Sorry, I meant that you should be sure to link to the new URL that you created not the one on cnbc. I'd say you're probably better off not to reciprocate the link they have to you. Google will eventually match everything up.
Posts made by Chris.Menke
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RE: How to get Google to re-recognize a backlink that used to go to a 404?
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RE: How to get Google to re-recognize a backlink that used to go to a 404?
Sean,
Google's going to know recognize that there again is a page at that URL once it crawls the new page (via a link on your page or somewhere else) and put one and one back together again. Be sure to link to that page from other locations on your site--the home page is always a good place to link from.
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RE: WordPress Sidebar Links: Valuable or Not?
Fergus, I think a couple of followed or nofollowed references from your blog would be acceptable for two reasons: 1. As followed links, that's a small enough number/percentage to expect under the penguin radar and 2. If by chance the links are discounted, the impact would be so small that it probably wouldn't be felt and 3. Your visitors probably wouldn't mind a link to a site that has "great clothes for technology enthusiasts" :-).
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RE: Content building: Ratio of blog messages?
Wellness,
There is no "panda-friendly posting ratio" metric that a blog needs to follow. However, you should consider the overall engagement of the content you create and how more or fewer posts impact it. If, by creating more posts, your quality goes down and your engagement suffers, it's time to reduce your posts to the point where engagement for any post is above what it was for the previous post. Eventually you will reach an approximate equilibrium. That equilibrium is the number you are looking for and it is also the number you are looking to exceed with any particular post.
By the way, here's a nice article by Carrie Hill on ways to measure engagement: http://searchengineland.com/how-to-measure-content-engagement-effectiveness-with-analytics-wordpress-154198 , as well as pretty detailed slide deck by Mounia Lalmas from Yahoo: http://www.slideshare.net/mounialalmas/measuring-userengagement
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RE: Forum profile section or signature line as backlink
If I were to chose, I'd say profiles are better than signatures. They're less pushy and less likely to be harmful to your site's rankings.
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RE: Forum profile section or signature line as backlink
What is the primary benefit you're looking to get? Algorithmic benefit? Direct traffic? Branding?
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RE: Forum profile section or signature line as backlink
More often than not, signatures and links from profiles are nofollowed so you probably won't get any link juice from either. If I were to chose, I'd say profiles are better than signatures because it's better to have one link coming from a stronger page than a bunch of links with the same anchor text coming from a bunch of weaker pages. If you have a page of content on your site that would be important to your target audience, you'd be better off not using either of those methods, as they're on the spammy side. You'd be better of promoting through social media channels.
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RE: Does Google drop links from page rank N/A sources?
For most purposes, OSE works very well and provides a great amount of detail about each link--plus, it is included with your membership. It's your best place to start and though it takes some time to feel comfortable with the metrics, the more you use it the better you'll understand it.
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RE: Capitals URLs to Non Capitals...
In your case, they are equal in how they will impact SEO, which is minimally.
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RE: Does Google drop links from page rank N/A sources?
Wow, I hadn't seen the link:mydomain search query in a while.
First of all, I woulnd't bother with that search--it's not anywhere close to accurate and it doens't indicate anything that's very useful to you. Links to your site from other domain may well be counting for or against you and you should start with the opensiteexplorer.org tool to get a better idea of you back links. However, that tool my not even show you all of them-especially if they are on really low quality pages on really low quality domains. You may also check majesticseo.com and ahrefs.com as alternative sources.
If you do have a bunch of unnatural back links, now might be a good time to start working to get them removed.
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RE: Need advice - International SEO strategy
But I bet the business owners aren't saying "I wish we didn't have offices in so many countries"
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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: Capitals URLs to Non Capitals...
I think it's better to use non-caps in your urls from now on. You may choose to 301 the caps to the non caps due to potential confusion by users and, perhaps, errors in future in link building--it won't impact your SEO much if any, if you do.
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RE: Need advice - International SEO strategy
You know, content touching on IT schools in each of those countries isn't a bad idea. It's thematic and common to all locations and there are lots of ways to tie it directly to your company.
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RE: Spam Back Link Removal Problem.
That's certainly a real page, alright, but it won't do any additional harm your site as it stands right now.
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RE: Need advice - International SEO strategy
That's funny. I was just looking at a language site and in my brain, your question was all about language. Yeah, IT services are a bit different bit different.
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RE: Need advice - International SEO strategy
Maybe find country-specific blogs that will let you contribute travel stories about how English speakers learned and used the local language to make their travels more unique/fun/memorable in that country. What could be more relevant that that, other than links to those directories from language education sites within those same countries? A link or authorship credit from those blogs will go a long way towards helping those subdirectories rank locally and internationally.
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RE: Spam Back Link Removal Problem.
I think you're saying that the webmaster did remove the hyperlink but left evidence of the link by way of the anchor text that was used for the link. It also sounds like the webmaster had said the page that the link was on would be removed but is now refusing to remove it.
I would say that if you have it in writing that they would remove the page, you certainly have reason to dispute the payment with paypal, as Tom says. If not, at least the worst of the problem is over. I'd at least document the transaction and the conversation and let the webmaster know that those details will be included in your reconsideration report to Google if he/she won't also remove the page. Then you may just forward it all to Google anyway.
So, if the links aren't there any longer they're not going to count against you. But let me tell you, the rest of your link profiles doesn't look that great. Be sure you're working on dealing with those other links, as well.
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RE: My website disappears off google!
Any drops in traffic during those times? How many times has it disappeared? If you made substantial changes to the pages that were showing up in the results (content, navigation, programming), that could possibly cause such a thing.
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RE: Webmaster Tools - How to Change Site Owner When Owner is MIA
I don't know if you'll be able to accomplish that but you can set up a new google account or use your current one to revalidate your site for GWT. Just log in to the new account, go to google webmaster tools and add the site as a new site and go through the validation. You can set a new google analytics script, as well if your analytics was assigned to that old google account--but unfortunately, you'd loose your history.
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RE: My website disappears off google!
Becca,
That wouldn't be too strange if it's very new and since you say that you're building it, I assume that it is. If it's older than a couple of months, it would be strange. Getting some links and some social media activity going for it would probably work to stabilize things for you.
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RE: Best way to research the social potential of content (NOT just search potential).
I'm wondering if creating content to fit what's trending is a solid organic SEO concept. By nature, trends are fickle, while SEO is a strategy play. The topics that are trending today: 1) May not be relevant to your business and 2) May not be of interest to your audience. Maximizing social is not about getting in front of as many people as you can, it's about getting in front of as many of your audience members as you can. Most business owners don't tend to be keen on marketing to people who are never going to buy their product.
Yet the stuff that that is relevant to your specific audience is certainly floating around in social media. In fact, it's likely that it's being talked about, commented on, shared, liked, +1'd, tweeted, and otherwise engaged with in social media at this very minute. The key is to have a clear understanding of who your audience is and what kinds of content they like, what they need, what they don't need, what's important to them, what's going to help them chose to buy your product. It's research into those things that's going to pay off best for the marketer and the business owner.
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RE: Youtube Optimization Guide please?
James, you should use 65-70 characters for the title and 2 or 3 sentences for the description.
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RE: Tips to Get People to Share User Reviews Pages?
Here's a quick couple of ideas to help jog your thinking:
- An off-site article/blog post for a web design community that discusses examples of various looks for "review pages"
- An off-site article/blog post on a humor or other hosting review site that points out some of "The funniest hosting reviews ever written"
- An off-site article/blog post on a career site about how a faceless systems admin decided to step up into the limelight and interact publicly with his customers online by becoming a web host.
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RE: Website disappeared from Google :(
Jarrod,
First you'll want to determine what penalty you were hit with. You can match up your google analytics with this http://www.barracuda-digital.co.uk/panguin-tool/ or this http://moz.com/google-algorithm-change and then you'll need to start taking steps to recover from the penalty--here's a starting point for that: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2276498/Pure-Spam-What-Are-Google-Penalties-What-to-Do-to-Recover
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RE: Exact match domain ranking comparison.
It's a trick question, right? Only one of them would rank and the others would be at the bottom of the results because they were duplicates. The one that would rank would probably be the one with the best links to it / highest authority
If you're asking if they were all exact copies of each other with the same back links, which URL might rank higher than the others simply by virtue of it domain name, it would be a crap shoot but Moosa may be right.
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RE: Dramatic decline in traffic with same unchanged rankings
Francis,
I'd guess that you've changed or removed the analytics script from some pages. Had you done any work on the site during that time?
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RE: Main keyword decline in SERPs ranking :-(
Well, there are plenty of folks out there who can help support your wordpress installation. Be sure to be familiar with these as you get ready for your move:
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RE: Main keyword decline in SERPs ranking :-(
Kevin,
Not too long ago there was a whiteboard Friday that covered why this may happen. Essentially, it listed these potential reasons:
Poor search result snippet
perceived lower value brand
lower design/user experience value
Citations: (links, social shares, mentions)- quality
* quantity
* variety
* acceleration rate
Usefulness or quality of content
* searcher intent fully addressed
* unique value of content
Results Biasing
* local
* mobile
* verticals - quality
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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: 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: Changing a site from http to https
Lesley,
Depending on a number of factors like the size of your site, its authority, and architecture, you may drop temporarily in rankings and traffic if you redirect from http to https. FYI, another way of handling it would be to rel=canonical the http to the https for all practical purposes, it would accomplish the same thing but would leave both versions available to the visitor.
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RE: Backlinks that we have if they are 404?
If you delete the page (URL) with the link (clickable words that takes the visitor to another URL), Google will eventually recognize that the URL no longer exists and drop it from the index. That may take anywhere from a few days to a month or more.
Once the URL is out of the index, whatever links were on that URL won't count against you.
You may use the URL removal tool in Google webmaster tools to try to speed up the process of removing the URL from the index. There is no need to use the disavow tool for a URL that resolves to a 404 page.
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RE: Title Attribute Length + Use
By my count, that's an additional 677 characters "with spaces" and all but 34 of them are worthless to you. It doesn't matter how many words you want to use in your title, only about 70 characters count. The title is just not the place for a paragraph worth of words-save it for the body of your html page.
Useful words: rear panel mens underwear, briefs & tangas
Useless words: These are possibly the most common and long established style of , yet they still come in a variety of cuts and styles. The common feature amongst all is that they have a full that partly or entirely covers the bottom. They will have cut away legs, a pouch at the front and are supported with an elasticated waistband. Briefs and can vary in the amount coverage in the side panels around the hips and top of the legs and the rear. The more revealing and skimpier style usually consists of only a pouch at the front that is supported with an elasticated waistband and a minimalist rear, with no side panels that exposes the hips.
Will you get penalized? Not per se. Is such a long title hurting you? Yes--what do the first 70 words tell someone about your product? Keep it short and simple.
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RE: Backlinks that we have if they are 404?
If the links are coming from URLs that no longer exist, then think of them kind of like ghosts. Their likenesses are still showing up on reports to give you a scare but their bodies aren't around and can't do you any harm. Eventually they'll fade away from the reports any they'll be nothing more a distant memory. So, no, non-existent links don't need to be disallowed.
Sorry, I was watching a ghost movie last night.
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RE: How can i improve my blogger
Sorry 'bout that.
I can't help you on that question.
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RE: How can i improve my blogger
A "lifestyle magazine brings you all the latest news and views and latest health features and celebrity gossip" is cool, but how do you compete with domains already doing the same thing and have a bunch of their own writers, tons of subscribers, and tons of domain authority? One person can't hope to gain traction on a platform that broadly covers new, views, health, and gossip. You've got to narrow your focus.
For example, you could cover new, views, health, and gossip for a couple of "B" list celebrities that also have something in common with you, like place of origin, hobby, or favorite author. That way you can relate to them better and your content can focus on details that an audience, who also wants to know about those details, will want to come back again and again to read more about.
You need to document exactly you want your blog to accomplish and how you will verify that it has been accomplished. In order to do that correctly, you've got to go through a bunch of ideas and spend serious time researching each of those ideas and seeing 1. what other people are doing along those lines 2. whether you're able to do a similar amount of work as those successful ones are doing 3. how you can be different from them and still achieve your goal.
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RE: Total Links has doubled in less than one month!? Trust and Authority Drop
You would need to know how many pages you actually do have before you can figure out if something is wrong. As far as your authority and trust, over how long a time have they been dropping? You should be looking at your analytics to see if your search traffic is down and looking at your rankings to see if those have changed. Have you established a baseline on those factors yet so you can track how your site may be deviating from those measurements? Do you know if you have redirects set up between your www and non www versions of your site?
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RE: Google picking up old pages
It could be months or it could be days--like I said, you just have to wait it out. With that many pages focused on keywords pertaining just to pressure washing, you're really going to need to get some links happening to the site to get it crawled and all those pages to show up in search results. Be sure to watch A Manifesto of Content Marketing - Moz and the-guide-to-developing-a-content-strategy-for-boring-industries
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RE: SaaS Landing Page Copy
Studio,
The kinds of landing pages you're likely reading about are PPC landing pages, which aren't tailored for organic rankings. If you're talking about an organic landing page, you do need to treat it like any other page you want to earn traffic from search--and you have to optimize for conversions too. That's one of the reasons squeeze pages became popular--they contain a lot of content and draw the visitor in to convert them.
When you think about Moz's home page, and factor in the number of links there are that point to it, there is probably no amount of on-page content that could outweigh the forces of the anchor text in those links. That's to say that moz doesn't have to rely on content to provide relevance for its home page.
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RE: Google picking up old pages
You just have to wait it out. I'm assuming that yours is a new site, which means you'll need a degree of patience when it comes to waiting for google to index changes. I'm guessing that you're already linking to those pages from your home page via the site's navigation, but that would only be a guess.
If you are, the next thing to work on is getting out into the social networks and develop a following of the audience members your site's content targets. Be sure the content you're creating for your site is worthy of engagement by those folks because you're going to want those people to be liking, sharing and linking to those new pages you've created--that's what's going to be the most help for them in the search results.
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RE: Has anyone had their Google manual spam penalty lifted without notice?
eugeneku, yes, manual penalties do expire. Per John Mu:
"If your site receives a notification of web-spam or manual action in Webmaster Tools, then that will be due to a web-spam review and manual action that has been taken. While manual actions will expire at some point, I would strongly not recommend sweeping them under the carpet and hoping that they go away on their own -- at least if you're interested in having your site be optimally represented in our search results."
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RE: Meta tags
Use the Yoast SEO plugin and focus on making your descriptions relevant with a bit of a call to action and you should be OK
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RE: Organic Links and Skimlinks Affiliate Program
I think that Googlebot's going to recognize that this is a 302 and not a straight link.
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RE: Meta tags
Keep in mind that Google may deviate from the descriptions that you put in the description meta tag based on what it determines is best for relevancy.
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RE: Organic Links and Skimlinks Affiliate Program
It looks like it's turning them into 302's, so they're not the straight links you would like.