great plug-in available.
I believe you said exactly what I should have finished with another trick that works for me and misses on a Mac using grabber so please forgive me if I'm giving you advice about something that does not apply to your computer. But use grabber from the utilities folder set it to png then take a grab or snapshot of the offending photo many times this will drop the size down to under a mg. However be warned if you want to have 300 megapixel images for retina displays on iPad 3 you can still add pixels to the copied version and save a boatload of space. But to the best of my knowledge PNG-8 is how you want to compress large photographs ( really all that are going on the web) that way it will be a lossless image meaning you will build little difference and no one else will except for the user downloading your site's content.
Keri Please correct me if I say anything that you feel is sending this person the wrong direction but to answer their question is 8mb too big my answer is most definitely yes for websites I cannot imagine a reason why you would need to have an image that large when compression technology has come so far for instance I use ImageOptim.app on a Mac however there are literally hundreds of outstanding tools to compress images on the web. Just go to a safe place to download them if using a Mac I recommend Mac updates if using a PC I recommend CNET each are safe places you can actually download free tools to help you with this issue from.
Sincerely,
Thomas
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RE: Homepage 302 redirect - Which option makes most sense?
You really do not want to have a URL that is considered temporary unless you are changing domains or doing something like building a new website. From a search engine 1st perspective now if you want this thing to rank I think what you should do and tell me if I'm way off okay man is to use a landing page for instance go to http://www.blueprintmarketing.com then where you see the home button in navigation let your mouse hover over it. You will then see a drop down click on that it is a landing page. All landing pages is a separate way to add pages to your site that would work in this situation where you can keep the original site example.com and off of example.com you will not need any example.com/newevent you simply have the power with landing pages to turn them on and off what framework are you using for WordPress if you don't mind me asking?
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RE: Is it worth buying a Dropped domain?
if you registered the domain through a regular registrar like DYN.com pairnic.com or enome you most likely paid the exact amount you would normally pay? if so and that domain was created in November according to who.is unfortunately you did not get the older domain however this can be a blessing in disguise sometimes people can buy domains with bad links to them. As always you like the domain keep using it the real age of the domain like when it was ever 1st registered try domaintools.com also http://who.is then look under history. I hope this was of help to you
sincerely,
Thomas
PS if you want to post the domain or private message me it I can tell you without a doubt the exact date it was 1st registered and the exact date it was last registered.
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RE: Anyone Got An Honest Opinion Of WPengine
So you know you do have to tell him to turn on the content delivery network with zippy kid and if your site is not performing let them know they will tweak it
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RE: Homepage 302 redirect - Which option makes most sense?
so now is a rule of thumb you need a minimum of 300 words per page or blog post.
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RE: Homepage 302 redirect - Which option makes most sense?
You need toKeep your homepage you need so it either has a update in the form of a call to action expressing the event or use landing pages
what platform are you working on don't let me ask asking? Is it WordPress, HTML?
try setting it up so you have one homepage that stays as your homepage in addition you will add landing pages that contain event information. Please look at the links below
http://unbounce.com/landing-pages/
http://www.copyblogger.com/landing-pages/
I hope this better answers your question. It is extremely hard to understand why you doubt rel=canonical it is one of the best ways to go about constructing a website. However if you are going to constantly be changing your homepage URL I think that is a terrible idea the one I say that I mean changing it like example.com/event-1 to example.com to example.com/event-5 that is what landing pages are for not redirects
sincerely,
Thomas
PS if you can take a screenshot or something that would be awesome
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RE: Best Strategy to display 8mg Images on Product Pages for Ecommerce
Yes 8mb photos are very large use a photo compression app like http://freenuts.com/6-free-online-image-compressors/ and a I would use either rack space file cloud http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public/files/screenshots/ using Akamai's content delivery network (CDN). http://aws.amazon.com/s3/ which in itself is not a CDN but as far as uploading large quantities of photos and downloading them for to a website it is a extremely powerful tool
or use Amazon S3 in combination with http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ cloud front you will get the best of both worlds.
To make it simple on you and quick I would sign up for rack spaces cloud files and activate the Akamai CDN you do not have to pay and less you download the file. Making it better for you if you compress your photographs.
Last but not least an extremely inexpensive CDN is CDN77.com or MaxCDN.com you can get a terabyte of space for $35 on each however CDN 77 has more pops and offers more believe it or not for the money
8 megs is to a large especially if you're going to use more than one photo
I hope I've been of help to you,
Thomas
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RE: Homepage 302 redirect - Which option makes most sense?
Hi Ben,
it seems to me that you have quite a bit going on. Number 1 I would not start jumbling the domains around to redirect to each other I would use a simple system like event Brite its free and even SEOmoz uses it to create events. I would do this for each particular event and put it on the correct home page or website. just so you know what you described will most likely destroy any quality ranking that you have. Did you ask to do a 302 redirect because it is a temporary redirect? Please do not do what you have proposed for your own sake honestly you would be better off dating the link that you want indexed
so my site is example.com/event-12/2012/
may next website is example2.com/event-1/2013
and so on when you use a 302 redirect you completely stop any link juice or search engine good stuff from passing through your website to the next. It is very common to see a calendar with events set up and when they pass they are no longer worried about
to get the word out simply use
Each event will have its own indexed URL
PS 302 redirecting your website will not benefit you in any way you will not pass link juice and will honestly just put yourself through more work than needed.
If I understood you correctly this should be the correct answer. If I did not please let me know and I would like to help you whatever is wrong.
I apologize why is it that you have 3 websites?
Respectfully,
Thomas
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RE: Rip Off Report.com?
I just googled ripoff report and the 1st pay per click that came up was this link saying that they would help anybody who needed to remove their name from ripoff report.com I can't speak to the legitimacy of this company or say this is the way to go I would still like to hear what SEOmoz has to say simply because this is something that search engine optimization companies use as a way to attract people I do not offer this service however that does not mean it is something that is illegitimate or should not be offered. Here is the link to the company that came up number 1 pay per click not organic in Google when searching ripoff report
http://www.removeyourname.com/index.html
You may want to make sure they have an agreement with you that you will receive the results you requested or your money back.
Sincerely,
Thomas Zickell
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RE: Rip Off Report.com?
Just so I am on the same page.
You are representing the client the has been put on the " ripoff report.com website" and you feel it is not a legitimate report but one made by possibly a competitor or somebody committing an act of malice?
if what I said is correct I would say the best way of going about it is to contact ripoff report.com at that point explained to them why you believe it is a fraudulent representation of your client and I doubt they'll give you the information of "who did it" however if you asked them enough about the case I am certain that is a good way to start. Because and I'm not an expert please remember on this exact topic however ripoff report is a business and from what I understand they are trying to be legitimate so I'm sure there must be some due diligence into any sort of report documents, e-mails that type of stuff if you can prove the e-mail is fake let's say somebody did lie about your clients business and stated things that are blatantly untrue they probably did not use their corporate e-mail and if they did use e-mail that should be all public information at least public to you the person that has a vested interest in defending your client. However search engine optimization companies often do state they will "remove negative information regarding clients" or whatever I feel if you think it is a fraudulent claim that your best like is dealing directly with the source I could be very wrong so please understand I strongly suggest you use your free private question with SEOmoz you can do that simply by asking a question and marking it private you only get one a month however the information given is really 1st class and I think one of the most valuable parts of being and SEOMoz member. however wall were here I would love to hear what SEOmoz thinks themselves.
Also when you said Black Hat?
If you are talking about the person who did do this and they are doing it just to hurt your client absolutely that is one of the most horrible black hat techniques anyone can use against somebody.
I hope I've been of help to you.
Respectfully,
Thomas
PS Just got out of hospital and have not been available
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RE: Crawl Diagnostics Report 500 erorr
I have googled it for you and I definitely think you should contact your web host. Here's what comes up https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/594
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RE: Crawl Diagnostics Report 500 erorr
go into the campaign section on seomoz run your site through it. You will then see where the errors are upon seeing error lit up click it use the drop-down to select 500 errors then you will see exactly what link is causing the error.
There is literally no way I can guess what is causing your website guess not to work correctly however a 500 error is a very serious one most likely involving a problem with server.
If you give me your domain I might be able to help more however if your site is just giving 500 errors you might want to call your web host as it sounds like it is not an SEO problem is much as it is a hosting issue.
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RE: Can you have a /sitemap.xml and /sitemap.html on the same site?
Just like Oleg & Paul I agree 100% your site may have and it will probably benefit from having both a site map which is a nice feature in HTML format and one in XML format as they are not used for the same purpose by Google nor by individuals so you may safely create a regular webpage in HTML and call it whatever you like if it ends in.XML it is not a forward facing webpage it has a separate use and that uses to tell Google's crawler where you would like it to go now keep in mind Google does not always listen to what we want but site maps can be helpful.
I hope this was of help to you
sincerely,
Thomas
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RE: Changing to a cdn
check your private box I sent username and password to a account that I really don't use photos should show you exactly what I'm talking about amino there are any problems sincerely Thomas
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RE: Changing to a cdn
Thank you for playing up exactly what you are asking you do not have to change any subdomain that exists so sure www.keep it as is when you add the CDN you will be asked to add a thing that says a second subdomain however I give you my word on this because it's a sine it's aliasing this as If it were coming from the same location www.should stay if it is Artie there you should not change your link structure except for to simply add the DNS CDN the DNS the reason you cannot add it directly to www. is it will not work if it's a direct link. Before my address was www.BlueprintMarketing.com After three CDN's into house it's still done www.BlueprintMarketing.com that will never change it's only your interior links That are affected so your normal links that anyone would click on would never be touched in this situation you would it would not be like running a subdomain for a blog or anything like that this is a subdomain for seeing name and to take advantage of the CVS so I understand why you're concerned and you bring up a very valid point but they've gotten around that system Akamai for instance has an outstanding support team as well they do not need you to change your X terminal links only internal links it will not hurt your search engine optimization As mentioned above (and for some technical scenarios) the old imageurl of the product will be valid. So for one image, I will have *two" URLs: So in your example below the upload address might be the first URL the second URL is simply a Cname that then points to your domain So this stays the same as well as all the other links that are like it www.shop.com/ In the source code you will then be able to tell all me then will you see the CDN. cdn.shop.com/images/my-beautifull-image.jpg And my question is: How to handle this in the best way: The best way is to simply follow the instructions oh I have an idea I'm going to private message you my login information to a CDN account and I will show you how it works okay?
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RE: Changing to a cdn
1st get a CDN and a host before you start worrying about redirects and
"Sending Canonicals for the images? Redirects?"
the answer is "nothing to worry about Or nothing to worry about"
CDN's will allow you to change Robot text and header info many times if you tell me the vendor using I can be of a lot more help however a very popular one for instance is Max CDN take a look at them and see if they have a phone number and have support walk you through it 99% of the time this is a simple procedure and the CDN will take over for your old links that are just so they're not destroyed there simply replaced with essentially better links.
you must change your DNS over to reflect the change as well you need to make a sine I would name it CDN
then place whatever the link made by the CDN company is for the push for pull then it will look like this
to see how in the very beginning after HTTP:// you see CDN that is because that was the only change to the link when the CDN was put into the DNS's using a cname print since this is what my DNS looks like
| <a id="yui-gen441" class="tooltip" name="*.blueprintmarketing.com.">cdn.blueprintmarketing.com cname pointing to</a> | <a id="yui-gen443" class="tooltip" name="blueprint.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com.">blueprint.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com</a> |
this way I just turn on the CDN to be honest from use in a managed word press host in my case I'm using WP engine, Zippy kid, page.ly & Websynthesis.com they are easy to use I would say for CDN Zippykid.com is the only one that comes standard with a content delivery network for 25 bucks you can't beat it
Respectfully,
Thomas
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RE: Changing to a cdn
good list
http://www.cdn-advisor.com/companies/
http://www.distributioncloud.com/contact/thanks.html yet to try this one but have only heard good things
http://www.bitgravity.com/ great for video
http://www.edgecast.com/ extremely fast in the United States
http://blog.highwinds.com/highwinds-free-trial? gclid=CKiqt732gLQCFUeRPAodxm4AUQ free trial using this link
http://www.cdn77.com/ very inexpensive but does everything and has a lot of pops
http://www.maxcdn.com/ very easy to use and inexpensive but still good
http://www.netdna.com/ a great all-around cdn
may I ask you 1st off do have a HTML website, WordPress or something else?
is your host a managed host? do happen to have their name?
what is the name of the CDN that you're using?
I can help you and to answer your question what most often happens with a content delivery network and an existing site is the CDN will mirror all your current photographs onto its network sometimes depending on the vendor it will even reduce the size regardless it will cash them to pops all over the world and speed up your site quite a bit if you have a lot of photos and video. If you're using WordPress and a plug-in you have it a lot easier than if your not.
why did you say you moved to a new host? do you think that the CDN is your host or sorry I have to ask did you actually move to a different hosting company then you were with prior?
if it's WordPress or any thing really all you have to do is let the CDN mirror the images then it will update the links automatically. If you have to go in and hand do it it will not be fun.
If you are using WordPress I hope you are I would strongly suggest manage WordPress host I don't know about you but I like to have my hosting work not worked for it check out Zippy kid, WP engine, page.ly and Web synthesis if you are using a simple CDN like cloud flare I can tell you it's a matter of just changing the DNS however if you're using a regular CDN which I imagine you are like edge you have to mirror everything on to edge that you want to be served from the content delivery network at that point the CDN will create new links the new links will be static and serve your content throughout the world.
I hope I have been of help please give me more information so I can help you with this.
Sincerely,
Thomas
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RE: Redirect from WP Plugin
I know
Hi checked out your plug-in it does not look like the best solution for total security and all honesty you can't get that from a simple plug-in you need to have a hardend server you might want to look into
Every one of them of is a far better job protecting your information the one plug and can and I'll have a server-side secure built in
My 2 cents
Tom
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RE: Weekly on-page SEO report problem
Joram Is correct I imagine you received this report via e-mail and did not log into your campaigns folder on the site yet? They give you the most changed report is brief but important information. I like to get that finger on the pulse of a once a week sometimes clients want it once a week they want info others don't but as was said before you can always run the reports and figured out for that time. Follow the link into the campaign and view what's available whenever you want.
I hope I better hope to you.
Sincerely,
Thomas
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RE: Duplicate page reported in Wordpress site, but I can't find it in All Pages list
Have you gotten the opportunity to run the site through
http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test
it tells you it takes 2 days but I find normally takes about 20 min. the information it gives I think is far greater than what Google Webmaster tools can ever do. Are you replying to me when you say you think it's correct about the pages having one being a category and the other being a page? Were you referring to the challenge that posted 1st? I do a lot of WordPress and would be more than happy to look at it again if you would like me to?
this answered your question then? if it did please follow the guidelines and give credit where you feel are appropriate.
Respectfully,
Thomas Zickell
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RE: Redirect from WP Plugin
Yes go into your dashboard when logged into WordPress. Find plug-ins look for the plug-in that is doing the redirect itself and disable it. Or if it has options which I'm sure it does find the offending redirect and remove that.
I hope that would've helped you
Thomas
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RE: Does a url with no trailing slash (/)need A special redirect to the same url with a trailing slash (/)
Hi I need you want to probably go with the forward slash so it's consistency. You find it under
Permalink Settings
Sincerely,
Thomas
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RE: Google Blogger Vs. Sub Domain Blog - Authority building.
Google recently relax the rules on subdomains they will now be ranked same the same way as their domain so www. which is a subdomain or blog is equal and will be equal in the eyes of Google
Why are you being cruel using blogger you can easily use WordPress take the existing stylesheet that time website to make it match and have a better platform area of the entire site again WordPress thank you I hope I hope you,
Thomas
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RE: Increase of 404 error after change of encoding
just wanted to give you one more thing that I think would help http://www.w3schools.com/html5/att_meta_charset.asp
I believe you should clean up your encoding and that it will not be a big deal.
Sincerely,
Tom
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RE: Increase of 404 error after change of encoding
I thought this may help as well because you do have to clean up your source code
The online quoted-printable encoder tool first encodes the input text in either UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1. The characters are then output according to this schema:
| Character | Result | Comment |
| "=" (0x3D) | =3D | Special handling of the equal sign |
| " " (0x20) to "~" (0x7E) | Unmodified | Printable ASCII (7 bits) |
| Any other | =XX | Hexadecimal char code |Since quoted-printable does not in itself specify the text character encoding, it is important to specify this correctly when used. The online quoted-printable decoder tool attempts to auto-detect the text encoding.
See the Wikipedia article on quoted-printable for more info.
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RE: Increase of 404 error after change of encoding
I would use a tool similar to this http://www.percederberg.net/tools/text_converter.html
as you can see your links for your gif photos are encoded "data:image/gif;base64"
please give it a try and tell me if that helps?
Sincerely,
Thomas
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RE: Increase of 404 error after change of encoding
what you need to do is go into your site and cleanup the links that have been converted and messed up because of the change. Once you clean them you will have no problem this is what your links look like
data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///////yH+A1BTQQAsAAAAAAEAAQAAAgJEAQA7
utf-8 is definitely the right coding it's very good you just have to go in and clean it up looking your source code
"
| {"m":2571,"a":"wrap"}" width="108" height="65" data-original="/upload/merchants_logo/108-65/amkashop.jpeg" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///////yH+A1BTQQAsAAAAAAEAAQAAAgJEAQA7"> <noscript></span><img data-merchant="2571" class="merchantLogo lazy" data-out="{"m":2571,"a":"wrap"}" width="108" height="65" src="/upload/merchants_logo/108-65/amkashop.jpeg" alt="Amkashop"><span></noscript> |
| |<a <span="">href</a><a <span="">="</a>/annuaire,amkashop,site,promotions,2685.html" title="Amkashop">Code promo Amkashop"
|
I hope I've been of help to you.
Thomas
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RE: Increase of 404 error after change of encoding
Did you happened to possibly write it using Microsoft Word and paste content in? Or are you speaking about a website that you converted from another encoding to Unicode 8?
sincerely,
Thomas
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RE: Should we create content for a competitor?
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
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RE: Got Hit By Google Sandbox. What to do now?
The only way to make your domain look Safert Google is to register for a longer period of time and by doing that you can simply add going to where you purchase your domain and add years if it's a business like yours I would add five years because you wanted to exist right I'm glad I've been of help to you. All the best, Thomas
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RE: Got Hit By Google Sandbox. What to do now?
nice pick using Genesis it is a great framework for WordPress. If you want to get the G off of the favicon you can simply use a great Genesis plug-in under Genesis favicon.
Your in the sandbox for approximately 3 months because you bought a domain name and only registered it for one year the only thing you can really do to help yourself in the situation is register your domain for a longer period of time like 5 years.
| Expires On | October 28, 2013 |
| Registered On | October 28, 2012 |I can see you to not have any links right now I would go about building them in a manner that you know is safe if you're going to use directories don't use a lot of matter what use the ones that SEOmoz recommends
sincerely,
Thomas
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RE: Got Hit By Google Sandbox. What to do now?
just a quick heads-up I was very reluctant to check out your site because you put it in a URL shorter. I can see that you might have had your reasons however it does not. Help inspire confidence and clicking on it
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RE: Got Hit By Google Sandbox. What to do now?
1st off let's address sandbox. Sandbox is when Google decides to wait and see if your going to do anything malicious or not like when you buy a new domain for one year or really any new domain at all Google put you in the sandbox because it is very inexpensive to purchase a domain these days for $2 and go off and do something very nasty on the web.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_effect
Okay now to answer your question about links. The best way to get links and I don't know what you're page rank is but I will look. is go out and offer to guest post a blog on somebody in your industries website. You'll be giving them free content and it will link their site back to you. I don't feel it is gray hat or black hat to ask your friends for a link however only if the link is relevant should you do this and do not abuse it I don't mean people you've heard of I mean your friends. The number 1 way to get a lot of great links is to blog to it a minimum of 20 times a month 300 words or more and you will get a higher page rank if you mix this with successfully get your wonderful blog out there on twitter, Facebook, Pinterest any social networks or PrWeb, PRNewswire press releases are great ways to get links.
Blog here on SEOmoz you could get quite a few people following you very quickly if you write a very clear comprehensive blog that is helpful to the community. I'm not saying it's easy but that all depends some of us are better at some things than others I for one am not a good writer. Take a look at skyrocket SEO they do some outstanding link bait articles and you can pay people to create link bait on your website.
I hope I have been of help let me know if I can help anymore.
Sincerely,
Thomas
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RE: Does google places mind listing cities on the home page
if it is a legitimate reason that you have to list more than one city. For instance they're not cities but actually just towns? That is fine you can get away with that just fine in fact you can tell them you walk dogs and every city that you legitimately do make sure that you sign up with Google places and link it to that account it will help legitimize any doubts Google may have.
Respectfully,
Thomas
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RE: Duplicate page reported in Wordpress site, but I can't find it in All Pages list
I just wanted to be clear the reason you cannot find it in your page list is it's in your categories list
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RE: Got Hit By Google Sandbox. What to do now?
by the way don't go web directory crazy you mentioned you put some in web directories I honestly would not do that and I also would take care to make sure Google does not think looking at it your site is some sort of spoof anyway I realize it is not and just would take care to be very professional.
Sincerely,
Thomas
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RE: Got Hit By Google Sandbox. What to do now?
number 1 just so you know you can't really get hit by Google sandbox it's something you do to yourself when you buy a new domain.
Number 2 I believe that you set yourself by using squidoo & ezine their both horrible do not create content on them pointing to your site.
"i personally wrote 2 squidoo lenses, and wrote about 4 articles for high popular article sites like ezine, amazines, apsense etc. and got approved. And now, i wrote a press release and submitted to prweb, sbwire and pressdoc website."
PRWeb is a great company I really don't have enough experience with the others to tell you if they're good or bad.
I would remove your links from squidoo & ezine
I hope I have been of some help,
Thomas
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RE: Duplicate page reported in Wordpress site, but I can't find it in All Pages list
I would have to strongly agree with Chris's guests or that WordPress is simply treating your category as a page as it does commonly. The 2 I received are the ones below. You can clearly see 2 separate and URLs with category catalog being the difference any category can be a page
http://www.superheroes.com.au/shop/category/catalog/
http://www.superheroes.com.au/shop/
I hope I have been of some help to you,
Thomas
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RE: How can I see the URL's affected in Seomoz Crawl when Notices increase
Hi Sarah, do you see the orange red and blue errors, noted warnings and I think it's information? I know you can click on those it seems like you have quite a few notifications and to be completely honest with you I know that the best way Of looking at all your data if it is on the spreadsheet will be using Excel or using numbers if you use a Mac does so work very well for me I would imagine you can download it as an XML or CVS file I would try your luck with each I assume you are definitely in the campaign part of SEOmoz tools correct if so I would strongly suggest using the link ideas in the first reply about the crawl and having a seomoz do a Full crawl I monophone right now so I cannot see the answer is before but I know it is SEOmoz full call or crawl website that way your entire website that will give you a clear concise spreadsheet that you'll be able to read. I hope I have been of help to you sincerely, Thomas
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RE: How can I see the URL's affected in Seomoz Crawl when Notices increase
Sarah
what you have to do is when you see the warning or notice simply click on the icon showing you the number of warnings or notices. It will bring you to the correct pages that you need to see. Then you can take it from there and even get tips from inside the system and explain exactly what needs to be done to correct the problem.
Sincerely,
Thomas