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RE: Research for "love quotes"
Where did you find out that it only has one link? The link: operator from Google doesn't return the exact number ... or even a useful number.
But your "research" obviously wasn't too exhaustive, just try to enter the URL on google and it'll return more than one link...
posted in Technical SEO
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RE: 301 or Rel=canonical
If you can do a 301, go for the 301. As far as PageRank is concerned, there's not much of a difference. See Matt Cutts on exactly this topic.
cheers
posted in Technical SEO
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RE: How to Resolve Duplication of HTTPS & HTPP URLs?
But you don't want your https pages crawled if there's the same version available as http. This is mostly a technical issue, but crawling a https site is way more expensive for both bot and server.
posted in Intermediate & Advanced SEO
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RE: How to Resolve Duplication of HTTPS & HTPP URLs?
301 redirect doesn't exclude a canonical. If you just want to use one solution, use the 301. There was a YouMoz post about exactly this topic a time ago, have look at it
posted in Intermediate & Advanced SEO
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RE: Google parameter
They changed how the regex work. You have to click on the "advanced" link next to the filter box, then you get "Include Keyword Containing". Click on "Containing" and select "Matching RegExp", then write the regex ^ ([^] +) {5.50} [^] + $ into the box. That should do the trick.
cheers
posted in Reporting & Analytics
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RE: Does stolen content matter anymore?
That's a bit off topic but I'd like to know what the "pain in the butt" for having the stolen content in the Czech Republic actually is. I know the DMCA is an US law and it would be easier if the guy was hosted in the US, but the Czech Rep isn't at the end of the world. As a member of the European Union I could imagine that it's not that hard to take legal action against a Czech company. I.e. not harder than against any company hosted in any other member state. Or are there other rules that apply for the Czech Republic than, say, for France or Germany? (Provided your company is hosted in the US)
posted in Industry News
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RE: Problem with indexing
There's nothing wrong with the links and with your robots.txt. But ...
You obviously have a huge duplicate content problem. Just look at the search result the site: query returns. There are a lot of old links (from the old CMS I suppose). Click through the links and you'll always get to the main page, but the URL remains the same. I.e. no redirect to the correct page with the new URL or to the Homepage.
You should have a look at your old URLs and redirect them with a HTTP 301 redirect to the new URL.
As a quick fix add a rel="canonical" tag to your new pages. This way google will index the correct page (and only the correct page) on its next crawl. Setting up the redirects should have happened prior to switching the CMS ...
posted in Technical SEO
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RE: A simple query
It really wasn't easy to find out what you mean by posting a sentence completely out of context
But you were obviously referring to this thread. This simply means that whenever you find an IP address in you hostnames report in Google Analytics, you should be able to look it up in order to see the host it comes from, rather than just the IP address, as most businesses map their IP to their hostname. E.g. 123.123.123.1 could be mapped to business.example.com and therefore you could find out that 5% percent of your visitors that show up in your hostnames report are from business.example.com.
(I made up all figures and names of course ;-))
posted in Technical SEO
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RE: Text in div
Valid markup can help the crawlability of your page and should also be encouraged as far as usability is concerned. But there's no difference in SEO if you add or remove a div tag. If you want to emphasize keywords on your page you might consider using "strong" or "em" tags. Also h tags e.g. h1, h2, ... have effect on SEO, although not the big effect it used to have some years ago.
posted in Technical SEO
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RE: Text in div
What do you mean by saying "a div in place of normal text"? Apart from that, what's that got to do with CSS? All I see is valid markup and that's how wegpages should look.
posted in Technical SEO
Best posts made by bootleg
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RE: Text in div
What do you mean by saying "a div in place of normal text"? Apart from that, what's that got to do with CSS? All I see is valid markup and that's how wegpages should look.
posted in Technical SEO
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RE: Maximum of 100 links on a page vs rel="nofollow"
Yes it still counts. Google changed that some years ago. For more info see this blog entry and also Matt Cutts take on this (both articles are about 2 years old, that's when the change happened).
Sorry for editing a third time, but please also have a look at Google's newest statement about the 100 links per site guideline on youtube.
posted in Intermediate & Advanced SEO
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RE: Google parameter
They changed how the regex work. You have to click on the "advanced" link next to the filter box, then you get "Include Keyword Containing". Click on "Containing" and select "Matching RegExp", then write the regex ^ ([^] +) {5.50} [^] + $ into the box. That should do the trick.
cheers
posted in Reporting & Analytics
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RE: Text in div
Valid markup can help the crawlability of your page and should also be encouraged as far as usability is concerned. But there's no difference in SEO if you add or remove a div tag. If you want to emphasize keywords on your page you might consider using "strong" or "em" tags. Also h tags e.g. h1, h2, ... have effect on SEO, although not the big effect it used to have some years ago.
posted in Technical SEO
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RE: How to Resolve Duplication of HTTPS & HTPP URLs?
301 redirect doesn't exclude a canonical. If you just want to use one solution, use the 301. There was a YouMoz post about exactly this topic a time ago, have look at it
posted in Intermediate & Advanced SEO
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RE: A simple query
It really wasn't easy to find out what you mean by posting a sentence completely out of context
But you were obviously referring to this thread. This simply means that whenever you find an IP address in you hostnames report in Google Analytics, you should be able to look it up in order to see the host it comes from, rather than just the IP address, as most businesses map their IP to their hostname. E.g. 123.123.123.1 could be mapped to business.example.com and therefore you could find out that 5% percent of your visitors that show up in your hostnames report are from business.example.com.
(I made up all figures and names of course ;-))
posted in Technical SEO
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RE: How to Resolve Duplication of HTTPS & HTPP URLs?
But you don't want your https pages crawled if there's the same version available as http. This is mostly a technical issue, but crawling a https site is way more expensive for both bot and server.
posted in Intermediate & Advanced SEO
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RE: Problem with indexing
There's nothing wrong with the links and with your robots.txt. But ...
You obviously have a huge duplicate content problem. Just look at the search result the site: query returns. There are a lot of old links (from the old CMS I suppose). Click through the links and you'll always get to the main page, but the URL remains the same. I.e. no redirect to the correct page with the new URL or to the Homepage.
You should have a look at your old URLs and redirect them with a HTTP 301 redirect to the new URL.
As a quick fix add a rel="canonical" tag to your new pages. This way google will index the correct page (and only the correct page) on its next crawl. Setting up the redirects should have happened prior to switching the CMS ...
posted in Technical SEO
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RE: 301 or Rel=canonical
If you can do a 301, go for the 301. As far as PageRank is concerned, there's not much of a difference. See Matt Cutts on exactly this topic.
cheers
posted in Technical SEO
Blog Posts
11/7/2008
Having read Duncan's post about Information Architecture, I thought I would write a short follow-up about an important means of navigation and IA: the paging navigator.
Providing a well thought out paging navigator can immensely increase the value of your website for both search engines and users. What follows is a selection of different popular paging navigators and a short evaluation.
9/18/2008
As there haven't been any posts in the usability category of youmoz since March, I thought I write a short usability entry. You SEOs out there certainly know how a link should look like for search engines. But do you also know how they should look like for real people, I mean the ones visiting your page and spending money on your products?1. Links onlineLinks ...
9/12/2008
I got inspired by Rebecca Kelley's post about Newbie Mistakes and instantly two and a half newbie mistakes came to my mind. They are a bit on the technical side of things, but not too much to be understood by all of you mozzers :-)1. Robots.txt is no security layer...
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