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Is there a way to get around this without moving to Wordpress?  I only will do that if there's absolutely no other way to help my site.

Aran I can't add canonical tags on a page by page basis. x

Link juice being split between trailing slash and non versions.  ie.  ldnwicklesscandles.com/scentsy-uk and ldnwicklesscandles.com/scentsy-uk/

Initially asked in here and was told to do a rewrite in the htaccess file.

I don't have access to this with squarespace, nor can I add canonical tags on a page by page basis.

301 redirect from scentsy-uk to scentsy-uk/ didn't work either...said that the redirect wasn't completing in an error message on the browser.

Squarespace hasn't been very helpful at all.

My question is....is there another way to fix this? or should I just call it a day with squarespace and move to wordpress?

So here's the deal.....I HAVE to link my external website www.ldnwicklesscandles.com....and any shopping/ecommerce sections of it to my company sponsored website:    ukwicklessscents.scentsy.co.uk so all transactions go through that.

Why do a separate website you might ask? ....our company websites are extremely limited in design and content we're allowed to add like blogs, etc, etc and things to add content to help with longtail searches.  So most of us involved with the company do external sites and link to our other sites.

Which means I have link juice spread over the two sites because so much of the site is linking out...which most means I've got to work twice as hard.

Although my hands are really tied with a lot of things with this, I'm wondering if there's anything you might recommend to lessen the damage so to speak....maybe like changing the navigational structure of my external website so I'm only linking out when absolutely necessary?

I've been reading about navigational structure and it mentions the home page should only link out to the most important pages?  Would this work?

Maybe none of this is something I should worry about?  It seems some of the high rank sites for keywords like scentcity.com who are using the left side bar like I have and the main page with lots of links to her company sponsored site seem to rank despite all this??

Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated. x

1)  My competitor has 20 links and a PA of 30, and a DA of 16.  I thought from reading info here on SEOmoz that PA is a lot harder to influence and you have to raise up your overall DA to bring up the PA as well?  I'm just trying to figure out how the heck she's managed to get a PA of 30 with so few links and ALL the numbers from the SEO campaign lower than mine.  Does navigational structure and deep links with pages with every keyword have anything to do with it?  Just want to learn as much as I can about this and how to raise PA...thanks.  I've been reading as much as I can on here and on google but if you guys have any more suggestions that would be great. x

2. How often is the SEO moz toolbar updated?  Its been over a month and I've been working very hard on improving things and finding ways to get more links but its stayed the same?  Also noticed that SEO moz doesn't crawl as many pages as I've got indexed with Google...why is this?

Thanks for your help

I've asked squarespace for help and they basically said they wont alter any of the httaccess file for me, asked around in the squarespace community and they started saying that this was SEOmoz's crawlers which are completely different to Google and as long as two url's weren't showing up in Google (which they aren't...just two different PA's on the SEOmoz toolbar)...then to not worry about it.  They said that Google is smart enough to decide between the two and that from now on I should just focus on one URL for link building.

Feeling a bit deflated....maybe I shouldn't worry about it though.  Wish squarespace wasn't so limiting on controls TBH.

Christine

The site is through squarespace so I've contacted support to ask whether any of this is possible.  I don't believe we are given access to our .htaccess files but have asked to double check.

The only reason why I noticed the different PA's is I happened to type in the different versions of the address in my own location/address bar on the top of Firefox.  I did a quick look on Google and only one seems to be getting indexed which funny enough seems to be slightly different as well.

So to clarify:

www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/scentsy-UK/

Showing up on google, clicked on it and the PA in the toolbar in my browser was showing as 1

www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/scentsy-uk/

shows up as a PA of 17

www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/scentsy-uk

shows up as a PA of 20

Could it just be a problem with the toolbar?  I guess I'm just worried that all these sites are showing as different PA when what I want is just one PA throughout any of the variations people may come across.

1)  The PA in the SEOmoz toolbar for ldnwicklesscandles.com/scentsy-uk/ is completely different to http://www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/scentsy-uk.  I think in link building I've occasionally left the / off and vice versa.  Is google seeing these as two different sites and how can I combine the two so the PA is no longer different?  I initially tried a 301 redirect from the less PA to the higher one but it didn't work.  Suggestions please.

2. I'm trying to rank for the term Scentsy UK.  Was told on here that it was unnecessary to get a .co.uk and that if I just link build for my scentsy-uk site which I have been doing.  Woke up this morning and my page ldnwicklesscandles.com/scentsy-uk was no where to be seen on Google.  I can still do site: and Link:  for my main .com and I'm still ranking first page for other things so don't think I've been penalised at all.  However when I try the site: and link: on the .com/scentsy-uk its no where to be found.  There was no messages in Google webmaster tools either.

Is this an algorithm thing or have I been penalised?

Also....its now pulling up <cite>www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/blog/tag/scentsy-uk</cite> for the higher ranking results.  Have I confused google with having this blog tag as well?  Any suggestions to help would be appreciated.  Losing a lot of sleep on this website at the moment. x

Thank You....You're a star!!  Appreciate the help! x

Very helpful thank you. X

I'm a bit confused about sitemaps. I'm just learning SEO so forgive me if this is a basic question.

1. I've submitted my site to google webmaster using http://pro-sitemaps.com and the sitemap generator it creates.

2. I've also seen sites do this: http://www.johnlewis.com/Shopping/ProductList.aspx and http://www.thesafestcandles.com/site-map.html so I did something similar for my site (www.ldnwicklesscandles.com). You figure you see everyone do it you might as well try it too and hope it works.

So I've done both 1 and 2.

Which sitemap is best for SEO purposes or should I do both? Is there any format that should or shouldn't be used for Option 2? Any site examples for good practice would be helpful.

Sorry for the delay in responding back as I've been under the weather this last week.

Yes in my campaign its saying quite a lot of errors of duplicate page content and duplicate title tags for my blog section.  I've tried to ask for help on the squarespace community and no one has helped me.  I'm a small business owner and my SEO knowledge is purely what I've taught myself so I'm still a newbie.  Don't really understand why its doing this or how to fix it and make all these errors go away.  I've heard of canonical tags but not sure how to do it and I believe SQSP only actually allows code injection not on a page specific basis.  Anyway here's the site:

www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/blog

When I click on the errors link to explore further, this is what it looks like

Duplicate Page titles:

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Scentsy Blog - LDN Wickless Candles

http://www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/blog/?currentPage=10	50	14	1

Scentsy Blog - LDN Wickless Candles

http://www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/blog/?currentPage=11	50	14	1

Scentsy Blog - LDN Wickless Candles

http://www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/blog/?currentPage=12	50	14	1

Scentsy Blog - LDN Wickless Candles

http://www.ldnwicklesscandles.om/blog/?currentPage=13	50	14	1

Scentsy Blog - LDN Wickless Candles

http://www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/blog/?currentPage=14	50	14	1

Scentsy Blog - LDN Wickless Candles

http://www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/blog/?currentPage=15	50	14	1

Etc..............

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It pulls up the same thing for  duplicate page content:

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Scentsy Blog - LDN Wickless Candles

http://www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/blog/?currentPage=10	1	14	1

Scentsy Blog - LDN Wickless Candles

http://www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/blog/?currentPage=11	1	14	1

Scentsy Blog - LDN Wickless Candles

http://www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/blog/?currentPage=12	1	14	1

Scentsy Blog - LDN Wickless Candles

http://www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/blog/?currentPage=13	1	14	1

Scentsy Blog - LDN Wickless Candles

http://www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/blog/?currentPage=14	1	14	1

Scentsy Blog - LDN Wickless Candles

http://www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/blog/?currentPage=15 |

And So on.......

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Anyway....anything you or anyone can do to shed light on what is happening  and how to fix it would be fantastic.

Christine

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Does anyone have any suggestions with this?  There has to be someone out there who has worked with Squarespace and has heard of this issue.

Thanks Hannah....all this time I thought she was ranking ahead because of the .co.uk.  I'll really push the links to this page and rework the content too.

As the keyword gets more and more competitive, do you think the .co.uk would be an issue or not to worry?

I really really appreciate your help by the way.  Trying to teach yourself web design and SEO and figure out how to run a small business too isn't easy. xoxoxoox

hi Hannah Thanks for responding and sorry for the delay in responding back. My website is www.ldnwicklesscandles.com and keyword is Scentsy UK. Any suggestions you can give would be great. I'm ranking first page but people with a .co.uk are ranking ahead which is why I've considered moving over. Would rather keep my website if I could and only change the domain if I have to. Google seems to be picking up any tags with Scentsy UK in it and it's picked up ldnwicklesscandles.com/Scentsy-uk more strongly than my root domain. As a course of action should I just continue to link build for this page and across the domain generally? feel like I don't know what I'm doing 1/2 the time and Im trying anything and everything just to see if it will work. Anything you can do to point me in the right direction will help immensely. X

Seriously no one has any suggestions???

My site is built through squarespace and when I ran the campaign in SEOmoz...its come up with all these errors saying duplicate content and duplicate page title for my blog portion.

I've heard that canonical tags help with this but with squarespace its hard to add code to page level...only site wide is possible.

Was curious if there's someone experienced in squarespace and SEO out there that can give some suggestions on how to resolve this problem?

thanks

I'm out ranked by people with FAR less links for Google in the UK and I think its purely down to the fact I'm using a .com rather than a .co.uk.

I'm based in the UK but there's other aspects of my business that I want to target internationally although my main hub needs to be UK.

I set my geo-targeting for my .com and it didn't help.

Tried doing mydomain.com/mainkeyword-uk. Its picked up on this and I'm in top 10....but would obviously prefer number 1 especially due to the nature of my business.

Worried about doing a 301 redirect from .com to .co.uk because of loosing even a little bit of link juice. I've already put so much effort into the .com.

I get so many different answers to this so I'm confused....some people (particularly people on here at SEOmoz) say switch to the .co.uk and others just say keep the .com and that you can rank without the country level domain.

If I keep the .com and link build from country specific domains to mydomain.com/mainkeyword-uk (which ranks well) as well as build page authority for overall site......would that be fine or will I just absolutely have no chance in heck with ranking competitively in the UK if I don't do the .co.uk?

Trying to pick the path of least resistance and best possible returns here.

If you do absolutely recommend the 301....whats the best possible way to do this to preserve page authority?  How long will it take for Google to transfer to the new site?  I've heard horror stories in forums of people doing 301's and dropping off the Google planet and never recuperating.

Not a pro so any help would be appreciated. x