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Hi Christy,

Thanks for the follow up.  The login became too tedious for me and I cancelled my subscription to MOZ.

Best,
Christopher

Unless they have fixed it in recent months, xml-sitemaps does not generate correct video sitemaps.

I posted the response above around 10 am.  So now I'm back at around 2 pm and I'm logged out.  Why?  Why the rush to kick me off this site?

I know it's not an intentional error and I'm sure the Moz team are working hard to fix this.

The cookie error is not intentional but the timeout is intentional.  Why not increase the timeout period or remove the timeout until the cookie defect is isolated and fixed?

Chris is correct, if you log out and then log back in, that should fix the problem for that session.  That said, why does the system need to log us out so quickly?  Why can't we stay logged in for a full day?  Or better yet, why can't we stay logged in until we log out?

Best,
Christopher

Hi Christy,

Thanks for checking.  Sorry to report it's still broken.  This morning I deleted the history and cache and logged in and everything was fine.  Then later in the day I returned to the site and some pages think I need to login and other pages think I am logged in.  I have to find a page that thinks I'm logged in, log off, and then log in again.

Quick question: Is it the intention of the system to automatically log members off after a certain amount of time?  If so, what is the time period to log someone off?

Best,
Christopher

Yep, I agree with belt and suspenders.

I like this site, I really do, which is why I visit multiple times a day.  But I grow weary of these premium sites that require me to log in multiple times a day.  This morning I was simultaneously working at ordercup.com, strengthcoach.com, and moz.com, and all three log me out at every turn.  Argh!!!  What's worse is that some MOZ pages think I'm logged in and others don't.  I don't fully understand the logic behind the curtain, so I wander from page to page trying to get the login in sync.  Why can't these sites work like lynda.com where I can stay logged in for days and weeks?  To top it off, LastPass rolled out a new release that broke auto-login.  All this logging in is getting in the way of me getting anything done.

You should be able to resolve this with robots.txt and .htaccess files, but one more thing I've learned to do is to use a domain name for the primary domain that I do not plan to submit to Google for indexing.  For example, I'll use arbitrary color names like silverblue.net as the primary domain and then the domains I intend to index will be virtual domains.  This isn't really necessary but it helps me keep all my domain names straight in my head and avoid the issue you described above.

Best,
Christopher

**I want to ... promote websites ... with very poor ... content. **

Google devotes considerable resources to make sure these efforts fail.

I selected the plugin called Redirection mostly because it has been downloaded 1.4M times.  My thinking is that popular plugins tend to get more testing and tend to be more compatible with other themes and plugins.  It works fine for me.

Best,
Christopher

I like this site, I really do, which is why I visit multiple times a day.  But I grow weary of these premium sites that require me to log in multiple times a day.  This morning I was simultaneously working at ordercup.com, strengthcoach.com, and moz.com, and all three log me out at every turn.  Argh!!!  What's worse is that some MOZ pages think I'm logged in and others don't.  I don't fully understand the logic behind the curtain, so I wander from page to page trying to get the login in sync.  Why can't these sites work like lynda.com where I can stay logged in for days and weeks?  To top it off, LastPass rolled out a new release that broke auto-login.  All this logging in is getting in the way of me getting anything done.

It's perfectly natural for each page on a site to have a different keyword.  Write good content for each page and both users and Google will give you two thumbs up.

Best,
Christopher

Hi Karen, it depends.  Are all the links spammy or are there some good links as well?  Given that the site continues to rank well and without additional information, I'd be inclined to try and clean it up and create some new compelling content.  If it does get hit then you can reassess, but again, it depends in part on the value of the good links.

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Christopher

It is my understanding, bases on other responses to this forum, that using nofollow does not improve the link juice passed to the follow links, but that the link juice that would have been passed to the nofollow link is lost.

Best,
Christopher

If I publish and page and then later add authorship, it can take a long time before Google adds the author image to the SERP.  However, if I publish a page with the author markup and then Google indexes the page, the author image is included in the SERP when the page appears in the SERP.  So, the lesson I have learned going forward is to make sure the author markup is correct for all newly published pages, because if you get it wrong or add it later after publishing the page, it can take many weeks for Google to use it.

Best,
Christopher

Unless they have released a recent upgrade, xml-sitemaps does not generate proper video sitemaps.  If you have a Word Press site, you should consider Yoast.

Best,
Christopher

I used to spend a lot of time identifying high value sites in our niche and create relationships with the site owners to get back links.  In hindsight I think that was time that could have been better spent.  Now, I spend my time researching and writing articles that I think my users would find interesting, useful, engaging, compelling.  As these articles are published on our site, I post a link to our pages/accounts on Facebook and Twitter to create some buzz, and I may add a few marketing dollars to promote the post as well.  If the content of an article was well-researched and well-written, the shares, retweets, and links will come.  Some of the links are high value, others not, but they are all natural.

Best,
Christopher

It is my understanding the search volume and keyword competition are independent.  For example, many people purchase socks, but the potential for profit is relatively low which limits the pricing competition.  In contrast, awards for medical malpractice could be quite high, but the search volume for a rare medical procedure could be very low.

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Christopher

I agree.  Each should target it's purpose.  If they are the same, fine, if not, fine too.  My excerpts are usually longer than my meta descriptions and for that reason alone they are typically different, but it's not my objective to make them different.

Best,
Christopher