If you were going to do this on a large scale, I'd say don't do it, but as both sites are related to each other by means of you, and there's no reason you can't link to your business site from your personal site, there's not problem with that. The summitweb.net site will get some benefit of having a link to it from the moxby.org.uk site and the the moxby.org.uk site will maintain the benefit it's currently getting from it's inbound links. You're in good shape with that.
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RE: Undo a 301 or Starting New Domain?
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RE: What should I look for when choosing a good article directory for SEO purposes?
The goal is to identify the audience, learn who their influencers are, create content that meets their needs as prospective customers, and which promotes sharing. You have to be tuned in to the audience and you have to be tuned in to the business objectives and you have to be tuned in to the product to get the most out of content.
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RE: Is it OK to include name of your town to the title tag or H1 tag on a blog to enhance local search results
Brooke,
There's nothing wrong with including place names in your title, in fact, it is a best practice in many instances. Be strategic about doing so, though. Adding the name of your city to every blog post will seem spammy (but won't get you penalized) and probably isn't necessary. Typically, if your services are location specific, you should include your place name in the title, description, and body. It will usually help with organic ranking and click through on product/services pages when searchers are looking locally for your offerings.
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RE: Robots.txt
Dario,
There are a number of free tools online for creating your robots.txt file that can help you with that. Moz has a page pertaining to it that you should check out as well. http://moz.com/learn/seo/robotstxt
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RE: 301-Redirects, PageRank, Matt Cutts, Eric Enge & Barry Schwartz - Fact or Myth?
Dana,
When you say "inherits about 72% of Page A's pagerank if no other links are on the page", I think that's where your understanding goes off track....either that, or it's where mine goes off track, because my understanding is that the percentage of PR that is passed from one page to another page is based on an unknown "X amount", not on the linking page's toolbar pagerank. I think is better to say ...inherits about 72% of the pagerank that page A is able to pass...---not 72% of Page A's pagrerank. Does that make sense?
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RE: Content too buried in source code?
Hey seosarah,
Here's a fun thread with 3 of Moz's heaviest hitters each weighing in on your topic--each with a bit of a different take on it...
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RE: Penguin 2.0 Loss of rankings
That's not very hard for a penguin penalty. It would seem more like the natural course of things in the serps. If you keep going down, that would be a bigger problem but if you steady at the 3,4 range, just keep working on your content--magic is a great subject around which to create interesting, engaging content.
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RE: Does pages with same products but with different orders count as duplication?
vuquanchien,
From your explanation, it sounds like those three pages list exactly the same products but in different orders. If that's the case, I think it would be worth while to canonicalize them to a single page. Keep in mind that just because your ecommerce platform allows you to do certain things, it doesn't necessarily mean that you should do all/any of them. If you only have a page worth of products but you create three pages out of them in order to show different sorts, it may not be necessary. Splitting up the page into alternative categories may be a better idea.
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RE: Merging Sites: Will redirecting the old homepage to an internal page on the new site cause issues?
It's a toss up but I think you should redirect it to the internal page. The relevancy will be better and it's a good opportunity to get a strong link to an internal page. You could have a small blub on that page that welcomes visitors who were redirected to lessen any disorientation from it. Yes, you may lose a bit of branding but those deep links can be hard to get and I think it would be worth it.
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RE: Have I been Hit by a Penguin? No Warning in Webmaster / Some Pages still Rank
It's not stale content. As the dates in the graph appear to correspond to Penguin 2.0, I'd be thinking along those lines.
Google algorithm change history: http://moz.com/google-algorithm-change
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RE: Should i put a full article on my home page to get google to visit more
Making that change isn't going to get the page indexed more often and crawl frequency probably isn't your primary problem. If you've been penalized, you're really going to need to sort out what the cause of penalty was if you're to recover from it effectively. You might try reading through this post for a starting place on penalty ID:
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RE: PR1 and PR2 backlinks
Bob,
Don't get focused on the PR of your back links. Relevancy and quality are what matter most. A thematically relevant site with quality content and a PR of 0 that links out to you for all the right reasons is a good link. It may be a future PR 1,2,3 or more site and it can bring traffic to your site, in addition to balancing out anchor text and providing domain diversity. Another thing, almost all sites come and go so basing your link building on the likelihood of a site being around in a few years isn't a good strategy to follow.
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RE: Does pages with same products but with different orders count as duplication?
Unless your category pages pull together a group of products that formulate some sort of unique point of view that benefits the sales process, then there's no real reason for your category pages to stand out, in which case, minimize their overall impact on search and focus on making your individual product pages stand out in search.
Do you actually get so many return visitors coming to the site looking for what's new since the last time they were there that you need a "new products" category? How about "hot products", are visitors indicating that they are at your site to find out what others are actively buying? I wonder.
If you were able to come up with categories that actually add value to the visitor experience, I'd be willing to bet that you wouldn't have this canonicalization issue or this pagination issue. In the mean time, what you describe might be the best way of doing it.
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RE: Keyword Research: How best to target keywords without using a region as part of the search query.
Hireawiz, You're better off adding your place name and keyword in the title tag and body. It's going to help you rank better for the query whether or not the searcher includes a place name.
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RE: Agency footer link, do we keep it ?
While those footer links back to the agency that created the website used to be commonplace and sought after, it's shaky ground today--even just one or two no-followed links from a client's site could get you in trouble--in the future.
Today, a followed link or two from the footer of a client's home page and another one from some an interior page (each link having different, non-exact match anchor text) may still provide your site some advantage--and that's the problem. Using those links to your advantage may help your authority in the present but you shouldn't be surprised if that authority is stripped at some point in the future. You know what it looks like when authority is stripped? A penalty.
If you are still getting a followed footer link or two from each of your clients, that shouldn't be your only means of building authority--it should be a supplemental means. You really need to work just as hard as any other site in any other industry to build editorial links back to your site in order that you not suffer an authority adjustment down the road.
The best practice is to nofollow those links in order to prevent them from giving you problems in the future.
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RE: How to do ip canonicalization ?
Ramesh,
It's not a problem that you site opens when you type in the IP address--that's normal.
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RE: Links from **searchengines.com
You could disavow them but I don't think they pose a problem. I recently saw them, too, in the back links of a client and guessed it was someone's science project gone out of control.
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RE: Keyword stuffing when brand includes keyword
Dan,
I think that you've got to watch out for that. Over optimization, excessive exact match anchor text, exact match keywords, and exact match domain names were the downfall of many online businesses since 2012. You'll probably be fine on-page, so long as you remain conservative with keyword use. Off page, steer clear of getting links from low quality sites.
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RE: Changing the spellings of titles and URl changes
You can also rel=canonical to the old URLs to the new URLs. by adding that directive in the page headers of the affected pages. Eventually you can either delete those old URLs, or, for the ones that have external links going to them, add 301s to the new pages. Canonicalization and the Canonical Tag - Learn SEO - Moz
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RE: Spam Back Link Removal Problem.
I'd say the domain name does show up in the url and the search box. They're not links, however.
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RE: How to rank in Google Places
Jason, there are different algorithms in use for the organic listings and the local listings. The local listings aren't (as) dependent on PR (DA) as the organic listings.
Borehamhouse happens to be the strongest of the local results and since local results in this search show at the top of the page (they show up differently depending on the search query), they make it top of the page via the local search algorithm.
quendonpark and fennes are being held back from the top of the local results for any number of reasons, but because they have sufficient organic authority and relevance, they make in onto page one via the organic algorithm. Due to poor performance according to the organic algorithm, however, even though it's at the top of the local results, Borehamhouse doesn't even show up in the first few pages of the organic results
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RE: Link building
Premio,
Directly from Google's Webmaster Guidelines:
Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. A good rule of thumb is whether you'd feel comfortable explaining what you've done to a website that competes with you, or to a Google employee. Another useful test is to ask, "Does this help my users? Would I do this if search engines didn't exist?"
Back in the day, perhaps, that information was taken with a grain of salt, but if you look through the Q&A today for all the people who were hit by Penguin, you'll notice that a lot of those people were inexperienced Webmasters/ Link Builders who didn't fully understand that they were doing anything wrong when they wondering about the same question you are asking. Oh sure, you can get away with some awkward links, no doubt, but they're less likely to help you these days and it's not a strategy to build the value of someone's ecommerce business with. Your job may be to increase the value of the links to a site, but it's not necessarily by deciding which page they need to go on.
Today, increasing the value of your back links means increasing the value of the content you publish so that others link to it naturally--however and from wherever they choose to. Give this guide a read, then go through this, this, this, and this to kind of get your feet wet with link building. Then think about how you can create content for you audience that will encourage engagement.
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RE: Keyword stuffing when brand includes keyword
Of course, it's hard to say for sure. If your threshold to avoid a filter were somewhat lower than others', I doubt it would be significantly lower. So long as you keep things above board, I'd bet you'll be fine.
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RE: Will an inbound follow link on a site be devalued by an inbound affiliate link on the same site?
The affiliate link should be nofollowed so it wouldn't impact the regular, natural link, even if they are on the same page. If the aff link is not no followed and is on the same page as the regular, natural link, the link that is first in the html will be the one that counts, so if anchor text is important, the one with the preferred anchor text should be first on the page. If the two links are on separate pages, it won't matter.
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RE: Mini sitelinks in local-pack?
Nice find--I haven't seen that before. My opinion is that this is just more evidence that someday, there will be no difference between local and organic search.
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RE: How to rank in Google Places
Danny Dover at Moz did a whiteboard Friday that goes through the basics and is a good resource: http://moz.com/blog/the-basics-of-local-seo-whiteboard-friday
There are also several good blog posts on the topic that will help, including this one: http://moz.com/blog/40-important-local-search-questions-answered
And David Mihm, now at moz put together a list of ranking factors that you should be aware of: http://www.davidmihm.com/local-search-ranking-factors.shtml
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RE: Link Relevance vs Link Authority ?
When you're talking about a link of such low quality, relevance is going to be a moot point--there's just little to no value to be gained from the link. Sometimes, low quality pages/sites grow into higher quality site/pages and such links build value. Before deciding to disavow them look over the site and get a feel for what it's potential may be--if they're linking out indiscriminately and their back link profile is a mess a link from the site is likely to never be of value.
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RE: SEO HTML: Header tags
Christian,
Don't get all caught up in the heading tags thing. Heading tags are as important for your organizing the content of the page as they are for the reader to understand the page organization and as they are for SEO. In fact, think first about how they help you organize the information on the page. "Concatenated", "white space", "nested"--they're not terms that you need to consider in relation to your headings.
The most important line goes at the top. If the most important stuff needs to be broken down into separate chunks, use H2s. If H2s need to be broken down into seperate chunks, use H3s. It's not any more difficult than that.
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RE: Old pages still in index
It can take months for pages to fall out of Google's index have you looked at your log files to verify that googlebot is crawling those pages?. Things to keep in mind:
- If you 301 a page, the rel=canonical on that page will not be seen by the bot (no biggie in your case)
- If you 301 a page, a meta noindex will not be seen by the bot
- It is suggested not to use the robots.txt to no index a page that is being 301 redirected--as the redirect may not be seen by Google.
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RE: Authorship Photo Not showing in for last 6 months now
Actually, I'm going to revise that answer. When google provides the "Search for similar searches" option on the results page, such as with this search, it will show terms that were used in the query but were not found on the page as struck through.
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RE: Does google know every time you change content on your page
The frequency Google crawls your site/pages tends to be based on authority, rather than on how often it is updated. So if your authority dictates that your page gets crawled on a weekly basis and you change the content on a daily basis, not all of that content will get indexed.
You can see when the last time a page was crawled by using this search cache:example.com/page and you'll get the last crawl date at the top of the page. You can also look through your server log files to see crawler activty.
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RE: Domain Authority - quality scoring
Stephan,
It's hard to go strictly by the numbers, as some worthwhile niche sites may never develop great amounts of domain authority. Your best bet is to go to the sites and check them out. It doesn't take much to get a feel for whether its a real site that's up to date with real information that is useful to your visitors and theirs. Look at the home page, look at the page with the link, look at their back links, look at the pages that show up the top of a site:domain search, and make sure the homepage show up in the search results for a selected quote from it. It's a very touchy-feely process.
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RE: SOS - I have done a terrible mistake: How can I make it up?
Maia,
Here's your info on how to do the redirections: http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection
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RE: Keyword Frequent On and Drop Off
It will just take time and patience--it can be a month or more. Internal and external links to the page help most but they'll take a up to several months to affect the page.
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RE: Am I doing enough to rid duplicate content?
Heather,
First things: 1. Are they still driving traffic? 2. Rel=canonicals are supposed to be used on identical pages or on a page whose content is a subset of the canonical version.
Those pages are very thin content and I certainly wouldn't leave them as they are. If they're still driving content, I'd keep them, but for fear of panda, I'd 302 them to the main pages while I work steadily on putting real content on them and then remove the redirects as the content goes on.
If they're not still driving traffic, it seems to me that it wouldn't be very hard to justifying their removal (or 301 redirection to their main pages). Panda is a tough penalty and you don't want to get caught in that.
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RE: Does google know every time you change content on your page
Yeah, it seems you may be a bit more focused on a symptom, rather than on a cause. Authority is a function of your link profile and is Moz's interpretation of PageRank. The greater your authority, the more often you get crawled, and the greater your opportunity to rank higher for more search queries.
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RE: Duplicate Content, Same Company?
Cole,
I'm going to say roughly the same thing as the soon-to-be-guru Tom but give you somewhat of a different spin on it.
It's completely understandable that anyone with a website would feel that the the content applicable to one city would also apply to another city as well, so what's the harm in just switching out the city names? There shouldn't be really, and in most cases there is no actual harm, in it.
However, while Google's search engine makes it possible for customers in multiple cities to actually be able to seek out and find content you've "tailored" to them, it also makes it possible for other marketers to do the same as you've done--thus competition for keywords increases dramatically. On a small scale, google doesn't want to penalize, per se, a whole site for such practices, but it does want to differentiate that which might be original content from that which might be duplicates of the original and in doing so, be able to rank the original, while discounting duplicates.
To get around this "hurdle" you have to treat each of your pages as unique entities with unique values to each of your target markets. That way, content for each page ends up being unique and Google's algorithm can prioritize all the competitors' pages uniformly according to how relevant and valuable they are to the target audience.
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RE: Tool that can retrieve mysite URL's
Yes, I forgot that he already had the list of 1000 sites. Xenu link sleuth would be another option--it's free.
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RE: How often does "HTML Improvements" refresh?
It can even take months to update, if you're looking at a page that has low authority.
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RE: Weird SERPS
I might see that as a portent of things to come for your other pages. I mean, from what you describe, none of those pages should be ranking due to either thin and/or duplicate content--Panda type stuff. Sorry to say, there's really no reason for you to believe your rankings for the other pages will hold up unless you get original content on those pages.
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RE: Links from other sites in our network
As a matter of dealing with all the links uniformly, your best long-term choice is keep the links make them all nofollows.
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RE: Worth redirecting old blog posts into pages?
I think doing so can help click through rates`from search results and redirecting those old urls to new ones will not likely be detrimental to your existing rankings. Do users a favor though and date your posts if the content has a chance of becoming outdated.
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RE: Duplicate Title - Magento Products / Kunena Forum - Nofollow vs. Follow
Nicholas, we were just discussing this question over here--it's worth taking a look at: http://seomoz.org/community/q/forum-website-rel-nofollow-is-this-good
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RE: My conundrum
David, it can be hard to get away from a term that a site's homepage has traditionally ranked well for. It can come down to getting new links to the homepage that are able to re-position the page in the light of the new target search term (from the US, would be nice), eliminating or revising existing external links pointing to the homepage (I wouldn't disavow them though), and on linking out from the homepage (and other pages of the site) a new page optimized for that undesired term with a links containing the undesired term.
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RE: Weird SERPS
Ah huh, I misunderstood. If the content is good and unique, and the only duplication is as you describe then it wouldn't seem to be a duplication issue. However, it's not unusual to see such drastic changes in ranking from time to time and that page could pop back up to its previous position at any time.
When you say you haven't done any link building, does that mean you don't have any natural back links either? If that's the case I'd recommend you do some work to build your authority.
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RE: Branding vs. Keyword Optimization for Company title.
I agree with Sheena. A focus on the domain name as a brand is so yesteryear. And what's worse, having an EMD makes it almost impossible not to have it stand out as brand-like. These days, when I see them in the search results, I'm skeptical and will often click on something else just to avoid them. While I may not be typical, there may come a time when such is typical. In fact, I don't preclude a future where it may be better to move to a brand domain name and 301 the EMD to that .
Absolutely focus on the brand and forget the domain. That will be helpful to you in the long run.
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RE: Trying to advise on what seems to be a duplicate content penalty
You know I'm all about SEO and originality...
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RE: Would you "nofollow" links from a column on HuffingtonPost?
Thomas,
I'd cut the followed links back to just a few, make sure the rest are nofollowed, and make sure that you've got your google authorship set up correctly to link back to your profile and that your profile shows you're an author at that domain. Google's already made a decision about those links and how to count them towards sites. I don't think changing the anchor text is a good idea--even if you nofollow them afterwards.