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Yes, Marie's article is fantastic! Here's the live link to it: http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2384644/can-you-safely-redirect-users-from-a-penguin-hit-site-to-a-new-domain.

Hi! I'm not sure exactly what you are asking. Can you provide links/screencaps to specific examples of what you have seen others do, and are considering doing yourself? Thanks!

Hi VELV,

Did you see the responses from don_quixote and Miriam Ellis. Please provide us with the requested details (or an update on this situation if it's been resolved) so we can help you. Thanks!

Christy

If I were to put a site map at the bottom of a page, I would not list every single page but only the most important category and page links, along with the links required for legal purposes. You don't want footer links to drain your page of link juice, nor overwhelm your page design. What's more, placing a ton of the same links on every single page of a site is definitely considered spammy these days.

For news sites, yes, the lead story should be the first thing a user sees. For most other sites, though, a few links in a well-designed top nav bar should be placed near the top of the page or directly underneath a branded banner.

Linda, your advice is spot-on. Thanks for jumping in here. I appreciate it.

Christy

Hahaha! Oh ya'll...

Hi Ravi, did you see EGOL's question?

Hi Justin, I'm not seeing your attachment... would you kindly upload it again? Thanks!

Christy

Hi there, thanks for your question! Did you register for the webinar? The webinar was recorded and emailed to everyone who registered for it, even if they weren't able to attend after all.

Hi Sean! I hope you are having a great weekend. Getting down to business, this is a friendly reminder that we don't allow job posting in this forum. Accordingly, I have edited your question and am locking this thread to comments. In your search for a contractor, you may want to check out our list of Recommended Companies, and/or consider posting on Inbound.org's job board.

Thanks for your understanding, and best of luck in your search!

Christy

There are many reasons why Google may decide to change your title tag in the SERPs besides the length, however. As your example shows, Google likes titles that are keyword rich, concise, and branded. The closer your titles match the search query -- and your page -- the less likely they are to be rewritten. You aren't using boilerplate templates for your titles are you (or auto generated ones)?

Would you mind sharing some examples of titles that have remained intact as well as ones that have been changed by Google?

It's also very important to accurately describe the image in an alt-image tags to give visually impaired users with screen readers a good user experience. Screen readers literally read what is inside the alt-img tags so that users know what the images that they cannot see (or see clearly)  are about.

Note: We've edited and removed select links and images in this thread as requested by the OP for privacy.

Hi Craig - Have you checked out Moz's List of Recommended Companies?

Hi Stewart, welcome to Moz! Donna and Pixelbypixel pointed to you to some great resources for getting started in SEO (if you are indeed new to both Moz and SEO). To get started with Moz Analytics, I'd recommend checking out this Help Guide. It will walk you through your first campaign setup.

You will find answers to the most common questions about Moz Analytics in the Help Hub. You can search both the Help Hub and Q&A Forum from there. If you get stuck, please do not hesitate to reach out to the community here in Q&A.

Great question!

Christy

Hi  brandonegroup - Have you thought about posting this question in the Magento forums?

Christy

Hi DK! First make sure that your Yoast plugin is up-to-date, then go into its options for Social. You will see three tabs: Facebook, Twitter, & Google+. Click on the one for Google+, and then select "Don't show" Author for homepage in the drop-down menu. There are only two options on the Google+ tab, Author for homepage and Google Publisher Page. Let me know how that works for you!

Cheers, Christy

Courtney, you may also find Dan Shure's guide on setting up Wordpress helpful.

Hi Julio,

Robert and Thomas have linked to some excellent resources that are specific to on-page SEO for Wordpress. In addition to studying these resources, I would recommend learning about the fundamentals of SEO in a broader sense. Moz has many free educational resources for subscribers to increase their knowledge of SEO and all things marketing, including videos, written guides, and live Mozinars. I would start, however, with The Beginner's Guide to SEO and mastering Pro Analytics. Best of luck, and welcome to Moz!

Christy

Hi Ali M,

Thanks for your question! Yes, you can use the canonical tag to point to the author's website as the original source of the content. Here's everything you need to know about canonical tags: https://moz.com/learn/seo/canonicalization.

Hope that helps,

Christy

Hi there, thanks for your question! Federico's provided some good advice that I'd like to take a bit further. In order to help you answer Q1, would you mind providing some more details about your site's primarily goals? Regarding Q2, you may want to consider adding unique static content to your category archives and indexing them once you get a solid number of posts build up for each one.

I look forward to hearing from you! In the meantime, here's a great post by Dan Shure about setting up Wordpress sites: Are You Setting Up WordPress for SEO Success?

Cheers,
Christy

Hi there! This Authorship troubleshooting guide by Janet Driscoll Miller may help.

Hi saharali15,

What is the single most challenging problem with this site you are trying to solve? Please be as specific as possible and provide us details and screenshots about what you have and have not tried so that we can try to help you.

Thanks!

Christy

Hi there, has your question been answered?

Hi Dina,

Federico is correct, Moz Analytics will flag any duplicate content issues it finds on your site. While it is impossible to prevent creating duplicate content altogether on a smaller Wordpress site that contains tag, category, and archive pages, the easiest way to prevent duplicate content issues is to follow Federico's recommendations (not because these pages are not useful to your users, but because they can create duplicate content).

I would also make sure that you only include excerpts of your blog posts on the front pay of the blog (vs. the full posts), and take care that pagination does not create duplicate content issues for you as well. While no-indexing paginated pages is not the ideal method for preventing duplicate content issues (in my opinion), it is the easiest for many people. (You can read about alternative ways to handle pagination here.)

Finally, it sounds like you are not offering any of the brand's own products and services on the blog. If this is the case, I would make the blog's home page the front page (that is, the home page for the website.)

I hope that helps!

Thanks,
Christy

Hi! Thanks for your question. I am curious, why did you launch the "new site" in a subdirectory of the "old site"?  Is the content in the subdirectory ("new site") different from the content on the rest of the domain ("old site")? Finally, if you are able to share the domain, that would be very helpful.

Christy

Hi Thi - Is this issue resolved, or are you still getting the same notification?

Hi Christina,

You should be able to activate your campaigns with a few clicks. Log in to your account and navigate to your Campaigns overview page. Next, click on "Archived Campaigns" link (located near the top of the page, underneath the black design element labeled "PRO".) A list of your old campaigns will appear. Finally, click on the button labeled "Activate," located underneath each archived campaign. Let me know how this works for you.

Oh, and we are super excited you will be joining us at MozCon! See you in less than two weeks!!!!!

Christy

Hi there! Yes, you can view any URLs that have duplicate page titles in the "Crawl Diagnostics" section of your campaign in Moz Analytics. In a standard weekly crawl report email, click on the link near the bottom that says, "View your full crawl report here." It will take you straight to Crawl Diagnostics. Alternatively, you can get there by going to your campaign dashboard in Moz Analytics, then clicking on "Search" and "Crawl Diagnostics" in the LH navigation.

Once you are in Crawl Diagnostics, scroll to the bottom of the default tab, "Issues Overview", until you see a summary of issues beneath the graph. Underneath the section labeled "Pages with Medium Priority Issues", click on the link that says "Duplicate Page Titles". Here you will see a list of all URLs that have duplicate page titles, and download a CSV containing detailed information (including actual page titles).

Hope that helps! Let me know if you need clarification.

Christy

Hi there, thanks for your question! Monica is correct in that Google will pick snippets out of content when they feel it is more relevant to the search query than your meta description. In this case, you don't have any header tags, and I'm not sure where "teaser" is coming from, exactly, as you do not have any crawlable text on your home page. If you read the documentation Ryan linked too, though, it will confirm that Google can pull descriptions from many different sources, including references to it elsewhere on the web.

What I would do is thoroughly read the documentation Ryan linked to, and work on optimizing both your title tag and meta description according to Google's recommendations. Think about what would be most helpful to someone searching for your brand in the search engines.

Along those same lines, you may also want to consider using a different coming soon plugin, beefing up your placeholder content, and collecting email addresses for people interested in receiving an email when the new site launches — which could include a coupon, etc.

The plugin you are currently using is for new websites (not established sites temporarily down for a redesign), its text is not crawlable, and the content (displayed in a single image) is not very useful for human visitors, either. If this is an established site, I'd recommend looking into the Coming Soon Pro Plugin by SeedProd, which is more SEO friendly (including crawlable text) and reading up on the difference between its coming soon and maintenance modes.

Hope that helps!
Christy

UPDATE!

As of June 2017, this issue has been resolved. That's right, Moz Pro is now able to crawl sites that use SNI. For more details, please see https://moz.com/community/q/moz-crawler-fully-supports-sni-sites. You may also leave any questions and comments you have about this update there.

Thanks so much for your patience, ya'll!

Hi Maggie,

This is known issue, as reported today at Moz Health, that our engineers are working to resolve. In the meantime, please send a note to help@moz.com so they can look into your specific account. Thanks for your patience!

Kind Wishes,
Christy

Hi Nechemia! Did any of the suggestions resolve your issue? We'd love an update, thanks!

Christy

Hi there, I am sorry your invoices are MIA. Please email our Help Team directly about this at help@moz.com. Thanks for your patience!

Christy

Hi Kashif,

There a few different ways you can tackle this problem, but each approach has the end goal of making sure all of your clients' indexed product pages contain at least 80% unique content. Are you able to share the domain with us? Looking forward to hearing from you!

Christy

Hi John,

Welcome to Moz. We are glad you are here! You asked a great question, and have already received some solid advice. See how friendly folks are around here? A similar question was asked last week at http://moz.com/community/q/make-the-most-of-moz. You may want to take a peek at it, as Peter Lunn and Cyrus Shepard linked to some excellent resources there.

Cheers,
Christy

Hi Josh and Justin,

Please email our Help Team about this at help@moz.com. They will then be able to look into what's going on with your individual situations and resolve this as quickly as possible. I am so sorry about this, ya'll, and really appreciate your patience. Hang in there!

Christy

Excellent advice. Thanks for jumping in here!

Dr. Pete, thanks so much for putting this Q&A together. I particularly love your no-nonsense answer to whether this will be a boost or a demotion (Q4). "...practically it doesn't matter that much and the difference can be very difficult to measure. If everyone gets moved to the front of the line except you, you're still at the back of the line." Well said!

Hi Nicolas,

Thanks for your question! The first "link" goes to an "invisible" icon, which was the easiest way back in the day this code was written, err... updated to keep our code from breaking without having to mess with the CSS when adding custom URLs to this section of the user profile. If you look at the rest of the code for this section, you will see that each social profile is linked to both an icon and the profile name in the same manner, except that the social icons are not just placeholders. (That is, they are real and visible icons.) In each case, the icon link is always no-follow, and the text link is the real link, regardless of whether it is followed or no-followed.

Why link to icons at all? Well, some folks click on icons for profile links instead of the anchor text in social profiles, so it's set up that way for usability.

When a community member earns 200 MozPoints, the no-follow attribute on the link to their first custom URL is removed (that is, the real link), while the no-follow attribute to the "invisible" icon remains in place, as it is only a placeholder.

I hope that helps answer your question. Let me know!

Christy