Typically, a sitemap is going to include every page on the site. As Francesca said, each sitemap can be up to 50K urls and if you need multiple sitemaps then you create a sitemap index that points to the rest of the sitemaps.
Posts made by Chris.Menke
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RE: How to create site map for large site (ecommerce type) that has 1000's if not 100,000 of pages.
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RE: Understanding how moz grades webpage and Keyword stuffing
Open your campaign, click the "On-page" link beneath the name of your campaign and chose your page from the list of keywords/URL beneath the On Page Optimization Reports. The the "Page Analysis Detail" on the next page shows you the important factors for the page.
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RE: Website being crawled but not indexed any thoughts?
Good catch! I noticed that as well, but had never seen content="none" and didn't look into it any further. However, Anthony, you are going down the wrong path as far as your content and you're going to have to spruce that up for your sites or you're setting yourself up for panda problems.
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RE: How to create site map for large site (ecommerce type) that has 1000's if not 100,000 of pages.
Of course, you can also use the moz's crawl test report at http://pro.moz.com/tools/crawl-test
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RE: How to create site map for large site (ecommerce type) that has 1000's if not 100,000 of pages.
You can use screamingfrog to create your sitemap. You just need to license it for crawl more than 500 URI.
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RE: High Quality Guest Blog Swapping
Yep, that can be an issue with the guest blogging sites. Anything that's easy has a tendency to get overrun with spammers. For the most part you'll have to sift through the offers just the way you're doing.
The long hand way is to research potential publishers before you write, see which ones may accept guest posts, and then tailor your post to be worthy of that blogger's acceptance on his or her blog.
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RE: Website being crawled but not indexed any thoughts?
Anthony, I'm guessing that it has to do with your content and how similar it is to a number of other sites of yours. Be sure to use original content on each of your sites and work to get some quality links going to each of those sites.
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RE: Is a press release a bad idea?
They're like any other content, in that they're only worthwhile if there is an original idea behind them and they are of substantial interest to your audience or their influencers. When press releases came to common use on the web, the need for creativity in creating them increased as the number of people releasing them increased. A great press release is still worth the money, but if it's not great--it probably isn't.
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RE: Homepage URL for multi-language site
Sam,
There is alos this whiteboard Friday that touches on the pros and cons of your options here: http://moz.com/blog/international-seo-where-to-host-and-how-to-target-whiteboard-friday
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RE: Understanding how moz grades webpage and Keyword stuffing
Maris,
1. If you click on a page at the bottom of the On-page Optimization report, then click on one of the pages and then look through your Page Analysis Detail for the page, it will show you where it is finding your keywords on the page, whether you have problems with keyword usage within a specific area of a page, and how to fix it if you do have a problem. Be sure to check that part of your report out
2. 100 links it the threshold for too many links and though it's not a drop-dead limit, there are reasons for staying under that threshold: How Many Links Is Too Many? - Moz
3. Your report will list as duplicates page those that 301 and rel=canonical to identical pages. Keep in mind that those show up as "Notices", not errors.
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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: Keyword Frequent On and Drop Off
For a page that historically been far down in the rankings and recently been optimized, that's not too unusual. More links to the page or to the domain can help to steady it out and raise it higher in the rankings if the symptoms continue.
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RE: Is it possible to export Inbound Links in a CSV file categorized by Linking Root Domains ?
Arne, isn't that something you would do after it is downloaded by sorting your columns in your excel or google docs spreadsheet? Your download contains all the same data as you see on the screen, ie. linking root domain, domain authority, and linking root domain. Is there something else you're trying to do?
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RE: Showing different content according to different geo-locations on same URL
seoec,
How your content is cached in different data centers, will have a lot to do with the architecture of your site(s) and where they may be hosted. CC TLD's may be the way for you to go but it does require an investment in the domains. You can also set up subdomain or us location specific sub folders to separate unique content for each market. Each option has its own set of pros and cons.
Matt Cutts did a video that goes over the duplicate content issue on country code top level domains here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ets7nHOV1Yo and Rand did a white board Friday that covers your architectual options here http://moz.com/blog/international-seo-where-to-host-and-how-to-target-whiteboard-friday
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RE: Why is Google rewriting titles with the brandname @ the front followed with a conon " : " i.e. > Brandname: the rest of the title
Wesley,
When Google believes the content of the page fits the query but the title may inhibit click through, it will revise the title (and/or the description) in order to enhance the snippet. Here's what google has to say:
If we’ve detected that a particular result has one of the above issues with its title, we may try to generate an improved title from anchors, on-page text, or other sources. However, sometimes even pages with well-formulated, concise, descriptive titles will end up with different titles in our search results to better indicate their relevance to the query. There’s a simple reason for this: the title tag as specified by a webmaster is limited to being static, fixed regardless of the query. Once we know the user’s query, we can often find alternative text from a page that better explains why that result is relevant. Using this alternative text as a title helps the user, and it also can help your site. Users are scanning for their query terms or other signs of relevance in the results, and a title that is tailored for the query can increase the chances that they will click through.
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RE: 301 vs 302 redirect
Ionut, what specifically does the link go to and from originally and how often do members come back?
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RE: Social signals: are they weighted differently?
Nick, I did a lot of searching on this for you and my conclusion is that at this time, we're not able to distinguish a difference in ranking value between the two.
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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: Help with outreach emails for content marketing
How's this instead?
I'm an amateur [niche] enthusiast and your article/comment on [website name & date] led me to do some additional research this past week. I ended up with a pretty detailed piece on [article topic] and I wondered if you have any thoughts on what I've included in it. [Short, concluding, light-hearted sentence that references something personal about the recipient.] [link]
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RE: Why is my MOZ ranking better but my ranking worse
Hey Denise, no doubt we all would like to see a week turnaround on our rankings updates in Google. Typically, though, we have to wait anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to start seeing the changes. Hang in there and keep working--you're sure to see them eventually.
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RE: Should I make a new URL just so it can include a target keyword, then 301 redirect the old URL?
Ahh, I read it as ..."then 301 redirect to the old URL."
It could possibly be a benefit with click through and if that were the case, it might even help with algorithmic results.
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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: 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: Tool that can retrieve mysite URL's
Do a google search for your "yourdomain.com" and then use a scraper tool to put the results into a google doc. Here's Seer Interactives tool: http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/google-scraper-in-google-docs-update
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RE: Should I be deindexing pages with thin or weak content?
Reducing the size by eliminating those pages won't have any negative effect on your site.
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RE: Should I be deindexing pages with thin or weak content?
Jonathan,
If you noindex, follow them, link juice will pass from upstream links through to the downstream links but if you nofollow them, it won't.
This thread goes into some detail on the same topic http://moz.com/community/q/how-google-treat-internal-links-with-rel-nofollow
Rand wrote a pretty thorough guide on the fundamentals of PR sculpting you might want to check out: http://moz.com/blog/google-says-yes-you-can-still-sculpt-pagerank-no-you-cant-do-it-with-nofollow
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RE: Help with outreach emails for content marketing
My thoughts are that's a lot of paragraphs and how many sentences are going to be in each paragraph. If it were me, I'd whittle it down to just a few sentences. For the best possible response, there's no way to get around customizing each email or doing some research on each recipient. I'd recommend something more stripped down--maybe more along these lines:
Hi [recipient]
I'm a budding young [niche] writer and your article/comment on [website name & date] lead me to write this article on [article topic] this past week. I really respected your [other relevant, highly shared, well thought out article] and I wonder if you have any thoughts on mine and what I included in it. [Short, concluding, light-hearted sentence that references something personal about the recipient.] [link]
Thanks,
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RE: Changing My Home Page Focus Keyword
I'd say that your idea is a good one strategically but it's not going to be quick and easy.
If it were me, I'd start not by revising anything on-page, but by working on building links back to your home page from content relating closely to "merchant services" and with anchor text that's somewhat thematically relevant to that. Once you've build up your domain and page authority to be somewhat equal to other sites that are ranking for your term, then you might revise your home page meta tags and content to take advantage of the new strength. The reason I say I would go in that direction is because your home page likely isn't currently strong enough to rank for the new keyword (just by virtue of on-page changes) and it may not be strong enough to pass the strength that the internal "offshore merchant accounts" landing page would need to take up the slack created by the home page not ranking for that term any more.
The better the quality and relevance of the links to your homepage, the quicker the transition will take place in the search results once you make your on-page changes. Right now, your link profile is not terribly strong.
And when you're ready to make your on-page changes:
- Go through your site and make sure all links with anchor text of "offshore merchant accounts" are revised to point to the internal page that deals with your offshore merchant account service.
- Make sure that links pointing to your home page carry the anchor text "merchant services" or variations of that.
- Anchor text from your external links going to your homepage looks generally OK but where possible, you should work on making them variations and synonyms of "merchant services", rather than "offshore merchant accounts"
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RE: Redirect the main site to keyword-rich subfolder / specific page for SEO
Sam, from an SEO standpoint, there's no need to jump through any hoops in order to get keyword into your URLs as the value that that brings is negligible and still decreasing. On the other hand, it can bring value in the form of click throughs once the result makes near the top of the the search results.
As far as the folders and URLs go, a URL that shows the directory (folder) but no page name is simply the default page for that directory. Just as the /index.php isn't usually shown in the URL for a domiain's homepage (the default page for the domain), the /index.php is often not shown in the URL for the default page in a directory.
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RE: Should I make a new URL just so it can include a target keyword, then 301 redirect the old URL?
Daniel, A new URL created just to be able to use keywords it it isn't worth your time. Being new and not having any back links is part of the problem and the other part is that keywords in the URL are losing their value as a ranking factor. I wouldn't bother.
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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: Recent Google Link Scheme Updated ? What's Your Reaction against Link Building, Link Exchanging ?
Sri,
That's what penguin is all about and why so many sites are scrambling to build links in ways that don't rely on paid links, link schemes, or other links specifically placed to manipulate page rank. With these changes, webmasters now have to really focus on creating content that is editorially link worthy in its own right, not on links that they themselves can drop into content on other sites. This video tells the story of how and why we want to move past the old methods of link building: A Manifesto of Content Marketing - Moz
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RE: 3 Subdomains - Can their authority or ranking affect each other?
Daniel,
If you are linking to any large degree between the sites, or if the sites share a lot of links in their back link profiles, are part of joint manipulation effort such as link networks or link wheels they could all get penalized at the same time or the penalization of one could lead to the penalization of another. If they share a link from a single strong site that gets penalized and they loose the value of that link, all three could loose domain authority.
But if their linking activities are completely separate and above board, they should be fine residing on subdomians.
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RE: Can NoFollow Links Hurt SEO Efforts?
In many, circumstances, nofollow links are exactly what you want. They protect your site from outbound linking situations that Google could think was manipulative, such as passing on link juice to sites that are advertising and sites that are in some way paying you for the link. Nofollows to spammy/ low quality sites and to those that you cannot attest to their quality also help you from appearing to manipulate rankings for those sites.
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RE: I want to swop a site to an existing domain. i.e. it was http://A.com and now want it to be B.com...please help
Patrick, as I understand what you want to accomplish, the point 3. you mention above is backwards. The (sample) 301s you want to put in place are from pages on south-africa-holiday.mobi. to southerncircle.com. Here are some more resources for you
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RE: I want to swop a site to an existing domain. i.e. it was http://A.com and now want it to be B.com...please help
That's not a problem. Before the move, document the pages on website A that are receiving traffic from search engines and map each to pages on site B that have similar content so that you can 301 redirect that traffic from the old urls to the new ones. Using OSE, document which URLs have external links going to them so you can 301 those to similar resources on the new site.
Here's a guide from google that will also help with the move:https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/83105?hl=en
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RE: Can I 301 re-direct a page to regain the authority from a penguin penalized page
Dustin,
I think you should leave the URL as it is and work on building new, good links to the page. I suspect that the value of the links that had been helping the page rank for the target keyword were negated and thus the decline in ranking for that search term while still ranking for other terms.
If you were to redirect the URL to the homepage, as you ask, the penalty may or may not get redirected with it but you'd no longer have that URL to start over with (because it's being redirected) so that wouldn't achieve your desired result.
Read through this thread http://moz.com/community/q/can-penalties-be-passed-via-301-redirect and see if it doesn't make you think that leaving it where it is might be a valid option for you.
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RE: Forum website rel="nofollow" is this Good?
Yes, your right Gagan, internal links are good to be followed, External links should be nofollowed.
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RE: I've consolidated other domains to a single one with 301 redirects, yet the new domain authority in MOZ is much less that the redirected ones. Is that right?
Bernard,
Changes such as those you describe get indexed by Moz spiders and are available in Mozscape and Open Site Explorer within 60 days, but some take even longer for many of reasons. Sounds like you're still within that time period, so hold tight and you'll probably see the changes within a couple more weeks.
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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: Forum website rel="nofollow" is this Good?
Yes, that's usually best practice. It is what'd done in most forums today, including here the Q&A at Moz. In fact, if you have the Moz tool bar installed, you can turn on highlighting for nofollow links and visit your favorite forums and see what they're doing. You'll find they're all nofollowed.
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RE: Will Google penalise me for duplicating my own website on a new domain?
If it's an exact copy, you can use the rel=canonical directive to tell Google that you do not want it to rank for anything and it will not count against you in any way, which is what you should do if you are going to put the copy online. As a duplicate It won't rank in the search results for anything.
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RE: Will Google penalise me for duplicating my own website on a new domain?
If it's a copy of an existing page and it is on a different URL it's duplicate content and google will only rank one of the pages/sites. The duplicate will not receive any traffic from google and it is possible that your main site takes some sort of hit, as well, because of it.
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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: Buying a domain banned by google
Firstly, Matt Cutts has said that it's easier to start fresh with a new domain than trying to resurrect a banned domain. http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/021220.html. Back in 2005, I picked up my domain at auction after it had dropped and able to clear of the penalty via a reinclusion request, but those pre-penguin days were different. Secondly, redirecting links that had been pointing to a banned domain will be like playing with fire today and you won't have a clear idea of how hot they are until you get burned. I think if the price was low enough and you wanted by it and to try to salvage anything, to go for the domain name only and look to disavow all the links to the domain. Emphasize you're a new owner with a clean record, and hope for the best. I would spend minimal time or effort on content until I know the domain was cleared.
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RE: Will it make any difference to SEO on an ecommerce site if they use their SSL certificate (https) across every page
Nicola,
According to John Mueller from Google Switzerland, HTTPS-only sites are fine and there’s absolutely no need to shy away from them so long as they're implemented properly. There’s certainly no penalty involved with running your site on HTTPS-only when done right.
https://plus.google.com/106413090159067280619/posts/ZZVAS65mmw4
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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.