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caseyhen

David,

Volume 1 of the set is from 2008, Volume 2 is from 2009. As for what sessions are out of date, I'm not exactly sure as it's been about 8 months since I've personally watched them. Many of the sessions are on advanced theories and actions which makes them not go out of date. I know some of the PPC sessions are out of date since many of the tools have changed.

We do have the videos from our 2010 conference and we are not sure what we will be doing with those yet. They will either be placed on the website for streaming with purchase or go out with our 2011 conference which will be in July, stay turned for that.

Casey

caseyhen

Hi Guys,

I've read both the Art Of SEO and watched both series and I would that there is some overlap but the stuff in the DVDs is more advanced than what you find in the book. Some of the sessions on the DVD are outdated but many of them still have actionable items in them that you can benefit from. Plus about 2 weeks ago we lowered the price so it's worth the pickup in my mind. You can see the back cover below in my links:

http://yfrog.com/hsn90abj

http://yfrog.com/gyp2geaj

Casey

caseyhen

Hi Challen,

The following code should remove all index.html from any page you go to but I recommend you get someone who is comfortable working with .htaccess files since you can do some damage if you don't do thing correct. Plus not all code in .htaccess files works the same on every server. So if the code in the other few answer doesn't work and neither does mine, it may be something to do with your host and you may need to check with them.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index.html\ HTTP [NC]
RewriteRule (.*)index.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]

Casey

caseyhen

How many members are on your SEO team and how many clients do you handle?

caseyhen

Hi Yudhis,

With every update of our metrics, which is almost monthly, we adjust them to try and match what we are seeing in the SERPs. As always there are other factors that we might not be aware of that could effect things in the SERP you are looking at but we do readjust things with every update.

Casey

caseyhen

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Hi April,

Below is a list of URLs that your CMS is creating and linking to from somewhere on your site. The last 19 links are all duplicate content and don't seem to change based on the URL which is a huge problem. My suggestion is that you meet with your developer and make sure that you get rid of all these duplicate pages that are linking back to your home page.

http://www.frs-solutions.com/

caseyhen

Hi Jimbo,

A return in an Error 500 could be because the request you placed went over a certain limit in place. Most likely due the amount of links pointing at nz.yahoo.com is the reason you got the error. I would suggest you email out help team if you are experience any further problems, at help@seomoz.org.

Casey

caseyhen

Hi Dstrunin,

I would still use the rel canonical tag even with or without the filter in place. So if you have a list of products displayed unfilter at companyname.com/productcategory/page1.htm, I would add a rel canonical with it pointing at companyname.com/productcategory/page1.htm. For the filtered results,companyname.com/productcategory/filters/page1.htm , the canoncial tag would still point to companyname.com/productcategory/page1.htm.

It doesn't hurt to have a canonical tag point to the same page it's on.

If you can't do that I would meta noindex those filtered pages and remove the robots.txt stuff. Robots.txt doesn't tell Google they can't index it it only says they can't crawl it. So they could still index old stuff they crawled before you did the robots.txt stuff or index the title tags.

Casey

caseyhen

Hi DragonSearch,

Edgecast is a basic CDN provider which will help your speed and performance on your website. We at SEOmoz have our own custom CDN which allows us to load our webpages from one server and load our images and other large documents from another server. If you look at the code on our site you will see some of our images come from http://cdn.seomoz.org. This is all to increase the speed of our site and reduce the load on our servers. In the big picture I would spend lots of money on a service like this since it will only have a minor role on your SEO efforts.

Casey

caseyhen

Hi Thomas,

I've done some studies on this and you will be fine using this technique and Google won't give you any problems doing it. Check out my post on the Honeypot Technique, http://www.seomoz.org/blog/captchas-affect-on-conversion-rates. The technique works quite well blocking about 98% of SPAM.

Casey

caseyhen

Hi Tim,

There is a new version of OSE in the works currently, though I'm not sure if that feature will be in there. I know that the web app is set to have some for of historial tracking so stay tuned. You can also submit feature requests here: http://www.seomoz.org/dp/change-log

caseyhen

Hi LameMule,

Those site links are hard to control and really it's an automated process that Google uses to generate the title for those links. My suggestion is to make sure that all your internal linking is set the way you want it to display in your site link. My guess is that Google is coming across different versions of anchor text pointing internally to your page and then changing it based on that.

Casey

caseyhen

Hi Francesco,

The problem is that .uk.com is not a true TLD, like .uk.com, .com, or .org, it's actually a subdomain of the domain uk.com. So those 24 million links you are seeing are for the domain uk.com and not your site. The true TLD for the UK is .co.uk and not .uk.com. So your website is really just a subdomain of a very big domain. To get information for your site you will only be able to look at the subdomain information and not the root domain level.

Casey

caseyhen

Hi Vijay,

That article was out of date and replaced by a chapter in our Beginners Guide to SEO, there are still copies out there from other peoples websites but we don't have it on our site. Check out the chapter in the guide here: http://guides.seomoz.org/chapter-7-growing-popularity-and-links

caseyhen

A thing to remember is that OSE doesn't discount any links or websites that may be spammy. My guess is that Google is discounting those links and pages since Squidoo is known to be very spammy and most likely was effected in the last updated by Google. My suggestion would be not to follow in the same suite as them and avoid falling into getting links from these type of spammy places.

Casey

caseyhen

Yes, you can add tags like I do to sort out business vs personal ones!

caseyhen

Hi Nick,

Currently thats not a feature that is available in our web app. If you would like us to consider it for a future release please submit it here http://www.seomoz.org/dp/change-log and our product team will look it over.

Casey

caseyhen

Hi Mike,

It was an error in our most recent release, it should return in the next release.

Casey

caseyhen

Hi Daniel,

When I was working on my own I spent just about zero time on the phone building links. Like they said below, I did most of my link building via emails since it was much less time consuming. I've also talked with some of the other people in the office and over at Distilled and they agree that they spend almost no time on the phone building links.

I'd say it's your responsibility to build the links but I would pick a easier solution than the phone.

Casey

caseyhen

Hi Oxygenretreat,

Singulars and plurals should be treated the same, so your main page should be targeting both "exotic vacations" and "exotic vacation" because Google sees them as the same in most instances. As for internal linking, it doesn't hold near the weight with Google as it has in the past. My suggestion would be to make sure that your anchor text is related to the page and thats about it. If you have a page about exotic vacations make sure that the internal anchor text links to it with some form of exotic vacations and not some term like "home". Since internal anchor text is easily manipulated Google has reduced it's role in their ranking models over the past years.

Casey

caseyhen

Hi Highland,

I would defiantly work on making sure that your product only lives in one category. The canonical tag is a nice little band-aid but it still fix the root of the problem. I would suggest you can have it listed in many different categories but it only lives in one category at the product level. So for instance:

It's displayed here

site/cat1
site/cat2
site/cat3

But it only displays product details at a url like this

site/category/product

I'm not a huge fan of having Google crawl 4 or 5 extra pages per product just to find a canonical tag when you could just spend the extra programming time to make it work correctly.

Casey

caseyhen

Hi Michael,

Now a days Google is really Google at figuring out what version of the website you want to go with but with that said, isn't really that hard of a thing to fix. I'd say that as long as all your internal links are consistent in pointing to the same version, then you shouldn't have anything to worry about. In the long run of things, by making the redirect you won't see this huge bump in rankings but it is a standard practice that is done.

Casey

caseyhen

Hi Dagný,

If you can email help@seomoz.org they may be able to help you with your problem. All of your campaigns and data is saved regardless of if your PRO or not.

Casey

caseyhen

Hi Tommy,

To delete a campaign, go to your PRO Dashboard and click on "Campaign Settings". Then scroll all the way to the bottom and click "Delete". If the campaign is staying there for some strange reason please email help@seomoz.org and let them know.

Casey

caseyhen

Hi Haig,

It seems the problem is that Google is ranking the www version of your website. The reason why your website isn't being shown in the ranking report is because you entered it as vegashotel.com and thats what our web app is looking for in the SERPs but since www.vegashotel.com is ranking we miss it. I do believe we have this fix in the works so it will be counted in the future but for now you will need to go into Google Webmaster Tools and specify that you want the non-www displayed.

Casey

caseyhen

Hi Randy,

The Web App will try to find pages that rank well and score well in the On Page Report. Just because you have added 48 keywords doesn't mean that you will get 48 on page reports. Usually when I find a situation like this I find that my site isn't well optimized for the keywords that I entered. If you want to view the on page report for a specific keyword and page you can run it manually also.

Casey

caseyhen

Hi Eyepaq,

SEOmoz using a CDN to host all of our images, though we set up a DNS change so they can be hosting on a third party server but listed at cdn.seomoz.org. Doing what you are talking about shouldn't effect any of your "juice" if you are just using it to display your images using the img tag or via css. You pdfs might be affected since you are using a <a href="">tag which tells Google you are linking to that file. In the long run you will be much better off than anything you might lose by doing something like this.</a>

<a href="">Casey</a>

caseyhen

Hi Taufix,

It seems the question you are referring to is on our old Q&A system and your question can be found at the link below where Rand answered it today.

http://www.seomoz.org/qa/view/52213

I've copied and pasted his answer below for you. Feel free to respond in either the new or old system and check out the blog post where we talk about the release of our new Q&A system.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/new-pro-qa

Hi Chowi - so sorry for our long delay! We've been launching the new Q+A and got a bit backlogged. Hopefully I can be of help.

#1 - There's a few SEO issues, but what you're doing can/should potentially work. The problems are:

A) Users who link to / tweet / share / email content around will likely get the Flash version(s) and may not be sharing internal content/pages (or linking to the correct URLs for the mobile/HTML/search-friendly version). That sucks, but if you're more concerned with just being indexed/crawled and not competitive rankings, it's less of an issue.

B) If the engines are crawling inside the Flash (via SWFObject or some othe engine-readable format), it could mean duplicate content.

C) In an ideal world, I might think about HTML 5, which allows for Flash-like interfaces while being SEO/Mobile friendly and device agnostic.

#2 - That redirect should be fine - it's what lots of Flash sites do and the engines shouldn't have a problem. The nasty bit, of course, is that users linking/sharing the Flash URL likely won't be crawled/parsed properly by Google, which bites.

#3 - As I mentioned, HTML 5 could be a quite nice solution, or even mixing HTML and Flash such that the URLs have Flash on them, but aren't "all Flash" so the URLs map properly, etc. These aren't prefect solutions, of course, but they're possibilities. One more thing - you might want to look into Google's new AJAX crawling, which could apply depending on how you build your app. http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/

All the best!

Rand

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