Thanks for your reply. Indeed our website does force www. if someone were to attempt to navigate to us without prefixing www.
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RE: Locating Duplicate Pages
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Locating Duplicate Pages
Hi,
Our website consists of approximately 15,000 pages however according to our Google Webmaster Tools account Google has around 26,000 pages for us in their index.
I have run through half a dozen sitemap generators and they all only discover the 15,000 pages that we know about. I have also thoroughly gone through the site to attempt to find any sections where we might be inadvertently generating duplicate pages without success.
It has been over six months since we did any structural changes (at which point we did 301's to the new locations) and so I'd like to think that the majority of these old pages have been removed from the Google Index. Additionally, the number of pages in the index doesn't appear to be going down by any discernable factor week on week.
I'm certain it's nothing to worry about however for my own peace of mind I'd like to just confirm that the additional 11,000 pages are just old results that will eventually disappear from the index and that we're not generating any duplicate content.
Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a way to download a list of the 26,000 pages that Google has indexed so that I can compare it against our sitemap. Obviously I know about site:domain.com however this only returned the first 1,000 results which all checkout fine.
I was wondering if anybody knew of any methods or tools that we could use to attempt to identify these 11,000 extra pages in the Google index so we can confirm that they're just old pages which haven’t fallen out of the index yet and that they’re not going to be causing us a problem?
Thanks guys!
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RE: How to update a crawl
I believe if you delete the campaign and then reinstate it you'll get the initial 200 page crawl immediately but it will still take a week or so for the full results to come back.
This was one of the first questions I asked when we first signed up with SEOmoz as we had a monster 5,000 errors on our site and cleaning them all up while waiting a week between updates took a while.
Perhaps if you e-mail SEOmoz they may initiate a re-crawl manually however I think the response may be that you need to wait until the next crawl date - Sorry.
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RE: Does Archive pages help in indexation of the site?
I think it's often considered to be good practice to keep archive pages (not only from a cralwer perspective but also as they could also be useful to an end user) but in order to avoid duplicate content just 'noindex, follow' the pages in the meta.
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RE: How to update a crawl
Alas SEOmoz will only crawl once a week. If you go in to your campaign manager you should be able to see the last crawl date and the next scheduled crawl date.
For example, in my account I see
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Last Crawl Completed: Nov. 30th, 2012 Next Crawl Starts: Dec. 6th, 2012''
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RE: How to get the most out of inbound links from magazine and newspaper stories?
I think the question specifically related to whether the company that was being written about should link to the article in question. The logic behind the question was that if they do this then a reciprocal linking arrangement has essentially been established.
I would suggest that trying to get as many people to link to the article as possible would be a good strategy but not to link to the article from the domain that is being written about. Just my two cents, mind.
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RE: How to Increase +1s for Google plus? Any Ideas ?
Just recently we discovered a nice way was to run a competition and then mention that you'll be announcing the winners on Twitter, Facebook and Google+. The competition isn't over yet but I'm hopeful that most the followers that we've accumulated will stick around if we state that first notification of any future competitions will be done via our social networking profiles.
I don't think the prize necessarily has to be elaborate, just enough to get some engagement.
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RE: Is there a tool to find out our website's link in some other website?
Actually, bizarrely I had another thought on this last night while in bed.
If Google haven't yet indexed the site or you don't know the anchor text then perhaps use the free Xenu Link Sleuth crawler to go through the site. We used this fantastic little app while doing our Google Reconsideration Request when we wanted to find literally every page on a site that contained a link to us rather than just the ones in the Google index.
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RE: Is there a tool to find out our website's link in some other website?
The method Eliathah suggests is sound but an alternative would be to do a Google Search which returns matching results from a specific site only. This can be achieved by performing the following search from within the Google Search Box "site: <domain name=""><search text="">"</search></domain>
For example:
site:www.seomoz.org Vikas_Rana
Hope this helps.
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RE: Do follow Blog comments
I would imagine that even if there was any benefit from an SEO perspective that a couple of posts with your URL included would be enough. Hundreds of blog posts per domain wouldn't necessarily add any more weight from a link building perspective, especially if all the domains are hosted on the same server.
When it comes to whether it is worth allocating time on the endeavour, I guess the question is whether the blogs are relevant enough to your niche that providing expertise would potentially gain you relevant traffic from the blog itself. If the blogs aren't close enough to your industry or well respected enough then I wouldn't bother investing any real time on the matter.
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RE: Minimum Page Rank to get a link
As long as the site is relevant and isn't spammy then I wouldn't worry too much about the PageRank; even if the link does you no good it certainly won't do you any harm.
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RE: Page for Link Building
I posted this on the duplicate thread that seems to be running but thought I'd post it here as well
To be honest, reciprocal linking is dead now so I wouldn't recommend obtaining links from any directories that require you to link back to them. Not only does Google consider reciprocal linking to be worthless anyway but you could potentially land yourself in hot water when the directory invariably gets devalued by Google and you’re actively linking to them.
Links pages used to be all the rage back in the late 1990’s but I don’t think they have their place anymore.
Hope this helps.
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RE: Page for Link Building
To be honest, reciprocal linking is dead now so I wouldn't recommend obtaining links from any directories that require you to link back to them. Not only does Google consider reciprocal linking to be worthless anyway but you could potentially land yourself in hot water when the directory invariably gets devalued by Google and you’re actively linking to them.
Links pages used to be all the rage back in the late 1990’s but I don’t think they have their place anymore.
Hope this helps.
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RE: MozScore. Why doesnt it let me Input all my keywords to get the Score? Why do i have to do it 5 at a time?
Judging by the amount of time it takes to complete when you input just five keywords I'd imagine that this is possibly quite a server intensive task for SEOmoz to run. As such, if you were to pang in 2,000 keywords it would probably take up a huge amount of server run time and as such you are limited to 5 at a time.
This is pure speculation; I'm hopeful someone from SEOmoz could give you a more concrete answer.
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RE: Can anybody recommend me a softwear to create sitemap?
This information is invariably going to come too late to you now but I've used this freeware program with great success in the past:
http://wonderwebware.com/sitemap-generator/
Their website isn't much to look at but it really does work a treat.
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RE: How important is it to fix Server Errors?
It is my understanding that marking the answers as fixed simply tells Google that you no longer want to see the message, rather than actually asking Google to try accessing the erroneous resource again or to reinclude it in the index.
On that basis, marking the errors as fixed isn’t important at all as Google will establish for itself that the error has been resolved.
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RE: Transfer a Main Domain to a Sub-Domain
It goes without saying but also ensure that as well as 301'ing all the old URL's, that you create a robots.txt to stop Google potentially spidering the new subdomain which contains the legacy files.
Best of luck!
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RE: Same Hosting IP - Will it hurt same type of business ranking?
I wouldn't have thought this would be a consideration to be honest. Of course, if the two websites were cross linking then Google would probably assume that they're related but otherwise there would be no reason to presume that just because two websites share the same server that they would be related.
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RE: Crawl Stats Have Dissapeared
Everything is fine here however that happened with us a couple of weeks ago.
I left it a day and when I came back all was well again
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RE: Redirect from WP Plugin
If you go to the Plugins category from within the Wordpress Dashboard then you should be able to click 'edit' on the offending plugin in order to remove the code manually that is causing the redirect. Without knowing exactly which Plugin is causing you grief I can’t give specifics but the redirect code should be fairly obvious.
Just bear in mind that whenever you update the Plugin the redirect code will reappear and will have to be manually edited out again.
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RE: What services/reports to try during my free trial period?
The thing that initially got me hooked to SEOmoz was the Crawl Diagnostics page. It immediately became apparent that there were a huge number of errors (duplicate titles, long URL’s etc) which while not really visible to the end user were hurting our rankings.
These errors were easy to sort out but the fact SEOMoz only recrawls every week meant we stayed well over our free month. That having been said, I’m glad we stuck around
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RE: Is article spinning bad?
Since Google seem to be placing a real emphasis on ranking websites based on the quality of the content, I would be tempted to consider article spinning as a bad thing.
Even if Google didn't penalise you immediately for it I doubt you'd be adding to the end user experience and so ultimately it could potentially bite you in the backside. A focus on creating high quality, unique content is always going to be white hat.
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RE: Host a wordpress blog as a folder or external site?
Just be careful that Google doesn't pick up the large number of follow links from your blog site to your main site as being manipulative. The last thing you want to do is pick up an unnatural links warning if / when the Google algorithm takes a dislike to hundreds of links pointing from a blog site that you own to another site that you own.
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RE: Changing a blog url from subdomain to subfolder
Ha! Not a problem; I've been held responsible for worse.
Good luck. Like I say, moving from a subdomain to a subfolder for us went like a breeze although admittedly it wasn't across two servers. If you have any issues give us a shout
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RE: Webmaster tools...URL Errors
I personally would just ignore any 404's being generated by junk sites; Google certainly isn't penalising you for these and if you mark them as fixed the error will just reappear when Google next follows the broken link.
If you have any 404's being generated from 'good' sources then I'd 301 redirect the broken URL to the correct location on your site (not just to your homepage) and mark the problem as fixed.
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RE: Changing a blog url from subdomain to subfolder
There are quite a few easy to follow guides on how to move a Wordpress installation online; one such example is http://blog.triphp.com/how-to/how-to-move-wordpress-to-a-new-server-or-host.html
Once done then just 301 redirect all old pages from the subdomain to the new subfolder.
We recently moved a Wordpress installation from a subdomain to a subfolder (albeit it was on the same server) and it went without a hitch - typically speaking, Wordpress is a simple beast to move.
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RE: Before submitting to a directory, what do you look for?
This isn't an answer to your question as such but more of an observation of SoMuch.com.
It would appear that every category page is PR0. In fact, I've just clicked a dozen pages at random and they all appear to be PR0 despite the homepage being PR6. Despite being advertised as a 'search engine friendly link directory', I don't think Google like them.
Just an observation.
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RE: "We've processed your reconsideration request for www...." - Could this be good news?
Just to provide an update, we've continued to make cleanups and have done another couple of reconsideration requests and received the same response every time. I guess work must continue
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RE: Unsure where Google has sourced this inaccurate Product Data
This is quite odd as the inaccurate product data still remains. If anybody has any idea whatsoever I would really appreciate some assistance.
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RE: Is duplicating video across several sites a bad thing?
Many thanks Chris. This was the kind of thought process that I was going down but just wanted to check before we were accused by Google of spamming the same video in multiple locations.
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RE: Does Comment Backlinks carry any weight?
I believe there is indeed talk of Google factoring in nofollow links from reputable sources (Wikipedia for example) however I'm almost certain that blog comments won't be included within this.
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RE: How to find inbound links to my site
Also, Google Webmaster Tools will allow you to see exactly what links and anchor text Google is picking up for your new domain.
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RE: Ambiguous Response to Google Reconsideration Request
We received exactly the same response following a recent reconsideration request after several failed attempts where they reiterated that we still had bad links. We continued removing questionable links over the following six weeks while I waited to see if they would follow it up with something a little more enlighten but unfortunately nothing was forthcoming.
As such I submitted another reconsideration request asking if they could possibly elaborate slightly and after just two days received exactly the same response again. As such I’m still a little puzzled.
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Is duplicating video across several sites a bad thing?
Hi,
We have a fairly successful YouTube Channel where we create unique and helpful videos that are related to our core business activity.
When we create these videos would you consider it a bad thing to not only post them on YouTube but also a couple of the smaller sites such as Metacafe and Dailymotion? Sending to multiple sites would possibly achieve more total views but would this kind of duplication potentially be harmful to the overall success of the video and have a knock on effect when it comes to how it ranks in Google?
Thanks for your help.
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RE: Google webmaster tools Who links the most updates?
We were on the blogroll of a site that had 7,000 odd pages but these links weren’t yet being displayed in our GWT. We pre-emptively requested that the link was removed but 30-40 days later the now non-existent links started to be picked up and reported in GWT. Two months later and they’re still there.
It does appear there is somewhat of a staleness to the data.
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RE: URL is starting to appear capitalized in Google Search Results. How come?
Hi Margaret,
It's showing in lowercase for me here in the UK when searching for either your keyphrases or the domain name directly.
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RE: Link From Wikipedia Worthwhile?
If you have a way of getting a link from Wikipedia, even if it takes some effort then I would definitely take it.
Even if we assume Google completely ignores the nofollow and we take SEO out of the equation entirely then it could be worth it for the potential visitors you could get as a direct result of the link.
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RE: Blog.mysite.com or mysite.com/blog?
I think Adam has hit the nail on the head. We recently moved our blog site from a subdomain to a subfolder and 301'd all the old URL’s with the intention that any entries that users find genuinely useful or interesting will be potentially linked to, thereby providing a benefit to the root domain.
As long as your blog is tightly related to your core business activity then I would go down the subfolder root although, in all honesty, I think subdomains potentially look a little more professional.
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Unsure where Google has sourced this inaccurate Product Data
Hi,
This is a slightly odd one I was hoping someone could shed some light on.
One of our staff just did a Google search and located these listings on Google UK Product Search:
Do you happen to have any idea where Google is getting this regionalised data from and in particular the pricing which is incorrect?
We have a Google (UK) Product Feed however the prices given are different than those being displayed in this localised search. Additionally the product feed that we supply relates to our main website and not a specific store.
If you click through to compare prices from multiple merchants you'll see our prices being listed correctly under our company name and website rather than the incorrect pricing attributed to a specific store.
I have checked our Google Places Account and our Google Product Feed Account but I just can't figure out where this data and incorrect pricing is coming from and indeed why it only affects our physical stores and not the more generalised website pricing.
If someone could point me in the right direction so I can get this corrected I’d appreciate it!
Many thanks
Chris
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RE: Calling all those that know about Trust Pilot
We've just started using Trust Pilot at www.refreshcartridges.co.uk.
We've only been using it for two weeks or so but as I see if there are two potential issues with providing a link but not paying for the service:
- Unless your customers have used TrustPilot in the past it may look like you're writing reviews of your own website since they will be new users, will only have one review to their name and won't be verified buyers.
- I don't believe they will share the reviews of your site with Google unless you subscribe. As such the only people seeing the review will be other Trustpilot users.
Apart from that I suppose something is better than nothing, especially if it's free.
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RE: Penguin recovery - Any suggestions?
When you say you got hit would you mind confirming if you received an actual error message in your Google Webmaster Tools account informing you that they had detected unnatural links and you had to request a reconsideration?
The only reason I ask is I was just wondering if it's possible that Google aren't penalising you in the strictest sense of the word but rather have just devalued a number of links pointing to you. This isn’t a penalty as such but could result in a drop in your rankings due to Google no longer paying attention to the trashy links that it used to like. In this situation requesting a reconsideration wouldn't achieve anything.
I’m only an ‘aspirant’ so take anything I say with a pinch of salt – This is just my two cents.
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"We've processed your reconsideration request for www...." - Could this be good news?
Hey,
We recently had a Google Penguin related links warning and I've been going through Google WMT and removing the most offensive links. We have requested resubmission a couple of times and have had the standard response of:
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Site violates Google's quality guidelinesWe received a request from a site owner to reconsider your site for compliance with Google's Webmaster Guidelines.
We've reviewed your site and we still see links to your site that violate our quality guidelines.
Specifically, look for possibly artificial or unnatural links pointing to your site that could be intended to manipulate PageRank. Examples of unnatural linking could include buying links to pass PageRank or participating in link schemes.
We encourage you to make changes to comply with our quality guidelines. Once you've made these changes, please submit your site for reconsideration in Google's search results.
If you find unnatural links to your site that you are unable to control or remove, please provide the details in your reconsideration request.
If you have additional questions about how to resolve this issue, please see our Webmaster Help Forum for support.
"On the 5th September after spending another couple more days removing the most prolific offenders we resubmitted the site again and again got the automated response saying they had received our request. A week later on the 13th September we got a slightly different response of :
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We've processed your reconsideration requestWe received a request from a site owner to reconsider how we index your site.
We've now reviewed your site. When we review a site, we check to see if it's in violation of our Webmaster Guidelines. If we don't find any problems, we'll reconsider our indexing of your site. If your site still doesn't appear in our search results, check our Help Center for steps you can take.
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I left it another couple of weeks to see if we'd get a slightly more in depth response however so far there has been nothing. I'll be honest in not being entirely sure what this means.
The e-mails says simultaneously 'We've now reviewed your site' (as in past tense) but then continues with "If we don't find any problems" which suggests a future tense. I’m unsure from reading the e-mail whether they have indeed reviewed it (and just not told us the outcome) or whether it’s just a delayed e-mail saying that they have received the reconsideration request.
Of course, if I received this e-mail off anyone other than Google I would have thought I was still in the dog house but the fact that it differs from the standard ‘Site violates Google’s quality guidelines’ message leads me to believe that something has changed and they may be happy with the site or at least happier than they were previously.
Has anybody else received the latter message and has anybody managed to determine exactly what it means?
Cheers guys!